• Tattorack@lemmy.world
    43·
    8 days ago

    Please for the love of all the gods do not give studio execs this idea or they’ll be scrabbling for a remake.

  • OctopusNemeses@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    7 days ago

    Marty would be teenager from today. He’d be livestreaming Doc Brown’s experiment. He’d see his dad watching the dancing baby in the 90s and be like, “I’ve seen this meme, it’s classic”. They’d be like, “wtf is a meme”.

  • Yew@lemmy.world
    34·
    8 days ago

    Blame it on the Rain. I’d be like “oh I’ve seen these guys before, they lip sync and the guy on the left is about to die.”

  • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
    33·
    8 days ago

    And then he’d be in the future of '56 where people are calling each other “choom” and solar power doesn’t work cause of all the dust and pollution in the sky, but people wear two neckties sometimes.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      7 days ago

      Flipping on the TV

      Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous is on

      Donald Trump is talking about how he hopes his daughter is as fuckable as his second wife

      “Mr. President!”

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
      3·
      7 days ago

      He finally won the Dem nom?

      Though that was more on the second half of the 90s that it became popular.

  • topperharlie@lemmy.world
    27·
    7 days ago

    If back to the future was released today more than 1/3 of the population would root for biff and would say that the movie is “too political” and “woke propaganda”.

    Then again, being OK with child rape by that same group of people wasn’t something I would have expected even 10 years ago… I knew they were brain-dead, just not that much…

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      7 days ago

      If back to the future was released today more than 1/3 of the population would root for biff and would say that the movie is “too political” and “woke propaganda”.

      That was half the joke of the original movie. Biff got super rich off cheating at sports gambling and was rewarded for his sudden financial success with political authority, because the writers of the movie knew that’s how Americans respond to anyone who appears to be financially successful practically overnight.

      Biff was a critique of the people who elected Ronald Reagan. People who were saying exactly the same fascist shit as MAGA Trumpies today.

      Then again, being OK with child rape by that same group of people wasn’t something I would have expected even 10 years ago…

      You must have slept through the whole Catholic Sex Abuse moment. The sex-crimes apologists were crawling out of the woodwork. Guys like Ross Douthat made their first nut trying to defend the indefensible. Half of the Peggy Noonan columns were just her whining about anti-Catholic bias every time another child-rape story broke. JD Vance made his Catholic Turn right in the middle of the scandal, seemingly to suck up to the rich Catholic fuckwits gullible enough to believe he was going to protect them.

      Before that, you had the string of scandals at the Texas Youth Corrections office. And the Abramoff Scandal, which had an often-undercovered element of child sex trafficking in the Marianas Islands. And, of course, Epstein himself got off with multiple slaps on the wrist across multiple administrations, thanks to his DC (and Mossad) connections. All these people and institutions retained conservative support in the face of a deluge of accusations and a torrent of new victims coming forward.

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
      61·
      7 days ago

      Biff has a certain amount of sympathy from me. At least in the first one.

      Biff engages in some morally unpleasant punching-down bullying. In return Marty breaks the laws of continuity and fucks up his whole bloodline.

      Its a pretty disproportionate response.

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
    19·
    8 days ago

    I think the difference is between how much things were chamging back then. The 50s were very different to the 80s. Technology changed completely and also the 80s were post-vietnam which caused huge changes in the culture. As for the 90s its all about digital technology and computers aaand so is today? Theres a reason for(at least for people arround me cause im gen z 💀) our grandparents being ‘technology shocked’ so much while our parents grew up sorta with the same stuff as us. Yes the access was different but my mom used to play pirated videogames on a computer at the library. That definitely wasnt a thing in the 50s. Thats my perspective at least. Also me being eastern european may influence this cause for us time and progression was locked for so long and the 80s freed all of it up.

    • Dadifer@lemmy.world
      13·
      8 days ago

      In 1998, my father sent me to school with a pager you could leave voice messages on. My friends were amazed how advanced it was.

    • Serinus@lemmy.world
      11·
      8 days ago

      1995-2005 was all about Chatrooms (AOL, IRC, AIM) and early social media. 2015-2026 is all about Chatrooms and social media being taken over by corporate interests, state actors, and political public opinion manipulation all posing as the AOL, IRC, AIM era.

    • left_is_best@feddit.onlineEnglish
      5·
      7 days ago

      The omnipresence of the internet and its perversion into a tool of the surveillance state would be the most shocking thing to a lot of people, I think. If you told an adult from the early 90s that all of their communications would go through one device that you kept in your pocket and that large corporations and governments were collecting data from it 24/7, they’d shit a brick.

      I think a teenager like Marty from today would have a hard time navigating communication in the 90s as well. Like you had to get your hands on the Yellow Pages and use a pay phone or a land line somewhere. People weren’t walking around with cell phones that you could just borrow, and you couldn’t just look someone up with their name on social media and send them a DM. That’s something that I think is much more different 1996 to 2026 than 1955 to 1985.

      • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 days ago

        Today, the Internet is something which just exists and is deeply (forcefully) entrenched in our everyday lives. A teenager from today would have their mind blown that in 1995 you had to hook your computer up to the phone jack to access the Internet and it’d be difficult to do much without Google as the default search.

    • _chris@lemmy.worldEnglish
      411·
      8 days ago

      Based on the stainless steel body requirements, I know the answer and I don’t like it.

      • Harvey656@lemmy.world
        20·
        8 days ago

        I think about joke in the movie would be its supposed to be a cyberpunk, but the vehicle falls apart during a test run, so they use a Ford focus instead.

        • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          8 days ago

          Yeah, remember Doc Brown’s reason for choosing the DeLorean was because, “If you’re gonna travel through time, you ought to do it in style”.

          Cybertruck is not style unless you are a brain-rotted seven-year-old.

          Maybe a Rivian? You’d have to come up with a different issue other than the car not starting, like the difficulty of charging it or something.

      • X@piefed.worldEnglish
        12·
        8 days ago

        What car could they be referring…

        stainless steel body…

        AH FUCK YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH

        Took me a second and I wish I hadn’t figured it out

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 days ago

      Based on Hollywood’s current casting priorities, it would have to be a Subaru.

      And Marty would have to be played by Zendaya. With Pedro Pascal as Doc.

    • left_is_best@feddit.onlineEnglish
      4·
      7 days ago

      As far as short-lived US brands with only one production model go, there are two choices in the recent past - Fisker Karma and Lordstown Endurance.

    • darklamer@feddit.orgEnglish
      41·
      8 days ago

      In the category of “quirky and iconic but affordable sports car just a few years old at the time of the plot” there’s probably only one obvious choice for 1995: Mazda MX-5

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 days ago

        Yeah, my thought was either a Miata or maybe go a bit more exotic and go with the Lotus Elise (first released in 1996).

        • darklamer@feddit.org
          2·
          7 days ago

          Lotus Elise would almost have been a perfect fit, if it had been a little less expensive and released a couple of years earlier.

          • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
            1·
            7 days ago

            As I recall, they used to be more similarly priced. Like I remember being flabbergasted at how cheap the Elise was compared to my expectations. I was expecting something more like $60-80k but they were like $30-40k. Miata was a bit cheaper but not by a huge margin.

            Though it was a bit different because the Miata was more of a comfort sports car while the Elise was more of a racing sports car with bare minimum interior. Though that makes it sound even better for Doc Brown to tinker with because he wouldn’t have to strip out as much to fit his extra stuff in.

            Oh another option just occurred to me, though I don’t recall the specifics, but wasn’t John Titor’s time machine mounted in a vehicle of some sort? His story timeline matches up fairly well with this BTTF remake idea, though iirc he left from the 30s rather than the 20s, and I think his wasn’t closely integrated with the vehicle (like I seem to recall he had said something about swapping the vehicle it was in during his journey). Could update the method from flux capacitors to virtual black holes and even show that laser bending trick (where all other light mysteriously isn’t affected by whatever is affecting the laser lol) as a satirical nod to whoever did that hoax.

  • Matty Roses@lemmy.today
    17·
    7 days ago

    Marshall? It’s your cousin, Marvin. Marvin Mathers.

    You know that sound about Aunt Debbie’s spaghetti you’ve been looking for? Well, listen to this!