Something’s Gotta Be Done About Your Kids

Heheh. Indeed.

I remember doing this with two DVD players and two TVs a few years back. Rather a lot of hassle, but nowhere near the amount of hassle as replicating a scene you filmed five years earlier just because of the recasting of a minor character.

The “Marty, you’re acting like you haven’t seen me in week” is perfect.

Speaking of Robert Zemeckis…

http://p2pproductions.blogspot.com/2009/07/jumpin-jeepers.html

I think my idea would have been to cleverly cut between the two, so that the transformation of Jennifer was a gradual one. Of course, it would have to involve losing as little Claudia Wells as possible.

I think you should make a regeneration sequence, Seb.

Or fade them into each other like the matchbooks and the newspapers as if the time space continuum has shifted.

so Marty and Jennifer mk1 are brother and sister?

>so Marty and Jennifer mk1 are brother and sister?

Yup. In the original 2015, their kids are mutants and this was the reason Doc took them there. Thank fuck for the ripple effect, huh?

George is less of a problem as as the character is barely in the sequels so only fans would notice that he’s no longer played by Crispin Glover . A shame, but preferable to having him ride in the DeLorean as per Glover’s requests.

But, if you find it slightly jarring that he looks different in 2015 (irrespective of the actor being covered in a ton of latex and being, um, upside down);

Following Marty’s accident with the Rolls Royce, an overly-confident George confronted Needles’s father to demand for him to take some responsibility for his son’s actions. Mr Needles got very upset with this and him and his cronies battered poor old George to a pulp, crushing his vocal chords in the process. George underwent a LOT of plastic surgery as a result.

Happily, in the final timeline none of this happened. And George still looks and sounds like Crispin Glover to this day (and will still do in six years).

In the original 2015, their kids are mutants

“Please, don’t smoke. I don’t want a mutant baby.”

(How on earth can you replace Jessica Stevenson with Pauline Quirke?)

On a -barely related- note, my block of flats was struck by lightning earlier tonight (I think the communal Sky dish took the worst of it as we’ve lost Satellite TV) and a bunch of tiles fell on my car.

It did not, sadly, happen at 10:04pm.

This is heavy.

The internet doesn’t weigh anything.

Ronald Reagan?? The ACTOR??!?

Let’s see if you bastards can do ninety!

http://www.thehdroom.com/news/Comic-Con_Hot_Tub_Time_Machine_Trailer_is_Filthy/5357

This looks…interesting.

Awesome!!

Yikes… http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2005-12-21/celeb/4

Bit old, mind.

The one thing that bugs me is how Doc gives all these morality speeches about screwing with time and wanting the time machine destroyed but then he flucking goes and creates another one for himself out of a bluddy steam train which is far more dangerous than the DeLorean ever was! Idiot.

I think my favourite part of the whole series is the end of BTTF2 when the guy comes with the letter. The way it’s directed is interesting, it’s actually quite sinister for a moment when the car appears. Maybe that’s just me…

When I first watched that I was convinced it was going to be Doc in the car. Every time I see it I STILL think it should be old Doc in the car somehow. Or maybe a different twist could have been an ancient Marty. If he’s 17 (you’ve got to laugh at them trying to make us believe that MJF is 17, even in the first movie he was in his 20s) when he goes back to 1885, 70 years later he would have been 87. He walks silently up to Marty then gets back in the car. However, you’re talking major paradoxes and bending the rules to the point of stupidity. Marty would have to make sure he stayed in 1885, lived to he was 87 in order to give himself the letter in 1955, but then he can’t possibly get back to Jennifer. Oh sod Jennifer!! She was played by a different actress anyway, who cares??

I need to get these movies – they’re fantastic. No doubt there’ll be a boxset like Jurassic Park.

I need to remind myself of how deeply I loved (or lusted over) Lea Thompson in the mid-eighties. Might as well pick up Some Kind of Wonderful as well.

**sigh**

The thing is, whenever I watch it it always stands out to me as being a convenient fix. Obviously they tried their best but it comes across as a little throwaway. Even though it’s only 30 seconds AND it’s a sequel it’s just a niggly something that…oh hang it, I’m just not thinking 4th dimensionally. I’ll be instantly transported to 1885 and those Indians won’t even BE there!

My favourite line is – “Shot in the back by Buford Tannen over a matter of 80 dollars?? WHAT KIND OF A FUTURE DO YOU CALL THAT?!??” just the insane way Christopher Lloyd delivers it. Though his best line delivery ever is probably in Roger Rabbit as Judge Doom, when he gives that long speech and says ‘My God…it’ll be beautiful.’ at the end. Did anyone else used to find him scary as Judge Doom?? Good god, I did. Seeing Roger Rabbit when I was 6 can’t have helped.

If I had to pick a favourite film, then Roger Rabbit is probably it.

You can all probably guess every single thing I love about it though, so I shall leave you all to fill in the blanks for yourself.

>> You can all probably guess every single thing I love about it though

>I was unaware that Yootha Joyce was in it.

I LOLd.