Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: BACK TO THE FUTURE (spoiler at end) Message-ID: <768@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 00:14:04 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.768 Posted: Mon Jul 8 00:14:04 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 06:07:57 EDT References: <790@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 24 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.