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really real
Apr 7, 2012, 9:50:55 AM4/7/12
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I tried watching Back To the Future the other night as it was on our
movie channel. What an interestingly dated movie, from a time, the 80s,
when terrorism jokes were still funny.
What wasn't funny were the scenes of the kid's father getting bullied
and being a nerd. This was unwatchable. I didn't make it very far
through this movie. Should I?
movie channel. What an interestingly dated movie, from a time, the 80s,
when terrorism jokes were still funny.
What wasn't funny were the scenes of the kid's father getting bullied
and being a nerd. This was unwatchable. I didn't make it very far
through this movie. Should I?
Halmyre
Apr 7, 2012, 1:18:29 PM4/7/12
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On Apr 7, 2:50 pm, really real <reallyr...@shaw.ca> wrote:
> I tried watching Back To the Future the other night as it was on our
> movie channel. What an interestingly dated movie, from a time, the 80s,
> when terrorism jokes were still funny.
>
You'd better give this a miss then:
> I tried watching Back To the Future the other night as it was on our
> movie channel. What an interestingly dated movie, from a time, the 80s,
> when terrorism jokes were still funny.
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Lions
or even this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achmed_the_Dead_Terrorist#Achmed_the_Dead_Terrorist
> What wasn't funny were the scenes of the kid's father getting bullied
> and being a nerd. This was unwatchable. I didn't make it very far
> through this movie. Should I?
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Halmyre
anim8rFSK
Apr 7, 2012, 1:40:54 PM4/7/12
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In article
<c7fa68e4-6321-4761...@dc2g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
And both sequels.
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So we're all agreed that Clod is stupid?
<c7fa68e4-6321-4761...@dc2g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
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So we're all agreed that Clod is stupid?
Mr. Hole the Magnificent
Apr 7, 2012, 7:16:02 PM4/7/12
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Michael OConnor
Apr 7, 2012, 7:56:55 PM4/7/12
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On Apr 7, 9:50 am, really real <reallyr...@shaw.ca> wrote:
> I tried watching Back To the Future the other night as it was on our
> movie channel. What an interestingly dated movie, from a time, the 80s,
> when terrorism jokes were still funny.
I guess it would have been funnier if Doc Brown had built the nuclear
> I tried watching Back To the Future the other night as it was on our
> movie channel. What an interestingly dated movie, from a time, the 80s,
> when terrorism jokes were still funny.
device for the Libyans instead of giving them a casing full of used
pinball machine parts and using the plutonium for his time machine.
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really real
Apr 8, 2012, 9:13:07 PM4/8/12
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>> What wasn't funny were the scenes of the kid's father getting bullied
>> and being a nerd. This was unwatchable.
>
They didn't hit too close to home at all. They were poorly written, too
repetitive and too dumbly slaptsticky.
I like a good bully movie. This I find did not age well at all.
lugnut
Apr 8, 2012, 10:12:25 PM4/8/12
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On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:13:07 -0700, really real <reall...@shaw.ca>
wrote:
Personally I do have the feeling, bullying-scenes aside, that the BTTF
films are probably something you needed to see "at the right time" -
preferably as a kid or teen, or at least as an adult at the time of
their release - to really be able to fully embrace them. I was a kid
when they came out and I can still enjoy them, but I have to wonder
how much of it is because I still like the films themselves or how
much is because they're sort of familiar comfort food.
-lugnut
wrote:
films are probably something you needed to see "at the right time" -
preferably as a kid or teen, or at least as an adult at the time of
their release - to really be able to fully embrace them. I was a kid
when they came out and I can still enjoy them, but I have to wonder
how much of it is because I still like the films themselves or how
much is because they're sort of familiar comfort food.
-lugnut
really real
Apr 9, 2012, 12:59:39 AM4/9/12
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>
> Personally I do have the feeling, bullying-scenes aside, that the BTTF
> films are probably something you needed to see "at the right time" -
> preferably as a kid or teen, or at least as an adult at the time of
> their release - to really be able to fully embrace them. I was a kid
> when they came out and I can still enjoy them, but I have to wonder
> how much of it is because I still like the films themselves or how
> much is because they're sort of familiar comfort food.
the first scenes. There are definitely some cute moments in it, and the
whole thing between the kid and his mom are kind of interesting.
I remember the furor at the time about a white guy showing Chuck Berry
how to invent rock 'n roll. That didn't seem to be a problem this time,
but his godawful guitar antics after sounded worse than I remember at
the time.
really real
Apr 9, 2012, 1:01:44 AM4/9/12
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> I guess it would have been funnier if Doc Brown had built the nuclear
> device for the Libyans instead of giving them a casing full of used
> pinball machine parts and using the plutonium for his time machine.
bombing scenes in Brazil, but still, terrorists shooting civilians isn't
as funny as it used to be in the movies.
Michael OConnor
Apr 9, 2012, 6:48:50 AM4/9/12
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On Apr 8, 10:12 pm, lug...@NOSPAMhotmail.com (lugnut) wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:13:07 -0700, really real <reallyr...@shaw.ca>
I think the BTTF movies have aged well. I like the third movie much
more than the second movie; the second film was darker and harder to
follow because of the alternate timeline they were trying to get out
of. However, I've read where Carl Sagan said the alternate timeline
sequence in Back to the Future 2 was the most realistic description of
time travel he had ever seen because it dealt with multiple timelines
and the problems that can result from time travel.
> On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:13:07 -0700, really real <reallyr...@shaw.ca>
more than the second movie; the second film was darker and harder to
follow because of the alternate timeline they were trying to get out
of. However, I've read where Carl Sagan said the alternate timeline
sequence in Back to the Future 2 was the most realistic description of
time travel he had ever seen because it dealt with multiple timelines
and the problems that can result from time travel.
Steven L.
Apr 9, 2012, 8:16:15 AM4/9/12
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"really real" <reall...@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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That wasn't the main focus of the movie.
A lot of very good movies have a scene or two that aren't good. There
are very few movies where every scene is perfect.
-- Steven L.
news:QCXfr.28270$GV1....@newsfe12.iad:
A lot of very good movies have a scene or two that aren't good. There
are very few movies where every scene is perfect.
-- Steven L.
Mack A. Damia
Apr 9, 2012, 2:55:17 PM4/9/12
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On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:50:55 -0700, really real <reall...@shaw.ca>
wrote:
>I tried watching Back To the Future the other night as it was on our
>movie channel. What an interestingly dated movie, from a time, the 80s,
>when terrorism jokes were still funny.
My cousin visited me from England when I lived in NYC. We were
walking somewhere in Manhattan - maybe it was 8th Avenue - when we
came upon them shooting a street/car scene from the film.
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wrote:
>I tried watching Back To the Future the other night as it was on our
>movie channel. What an interestingly dated movie, from a time, the 80s,
>when terrorism jokes were still funny.
walking somewhere in Manhattan - maybe it was 8th Avenue - when we
came upon them shooting a street/car scene from the film.
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globular
Apr 9, 2012, 9:18:03 PM4/9/12
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keep referring to anything they like as if it is a mountain when they
say 'awesome'.
It's 3 years to the year Back To The Future Part 2 was based in, 2015.
Martin 'Martinland' Schemitsch
Apr 12, 2012, 4:05:22 PM4/12/12
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On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 06:01:44 +0100, really real wrote:
> Admittedly, the terrorism scenes were not as unfortunately
> dated as the bombing scenes in Brazil,
Brazil is one of my favourite fantastic movies.
> Admittedly, the terrorism scenes were not as unfortunately
> dated as the bombing scenes in Brazil,
What scares me is not that it might become dated: No, it gets more
realistic with each passing year!
ML
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Martin 'Martinland' Schemitsch
Apr 12, 2012, 4:05:56 PM4/12/12
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On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 06:01:44 +0100, really real wrote:
> Admittedly, the terrorism scenes were not as unfortunately
> dated as the bombing scenes in Brazil,
> dated as the bombing scenes in Brazil,
gggg gggg
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