Days of Future Past

There were lots of screening for the "Back To The Future" movie around town. But on Wednesday, I went to the one at The Royal (after a big dinner at Hapa). It was the only independent theatre that was allowed to because they had reserved 8 months before. So Universal couldn't back out of the deal and make it a Cineplex exclusive.

That same nerdy foresight was also evident with the event organizers. Apparently, they had created a Facebook event some 10 years before. I don't know how many in the capacity crowd was part of the original invite, but we were all here now to enjoy the first two movies. Everybody had a great time with the first film. During intermission, I debated about if I should skip the 2nd movie. But I decided to stay.

After all, we were all here on October 21, 2015 because that was the day Marty McFly travelled 30 years into the future from 1985. And now the future was here. Well, he only spent about 20 minutes in 2015. My memory didn't serve me wrong, the rest of the movie was a jumbled mess. It was fun to look at their predictions, outside of the flying cars. Even in 1985, no one would seriously suggest  there'd be flying cars in 30 years. That was just a fan-service to the throwaway line from the first movie: "Where we're going, we don't need roads." Interestingly, the rest of the futuristic stuff was just an exaggerated version of the original 1985 trends including the day-glo business clothes, punky "gang" outfit, and (the fear of) working for a Japanese boss.