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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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Subject: BACK TO THE FUTURE  (spoiler at end)
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Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 00:14:04 EDT
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I really liked this movie, even though, given the subject matter, you can
guess a lot of the consequences along the way.  It plays with a number of
claasic time travel paradoxes, as wel as some classic dramatic themes, but
somehow the familiarity didn't hurt at all; even though I figured out most
of what was going to happen at the end, it was still very funny.

Michael Fox and Christopher Lloyd work great together; so does Fox with the
people he runs into along the way.  The beginning sags a bit, though,
because the situation around the father is a lot too charicatured.

---------------Danger, Danger!  Spoiler ahead!-----------------------




I have to disagree with Jeff on one point though.  It seems pretty clear
from the beginning that Marty could definitely use a more assertive father--
something he causes himself.  Yuppieness just serves as a convenient
charicature to show this.  And his mother was no exactly a "nice" girl
before.

Oh, yeah, the lightning rod.  It's real convenient to know where the
lightning is going to strike, and it's rather clear that the hook is meant
to come out immediately; it's hanging on the wire at the end.