About 7 months ago I decided to be one of the cool kids and start a blog. The world wide interweb…thing would now house random musing from my brain.
Then, naturally, I didn’t have anything to really write about. That is, until now.
I recently purchased something I have always wanted. An UNLIMITED CINEMA CARD! Oh yeah, unlimited. I can see any film I want, at any time for absolutely nothing after buying the initial card. That’s right, I can now see films for free. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Thus, arose my bright idea for this blog…
Over the next 12 months, I will document and review every film I see. Some will be brilliant. Some will be epic. Some will be crap.
One will even be Transformers 3: The Dark Of The Moon (so help me Kermode, I’ll go and rant afterwards to the pleasure of the masses. Hopefully.
Thus, with that brief intro, let us dive into
A YEAR OF FREE FILM
#1: Back To The Future
Ok, so for the first film I cheated. It isn’t a new film. It’s actually 25 years old. But oh sweet Einstein it is a true classic from my childhood, your child and hopefully, when we’re all grown up and greying, oh children’s childhoods (that sentence did make sense, be quiet you in the back row). I won’t bother going over the plot again because obviously, we all know what it’s about. If you are however on of the 3 people on the planet who doesn’t know what it’s about then stop reading this right now, go and buy the Blu Ray, watch it and come back and bask in its glory just like everyone else. Off you go.
Now that they’ve gone and are experiencing its magic for the first time, we can all bask. Bask I tells thee!
What’s most interesting to state is that from the moment the opening credits came on I almost forgot that I’d watched BTTF about a million times before. It wasn’t that I couldn’t remember what happened (I can quote most of the lines and can spot a “GREAT SCOTT!” from a mile off), it’s the fact that this is one of those rare films which always feels new.
The jokes never get old.
The characters never get tiring.
The plot still feels fresh.
It’s time travelling logic is still bafflingly perfect.
And, of course, they made a time machine….out of a Deloreon?
The chemistry between Michael J Fox (who famously almost didn’t play Marty, unthinkable as it is) and Christopher Lloyd (who seems have the monopoly on perfect overacting) is nothing short of, and here’s that word again, classic. Not once is it explained why Marty is hanging around with the nutbag psycho that is Doc Emmet Brown and yet I never feel inclined to question it. It just is as it is and the movie is all the better for it.
Furthermore the 1950s setting and the resultant humour which arises still has me cracking up because it is, in a very strange way, incredibly relatable (just how would you react if a younger version of your mum came onto you? You’d freak the f*&£ out as well I bet. ) Yes the acting is hammy and Biff is the most one dimensional villain you’ve ever seen but what’s great about it is that the movie never claims it’s The Godfather. So who cares? Biff’s one dimensional villain is the perfect through back to that 1950s jock bully and a character which we love to hate from the moment he first appears (bad 80s tracksuit and all).
I think it’s fair to state that from when Marty arrives to the moment he breaks out Chuck Berry, everything is perfect. I cannot think of any film in the past 25yrs which has even come close to fully grasping that blend of time travel and comedy like Back To The Future did (I’m looking at you Hot Tub Time Machine). Actually, you know what, I can’t think of many films in the past 25yrs which come close to Back To The Future in any respect. Maybe they’ll be one in the future?
There’s only one way to find out I guess.
Everyone to the Deloreon.
xxx
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