That's fair enough, because I think we're working on quite different standards of what goodness in movies consists of. The context of my post was that I've long been uneasy about the kind and reason of praise that most SF movies get in the community, and I thought it would work the other way around. This isn't a movie about time travel, though it has time travel in it. It's a character study. The superficiality of the character study in most SF movies is palpable.
It's not that I didn't enjoy Back to the Future, though I've never been moved to watch it again, which says something, though I am astonished at your claim that the writing was tight. What it was was plot-oriented. What most distressed me about that movie was the slackness and gratuitous digs in the 1950s section of the movie. A better conventional SF time-travel movie would be Peggy Sue Got Married.
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Date: 2013-02-25 01:29 pm (UTC)It's not that I didn't enjoy Back to the Future, though I've never been moved to watch it again, which says something, though I am astonished at your claim that the writing was tight. What it was was plot-oriented. What most distressed me about that movie was the slackness and gratuitous digs in the 1950s section of the movie. A better conventional SF time-travel movie would be Peggy Sue Got Married.