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Thanks to Intrada, We're Going BACK TO THE FUTURE (via Alan Silvestri and his score)!
Greetings! ScoreKeeper here with news regarding a major "holy grail" soundtrack release announced earlier today by Intrada.
One of the truly great orchestral adventure scores of the 1980s, Alan Silvestri's BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985), is finally making its way to CD. BACK TO THE FUTURE has consistently ranked among the upper few titles on most soundtrack geeks holy grail list (including mine!). Intrada announced today that it will be releasing a 2-CD, complete score, edition of the score which is limited to an unspecified number of copies. Intrada does reveal that it is more than the usual 3000 units of most special edition releases.
Click HERE to visit Intrada's website for more info and audio clips.
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Nov 24, 2009 9:34:20 AM CST
Does it have a sound track of Marty McFly boning his mom?
by strongbadmonkey
Cause I'll buy it if it does.
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It's about time someone did this.
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I thought I was going to read that Hollywood was remaking this Classic. Thank God that's not the case...I don't need to go postal right now.
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It's about time. ;) I was just thinking the other day that either BTTF, Predator or The Abyss are Silvestri's best work. AFAIK there's never been a full release of the Abyss soundtrack either, so hopefully that might get released one day.
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I remember owning the Back to the Future Soundtrack. On vinyl or cassette. I'm just dreaming that, am I? Or has someone tampered with my timeline? Didn't realize it had never come out on CD.
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That is PART of the soundtrack, in a good way I mean.
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And it had snipets of dialogue from the ending of BTTF 2 (just before Doc vanishes)
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Just kidding. Who cares.
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Nov 24, 2009 9:50:13 AM CST
I'd settle for a remaster/expansion of the old soundtrack
by margot_tenenbaum
The 'Back to the Future Overture' is one of the most concise & entertaining summations of a score ever and I'd love to have a remastered version of it. They could drop the Lindsey Buckingham & Clapton songs for a few more Silvestri cues.
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The BTTF "soundtrack" that was released on CD (and vinyl and cassette) was exactly that. A soundtrack. It had all the songs with lyrics that were heard in the film. i.e. Power of Love, Back in Time, Johnny B Goode, Earth Angel, etc. It also had two versions of Silvestri's "overture".
I believe this new 2 disc release is the "score", which is all the symphony music Silvestri composed for the movie. -
just on tape and vinyl? Cause i've had this from the Napster days. Great quality, but if they're remastering i'll have to get this.
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Will it be released on iTunes? Been after this for ages.
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He's not anywhere in my top 20 film composers, maybe even top 30, but this one gets him a lifetime pass into the "Shit that makes YackBacker drive above the speed limit" collection.
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Nov 24, 2009 10:09:55 AM CST
Yeah I thought this was more bad remake news
by supercowbell5thecowbellhasspoken
Thank god it wasn't
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Saw him and the News on TV the other day. Loved your music in high school, love it now.
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only give these scores "limited" releases
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Nov 24, 2009 10:15:24 AM CST
I can't listen to Huey Lewis w/o thinking of Bale in
by zombieheathledger
American Psycho
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Just sayin'.
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This is great news. Now if someone would get around to releasing complete score cd's of THE BLACK HOLE, GREMLINS, INNERSPACE, Joh Williams' DRACULA, ATTACK OF THE CLONES and REVENGE OF THE SITH, then I would be one happy camper! We can dream, right?
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And you can bet he's trying to find a way to crack the 4th dimension for a film reissue.
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That's all I ask. Bttf? I'm still happy with the vinyl I got for my 8th birthday back in 1986. First record that I could call "mine" and still awesome to listen to. Earth Angel, Johnny B. Good, Power of Love -- not a bad introduction to the world of music.
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Do people actually listen to movie soundtracks at home like they would any other kind of music? or is it a completist thing for most of you? I can't understand how anyone can get enjoyment out of listening to a movie score at their leisure (of course this excludes soundtracks that are just a compilation of songs or anything by Phillip Glass!!). To me, the visuals and the score are so inseperable that isolating one (the music) seems completely retarded and doesn't sond right at all... I bought a Danny Elfman collection once, and while I recognize that he's a musical genius, having the theme from Batman play on my stereo sounds 100% lame. Hearing it play on the DVD, however, gives me chills.
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They'd probably cast Zack Efron as Marty and Marlon Wayans as Doc Brown
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Are they ever going to make it? Michael J. Fox still looks so young. I definitely think he can play a 20 or even 25 year-old Marty McFly. And Christopher Lloyd is such a funny guy! I hope this movie gets made some day. I wonder what it will be about? I hope they go to the Civil War and to Woodstock. Maybe they can go see dinosaurs. Or into the distant future where religion doesn't exist and there is true peace on Earth. Yeah... This would be cool.
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Honestly listen to nothing else other than soundtracks. Maybe some Beatles or Belle & Sebastian but mainly soundtracks. Listen to them while I work - not a great deal of them either - mainly stuff from my childhood. Keeping up with contemporary music has never been that important to me.
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I reads the script that was floating around and it was brilliant. Micheal J fox was just a cameo (thats could easily be removed if he didn't want it) but i liked that Doc steped up into the main role. and not having marty in it worked because the story was docs story Zemekis seemed interested in it and he even went so far as to storyboard certian sequences...WTF ever happend to that project, the last anyone heard of it was 2005 or so, is it still in pre-production? Richard Jenkins was apparently cast as docs father, but he hasn't mentioned the project in months
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Hopefully never. If they do I hope they use your "treatment" JettL93
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To answer your question, yep, I listen to them. Mostly when driving, but sometimes at home too. You are right that the images can be inseparable in your mind, but the music is more important. You can listen to just the music, but the images alone lose a lot.
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Nov 24, 2009 10:52:29 AM CST
There have been rumors, treatments, and scripts floating aorund
by wickedjacob
But the pretty much official word is "no." http://www.themovieblog.com/2008/05/no-back-to-the-future-4
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The script i read was from zemekis himself, but it was a first draft and obviously would need a rewrite if the film ever went into preproduction. I belive several issues were holding it back including Universal wanting a lower budget unless Micheal J fox was more involved, and zemekis wanting to do other project before hand. But i do know that a quick screen test was filmed in which Doc comes face to face with his father played by richard jenkins. Mary steenburgeon has also mentioned she probabaly wouldn't come back which would involve a significant rewrite of the first half to remove her from the story. It may happen someday but the odds are really against it
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I thoght there was a new BTTF movie coming. I'm really mad at you ScoreKeeper! No, not really. I don't know who the hell is Intrada so it's probably my fault
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No wait....shit...Does it come in cassette?
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The BTTF trilogy is in my opinion the most solid, cohesive trilogy that has ever been made (sans the original Star Wars), blending together all the films in ways that I'm not even going to bother getting into.
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just accidentaly wasting it
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...are they gonna make a BTTF4 wit Martys kid goin back to his grandparents time to try and stop Marty from helpin his parents hook up... I would love to see a movie based on the killing your grandfather theory
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I also was afraid I was going to read about a remake...I was bracing myself for the words "Shia LaBeouff" and then getting ready to go for the ammo.
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I get zero enjoyment out of watching football, or building model trains, or listening to ska. But I adore listening to film music (when it's good) outside the context of the film, and have since I was a child. Not every score is equally enjoyable when listened to in this way (just like if you enjoy classical music, it doesn't mean you automatically like Phillip Glass, or Mahler's second symphony). But it's an art form like any other. I don't expect everyone to understand or get on board -- taste is taste. But for those of us who dig this kind of thing, this is majorly cool news.
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As it says on Intrada's website, Silvestri's first version of the score was deemed too dark, tonally. This is the version of the score that appears on Disc 2. Most of the score was rewritten and rerecorded for the finished film, and this is what appears on Disc 1. There are NO songs on Intrada's release, undoubtedly because obtaining the rights would have been prohibitively expensive. At any rate, most people who want the songs probably already have the original soundtrack CD, which contained most of them.
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The way the song ends with Marty's parents dancing and seemlessly segues into the score always gets to me. I loved when they used it on family guy the exact same way during their bttf themed episode.
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Good music is good music. Not all movie music is good, but if it is, it's perfectly listenable without the images. Music from ballets are listened to all the time, yet they are essentially the same as movie soundtracks in the sense you're talking about (Rite of Spring, baby!). Or listen to music that was NOT written as a soundtrack. "Mars, the Bringer of War" from Holst's The Planets is the grandfather of every dark sci-fi movie theme since Alien and Terminator.
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He thought he'd get to work again...or at least get some residual monies from "Back in time" being used in the trailers and Tv spotsWay to go score keeper, you made Huey cry, probabaly woke up the guy living in the dumpster next to him
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I guaran-damn-tee it... Ironically it'll probably have Marty going back to the 80s (when the original was released)...
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Nov 24, 2009 12:31:34 PM CST
Supposedly Biff Tannen created the Watchmen alt reality....
by jaysin420
I forget where I read the article but it was pretty amazing. One example was they had the same exact newspaper headline about Nixon being re-elected.
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All original actors to reprise their roles using new CGI mo-cap technology, whether or not Michael J. Fox has died yet. Zemeckis promises groundbreaking cinema the likes of which your eyeballs have never... ... wait, has this joke been done already in the thread?
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At Universal Studios Florida park. James Cameron even directed the T3 ride. Though I don't think they call it T3.
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I have all the Huey Lewis albums.
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I'm sort-of doubtful I have any CDs at all that _aren't_ filmscores, or scores from games. Nothing comes to mind. (I don't much care for 'soundtracks', though, in the sense of the incidental pop music used throughout the film.) Scores are the modern equivalent of classical music, and (frankly) are sometimes vastly superior to even the classics. (I only have one Philip Glass score, though. {lol!} For "The Fog of War". Not one of my very favorites.) Incidentally, I have the scores (only on cassette tape unfortunately) for both Bttf2 and BttF3. I don't know of any music or even arrangements of Silvestri's on BttF1 that aren't recapped in those two scores, so honestly I couldn't care less about this re-release. (I really should hunt up CDs of the scores for the second two movies someday, though, and archive them on my Apple's iTunes.)
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It sure was damn deceiving! I updated it. Maybe that helps. And yes, pretty much all I listen to is film music.
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Nov 24, 2009 12:46:16 PM CST
SILVESTRI RIPPED OFF HIS OWN CAT'S EYE THEME FOR BTTF!!!FACT!!!
by tehcreepythinman
Seriously, go watch Cat's Eye (great little movie btw) and you'll notice that movie's theme is almost identical to Back to the Future's.
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If only Back to the Future - The Ride still existed.
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I saw a trailer on YouTube so it HAS to be real, right!?
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Hearing the clips makes me want to see these movies in HD so badly... come on Universal... give this trilogy the complete HD make-over...
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Set yourselves on fire.
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John Debney did a recording of this, and it was horrible. I have a promo tape of the original muisc for this (Silvestri used to send these out as promos) when I wrote to him for a autograph once.
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Nov 24, 2009 3:03:05 PM CST
"I hate how they only give these scores limited releases"
by nasty in the pasty
That's usually the ONLY way the soundtrack labels can afford what they do. With VERY rare exceptions (Star Wars, Titanic, and...that's about it), movie score soundtracks simply do not sell to anyone other than a small, select group of consumers, and that's why most soundtracks are limited to 3,000 copies or less. Yeah, it sucks when you want a soundtrack that sells out before you can snag a copy, but thems the breaks.
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extended Attack of the Clones and ROTS CD's, pronto.
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And no, I'm not going to "set myself on fire" because I prefer sophisticated orchestral music written for films to the latest pop tart ditty by Beyonce or whoever. I can enjoy a catchy song as much as the next guy (I *did* grow up in the 80's, after all), but give me a thrilling Jerry Goldsmith chase cue from 1975, and I can't stop smiling.
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Unlike the majority of people who post at AICN, of course...
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Debney's recording was incomplete and, as you observed, the quality failed to satisfy many. Silvestri's promo tape was also incomplete, definitely not up to modern audio standards, and (unless it came direct from the composer, as in your case) a bootleg. The music on Intrada's new release has been completely remastered for optimal clarity, contains not merely previously unreleased cues but an ENTIRE ALTERNATE SCORE, and beautiful packaging featuring detailed liners by film music authority Michael Matessino. The bottom line is that soundtrack fans have been lusting after a better presentation of this score for more than two decades, and this release exceeds all expectations. But then, as someone who once wrote to Silvestri for an autograph, you probably know most of this. :-)
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Williams has nothing to do with 99% of expanded scores of his work. But TPTB should certainly put together quality AOTC and ROTS 2-CD sets ... and redo the atrocious TPM Ultimate Edition while they're at it!
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Ha! The one case where a hyperbolic and misleading headline was amended. You're too modest for these jokers, Scorekeeper.
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Nov 24, 2009 3:41:25 PM CST
JOHN HARRISON'S SCORE FOR CREEPSHOW IS A FAVORITE OF MINE.
by tehcreepythinman
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I wrote to Silvestri for an autograph around 99, and he sent me the BTTF promo tape and a signed double CD promo of his music. it was so cool, and I still have it. The CD had music from Romancing the Stone, etc, Awesome stuff!
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I'd rather listen to it while watching the movie, instead of by itself.
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...said the moron named "darthpigman"
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http://tinyurl.com/2yltys
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and my mind is totally blown.
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Regardless of Zemeckis' denial of BTTF4, I find it hard to believe that if the principals from the original trilogy are still alive and kicking around 2013 or so that they won't cash in on the 2015 date and make another movie.
They could do it one of a couple ways: make a "remake" with a kid from 2015 going back to 1985 (only connection is some time machine element courtesy of Doc Brown). This would be a fairly straight forward remake using the novelty of 2015 vs 1985 in the same way as 1985 was to 1955 in the first film. Another option would be more of a true sequel utilizing Marty's kids or Doc Brown's shenanigans over the last 30 years. It could get fairly creative, but I believe that with remake crazy Hollywood...the first scenario will almost certainly happen no matter what. -
I don't think this is truly a legitimate complete score unless they would incorporate the Earth Angel - orchestral segue at least as a bonus track. That is definitely one of the best blending of soundtrack music and score ever.
I understand that they may not have rights to include Earth Angel, but it's very sad that this score comes to light and one of it's shining moments is missing. I'm guessing the score part is included but without the actual Earth Angel part, it's effectively neutered.
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that's my holy grail of soundtracks. my mom would die if I somehow got it for her.
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I think it's out there, maybe out-of-print, but you could probably track down a CD somewhere.
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....aren't you the same people who bitch and moan about remakes and unnescesary sequels?? LEAVE THE FRANCHISE ALONE!! LET IT BE!!
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Um, don't you have the BTTF box set? It has deleted scenes from all three movies, commentaries, and lots of behind the scenes material.
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http://tinyurl.com/yjwpelc Tell your mom I said, "You're welcome."@BadMrWonka. The internet is a wondrous place.
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BTT4 - utilizing the magic of motion capture technology. Cue bad Parkinson's joke.
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Not that I've ever looked, but that's insane!
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I looked a year ago and nothing. and they're selling out of print, never opened versions for 80 bucks?! sheesh. I'll get her a used one...
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I'd give my left nut for the BTTF trilogy, Jurassic Park and the first three Indiana Jones on blu ray
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He's just spacing them out for very obvious reasons. So worry not the library will be available and your nuts will be safe
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It is so brilliant and the main theme is among the greatest ever!
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That's what we're here for. Congrats.
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that shit BETTER start coming out next year, I don't know how much longer I can wait!
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"Why not mass release the score?" I'm sure Intrada would LOVE to! But it's all about the $$$$. The way these deals have to come together is insanely complex, and has to do with such factors as when and where the music was recorded. You just have to remember that the music/entertainment biz doesn't always operate according to ordinary rules of "logic." Anyway, the first pressing of 3,000 copies has already sold out. There will be a second pressing, but it won't be unlimited -- so anyone who's on the fence, order now!
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Running with agentf1's idea -- a fourth chapter could start in the 2015 of the movie, but through time travel shenanigans, that future is changed to one we're more likely to know. Maybe the movie's 2015 is the result of many Doc Brown inventions, or maybe a rival inventor's inventions. For some reason or another, those creations have to be or are circumstantially prevented.
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Nov 25, 2009 8:33:21 AM CST
I said it the other day, this is my favorite trilogy
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
I love them all. The first is the best film, setting up some classic characters with a fantastic story. The second upped the ante with crazy FX, sweet technology and a frenetic pace to one of the best time travel clean-ups ever. The riffing on the first is inspired and the comedy is constant. The third film goes against the usual trend of trilogy's and slooows things back down to a comfortable ride where characters once again take centre stage. The comedy in this one truly reaches classic proportions with many in-jokes and Mad Dog Tannen, possibly the greatest idiot villain in history. The only problem I have with the entire series is that Doc doesn't give Marty back his hoverboard...
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Nov 25, 2009 8:36:52 AM CST
Looks like he got that shirt off'n a dead Chinee!
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
I didn't know the circus was in town.
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Whats your name dude?
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What kind of stupid name is that?
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Nov 25, 2009 8:40:22 AM CST
If your horse threw a shoe bring him back and I'llreshoehim
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
I done shot that horse!
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all three Back To The Future films are excellent, don't let anyone tell you otherwise
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Nov 25, 2009 9:21:40 AM CST
I wish the ride at Universal still exsisted.
by kevin_costners_recycled_piss
Damn you Professor Frink and your time travel shenanigans!
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i love that quote! my buddy and i always used to say that.
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Nov 26, 2009 2:33:33 AM CST
I'm callin you out you gutless yella pie slinger!
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
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m..m..Mighty strong words runt, are you man enough to back 'em up with more than just a pie plate?
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Nov 26, 2009 2:45:56 AM CST
I'm gonna hunt you down and shoot you like a duck
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
it's 'dog' Buford...
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Nov 26, 2009 3:13:31 AM CST
I can shoot the fleas off a dogs back at 500 yards Tannen
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
and its pointed straight at your head!
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What did he mean by that? It was right in front of him.
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Nov 26, 2009 3:31:53 AM CST
Doc, if I drive at that wall, I'm gonna hit those Indians
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
Marty, your not thinking fourth dimensionally!
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Nov 26, 2009 3:32:44 AM CST
You mean you have to use your hands?
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
Thats like a babies toy.
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Nov 26, 2009 3:33:58 AM CST
Now why don't you make like a tree and get outta here
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
'SLAP' It's LEAVE you idiot, make like a tree and leave. You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong.
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The mans' a genius!
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'Shit!'
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Nov 26, 2009 4:19:37 AM CST
Neekay, is that some kind of Injun talk?
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
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Nov 26, 2009 4:41:19 AM CST
Thats a very interesting story future boy
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
There's only one problem, if the me of the future is now in the past, how could you possibly know about it?
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Nov 26, 2009 4:43:30 AM CST
Well I don't know Doc, what kind of things do kids do in thesixt
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
ahh what the Fu...
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Nov 26, 2009 4:51:03 AM CST
Clara was one in a million, one in a billion, one in a
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
googleplex.
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Nov 26, 2009 4:52:53 AM CST
Hey Mcfly...Hey you aint Shamus Mcfly..
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
You sure look like him though, 'specially in that dog-ugly hat!
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How do ya figure? My horse threw a shoe, and seems as though your the one that did the shoein, I'd say that makes you responsible. Well since you never paid me for the job, I'd say that makes us even! WRONG! See I was on that horse and he made me bust a perfectly good bottle of Kentucky Red Eye. So I figure you owe me $5 for the Red Eye, and $75 for the horse....
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Awesome news :D
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Nov 26, 2009 8:34:12 AM CST
Mad Dog....I hate that name. I hate it! Ya HEAR!
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
NOBODY CALLS ME MAD DOG. SPECIALLY NOT SOME DUDIED-UP EGG-SUCKIN GUTTERTRASH!!!!!!!
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Yeah, nuthin but a gutless yella-belly. Nobody calls me Yellow.
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Everybody everywhere will say Clint Eastwood is the biggest yellowbelly in the west....
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