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Fuck off, bible basher
I prefer 3.
1. The original's the best but 3's the best looking. I've always liked the sepia tones and the desert landscape. 2 hasn't aged well visually. The ageing make-up looks awful (worse than it did in the original), and there's a lot of poor special effects. 3 has a few bad moments as well, Doc on the hoverboard for example, but it's mostly a character driven film rather than special effects driven so they're easier to overlook.
2. 3's more focused on Marty and Doc's friendship. One of the best aspects of BTTF is their interaction and the chemistry between MJF and Christopher Lloyd, and they're hardly together in 2.
3. 2 became too silly. I don't want or expect realism in a sci-fi comedy but Marty talking over the walkie talkie on Biff's backseat and Biff not been able to hear him or sliding down the rope and hitting Biff's friends with the sand bags without his other self or the band hearing or seeing him literally a few feet away was taking things too far. And that's before mentioning how camp some of the 2015 scenes are. 2 managed to be the darkest of the trilogy (because of the alternative 1985) while simultaneously being the silliest.
I still like 2. There's some great stuff in there but I still think it's the least enjoyable.
If he did, that's some expensive trolling.
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Christ, I hope Lucas isn't on movie chat. I can imagine him reading this and pondering.
The Revisited Cut?
Sorry. Hard to tell in tone just looking at words sometimes. My bad.
The prequels are shit but the bad writing started in Jedi. If Leia's Luke's brother, why didn't Vader say to Leia in Star Wars, "You're my daughter, join me?".
Does it hurt to know that he didn't exist and even IF he did he wouldn't have been white, you pathetic snowflake🤣
Will children be taught that if Jesus did actually exist, he wouldn't have being white?
Yep. A bit like when people say "Why is Leia kissing her brother on the lips in Empire?".
No that shouldn't be the question. The question should be "Why did George Lucas retcon Luke and Leia's relationship in Jedi?". The plot hole is in this film, not Empire.
Star Wars became too much like the Muppet show for me by this point. The original film had the weird creatures and aliens at the cantina but it was only a few minute sequence and most of them were in the background. Same goes for the brief appearance of the Jawas.
Empire just had Yoda and a brief appearance of the Wampa, and Yoda was written better than a lot of human characters in fantasy films. So basically despite being space operas set on different planets, Star Wars and Empire were still pretty much human stories with just the droids and Chewie along for the ride. By the time we get to Jedi, we have Jabba and all the creatures and aliens at his palace and they dominate the film for about 30 minutes. Then we have the ewoks, the Mon Calamaris, Nien Nunb... They lost that human touch for me, made even worse by the fact that Han and Leia were pushed more into the background, and most of the ewok scenes are full of comedy.
What's this obsession with people wanting remakes? I don't get it.
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This poster gets it. David Fincher brought back the Horror element and sense of dread that Aliens sorely lacked.
They're so close to finding him. Any day now😂
Vangelis' entire score for Blade Runner, and Ennio Morricone's harmonica theme in Once Upon A Time In The West for me.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
Mad Max Fury Road
Once Upon A Time In America
Well Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale would agree about some of the criticisms of what unfolds in 2015. They admit they wrote themselves into a corner with how the original ended and never planned a sequel, so they had to contrive things a bit to get the plot moving just like leaving Jennifer in the alleyway so the police could take her because they wanted the character out of the way and to just focus on Marty and Doc.
That said, Doc not being completely logical still works because as clever as he is, he's still eccentric and a bit mad right from his opening scene in the original. He tries out the time machine at Twin Pines Mall. It's late but it's still a place where anyone could've witnessed it, and when he returns at the end of the film, he comes crashing into Marty's garden in broad daylight and then takes off where Marty's family or neighbors could've witnessed it, and indeed Biff did. He did all that despite the fact that there was no rush to go to the future😂
It can't be underestimated just how much Blade Runner, and to a lesser extent, Terry Gilliam's Brazil had on filmmakers and pop culture in general.
And both of them while having advanced technology, still had some old-fashioned cars, people wearing trenchcoats and trilbys, and art deco like 1940's film noir.
Tim Burton's Gotham is the same. Batman '89 is still my favourite depiction of the city. I love it.