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Originally Posted by jekylljuice
Back to the Future
Best movie of the 1980s. I won't go into the full details as to how very much I love this movie and how much it still means to me after all these years, seeing as we don't have half a century to spare, but last night's viewing was particularly exciting in that I finally got to see it on the big screen for the first time. Only slight let-down was that the print was a little iffy in places, but even such an endless barrage of crackles, grains and the occasional missing frames couldn't possibly keep down what an amazing, engaging, funny and delightful piece of sci-fi adventure this truly is. Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd have one of the greatest onscreen rapports of all-time, the musical score is beautifully orchestrated, the humour is brilliantly-observed (god, I LOVE that moment concerning Marvin Berry and that phone call he makes to his cousin, Chuck), the special effects still hold up amazingly well to this day...eh, I'll stop, since I'm beginning to ramble. So I'll say one more thing - hurray for 1985! A very significant year for me that, and not just because it was the year in which this phenomenal movie was first released.
Oh yes, and a bit earlier on yesterday, I also caught the ending to The Third Man, which is a classic. I've seen it twice before, and it's a great movie all-round, though those final few moments were all I really needed to see for the time being - the closing shot is pure cinema, simple but fabulously effective.
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Back to the Future was my favourite movie when it came out partly because I'd just started getting into wearing those body-warmer/gilet type things that Marty wears (it even gets referred to) and it even made me interested in skateboards, the use of which I never mastered. I think the movies probably slipped a long way down my favourites in the intervening decades but it's still good. Especially Christopher Lloyd. Oddly enough I always thought
Bright Lights, Big City was a better sequel than the the next two
BTTF films.
I've had no time to watch movies recently. The last one I saw was
Rambo 4 which I've already mentioned, so the last film and actually saw at the Cinema was the terrific
There will be blood. The music, written by Radioheader J Greenwood, is especially good and rumbles away like all that lovely oil.