Who else has trouble comprehending BttF is an 80's movie?
Everytime someone/something reminds me that BttF was made in 1984/85 I get an 'oh snap' moment.
The movie was way ahead of it's time. Great effects and good camera quality.
Really, it looks as if it has been made in 1995 rather than a decade earlier.
The movie was way ahead of it's time. Great effects and good camera quality.
Really, it looks as if it has been made in 1995 rather than a decade earlier.
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But if you compare this with other 80's movies like Ghostbusters and Beverly Hills Cop, they have these unsharp visuals.
This movie has crisp sound and video and special effects that have aged real well...unlike Ghostbusters. I dunno....maybe I am talking nonsense.
The thing with special effects is that there really aren't many in BttF, and those that are there... well, most of them are not of the highest quality. Granted, DeLorean before the time travel, flying DeLorean, and lightnings (I suppose they're special effects) all look great, most of the non-practical special effects, like Marty's dissolving arm, fire swooping between the legs of Doc and Marty and stuff didn't look good in the 80s in the first place.
Though I'm probably one of few people who think Star Wars has aged gracefully.
Visually Star Wars looks good. But I think the clothing and sound gives away its age.
There are a lot more interesting movies which aged way better like Das Boot, Le Grand Bleu, Flashdance *kidding*, Down by Law, ...
Regarding special effects - Marty looking through his disappearing hand during Earth Angel always cracks me up. It's like he has a hole in his hand.
I always found that to be a very powerful special effect.
Dunno how they could've done it in another way.
He was fading from existence. =P
You rock!
so youre kinda right.
Ahm BTTF3 is from the 90's. BTTF isn't the worst 80's movie but also easy to identify as beeing from that decade. Might be harder for some due to that the film a.o. doesn't play this much in the present but you don't even need to open your eyes to know how old the movie is, i mean come on, Huey Lewis and the News. Als Deutscher sollte man die Möglichkeit haben, das Spiel mit D-Mark zu bezahlen.
90's movies is already stuff like Pulp Fiction, Dead Man, The Fest, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, ...
You people who are calling this guy crazy for saying it looks like it perhaps was made in the 90's are totally misunderstanding what he means. He isn't talking about the fashion, he isn't talking about the music and he isn't talking about the overall 80's feel and setting of BTTF, he's talking about the visuals and quality of the movies production.
Yes, I totally agree with you Origami, these visuals to this day look stunning. I cant begin to imagine what people thought of it whilst watching it at a cinema in the 80's.
Oh i can tell you, they didn't give a damn and just enjoyed the funny story and the 80's music.
Well...to be honest, I also took the clothing a little into consideration. But I also pointed out in one of my post I live outside of the US.
So I am not too familiar with what clothing and music comes with which age. So you all experience it differently from me. But I appreciate the support.
But again about the clothing. The clothing seems 90's to me. Marty wears this bright multi-coloured outfit. Also Jennifer looks very modern.
Owh and here is another factor. Technology. Marty carries around this portable JVC. To me that is very 90's. I wouldn't expect to see the Karate Kid, Axel Foley walk around with something that modern.
So to sum up:
Great visuals and sound
Marty and Jennifer's clothing
Technology
Really...it feels so much modern than the likes of Karate Kid, Beverly Hills Cop, Ghostbusters, Goonies
The technology was relatively new to the consumer market, but it had been floating around for a few years ahead of time and that Doc Brown had one in late 1985 isn't really all that impressive.
Another thing is that there is a look to 80s film(and by "film" I mean the actual physical stuff they recorded the image onto) that gives an 80s film away. I'm not sure if I can describe it. Maybe I'll get some picture comparisons up if anybody cares.
I purposely left Bttf part 2 and 3 out since they were made at the end of the decade.
Bttf's development started in 1984?
First paragraph of yours explained much.
I was thinking the exact opposite. The film and sound quality is what set itself apart.
But you are welcome to post. I am curious to see what you mean.
Okay guys, while I was writing this I came up with the perfect example that proves my point or rather helps you see what I am getting at/seeing.
Watch Terminator 1(1984 so only a year apart). Let the synthesizer music soak in. The grainy visuals, the fluffy big haircuts, typical 80's special effects. And then watch BttF.
I agree, great example. Terminator 1 is very very 80's in my opinion. I can't quite put my finger on it, but there is this quality that completely separates Terminator from Back to the Future..BTTF looks more late 80's if anything. It still holds up magnificently because it's doesn't scream 80's as much as..let's say Footloose,lol. I think there are certain subtleties that let you know BTTF is an 80's film, for example Marty's shoes, and the music. I think BTTF has superior special effects compared to other 80's films, it was ahead of it's time in my opinion.
Ok, maybe not. But yeah, a lot of it has to do with the 80's references in current styles.
And the make-up is very good and convincing.
But I think the main reason here is, like somebody already pointed out, it's not that the movie has very good special effects, it's just that the movie has none bad ones.
Owh w..w..wait....how about the last part where the Delorean flies? That one is amazing for its time.
Maybe. But the movie just had a lot of denim clothes going on. And I was born in 1988 and I remember all through the 90's everybody wearing a lot denim. Jeans, denim jackets. All that blue....
Doesn't hurt my enjoyment of the movie at all, of course.
What I always laugh about is the optimism in the 80's how the near future will be.
I sadly doubt we'll see any flying cars in 2015 and our cars will be pretty much still be running on petrol.
Though luckily I can't see us going fashion-wise in the direction that Doc was wearing at the end of Part I (or start of Part II
I'm still amazed by Tron, I thought that film was done beautifully. I enjoyed Aliens too. But the scenes I was talking about in reguard to special effects were when the Delorean time travels the first time, the make up for the McFly family, the 2015 McFly family, the hoverboard chase, the flying Delorean, the stages of Hill Valley through time, all that stuff
Puhh can't remember that scene exactly...*google*
Ahh okay...this scene (delorean time travel) also shows pretty well what's good and bad about BTTF, special effects wise. I really like how physical the scene feels, the remote control, especially the colour/design/glowing of the digital display, the interieur of the car, the smoke, the blue lightning (only the one of the car).
But it also has its cons like the rather ugly violet lightning in front of the car, bad looking explosion cloud, furious wind in the hair of both actors but not on the flames, really bad blue screen scene when they are floating without any shadows over the ground.
BTTF in my opinion and beside of the blue lightning does the best jobs on those tiny less spectacular effects and the camera and the scenes.
I am not arguing that BttF looks like a recent movie. Ofcourse the SE are not perfect.
But most of the effects you listed weren't any better mid 90's right?
Or am I wrong?
I mean, rewatch The Matrix(1999) and you'll see how apparent the CG is.
BTTF has some scenes which falll in the worse than home video category looking at it from today.
Yeah and they look great for it. 70's style was way better than the stuff we've gotta wear these days!
But I think Beverly Hills Cop looks more modern than BTTF, anyway.
You serious? With all the old car models and Harold Feltemeyer's synthesizer music?