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This year is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the original “Back to the Future.
To celebrate, the film was shown in selected theaters across the country this weekend and is hitting Blu-Ray and DVD today.
Our question is simple. Which of the trilogy is your favorite?
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It’s a pretty safe bet that the first movie will win by a landslide, but I almost voted for Part II. Hoverboards, self-tying shoes, hydrating pizzas, and the Cubs in the World Series! 😉 Now when are you guys going to be giving away copies of Grey’s Sports Almanac for your contest?
Yeah Pt. one. Loved all the shtick like he was wearing one of those sleeveless vests and everyone thought he was a sailor.
I was a bit too distracted in part 2 that Marty’s girlfriend was suddenly someone else. I did love how someone commented on how Marty’s clothes were “so 80s.”
I’m finding this poll too late to vote in it. But, my vote would have been for Part 3.
When I was younger and had an appreciation for futuristic stuff, I would have said Part 2. But, now that I’m older and my preferences sway toward character development, story closure, and nostalgia, I like Part 3 more than the first two movies combined. I’m not even a fan of old west stuff, but the story and the great use of characters in Part 3 make me not even care about the setting.
When Part 3 is replayed on TV, it’s very hard to not drop everything else and watch it. Its re-watch factor is stellar.
There was time when part II would have been a slam dunk because I like futuristic stuff but as I have grown a bit older I love character stuff more. So having written that I really love part III because that’s the movie where Doc and Marty are at their best. At that point you really feel like these two guys are good friends and the only drag about III is that there isn’t any more after that.
I’m not one to like sequels, because all too often they use the same jokes, the same story lines dressed in different situations. While Back to the Future wouldn’t be right unless it was the same story line, so to speak, its second and third renditions were dramatically different.
That said, in BttF II, there were some great “flashbacks” to the original, as one would expect from such a scenario. I didn’t like the treatment of the future world with the skewed time line. The characters were too unbelievably stupid, like they were on drugs, or something.
My favorite would have to be BttF III (though without the original it would have been odd). Maybe I’m too closely akin to Doc’s feelings about the old west. I’d love to go back to there.