Back to the Future II & III

So, Dustin and I both had it in our heads that Back to the Future Part II was the best Back to the Future movie. I don't know when those opinions were formed for either of us, but it had to be a very long time ago. Like before we had eyeballs. Or brains. Or any sense of what makes a good movie.




So, you may wonder why we started with Part II. So, Dustin had it ranked at number 3 on his flickchart. I said that was ridiculous, because it was ranked above all of the Indiana Jones movies and all of the Star Wars movies. I, on the other hand, have Raiders of the Lost Ark ranked very high on my list. I said that it was heresy to rank even the best Back to the Future movie above the best Indiana Jones movie. Dustin disagreed. So, we decided we had to watch Part II and then watch Raiders to see who was right.

It didn't take long for Dustin to completely disavow his previous position. Back to the Future II isn't just the worst of the Back to the Future movies, it is just flat out a TERRIBLE movie. It obviously doesn't benefit from the fact that the future scenes are supposed to be six years from now, but that hasn't been a fatal problem for other movies, like 12 Monkeys or even Demolition Man. But it's also just a terrible movie. It copies ninety percent of the plot and dialogue from the original. I know that's supposed to be funny or whatever, but it's just lame.

So, as soon as it was over, we decided we had to watch Part II, which we both previously thought was the worst of the three movies. We're only about a half hour in right now, but it's already better than Part II by a LOT, and I don't think it would be possible for it to get so bad that it would be worse than Part II.

I don't have much else to say. I just wanted to impeach Dustin's taste in movies.

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