Reviews of Back to the Future 1985
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Before 1985 white guys on skateboards were a central figure of scorn for the entire nation. After BTTF everyone wanted to be a white guy on a skateboard. People with the last name McFly began to name their children Marty. Psychologists argued with the question, is it incest if you havent even been born yet? Scientists all of a sudden became cool. 1985 was a banner year, the world would never be the same. The Dolorean would hover in the back of millions of kids minds as the car they would someday own.
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Kid goes to the past
Kisses his teenage mother
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My favorite time travel movies. This has it all
Great music, great story and quite good special effects considering the year. -
'Back to the Future' is an iconic film. And at the heart of this film is a really quite remarkable script - made even more remarkable by rest of the writing duo's decidedly poor screenwriting work. This Oscar-nominated screenplay is a genuine masterpiece, combining multiple sub-plots with consummate ease to create a timeless adventure film with strong roots both in sci-fi and in comedy.
Time travel films can get pretty confusing at times, but…
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So... I've never liked this movie. Why? Because I hate race-against-time matchmaking. I'm not saying I'm insane about matchmaking plots under other circumstances (I think the audience can do better work than the characters if they must be written with this purpose in mind), I'm saying my idea of great tension and a device to raise the audience's heart-rates is not the details revolving around getting a dopey, geeky Crispin Glover and a bad girl-underneath, hot-pantsed Lea Thompson to hook…
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88mph!
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Dear god... nothing will ever replace this movie as the all-time favorite. I used to imagine as a kid that I was Marty McFly, and got to time-travel wherever the hell my heart desired. Maybe one day...
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huey
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One of those frenetic 80s comedies where everyone runs around a lot with their eyes bugging-out, yelling at the top of their lungs, and not accomplishing much of anything until the last 5 minutes of the film.
Oh yeah, about 10 years ago, I found out that the "Enchantment Under the Sea" prom scene was filmed in my high school auditorium. Apparently, everyone who went to my high school knew about this except me. Bastards.
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Possibly the most well-known time-traveling film of all time, it defines the genre. Not so confusing that it is hard to understand, and not so simplified that it feels boring, Back to the Future is easily on of the best family films of the last 30 years. Funny, intelligent, interesting, glorious to look at, and the foundation of an amazing trilogy.