This “ ouch I ca n’t conceive they did that ” clip showcases everything that ’s wrong with Back To the Future 2 . It ’s a dead reckoning - for - shot reprise of a sequence from the first movie , where Michael J. Fox gets forth from some bully . Except this time , he uses a “ hoverboard ” and hitches a ride with a flying motorcar . In other words , the future looks just like the past tense , except with a little pixie detritus . That ’s why the continuation ’s hereafter is n’t as thrilling as the original ’s past .
A major problem with this version of 2015 , of class , is that the technology is too unrealistic for just 30 years ahead . Besides the fly skateboard , there are handwriting - see to it door , self - fitting article of clothing and weather restraint , notes peevish blogger Kevin D. Hendricks . It ’s a common failing in media science fiction : depicting Mars colony and levitation in the near hereafter .
But BTTF2 ’s real sin is lack of daring . The first two BTTF movies are all about culture blow , within one genesis either way . In the first movie , Marty travels back to the fifties . And it ’s so foreign he much die of culture shock . Not just the crude applied science , but the bizarre courting rituals and general lack of guitar - shredding and skatepunking . So when BTTF 2 goes one generation in the opposite direction , it ought to deliver the same tier of daze .
or else , he spend a muckle of clock time in a 1980s - themed cafe , and all the kids ’ fashions seem to be based on 80s nostalgia . All of the fresh technology has intersection - positioning Son like “ Mattel ” and “ Nike ” conspicuously exhibit . It ’s like the Jetsons , where 1960s cliches become futurist just because you add “ outer space ” to them , like “ blank space - napalm ” or whatever . Another way of life the picture show sign its futuristic - cape is to have facsimile machine machines everywhere , articulate Hendricks . Because , you know , facsimile machine are teh future .
If Marty McFly in reality come in forward in time and visited 2008 , permit alone 2015 , his skatepunk ass would be freaked . The net , with its riches of freaky porn , would be the flipside of the fifties and its uptight obsession with “ going steady . ” rampage operator , furries and leather daddy on every street corner … well , mayhap that ’s just my neighborhood . Not to mention our catastrophic mood change and terrorist act obsession . BTTF2 ’s future shock does n’t go far enough . [ monkeyouttanowhere ]
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