He’d wonder why people aren’t watching The Michael J. Fox show on NBC. That guy’s a national treasure!
He’d fit right in. His down vest is back in style, no?
And as for this:
If you’ll think back, you’ll recall that fanatic Muslims were bogeymen in Back to the Future.
It is the year 2015.
But where are the flying cars?
I was promised flying cars!
I don’t see any flying cars!
Why? Why!? WHY!?!?!?!?
[sub][sup](with apologies to Capt. Sisko and IBM)[/sup][/sub]
I remember being amazed at how futuristic the video game in The Last Starfighter looked, back in 1984. But now… not all that impressive.
I think Marty would have an idea of the future that underestimates its actuality. Just because our 2015 doesn’t have hoverboards doesn’t mean it isn’t filled to the brim with amazing stuff. The internet, the TV and movies, the personal technologies like iPads and Google Glass, electric cars, rovers on Mars, it’s all pretty spectacular really.
Another change he might note is the death of the ugly character actor. I don’t think a show like Quincy M.E. will be running for 7 years any time soon.
Yeah, Libyan nationalists. I guess they wanted to overthrow Qaddafi, like that would ever happen.
Something sort of tech related: I think anyone from the past would be blown away at how open people are about their problems.
In the 80’s Oprah and the like were just starting to talk about abuse, addiction, etc.
Now it’s just something people talk about openly.
And not only that but people willingly post intimate details of their lives online for all to see. And some people even have their lives on TV.
I think he would be surprised that there is a black president. I’m from the 80’s and sometimes it still blows me away. I didn’t think I would see that in my life time.
Also legal gay marriage, organic food, and that Michael Jackson died white.
People used to pretend nobody masturbated. Now everybody admits to it, sometimes openly on Network television shows. Sometimes even cartoons and family TV imply it quite explicitly.
Erm, no.
I know. I had to go and ran out of time to think of the right words.
A little off topic, but my father would be about the same age as Marty’s parents. When he was in high school in the 1950’s, he had an assignment to describe the US in the year 2000.
He says he wrote that there would be flying cars and people movers as city sidewalks.
Smoking has had a decline since then–you don’t see much of it inside retailing establishments…
This is why I think they should do a new BTTF Part 2. Forget about the original sequel and just pick up right where the original BTTF left off. You’d have to recast Marty and Jennifer of course, but Christopher Lloyd is now the right age to play Doc Brown without the old age makeup!
The new part 2 could show Marty interacting with the real 2015, maybe with a revised plot to allow him to spend more time there, rather than going back to the 50s again. I would love to see a movie like that.
Spot on observation.
Here’s another one. Commercials for vaginal lubricant, men’s leaky asses, and erectile dysfunction??? What the…
I’m with you on one and three, but what commercials are there for specifically male leakage? Forgive me if this is obvious, but I’m not following you.
I only recently saw one. Some commercial for ‘men’s pads’.
Frankly, I think he’d be astonished at how fat people had become in 30 years.
Those pads aren’t for anal dripping, they’re for guys that dribble urine a bit after they pee. God bless a healthy prostate…
The last time I saw warnings about anal leakage was Olestra.
:eek: Just saw a half page ad in today’s L.A.Times for “butterfly pads” that fit “in the buttocks” specifically for anal leakage. :eek:
Not a TV commercial, but I still found it disconcerting & an odd coincidence.
He’d also notice how EVERYONE (almost) is wearing their seatbelts.
“What’s wrong with you people? Scaredy-cats. And what do you mean, I can’t let my kids sit up front and scramble around in the car?”