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Why people adore Back to the Future and dont fall for this kind of movies.....

posted 2 years ago by emori (3674)
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Big problem - they estimated at he beginning that "Trying to change the past is bad and will not work" with Bruce speech and basically told the audience that its pointless and there is no way Barry will save mommy and there will be happy ever after. And then with that spoiler ahead people had to sit for 2 hours and watch him fail.

Happens so many times in time travel movies and its annoying.

This is why people adore Back to the Future movies and keep rewatching it. Because in there Marty actually succeeded. He went back, screw timeline and changed what he wanted to better and there was happy ever after.

They really should stop doing this trend and let characters change things in the past and not fail.

[–] ATG6 (3000) 2 years ago

Plus, people actually like Michael J. Fox.

[–] xergan (1084) 2 years ago

To be fair, he never tried to build his own cult or beat women.

[–] hurricane (1967) 2 years ago

Yeah, I think Ezra Miller harmed this film a lot before it was even out.

[–] Batfleck (1538) 2 years ago

after seeing how good the film was all is forgiven.

[–] Truthtalker (2030) 2 years ago

yes, it was depressing in MCU Spiderman 3 that he had to lost everything, and here it happens again

[–] hurricane (1967) 2 years ago

Marty McFly's meddling created a huge problem that took him almost the entire first movie to fix. He almost wasn't born. Yes, in the end, he sorted it out and inadvertently made his present better, but that wasn't really due to any skill of his own. Marty gave George the advice to be more confident, but George had to still go through with it and punch Biff. Being that this was never Marty's intention, it was as much a fluke as anything that 1985 turned out better.

Throughout the whole trilogy Doc emphasises the need for people not to know too much about their future at risk of spoiling it. Look at what happened to 1985 when Biff had the almanac in the past.

Obviously the Back To The Future movies finish on a happy ending for Doc and The McFlys, but it's hardly true that the "don't mess with the past" messages aren't present in Back To The Future.

[–] DMT (4483) 2 years ago

plus this is a gay superhero movie, only kids and nerds watch superhero shit

[–] TandyMan (11349) 2 years ago

This is really wonderful point. In general, time travel has become a very grimdark affair. It's always tragic, it's always hopeless, it only ever gets worse the more you meddle with it. It's ultimately a defeatist endeavor. But time time travel used to be fun, and hopeful, and successful. It's not a cursed plot device in Bill & Ted. It's a tool, one employed readily with casual consequence. I can't remember what tv show it was, but they actually made a point of stating that time isn't fragile, there ain't no butterfly effect, go muck about, it'll be fine. There's definitely two ways to handle it and for some reason the last twenty years, it's always bad.

[–] ackmondual (206) a year ago

If nothing else, OP brought up a good point...

When and what was the last film where time travel had a happy ending?

[–] emori (3674) a year ago

I cant remember any. And I love time trial stuff and watch them whenever I see.

They all usually end bad and prove to protagonist that Time Travel Is Bad, Dont Try It Kids At Home.

You really dont see fun happy ending.

[–] RoboReCop (3379) a year ago

At the moment, it's a little difficult for me to come up with one or two, but I'm sure there are; I understand what you mean, and emphasizing OP's point.

I feel more independent/low-budget films are more likely to have a positive end than not; and when they are not, I am still entertained; whereas in mainstream films the outcome seems to film [but of course, I'm speaking subjectively based on films I've watched, negating memory ReCall, ReCall issues].

Hey, but the more I type, I think I'm wrong in my thinking. It is true, that the endings seem to lean more towards a negative outcome than otherwise.

I remember some, but not all how these filmed end, but here's a small list of Time Travels films that I liked from the independent/low-budget fair:

[SORRY>>> NO NEED TO REPLY AT THE IMMEDATE MOMENT. I KNOW IN MY HEAD WHICH FILMS I WANT TO LIST BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER "ALL" THEIR NAMES AT THE MOMENT... GOING THROUGH SOME SLEEPING ISSUES. I MAY FILL IN THE LIST, HOPEFULLY TOMORROW]

[–] elmacho (1027) a year ago

I believe it is a multiverse problem and not a time travel problem. If Marty was jumping in between different worlds it would not have gone over so well. That is why Endgame worked. They had to go back and forth at specific times to not mess up the timeline.

[–] emori (3674) a year ago

Honestly I never understood that Endgame thing and what the hell exactly they did. Whatever it is - they did change timeline anyway.