Monday, January 9, 2012

Three WTF Moments from Back To The Future




1. What is a seventeen year old doing hanging out with Dr. Emmett Brown?

Seriously? I know this was years before To Catch A Predator, but come on. How is a high schooler running around with a “scientist” who squandered his family’s wealth and estate and lives in a garage? Is the Hill Valley social services department an intern and an answering machine? And what would Marty say to all this? “I can’t stay for dinner. I have to go hang out with this old man who claims to be a scientist but hasn’t invented anything and has ties to Libyan terrorists and isn’t married.” If Doc Brown hadn’t invented the time machine, Back to the Future II would start out with, “On the doll, where did Doc touch you?”

2. Attempted rape charges for Biff?

Let’s not forget the only reason the McFlys got together was because Papa McFly stopped an imminent rape. Yet, Biff isn’t arrested. He just gets smoked in the face and remains the Family McFly’s bitch for the rest of his life. Not exactly justice, but I think the statute of limitations has expired.

3. The sister somehow has multiple boyfriends.

So after Marty alters time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15FlJENWu54), he comes back to find his home/family are changed. And we see that Marty’s sister is popular with the dudes (0:42). She somehow has multiple boyfriends, yet she remains a Lane Bryant reject. Unless she has a match.com/Alaska account, I don’t think this is plausible, possible, or in a coked-out state, probable.

Up next are some "what the fuck" moments from The Devil Inside. Oh, wait, that’s the whole movie.

Goddard Out.