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"I'd forgotten just how good this was!"

Back to the Future.

Ah! What a movie.

I remembered the basic story, the magic it had when I saw it as a child, but I really had forgotten just how great it was.

There's barely a wasted line in the whole script, if it's not relevant to the plot, then it's a gag, and most of the gags are only funny if you've seen the film before, and know what's about to happen to marty McFly.

The characters also, are excellent. Michael J Fox really is excellent in this movie. He's just so damn cool. I mean it's 1985 cool, but he still manages to be cool, none the less. Skateboarding on the backs of cars, wearing puffy jackets, yep, he was cool.

Then Doc Brown. Christopher Lloyd overacts so much in this movie. Every expression is over-expressed, every movement, over done. And he's all the better for it. He carries of the eccentric mad scientist with perfection.

Biff. Big dumb bully. His run in's with the McFly's make for some of the most action packed parts of the film, with Biff always ending up in the, um, manure...

Then there are Marty's parents. In 1985 we don't see much of them, but in 1955, they're essential to the plot, as marty accidently ruins the moment they were supposed to meet, and has to ensure that they still fall in love, or he's never going to exist.

Which brings me on to the story.

A Delorean, that can travel in time when it his 88 miles an hour.

That's more of a story than many of toaday's blockbusters, but it's not half of this one...

Doc invents a time machine, but gets hunted down by Libyan terrorists (can this get any better?) they gun him down, but Marty escapes, in the Delorean, taking it to 1955.

And he can't get back, as he's all outta plutoniam!

So he has to find the Doc, convince him who he is, and get his help.

But he also screws up time, nearly wipes himself out, has a run in with Biff, tries to warn the Doc of his fate, uses a lighning strike to generate the power to take the Delorean Back to the Future....

I mean, do they write any better movies than that?

Ever?

Oh, and then they go and make it better, by sticking Huey Lewis and the News on there too.

Then there was the wait for the sequel.

You know it was only 4 years between between the original and it's sequel, but to me, it seemed so much longer when i was a kid.

I'd seen BTTF dozens of times, and when that Delorean took off at the end, and 'To Be Continued' appeared on the screen, well I couldn't wait, but wait we had to, and when the sequel came along, I certainly wasn't disappointed.

But I won't go on about that now, I haven't seen it in years, but that's next weekends entertainment!

The whole trillogy is on it's way to DVD - however it has been delayed and set back so many times no one knows when. Hopefully next Spring, and with a fat pile of extras.

I love Back to the Future, was obsessed with it when I was a kid. Knew all the words - in fact I watched it for the first time about two months ago and still remembered most. The sequels were cool too, and actually had a pretty worthwhile story through the three.

Man, Back to the Future needs to come out on DVD.

Tis a very very good film.

I saw ghostbusters the other day too, on DVD, and I have'nt laughed so much in ages, I forgotten how good it was.

Bill Murray just makes that film totally.

Back to the Future.

Ah! What a movie.

I remembered the basic story, the magic it had when I saw it as a child, but I really had forgotten just how great it was.

There's barely a wasted line in the whole script, if it's not relevant to the plot, then it's a gag, and most of the gags are only funny if you've seen the film before, and know what's about to happen to marty McFly.

The characters also, are excellent. Michael J Fox really is excellent in this movie. He's just so damn cool. I mean it's 1985 cool, but he still manages to be cool, none the less. Skateboarding on the backs of cars, wearing puffy jackets, yep, he was cool.

Then Doc Brown. Christopher Lloyd overacts so much in this movie. Every expression is over-expressed, every movement, over done. And he's all the better for it. He carries of the eccentric mad scientist with perfection.

Biff. Big dumb bully. His run in's with the McFly's make for some of the most action packed parts of the film, with Biff always ending up in the, um, manure...

Then there are Marty's parents. In 1985 we don't see much of them, but in 1955, they're essential to the plot, as marty accidently ruins the moment they were supposed to meet, and has to ensure that they still fall in love, or he's never going to exist.

Which brings me on to the story.

A Delorean, that can travel in time when it his 88 miles an hour.

That's more of a story than many of toaday's blockbusters, but it's not half of this one...

Doc invents a time machine, but gets hunted down by Libyan terrorists (can this get any better?) they gun him down, but Marty escapes, in the Delorean, taking it to 1955.

And he can't get back, as he's all outta plutoniam!

So he has to find the Doc, convince him who he is, and get his help.

But he also screws up time, nearly wipes himself out, has a run in with Biff, tries to warn the Doc of his fate, uses a lighning strike to generate the power to take the Delorean Back to the Future....

I mean, do they write any better movies than that?

Ever?

Oh, and then they go and make it better, by sticking Huey Lewis and the News on there too.

Then there was the wait for the sequel.

You know it was only 4 years between between the original and it's sequel, but to me, it seemed so much longer when i was a kid.

I'd seen BTTF dozens of times, and when that Delorean took off at the end, and 'To Be Continued' appeared on the screen, well I couldn't wait, but wait we had to, and when the sequel came along, I certainly wasn't disappointed.

But I won't go on about that now, I haven't seen it in years, but that's next weekends entertainment!