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From: terryl@tekcrl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: BACK TO THE FUTURE (Spoilers)
Message-ID: <190@tekcrl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 14:12:03 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 10 14:12:03 1985
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>1) Where have I seen (or heard) the person who played Marty's Dad before?
>   The voice is amazingly familiar.

     He played the insecure kid in "Teachers" who gets blown away by the
cops in the school hallway after he pulls a gun out of his locker.

>2) Are we supposed to imagine that Marty's parents' transformation into
>   Yuppies makes everything OK?  Is it implying that the answer to family
>   happiness is rich, cool (rather sexually active) parents?

     Standard 1980's thinking.

>3) Why don't they stick up a lightening rod to get power for the car's Time
>   Flux Do-Dad?  They could drive around at 88 miles/hour with a grounded
>   leash attached to the car....  Whoops, sorry, trying to insert logic...

     Then they woudln't have a two-hour movie.