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Subject: Re: _Back_to_the_Future_  (spoiler)
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Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 17:25:04 EDT
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>                             Kelvin Thompson writes:
>  
>  _Back_to_the_Future_ is a bad, confused movie.  If there are any doubts
>  that Hollywood is still rife with drug abuse, this movie can lay them to
>  rest.
>  
>  The movie is so chaotic that the viewer finds it difficult to figure out
>  exactly *what* is going on.
>  
>  For example, one moment Fox is driving around in a parking lot, then the
>  viewer turns to his girlfriend to talk about dinner plans and looks up to
>  find the student staring at a farmer in the middle of nowhere.  Later,
>  when the viewer returns to his seat with some hot dogs and popcorn, he
>  sees a strange, seemingly incestuous conversation between Fox and his
>  mother (maybe his sister?).  Still later, after the viewer has moved to a
>  better seat, Fox is in a concert hall playing electric guitar, even
>  though he was banned from the concert early in the film.  And all through
>  the movie, whenever the viewer looks up from trying to quiet the baby he
>  is sitting, he notices all sorts of inconsistent details: the town square
>  looks completely different in different scenes; the same people will
>  sometimes drive recent-model sedans and later drive dated jalopies; and
>  characters' ages and relationships to one another seem to shift randomly.
>  
>  The only conclusion the viewer can draw is that _Future_ is the most
>  drugged-out movie since _Caddyshack_.  The screenwriter must have been on
>  hallucinogens to produce such an incomprehensible plot.  
>  
>  The producer of _Future_, Steven Spielberg (_The_Godfather_,
>  _Apocalypse_Now_, _One_From_The_Heart_) has built a reputation as one of
>  the "cleanest" filmmakers in Hollywood, but this incoherent, uneven movie
>  shows that even he has succumbed to the terrible drug dependency that
>  continues to ravage Hollywood.

**
I'm sorry I had to leave in so much of the above article in my summary,
but this is ridiculous!  I get that you didn't want to go to this movie
in the first place, and had it already condemed.  Really now, you must
have the attention span of a three year old to have missed so much.
To enjoy a movie, you must *watch* it.  Try discussing dinner plans
before or after, and get to the movie early enough to get the popcorn
before hand.  And don't forget to use the potty at intermission, too.
Then, maybe, you'll enjoy the film, and won't go home to your keyboard
flaming movies, actors, and directors as 'drug crazed'.  Really, now,
we're all adults here...aren't we?


(boy, my first counter-flame!  that felt good - except for the singed paws)

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