Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekcrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!tektronix!tekcrl!terryl 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 Article-I.D.: tekcrl.190 Posted: Wed Jul 10 14:12:03 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 10:38:57 EDT References: <790@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Lines: 17 >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.