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One of the other things that amuses me is when past films show "future technology" which appears dated by today's standards.
You kinda haveta, though, don't you? Unless you go the Alien route, or something Firefly-esque where you just root the design firmly and not coincidentally in a time period that isn't the future.
I can get past most of them, but the communications devices that are bulkier than my cellphone/bluetooth earpiece combo jar.
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BttF II did a good job of speculating possible future technology, and on their "talking tech" (like the auto-sizing clothing) the voice technology sounded good for the time, but compared to today's artificial voice technology, it is now terribly dated.
All very true, but the fact remains: I want my hoverboard!!!
Also, I never heard the two delorean thing. Maybe in the time it takes MM to post it, I can figure it out.
Thinks real hard.
Also, I never heard the two delorean thing. Maybe in the time it takes MM to post it, I can figure it out.
Aimee, go read some other thread.
The problem comes in BttF III when Marty goes back to the Old West and trashes the fuel pump and runs out of gas in the Delorean he uses to get there.
Doc Brown tells him they're screwed, because another fuel pump and gas station won't be invented for several decades.
However, what Doc Brown forgets is that he already has gas and another fuel pump right there in 1885 -- in the Delorean that got him there.
Solution whitefonted.
Videophones are the futuristic accessory that always makes me laugh. Because the reason we don't have them now isn't that we don't have the technology, it's that they've been tried, and nobody wants them.
Basically it's this...
The "dramatic tension" in III was provided largely by the fact that an arrow had pierced Marty's Delorean's fuel line and the damn thing was out of gas. However do we get the Delorean up to 88 mph?
Well, in the Wild West timeline, Doc Brown had arrived in January and Marty had shown up in September of 1885. Presumably when Doc showed up the Delorean had some fuel in the tank. Doc, in January, put the Delorean in a mine to hide it. In September Marty brings the Delorean back. The Delorean that Doc Brown hid is still in the mine. Scavenge the fuel line from the Delorean in the mine, syphon the gas from the tank and you're good to go. No need for chemically treated logs and hijacked trains.
Addendum to the Delorean solution --
Also? The Delorean that's sitting in 1885 with a working fuel pump, and maybe some gas? Is exactly the same Delorean Marty uses to get back to 1885 Himself.
Actually.... (and this won't be whitefonted), there are several points in all three movies when more than one Delorean is present in any particular given timeline.
The really amusing part about that? They're all every last one of them the same Delorean. There's only the one, just propagating itself throught time.
Heh, unnecessarily white-fonted x-post with Miracleman.
That website reminds me that I also forgot to mention Donnie Darko.
That's also a very cool website in general. Thanks, MM.
And glad you loved the movie, Aimee. That's actually what I thought you meant by your comment, but I wasn't sure.
I saw a movie a few months ago which had a flashback sequence to the 80s, and a hilarious visual gag with one character using what must have been a 15 lb. "cutting edge" mobile phone.