Back To The Future - 25 Years Later

Today's a special date for geeks/losers/nerds/unemployed like me - 25 years ago today, Marty McFly time traveled from October 26th, 1985 to November 5th, 1955. I'm talking about Back to the Future - one of my favorite childhood movies. It's one of those movies I never grew out of. If anything - I've grown more into it as I've gotten older.

Maybe it's my circle of friends - mainly from high school - but we reference the movie almost every time we hang out. It's kind of sad, but that's why we're friends. I won't go into details of our jokes, because I don't want you stealing them. Or judging us.

It's started a sci-fi thought-process that's the basis of all time travel for me anyway. It came up a lot with Season 5 of Lost - the changing of the past and how it affects your future - including your existence. I know time travel is not real. Relax. It does keep my mind occupied when I'm bored or trying to be creative/imaginative, although I should probably be thinking about jobs/apartments/girls/sports/something normal. This is what I do instead.

The movie isn't even really about time travel. It's about parent-child relationships. Part II and III are more about the absurdity of time travel and different time periods and the life cycle repeating itself. But the original is a story is actually very complex hidden underneath a time travel comedy exterior.

What I think is great is I'm pretty sure when the team making the movie were in production, they had no clue it would of been this successful. It's purposefully corny. A jiggawatt? Or is it gigawatt? The whole concept of putting it into a DeLorean? Hilarious.
As usual I'm trying to find a witty ending to this. This is like my Bruce Springsteen post. I could say anything I want, and it would make me laugh. I'm losing my mind in this house.

Where we're going, we don't need roads.

Other posts I found interesting regarding Back to the Future:
52 Reasons Why Back to the Future Might Be The Greatest Film of all Time.
Going Back to the Future, 25 Years Later
Going 'Back to the Future' again, 25 years later

Time Travel Geek Speak

This post shows off my inner-nerd, and I don't care.

I'm not sure what's up with my time travel obsession lately. Maybe I've been thinking about Lost too much. I've also been watching Back To The Future - all of them - in the past few days. And Hot Tub Time Machine is constantly making me laugh. (ps I think it's going to be the biggest joke since Snakes On A Plane)

Okay, so over the past few days I've seen all three Back To The Future's, and although I LOVE each of them, I realized a continuity error. I don't know if anyone cares, so if you don't, stop reading.

At the beginning of Part Two, Doc, Marty, & Jennifer go into the future. Doc claims they have to change their kid's future.

SO HERE'S MY PROBLEM:

IF Marty and Jennifer were to travel from 1985 to 2015 in time, they wouldn't exist in 2015 because they would have disappeared from the timeline. The 2015 version of the McFly's would be gone. But they're not.

I know it's Hollywood and I also know time travel isn't real (although sometimes I really wish it was,) but it really annoyed me while I was watching it yesterday, and I thought I would share that with you.

Also funny side note, isn't it interesting how they portrayed 2015, but 2015, although 5 years away, isn't going to be ANYTHING like how they thought it would be.

THIS STUFF BLOWS MY MIND