Back to the Future
{5/5} “Mom, is that you?”
Back to the Future, released in 1985
Doc Brown builds a time machine out of a DeLorean. When the terrorists he stole the plutonium from coming looking for it, they kill him. Marty gets in the DeLorean to get away from the terrorists and takes it up to 88 miles per hour. He goes back to 1955, and inadvertently prevents his parents from meeting. That means he won’t be born — and will gradually vanish.
This trilogy is one of my favourites, and it’s very funny. The same things keep happening over and over, so to get the full effect you have to watch all three movies.
It’s about standing up for yourself.
You can’t list any moments from the movie because you would list all of them — it’s perfect.
The astounding behind-the-scenes fact about this movie is that Michael J. Fox was filming his TV show Family Ties at the exact same time as this movie.
Originally there was a “To be continued” at the end, but they didn’t actually intend to make sequels — it was a joke.
One more quotation: “Please excuse the crudity of this model. I didn’t have time to build it to scale.”
Huey Lewis has a fun cameo.
Stars Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Tom Wilson. Directed by Robert Zemeckis (Contact). The music by Alan Silvestri is glorious, and the soundtrack also includes great songs from the 1950s and delightful songs by Huey Lewis & the News.
This is the 4th or 5th time I’ve seen it.