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Production Year: 1977 - Action/Adventure - Director: Clint Eastwood - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney
Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
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Advantages: Script, direction, acting, flawless Disadvantages: The sequels though interesting couldn't live up to this masterpiece
...the classic opening sequence of Back to the Future...
OK so I'm sure you're shouting f**k off it wasn't Eric Stoltz, it's Michael J Fox every idiot knows that, who is this clown?
In the same alternate universe where Stuart Townsend is Aragorn, Marty McFly is ginger. Stoltz (like Townsend) spent a few weeks playing Marty before everyone involved realised their first choice (who at the time had been too busy with 'Family ... ...Libyans, Marty acccidently sends himself back to 1955. Rather than keeping his head down and trying to work out a way to get home Marty manages to interfere with his parents first meeting and endangers his own existence. What follows is a race against time to get his parents to fall in love before Saturday night when lightning will hit the clock tower providing the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity to power the time machine; and give Marty his only chance ... more
A radio and TV click into life, we pan round a room to see tens of clocks all ticking loudly (in an affectionate homage to 'The Time Machine') a toaster pops up, a tin of dog food attached to a mechanical arm automatically falls into an already full bowl. Eric Stoltz stands in front of a huge amplifier which hums gently as he raises his plectrum slowly and then brings it down, letting out a mighty power chord which propels him across the room an into a set of shelves: 'rock and roll' he remarks . Ah, the classic opening sequence of Back to the Future...
OK so I'm sure you're shouting f**k off it wasn't Eric Stoltz, it's Michael J Fox every idiot knows that, who is this clown?
In the same alternate universe where Stuart Townsend is Aragorn, Marty McFly is ginger. Stoltz (like Townsend) spent a few weeks playing Marty before everyone involved realised their first choice (who at the time had been too busy with 'Family Ties' to even be shown the script) was the only choice. They started from scratch with the 23 year old Fox in the role, working every weekday on the 'Family Ties' set and nights and weekends on BTTF; and he still manages to look 17!
I'm making a certain assumption here that most of you will have seen this film and if not that you'll at least know the basic plot; and I thought you might be interested in a few choice bits of trivia (like the one above) rather than a typical review.
For instance did you know that the time machine was at one point going to be a refrigerator? Not quite as snazzy as a Delorian, the reason they scrapped it (and I love this) was that Speilberg and Zemeckis were worried kids would get trapped in their fridges while attempting time travel.
We all know, however, you can't assume anything so...
Marty Mcfly (Michael J Fox) is your typical 1980's teenager he lives in the small town of Hill Valley with his fairly unsucessful and put-upon family. His father (Crispin Glover) is bullied by his boss, his elder brother works in a fast food restaurant, his sister can't get a man, his uncle's in jail and his mother (Lea Thompson) doesn't understand him because kids just didn't behave like that in her day. Untypically, Marty is friends with the town's most eccentric resident Dr. Emmett 'Doc' Brown (Zemeckis included the giant amp in the opening sequence of the film to explain this friendship). Doc (Christopher Lloyd) has invented a time machine out of a Delorian, a flux capacitor and a s**tload of plutonium.
"The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?"
So after an unfortunate incident with some Libyans, Marty acccidently sends himself back to 1955. Rather than keeping his head down and trying to work out a way to get home Marty manages to interfere with his parents first meeting and endangers his own existence. What follows is a race against time to get his parents to fall in love before Saturday night when lightning will hit the clock tower providing the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity to power the time machine; and give Marty his only chance to get 'back to the future'.
So that's the set-up, pitched somewhere between John Hughes and H.G. Wells. Zemeckis and Gale spent most of the early eighties trying to get someone to give them the money to make this film. Which is incredible as it's one of the sharpest, funniest, heartwarming and totally original film scripts ever written. Zemeckis as writer/director pours so much love into this film you can't help but notice it. The script and direction make the complexities and paradoxes of time travel a breeze without ever feeling like it's been dumbed down. It's also got an incredibly daring oedipal sub-plot, which was one of the major reasons so few studios wanted to touch it. Ironically, this was the centre of the film's eventual ad campaign; most people went to see the film on the basis of a TV spot where Fox utters the immortal line
"Wait a minute, Doc, are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?"
Zemeckis said that the trouble with Stoltz was that he acted the part whereas Fox was the part. I can't help but agree, Michael J Fox is Marty Mcfly. His exuberance, comic timing, charm and charisma just leap off the screen. I must have been about 6 when I first saw the film and I was in love with Fox for the next 5 years. He gives a performance that's funny, touching and feels completely genuine, a revelation when you consider he's only 23. Fox is the heart of this film; but he's by no means its only acting talent.
Christopher Lloyd will always be 'Doc' Brown and it's a curse as much as a blessing. He gives such a memorable performance that's it's been difficult for him to top since, his only real noteworthy performance in the years that followed being as Uncle Fester in the 'Addam's Family' films.
Thompson and Glover have the unenviable task of playing both a couple in their late forties and teenagers. Thompson is 23 (a week and a half older than her on screen son) and Glover a mere 20 years old. As a child I never even questioned that they weren't the ages they are meant to be in either 1985 or 1955. This is really to their credit as the 'old' make up isn't really that convincing; but it doesn't matter, the family dynamic they set up in the opening scenes of the film is so well done they could have been wearing no make up and I still wouldn't find it odd to hear Fox calling them Mom and Dad.
Glover is so endearing in his teen role, so achingly naive it is impossible not to feel a swell of joy when he finally lays out the tyrannical Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson). Thompson has a ball playing the minx that Lorraine Mcfly (nee Baines) turns out to have been in the 50's. The scenes with her pursuing Fox are consistently funny and will have you wondering whether your mum was as innocent as she claimed to be way back when.
For a sci-fi comedy the film is surprisingly light on special effects. It doesn't need many and it adds integrity to the story that Zemeckis doesn't go over the top. The action sequences work best (most notably the skateboard pursuit) without them. However with Speilberg as Executive Producer ILM's work on the special effects that do crop up are state of the art. State of the art in 1985 which does mean some of them look a little hokey nowadays, especially Marty's disappearing hand which Zemeckis can no longer bear to watch; but you can't fault a film made in 1985 for having slightly dated special effects, it's not as if they had a time machine is it?
The soundtrack mixes 80's and 50's tunes very effectively and Huey Lewis was Oscar nominated for his theme to the film 'The Power of Love' unusually not containing the film's title. Marty's performance of 'Jonny B. Goode' is a real showstopper which nearly didn't make it into the film's final cut. On the musical trivia side, Huey Lewis makes an uncredited cameo as the High School Band Audition Judge who tells Marty's band 'The Pinheads' (playing a version of Lewis' song 'The Power of Love') that they're just 'too loud'.
This film is doubly nostalgic today; not only can we relish Zemeckis' technicolour vision of the fifties, but also look back on the eighties with a smile. Despite a few pieces of colourful language and the slightly disturbing sub-plot this is a very innocent film. Zemeckis escapes the unbelievably awkward situation created by Marty's plan (feel up mother in car, have father come and beat me up - which isn't working as his mum is more than up for it) by having Lorraine declare with a look of horror on her face
"It's like kissing...my brother"
problem solved, pure genius. It's quite simply a joy to watch and there's enough going on, on so many levels that I'd recommend it to the whole family (as long as your not prudish about your kids hearing a few mild swear words - and if you are why? Maybe you should take a look at Lorraine and remember what you were like at their age).
If you haven't seen it watch it right now: If you have watch it again you've probably forgotten how good it is.
“Physicists propose that two alternate histories, two equally valid realities, could exist side by side: the one you know, and the one in which you don’t exist. Time itself may have many potential dimensions, despite the fact that we are condemned to experience only one of them.” ---Carl Sagan
...the 1985, Academy award winning, Back to the Future. Directed by Robert Zemeckis and produced by Steven Spielberg, the films star Michael J. Fox as teenager Marty McFly and Christopher Lloyd as scientist Dr. Emmett L. Brown.
This was one of my all time childhood favourites, and to this day is still in my top ten of all time. It had everything one would want from an action film, action, drama, edge of the seat excitement and comedy. I think most ... ...a sudden he is transported back into time, to November 5, 1955.
Now in the year 1955, Marty accidentally runs into his dad, who is a teenager. He catches his dad spying on his future mother (Lorraine), however being distracted his dad falls from the tree. Meanwhile, Lorraine's dad is driving home and is on the verge of run over Marty's dad, however Marty intervenes and instead gets knocked down by the car, and his dad runs away.
Marty had now changed ...
jaygami1986 10.05.2008
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Advantages: Appeals to all ages and timeless classic Disadvantages: Not long enough..
...culture that people often mistake Back To The Future as a science fiction film, however I tend to disagree, it is more a comedy with a science fiction theme. Released in 1985, and directed by Robert Zemeckis, it's a classic film that all people of its time will remember.
Marty is a typical 17 year old, into his rock band, having fun and girls! he is the main member of the cast and I really don’t think that they could have found anyone better ... ...in order to get Marty back to his real time, include the doc hooking up cables from the clock tower to the car…without giving too much away also involves life and death for the Doc…but of course nothing ever goes to plan and the tension builds up to a thrilling crescendo.
Back to the Future for me was a classic film that blends the ideas of future and the past with complete ease. Packed with special effects, you're never short of a visual ...
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Advantages: First of it's kind - a classic!!! Disadvantages: the sequels will never equal the original masterpiece, but what could?!
...created by director Robert Zemeckis, Back to the future is based upon the theories of time travel and interference with the workings of the space time continuum. Marty McFly, the main character (Michael J. Fox), after having befriended the nutty professor Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd), finds himself a test crash dummy for Doc and his new invention… the Time machine. (A Dolorean of all cars!) To be more precise, the Flux Capacitor is the nerve ... ...with the Dolorean is flung back in time to the fifties and Doc is shot! (Don’t worry, this is only 15 mins into the film, all will be saved! Or so my brother used to tell me!)
When Marty realises what has happened, he knows he must find Doc for him fix to the Time machine (which ran out of fuel on the way to the 50’s) and to help send him back to 1985. He does so, but Doc knows that getting the ‘21 Jigawatts’of power needed to send him back will ...
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Advantages: Excellentlly breathtaking Disadvantages: Nothing wrong here
...oh yeah, a copy of Back to the Future in the player and on the silver screen. For me, this silm was more than just great acting, generous helpings of graphical genius and comedy, it was the cunning culmination of interplay between characters and a driving plot which worked so definitevely. Michael J Fox is superbly cast as the disorganized, wannabe rock-guitarist, loved up, physco teenager 9phew that was a mouthful). Alongside christopher Lloyd, ... ...complex yet hugely enthrawling. Perhaps Back to the future Episode 2 provides the most diverse of stories, but each follows progressively onto the next in a way which is seamless enough to guarantee your viewing. Episode 1 sees Marty(Fox) being called upon by Doc Brown(Lloyd), to film him making his historic journey as the first man to ever time travel. His craft is a modified Delorean complete with flux capacitor and hugely impressive Gullwing doors. ...
slyfox 16.03.2001
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Advantages: A great cast with a great story Disadvantages: None that I can think of
...of events Marty accidentally travels back 30 years to 1955 and manages to stop his mum and dad from falling in love when they should have done - instead his mother falls for him. Marty has to try everything he can to get his parents together, and get back to 1985.
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Michael J. Fox plays Marty, and was a bona fide American TV star at the time, starring in one of the most popular sitcoms of the day, FAMILY ... ...incidentally was released just after BACK TO THE FUTURE in the UK to cash in on Fox's popularity), and then went on to play Marty in this film. He was working unbelievable hours as his bosses at FAMILY TIES wouldn't release him to make the film, so his filming on it had to be fitted around his work for the TV show.
Christopher Lloyd plays Doc Brown, and he had also become known as a sitcom actor, primarily through his role as Reverend Jim in the ...
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Advantages: Everything about it Disadvantages: Nothing
The Backto the Future trilogy has become a big part of cinematic history. It has captivated the hearts of millions, made millions in the box office and has become an icon of symbol, whilst also making stars out Michael J. Fox & Christopher Lloyd.
The trilogy has grossed over $785 million worldwide and the franchise is still making money.
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Brief synthesis:
Backto the Future 1:
In 1985, the first instalment ...
Advantages: Great Stroy, Great Acting Disadvantages: None i can think of
Ok I think we would all agree that Bttf is the best trilogy that has ever been filmed. And now it is available on DVD. Yep that?s right, after putting it off time and time again it is now available to buy.
Bttf One
When a young boy called Marty Mcfly (Michael J Fox) is called by his mad doctor friend and told to meet him at a car park the last thing he expected to see was a time machine. The story goes on to tell us about what happens when Marty goes back in time and accidentally interferes with his parent meeting putting his self existence in danger!(I don't want to go to much in to the plot incase I spoil it)
Extras
This DVD is jammed with extras so here we go
1. THE MAKING OF BACKTO THE FUTURE-This is a small 3 or 4 minute film that tells you about how the film was made. It has many interesting parts to it and they ...
A fast-moving and heart-warming comedy, 'Back To The Future' presents the story of Marty McFly, a teenager from 1985 who commandeers the time-travelling DeLorean invented by Doc Brown, a wacky scientist friend, and is accidentally sent back in time to the 1950s. But the real problems start after he inadvertently disrupts the first meeting between his future parents - and his mom ends up falling for him instead. Eliciting help from the inventor of the time machine (who is now 30 years younger), Marty must untangle the reverse oedipal knot he's created, or he will never be born. If he can't influence them to fall in love, he might never exist! And if he somehow manages to succeed, he must then find a way to get 'back to the future'.
Audio Commentary - 1. Robert Zemeckis - Director, Writer, Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer, Deleted Scenes, Outtakes, Featurettes - 1. THE MAKING OF BACK TO THE FUTURE, 2. MAKING THE TRILOGY CHAPTER 1, 3. DID YOU KNOW THAT? Universal's Animated Anecdotes, Stills Gallery, Storyboards, Production Notes
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A fast-moving and heart-warming comedy, 'Back To The Future' presents the story of Marty McFly, a teenager from 1985 who commandeers the time-travelling DeLorean invented by Doc Brown, a wacky scientist friend, and is accidentally sent back in time to the 1950s. But the real problems start after he inadvertently disrupts the first meeting between his future parents - and his mom ends up falling for him instead. Eliciting help from the inventor of the time machine (who is now 30 years younger), Marty must untangle the reverse oedipal knot he's created, or he will never be born. If he can't influence them to fall in love, he might never exist! And if he somehow manages to succeed, he must then find a way to get 'back to the future'.
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