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sebby wrote:
-The male protagonists are among the most likeable in film history.
-Time travel -- I am simply a sucker for it. We all have plot-devices, actors, locales, etc., that, when present in a movie, make us like it more. Time travel is one for me.
-The meticulous re-creation and also lampooning of the Pop side of the American 1950's. Love it.
-Crispin Glover.
-Excellent soundtrack.
-Nostalgia (films like BTTF, Ghostbusters, E.T., etc., evoke the time in my life when I first fell in love with movies, so naturally they get a critical bump from me for no reason other than that).
-There is literally no scene in the movie that, to me, is superfluous or unentertaining. I have viewed very few movies about which I could reflect back upon and make this statement. Few films are able to truly lift me away from reality to a cognitive locale where my only focus is the story being told on the screen in front of me. Back to the Future does this.

Fair enough. I actually agree with all your subjective points; yes, the soundtrack is awesome, Crispin Glover is hilarious, the male protagonists are cool, so is the 1950's setting, and it was edited superbly.

I guess for me it was a cool movie I saw when I was 12, but it didn't stand out more than a number of other good action comedies of that period. And in fact, I thought something like "Ghostbusters" was way funnier and more memorable, and I watched both films around the same time.

Part of me thinking it's overrated is also due to the non-stop praise for "Back to the Future". There was all sorts of press/media coverage of its 25th anniversary, video game releases, and many people gushing it's "one of the greatest films...ever!"

ShogunRua wrote:

sebby wrote:
Back to the Future is fucking amazing, so much so that I truly cannot understand the opposing point of view. A perfect movie.

What did you like about it so much? And do you rank it much higher than things like Clue, Johnny Dangerously, and Ghostbusters?

There are many reasons I like it as much as I do:

-The male protagonists are among the most likeable in film history.
-Time travel -- I am simply a sucker for it. We all have plot-devices, actors, locales, etc., that, when present in a movie, make us like it more. Time travel is one for me.
-The meticulous re-creation and also lampooning of the Pop side of the American 1950's. Love it.
-Crispin Glover.
-Excellent soundtrack.
-Nostalgia (films like BTTF, Ghostbusters, E.T., etc., evoke the time in my life when I first fell in love with movies, so naturally they get a critical bump from me for no reason other than that).
-There is literally no scene in the movie that, to me, is superfluous or unentertaining. I have viewed very few movies about which I could reflect back upon and make this statement. Few films are able to truly lift me away from reality to a cognitive locale where my only focus is the story being told on the screen in front of me. Back to the Future does this.

I liked Clue, but didn't love it, haven't seen Johnny Dangerously, and love Ghost Busters. To direct a comment at what you said about BTTF, it's like many films from its era, yes, but it's better in most respects: it looks better, the story's more gripping, it's funnier, the actors sell the goody material in a more memorable and effective fashion, etc. Better executed, in short.