For some reason Robert Zemeckis got stuck in my nogging, and so I went on a kick and bought the Back to the Future set and Romancing the Stone. Stone is a fine – albeit formulaic – adventure film that seems shockingly anachronistic, even if Fool’s Gold is essentially trying to make the same film. What’s most interesting about the film is that the film is told almost exclusively from the point of view of a woman. This is Joan Wilder’s movie.
the film has some set up, which is handles well enough, but the film comes alive when Alfonso Arau shows up. As the Deus Ex Machina drug dealer/fan, he just takes the film into orbit. That great supporting part kicks up the second half, though the scene where douglas and Turner get really high has some moments. But Arau is the movie.
I’m now watching Back to the Future. The film’s hardest plot point to swallow (in a film about time travel) is Marty and Doc’s friendship. Pedo-alert! I guess the Doc lets him play his music really loud. I wonder what Doc gets out of the friendship.
Oh shit, that Burger king Marty skates out from at the beginning of the film? I know where that is. Exactly.
If I had a lot of money, like a lot of money, I’d buy peanut company, and name it after me. Then I’d sponsor a sporting event and get everyone in the stadium to shout “I love Dellamorte’s Peanuts.”
Cause it sounds like Penis, you see.
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Dre: I cant't wait to read your thoughts on "Forrest Gump". Also, did you like "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"? (I found it to be a grower)
Your company should be called "Dre's Nuts".
I saw I wanna Hold Your Hand about five years ago, or whenever the DVD came out. I didn't love it, though I should probably watch it again. We'll see if I get to Roger Rabbit.
"DEE JOAN WILDER???"
The weird thing about Zemeckis is he was mentored by both Speilberg and Milius. At times, those very different influences show. And it makes "1941" facinating-albeit joyless-viewing. experience.
The only thing I remember about 'Stone' is when Douglas raises his head from under the water by Turner's puss' after sliding down the mountain.
Its a shame the screenwriter for "RTS" died. A real Hollywood tragedy. She had a unique voice. A voice greatly missed in the sequel.
Doc is Marty's friend because he learns in the 1950s that he has to be Marty's friend in the 1980s.
Dev, I'd agree if the film didn't make an effort to show that changed past history doesn't effect current history until after the change has taken place. So what that failed inventor "Doc" Brown's best friend is a teenage boy it's all perfectly natural.
Hmmm. I could discuss the metaphysics of BTTF all day! And I just saw them all again while at Sundance, so I'm primed.
I guess it all depends on whether or not Doc Brown is wearing that bulletproof vest at the beginning of the film. If the vest only appears AFTER Marty has gone back to the future, you could be right.
But then again, Marty is explicitly shown inventing rock and roll and having it passed on to Chuck Berry, so cause and effect take it on the chin in this movie.
By the time Chuck can actually hear what Marty is doing, he's into the Punk/Heavy Metal phase of guitar-riffing, so as much as the film would like to take the invention of rock n' roll away from black peoples, it doesn't. Perhaps Marvin Berry, in his THC haze, recites Johnny B. Goode to Chuck Berry, Chuck – perhaps also in a state of addled-ness – realizes that what has always been inside of him is meant to come out, prophesized by the McFly. Marty then is the John the Baptist of Rock and Roll, not the Jesus.
Oh my god, I want a Sistine Chapel/McFly-Chuck Berry shirt right fucking now.
Can we all agree Crispin Glover rules in this flick, and is really missed in the sequels (especially 3)?
Also, "Used Cars" 4eva!
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