Seth Farmer
27Jun11
Yeah, nice try. Leave the film criticism to the pros. (Like me.)
"Back to the Future" holds up amazingly well. Marvelous economy of storytelling. Lively, committed performances. A joy to experience.
saw it on bluray last night. what a great, entertaining, complex and original story. fox, lloyd and thompson are as perfect a casting as you can get.
Zemeckis works like a choreographer. His style involves dually designing shots to move story and inform on character. Every image and audible cue is educational; and every means of movie manipulation (lens, angle, movement) punctuates an intended point relative to the whole. With grace, his actors, effects, props and camera all move within the frame with precision and purpose, seemingly effortlessly.
Hopelessly dated 25 years later but still fun. Can't watch the film without thinking of the parodies made since. Lloyd never better and such a sweet performance by Thompson and Glover..... well Crispen is different isn't he. Never really thought of Zemeckis as being much of a director and rewatching this so-called classic doesn't change my opinoin.
when the remake this i will have lost all faith in American cinema. Brilliantly crafted adventure, part of the best trilogy of all time.
Definitely in my top 5 favorite films of all time. Just saw the re-release today and it was the most fun I've had at the theater in a long time.