Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watarts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watarts!mupmalis From: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (M. A. Upmalis) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: BACK TO THE FUTURE (Spoilers) Message-ID: <8485@watarts.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 11:40:24 EDT Article-I.D.: watarts.8485 Posted: Mon Jul 8 11:40:24 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 05:43:18 EDT References: <790@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Reply-To: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (M. A. Upmalis) Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 35 Summary: In article <790@vax2.fluke.UUCP> moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) writes: >A few questions: > >1) Where have I seen (or heard) the person who played Marty's Dad before? > The voice is amazingly familiar. The actor played a nerd part on TV recently, I didn't see the whole show, and can't name it, I did love the work of the actor in the movie, nerdish and loveable, one didn't feel alienated.. >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? This was the quickest resolution, if you want to show success, then do it materially, vanquish the villian. The fact that his dad had written a book was a touch more human oriented success, he wasn't afraid to to reach out and show the world something... >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... > To quote the good Dr. (Brown, not Asimov), lightening would be enough, but we never know where it will strike, to which our hero replied......We do now ( or something like that) My own comments, the movie was predictable, but the maxim about not where you go but how you get there .. I loved a lot of bits of schtick, the chase sequence on the skateboard, the Chuck Berry number etc, That the movie was continuously entertaining -- Mike Upmalis (mupmalis@watarts)ihnp4!watmath!watarts!mupmalis