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Today's a special day
Posted by David Hepworth on 6 July 2010 - 11:54am.
I am grateful to my friend Greg for pointing out that today is the day that Marty McFly arrived in the future after hitting 88mph in a pimped out Delorean in 1985. Look!
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no it's not...
it's a hoax. the actual date is sometime in 2015. I only know this cos I watched BTTF over Christmas and realised that Steven Spielberg had better get a wriggle on if he's to have 24 Jaws movies made in five years.
Complete bunk
I'm afraid. Date never mentioned in the film and that shot is 'Shopped.
Back to the Future 2 was set in 2015.
(I've been scurrying around the Internet trying to find the source of this non-fact; the earliest appears to be here:
http://twitter.com/Photocritic/status/17785208553 )
No it isn't
That screengrab is apparently fake. I double checked the film last night and whilst Doc Brown says that he intends to go 25 years into the future (from the 26th October 1985) he never actually sets the machine to do so, and is shot by the terrorists before he can.
In Back to the Future II they visit 2015.
This nonsense seems to have spread via Twitter from Total Film. Then when they were called on it they made the edited picture.
It was reported elsewhere too:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/jul/05/tamper-time-frame-ba...
http://www.business24-7.ae/the-business-of-life/entertainment/bachchan-b...
Video Evidence, M'Lud
Yep, and here's the best proof: http://thedailywh.at/post/774276336/fake-fakery-of-the-day-thank-you-to-...
pedantry in overdrive
More clarity
http://timetravelopps.co.uk/blog/the-back-to-the-future-tweet-meme-error
the rather brilliant timeline for all 3 films
http://bit.ly/bLeqsl
And Here's the actual clip from Back to the Future where Marty and the Doc discuss going back to 1955 etc: http://vimeo.com/13099195
(enough enough - ED)
to be fair
there is an element of truth to the meme in the sense that The Doc does talk about going 25 years into the future (although he never actually punches that into the De Lorean) which would be 2010 although its more likely to be Oct 26 2010..
As for actual time travel in the 3 films then nobody goes to 2010. at all.
I'm really confused now
WHY would anyone fake the picture in the first place?
Empire Mag (sort of) covering up an error
http://www.news.com.au/technology/back-to-the-future-fans-celebrate-wron...
Great Scott!
Oh, Hepworth, your shoe's untied—" *slaps on side of head*
Future Shockers
The Planet of the Apes timeline blasts off in '72
http://pota.goatley.com/prophecy/timeline.htm
Soylent Green (1973 version) - is set in 1999
I'm sure there's some other piece of crazy near-futurism in film that's meant to take place in 1983?
I had a poster from "select" or similar
which had all these dates from sci-fi on it and strecthing out into this century virtually every year the world was destroyed by a nuclear war or taken over by mad max or water world. Can't find one onlien that's quite the same.
I'm reading this at the mo'...
http://www.amazon.com/Science-Superheroes-Lois-H-Gresh/dp/0471024600
The science fact behind superheroes (a highly recommended read). One point mentions, that in the 3 billion year history of life on Earth, at least 10 extinction-level events have occurred. So you never know - the doom and gloom philosophy of sci-fi films may have some substance to it.
Whoops, Dave...
make like a tree....
... and split!
I just love these films... :)
Hepworth's blooper aside....
Can I just hijack this thread to start an appreciation of Back To The Future? Isn't it just an incredible series of films?
They are unpretentious and unashamedly crowd-pleasing. Compare to, say, Ferris Bueller: Ferris now looks cheesy and dated and thrown together. Every time I re-watch the Back To The Future films I am amazed at the layers of humour and clever little bits that I never noticed before.
I think it's one of the few examples of a truly successful set of sequels: they knew what they wanted to do and they did it well and they did not outstay their welcome. There was no "Back To The Future Part 6" where Marty meets God or goes back to the dinosaurs or anything.
It's a fabulous series.
I love it more than I can say. Is there any more exhilarating moment in all of cinema than Marty hanging onto a car bumper, late for school, while "The Power Of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News plays?
Wonderful stuff.
Full of great little exhilarating moments
The opening tracking shot round Doc Brown's workshop is like a masterclass in establishing tension and plot: without a word of dialogue or a single actor on screen, you get all the info you need about this eccentric inventor and his experiments and lifestyle. Beautiful stuff.
thanks lads...
that's my evening sorted. I'll cut the grass tomorrow...
I'm convinced...
...that Nick Park based Wallace on the Doc.
It's one of those films which just keeps on giving. Yesterday, a couple of my more nerdile friends and I started playing "Aliens quote tennis" on Facebook (rules: attempting to have what could read as a coherent conversation using unrelated quotes from Aliens, because there are so many cherishable ones). You could easliy do that with BTTF.
Mind you it's Grommit...
...that is the true scientific genius. I think Wallace & Grommit is based on a mixture of Thunderbirds and Billy Liar, and growing up in the North West.
I was in Atlanta for an overwhelming (read - lots of fun but really very foreign) summer in the mid 80's when BTTF ruled and I love those films to bits (the second relies on fan-dom perhaps to make any sense). I really do prefer them as Hollywood entertainment to Star Wars - they have that wonderful completeness of vision and heart that the Toy Story movies have
Back to the Future 4?
Not happening!
They would have to recast
Marty for BTTF4 and no one would want that. Just leave it alone and don't bloody remake it
May I recommend then
There was no "Back To The Future Part 6" where Marty meets God or goes back to the dinosaurs or anything.
Make all attempts to avoid the short-lived animated series where of course, they did just that.
(Concentrating on Doc and Marty? No, of course not! Doc and Clara's kids Jules and Verne.)
Ok
"What you looking at, Butthead?"