Back in Time…Does anyone know all the words to that song from Back to the Future (without looking it up)? Anyway, I was thinking about Back to the Future II the other day, and was remembering the part in which Marty McFly goes to the future. I think you remember…there were: flying cars, hoverboards, and the city was mad clean. I forgot what fictional year it was when this was occurring, so I looked it up…2015. That’s right, five years from now, and I can’t help but think how far we are away from that.Yeah, I know the first response is “Beer-on-the-Girl, that’s a movie, not real life.” And my response is, “I know it’s a movie.” But the point of the fictional future in the movie, was the depiction of forward movement into a *better* society. Not that the images portrayed in the movie were a utopia from everyone’s perspective, but it did appear *better* in most ways than Marty McFly’s 1985 in which we see: a homeless person (can’t remember his name), a porno theatre, bad clothes, and a feeling of despair for Marty’s future (i.e. “You’re a slacker!” “No McFly ever amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley!”)
It’s just sad that since 1985 we have: a floating garbage island in the Pacific, the gulf of Mexico contaminated from out latest oil spill, more people without heath care than ever (here in the US), a growing disparity between the rich and poor, increases in traffic, and global warming.
I know a common response to the current stance of the “things suck argument” is “look what we have today.” I know we have: Iphones, internet, online banking, and free porno online, which is all great! However, my point is this …we, in a negative way, are a lot more than 5 years away from the Back to the Furture’s portrayed 2015 future and have taken some serious steps backwards since 1985.
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Wait, there's free porno on the internet??
I just remembered something else they joked about in the movie: Somebody got arrested and was sentenced like a few hours later and Christopher Lloyd says something like "The justice system in the future works much more quickly now that they've abandoned all lawyers."
What was the context to that?
Well, I think you're making two different arguments here. First is about the plot of Back to the Future II, and second is about the state of society today. I'm not sure the two are entirely related.
Back to the Future was hindered, I think by the fact that they had to make the future realisically fit into the time frame of Marty's life. The advances in technology depicted are not realistic within the 30 years between 1985 and 2015. Though it is slightly depressing that nearly 30 years have passed since that movie came out. I remember it's debut quite vividly.
The second argument is a much larger issue. I guess you take the good, you take the bad, you take them both, and there you have the facts of life.
Boom, double 80s reference.
Max, I think that was in the context of Griff (?) getting arrested for crashing into a building with his hoverboard.
Chuck, I was trying to tie-in the movie with how I feel about some things going on. Come on Chuck, *gimme a break.*
The worst part about this pun war starting is that Dabney's big post about Star Wars is going to push this farther down the list.
I may have to move his post underneath this one. C'mon, *who's the boss* of Hobo Con Queso?
Max, I think that's what happens when you add more people to the blog and it changes. People like Daffy post crazy stuff. I guess the blog is experiencing some *growing pains.* (That was a stretch, I know)
This is one of the weakest pun wars I've ever seen; *Small Wonder," since we at Wheeeeeres' Luke are much more adept at these kinds of things. On our blog, we usually let Notorious LJT handle the puns, but it looks like you guys put *Charles in Charge* of this one.
It's not that I am *Mad About You* trying to get a good series of puns going, we're all still *Friends*, I just think that now that many of us are *Married . . . With Children* we might want to focus more on our *Family Ties* and less on puns and blogging.
I hope someone can try to follow this with an even better comment, but after that, I really think *Eight is Enough*.
*Cheers*
Wow Sidebar, that really was a great one *Coach!* It will really take a *Quantum Leap* to top that and is sort of *Mission Impossible.* I know that Where’s-Luke has created a *Dynatsy* in the punning wars, while we at HoboconQueso are the *The Young One’s.* But the last couple of months has created *A Different World* where Where’s Luke may no longer be *Head of the Class* in the punning wars. Really Sidebar, now that you are *Thirtysomething* I would have thought that you would have started a *Brand New Life* and stop *Moonlighting.*
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