Back to the Future 1985 RAR

[Knife]

So me and wife were talking today, in that it's been almost 30 years since Back to the Future. If, and I do mean if, they remade the movie and had the main characters go back in time 30 years, the characters would be going back to 1985 (ok, 1983 but it's a nice link to 1985 that was the present time in the original movie). So, as funny as it was to see poodle skirts and jukeboxes on the original, it would be funny to see the iconic 1980's stuff in a new rendition.

What would you like to see if they did a project like this?

On top of everything else, what car would you have Doc Brown convert into a time machine?

[LadyTevar]

The car? Maybe a Tesla Motor Roadster. Because it's Tesla.
Update the power source though, plutonium is blaise LOL

But the 80s.... Wow. Metalheads in blackt-shirts v/s preppies in button-downs and ties, both sides with mullets and Big Hair. Lots more Reagan jokes available, that's for sure. All the bands that are still kicking after 30yrs (Madonna, BonJovi, Aerosmith, etc). Rollerskate rinks, boomboxes, Commodore 64 computers with 5in floppy disks. Arcade games galore, and Atari played on B&W TVs. Kids riding bikes without helmets, staying out after dark without parents worrying, and walking home from school by themselves.

Maybe they should wait a while before redoing this movie

[The Xeelee]

It should still be a delorean. Make a comment about it somehow being right for time travel.

[Stark]

To see 'iconic 80s stuff' you just have to walk outside. Back to the Future was about a generation gap and growing up, not greaser hairdos.

Kids dress like it's 1992 right now anyway. Skateboards are cool again. 3D is in theatres. Movies already made the jokes about 'who'd pay to buy coffee in some kind of shop lol what a stupid idea' and 'computers'. Imagine the Star Wars jokes!

I guess you could get mileage out of tryhard 80s hipsters experiencing the Springsteen bad side of the 80s, but I don't think it'd have much charm.

[NeoGoomba]

I think Hot Tub Time Machine is what you're looking for.

[Ahriman238]

I actually agree with Stark here, there's no good reason to remake the films.

Also, unless a lot of things change in the next two years, 2015 is going to look nothing like the movies. Haven't been this disappointed since 2001.

As to the car, IIRC Doc said something about needing the stainless steel construction to make the time machine work. That and style. We can probably work with that.

[Borgholio]

The Delorean was futuristic back when the movie was made, which is why I think it was used. Today it should be something equally futuristic. I like the idea of a Tesla for the sporty look, but one could also use a Prius if you wanted to emphasize the pure geekiness of Doc.

[Starglider]

The Delorean was futuristic back when the movie was made, which is why I think it was used.

The DeLorean was selected because it could be mistaken for a spaceship in the barn scene, i.e. it looked futuristic to 1950s eyes. Also because it was a sports car that could be bought new cheaply in California in 1984 (the cars were sold at steep discounts immediately after the bankrupcy of the DeLorean Motor Company). I am sure that if the movie was remade now, the brand of car would be decided by which auto company offered the most product placement money.

[cadbrowser]

If they ever made a remake, I would not ever watch it.

Nobody can top Christopher Lloyd and Michael J Fox's synergy in that trilogy.

[PainRack]

I can think of one element that will show a generation gap.

The Greed culture of the 1980s vs the 1%/99%, structural unemployment now, but that definitely won't play well as a Back to the Future movie.

[Starglider]

The Greed culture of the 1980s vs the 1%/99%

Didn't really filter down to the teenage level. I guess you can compare a mostly optimistic outlook with some passionate rebellion (nuclear disarmament etc) with a disaffected/disillusioned current attitude.

structural unemployment now

US unemployment rate was roughly the same in 1985 as it is now. Admittedly 10% were 'long term' then versus 30% now but I doubt that would be a plot point.

I would think the main differences are reliance on electronic communication, cultural globalism and reduced discrimination / political correctness.

[Spoonist]

The Greed culture of the 1980s vs the 1%/99%

Didn't really filter down to the teenage level. I guess you can compare a mostly optimistic outlook with some passionate rebellion (nuclear disarmament etc) with a disaffected/disillusioned current attitude.

It filtered down just fine. There were lots of youthoriented stuff about the yuppie greed angle.

[Darth Lucifer]

...the brand of car would be decided by which auto company offered the most product placement money.

This is how we ended up with Bumblebee Camaro.

I have to ask one of my best friends about his opinion on this idea, he is such a BTTF nut he named his business "Great Scott." I guess I'd see a remake just to see how it was different from the original but I'm not of the opinion this film should be remade.

[tim31]

I think Bob Gale summed this thread up best: "We knew we weren't going to have flying cars by the year 2015, but God we had to have those in our movie."

[amigocabal]

If they ever made a remake, I would not ever watch it.

Nobody can top Christopher Lloyd and Michael J Fox's synergy in that trilogy.

It would be like trying to remake "Can't Get Enough of Your Love" by Barry White. Recreating that synergy would be like trying to recreate White's deep voice.

I did read the third draft of the script, which is osrt of like a reverse remake. There were some differences, the most obvious being that in that draft, Marty drives the DeLorean towards an exploding atomic bomb at a nuclear test site to go back to the future.

There was one scene from that script which I wished would have made it into the film. The scene has Marty scaring Biff, instead of George, in the "Space Alien" scene.

(From the script, p. 71)

BIFF:

Friday night. But I've got a hot date Friday night

MARTY

"Hot date? Explain "hot date".

BIFF

You know, I was going to get laid!

Spoiler

Given the fact that Biff saw the flying DeLorean whisk Marty up into the sky in Part II, having the Space Alien scene with Biff would have fit better in the overall series. But I guess Zemeckis and Gale could have predicted how they would have written the sequel.

[FaxModem1]

I honestly prefer the first draft of the Back to the Future script, with the rush to the atomic bomb test and when Marty returns to the future
Spoiler

It's a 1950s style future utopia with everything being powered by Coca-Cola and Doc Brown the head of a mega-corporation in charge of it all as he rescues Marty in his flying car and Marty has to invent rock and roll. This works, especially because of how grim and awful they portray the world of 1985 at the beginning of the script.

[Starglider]

I honestly prefer the first draft of the Back to the Future script, with the rush to the atomic bomb test and when Marty returns to the future

The assorted darker and more sci-fi focused versions would never have achieved the same popularity as a family movie.

P.S. Back to the Future prequel

[the atom]

Skateboards are cool again.

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