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Writer's Block: Future forward
Jun. 28th, 2010 10:33 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
"BACK TO THE FUTURE," BITCHES!!
Yes. I totally meant to curse there. BECAUSE IT'S TRUE. I may be biased because it's the first sci-fi movie I ever saw and loved (I was 13), but I honestly think it did a lot for the genre as far as getting sci-fi in front of my generation and making them develop an interest in the concepts of speculative storytelling. Sure, there was still "Star Trek," but in 1985 new episodes had not been on the air in nearly a generation and the movies were sort of geared to old-time fans. Plus, it had a freakin' DELOREAN (which I saw Chris Barrie folding his obscenely tall self into to drive on a TV special the other day and nearly fainted with the ovarial rush to my brain).
I mean, can you believe Bob Gale and Bob Zemeckis actually wanted to use a refrigerator for the time machine first? /HORRIFIED
"Back to the Future" just turned 25, in fact (it came out Memorial Weekend 1985), and while it and Part 2 had some pretty wild stuff for the "future" - which is now only 5 years away, if you can believe that (and still not a f@#*(# flying car in sight), it was chiefly about the storytelling and the humor.
"BACK TO THE FUTURE," BITCHES!!
Yes. I totally meant to curse there. BECAUSE IT'S TRUE. I may be biased because it's the first sci-fi movie I ever saw and loved (I was 13), but I honestly think it did a lot for the genre as far as getting sci-fi in front of my generation and making them develop an interest in the concepts of speculative storytelling. Sure, there was still "Star Trek," but in 1985 new episodes had not been on the air in nearly a generation and the movies were sort of geared to old-time fans. Plus, it had a freakin' DELOREAN (which I saw Chris Barrie folding his obscenely tall self into to drive on a TV special the other day and nearly fainted with the ovarial rush to my brain).
I mean, can you believe Bob Gale and Bob Zemeckis actually wanted to use a refrigerator for the time machine first? /HORRIFIED
"Back to the Future" just turned 25, in fact (it came out Memorial Weekend 1985), and while it and Part 2 had some pretty wild stuff for the "future" - which is now only 5 years away, if you can believe that (and still not a f@#*(# flying car in sight), it was chiefly about the storytelling and the humor.
