Working out the kinks ...

For me, it is very nearly the best movie of any kind, ever.

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I still LOL like crazy at the idea of a refrigerator-time machine. I know the mechanics would probably be different if they had went with that idea, but my brother and I always jokingly ask how they would have made it go 88 miles per hour? XP

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It's all in the freon, man ... LOL

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dont even get me started i lurv BTTF

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Ah, the movie that gave us that pop-culture frustrated cry of "MCFLY!"

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One of my screenwriting professors in uni would show BTTF as an example of why following structure can produce one of the greatest films ever made. I love it each and every time I watch it.

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Structure-wise, this movie is a fabulous testament to tight writing, plotting, shooting, etc. Yes, there are a few plotholes - I don't know ONE sci-fi movie that is seamless, but this comes kind of close. But this thing has a clear beginning, middle, climax, denouement, resolution, coda, etc. It doesn't go on forever, you can sense when it's going to end. (Well, the first one did at least. The third wasn't bad either, BASICALLY BECAUSE THEY WROTE THE SAME MOVIE WITH A FEW TWEAKS. The second one was a mess. Ugh.) And you can watch it over and over and see new things each time.

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Great Scott!!! I thought I was the only one who really loved that series!!

Personally, I'm still waiting for the hover boards!!! :)

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I'd wait for them IF I COULD STAY ON THEM.

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Well, you have to learn like you learn on skateboards. You start off sitting on them. Then you get your balance and learn to stand. :)

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With you on the hover boards! And personal fusion machines would be nice as well, get rid of all that organic waste and get nice and clean energy. *nodnod*

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Oh yeah...the fusion machines, too. :) I'm thinking fun and weirdness...not taking care of the Earth! :)

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/Has walked around Courthouse Square

/Has played with one of the hoverboards

/drives by one of the DeLoreans every day

/has "Back To The Future Part 2" selected as favorite movie on employee badge

Yeah basically I agree with this post.

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You don't even KNOW. How this movie dominated my mid-teen years. Seriously. My first boyfriend and I got together because we both loved this movie so hard. I've seen it in the hundreds of times, and that's just when I was a kid, wearing out my poor VHS tape. A few years ago, Mom bought me the DVD box set; I hadn't gotten it because I still had the original VHS tapes. (I don't know what they made that first movie tape from, but it's gotta be the same stuff they used to coat the exterior of Starbug - that thing lasted THROUGH 20 YEARS and hard use.)

Did you see the part where I mentioned The Barrie and The Car? UNF.

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Of course I did. I've seen that video too. Made me grin like a lunatic.

Also, a couple of years ago they did a big hoorah at the park for the closing of the BttF ride. We had over 200 DeLoreans in the parking lot, from all over the country. It was AMAZING.

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Wow. Closing. In 1989 I went to Orlando for a contest before my senior year, and we went to Disney World, but I wanted desperately to go to the Universal theme park instead and be among BTTF stuff.

Except they were building it there then. And there was nothing quite yet to open. ARGGGHHHHH.

(And I had the awesomest t-shirt ever that I hand-painted from the movie poster. I mean, it was GOOD; I spent weeks on that thing. When it finally fell apart in the late 90s, I sniffled more than a little.)

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Yeah, they closed it in 2007 and put in the Simpsons ride. It was definitely showing its age, though. Hard to see it fall apart. :/

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I rode The Simpsons ride just this past November. It's lame!! I would have much preferred riding a BttF ride...

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The BttF ride was effectively the same thing as the Simpsons, really. Just a different movie with fake DeLorean cars. It was also WAY jerkier. The Simpsons is a much smoother ride, weirdly enough.

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And more boring. :( Really not impressed with it, can ya tell?? :)

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Yeah, I never jonesed over the ride that hard - I saved my drool for the car shows I went to with Dad partly on the off-chance there'd be a real DeLorean at them; there were at two ... oooooooooooh ... and there's one driving around the small town I live in now, I see it every few months out tooling around. (Well, and partly drooled just at some other cars too. *G*)

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I'm so jealous I can't see straight. You held a hoverboard??? And didn't slip it under your jacket??? :)

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It's in the prop warehouse. I'd lose my job as VIP tour guide if I smuggled it out. XD

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And then she would NEVER have the opportunity to maybe someday see The Barrie show up as an honorary Teamster and drive the tram. ;-)

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Exactly. I can just see him, lovingly crawling through the tram garage, poking at the four-stroke diesel engines.

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I told Nat I want to see him, Mike Rowe, and Alton Brown do a documentary special together about SOMETHING. Preferably in or around a kitchen/restaurant. Within 15 seconds this was her envisioning (the short version):

Chris: Please tell me I'm not serving chicken soup machines ...

Alton: If you can CALL that "soup."

Mike: You do not what to know what I just saw over in the corner.

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Oh, lawd. That would be glorious. Just...Chris and Alton in the same room, even. The only way it could be cooler is if the Mythbusters guys were there.

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I've been watching Alton for a while, maybe the last year or so. And I finally collected all the Machines shows online with Nat and we watched them, and at one point I thought This is so familiar and I can't figure out why ... - and then last night I was watching "Good Eats" and Alton was sitting at a little cloth loom explaining about the similarities between weaving and the importance of gluten in stable pizza crust, and I went OH MY GOD. LOLOLOL

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Ohhhh...well, yeah, okay. :) Job is more important. :)

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I wore out two copies of the cassette tape way back when!

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I agree with ref's 'banging tunes' comment (and that it was great, of course). I'm thinkin' that was '84 or '85, right around my senior year of high school, when everything was about the music for me. (Huey Lewis guested in the first one, ZZ Top in the last. The second - significantly - had no musical guest that I can recall.) And a year or two later Michael J. Fox starred with Joan Jet in a really bad film that I saw at the theater twice anyway just to watch those two sing together. Yeah, not really relevant, but... :D

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Oh, "Light of Day" - I had the soundtrack. Fox can't sing for toffee, LOL. But the title track wasn't bad, with Jett singing it.

I wouldn't call him a musical guest, per se, but Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers was in the third movie as one of Biff's toughs; he might've been in the second one as well. I can't remember off the top of my head. But a very young Elijah Wood was in the second movie; in fact, I think it might have been his first role.

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I do remember hearing that bit about Elijah Wood, back when I was a raving LotR nut. At the time, I inspected my ~~illegally recorded~~ VHS copy looking for him and was disappointed that it was about 5 seconds of the back of his head. :p (Still cute, though.)

I know Flea has had bit parts in a few big films (wasn't My Private Idaho one of them?), but that one blew by me. (Now - what have I done with that old Memorex...)

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