i didn't like michael j fox playing marty's daughter - Back to the Future Part II (1989) Discussion

[–] BillySlater (4285) 5 years ago

Why? I thought it was funny.

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[–] rateater (10247) 5 years ago

it was funny but i just don't like watching guys play women. it could have been at least 4 different actresses from the original.

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[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7987) 5 years ago

I hate to admit I have watched these movies dozens of times and didn't realize that.

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[–] rateater (10247) 5 years ago

i wish i didn't

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[–] rateater (10247) 5 years ago

jennifer would have been better

they could have used ..

lea thompson
claudia wells
wendie jo sperber
maia brewton
elisabeth shue
justine bateman

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[–] rateater (10247) 5 years ago

yeah, but it was a smaller part so i thought maybe there was a day or two claudia could have come back to film.

shue maybe could have played the part since michael played 2 parts in the film.

i wouldn't have minded if wendy or maia gave it a shot. wendy could have had a chance to play a different type of character and maia was a little older by then, i'm not sure if it would have worked or not.

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[–] Stratego (31082) 5 years ago

Yes, so stupid. One of several reasons I don't like this movie.

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[–] rateater (10247) 5 years ago

one of the reasons for me too. i think the best part was alternate 1985.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 4 years ago

I didn’t like that as well

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[–] hurricane (1967) 4 years ago

I saw these movies dozens of times as a kid, and I was about 20 before I realised it was Michael J. Fox.

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[–] pioneergrrrl (2412) 4 years ago

Did not realize that when I was little. Wanted to look like her. Then again he's really tiny and not the typical hulking guy--so it was convincing.

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[–] contreras (474) 4 years ago

I didn't like seeing Donny go

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[–] TMC-4 (20491) 4 years ago

They could've obviously had Lea Thompson or Elisabeth Shue play the daughter, but I'm assuming that the filmmakers simply thought that it would be "funnier" to have Michael J. Fox dress up in drag. They already had him play his identical son, so they might as well have pushed the credibility factor further. I'm guessing that another reason was to see how much they could push the visual effects (i.e. having three characters played by MJF in the same scene a la Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor) that they had at their disposal to the absolute limit.

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