Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Dec 8, 2018 4:51:30 GMT
I missed it when it came out. I saw Explorers instead (what a mistake that was).
Later in the summer I saw Fright Night (that was not a mistake).
In high school this touring band called Freedom Jam came to town and played "The Power of Love" at our school. The singer was memorable for some reason.
Interesting thing about that is that years later I heard there was a guy who did voice impersonations and got a big contract in Las Vegas. And he had been in that group. Pretty sure he was the singer.
The "Libyan Nationalists" bit dates badly-although at the time we had some Libyan kids in our school and when I watched that scene I always thought of one of them-who was a hot-tempered guy and reminded me of the terrorist with the rocket launcher. lol
The first VHS movie I remember to have macrovision copy protection to prevent piracy.
I think the real stars among the younger cast are Thomas Wilson and Crispin Glover.They are the glue for the movie--Michael J Fox is far less important.
The Biff character reminds me of Brad from Superman 3.
The relationship between Biff and George is similar to that between Brad and Clark Kent.
I liked Back to the Future 2 actually. "Eat lead slackers!"
Never cared for the third part.
The twist of them going back and hiding from themselves from the first movie was an amusing idea.
Also, Biff had good taste in movies--watching Sergio Leone.
It is funny how prophetic Back to the Future 2 was. I don't know if Trump really was the inspiration for rich Biff given that if he was going to be wealthy, you wouldn't expect him to turn into John Paul Getty. He was going to be into casinos and gaudy stuff.
In Gremlins 2, John Glover's Daniel Clamp is obviously meant to be a Trump-like figure (and a nice guy in that case).
I think the western stuff in the third movie was just too far out and that dumb bit with Marty reacting to being called chicken.
Where the movie is prophetic is in describing a future with ubiquitous cosmetic surgery, 200 channel tv, and the shark movies.
Part 2 had a court case behind it because Bob Gale and Glover had a nasty falling out--originally the ending of Back to the Future had George becoming a millionaire so I hear, and Glover felt that was too shallow to have money being so important so they made him a successful author. Gale was not happy about it and when it came time to discuss salaries for the sequel, he offered Glover the same salary he had for the first movie (since money wasn't everything right?).
Glover refused to allow his image to be used for the film but Gale used it anyway--unused footage from the first film. Glover sued--Spielberg was one of the defendants.
I don't know if Spielberg had a grudge against Glover after that but he was pissed with Gale from what Glover related in an interview, and if you check his IMDB, while Glover was not shut out of Hollywood, Gale was. You don't fuck with Spielberg.
In Starlog magazine there was a fascinating article at the time called I believe "The Other Marty McFly" which suggested that at the start of the movie, just before Doc Brown is shot, you can see a figure in the background passing the JC penny sign (later shown to be a noise artifact in the VHS version).
The author theorized that this figure was Marty from the end of the movie that we see leaving into the past while Marty 1 is watching. This Marty, according to the theory, would have been instructed by Doc Brown to avoid any tampering with the past--so he would return to the present right away since Doc would have supplied the car with extra plutonium, and ends up in the original universe with the loser parents and dead Doc!
When the sequel came out, the same author wrote a second chapter, and claimed the loser Marty of 2015 was in fact the same Marty 2 who ran past the JC Penny sign. I forgot how he explained it, but by the time of BTTF 3 he gave up trying to make it all fit his theory.
Later in the summer I saw Fright Night (that was not a mistake).
In high school this touring band called Freedom Jam came to town and played "The Power of Love" at our school. The singer was memorable for some reason.
Interesting thing about that is that years later I heard there was a guy who did voice impersonations and got a big contract in Las Vegas. And he had been in that group. Pretty sure he was the singer.
The "Libyan Nationalists" bit dates badly-although at the time we had some Libyan kids in our school and when I watched that scene I always thought of one of them-who was a hot-tempered guy and reminded me of the terrorist with the rocket launcher. lol
The first VHS movie I remember to have macrovision copy protection to prevent piracy.
I think the real stars among the younger cast are Thomas Wilson and Crispin Glover.They are the glue for the movie--Michael J Fox is far less important.
The Biff character reminds me of Brad from Superman 3.
The relationship between Biff and George is similar to that between Brad and Clark Kent.
I liked Back to the Future 2 actually. "Eat lead slackers!"
Never cared for the third part.
The twist of them going back and hiding from themselves from the first movie was an amusing idea.
Also, Biff had good taste in movies--watching Sergio Leone.
It is funny how prophetic Back to the Future 2 was. I don't know if Trump really was the inspiration for rich Biff given that if he was going to be wealthy, you wouldn't expect him to turn into John Paul Getty. He was going to be into casinos and gaudy stuff.
In Gremlins 2, John Glover's Daniel Clamp is obviously meant to be a Trump-like figure (and a nice guy in that case).
I think the western stuff in the third movie was just too far out and that dumb bit with Marty reacting to being called chicken.
Where the movie is prophetic is in describing a future with ubiquitous cosmetic surgery, 200 channel tv, and the shark movies.
Part 2 had a court case behind it because Bob Gale and Glover had a nasty falling out--originally the ending of Back to the Future had George becoming a millionaire so I hear, and Glover felt that was too shallow to have money being so important so they made him a successful author. Gale was not happy about it and when it came time to discuss salaries for the sequel, he offered Glover the same salary he had for the first movie (since money wasn't everything right?).
Glover refused to allow his image to be used for the film but Gale used it anyway--unused footage from the first film. Glover sued--Spielberg was one of the defendants.
I don't know if Spielberg had a grudge against Glover after that but he was pissed with Gale from what Glover related in an interview, and if you check his IMDB, while Glover was not shut out of Hollywood, Gale was. You don't fuck with Spielberg.
In Starlog magazine there was a fascinating article at the time called I believe "The Other Marty McFly" which suggested that at the start of the movie, just before Doc Brown is shot, you can see a figure in the background passing the JC penny sign (later shown to be a noise artifact in the VHS version).
The author theorized that this figure was Marty from the end of the movie that we see leaving into the past while Marty 1 is watching. This Marty, according to the theory, would have been instructed by Doc Brown to avoid any tampering with the past--so he would return to the present right away since Doc would have supplied the car with extra plutonium, and ends up in the original universe with the loser parents and dead Doc!
When the sequel came out, the same author wrote a second chapter, and claimed the loser Marty of 2015 was in fact the same Marty 2 who ran past the JC Penny sign. I forgot how he explained it, but by the time of BTTF 3 he gave up trying to make it all fit his theory.