He just sat there, staring blankly at the guy who was interviewing him. I mean, this was a national talk show.Funnily enough, Crispin Glover (another Back to the Future alumni), comes off as quite ordinary compared to him. At least he did stuff. If you can find the video,check it out! It's worth it for the look on Mary Steenburgen's face alone.

A remake is unthinkable. Another sequel even more so.

Shit!

Now, I need a fucking time machine of my own.

Just as long as they didn't let Lucas "retouch" any special effects or replace any guns with walkie talkies. Oh, they were SPECIAL editions alright...

Somewhere on YoutTube there's footage of a GTA mod that allows you to drive/fly the BTTF Deloreon. pretty cool.

Somethin' without any sugar, huh....

Doc, she's beautiful.

Now we can watch jackie Gleason while we fuckin eat!

Don't forget to take a flyer!

Look at the time. You've got less than 4 minutes! Go!

Come on, mom. Make it fast. Whew! Time to change that oil, dad!

O/o

is it me, or was that the smallest fuckin book ever to have the outcome of EVERY major sporting event from 1950-somethign until the end of that century?

The flying train at the end may be a little hokey to some people. And some people hate that it becomes more about Doc and his love life than about Marty. But the way I see it, pt 3 just takes the story in a different direction and I think it does an okay job with it.

I'll put my extra-geeky BTTF hat back on and explain MJF's "Pepsi Free" line by saying that he wanted the Pepsi free b/c he was already shaken up enough from realizing he went back to 1955 and didn't want the caffeine. BUT, when Lou snaps at him, MJF remembers that not only does Pepsi Free not exist in 1955, the guy probably wouldn't have been familiar with "caffeine" either. SO, he says something without any sugar b/c he just wants something that won't get his heart rate up. Then, ironically, Lou gives him a cup of coffee, which was presumably caffinated. MJF just can't get a break in 1955.

They didn't really have a sequel planned, but thought they COULD take it somewhere if the opportunity came up. it's oen fo the reasons why there was such a long gap between the 1st and 2nd films. It was long enough that MJF had to re-learn how to skateboard for Pt 2.

I miss the old Zemeckis. Who made proper films. I'll bet the only thing stopping this happening is Bob Gale who, all power to him, seems fiercely proud and protective of the Back to the Future trilogy.

Precisely!

"Well, he goes back in time, and his mother starts frothing at the crotch for him.

Fuck, the suits would have an embolism.

No!

Not a word, now. not a word!

Bring on the Tab, bitch!

1955!

Bastards made me wait 4 years to come good on that!

i was just reading the last few posts before cutting out of here when I saw your post and had to ask.

The dog's bollocks - ha ha, I like it!

Never?

No. Why? What's the matter?

I always thought Doc's response there was a little odd and unexplained. Like a sweater thread they could have pulled, but didn't (cus they didn't need to.)

Then again, I guess we'd all have said that about the likes of John Carpenter or Craven back in the day. Well, here's hoping, eh.

What made BTTF work was basing it in one town around one family. Shit, Hill Valley practically WAS the third principal character in those films.

Great movies, great trilogy. Probably soon to be shat all over.

Just please god no reboot.

It was about a cool-as-fuck starship captain, his pointy-eared mate, and an irascible doctor, bounding round the stars, getting into scrapes. They'd defeat the bad guys, Kirk would get it on with some alien chick, after outwitting his enemies with cunning, bravado, skill, and sheer bullshitting - and off we went again.

Maybe, just maybe, if they slip some of the original Trek's social commentary, whatever you want to call it, into the next film, and give people something more to think about afterwards than "shit, that Chris Pine will be big after this..." ... we'll all be happy.

Nothing can touch the TV edit of Die Hard 2 though. "Yippee-ky-ay... MELON FARMER."

That's actual fucking genius in and of itself.

You cost three-hundred-bucks damage to my car, you son of a butthead. And I'm gonna take it out of your hide. Hold him!

What happens to us in the future? What, do we become jerks or something?

ENGINE DIES

Whenever the Blu-rays come out, I want a seamless branching option to let me decide if I want to see "To Be Continued" at the end or not.

See? Now you too can enjoy part 2!

Sure, you could say that it's a "possible future", or a version of the future that would happen if nothing else changed, but that doesn't really make sense, given the rules of time travel that BTTF has established (it might make sense in a "Lost" time travel system, where the timeline seems to be essentially set and unchangeable, and where if you try to prevent something from happening, you will probably end up causing it in the first place).

It's kind of refreshing to hear a director actually admit that, because BTTF 2 and 3 do feel a lot like parodies of the sincerity and heart that the first one had, even if they are a lot of fun (Part 2 especially exploring some of the complex issues dealing with time travel and changing the timeline).

It's also interesting to see the original idea for Part 2 (Marty ends up going back to the 60s and seeing what his parents were doing then and almost preventing himself from being born--there's a script out there online somewhere). But they ended up having to do a massive rewrite when they couldn't get Crispin Glover to come back, leading to them having to re-use scenes from Part 1, which led to the version of Part 2 we have.

thanks for the insights. Both of those make sense. Dingbatty, I think you ultimately may be right. If I ever see Bob Gale, it's the first thing I'll ask him! (kidding)

Actually, it makes pretty simple sense when you put it that way, Dingbatty. And the simplest solution is often the best one.