Back To The Future - Does it ever go out of style?

[Brigitte]

I just caught sight of Back to the Future II on HBO the other day and, despite that I was packing my apartment, ended up watching the whole thing. The funny thing is, I've seen this movie close to thirty or forty times throughout my life (no joke), and yet I still feel entertained as if it was the first time.

Ain't it funny how a movie can do that? Anyone agree?

[Whitestar]

Yes, you're quite correct. There are certain films that one can watch and no matter how many times they see it, they always see something new in it. The Back To The Future trilogy is one of them and I never get tired of seeing it, as well as the original Jaws.

[mightymem]

yeah I feel exactly the same, its one of my favourite trilogys. It always makes me laugh and it has apart from the flying cars the most likely version of the future I seen in any sci fi movie. It is at its heart a cheerful movie which does not take its self to seriously which maybe why it has continued to be so popular.

[Vincent Tauscher]

Brigitte, you're absolutely right... Back to the Future will never go out of style. It's become one of those timeless classics. And, unlike Star Wars, in my opinion, it's got a perfect balance of good acting, plot and imagination.

[tangaloomababe]

I still enjoy watching these movies. They are still as funny as they were when I first saw them. I have them as a box set and will sit down and watch the three in a row now and again.

[unclejack]

Agreed, the Back to the Future trilogy is a classic. I still love em, especially the first one. I've seen it like fifty times and it never gets old.

[unclejack]

P.S....I think part of the reason is that despite the horror of so called fashion and clothing styles of the 80s, some of the few things the 80s had goin for em was the music and the movies. Combining the two of them together has worked miracles over and over again. Case in point...Back to the Future Trilogy, Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, Lost Boys, Teen Wolf, Pretty in Pink...need I go on?

[Majimaune]

No it wont ever get old...or wont for a long time to come anyway. Bit like Ferris Bueler's Day Off. You can never get sick of them.

[F'Lessan Amused]

NOPE...ABSOL-BLOODY-LUTELY NOT...I WANT A DeLOREAN..NOW!!

nuff bout that...it has same major flaws in the theory of time travel but hey there ya go

[Majimaune]

Yeah if you go over the flaws in time travel you could make a weekend out of it.

[Vincent Tauscher]

Actually, there weren't too many flaws (only 2 that I can think of). They couldn't have written the story without them though.

[Majimaune]

That is true. The main flaw was the time travel though.

[Vincent Tauscher]

That all depends if you believe time travel is possible, from what I understand. Here were the two flaws I saw, for those interested:
1.) In BttF II, the old Biff (from 2015) took the sports almanac back to 1955 and then was able to return to the 2015 that Doc and Marty were still in, even though the timeline had been seriously altered (they try to make sense of this in the deleted scenes on the DVD)
2.) Also, in BttF II, if Marty and Jennifer went to 2015, they wouldn't be able to see older versions of themselves because, on that time line, they disappeared for 30 years

Some may argue that Marty's time constraint in BttF I to get his parents back together made no sense. I can see arguments for both sides.

[Majimaune]

Well the sports almanac would have disintegrated as he went back in time, along with everything else.

[wanderer085]

Of course, if you believe in the Langoliers, the past gets eaten up and time travel to the past is either fatal or impossible.