Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted January 20, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 20, 2012 I had Back to the Future at number one  You should have actually sent in a list then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members WWFChilli Posted January 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted January 20, 2012 BTTF is a damn worthy entry into this list, I love the prom night scene most in the first film tbh, a great fun movie that is always a welcome treat in the afternoons when ITV gets bored and shows it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJSTYLES Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) I had Back to the Future at number one  You should have actually sent in a list then.  I emailed my list on 12 January. Too late now i guess Edited January 20, 2012 by AJSTYLES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted January 20, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 20, 2012 I emailed my list on 12 January. Too late now i guess  Hmm, I never got it. Sorry about that. Bung your list on at the end, though, I think that's most people will be doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Burchill's Buddy Posted January 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted January 20, 2012 This is another one that might get some split votes, I put Back to the Future 2 at number 3 or 4 I think. I'm hoping a few more people voted it too and it's still to come. I love the first but I find there's just even more to love in the second one, the amazing transformation of the Hill Valley square for 2015, hoverboards, the bleakness of alternate 1985 and rich Biff, the whole concept of the Sports Almanac, the overlaps of characters in 1955, especially at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance culminating in the awesome Biff chasing marty down a tunnel scene, and fucking FLEA. Â This actually could have been my number 1. I'm getting excited talking about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted January 20, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 20, 2012 This is another one that might get some split votes, I put Back to the Future 2 at number 3 or 4 I think. I'm hoping a few more people voted it too and it's still to come. Â Heh! Â =37 Â Back To The Future Part 2 (1989) Â Â People wot put it in 1st place: 0 Â IMDB Rating: 7.6 Â What's it about? Â Much the same as the first one, but with added Elisabeth Shue. Can't say fairer than that! Â What do we say? Â The Back To The Future films threw up a couple of anomalies in this list. Firstly, not a single person voted for part 3, which was a huge surprise. Secondly, part 2 finishes just above the original despite receiving half the nominations. A couple of people, including Burchill's Buddy, had it very high on their lists. The original, conversely, tended to be quite low down on people's lists. Â I can understand that to a certain extent. The sequel is a much bolder and more difficult affair to pull off, and a fair bit darker in some places, and so I can see why those risks might have set better with people than the fairly safe approach that the excellent original took. Considering it featured in less lists, though, I can see why it didn't sit as well with others. Â It's my personal favourite of the series, I have to say, but also the episode I've seen least of all. The cast are pretty much as good as in the first one with Thomas F Wilson given even more of a chance to shine. The addition of Shue not only adds extra glamour to the cast but extra quality as well, and while the lack of Crispin Glover is a shame, Jeffrey Weissman, whose career strangely never really took off after this series, fills in more than adequately. Â It should be remembered that it also tricked a lot of mongs into believing the hoverboards were real as well, so it should get extra points for that. Â Some good bits! Â Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Back to the Future is nothing less than completely awesome. The first one definitely deserves a place in here (I didn't vote for it though). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Thunderplex Posted January 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted January 20, 2012 Loved 1 and 2, but 3, meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted January 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted January 20, 2012 Thuderplex is right, though I haven't seen 3 since I became obsessed with Red Dead so I might warm to it now. Â But yeah, 2>1. Need I say more than Hoverboards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members chokeout Posted January 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted January 20, 2012 How long was the wait between BTTF 2 and 3? I can still remember the To be concluded bit making me giddy in the cinema Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members WWFChilli Posted January 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted January 20, 2012 How long was the wait between BTTF 2 and 3? I can still remember the To be concluded bit making me giddy in the cinema  About a year, maybe just under that.  Both films making the list is brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Burchill's Buddy Posted January 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted January 20, 2012 Haha, bizarre. But yes. It's one of those films I can watch over and over and over and still see something new each and every time. Like Gladstone says it's definitely darker and riskier than the first, and I'm one of the people who thought that every risk they took paid off. I love everything about it, the set design and how they transform the exact same set into 4 very different feeling places (I'm including both versions of 1985 here obviously), the music, the costumes, the incredible chemistry between Doc and Marty and between Marty and Biff, I could go on gushing for quite a while, but I'm just glad it made the list.  How long was the wait between BTTF 2 and 3? I can still remember the To be concluded bit making me giddy in the cinema  About a year, maybe just under that.  Yeah, they were shot back to back and were released in I think '89 and '90 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members martyngnr Posted January 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted January 20, 2012 41Â Jaws (1975) Â Just a reminder this is on ITV at 10:35 tonight for those of you that haven't seen it before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted January 20, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 20, 2012 Don't know whether to thank you or not there, Martyn. One on the one hand, these last three articles I have to do will never get done. On the other hand, it IS Jaws. Â "We've got a panic on our hand on the 4th of July." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted January 21, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 21, 2012 =37 Â North By Northwest (1959) Â Â People wot put it in 1st place: 0 Â IMDB Rating: 8.6 Â What's it about? Â Cary Grant gets mistaken for a spy and is chased around America by James Mason and 'friends'. Â What do we say? Â The only Alfred Hitchcock film in the final 50, which is about the biggest disappointment about the list, but at least we had the common sense to put one of Hitch's best in there. In fact, Frankie Crisp thinks even more highly of it than that:- Â "Possibly as near to a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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