Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ucbvax!upstill From: upstill@ucbvax.ARPA (Steve Upstill) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Back to the Future (check it out) Message-ID: <8649@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 18:56:49 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8649 Posted: Sun Jun 30 18:56:49 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 08:28:23 EDT Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 25 Let me be the first to recommend Back to the Future. There's life yet in the Steven Spielberg's little world, which had started to get a little shopworn with Goonies. All the familiar Spielberg elements are there: popular non-science, whacky nuclear family, small-town America, heartwarming twists of plot, even [.......spoiler deleted ....] and [.........ditto.....]. Yet three things save this one, in high style: 1) Robert Zemeckis' direction. I don't know how he does it, but somehow, without any particular style you can point your finger at, he has developed the lightest touch in movies, and I now believe that this man can put ANYTHING over on you, and make you love it. 2) The performance of the lead actor, whose name I don't even know. He now joins Tom (Risky Business) Cruise and ...(The Sure Thing) ... as the most appealling young comic actors in America. 2a) The performance of Christopher Lloyd as the Mad Scientist (benevelant). 3) The script, by director Zemeckis and Bob Gale. Believe me, if you know the premise of the movie, you can predict just about everything that's going to happen after about 20 minutes. Yet you enjoy seeing it happen anyway, because the dialogue is so good and the sense of comic detail so keen. Now I have to see Used Cars and I Wanna Hold Your Hand. The only faults I would warn you about are mentioned above: It's too Spielberg-esque in the windup and somewhat pat neatness of it all. But the ride is a real joy. ***-1/2 out of ****. Take your mother to see it. You won't be sorry, and neither will she. Steve Upstill