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BTTF trilogy,
recapped
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Obviously I wouldn’t own all three movies if I
didn’t like them. It’s a personal collection for a reason, after all.
I’m a fan of time travel stories in general and am so full of regrets in my life
that I’d be a prime candidate for abusing the hell out of such a device if I could.
Thank the Powers That Be for keeping one from my clutches, then.
On the other hand, using it just to watch things like the Marx Brothers
performing live on stage shouldn’t upset the space-time continuum too much.
Sci-fi stuff aside, these movies work for the relationship between Marty and Doc.
Even when in crap, both actors do good work, so no complaints there.
Just ignore the fact that the whole trilogy took something like 8 years to make,
even though the time frame of all 3 movies is about… 3 days.
So no, those aren’t REALLY wrinkles we see on Marty’s face.
Continuity buffs love these films for the attention to
detail. There’s foreshadowing up the wazoo in every movie, and loose ends are actually
tied up. Characters are all over the place, giving even the least-used actors something
to do for their paychecks. Little wonder that the trilogy spawned a comic book and cartoon, introduced
by Christopher Lloyd himself in live-action segments, with Dan Castellanetta doing a
dead-on Doc Brown for the rest. They even got Mary Steenburgen to do Clara’s voice.
Can’t complain with that.
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