Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Back to the future (1985)

Also Known As: Retour vers le futur
Year of first release: 2015
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Thomas Wilson, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover
Country: USA
Genre: SF, Comedy
Conditions of visioning: 21.10.2015, Schauburg, English version with German subtitles
Synopsis: Marty McFly (Fox) is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown (Lloyd), and must make sure his high-school-age parents (Thompson and Glover) unite in order to save his own existence. But the bad guy of the school, Biff Tannen (Wilson), does not want to let it happen. 
Review: I remember this movie as very marking when I watched it on TV for the first time as a kid. I never watched it in original even if I watched it good 20 times. And in remembrance of the date when Marty McFly arrives in the future of that time, the 21.10.2015, the Schauburg as many other movie theaters proposed the three movies in a row. And in original! 
The story is great. A good introduction of the characters, several turning points, a good villain. The movie pace is very high. Every few minutes something funny or dramatic happens and keeps in suspense. The main originality to me is the extremely good dialogues. The silences, the rythm of the text, the melodie of the words and the amazing phrase that you remember even 30 years later. 
The actors fit perfectly to the roles. I understand why Zemeckis lost 6 weeks of work with a substitute and then came back to Michael J. Fox. He is just right. The way he walks is also so typical that when you walk like that in a city, you do not look just strange, you look like Marty! Also Christopher Lloyd really looks like the archetype of crazy scientist, but this time a nice one. 
Until now, I often hum the songs of the movie, both The power of love and Johnny B. Goode. This mostly because it reminds me the atmosphere of Back to the future.
Rating: 9/10

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