How can anyone be so cruel as to give this movie anything below a 9? This is a classic movie. I think people who were born after 1990 should not be allowed to vote.
shareIts a good movie, and 1980's classic in a fun kind of way. IMDB should setup an IMDB JR site for people under 18. I know that some teens have excellent taste in movies, but the one thing that is typically lacking at a young age is perspective. Newer films are too often viewed through the lens of "Nowiteous", or too often rated 10/10 for "best ever" or 1/10 "worst ever" .
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Many good movies are rated around 6 on IMDB, while a lot of mediocre or just plain bad movies are rated above 8. I don't know if age has anything to do with it. I think it might be better if there was a "critic rating" along with the "user rating" on IMDB.
This was a fun movie by the way (coming from someone who was 7 when the movie was made and who watched it recently for the first time). Maybe not deserving a 9, but certainly more than 6.2. I think something between 7 and 8 would be more fair.
It is a solid all around movie. I think two things hurt it when looking back.
1) It is so obviously an 80's movie. If you didn't live thru the 80's and MJF Family Ties it loses a bit. It was a place and time.
2) It is more like a tv show than a belly laugh or romantic comedy. It walks the middle of the road. It doesn't get to gutsy and stays within a nice box.
I was born in 58 and I thought it sucked. It was a thin concept to start with, Alex Keaton goes to the big city. The soundtrack is awful to listen to now. All of those pre-fab synth heavy garbage songs.
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It wasn't that good, and I first saw this movie on TV in the 90s when I was a young teenager. Saw it again, gave it a 6.
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