xhonzi said:

Again, I have a post and I'm not sure what thread to put it in.  So it goes here:

I have to take back my previous statements on BTTF3.  My son and I watched it this weekend.  And it was great.  Lives up to the legacy.

However, I do think it was "one trip to the well too many" for several of the "gags".  The "Marty wakes up next to Leah and thinks it was all a dream" bit and so forth...

I know it's not meant to be "realistic" but rather "charming"...  Do you find that those scenes are charming?  Or just ridiculous?

Back to the Future is all about "ironic echoes", so I'd have to say all those self-referential moments are a plus, not a minus.

I mean, they laid it down way too thick, with Biff at the bar, the Sheriff being the school director's granddad, and so on... I found all of those pretty damn hilarious.

Things that speak against it, would be:
1) I could've done without Doc's love story.
2) Maybe too little wacky time travel stuff, even though the ironic echoing kinda makes up for that.
3) The creepy kid at the locomotive.



Speaking of "ironic echoes", I've just watched "Paul", and thought that it was a much weaker and less funny movie than "Shaun" and "Fuzz".
Even though these are technically just "spiritual" successors, I thought I'd cite it here :)

greenpenguino said:

Tyrphanax said:

Part three of your mom was pretty good.

Greenie-T said:

Hold on, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Don't bring anyone's mother into this, she ain't here. And if it weren't for your mother, you wouldn't be here. So remember when you're putting down one mother, you're putting down mothers all over the world

*breaks out into rap song*

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!

You just won the internet. :D

Wait whaaaaaat, I thought this was just a caption!!

:OOO



...

:O

Yea yea, I was just kidding - hadn't originally noticed that, as well :D

Scary Movie 3 is pretty fucking awesome.
Austin Powers 3 was just fucking hilarious - the series got better and wittier with each installment.
Scream 3 was pretty damn good, as I remember, along with its predecessors.

All of which makes me think that maybe people should quit trying to establish "rules" like "Part 3 sucks, if Part 2 is good, after a bad original". There are some patterns, but that's all there is.

greenpenguino said:

Tyrphanax said:

Part three of your mom was pretty good.

Greenie-T said:

Hold on, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Don't bring anyone's mother into this, she ain't here. And if it weren't for your mother, you wouldn't be here. So remember when you're putting down one mother, you're putting down mothers all over the world

*breaks out into rap song*

But, wait, does that mean I once called all mothers a "dunce"? Holy shit, I'm afraid Mr. T's gonna come for me now... :O

FUCK, Scary Movie 4 is the bomb, too!!

Heh, I was just surprised as I'd thought from various reviews that the 4th kinda sucked :)

Ah, shit, how could I ever forget... Fantomas 3 (from the de Funes series)!

A bit comparable to Back to the Future, as they also did a kinda "less adventurous" story in an "antiquated" setting - while paying homage to another genre, whatever the one with ghosts in old castles is called - but all three movies were pretty fucking awesome.