Well, Ladies and Gentlemen we have made it to the third and last installment of the Back To The Future Trilogy. Unfortunately in this case last is least. I've never been a big fan of westerns, but Robert Zemeckis was and always wanted to do one, so for BTTF3, he sends them back to the Old West, throws in a love story for the Doc and well, it doesn't really work on the same level as the first 2 movies, but it's not terrible. It's still watchable and I will do that now. But before we get to it, by 1990 Huey Lewis had more or less run his course, so while they didn't have any musical tie-ins for 2, they decided to have one for 3, and they got ZZ Top, and they had a song Doubleback, which had a video and here it is:
Now this is more like what i was talking about with them using footage from the movie and just incorporating it into the video.
Back To The Future Part III release May 25th, 1990 starring, Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Lea Thompson, Thomas F Wilson, Elisabeth Shue, James Tolkan, Flea and ZZ Top. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, produced by Steven Spielberg. It grossed 87m domestic and 156m foreign.
0:00: Universal Studios, but it was their 75th anniversary in 1990, so we got a special treat with a collection of their openings. Once again we start off where we left off, this time they do use the same scene, no need for a reshoot this time around.
0:05: Now the movie really gets started back at the Brown Mansion, where Doc is coming back to his senses after being in shock of seeing Marty again.
0:06: I wonder how many times they actually say Back To The Future in these films. They do a good job of trying to catch everyone up to speed about what happened in part 2, with the Doc from 1985 getting sent back to 1885 after he came back to 1955 with Marty after he sent him back to 1985 form 1955, but only after they went to 2015, got it, you, good.
0:08: That's a pretty detailed letter that Doc sends back, gets pretty emotional, still don't understand their relationship, it's still confusing.
0:11: Ok, just remembered another element of this movie that I was never a huge fan of, all the references to Jules Verne and all his books and stuff.
0:12: 1950s shot at Japan, I guess it was still pretty soon after WWII, so whatever
0:13: Ok, so turns out Doc gets killed by Biff's grandfather only a week after he wrote the letter, so now Marty is gonna go back to get save him, and there's your plot of part 3.
0:16: I don't know about this western gear, not sure that's what the 50's view would have been of the west gear, looks more like the 80s version.
0:18: It's interesting that Marty was concerned about crashing into the Indians which shouldn't have been there, but then ended up actually being there, but yet there was never any concern about crashing into the movie theater in the first movie.
0:20: There are lots of elements of this movie that mirror the first one, much more then the 2nd one did. He rips the fuel line, which causes the car not to be able to run, much like the whole needing 1.21 gigawahtts. He has the picture that he keeps looking at and keeps changing.
0:22: "Mom? Mom, is that you?" once again, although this time it's not actually his mom, it's his great great grandmother I guess. He's Clint Eastwood instead of Calvin Klein.
0:25: Ok, so Michael J Fox ends up only playing 2 roles in this film, down from the 5 he played in the last one.
0:27: Another thing that was different about this movie as opposed to the other 2 that I was not a huge fan of was they changed the main music and had it have a western theme for a lot of the movie instead of the normal music we all knew and loved.
0:30: "Hey McFly, I thought I told you to never come in here"
0:32 No better way to get out a sticky situation then to do the moonwalk.
0:33 Another chase scene through Hill Valley, although this time around things actually don't go so great for Marty, he almost gets hung, but with a little help from Doc, he gets out of it.
0:38: That is a pretty ridiculous contraption in order just to make ice, but hey if you want iced tea in 1885 guess you have to do something.
0:39: Ok, so if the Doc knew that the fastest horse in the world could only run 35-40 miles, why did they even bother to try.
0:42: Marty always has issues thinking fourth dementionally, you would have figured that after traveling through time as many times as he has now, he would have figure this stuff out by now.
0:43: And Clara Clayton makes her first appearance and the love affair between her and Doc begins.
0:46: Oh man, Doc wrecked history, way to go man.
0:47: Really, those walkie talkies are still working in 1885, that's ridiculous, even when I had those they would only work for a little bit and then break.
0:48: This plan to get the car up to 88mph seems a bit more reasonable then the plan from the first movie that involved lightning and lots of timing, whereas this one they just need to get it going fast enough before the end of the tracks.
0:51: Nice job that they do in showing the introduction of the clock for the clock tower, since that has played a huge part in the franchise.
0:52: Pretty strange to see ZZ Top not wearing sunglasses.
0:53: Man, Doc ends up being quite the player, who would have guessed. I guess it took for him to get sent back to 1885.
0:54: Well, they did a good job of establishing that Marty is a good shot, they showed it when he was playing Wild Gunman in the 2nd movie, but ultimately what was the point, he never shoots anyone.
0:56: Kinda disappointing that Stickland doesn't call anyone a slacker in this movie. Also a lack of Libyans in this movie.
0:58: "Well, lookie what we have here." guess it runs in the family. Is there really some kind of gun that if you got shot with it, it could take 2 days to kill you.
0:59: So, in this movie he doesn't like being called Yella, it's just a good thing that he didn't call him a Yella Chicken.
1:00: "I'll hunt you down and shot you like a duck."
1:03: Ok, so Marty had a great great great uncle, i guess it would be named Martin cause he didn't like people calling him a coward and got killed in a fight. I also just realized something, so Lea Thompson is playing his great great grandmother, but that doesn't make sense, cause she's a McFly, not a Baines, so does that mean there was some inbreeding going on?
1:05: Doc even had the breakfast contraption set up in 1885, what a scientist this guy was. So, Marty is named Clint Eastwood, so then why did he quote Robert Deniro from Taxi Driver?
1:08: Uh, oh, Doc spilled the beans a little big about the car accident that he got into which was reference in part 2, but if he knows, won't he know not to do it, I mean why doesn't Doc just tell him, after all remember what happened with the Libyans.
1:13: This whole Doc-Clara relationship really bogs down this movie, it's just not interesting and takes away from the film, that's just my opinion.
1:16: Well, a broken hearted man turning to the bottle, sounds about right. I wonder what happened to the Doc on the 4th of July though, man apparently can't handle his liquor, probably got a little out of control.
1:18: Ok, that's another "Back To The Future" I haven't been counting, but that's a lot of times that they have said it in this movie. I feel like they worked up to it in the first one, and said it just twice, but it's like every other line in this one.
1:19: Man, Doc really can't handle his liquor, he only had one shot of whiskey and it knocked him out, really? Wake up juice, what the hell is that exactly, wonder if it really works.
1:24: The trains a leaving and they ain't on it, they better hurry up with this whole Tannen business.
1:26: So, Marty finally confront Mad Dog, and wouldn't you know he uses a trick out Clint Eastwoods book, which they actually foreshadowed in the 2nd movie when Biff was in the Hot tub with the chicks watching the movie in which he uses a bulletproof vest, nice call back as it were.
1:28: And the icing on the cake, Marty punches Mad Dog and he falls into Manure, and guess what he has to say " I hate manure"
1:32: The train part of this movie is pretty good I guess, makes it a little more interesting then just trying to get the car up to 88mph like in the other movies, although it did fly in the 2nd one, so that was probably cooler.
1:35: Of course here comes Clara to screw everything up, why didn't see just believe him to begin with, could have saved everyone a whole lot of trouble.
1:36: I kinda wonder if it would have actually been possible to get one of these old trains up to 88mph, I have my doubts, but then again I have no idea how fast trains can go. I know they got those like bullet trains that go really fast, but like how fast can a normal train now go?
1:40: Good to see the Hoover board getting used in 1885, seeing as how that thing doesn't even exist now, it would seriously blow everyone's mind away in 1885. But here the thing, why after he gets on the board and gets clara, didn't he just go back to the car, he could have made it, instead went off. Cool explosion though,
1:42: And finally Marty is back in the real 1985, and interesting to note it is now called Eastwood Ravine, cause he assumingly perished in the ravine. And the Delorean is destroyed, kinda sad really, but it was what the Doc wanted, you know cause time travel is too dangerous and everything.
1:44: Note that is clearly not Crispin Glover, but he did have a line, but just stayed in the background, really wonder what his role would have been in these movies had he signed on, would have been totally different movie I would guess.
1:46: Funny that Jennifer thinks it a dream, but Marty kinda ruins that by telling her about Hildale, and there's Flea and Power of :Love is back again. And there is where the car accident would have been that would have ruined his life, and the message is erased.
1:49: A Time traveling Train, well, now I've seen everything. So after all the stuff Doc said about destroying the time machine, time travel is too dangerous, he then of course builds another time machine, i guess probably have a happy ending and to keep it open ended, if they ever did want to do a 4th one.
1:50: You're future isn't written yet, kinda the same sorta message as in T2, no. and of course end it with one more Back To The Future. The End
Ok, so that does it all 3 Back To the Futures, one of the best Trilogies of all time, not exactly sure where I would rank it exactly, but it's got to be up there with Lord of the Rings, the Original Star Wars Trilogy, The Matrix, The Godfather I guess, if you even want to count that, 3rd one shouldn't have happened. I don't know, it's up there.
I will acknowedge that there was a cartoon that sorta continued the story with Doc, Clara, Jules, Vern and Marty traveling through time in the Train, but I never really watched it, and wouldn't really consider it a true continuation of the movie franchise.
Well, that's it thanks for reading, not sure what my next project will be, but I'm sure I'll think of something.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Back To The Future Part II
I'm not sure if when they originally wrote or made BTTF that there was a plan to do a sequel, but clearly after they success that it had a the box office i was a no brainer to do one, so much so that they made not only 1 but 2 at the same time, not sure if that had ever been done before, but it certainly has been done since, while in theory it make sense, it does bring up 2 issues, first off all, to do 2 movies at the same time take a while, so the first sequel is gonna take a while to come out, that's made up a little bit by the fact that you can just then release the next one right away, however what were to happen if that first sequel did terrible? Well, that doesn't actually matter, cause BTTF2 did do well, not as well as the first, but well enough that a 3rd would be fine. That;s not to say that there wasn't issues though. The biggest issue came in the form of Crispin Glover, who had decided that he was just a big a star as Michael J Fox, so he wanted the same amount of money as him, well the studio didn't feel this way and thought he was crazy, and by the evidence of what happened when he appear on The Late Show with David Letterman, I don't think anyone would blame them for thinking that:
Anyway, ultimately they couldn't come to a deal and Crispin Glover would not appear in the sequels other then in archived stuff from the first movie, this cause many delays as they had to do some rewrites and well, that explains what happens to George McFly throughout most of the movie. Ok, lets get to it.
Back To The Future Part II, released 11/22/1989, starring Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F Wilson, Elisabeth Shue, James Tolkan, Billy Zane, Flea and introducing Elijah Wood. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale and produced by Steven Spielberg. Took in 118m domestically and 213m in foreign markets. Want to point out that I actually did see this in the theater, at the old Dedham cinema during Christmas vacation, took a break from playing with my brand new Nintendo and Puppy to go see the movie.
0:00: Universal Studios at it again, now one of the things that 80s movies liked to do with the sequels, and this was big with the Rocky movies, they start of the new one with the end of the one before it. No different here, except, they had to reshoot the scene, because Jennifer got replaced by Elisabeth Shue, and Michael J Fox is looking a bit older, plus they also added the extra little bit with Biff. "What the hell is going on here?"
0:04: Ok, so this is supposed to be 2015, I don't know about you, but I don't see there being flying cars in 4 years.Also, they do a pretty quick job of getting rid of that whole thing about the ending of part 1, wasn't very subtle about just showing up out of nowhere in the time machine and taking marty and jennifer into the future, i mean why not just come back in the middle of the night in a field call marty and have him meet you there. Besides seems like he goes on and on about not knowing his future, but yet, here they are trying to stop his kids from being arrested.
0:08: Ok, I really can't see any of these fashions and gadgets coming around in the next 4 years. Power Laces, wearing pants inside out., weird mutlicolored hats. Abolishing all lawyers.
0:11: I don't see Texaco stations existing like that, and I know 3D has come a long way in recent years, but I don't think it's anywhere near where tht Jaws scene is.
0:14: So, here's the problem I have with the Tannens, if Griff is Biff's grandson, then where the generation in between, where is the Tannen that would be Marty's age, we never see him, and I don't know, but in 1985, doesn't seem that Biff is marred and has kids.
0:15: Hey look, it's Frodo, yup little Elijah Wood making his acting debut trying to play Wild Gunman. "You mean you have to use your hands?"
0:17: They establish the whole Chicken angle, Marty doesn't like to be called Chicken, can't blame him.
0:18: Hoverboards, they seem cool, there was actually a rumor around the time that this movie came out that they were real, obviously they are not, and I don't seem them coming into existence in the next 4 years, too bad, that would have been a cool thing to have.
0:21: Little upsetting that this chase doesn't end with someone going into a manure truck, but crashing through the clock tower is pretty good.
0:22: Cubs win World Series, now 22 years ago when this movie came out, I wonder if they thought that we would be closing in on 2015 and the Cubs still haven't won a World Series since 1908, it'll be crazy if that ends up the year that they finally do win, but it's only supposed to be Oct 21, no way even with a sweep, with the current schedule, that the World Series would be over by then.
0:24: Seems pretty interesting that in BTTF right before Doc is supposed to go into the future, he mentioned finding out the winner of the next 25 World Series, but now that Marty wants to do it, it's wrong.
0:25: Now it's established that seeing a different version of yourself can cause the universe to explode, of course the never happens.
0:27: You know it is dangerous to enter the house with no lights on, wish I could program that.
0:28: Another "Mom? Mom is that you?" Want to point out that that George McFly was obviously not played by Crispin Glover.
0:31: I will give credit where credit is due, and that is they got the wall mounted flatscreen widescreen TV right, those do exist, not sure about watching 9 channels at once, but the TV itself works.
0:33: Uh, Oh, Biff stole the DeLorean, that can't be good.
0:34: Flea as Needles, it's interesting that he was in this movie, I mean the Red Hot Chili Peppers hadn't really made it yet, Under The Bridge and Give It Away were still a couple years away.
0:35: MCFLY! I just remember in the theater that was so loud.
0:37: Old Jennifer and Young Jennifer see each other and faint, the universe didn't explode.
0:38: "Better that I devote myself to study the other great mystery of the universe... Women" I hear you Doc.
0:39: Not sure why Marty has to ask if they made it and if they are back, he's gone through time 3 times before, and didn't he notice all the other things disappearing.
0:41: The alternate 1985 is pretty bleak, but to be honest, even in the first movie, they didn't make Hill Valley look at that great in 1985, there were bums sleeping on benches and stuff then too.
0:42: "You look to me like a Slacker" Mr. Strickland was a pretty awesome character, I still don't get why he was an educator, but just seemed to hate kids.
0:43: " Watch where you're going to crazy drunk predestran." Good to see that nothing has changed for that bum,
0:45: This retrospective of Biff Tannen is amazing, I especially love the part where he says "I just want to say one thing: God Bless America."
0:46: Billy Zane with his best line, probably ever "Look Sonny, we can do this the easy way or the hard way." followed by another "Mom? Mom, is that you?" scene.
0:49: I actually like to know a little more about Uncle Joey, why is in in jail, what exactly did he do, another one of those mysteries that never gets explained.
0:50: Well, what happens when you can't get a person to come back to do their role, well, you kill them off of course, so George McFly is dead in this reality.
0:52: So Biff stole Marty's idea about betting on sports with the Sports Almanac.
0:54: This part of the movie confused a lot of people, it was on of the reasons why historically speaking this one isn't as popular as the first one, the timeline gets confusing, personally I like it, not sure about better, but just as much as the first.
0:59: I Love how Biff always has a bunch of bumbling idiots around him, he really is one of the best bad guys in movie history. "Two McFlys with the same gun"
1:01: So noone is freaking out there is a flying DeLorean hovering around the Hotel? Security isn't very good at this hotel apparently. I got to say that if they made a Hotel Casino out of the Hill Valley Courthouse and incorporated the Clock Tower, that would be pretty awesome.
1:03: Alrigfht, well the walkie talkies that Doc gets so they can communictae, they look pretty cheap, pretty sure I had the some ones when I was a kid, they didn't work all that great, if you got more then like 20 feet away from each other they wouldn't work, even really good walkie talkies aren't nearly as good as these ones are suppsed to be.
1:06: "Well, lookie what we have here" They definitely reuse alot of the same line throughout these movies, not sure if that necessarily a good thing or just lazy writing.
1:07: So, once again Biff and Biff see each other and there are no issues, they don't even go into shock or anything, clearly young Biff isn't the brightest guy, so he doesn't even realize it's him.
1:09: So, go ahead and look it up, November 12th, 1955, UCLA won 19-17, the score is accurate, even later when he is listening to the radio and they are saying scores, they are all right, so nice job, could have probably just made stuff up, but they went ahead and got the real scores.
1:11: Why exactly does Biff live with his grandmother anyway, seems like there is more to that story too, what happened to his parents, maybe there was a tragic event and that's why he turned out the way he did.
1:13: Always found it interesting that he's telling Marty to be careful about running into his other self, meanwhile he is in the process of running into his other self, of course once again nothing happens.
1:15: Some of this stuff gets a little confusing, cause like did they reshoot some of this stuff, did the just use the same footage, I'm assuming for a lot of the parts with George McFly, they just used the other stuff, cause obviously Glover wasn't doing it, but they did have the guy that played old George in the future so he could have probably stepped in and did some of it if they needed.
1:18: Slacker!
1:19: So like right there, when he goes by his other self and his mom in the car, they must have reshot that cause they wouldn't have had that angle
1:21: Poor Marty, he was chasing after the wrong book the whole time, but George was knocking out biff. but there's another scene that they would have had to film again since it 's from a differnt angle, but then they did throw some of the original scene. "Hey, do you just take his wallet? He just took that guys wallet."
1:23: I like all the little hints that they give about part 3 in this one though, talking about the old west and the time board getting messed up and saying 1885 and that sort of thing.
1:25: " I think he took you wallet. I think he took his wallet."
1:26: So, I;m guessing they had to reshot some of this scene with Marty signing Johnny B Goode, so the question is did he play the guitar this time around, but they definitely interweave some of the original footage with the new stuff, which is interesting cause it's supposed to be one day later, but he looks older then just one day.
1:28: Poor Marty get knocked down by himself and then loses the book back to Biff.
1:30: Want to point out that the tunnel that is used in this scene is the same tunnel that is used in Who Framed Roger Rabbitt? which btw was also directed by Robert Zemeckis and starred Christopher Lloyd, which btw, apparently they are doing a sequel to, that's news to me.
1:32: Well, Marty gets the book from Biff, and is able to get away from him as Biff crashes into yet another Manure truck, like I said before, why are there all these manure trucks everywhere?
1:35: Marty burns the book, and everything goes back to the way it's supposed to be, and it's another happy ending, or is it?
1:37: Uh Oh, the DeLorean gets struck by lightning and disappears, but wait a minute it wasn't going 88mph, so why did it disappear?
1:38: Oh right, Joe Flaherty as the western union guy, forgot to mention him as starring, which I guess he doesn't really star, but he's in it longer then Elijah Wood.
1:40: Hey, you know what, I never really thought about this before, but this ending is kinda like the ending to Saw IV, where it's happening at the same time as Saw III and they endings kinda coincide, now granted it's not exactly the same, but sorta. Anyway, Doc is in the Old west, Marty tracks down the 1955 Doc to help him right after he sent the other Marty Back To The Future.
1:43 Always found it interesting how they incorporated scenes from 3 into the end of 2 like that, I know they did something similar with the Matrix, but from what I remember it was after the credits in that one.
Well, that's Part II, like I said I always like this one a lot, not sure If I like it better then the first one, but it's certainly close, might have a little more sentimental value towards this one since I actually saw it in the theaters, but I don't know I like all the time traveling, and stuff. I mean there have been a lot of movies involving time travel, Time Machine, Terminators, Bill & Ted, Time Traveler's Wife, even that new crap with Jake Gyllenhaal, not to mention TV shows like Quantum Leap, but out of all of them I can can say that by far Hot Tub Time Machine is the worst.
Ok, so now we move on to Part III, which I have no problems saying is my least favorite out of the 3, but it's still a decent movie, so let's do it.
Anyway, ultimately they couldn't come to a deal and Crispin Glover would not appear in the sequels other then in archived stuff from the first movie, this cause many delays as they had to do some rewrites and well, that explains what happens to George McFly throughout most of the movie. Ok, lets get to it.
Back To The Future Part II, released 11/22/1989, starring Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F Wilson, Elisabeth Shue, James Tolkan, Billy Zane, Flea and introducing Elijah Wood. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale and produced by Steven Spielberg. Took in 118m domestically and 213m in foreign markets. Want to point out that I actually did see this in the theater, at the old Dedham cinema during Christmas vacation, took a break from playing with my brand new Nintendo and Puppy to go see the movie.
0:00: Universal Studios at it again, now one of the things that 80s movies liked to do with the sequels, and this was big with the Rocky movies, they start of the new one with the end of the one before it. No different here, except, they had to reshoot the scene, because Jennifer got replaced by Elisabeth Shue, and Michael J Fox is looking a bit older, plus they also added the extra little bit with Biff. "What the hell is going on here?"
0:04: Ok, so this is supposed to be 2015, I don't know about you, but I don't see there being flying cars in 4 years.Also, they do a pretty quick job of getting rid of that whole thing about the ending of part 1, wasn't very subtle about just showing up out of nowhere in the time machine and taking marty and jennifer into the future, i mean why not just come back in the middle of the night in a field call marty and have him meet you there. Besides seems like he goes on and on about not knowing his future, but yet, here they are trying to stop his kids from being arrested.
0:08: Ok, I really can't see any of these fashions and gadgets coming around in the next 4 years. Power Laces, wearing pants inside out., weird mutlicolored hats. Abolishing all lawyers.
0:11: I don't see Texaco stations existing like that, and I know 3D has come a long way in recent years, but I don't think it's anywhere near where tht Jaws scene is.
0:14: So, here's the problem I have with the Tannens, if Griff is Biff's grandson, then where the generation in between, where is the Tannen that would be Marty's age, we never see him, and I don't know, but in 1985, doesn't seem that Biff is marred and has kids.
0:15: Hey look, it's Frodo, yup little Elijah Wood making his acting debut trying to play Wild Gunman. "You mean you have to use your hands?"
0:17: They establish the whole Chicken angle, Marty doesn't like to be called Chicken, can't blame him.
0:18: Hoverboards, they seem cool, there was actually a rumor around the time that this movie came out that they were real, obviously they are not, and I don't seem them coming into existence in the next 4 years, too bad, that would have been a cool thing to have.
0:21: Little upsetting that this chase doesn't end with someone going into a manure truck, but crashing through the clock tower is pretty good.
0:22: Cubs win World Series, now 22 years ago when this movie came out, I wonder if they thought that we would be closing in on 2015 and the Cubs still haven't won a World Series since 1908, it'll be crazy if that ends up the year that they finally do win, but it's only supposed to be Oct 21, no way even with a sweep, with the current schedule, that the World Series would be over by then.
0:24: Seems pretty interesting that in BTTF right before Doc is supposed to go into the future, he mentioned finding out the winner of the next 25 World Series, but now that Marty wants to do it, it's wrong.
0:25: Now it's established that seeing a different version of yourself can cause the universe to explode, of course the never happens.
0:27: You know it is dangerous to enter the house with no lights on, wish I could program that.
0:28: Another "Mom? Mom is that you?" Want to point out that that George McFly was obviously not played by Crispin Glover.
0:31: I will give credit where credit is due, and that is they got the wall mounted flatscreen widescreen TV right, those do exist, not sure about watching 9 channels at once, but the TV itself works.
0:33: Uh, Oh, Biff stole the DeLorean, that can't be good.
0:34: Flea as Needles, it's interesting that he was in this movie, I mean the Red Hot Chili Peppers hadn't really made it yet, Under The Bridge and Give It Away were still a couple years away.
0:35: MCFLY! I just remember in the theater that was so loud.
0:37: Old Jennifer and Young Jennifer see each other and faint, the universe didn't explode.
0:38: "Better that I devote myself to study the other great mystery of the universe... Women" I hear you Doc.
0:39: Not sure why Marty has to ask if they made it and if they are back, he's gone through time 3 times before, and didn't he notice all the other things disappearing.
0:41: The alternate 1985 is pretty bleak, but to be honest, even in the first movie, they didn't make Hill Valley look at that great in 1985, there were bums sleeping on benches and stuff then too.
0:42: "You look to me like a Slacker" Mr. Strickland was a pretty awesome character, I still don't get why he was an educator, but just seemed to hate kids.
0:43: " Watch where you're going to crazy drunk predestran." Good to see that nothing has changed for that bum,
0:45: This retrospective of Biff Tannen is amazing, I especially love the part where he says "I just want to say one thing: God Bless America."
0:46: Billy Zane with his best line, probably ever "Look Sonny, we can do this the easy way or the hard way." followed by another "Mom? Mom, is that you?" scene.
0:49: I actually like to know a little more about Uncle Joey, why is in in jail, what exactly did he do, another one of those mysteries that never gets explained.
0:50: Well, what happens when you can't get a person to come back to do their role, well, you kill them off of course, so George McFly is dead in this reality.
0:52: So Biff stole Marty's idea about betting on sports with the Sports Almanac.
0:54: This part of the movie confused a lot of people, it was on of the reasons why historically speaking this one isn't as popular as the first one, the timeline gets confusing, personally I like it, not sure about better, but just as much as the first.
0:59: I Love how Biff always has a bunch of bumbling idiots around him, he really is one of the best bad guys in movie history. "Two McFlys with the same gun"
1:01: So noone is freaking out there is a flying DeLorean hovering around the Hotel? Security isn't very good at this hotel apparently. I got to say that if they made a Hotel Casino out of the Hill Valley Courthouse and incorporated the Clock Tower, that would be pretty awesome.
1:03: Alrigfht, well the walkie talkies that Doc gets so they can communictae, they look pretty cheap, pretty sure I had the some ones when I was a kid, they didn't work all that great, if you got more then like 20 feet away from each other they wouldn't work, even really good walkie talkies aren't nearly as good as these ones are suppsed to be.
1:06: "Well, lookie what we have here" They definitely reuse alot of the same line throughout these movies, not sure if that necessarily a good thing or just lazy writing.
1:07: So, once again Biff and Biff see each other and there are no issues, they don't even go into shock or anything, clearly young Biff isn't the brightest guy, so he doesn't even realize it's him.
1:09: So, go ahead and look it up, November 12th, 1955, UCLA won 19-17, the score is accurate, even later when he is listening to the radio and they are saying scores, they are all right, so nice job, could have probably just made stuff up, but they went ahead and got the real scores.
1:11: Why exactly does Biff live with his grandmother anyway, seems like there is more to that story too, what happened to his parents, maybe there was a tragic event and that's why he turned out the way he did.
1:13: Always found it interesting that he's telling Marty to be careful about running into his other self, meanwhile he is in the process of running into his other self, of course once again nothing happens.
1:15: Some of this stuff gets a little confusing, cause like did they reshoot some of this stuff, did the just use the same footage, I'm assuming for a lot of the parts with George McFly, they just used the other stuff, cause obviously Glover wasn't doing it, but they did have the guy that played old George in the future so he could have probably stepped in and did some of it if they needed.
1:18: Slacker!
1:19: So like right there, when he goes by his other self and his mom in the car, they must have reshot that cause they wouldn't have had that angle
1:21: Poor Marty, he was chasing after the wrong book the whole time, but George was knocking out biff. but there's another scene that they would have had to film again since it 's from a differnt angle, but then they did throw some of the original scene. "Hey, do you just take his wallet? He just took that guys wallet."
1:23: I like all the little hints that they give about part 3 in this one though, talking about the old west and the time board getting messed up and saying 1885 and that sort of thing.
1:25: " I think he took you wallet. I think he took his wallet."
1:26: So, I;m guessing they had to reshot some of this scene with Marty signing Johnny B Goode, so the question is did he play the guitar this time around, but they definitely interweave some of the original footage with the new stuff, which is interesting cause it's supposed to be one day later, but he looks older then just one day.
1:28: Poor Marty get knocked down by himself and then loses the book back to Biff.
1:30: Want to point out that the tunnel that is used in this scene is the same tunnel that is used in Who Framed Roger Rabbitt? which btw was also directed by Robert Zemeckis and starred Christopher Lloyd, which btw, apparently they are doing a sequel to, that's news to me.
1:32: Well, Marty gets the book from Biff, and is able to get away from him as Biff crashes into yet another Manure truck, like I said before, why are there all these manure trucks everywhere?
1:35: Marty burns the book, and everything goes back to the way it's supposed to be, and it's another happy ending, or is it?
1:37: Uh Oh, the DeLorean gets struck by lightning and disappears, but wait a minute it wasn't going 88mph, so why did it disappear?
1:38: Oh right, Joe Flaherty as the western union guy, forgot to mention him as starring, which I guess he doesn't really star, but he's in it longer then Elijah Wood.
1:40: Hey, you know what, I never really thought about this before, but this ending is kinda like the ending to Saw IV, where it's happening at the same time as Saw III and they endings kinda coincide, now granted it's not exactly the same, but sorta. Anyway, Doc is in the Old west, Marty tracks down the 1955 Doc to help him right after he sent the other Marty Back To The Future.
1:43 Always found it interesting how they incorporated scenes from 3 into the end of 2 like that, I know they did something similar with the Matrix, but from what I remember it was after the credits in that one.
Well, that's Part II, like I said I always like this one a lot, not sure If I like it better then the first one, but it's certainly close, might have a little more sentimental value towards this one since I actually saw it in the theaters, but I don't know I like all the time traveling, and stuff. I mean there have been a lot of movies involving time travel, Time Machine, Terminators, Bill & Ted, Time Traveler's Wife, even that new crap with Jake Gyllenhaal, not to mention TV shows like Quantum Leap, but out of all of them I can can say that by far Hot Tub Time Machine is the worst.
Ok, so now we move on to Part III, which I have no problems saying is my least favorite out of the 3, but it's still a decent movie, so let's do it.
Back To The Future
Ok, so before we get into the movie, a little background. Back To The Future, which for now will be referred to as BTTF to save me some time has always been one of my favorite movies since I was a little kid, it along with The Goonies, Gremlins, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Teen Wolf were pretty much in a rotation of movies that I would constantly watch. So, with that said some time ago at work, I was taking to someone that at the time I worked with, who is a few years younger then me, I made a reference to BTTF, she had no idea what I was talking about and told me that she had never seen, whihc amazed me for a couple different reasons, first, it's a classic and second it's on TV all the time. Basically the conversation played out something like this: (ignore the first part)
Now maybe this particular co-worker wasn't a good judge of stuff, I also later said something about having "Two Turntables and a Microphone" to wit she had no idea what I was talking about, then I called her a "Loser" which she got mad about, turns out that she had never heard of Beck. But whatever, she's dead to me now, and no not because of the BTTF or Beck things, and to be honest it's more like I'm dead to her based on what I feel was a misunderstanding. None of this really matters, can't imagine she is reading this anyway, she already unfriended me so can't imagine she's reading my blog. Ok, I'm totally getting off track, haven't even started the first movie yet and this is already broken, all of this other crap will be covered in my blog post "My Life As The Office" which I will be posting probably never. Anyway, so the point of the story was, for the younger audience that I have that might not totally be familiar with BTTF, I'm gonna fill you in on why you should be. Also I want to re-educate those of you that for one reason or another don't like BTTF, like another co-worker of mine, although her issue is with Michael J Fox, who she doesn't like, but she also doesn't like Muhammed Ali, I think she just doesn't like people with parkinson's, probably cause she is evil. Anyway, that actually leads to another point, Michael J Fox, despite being the first choice for Marty McFly and wanting to do it, cause of his commitment to Family Ties, almost couldn't do it, and they originally casted Eric Stoltz, now you might be thinking to yourself, Who?, exactly, had he been in the movie, might have been a household name, instead he went on to star as Rocky Dennis in Mask with Cher and then go on to have a bunch of small roles in a bunch of crap. Interesting to also note, that if he were to have been Marty, then the role of Jennifer would have gone to Melora Hardin better know as Jan from The Office, and now I'm back on the office again. Let's just get to the movie already. I got the 25th Anniversary Blu-Ray edition, so it's gonna be a HD expierence.
Back To The Future was released on July 3rd, 1985, which is interesting cause even before the movie started it was messing with the timeline, the events of the movie are supposed to take place on October 25-26, 1985, so when people were going to see it in July it was like they were already watching the future, course when I saw it, it was later on video, so it was like I was watching the past, confused yet? good. The movie starred Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, Thomas F Wilson, Claudia Wells, James Tolkan, Huey Lewis, Billy Zane and Jason Hervey. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale and produced by Stephen Spielberg. It grossed 210m domestically, 170m internationally. Let's get too it
0:00: Universal Studios, good studios I guess. Stephen Spielberg presents, but really was there anything from that time that he wasn't involved with, seems like he has his name on everyhing. We start off with clocks, makes sense Time travel and all, has alot to do with time as do clocks. Ok, so here's a little something that was happening a lot in 1985 with movies, crazy contraptions that did stupid stuff, Pee-Wee had the Breakfast machine, Goonies had all sorts of things going on, even just to open the gate for Chunk, and here in this movie, Doc has some crap setup to make breakfast and feed the dog, not to mention turn on the TV, which has the Mom from Just the ten of us, letting us in on some of the plot.
0:03: and Marty McFly makes his first appearance, and we get to see him play a guitar reallly loud, seems like there is just way too many knobs and switches for this thing, and that speaker seems a little big, no? The one thing that is never explained, why are these 2 friends, when did Marty and Doc meet, why is Marty even coming over to his place? Also, why is Doc calling his own place, did he know Marty was gonna be there? why?
0:06: Power of Love for the first time, they got a lot of use out of this song. BTTF was one of the first movies that I can remember that really used Product placement, Burger King and the Mountain Dew hat were a little obvious.
0:07: Mr. Strickland, what an ass, what kind of educator would treat a student like that, calling everyone slackers and telling them they won't amount to anything.
0:08: Huey Lewis making his acting debut, telling The Pinheads who are playing his song, they are too loud.
0:09: Ok, so this has always bothered me, the van goes by telling everyone to re-elect Goldie Wilson, it sounds so much like Phil Hartman, but I have never been able to find out it it him or not, oh and by the way. "If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything"
0:11: Save The Clock Tower, interesting to note that that Clock Tower, which was actually used in some other movies, was almost burnt down a few years ago when there was a big fire at the Universal Studios lot.
0:12: Biff and George McFly make their first appearances. Biff is a great character, probably the best character in the whole franchise, "Hello, anyone home? Think McFly, Think." He has great quotes. "Shoe's untied, don't be so gullable McFly." I do have one issue with Biff, but I'll ge to that later
0:14: Tons more product placement here, Diet Pepsi, Bud Light, just seems so blatant, like all the labels perfectly pointed at the camera, whatever.
0:18: Once again, what the hell is this relationship that Marty is going to a mall at 1 in the morning to meet the Doc, I would love to know the back story here.
0:19: The DeLoreon, I guess you could consider this product placement, but I think they were actually making fun of it, plus the company had already gone out of business by this time.
0:21: I wonder how they came up with 88mph, guess it seemed like it was fast, but not too fast. I don't know, can't imagine there is actually any scientific reasoning for it.
0:22: Ok, one of the biggest issues with this movie, why did they never fix the fire marks, it looks like Doc is standing right on top of the first, shouldn't it be between his legs, couldn't they have fixed that in editing? I mean I'm fine with them leaving it as it is now, don't need to go all Star Wars or anything, but really, everyone was just like "Eh, that's fine, it's not even noticeable"
0:25: November 5th, 1955, the day Doc visioned the Flux Capacitor, which somehow by flashing makes time travel possible, not totally sure how, what the hell does it actually do? Great name though, Flux Capacitor.
0:27: Is this stuff with the plutonium accurate, do those suits actually do anything?
0:29 The Libyans!!! Still topical, whether it's the 80s with BTTF, 90s with In The Army Now or today, Libyans always make for great bad guys. Want to note that when I was younger, whenever I saw one of those VW vans, I always thought there were Libyans in it and I would get scared and run away from it, chances are that if it wasn't Libyans, it was probably Hippies, so either way it was probably a good idea to run.
0:32: Ok, so imagine you are these people seeing this thing from the future crash into your barn, that would be pretty messed up, I don't blame them for flipping out. "Take that you mutated Son of a bitch."
0:35: Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream. Were the 50s actually like this? 4 guys running out when you pull up to a gas pump? Everyone wearing Suits and hats and stuff
036: The Clock Tower, it works, ain't that something.
0:37: This Diner scene is a great scene, Marty sitting next to his Dad, Biff coming in with some awesome lines, "You Irish Bug" plus Billy Zane, he's a cool dude, Then Marty realizing that it's his Dad.
0:40: "A Colored Mayor, that'll be the day" Lot of not so subtle racism in this movie, was that just a reflection of the 50s?
0:42: Ok, so interesting not, the street that they used to film the scene where Marty gets hit by the car saving his dad, was the same street that they also used for scenes in Teen Wolf, Michael J Fox loved that street, he actually bought up all the property around it and turned it into a shrine, don't believe me, look it up, I'll wait... ha, ha made you look it up, yeah that part isn't true.
0:43: First "Mom? Mom, it that you?" this would become a reoccuring theme in the series. Calvin Klein's no friend of mine, don't want nobody's name on my behind. Marty, purple underwear? I know it was the 80s, but still.
0:46: Jason Hervey making his appearance, this role wasn't as good as his role in Pee-Wee, and obviously he would go on to be Wayne Arnold.
0:47: "He's an Idiot, come from upbringing, his parents are probably idiots too."
0:50: Interesting that Ronald Regan being the president in 1985 would seem so crazy in 1955, but I guess if you went back to like 1988 and told everyone that Arnold Schwarzenegger would be governor of California, it would seem pretty crazy to them too.
0:52: Seems pretty crazy that in 1955 they would be able to hook up the camera to the video, but i guess Doc is a scientist, so he could figure something out "1.21 GIGAWATTS" wonder where they came up with that number too, wonder if that is accurate in any way to Plutonium or lighting or something.
0:55: "Next Saturday night, we are sending you BACK TO THE FUTURE" got to love when they work the title into the movie.
0:56: "Erased from existence."
0:57: "You're A Slacker, you want to be a slacker for the rest of your life?" George McFly was a pretty big dork, and people loved to pick on him, Crispin Glover really did fit that role well, he's kinda a whacko.
0:58: Doc raises an interesting question, why does Marty keep saying things are "Heavy" I don't really remember that ever being something that people said other then in this movie.
1:00: Biff loves saying Butt-head in this movie, was that something people said alot in the 50s, I mean sure, I said it alot cause of this move and then Beavis and Butt-Head, but when did that become a thing? "Now why don't you make like a tree and get out of here."
1:02: A little Eddie Van Halen to wake you up. "Last night Darth Vader came down form Planet Vulcan and told me if I didn't take Lorraine out, that he'd melt my brain." So many good lines in this movie. For instance, like " Lou, give me a Milk, chocolate." and then "Lorraine, my density has popped me to you." also " Yes, yes, I'm George, George McFly, I'm your density, I mean your destiny."
1:05: Not sure how Marty was planning on helping George get Lorraine, but beating up Biff in from of here, when she already had the hots for him.
1:06: Another reoccuring theme of these movies, a Tannen and crew chasing after Marty, as well as Manure, which brings up a good question, why are their manure trucks just hanging out all over the place?
1:09: This whole plan to get Marty Back to the Future seems way to ridiculous to actually work, i mean in order for to work, would you need to test it out with a real car and real lightning a bunch of times, i mean, sure it's a movie, whatever, but seriously.
1:14: "Hey you, get your damn hands off her. You really think I oughta swear?"
1:15: It would be kinda weird is someone from the future did come back and tell you a bunch of stuff about what happens to you in the future, like would you want to know, I mean I guess I would want to know if I was gonna be shot by terrorist, but if I already knew everything, I don't know, it would be weird, cause there's no way that because you know, you wouldn't do something to change it, maybe not on purpose per se, but somehow
1:17: This whole scene in the car with Marty and his Mom, imagine this, that would be the most awkward situation to ever be in, i mean, completely unrealistic, but i guess maybe it would be the equivilant of going on a date with someone and maybe finding out that they were your long lost sibling or something, I don't know.
1:20: "Well, lookie what we have here."
1:21: Some great lines in that exchange, "I don't want to mess with no refer addicts" Never really noticed that the car is filled with smoke before.
1:22: Anyone else bothered by the fact that Biff is forcing himself on Lorraine her, I mean, that's not right, I realize that Biff is the bad guy here, but what would have happened if George hadn't come around then and punched him out?
1:25: I wonder if Michael J Fox could actually play the guitar or else did they just have him fake this part, cause when he's doing Johnny B Goode, I don't think that's him, certianly not him singing. The whole hand disappearing thing looked kinda cool at the time, now it looks totally fake.
1:27: Ok, so what made him think to do Johnny B Goode, just so they could make the Marvin/Chuck Berry joke? Now, when they inevitably remake this movie, and you know at some point they will, lets say in 2015, so 30 year later, and lets say they keep the same general plot, so he goes back to 1985, and lets say they include this type of scene, what do you think would be the song that chose to use? I don't know, haven't been able to figure that one out, maybe like Guns N Roses, or Nirvana or something.
1:31: "Damn, where is that kid? Damn. Damn, Damn."
1:33: Still don't understand this relationship, I'm not sure that Doc from the past totally gets it either, he seems like he's still trying to figure out why they would even know each other.
1:34: Great Scott, the cable came off, so not only is the idea that this whole thing would actually work far fetched, but just throw another element in there to make it more improbable, eventhough you know it's gonna work out.
1:36: I wonder if the riming of this movie is actually accurate, he does say some precise times and stuff, wonder if you time it out, it actually works. Speaking of time, antother thing that really bothers me, he says if he goes back 10 minutes early, he'll have enough time, but he sets the clock for 11 minutes earlier? Like what the hell, noone noticed that, could have been an easy fix. but also, why would he cut it so close, if you really wanted to save him, go back like 30 minutes earlier or something. I guess that would have set up the senario where he might have ran into his other self and created a paradox in the space time continuium that would have destroyed the universe, but at this point they hadn't been over that.
1:41: So the lighning strikes, he gets to 88mph, the flux capacitor fluxes and he goes back to the future, not that there was gonna be anything else that would have happened, but imagine that it didn't work. The other thing though, he then crashes into the movie theater, "Crazy Drunk Driver" I mean I guess there was no way to avoid it, but that seemed like an oversite by them.
1:43: So, I guess since the Libyans pass him, had the car not stalled, he would have had time to warn Doc, but not really, they came along not much longer after, didn't help that he then fell down that hill for some reason.
1:45: It's not a very convincing arguement for why he went against his word and read the note. " I figured what the hell?" really, that's it? Also don't understand why he changed his mind to fo 30 years instead of 25 like he originally said.
1:47: Why is his alarm set for 10:28? but more Huey Lewis, his other song on the soundtrack is played "Back In Time" and is brother works on Saturdays? but clearly goes in late.
1:48: So clearly this doesn't use the butterfly effect theory that all the memories that would have changed based on what happened get inputed into his brain.
1:50: This final scene is interesting cause then it becomes the first scene in the 2nd movie, but they of course had to redo it, but it's basically the exact same other then Jennifer being a different actress.
1:51: "Roads, where we're going, we don't need roads." So, interesting to note that this version doesn't say anything at the end, which I guess was how it originally ended in the theaters, but when the release it to video and knew they were gonna do a sequel, they added "To Be Continued"
Well, there you have it, the first Back To The Future still one of my favorite movies of all time. I think that was probably my 114th time watching it, that number might not be right, but I wouldn't doubt it. Back to the Future is probably also one of the most referenced films or franchises in pop culture, or atleast in my lifetime, The Godfather and Star Wars franchise probably are ahead of it, but even just recently they referenced it to open up the Oscars and also Modern Family just had something referencing it a couple weeks ago. Family Guy has pretty much reference every scene at this point, The music is iconic, everything about it screams classic, and other then some of the clothes and stuff, it still holds up pretty well I say. Ok, that was fun, now let's move on to Part II
Now maybe this particular co-worker wasn't a good judge of stuff, I also later said something about having "Two Turntables and a Microphone" to wit she had no idea what I was talking about, then I called her a "Loser" which she got mad about, turns out that she had never heard of Beck. But whatever, she's dead to me now, and no not because of the BTTF or Beck things, and to be honest it's more like I'm dead to her based on what I feel was a misunderstanding. None of this really matters, can't imagine she is reading this anyway, she already unfriended me so can't imagine she's reading my blog. Ok, I'm totally getting off track, haven't even started the first movie yet and this is already broken, all of this other crap will be covered in my blog post "My Life As The Office" which I will be posting probably never. Anyway, so the point of the story was, for the younger audience that I have that might not totally be familiar with BTTF, I'm gonna fill you in on why you should be. Also I want to re-educate those of you that for one reason or another don't like BTTF, like another co-worker of mine, although her issue is with Michael J Fox, who she doesn't like, but she also doesn't like Muhammed Ali, I think she just doesn't like people with parkinson's, probably cause she is evil. Anyway, that actually leads to another point, Michael J Fox, despite being the first choice for Marty McFly and wanting to do it, cause of his commitment to Family Ties, almost couldn't do it, and they originally casted Eric Stoltz, now you might be thinking to yourself, Who?, exactly, had he been in the movie, might have been a household name, instead he went on to star as Rocky Dennis in Mask with Cher and then go on to have a bunch of small roles in a bunch of crap. Interesting to also note, that if he were to have been Marty, then the role of Jennifer would have gone to Melora Hardin better know as Jan from The Office, and now I'm back on the office again. Let's just get to the movie already. I got the 25th Anniversary Blu-Ray edition, so it's gonna be a HD expierence.
Back To The Future was released on July 3rd, 1985, which is interesting cause even before the movie started it was messing with the timeline, the events of the movie are supposed to take place on October 25-26, 1985, so when people were going to see it in July it was like they were already watching the future, course when I saw it, it was later on video, so it was like I was watching the past, confused yet? good. The movie starred Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, Thomas F Wilson, Claudia Wells, James Tolkan, Huey Lewis, Billy Zane and Jason Hervey. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale and produced by Stephen Spielberg. It grossed 210m domestically, 170m internationally. Let's get too it
0:00: Universal Studios, good studios I guess. Stephen Spielberg presents, but really was there anything from that time that he wasn't involved with, seems like he has his name on everyhing. We start off with clocks, makes sense Time travel and all, has alot to do with time as do clocks. Ok, so here's a little something that was happening a lot in 1985 with movies, crazy contraptions that did stupid stuff, Pee-Wee had the Breakfast machine, Goonies had all sorts of things going on, even just to open the gate for Chunk, and here in this movie, Doc has some crap setup to make breakfast and feed the dog, not to mention turn on the TV, which has the Mom from Just the ten of us, letting us in on some of the plot.
0:03: and Marty McFly makes his first appearance, and we get to see him play a guitar reallly loud, seems like there is just way too many knobs and switches for this thing, and that speaker seems a little big, no? The one thing that is never explained, why are these 2 friends, when did Marty and Doc meet, why is Marty even coming over to his place? Also, why is Doc calling his own place, did he know Marty was gonna be there? why?
0:06: Power of Love for the first time, they got a lot of use out of this song. BTTF was one of the first movies that I can remember that really used Product placement, Burger King and the Mountain Dew hat were a little obvious.
0:07: Mr. Strickland, what an ass, what kind of educator would treat a student like that, calling everyone slackers and telling them they won't amount to anything.
0:08: Huey Lewis making his acting debut, telling The Pinheads who are playing his song, they are too loud.
0:09: Ok, so this has always bothered me, the van goes by telling everyone to re-elect Goldie Wilson, it sounds so much like Phil Hartman, but I have never been able to find out it it him or not, oh and by the way. "If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything"
0:11: Save The Clock Tower, interesting to note that that Clock Tower, which was actually used in some other movies, was almost burnt down a few years ago when there was a big fire at the Universal Studios lot.
0:12: Biff and George McFly make their first appearances. Biff is a great character, probably the best character in the whole franchise, "Hello, anyone home? Think McFly, Think." He has great quotes. "Shoe's untied, don't be so gullable McFly." I do have one issue with Biff, but I'll ge to that later
0:14: Tons more product placement here, Diet Pepsi, Bud Light, just seems so blatant, like all the labels perfectly pointed at the camera, whatever.
0:18: Once again, what the hell is this relationship that Marty is going to a mall at 1 in the morning to meet the Doc, I would love to know the back story here.
0:19: The DeLoreon, I guess you could consider this product placement, but I think they were actually making fun of it, plus the company had already gone out of business by this time.
0:21: I wonder how they came up with 88mph, guess it seemed like it was fast, but not too fast. I don't know, can't imagine there is actually any scientific reasoning for it.
0:22: Ok, one of the biggest issues with this movie, why did they never fix the fire marks, it looks like Doc is standing right on top of the first, shouldn't it be between his legs, couldn't they have fixed that in editing? I mean I'm fine with them leaving it as it is now, don't need to go all Star Wars or anything, but really, everyone was just like "Eh, that's fine, it's not even noticeable"
0:25: November 5th, 1955, the day Doc visioned the Flux Capacitor, which somehow by flashing makes time travel possible, not totally sure how, what the hell does it actually do? Great name though, Flux Capacitor.
0:27: Is this stuff with the plutonium accurate, do those suits actually do anything?
0:29 The Libyans!!! Still topical, whether it's the 80s with BTTF, 90s with In The Army Now or today, Libyans always make for great bad guys. Want to note that when I was younger, whenever I saw one of those VW vans, I always thought there were Libyans in it and I would get scared and run away from it, chances are that if it wasn't Libyans, it was probably Hippies, so either way it was probably a good idea to run.
0:32: Ok, so imagine you are these people seeing this thing from the future crash into your barn, that would be pretty messed up, I don't blame them for flipping out. "Take that you mutated Son of a bitch."
0:35: Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream. Were the 50s actually like this? 4 guys running out when you pull up to a gas pump? Everyone wearing Suits and hats and stuff
036: The Clock Tower, it works, ain't that something.
0:37: This Diner scene is a great scene, Marty sitting next to his Dad, Biff coming in with some awesome lines, "You Irish Bug" plus Billy Zane, he's a cool dude, Then Marty realizing that it's his Dad.
0:40: "A Colored Mayor, that'll be the day" Lot of not so subtle racism in this movie, was that just a reflection of the 50s?
0:42: Ok, so interesting not, the street that they used to film the scene where Marty gets hit by the car saving his dad, was the same street that they also used for scenes in Teen Wolf, Michael J Fox loved that street, he actually bought up all the property around it and turned it into a shrine, don't believe me, look it up, I'll wait... ha, ha made you look it up, yeah that part isn't true.
0:43: First "Mom? Mom, it that you?" this would become a reoccuring theme in the series. Calvin Klein's no friend of mine, don't want nobody's name on my behind. Marty, purple underwear? I know it was the 80s, but still.
0:46: Jason Hervey making his appearance, this role wasn't as good as his role in Pee-Wee, and obviously he would go on to be Wayne Arnold.
0:47: "He's an Idiot, come from upbringing, his parents are probably idiots too."
0:50: Interesting that Ronald Regan being the president in 1985 would seem so crazy in 1955, but I guess if you went back to like 1988 and told everyone that Arnold Schwarzenegger would be governor of California, it would seem pretty crazy to them too.
0:52: Seems pretty crazy that in 1955 they would be able to hook up the camera to the video, but i guess Doc is a scientist, so he could figure something out "1.21 GIGAWATTS" wonder where they came up with that number too, wonder if that is accurate in any way to Plutonium or lighting or something.
0:55: "Next Saturday night, we are sending you BACK TO THE FUTURE" got to love when they work the title into the movie.
0:56: "Erased from existence."
0:57: "You're A Slacker, you want to be a slacker for the rest of your life?" George McFly was a pretty big dork, and people loved to pick on him, Crispin Glover really did fit that role well, he's kinda a whacko.
0:58: Doc raises an interesting question, why does Marty keep saying things are "Heavy" I don't really remember that ever being something that people said other then in this movie.
1:00: Biff loves saying Butt-head in this movie, was that something people said alot in the 50s, I mean sure, I said it alot cause of this move and then Beavis and Butt-Head, but when did that become a thing? "Now why don't you make like a tree and get out of here."
1:02: A little Eddie Van Halen to wake you up. "Last night Darth Vader came down form Planet Vulcan and told me if I didn't take Lorraine out, that he'd melt my brain." So many good lines in this movie. For instance, like " Lou, give me a Milk, chocolate." and then "Lorraine, my density has popped me to you." also " Yes, yes, I'm George, George McFly, I'm your density, I mean your destiny."
1:05: Not sure how Marty was planning on helping George get Lorraine, but beating up Biff in from of here, when she already had the hots for him.
1:06: Another reoccuring theme of these movies, a Tannen and crew chasing after Marty, as well as Manure, which brings up a good question, why are their manure trucks just hanging out all over the place?
1:09: This whole plan to get Marty Back to the Future seems way to ridiculous to actually work, i mean in order for to work, would you need to test it out with a real car and real lightning a bunch of times, i mean, sure it's a movie, whatever, but seriously.
1:14: "Hey you, get your damn hands off her. You really think I oughta swear?"
1:15: It would be kinda weird is someone from the future did come back and tell you a bunch of stuff about what happens to you in the future, like would you want to know, I mean I guess I would want to know if I was gonna be shot by terrorist, but if I already knew everything, I don't know, it would be weird, cause there's no way that because you know, you wouldn't do something to change it, maybe not on purpose per se, but somehow
1:17: This whole scene in the car with Marty and his Mom, imagine this, that would be the most awkward situation to ever be in, i mean, completely unrealistic, but i guess maybe it would be the equivilant of going on a date with someone and maybe finding out that they were your long lost sibling or something, I don't know.
1:20: "Well, lookie what we have here."
1:21: Some great lines in that exchange, "I don't want to mess with no refer addicts" Never really noticed that the car is filled with smoke before.
1:22: Anyone else bothered by the fact that Biff is forcing himself on Lorraine her, I mean, that's not right, I realize that Biff is the bad guy here, but what would have happened if George hadn't come around then and punched him out?
1:25: I wonder if Michael J Fox could actually play the guitar or else did they just have him fake this part, cause when he's doing Johnny B Goode, I don't think that's him, certianly not him singing. The whole hand disappearing thing looked kinda cool at the time, now it looks totally fake.
1:27: Ok, so what made him think to do Johnny B Goode, just so they could make the Marvin/Chuck Berry joke? Now, when they inevitably remake this movie, and you know at some point they will, lets say in 2015, so 30 year later, and lets say they keep the same general plot, so he goes back to 1985, and lets say they include this type of scene, what do you think would be the song that chose to use? I don't know, haven't been able to figure that one out, maybe like Guns N Roses, or Nirvana or something.
1:31: "Damn, where is that kid? Damn. Damn, Damn."
1:33: Still don't understand this relationship, I'm not sure that Doc from the past totally gets it either, he seems like he's still trying to figure out why they would even know each other.
1:34: Great Scott, the cable came off, so not only is the idea that this whole thing would actually work far fetched, but just throw another element in there to make it more improbable, eventhough you know it's gonna work out.
1:36: I wonder if the riming of this movie is actually accurate, he does say some precise times and stuff, wonder if you time it out, it actually works. Speaking of time, antother thing that really bothers me, he says if he goes back 10 minutes early, he'll have enough time, but he sets the clock for 11 minutes earlier? Like what the hell, noone noticed that, could have been an easy fix. but also, why would he cut it so close, if you really wanted to save him, go back like 30 minutes earlier or something. I guess that would have set up the senario where he might have ran into his other self and created a paradox in the space time continuium that would have destroyed the universe, but at this point they hadn't been over that.
1:41: So the lighning strikes, he gets to 88mph, the flux capacitor fluxes and he goes back to the future, not that there was gonna be anything else that would have happened, but imagine that it didn't work. The other thing though, he then crashes into the movie theater, "Crazy Drunk Driver" I mean I guess there was no way to avoid it, but that seemed like an oversite by them.
1:43: So, I guess since the Libyans pass him, had the car not stalled, he would have had time to warn Doc, but not really, they came along not much longer after, didn't help that he then fell down that hill for some reason.
1:45: It's not a very convincing arguement for why he went against his word and read the note. " I figured what the hell?" really, that's it? Also don't understand why he changed his mind to fo 30 years instead of 25 like he originally said.
1:47: Why is his alarm set for 10:28? but more Huey Lewis, his other song on the soundtrack is played "Back In Time" and is brother works on Saturdays? but clearly goes in late.
1:48: So clearly this doesn't use the butterfly effect theory that all the memories that would have changed based on what happened get inputed into his brain.
1:50: This final scene is interesting cause then it becomes the first scene in the 2nd movie, but they of course had to redo it, but it's basically the exact same other then Jennifer being a different actress.
1:51: "Roads, where we're going, we don't need roads." So, interesting to note that this version doesn't say anything at the end, which I guess was how it originally ended in the theaters, but when the release it to video and knew they were gonna do a sequel, they added "To Be Continued"
Well, there you have it, the first Back To The Future still one of my favorite movies of all time. I think that was probably my 114th time watching it, that number might not be right, but I wouldn't doubt it. Back to the Future is probably also one of the most referenced films or franchises in pop culture, or atleast in my lifetime, The Godfather and Star Wars franchise probably are ahead of it, but even just recently they referenced it to open up the Oscars and also Modern Family just had something referencing it a couple weeks ago. Family Guy has pretty much reference every scene at this point, The music is iconic, everything about it screams classic, and other then some of the clothes and stuff, it still holds up pretty well I say. Ok, that was fun, now let's move on to Part II
Back To The Future Fest
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Back to the Future Fest, I will be watching all 3 Back to the Future movies and do a running diary while watching them much like the Sawathon that I had previous on this blog. Starting off with the first Back To The Future. So, check back later and read what I have to say about it, but before we get to that, just want to give you something to tied you over while you wait for the post. During the 80s and some of the 90s there was a phenomenon of using the soundtracks for movies and specially using the music videos of the songs that are on the soundtrack as pretty much commercials for the movies, and Back to the Future was no different, Huey Lewis and the News had his song The Power Of Love on the soundtrack and here is the music video for that:
Actually, this one isn't quite as blatant as some of the other ones that would just have clips from the movie in the middle of the video, but still, did have the DeLoren and Doc running around in it..
Ok, so just want to point out that today is Good Friday, so everything that goes along with that, but it's also Earth Day, which of course means the return of Recyclops:
Actually, this one isn't quite as blatant as some of the other ones that would just have clips from the movie in the middle of the video, but still, did have the DeLoren and Doc running around in it..
Ok, so just want to point out that today is Good Friday, so everything that goes along with that, but it's also Earth Day, which of course means the return of Recyclops:
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Hey, Remember the 80s?
Back on the scene, for y'all people's delight with another entry in the best blog on earth, well maybe not this earth, but whatever, shut up. Got some interesting stuff for you today, or maybe it isn't I don't know, you be the judge. First off what to welcome the Boston Bruins to the NHL Playoffs this year, a couple games too late, but they're here, and now it time to Make Some Noise, more on this later. But the Bruins are gonna live and die with Chara, as much credit as I'll give Thomas for what he can do, just look what happened, Chara was obviously not right in game 1, they lost, didn't play in game 2, they lost, played well in the first 2 periods in game 3 before getting fatigued I guess, and they played well in those periods and not so much in the 3rd. So, as long as he is healthy and playing well, the Bruins can win any game.
Celtics are up 2-0, can't say that they have really impressed me in those wins, they pulled them out, but they really should have blown the Knicks away in game 2, they let their foots off the pedal at the end of the 3rd and let them right back in the game. With that said, they are veteran, grizzled experienced playoff team and they can get ugly wins. Now they just need to take at east 1 in NY and they'll be good.
Still too early to really say too much about Red Sox, they did finally show some life against Toronto, Daisuke actually pitched well for once, Jed Lowrie is playing out of his mind right now, but they still have yet to win a game on the road and still have a losing record, so talk to me later about them, ok.
Want to go back to a topic that I brought up a couple posts ago, that songs having similar topics and similar names, and it kinda dawned on me that Katy Perry is like the queen of that, not just one song, but 2. I kissed a Girl, not to be confused with the Jill Sobule version and California Gurls, which obviously noone is gonna confused with the Beach Boys version or David Lee Roth for that matter. Even her name, real name anyway is Katy Hudson, like Kate Hudson, yeah, there's another Kate Hudson, ask Owen Wilson.
Ok, now in a similar issue, I was watching Raw on Monday, and it was from London, England, and at one point they brought out a Queen Elizabeth lookalike to Knight Michael Cole, and she came out to God Save the Queen, the National Anthem for England, or United Kingdom or Britain or Great Britain, or however the hell that works. Here's the thing as an American, I know that music as My Country Tis of Thee. So what's the deal with that, after the United States declared Independence, then kicked England ass in the Revolutionary war, and just for the hell of it again in 1812, did they just decide, hey you know what, lets take their national anthem, change the lyrics and make it just a secondary song about the United States. I would say it's probably 3rd on the list, clearly the Star Spangled Banner and America The Beautiful are 1 and 2, then I don't know Yankee Doodle, My Country Tis of Thee and Stars and Stripes forever are probably in the next tier, what's should be nowhere to be found on that this though is this:
So my question to those of you from the United Kingdom, what's the deal? you just let us take your song like that, I guess you had no choice, what were you gonna do, start another war?
Alright, now, what you have been waiting for, actually you probably haven't been, but just pretend for a second that you have. As you know I have been doing this little countdown to 30 for MTV, last time I reviewed 1989, so it's almost time to move on to 1990, but first we are gonna do a little review on the 1980s, cause really when I think of MTV, it brings back memories of the 80s. I first want to point out that while MTV was mostly just Music Videos back in the 80s it wasn't all, they did have some other things. One of those things was the game show Remote Control which ran from 1987-1990, some of you may remember it, here is the intro:
It was a good show, I remember watching it, it gave Ken Ober and Colin Quinn their first big breaks, Ken Ober unfortunately died not too long ago, but Colin Quinn went on to SNL for a bit, so that was good. It was basically a trivia show about movies, tv, music from what I remember. The thing that most people probably will remember about this show, is that when people got eliminated, they got eliminated in interesting ways, like getting flipped up throw a way or sent through a trap door, or other weird things. The other thing to note, is the show also featured some cameos from then not know personalities such as this guy:
Yup, Adam Sandler, you didn't know that, did you, of course not, noone would have guessed that that guy would on to make billions of dollars in movies. In addition Denis Leary also made a few appearances on the show, I couldn't find any on you tube unfortunately, but I bet if you look hard enough you can find one, there are a few episodes that are up there too, so he might be in one of them, I would say check them out. Also want to point out that there was a guy who worked on this show, he was a writer I believe and also did some bits, but the name of John Ten Eyck, his mother was actually my 5th grade teacher, so there you go.
MTV had a lot of shows, but they were all pretty much centered around showing Videos, the only other regular show that they had that wasn't specifically involving videos was Week In Rock, which started in 1987 and was basically a news show about music stuff that happened during the week.
MTV did have a bunch of specials though, in addition to their Video Music awards, they got involved with some wrestling specials, most notably The Brawl to End it All and The War to Settle the Score. Basically what these were all about was they had to do with this video:
Captain Lou Albano played Cyndi Laupers Dad in this video, and I think maybe in another video, but ultimately they had a falling out, which created a battle between the two, which lead to a women's championship match between champion The Fabulous Moolah managed by Albano vs Wendy Richter with Lauper as her manager, and here's what happened live on MTV from Madison Square Garden on July 23rd, 1984:
So, following this, Albano and Cyndi Lauper mended their fences and became friends again, and that lead to this:
Then later, when Cyndi Lauper was presenting a award to Albano, this happened:
Which all lead to a match between Roddy Piper and Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship, Live on MTV from Madison Square Garden on February 18th, 1985:
This would not be the last time in the 80s that WWF would have programing on MTV, as the First Slammy awards actually aired on MTV on March 1, 1986.
Ok, so now over the last few weeks or whatever I've been showing videos from each year, well I realized there are a lot of great videos from that 80s that for one reason or another I overlooked, so I'm here now to make that up to everyone, and put together a little collection of great 80s videos in a segment I liked to call. "How the Hell Did I Forget About This"
Gonna start thing out with probably the biggest miss, not sure how I left this one out, I guess I just forgot what year it came out, so from 1983, Journey with Separate Ways (Worlds Apart):
I'm not really sure what else to say about this video that hasn't already been said, so I hope you enjoy it. Moving on, I'm gonna keep you in the same area, Steve Perry tried to go out on his own in 1984 and produced this beauty with his video for Oh Sherrie:
I love the fake beginnings and the terrible acting, plus the playing the broom as a guitar is pretty awesome. The 80s was also about Men, Men at Work:
and Men Without Hats:
I really have no idea what's going on in either of these videos, but hey it was the 80s and that what was going on, so it's cool. Moving on, I don't know if any other hairstyle was quite as awesome in the 80s as for the lead singer of Flock of Seagulls:
Although he doesn't have it quite as ridiculous as I remember it in that video, well anyway, speaking of ridiculous, this song and video was always ridiculous:
Tarzan Boy by Baltimora, not sure what the hell this band was thinking here, Tarzan Boy, what the hell was that song all about? Moving on, this song is dedicated to one little lady:
Tom Petty makes a pretty good Mad Hatter, no? The 80s also brought us videos that involved real life relationships, like this classic from Billy Joel:
In the end things didn't really work out for those 2, but that had a nice run. I kinda already alluded to this song earlier, so here it is, it was big in the 80s, people loved them some Roth, until they realized he was crazy, but here's California Girls:
And speaking of girls, there's a girl that's been on my mind, all the time....
But don't worry, it's not an obsession:
Of course I always enjoyed this song cause it was used as the original theme music for Saturday Night's Main Event:
But if we are gonna go back to wrestling, then we can't go any farther without bringing up Cyndi Lauper again, and somehow she combined wrestling with the Goonies, not sure why, but it resulted in this:
Want to point out a few different things here, they got most of the cast of Goonies, good start, Stephen Spielberg? really? he didn't have better things to do? Nikolai Volkoff is milking a fake cow, anyone who knows me well knows that there is a fake cow in my back yard, not saying that is the same cow, but either way, it's pretty cool. This next guy was pretty big in the 80s, can't go any farther without having him involved:
This guy too:
Ok, so I just want to say that so far this spring the weather hasn't been that great, but I hope that this doesn't lead to a Cruel Summer:
There also was alot of scratching going on in the 80s and 1 video that featured this was this:
The 80s also had a fair share of cheesy love songs, may of which were by Air Supply
Then again there was also this guy that came along and confused everyone, and then 20 years later confused people again with the internet phenomenon of Rickrolling:
And finally, I got one more for you, this video really vaulted these guys and well, they are back, but before we discuss that further, lets take a look back:
Ok, now, you may remember from my last post that I posted the trailer for the Beastie Boys short film Fight For Your Right Re-Visited starring Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, Jack Black, Seth Rogan, Elijah Wood and Danny McBridge. Well folks that premieres tonight, so be sure to check it out, I think it's gonna be on MTV2, VH1 and VH1 Classic at midnight, but the unedited version will air at 3am on Comedy Central, so if you are up then check it out, or else set your DVRs, it should be awesome. Just saw a extended preview which is doubling as the Make Some Noise video, pretty sure it's gonna set the all time record for cameos. It also features a DeLorean, which leads me to this.
Staying with all this 80s stuff and certainly with this video featuring a DeLorean. This Friday,which is Good Friday and Earth Day, btw, from the makers of Sawathon, I plan on bringing you Back To The Future Fest. I plan on watching all 3 Movies and doing a running diary of it, now I say plan, cause well, I don't have to work Friday, but that means Thursday Night, especially with the Bruins playing, and if anyone is down to watch the game and do some drinking, could make Friday a slow day, but regardless, I plan on doing this. So, for those of you that don't have to work, feel free to join in or follow along, for those of you that do have to work, well, if you can access my blog at work, follow along, if not, check it out later. But here's a little preview just incase you forget:
80s were pretty awesome.
Celtics are up 2-0, can't say that they have really impressed me in those wins, they pulled them out, but they really should have blown the Knicks away in game 2, they let their foots off the pedal at the end of the 3rd and let them right back in the game. With that said, they are veteran, grizzled experienced playoff team and they can get ugly wins. Now they just need to take at east 1 in NY and they'll be good.
Still too early to really say too much about Red Sox, they did finally show some life against Toronto, Daisuke actually pitched well for once, Jed Lowrie is playing out of his mind right now, but they still have yet to win a game on the road and still have a losing record, so talk to me later about them, ok.
Want to go back to a topic that I brought up a couple posts ago, that songs having similar topics and similar names, and it kinda dawned on me that Katy Perry is like the queen of that, not just one song, but 2. I kissed a Girl, not to be confused with the Jill Sobule version and California Gurls, which obviously noone is gonna confused with the Beach Boys version or David Lee Roth for that matter. Even her name, real name anyway is Katy Hudson, like Kate Hudson, yeah, there's another Kate Hudson, ask Owen Wilson.
Ok, now in a similar issue, I was watching Raw on Monday, and it was from London, England, and at one point they brought out a Queen Elizabeth lookalike to Knight Michael Cole, and she came out to God Save the Queen, the National Anthem for England, or United Kingdom or Britain or Great Britain, or however the hell that works. Here's the thing as an American, I know that music as My Country Tis of Thee. So what's the deal with that, after the United States declared Independence, then kicked England ass in the Revolutionary war, and just for the hell of it again in 1812, did they just decide, hey you know what, lets take their national anthem, change the lyrics and make it just a secondary song about the United States. I would say it's probably 3rd on the list, clearly the Star Spangled Banner and America The Beautiful are 1 and 2, then I don't know Yankee Doodle, My Country Tis of Thee and Stars and Stripes forever are probably in the next tier, what's should be nowhere to be found on that this though is this:
So my question to those of you from the United Kingdom, what's the deal? you just let us take your song like that, I guess you had no choice, what were you gonna do, start another war?
Alright, now, what you have been waiting for, actually you probably haven't been, but just pretend for a second that you have. As you know I have been doing this little countdown to 30 for MTV, last time I reviewed 1989, so it's almost time to move on to 1990, but first we are gonna do a little review on the 1980s, cause really when I think of MTV, it brings back memories of the 80s. I first want to point out that while MTV was mostly just Music Videos back in the 80s it wasn't all, they did have some other things. One of those things was the game show Remote Control which ran from 1987-1990, some of you may remember it, here is the intro:
It was a good show, I remember watching it, it gave Ken Ober and Colin Quinn their first big breaks, Ken Ober unfortunately died not too long ago, but Colin Quinn went on to SNL for a bit, so that was good. It was basically a trivia show about movies, tv, music from what I remember. The thing that most people probably will remember about this show, is that when people got eliminated, they got eliminated in interesting ways, like getting flipped up throw a way or sent through a trap door, or other weird things. The other thing to note, is the show also featured some cameos from then not know personalities such as this guy:
Yup, Adam Sandler, you didn't know that, did you, of course not, noone would have guessed that that guy would on to make billions of dollars in movies. In addition Denis Leary also made a few appearances on the show, I couldn't find any on you tube unfortunately, but I bet if you look hard enough you can find one, there are a few episodes that are up there too, so he might be in one of them, I would say check them out. Also want to point out that there was a guy who worked on this show, he was a writer I believe and also did some bits, but the name of John Ten Eyck, his mother was actually my 5th grade teacher, so there you go.
MTV had a lot of shows, but they were all pretty much centered around showing Videos, the only other regular show that they had that wasn't specifically involving videos was Week In Rock, which started in 1987 and was basically a news show about music stuff that happened during the week.
MTV did have a bunch of specials though, in addition to their Video Music awards, they got involved with some wrestling specials, most notably The Brawl to End it All and The War to Settle the Score. Basically what these were all about was they had to do with this video:
Captain Lou Albano played Cyndi Laupers Dad in this video, and I think maybe in another video, but ultimately they had a falling out, which created a battle between the two, which lead to a women's championship match between champion The Fabulous Moolah managed by Albano vs Wendy Richter with Lauper as her manager, and here's what happened live on MTV from Madison Square Garden on July 23rd, 1984:
So, following this, Albano and Cyndi Lauper mended their fences and became friends again, and that lead to this:
Then later, when Cyndi Lauper was presenting a award to Albano, this happened:
Which all lead to a match between Roddy Piper and Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship, Live on MTV from Madison Square Garden on February 18th, 1985:
This would not be the last time in the 80s that WWF would have programing on MTV, as the First Slammy awards actually aired on MTV on March 1, 1986.
Ok, so now over the last few weeks or whatever I've been showing videos from each year, well I realized there are a lot of great videos from that 80s that for one reason or another I overlooked, so I'm here now to make that up to everyone, and put together a little collection of great 80s videos in a segment I liked to call. "How the Hell Did I Forget About This"
Gonna start thing out with probably the biggest miss, not sure how I left this one out, I guess I just forgot what year it came out, so from 1983, Journey with Separate Ways (Worlds Apart):
I'm not really sure what else to say about this video that hasn't already been said, so I hope you enjoy it. Moving on, I'm gonna keep you in the same area, Steve Perry tried to go out on his own in 1984 and produced this beauty with his video for Oh Sherrie:
I love the fake beginnings and the terrible acting, plus the playing the broom as a guitar is pretty awesome. The 80s was also about Men, Men at Work:
and Men Without Hats:
I really have no idea what's going on in either of these videos, but hey it was the 80s and that what was going on, so it's cool. Moving on, I don't know if any other hairstyle was quite as awesome in the 80s as for the lead singer of Flock of Seagulls:
Although he doesn't have it quite as ridiculous as I remember it in that video, well anyway, speaking of ridiculous, this song and video was always ridiculous:
Tarzan Boy by Baltimora, not sure what the hell this band was thinking here, Tarzan Boy, what the hell was that song all about? Moving on, this song is dedicated to one little lady:
Tom Petty makes a pretty good Mad Hatter, no? The 80s also brought us videos that involved real life relationships, like this classic from Billy Joel:
In the end things didn't really work out for those 2, but that had a nice run. I kinda already alluded to this song earlier, so here it is, it was big in the 80s, people loved them some Roth, until they realized he was crazy, but here's California Girls:
And speaking of girls, there's a girl that's been on my mind, all the time....
But don't worry, it's not an obsession:
Of course I always enjoyed this song cause it was used as the original theme music for Saturday Night's Main Event:
But if we are gonna go back to wrestling, then we can't go any farther without bringing up Cyndi Lauper again, and somehow she combined wrestling with the Goonies, not sure why, but it resulted in this:
Want to point out a few different things here, they got most of the cast of Goonies, good start, Stephen Spielberg? really? he didn't have better things to do? Nikolai Volkoff is milking a fake cow, anyone who knows me well knows that there is a fake cow in my back yard, not saying that is the same cow, but either way, it's pretty cool. This next guy was pretty big in the 80s, can't go any farther without having him involved:
This guy too:
Ok, so I just want to say that so far this spring the weather hasn't been that great, but I hope that this doesn't lead to a Cruel Summer:
There also was alot of scratching going on in the 80s and 1 video that featured this was this:
The 80s also had a fair share of cheesy love songs, may of which were by Air Supply
Then again there was also this guy that came along and confused everyone, and then 20 years later confused people again with the internet phenomenon of Rickrolling:
And finally, I got one more for you, this video really vaulted these guys and well, they are back, but before we discuss that further, lets take a look back:
Ok, now, you may remember from my last post that I posted the trailer for the Beastie Boys short film Fight For Your Right Re-Visited starring Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, Jack Black, Seth Rogan, Elijah Wood and Danny McBridge. Well folks that premieres tonight, so be sure to check it out, I think it's gonna be on MTV2, VH1 and VH1 Classic at midnight, but the unedited version will air at 3am on Comedy Central, so if you are up then check it out, or else set your DVRs, it should be awesome. Just saw a extended preview which is doubling as the Make Some Noise video, pretty sure it's gonna set the all time record for cameos. It also features a DeLorean, which leads me to this.
Staying with all this 80s stuff and certainly with this video featuring a DeLorean. This Friday,which is Good Friday and Earth Day, btw, from the makers of Sawathon, I plan on bringing you Back To The Future Fest. I plan on watching all 3 Movies and doing a running diary of it, now I say plan, cause well, I don't have to work Friday, but that means Thursday Night, especially with the Bruins playing, and if anyone is down to watch the game and do some drinking, could make Friday a slow day, but regardless, I plan on doing this. So, for those of you that don't have to work, feel free to join in or follow along, for those of you that do have to work, well, if you can access my blog at work, follow along, if not, check it out later. But here's a little preview just incase you forget:
80s were pretty awesome.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Said My Get Up And Go Must Have Got Up And Went
What up fellas and fellettes? Been a while, so thought it was time again for another blog post, not really sure what to talk about today, but as I get flowing, I'm sure I can find some topics to ramble on about. So lets start off with a little administrative stuff. Jumped past the 800 pageview mark this week, so that's pretty cool, moving in on the big 1000, that will be fun. Got a couple views from Pakistan this week, can't remember if I had gotten any views from there before, but either way welcome aboard. So man countries viewing these days, can't keep track anymore, unlike Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock, which were featured in my last post. I AM internationally known, but just not on a microphone.
So, what else, new Foo Fighters album came out this week, haven't had a chance to listen to the whole thing yet, I have heard a couple of the songs other then the single, sounds pretty good. It's weird I've always liked the Foo Fighters, but for whatever reason I never owned any of their CDs, not that anyone actually buys CDs anymore, and don't get me wrong I have pretty much their entire collection in my iTunes, but back in the day I had hundreds and hundreds of CDs, still have a ton sitting in a closet somewhere collecting dust, but for whatever reason I never bought a Foo Fighters CD, and I can't really explain why. With the new album out I was kinda hoping they would be touring around the states this summer, but it looks like they are just doing some festivals and then doing a tour in Europe, so maybe in the fall I guess. I saw them once back in 2000 at the Providence Civic Center, yup, that was before it was the Dunkin Donuts Center, they opened up for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, it was a good show, so wouldn't mind seeing them again. Speaking of tours though, Soundgarden finally announced that they will be touring this summer, well sorta, kinda a mini tour, just in July, they have only announced 4 dates so far, nothing around here, but hopefully they come to Boston, cause that is a show that I would definitely want to see.
So, not sure if you were aware, I talked about it in a previous post, but the Beastie Boys are a couple weeks away from finally releasing a new album, and while it's still kinda confusing, it's Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, but Part One never came out, whatever, not the point. The point is that this is happening:
"Make Some Noise" is the name of the new track, pretty good, I'm liking it, better than the song with Nas from a couple years ago.
So, you may have noticed Will Ferrell in that trailer and in case you missed it, Will Ferrell made his debut on The Office this past week, pretty solid, could have been better, but he's gonna be around for a few weeks, so plenty of time for them to brings out some really good stuff, don't want to give it all up in the first week, should be good.
So, I didn't actually watch the Office when it was on, I watched it later, that was because I was at the TD Garden at the time, watching the Bruins put on a stink show against the Canadiens, that was awful, they better step it up tonight, or else they will be making an early exit from the playoffs once again at the hands of the Canadiens, and it looks like they may have to do it without Zdeno Chara, who was hospitalized last night for dehydration, which could explain why he played like such crap on Thursday.
The NBA Playoffs start today, the Celtics don't play until tomorrow against the Knicks, should be a good series, I think the Celtics will take it in 5, but they need to get off to a good start and just take them out on Sunday.
The Red Sox suck, I don't know what else to say, what the hell? I love how the Sox are handing out these extensions and then have the guys go out and not earn it, Clay walking 5 guys, Gonzalez going 0-4. They better turn it around soon, cause they are diging themselves into a pretty big hole, and well if they aren't carefully they could be out of it, and Terry and Theo could be in trouble. Although the ownership might be too busy with their soccer and racing teams, not to mention LeBron to care.
Time to move on to the last year of the 80's in the MTV countdown to 30, before we get to the videos, not really a ton of stuff that I remember from 1989 off the top of my head, Boston sports all sucked. 49ers, Flames, Pistons and A's won the championships, only that was really memorable about any of those was in the World Series, when they had the Earthquake right before game 3, and I guess craziest thing about that whole thing was that it was the 1st and only time that there was a battle of the bay area World Series, and there just happened to be an earthquake that particular year, I mean, the 1 year they both are in the World Series, not just one, but both, crazy. If you don't remember this whole thing, which I do, I remember watching but I was flipping around cause they game hadn't started yet, but then at some point when I changed back and well here it is:
Other then that, the Series wasn't very interesting, A's dominated it, but speaking of Earthquakes...
Now, not sure if this was done on purpose of it was just coincidence, but only a few weeks after the Earthquake in the Bay Area, this happened:
Yup, WWF debuted a wrestler named Earthquake, seems a little disrespectful in retrospect, but I don't think the WWF/E and Vince McMahon have every really worried too much about that, and it certainly wasn't the most disrespective thing they would do, not that came a year later, but we deal with that when we get there. The only other things that I can think of that happened in 1989 was that the Megapowers exploded, but if want to know about that, here is a great article that explains it all Mega Powers.
1989 was an interesting year in music, cause there were a lot of newcomers that made big splashes this year, like her:
These guys also made it big in 1989
Not to mention theses guys
Of course there were also these guys:
Ok, so I never said anything about there being good music in 1989, just a lot of newcomers, some of them sang their songs, some of them didn't whatever, that's not important, but what is important is that you listen to the message that I send, don't ever talk to a girl who says she just has a friend:
Of course that's not to say that there wasn't some good music or videos in 1989, Aerosmith had a big year and had a great video for Janie's Got A Gun:
Tom Petty had us all Free Fallin:
Metallica also finally decided to join the world of Music Videos and created this little masterpiece, that I honestly still don't quite understand, but whatever it's a great song:
But of course, the best song, video, everything tha came out in 1989 was of course Love Shack by the B-52s
Oh wait, no I hate that song and video, and group, well, crap already posted it, too late now.
Well, that's all I got for you today, be back soon, been kinda busy with playoffs and stuff, so might not get to post quite as often as I have been, but I might have something special in store for Friday, yes Good Friday, it might happen and if it does it will be a blast.
In closing, want to leave you with a little treat and in honor of Edge retiring this week, here's one of his funnier moments:
Yup
So, what else, new Foo Fighters album came out this week, haven't had a chance to listen to the whole thing yet, I have heard a couple of the songs other then the single, sounds pretty good. It's weird I've always liked the Foo Fighters, but for whatever reason I never owned any of their CDs, not that anyone actually buys CDs anymore, and don't get me wrong I have pretty much their entire collection in my iTunes, but back in the day I had hundreds and hundreds of CDs, still have a ton sitting in a closet somewhere collecting dust, but for whatever reason I never bought a Foo Fighters CD, and I can't really explain why. With the new album out I was kinda hoping they would be touring around the states this summer, but it looks like they are just doing some festivals and then doing a tour in Europe, so maybe in the fall I guess. I saw them once back in 2000 at the Providence Civic Center, yup, that was before it was the Dunkin Donuts Center, they opened up for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, it was a good show, so wouldn't mind seeing them again. Speaking of tours though, Soundgarden finally announced that they will be touring this summer, well sorta, kinda a mini tour, just in July, they have only announced 4 dates so far, nothing around here, but hopefully they come to Boston, cause that is a show that I would definitely want to see.
So, not sure if you were aware, I talked about it in a previous post, but the Beastie Boys are a couple weeks away from finally releasing a new album, and while it's still kinda confusing, it's Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, but Part One never came out, whatever, not the point. The point is that this is happening:
"Make Some Noise" is the name of the new track, pretty good, I'm liking it, better than the song with Nas from a couple years ago.
So, you may have noticed Will Ferrell in that trailer and in case you missed it, Will Ferrell made his debut on The Office this past week, pretty solid, could have been better, but he's gonna be around for a few weeks, so plenty of time for them to brings out some really good stuff, don't want to give it all up in the first week, should be good.
So, I didn't actually watch the Office when it was on, I watched it later, that was because I was at the TD Garden at the time, watching the Bruins put on a stink show against the Canadiens, that was awful, they better step it up tonight, or else they will be making an early exit from the playoffs once again at the hands of the Canadiens, and it looks like they may have to do it without Zdeno Chara, who was hospitalized last night for dehydration, which could explain why he played like such crap on Thursday.
The NBA Playoffs start today, the Celtics don't play until tomorrow against the Knicks, should be a good series, I think the Celtics will take it in 5, but they need to get off to a good start and just take them out on Sunday.
The Red Sox suck, I don't know what else to say, what the hell? I love how the Sox are handing out these extensions and then have the guys go out and not earn it, Clay walking 5 guys, Gonzalez going 0-4. They better turn it around soon, cause they are diging themselves into a pretty big hole, and well if they aren't carefully they could be out of it, and Terry and Theo could be in trouble. Although the ownership might be too busy with their soccer and racing teams, not to mention LeBron to care.
Time to move on to the last year of the 80's in the MTV countdown to 30, before we get to the videos, not really a ton of stuff that I remember from 1989 off the top of my head, Boston sports all sucked. 49ers, Flames, Pistons and A's won the championships, only that was really memorable about any of those was in the World Series, when they had the Earthquake right before game 3, and I guess craziest thing about that whole thing was that it was the 1st and only time that there was a battle of the bay area World Series, and there just happened to be an earthquake that particular year, I mean, the 1 year they both are in the World Series, not just one, but both, crazy. If you don't remember this whole thing, which I do, I remember watching but I was flipping around cause they game hadn't started yet, but then at some point when I changed back and well here it is:
Other then that, the Series wasn't very interesting, A's dominated it, but speaking of Earthquakes...
Now, not sure if this was done on purpose of it was just coincidence, but only a few weeks after the Earthquake in the Bay Area, this happened:
Yup, WWF debuted a wrestler named Earthquake, seems a little disrespectful in retrospect, but I don't think the WWF/E and Vince McMahon have every really worried too much about that, and it certainly wasn't the most disrespective thing they would do, not that came a year later, but we deal with that when we get there. The only other things that I can think of that happened in 1989 was that the Megapowers exploded, but if want to know about that, here is a great article that explains it all Mega Powers.
1989 was an interesting year in music, cause there were a lot of newcomers that made big splashes this year, like her:
These guys also made it big in 1989
Not to mention theses guys
Of course there were also these guys:
Ok, so I never said anything about there being good music in 1989, just a lot of newcomers, some of them sang their songs, some of them didn't whatever, that's not important, but what is important is that you listen to the message that I send, don't ever talk to a girl who says she just has a friend:
Of course that's not to say that there wasn't some good music or videos in 1989, Aerosmith had a big year and had a great video for Janie's Got A Gun:
Tom Petty had us all Free Fallin:
Metallica also finally decided to join the world of Music Videos and created this little masterpiece, that I honestly still don't quite understand, but whatever it's a great song:
But of course, the best song, video, everything tha came out in 1989 was of course Love Shack by the B-52s
Oh wait, no I hate that song and video, and group, well, crap already posted it, too late now.
Well, that's all I got for you today, be back soon, been kinda busy with playoffs and stuff, so might not get to post quite as often as I have been, but I might have something special in store for Friday, yes Good Friday, it might happen and if it does it will be a blast.
In closing, want to leave you with a little treat and in honor of Edge retiring this week, here's one of his funnier moments:
Yup
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Jury Duty
Ladies and gentlemen I am coming to you live from Jury Duty with a special edition of the Bliggity Blog via iPhone.
So far Jury Duty has been pretty boring, got here a little before 8 and sat around doing nothing for a half hour, then we watched a video and a judge came in and said some stuff. Now I again waiting around to see if any jurors are needed, there is only 1 judge left to report. Sounds like I'm gonna have to go into work after this, which kinda sucks, but rather get it done now then screwed tomorrow.
Few quick things, first Daisuke is terrible, they should just cut him at this point, unless they can somehow trade him. Celtics clearly didn't care about the 2nd seed as none of the starters playes last night, so now we got a "preview" of the first round matchup tomorrow against the Knicks, lets see how the benches match up.
Last, huge surprise on Raw last night as Edge announced he is has to retire due to injury. That's too bad, he was a solid performer, although his speech was somewhat like the one Shawn Michaels gave back in 1997 when he lost his smile and was gonna have to retire, then was back 4 months later. So we'll see.
That's all for now. Live from Jury Duty, signing off. Pauly Shore is not here, btw.
So far Jury Duty has been pretty boring, got here a little before 8 and sat around doing nothing for a half hour, then we watched a video and a judge came in and said some stuff. Now I again waiting around to see if any jurors are needed, there is only 1 judge left to report. Sounds like I'm gonna have to go into work after this, which kinda sucks, but rather get it done now then screwed tomorrow.
Few quick things, first Daisuke is terrible, they should just cut him at this point, unless they can somehow trade him. Celtics clearly didn't care about the 2nd seed as none of the starters playes last night, so now we got a "preview" of the first round matchup tomorrow against the Knicks, lets see how the benches match up.
Last, huge surprise on Raw last night as Edge announced he is has to retire due to injury. That's too bad, he was a solid performer, although his speech was somewhat like the one Shawn Michaels gave back in 1997 when he lost his smile and was gonna have to retire, then was back 4 months later. So we'll see.
That's all for now. Live from Jury Duty, signing off. Pauly Shore is not here, btw.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another blog entry, got some more stuff for you today that will blog your mind, or not, actually probably not, actually I don't even know what that means, so whatever. First want to start off by saying that I took what might end up being my last trip to Fairway Bowling on Rt 9 in Natick, hadn't been there in years, and really didn't matter cause it is exactly the same as it's always been, same score sheets, same balls probably, same everything, right down to the thing getting stuck and having to have the guy go fix it, good times. Did OK, seeing has how I can't remember the last time I went bowling, but certainly not great, done better. Got a 88 first round and then 84 2nd round. I did get the highest scores though, so I'm pretty much the best bowler ever, or at least among my family, that particular night. Too bad it's closing, I guess it's gonna be turned into a rug store or something stupid like that, I mean, like I said I haven't been there in forever, but I liked the fact that it was there and if you ever wanted to go bowling, you knew you could go there. Needham Bowlaway apparently closed a couple weeks ago, totally missed that one, although it was never the same once it went all disco bowling or whatever it was, the bowling place that used to be in West Roxbury has been gone for years, I think there is still a bowling place in Norwood, but candlepin bowling seems to be disappearing, i guess they can't compete with places like Kings and the like, but personally, I've always like Candlepin over 10 pin, but it also seems that all the bowling places have to have the crazy lights and stuff, which I find annoying anyway.
Took my first trip to Fenway last night and got to see a great game, Beckett looked awesome, the offense really should have been better, Sox really should have scored like 7 or 8 runs, but didn't matter, they got enough and won the game. Couple notes, the new video boards are pretty impressive, a bit distracting at first cause I wasn't really used to them. The thing that I don't totally get though, is now there is a lot more room to put stats and stuff, but it seems like they have less stats on the board now then they used to, I don't get it. I mean, why is it that I had no idea how many strikeouts Beckett had as the game was going along, why isn't there a strikeout count somewhere, and no I don't mean the guys who put up the K signs, who I didn't notice being there last night. The other thing that was odd and threw me off, the Clock is gone, not sure if there was a clock somewhere else, but I kept looking up to see what time it was and there was no clock, that's gonna take some time to get used to. They did a bunch of other work around the park too, they redid all the concrete and stuff in the concourse that are near our seats, which are rightfield grandstand, they also kinda repaved the area under the seats too. I looks like they replaced the loge seats, but they did not replace the grandstand seats, it does look like they painted them however, and they added springs to them, so now they don't stay down, not sure how I feel about that, on the one hand, when you are walking in and out you don't have to deal with it, but we always have an extra seat that is usually empty next to us, and when you can just have it down, you can put things, but now with the springs, it pops back up, can't really do that, oh well. Pretty sure all the other seats in the place had springs and popped up, probably makes it a lot easier for them to clean, so good for them. I also finally noticed that Marco Scutaro changed his number from 16 to 10, so good for him.
Want to welcome Ireland, finally, about time, and Bulgaria to the blog, thanks for joining. Can't say that I know much about Bulgaria, Ireland on the other hand, many of my ancestors came from Ireland, I'm 5/8 Irish, so that's a good amount. I've never been to Ireland, but I've worked with people from Ireland, still do kinda, not as much as I used to, but whatever, Ireland, welcome.
Got to go to Jury Duty tomorrow, kinda lame, from what I remember from the last time I had to go, just sat around in a room for like 3 or 4 hours and that was it, I think we may have watched a video or something.. Certainly wasn't anything like the Movie, which is probably a good thing.
Well, it's gonna be Bruins vs Canadiens once again in the first round, history isn't exactly on the Bruins side with this one, but I feel good about it, I say Bruins in 5.
Celtics looked like crap yesterday, still can get the 2 seed, but didn't look like they really wanted it yesterday, still up in the air who we'll play, NY or Philly, so nothing known yet, but soon we shall know.
Moving on to 1988 in the MTV countdown to 30, things seemed to kinda drop off this year, I mean, there was a lot and a lot of which I remember, but not of the stuff stands out. Michael Jackson was still working off Bad and trying to create the new Thriller, which included his movie Moonwalker, which was kinda like a few music videos combined, but I don't think it really did all that great, it did have Joe Pesci in it, but eh. However it did inspire a video game, which also wasn't very good, so let's just skip it.
1988 did mark the breakout of this guy:
I don't think he was heard from again after this, but he did get Robin Williams to be in his video, so I guess that's something.
This was also a big hit in 1988:
and strip clubs would never be the same. Although, I will point out for the benefit of our UK friends, that's the US version, there was actually a totally different version across the pond that looked like this:
and yes, if you are wondering, the drummer from Dep Leppard does only have one arm.
Another one hit wonder to come out of 1988, were these guys:
This is a great song, the video, I don't quite think works as well, I mean, I ok with them showing like historic stuff and all that, but who had the idea for the lead singer to be wearing a bright yellow singlet? I mean, what? why?
So, in 1988 alot of people where wonder how many does it take, and these guys were ready to give everyone the answer.
Apparently the answer is 2, thanks guys.
1988 was apparently a big year for the word Wild. First of all the Tone Loc, which you might now as the black cop from Ace Ventura, he had his one hit Wild Thing:
Yeah, he stole Robert Palmer's gimmick a little in this one. But that wasn't all cause there also was a group Escape Club who had their one hit in 1988 called Wild Wild West:
Now, that song should not be confused with the Will Smith song Wild Wild West, but it's interesting that you would bring that up, cause Will Smith, know as The Fresh Prince at that time along with DJ Jazzy Jeff, had their first big hit in 1988, which apparent Parents didn't understand, but I kinda feel like now parents do understand it, so I'm not sure it's relevant anymore, cause the kids who's parent didn't understand are now the parents in some cases, and now my brain hurts, anyway here is the video:
But, probably the biggest hit of 1988 was of course this:
Oops, I'm sorry, that's the wrong version, here's the right version:
Once again, they still hadn't gotten into the whole theatrics of music videos as they would latter, very standard video at the time, but a great song.
So, there you have it 1988, would also like to mention that in 1988, Bruins were swept in the Stanley Cup finals, and the Edmonton Oilers were pretty nasty, Bruins never really had a shot this year. The most memorable thing about this series, other then it being the last games Wayne Gretzky would play with the Oilers, was this:
The lights went out in the building during the 2nd period with the game tied 3-3, the game was never made up because of scheduling issues, so they Bruins ended up only actually getting 1 home game in the series, I feel like this would a bigger deal if this happened today.
The Patriots began their descent into mediocrity, the Celtics were overtaken by the Pistons, and the Red Sox, despite Morgan Magic and winning 21 or 22 games and winning the AL East overtaken the Tigers late in the season, lost to the steroid monsters of the Oakland A's in spectacular fashion.
The one other memorable thing that I do remember from 1988 and I do remember being quite traumatized and confused by it, and this will be your treat. First a little backstory. Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase after unsuccessfully trying to buy the World Title from Hulk Hogan, hired the services of Andre The Giant from Bobby The Brain Heenan to win the title for him, the match was then set for the live debut of The Main Event, which was a Live Friday version of Saturday Night's Main Event. There was even a typical Contract signing at the first Royal Rumble event.
So, the match was set, and then on Friday, February 5th, 1988, live on NBC, this happened:
AN EVIL TWIN REFEREE?!?!?!? My 6 year old brain couldn't handle this, Hulk Hogan, the Hero had lost the title after having it for over 4 years. So, turns out Million Dollar Man had paid off Dave Hebner's twin brother Earl, to screw over Hogan, and not this would not be the last time Earl Hebner would screw someone over for the title, ask Bret Hart. Anyway, Jack Tunney ruled that Andre The Giant could not legally surrender the title to Ted DiBiase, so the title was declared vacant and a tournament was held at Wrestlemania V and Macho Man Randy Savage would defeat Million Dollar Man in the finals with the help of Hulk Hogan. Also want to point out that this was the night that they first used that particular title belt, which they would use for a little over 10 years until after Stone Cold Steve Austin won the title at Wrestlemania XIV, he was given a new belt the next night.
Took my first trip to Fenway last night and got to see a great game, Beckett looked awesome, the offense really should have been better, Sox really should have scored like 7 or 8 runs, but didn't matter, they got enough and won the game. Couple notes, the new video boards are pretty impressive, a bit distracting at first cause I wasn't really used to them. The thing that I don't totally get though, is now there is a lot more room to put stats and stuff, but it seems like they have less stats on the board now then they used to, I don't get it. I mean, why is it that I had no idea how many strikeouts Beckett had as the game was going along, why isn't there a strikeout count somewhere, and no I don't mean the guys who put up the K signs, who I didn't notice being there last night. The other thing that was odd and threw me off, the Clock is gone, not sure if there was a clock somewhere else, but I kept looking up to see what time it was and there was no clock, that's gonna take some time to get used to. They did a bunch of other work around the park too, they redid all the concrete and stuff in the concourse that are near our seats, which are rightfield grandstand, they also kinda repaved the area under the seats too. I looks like they replaced the loge seats, but they did not replace the grandstand seats, it does look like they painted them however, and they added springs to them, so now they don't stay down, not sure how I feel about that, on the one hand, when you are walking in and out you don't have to deal with it, but we always have an extra seat that is usually empty next to us, and when you can just have it down, you can put things, but now with the springs, it pops back up, can't really do that, oh well. Pretty sure all the other seats in the place had springs and popped up, probably makes it a lot easier for them to clean, so good for them. I also finally noticed that Marco Scutaro changed his number from 16 to 10, so good for him.
Want to welcome Ireland, finally, about time, and Bulgaria to the blog, thanks for joining. Can't say that I know much about Bulgaria, Ireland on the other hand, many of my ancestors came from Ireland, I'm 5/8 Irish, so that's a good amount. I've never been to Ireland, but I've worked with people from Ireland, still do kinda, not as much as I used to, but whatever, Ireland, welcome.
Got to go to Jury Duty tomorrow, kinda lame, from what I remember from the last time I had to go, just sat around in a room for like 3 or 4 hours and that was it, I think we may have watched a video or something.. Certainly wasn't anything like the Movie, which is probably a good thing.
Well, it's gonna be Bruins vs Canadiens once again in the first round, history isn't exactly on the Bruins side with this one, but I feel good about it, I say Bruins in 5.
Celtics looked like crap yesterday, still can get the 2 seed, but didn't look like they really wanted it yesterday, still up in the air who we'll play, NY or Philly, so nothing known yet, but soon we shall know.
Moving on to 1988 in the MTV countdown to 30, things seemed to kinda drop off this year, I mean, there was a lot and a lot of which I remember, but not of the stuff stands out. Michael Jackson was still working off Bad and trying to create the new Thriller, which included his movie Moonwalker, which was kinda like a few music videos combined, but I don't think it really did all that great, it did have Joe Pesci in it, but eh. However it did inspire a video game, which also wasn't very good, so let's just skip it.
1988 did mark the breakout of this guy:
I don't think he was heard from again after this, but he did get Robin Williams to be in his video, so I guess that's something.
This was also a big hit in 1988:
and strip clubs would never be the same. Although, I will point out for the benefit of our UK friends, that's the US version, there was actually a totally different version across the pond that looked like this:
and yes, if you are wondering, the drummer from Dep Leppard does only have one arm.
Another one hit wonder to come out of 1988, were these guys:
This is a great song, the video, I don't quite think works as well, I mean, I ok with them showing like historic stuff and all that, but who had the idea for the lead singer to be wearing a bright yellow singlet? I mean, what? why?
So, in 1988 alot of people where wonder how many does it take, and these guys were ready to give everyone the answer.
Apparently the answer is 2, thanks guys.
1988 was apparently a big year for the word Wild. First of all the Tone Loc, which you might now as the black cop from Ace Ventura, he had his one hit Wild Thing:
Yeah, he stole Robert Palmer's gimmick a little in this one. But that wasn't all cause there also was a group Escape Club who had their one hit in 1988 called Wild Wild West:
But, probably the biggest hit of 1988 was of course this:
Oops, I'm sorry, that's the wrong version, here's the right version:
Once again, they still hadn't gotten into the whole theatrics of music videos as they would latter, very standard video at the time, but a great song.
So, there you have it 1988, would also like to mention that in 1988, Bruins were swept in the Stanley Cup finals, and the Edmonton Oilers were pretty nasty, Bruins never really had a shot this year. The most memorable thing about this series, other then it being the last games Wayne Gretzky would play with the Oilers, was this:
The lights went out in the building during the 2nd period with the game tied 3-3, the game was never made up because of scheduling issues, so they Bruins ended up only actually getting 1 home game in the series, I feel like this would a bigger deal if this happened today.
The Patriots began their descent into mediocrity, the Celtics were overtaken by the Pistons, and the Red Sox, despite Morgan Magic and winning 21 or 22 games and winning the AL East overtaken the Tigers late in the season, lost to the steroid monsters of the Oakland A's in spectacular fashion.
The one other memorable thing that I do remember from 1988 and I do remember being quite traumatized and confused by it, and this will be your treat. First a little backstory. Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase after unsuccessfully trying to buy the World Title from Hulk Hogan, hired the services of Andre The Giant from Bobby The Brain Heenan to win the title for him, the match was then set for the live debut of The Main Event, which was a Live Friday version of Saturday Night's Main Event. There was even a typical Contract signing at the first Royal Rumble event.
So, the match was set, and then on Friday, February 5th, 1988, live on NBC, this happened:
AN EVIL TWIN REFEREE?!?!?!? My 6 year old brain couldn't handle this, Hulk Hogan, the Hero had lost the title after having it for over 4 years. So, turns out Million Dollar Man had paid off Dave Hebner's twin brother Earl, to screw over Hogan, and not this would not be the last time Earl Hebner would screw someone over for the title, ask Bret Hart. Anyway, Jack Tunney ruled that Andre The Giant could not legally surrender the title to Ted DiBiase, so the title was declared vacant and a tournament was held at Wrestlemania V and Macho Man Randy Savage would defeat Million Dollar Man in the finals with the help of Hulk Hogan. Also want to point out that this was the night that they first used that particular title belt, which they would use for a little over 10 years until after Stone Cold Steve Austin won the title at Wrestlemania XIV, he was given a new belt the next night.
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