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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 :)