(Let me preface by apologising to anyone who hasn't seen the Back to the Future movies. This post will sound crazy to you) It's now the 21st October 2015, the day Marty McFly takes his Delorean into the future. I remember watching the second Back to the Future movie back in the early 90's on TV and thinking that date was sooo far into the future and how cool it will be when it arrives. Well that date is now here, I officially feel old and and it's not as cool as I thought. Oh wait, but it is! At this moment I'm tapping little keys to transmit data across a worldwide network to be displayed on the computer screens of whoever wants to read it. The only uncool part about it is that now when I watch those movies they will all be taking place in the past. And that messes with my head. And I don't like that Happy "Back to the Future Day" everyone!
We've just been watching BTTF 1 and 2 and they're as good now as they were all those years ago. Strange how we believed back then that 2015 would be exactly like it was in those films!! Tomorrow we'll be relaxing again with number three.
I've seen it alright, and that too way back in the 80s! In fact, I'm sure even the nomadic tribes in the Sahara desert too must have seen it by now... I was actually going to post about this, but Frank seems to have beaten me to it, (again)! I actually had a dinky car of the Delorean in childhood, got it a few months after I had seen the film, (and it really was very rare to have that) - However I suspect that some other kid stole it from me, a fact over which (even after so many years) I am still a bit bitter... A cousin of mine had a dinky car of James Bond's underwater Lotus from the film Spy who loved me. So I was hoping for a dinky car race - Between something made for James Bond by Q, and something made by Back to the future's Professor Emmett Brown! Although his could go underwater, mine could go across time (after reaching the speed of 88 miles of course). But I lost mine before any of that took place... I can of courser now buy it again over the internet, or design it myself in AutoCAD and have it 3D printed for myself (or have it cast in metal too) - But here's the thing, I am not a kid anymore (therefor I actually don't need it anymore)... But I still feel anger over losing it. So really have no idea what will erase this bitterness from me now. Anyway, best part of those movies for me - Was watching how Biff (along with his descendants as well as forefathers), always ended up in a pile of manure! In my home, we would always rewind the VCR and watch these parts of the movie over and over again - Now I guess I do the same silly thing, but this time on YouTube!!!
