Don’t make trouble.
What kind of music do you like to listen to?
better yet, what types of entertainment overall does he enjoy? books, music, television, theater, websites…
I don’t understand this line of argument. Yeah, I think dougie’s aversion is odd, but Power of Love did get showcased in the opening scene. So the band was never actually on screen; so what? If he doesn’t like rock (which is just weird, Power of Love is about as inoffensive as you can get), then it’s not going to matter whether it’s part of the soundtrack or they’re actually on screen.
And if he doesn’t like rock, then Johnny B Goode is even worse than Power of Love. That would hardly help.
Oh he’d hate Johnny B. Goode. But his kids are gonna love it.
He could always turn up his iPod (playing Johnny Cash’s various hits) during the few scenes that rock gets played.
Johnny Cash was a drug addict.
And an Arkansan. Double whammy. 
I guess you just weren’t ready for that, yet.
But your kids are gonna love it.
::shakes fist::
What don’t you make like a leaf and get the hell out of this thread?
And an adulterer.
He also shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.
If there is ever a fire you can be a hero by stretching yourself over it.
ETA: DOH! Enderw24 beat me to it!
Oh well, I guess the movie was just too darn loud.
I can not believed I missed the opportunity for that joke.
There’s a big difference between being passed by and willfully removing yourself from experiences.
Your posts in this thread remind me of a quote from a TV show I’m sure would make you apoplectic if you ever watched it:
“You’re living in the past, man. You’re hung up on some clown from the 60s, man!”
And a public urinator. And a convict.
-Joe
And an Air Force man.
I just can’t help myself, as I adore this movie… (dougie_monty’s quotes in bold)
**With this in mind I went to see Back to the Future, and had one too many straws put on my back.
Specifically: these elements each irritated me just a little bit:
- The movie opened on a filthy laboratory which had obviously been abandoned for a week.**
Doc had been gone for days, he’s a bit absent-minded, but he had hired Marty to come by to help clean up and assist the Doc. This isn’t seen in the movie, but it was addressed by the screenwriter Bob Gale.
2) Fox’s character was a snide little smart-aleck, the likes of which would, or should, get his teeth knocked out early on in the real world. In one scene, he pays as much attention to the infuriated high-school principal as he might to a blank wall.
Marty was late, because the Doc had set the clocks back 25 minutes as some weird experiment. Marty immediately exclaims he’s late for school, and hitches rides on his skateboard to get there as fast as possible. He tip-toes in, but Strickland was waiting for him. He gets reprimanded and then on top of it, gets harassed by the principal. “You’re a slacker McFly. Your father was a slacker too. You’ll never amount to anything but a hill of beans in Hill Valley.” So not only did the principal insult him, but his father as well. I’d be a smartass to such a dick too. Then again, this is fiction. And a comedy. 
**3) At one point he hitches a ride (on skates) by holding on to the rear bumper of a police car. This may show Spielberg’s contempt for the police, but it’s a foolhardy and dangerous stunt that could even have put the stuntman’s life in jeopardy.
**
Nitpick: Robert Zemeckis (not Spielberg, he was the exec. producer)
That’s kinda what stuntmen* do.* They love it, and get paid for it! Professional stuntmen have myriad stunts down to a science, making things far, far safer then they appear on the screen. Besides, I don’t think this particular stunt was very dangerous compared to about 95% of the entire action film catalog in existence.
Just, um… don’t see Twilight Zone: The Movie. Or at least the first chapter. Helicopter accidents and decapitation happens, sometimes.
4) At Fox’s home, he finds out, not only has his father’s employer used Fox’s family car (without permission, presumably), but has wrecked it. And he treats the family, whose car he has just wrecked, to severe verbasl abuse in their own home! Sounds like something I might read about in The Daily Worker.
“He’s a bully!” But you didn’t see the rest of the movie, so you’re not putting into context the foreshadowing here. Also, the movie’s a comedy. And fiction.
- Huey Lewis and the News (billed in the opening credits, so I was at least forewarned) played one of their songs at one point. I stayed out in the lobby until it was done.
This one I can understand. But I was 12 when I saw it, and loved The Power of Love at the time. Okay, maybe I still do a little bit.
But they playMr. Sandman and Earth Angel later on… maybe you can enjoy that one?
6) The topper was the old man (Christopher Lloyd) with Fox in a mall-parking lot; a VW bus full of maniacs approaches and they fire on Lloyd with sub-machine guns.
As I have noted elsewhere, it isn’t the existence of negative elements in a movie that irritate me; it’s the combination of the six, and the apparent use of these elements to appeal to the viewer. Why would I want, for example, to see Arnold Schawrzenegger (in any movie) gun down helpless people with a howitzer, or whatever, unless I condoned murder myself?
I’ll cut you slack, seeing you’ve admitted to some mental health problems, and you were probably so worked up and irked by this point, you didn’t catch the part where the Doc tells Marty that the flux capacitor is electrical, but the only thing that could generate 1.21 gigawatts was a nuclear reaction. So he conned some Lybians Nationalists, by telling them he’d build them a nuclear bomb if they could supply him the plutonium. What the Doc handed off in return was nothing but a facade filled with used pinball machine parts.
Needless to say, the terrorists were pissed, and had no qualms with using automatic weapons on him.
'My God, they found me, I don’t know how, but they found me… RUN FOR IT MARTY!"
This movie is the pinnacle of “movie magic” for me, as I’ve seen it dozens upon dozens of times. I’m sorry it’s so difficult for you to enjoy exaggerated works of fiction, and wish you could get out of it what the majority of moviegoers do from this movie, especially having lived through the 1950s yourself.
If you do try to view this again, keep in mind that Marty is a good kid, in a bad situation, and it’s all set up for what he must overcome when he gets sent back in good ol’ 1955.
Good luck, dougie.
The irony is so delicious here, in that, dougie’s beef with the movie stems from the culture clash between the 80s and the 1950s when dougie grew up.
That’s what 90% of the movie dwells on!
Hey!