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DA Holder67 -> [Reviews] Read, play, watch, listen (9/9/2010 23:04:56)
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Foreword
In this thread I will post reviews on music, video games, movies, TV shows, and books. Everything I post is strictly my opinion. I apologize for insulting any movies you might like in advance. For my first review, I'll review my favorite movie of all time: Back to the Future.
Title: Back to the Future part I
Type of Media: Movie
Review: As I said above, this is my favorite movie. The plot revolves around the characters Marty McFly, a skateboarding, guitar playing, teenage boy, and Doctor Emmett Brown, an eccentric scientist whom is good friends with Marty. After a few scenes briefly introducing the characters, one of which includes one of the greatest songs ever heard in a movie, Power of love, it jumps into the story. Doc Brown has turned a DeLorean into a time traveling car and intends on using it to see beyond his years. He brings Marty along to video tape the car going into the future. We learn that the car runs on nuclear plutonium, the only thing that can produce the 1.21 gigawatts needed to run the car, which Doc Brown stole from terrorists. Just when Doc Brown is about to travel through time, the terrorists arrive and kill him. Marty survives and escapes in the DeLorean time machine, only to travel back into the past. Right away he is in trouble, being mistaken as an alien and shot at by farmers. He escapes, but the DeLorean runs out of power soon after. While trying to figure things out, he saves a younger version of his father from being hit by a car. He gets hit instead. His mother's family helps him recover. However, his mother feels sorry for him and begins to become attracted to him. Marty then tracks down a younger Doc Brown, who helps him realize that he unknowingly kept his parents from falling in love. From this point on, the movie is about Marty trying to get his mother to love his geeky father before a lightning bolt, the only other thing possible of producing 1.21 gigawatts, hits a clock tower, a famous event in Marty's town. Doc Brown has the idea to channel the lightning bolt into the car to get Marty back to the future.
The movies plot, as you can see, is complicated, original, and fantastic. It is enhanced by incredible performances by Micheal J. Fox, Christopher Loyd, and Lea Thompson, as well as hilarious lines. The best scenes are the climax and a musical scene where Marty plays Chuck Barry's "Johnny B. Goode". The icing on the cake is the soundtrack. Power of Love, Johnny B. Goode, Back in Time, Earth Angel... It's all great.
My favorite thing about the movie is it's diversity. It belongs to so many genres. It's a sci-fi movie, it's a drama, a romance, an action movie, a high school movie, it's everything!
Overall, it's a hilarious, incredibly well down movie that doesn't disapoint.
Rating: 5/5
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