Interactive Interrogative No. 4

[enthusiastick]

This one was actually inspired by jewdorkrhymes, not that I actually know who that is. He just left it as a comment to rollick's recent call for questions to ask Dave Eggers.

Which is your favorite Back to the Future, and why?

For me the choice is clear: the first movie reigns supreme. Now I'm speaking as someone who owns the DVD boxed set and truly enjoys all three - even the arguably-regrettably-faux-Western third movie. I'm not only aware that they re-cast Marty's girlfriend for the second and third movies, I know off the top of my head the name of the actress who played her however briefly in the first one. The first movie's got everything I could ever want out of a lightly-scifi comedy and then some. All of the elements that make the second two movies good are already in place (Marty triumphing over Biff, the relationship between Doc and Marty, a kid in the 80s inexplicably loving "classic" rock and roll in a time when it was out of style, etc.); to me the first movie is genuinely a great movie, while the other two are merely good. Maybe that's a fine distinction to make, but whatever. Plus (and this doesn't really matter to me, but its worth mentioning) the first one's the only one Crispin Glover is in, because the sequels were conceived independently and they hadn't pre-contracted all the actors, so when they went back to him he demanded an outrageous sum and the producers just said "no."

Comments

II for me

[adampb.livejournal.com]

The second one is my favorite because it's the most creative. I love how it folds back in on the first one. Yes, it's probably too clever for its own good, but I can't fault a flick for that.