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Back to the Future Part II
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Directed by Robert Zemeckis.
Things have barely settled from the excitement and resolve of the original Back to the Future, when in pops that crazy inventor Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) with news that in order to prevent a series of events that could ruin the McFly name for posterity, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox ) and his girlfriend are whisked into the future to the year 2015, where Marty must tangle with a teen rogue named Griff, who's obviously the descendant of Biff, the first Future film's bully. Marty foils Griff and his group when he jumps on an air-foil skateboard that flies him through town at rakish speeds with the loser bullies beaten again. Marty gets a money-making brainstorm before hopping in the time-traveling DeLorean, and he purchases a sports almanac. He figures that back in 1985 he'll be able to place sure-fire bets using the published sports scores of the games that are yet to happen. Unfortunately for Marty, Dr. Brown disapproves of his betting scheme -- he feels too much messing with time is very dangerous -- and he tosses the almanac. A hidden Biff overhears the discussion about the almanac, sees it get tossed out, and grabs it. Thus begins a time-traveling swirl to make the head spin. Biff swipes the DeLorean, heads back to 1955, and with the help of the unerring almanac, bets his way to power. The now-altered "Biff world" has turned into a nightmarish scene with Biff the mogul, residing in a Vegas-styled pleasure palace and running everything. It's all our hero Marty can do to pull the pieces together this time, as he must jump between three generations of intertwined time travel. The end of Back to the Future, Part 2 introduces its sequel as the zany professor has already time-dashed away to the Wild West of the late 1800s and invites Marty into a new adventure. ~ All Movie Guide
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cspraguecsprague Re:Spoutblog Coverage at Comic-Con
by csprague in Comic-Con
loved it.
"Comic-Con 2008: Back to the Future Hover Board Nearly Within My Grasp There it is, the real thing, Marty McFly’s actual hover board from Back to the Future Part II. Or it’s one of them, at least. The woman staffing the Comic-Con booth full of drool-worthy Hollywood artifacts informed me that the prop department made several hover boards, of which this is only one of several originals. They’ve sold a few before. She seemed confident that the sale would land between the $30,000 to $50,000 estimated cost, if not exceed it. Sure, it doesn’t actually work as a hover board (my eight-year-old self is still waiting on that one) but it’s still very real, in another way. Comic-Con is truly an adolescent hedonist’s feast, but almost everything is simulated in one way or another. From big-budget Hollywood remakes of classic comics to the scintillating tease of 2-D cleavage displayed on innumerable posters and comic covers, to cutesy bobble-head versi ... " [More]
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"There it is, the real thing, Marty McFly’s actual hover board from Back to the Future Part II. Or it’s one of them, at least. The woman staffing the Comic-Con booth full of drool-worthy Hollywood artifacts informed me that the prop department made several hover boards, of which this is only one of several originals. They’ve sold a few before. She seemed confident that the sale would land between the $30,000 to $50,000 estimated cost, if not exceed it. Sure, it doesn’t actually work as a hover board (my eight-year-old self is still waiting on that one) but it’s still very real, in another way. Comic-Con is truly an adolescent hedonist’s feast, but almost everything is simulated in one way or another. From big-budget Hollywood remakes of classic comics to the scintillating tease of 2-D cleavage displayed on innumerable posters and comic covers, to cutesy bobble-head versions of even the most bad-ass super heroes, it actually came as a surprise to see something genuine. That thing is ... " [More]
SpoutBlogSpoutBlog ‘Terminator Salvation’ Teaser. ...
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"Remember when trailers would name-appropriately trail the movie? Me neither. I don’t think anyone does. But occasionally trailers are still shown after the main feature. Back to the Future Part III was advertised at the end of Part II, and The Matrix Reloaded ended with a preview of The Matrix Revolutions. As next installments of cliff-hanging series, though, these sequels were like the old serials from which trailers received their name (in one of multiple explanations). I suggest that previews of big movies starring the main actor of the film you’re currently seeing also follow this model. Why? Because after watching this teaser (boy does it tease right) trailer for next summer’s Terminator Salvation, which is showing with The Dark Knight and which stars TDK’s Christian Bale, I’m too distracted by my excitement for the nex season to fully concentrate on the blockbuster at hand. Wouldn’t it be better if Warner Bros. instead slipped this trailer in right before the Dark Knight cred ... " [More]
KarinaKarina Air McFly Launch Madness
by Karina in Karina on SpoutBlog
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"It may seem like I’m late to the party on this one, but I swear, I’m not––I saw the TV version of this CNBC story last week, so I knew that Nike launched a limited edition sneaker last weekend called Air McFly, based on the self-tying shoe that will apparently de rigeur for hoverboard flights in the very near future, assuming the very near future looks anything like Back to the Future 2. I knew that fans had been clamoring for the sneaker for years; I knew that there’d be great demand, but extremely limited supply. What I did not know, was that the shoe’s launch, at a single store in Santa Monica, turned into a some kind of fan fest, complete with lines around the block (some waited over 24 hours, according to HypeBeast) and a special appearance by Kobe Bryant, who arrived in a DeLorean (what, Michael J. Fox wasn’t available?) Photo evidence and related links after the jump; above, a video from last year setting the Air McFly lobbying campaign to song. First, here’s the shoe, cour ... " [More]
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"It may seem like I’m late to the party on this one, but I swear, I’m not––I saw the TV version of this CNBC story last week, so I knew that Nike launched a limited edition sneaker last weekend called Air McFly, based on the self-tying shoe that will apparently de rigeur for hoverboard flights in the very near future, assuming the very near future looks anything like Back to the Future 2. I knew that fans had been clamoring for the sneaker for years; I knew that there’d be great demand, but extremely limited supply. What I did not know, was that the shoe’s launch, at a single store in Santa Monica, turned into a some kind of fan fest, complete with lines around the block (some waited over 24 hours, according to HypeBeast) and a special appearance by Kobe Bryant, who arrived in a DeLorean (what, Michael J. Fox wasn’t available?) Photo evidence and related links after the jump; above, a video from last year setting the Air McFly lobbying campaign to song. First, here’s the shoe, cour ... " [More]
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SpoutBlogSpoutBlog The Hoverboard Debate. Clip of ...
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"This past Saturday, former Growing Pains teen idol Kirk Cameron participated in a debate about the existence of God. Now, it’s even less my place than his to comment on either the Christian or the atheist point of view, but the event did make me think of a serious debate that I was once involved in: the existence of Hoverboards. I knew they didn’t exist, but a friend of mine was certain they did. No, he’s not stupid; in his defense it was widely rumored that they had been invented and were to be released in conjunction with Back to the Future II. Apparently the rumor began when Robert Zemeckis joked that the wheel-less skateboards were real — at least that’s what Kirk Cameron says happened, in this clip from “The Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy.” Thanks to Kirk Cameron, I won my debate. I have no idea if he won his own or not. Anyway, this is one of my favorite videos of all time (available in the DVD box set of the trilogy), and I couldn’t resist making it my clip of the ... " [More]
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"I know I gave a glowing review of Part I, and initially, when I saw this back in the theater in 1989, I LOVED it. But I was a little kid enamored with the first film, and now that I'm older and wiser (I hope), I don't think this film is all that good. The acting is WAY too broad and theatrical, mostly thanks to Tom Wilson's hammy portrayal of the entire Tannen clan. Elisabeth Shue and Christopher Lloyd are also cringe-worthy in a handful of scenes (the double-fainting Jennifer Parker/McFly scene comes to mind). Sadly, you have to sit through THIS film to get to the third in the trilogy, which more or less makes up for this somewhat pointless film. " [More]
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by Risselada in HORROR MOVIES 101
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"Picks up exactly where the first movie left off. Sequels as a general rule don’t live up to the original, but nevertheless this is a good movie and can be enjoyed along with the original. " [More]
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