I’m just glad there’s never been, and hopefully never will be, a reboot.
Maybe there was on a different timeline. Or maybe what we’ve seen is the reboot.
Robert Zemekis said in an interview that as long as he and Bob Gale are alive, there will never be a reboot, nor a Part 4. Apparently they own the characters. He cynically added that he is sure as soon as the two of them are dead, some one will rush a reboot into production, unless his estate has better lawyers.
Yeah, I agree. That’d go to fucking shit quickly.
-Baleaf
The second one was quite possibly the worst movie I’ve seen (lookin’ at you, Blair Witch). The third was only saved by ZZ Top.
Utter Shite, the both of them!
They are definitely “artificial” or “constructed” movies: full of parallels and callbacks and setups/payoffs.
This is neither inherently good nor inherently bad: it’s just what kind of series of movies they are (though it may help to explain why some people find them so satisfying while other people disdain them).
I, too, enjoy the full trilogy, and watch Part II with gusto every couple of years. Cool what-if twists, hilarious visions of future, and some excellent acting by Thomas F. Wilson.
The third was saved by the glorious Mary Steenburgen, who was at her most wonderful during that time.
The older she gets, the better she looks. Go watch ‘Step Brothers’. Total Smoke Show, and you get to hear her say naughty words.
I’ve always loved the films; parts 2 and 3 maybe don’t quite measure up to the original, but they’re both funny in their own ways.
And nobody has mentioned that today is the anniversary of Doc inventing the Flux Capacitor!
“How do ye know he didn’t invent it, Dr. McCoy?”
There is such a thing as a “flat character arc” in which a protagonist does not change, but rather exerts change on the world around them. A lot of superhero and action movies rely on the flat character arc. I’m not sure how common they were in the 80s.
To answer the OP, the first movie is a classic and I have little to no memory of the other two.
I feel like you’re overanalyzing this. Marty didn’t invent R&B any more than he wrote Star Wars or designed the camcorder. Those are all things he brought back to an earlier time because he’s a time traveler.
A white guy playing music for Chuck Berry shouldn’t be any more cringey than a teenager invalidating the engineering of thousands of Japanese people. And it’s not, because he’s a time traveler.
Elsa Raven has died at 91.
“Save the clock tower.”
I’ve only seen the first one and that was in the theater back in the 80’s.
My only problem with the movie is the part where Marty is playing with his high school band and the song is Power of Love. That was so stupid to me that it pretty much ruined the movie for me.
You didn’t notice who told Marty that the band was “too damned loud”, did you?
Cameo by Huey Lewis.
Power Of Love was written for the movie. It wasn’t like he was covering it, in the movie Marty’s band wrote it. Huey Lewis’s music video for it has both Marty and Doc in it.
Why ?
that’s sad. you’ll never see the part where Eli the preacher humiliates doc brown at the church service by making him admit he abandoned his boy.
Are you my cousin from Boston?