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Back to the Future is quaint to watch nowadays
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Date: October 28th, 2020 2:43 PM Author: Wild Chartreuse Business Firm First of all, I was off-duty, not Curating shit. Part 1 is a triumph, the rest are meh. The dropoff is on par with Jaws or something, the latter movies just don't Matter imho.
Second, here is what I'm talking about:
1. When characters swear, they will say things like, "Jesus Christ!" Nowadays, (((they))) don't even mention that historical character who was said to exist in Nazareth or something at some point. (((They))) have driven him out of cultural relevancy. Nowadays, Film characters never go around using God's name really at all, because (((they))) have established in the popular consciousness that he does not exist. Also — because of this shift in cultural norms, you can identify it as a prole tell when someone says "Jesus Christ" irl, whereas a chill UMC bro or Hot Girl will be more inclined to just say "fuck" over and over again like characters on The Real World or something.
2. Just the idea of an impossibly Short man doing anything irl but being ridiculed, would be anachronistic if they tried to make a Film like this today with similar casting imho. I mean his only friend is a silent gen mad scientist but still. |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 2:59 PM Author: Out-of-control Burgundy Therapy Coldplay Fan Link to your movie curation work? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41206510) |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 5:15 PM Author: Wild Chartreuse Business Firm I choose not to Out myself constantly but I am a known figure in the Birmingham Film scene. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41207618) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 9:21 PM Author: well-lubricated resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41217796) |
Date: October 28th, 2020 2:48 PM Author: slimy gas station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41206450) |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 2:49 PM Author: magenta national All 3 are triumphs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41206457) |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 2:50 PM Author: rusted lodge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41206461) |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 3:30 PM Author: insanely creepy up-to-no-good area liquid oxygen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41206736) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:15 AM Author: chest-beating theater party of the first part (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212496) |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 2:50 PM Author: rusted lodge there are a lot of racist easter eggs in the trilogy. like when he comes back to the 'bad' 1985 and Section 8 blacks are living in his house and they try to kill him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41206460) |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 2:50 PM Author: magenta national (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41206463) |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 2:51 PM Author: swashbuckling home travel guidebook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41206469) |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 2:50 PM Author: swashbuckling home travel guidebook I had a college gf who was obsessed with this movie and made me watch it like once a week with her. She would always gush about how happy it made her and about how "life was so much better back then"
In retrospect she would have been ridiculously easy to convert to 1488 and I definitely should have married her |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 2:55 PM Author: contagious godawful prole life was so much better in the 50s or 80s? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41206487) |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 3:12 PM Author: swashbuckling home travel guidebook both (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41206620) |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 11:00 PM Author: Bellevue therapy dog tp (retired on 11/11/26) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#50011177) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 1:08 PM Author: awkward concupiscible toaster she warn't wrong (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41213550) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 1:41 PM Author: free-loading charismatic hissy fit den She just got off on seeing the incest (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41213877) |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 3:00 PM Author: Amber Messiness II/III (kinda one big film) are solid movies. I think they mark the start of Zemeckis' obsession with tech to the dtermiment of his films, though. I is nearly perfect so the dropoff will be steep but the comparison to Jaws is not a good one. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41206513) |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 5:20 PM Author: cream chapel tattoo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41207676) |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 3:34 PM Author: sticky vengeful old irish cottage theres a lot of scholarship waiting to happen about that movie (like you ignore 2 and 3).
Whats the verdict on whether life was better in 55 or 85? Its hard to say.... The movie tries to sell 85 and hip and full of cool technology like walkmans. But it is equivocal. Its impossible not to look at 55 through Marty's eyes and see how cool it was and notice how forces believed to be "liberating" (like black music) were just starting to impact america |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 3:37 PM Author: Amber Messiness I always thought the 1985 from the start of the first movie was meant to be run down and trashy compared to 1955. you have the bum sleeping in the town square and the clock tower is still broken, and a few other things like that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41206810) |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 3:38 PM Author: insanely creepy up-to-no-good area liquid oxygen correct. guy above you is retarded or lacks attention to detail. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41206818) |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 3:41 PM Author: Amber Messiness and 2015 in II is incredibly clean and upscale as well. It's really just the 80s that are shit on throughout the series. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41206851) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:19 AM Author: dull razzle locale (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212523) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:25 AM Author: cracking embarrassed to the bone patrolman twinkling uncleanness this is credited and guy above you is a moron.
the movie literally shows Lyon Estates being sold as the brand new american dream and by 1985 it's just shithole tract housing for losers. Loraine's family in 1955 is all excited and happy to watch TV while eating dinner and by 1985 she's pounding vodka while her loser husband laughs like an idiot at the same show and no one else pays attention. and yea, the clock tower, homeless guy, nig mayor, etc. basically in 1985 they had the same shit as 1955 only more run down and depressing. |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 1:22 PM Author: Bateful Insecure Theater Stage All true but this is basically just Hollywood libs bullying the inland empire. E.T. is the same thing. Suburban dystopia was an edgy take for big city Jews in 1985 believe it or not. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41213684) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 2:19 PM Author: cracking embarrassed to the bone patrolman twinkling uncleanness that's another point about so many movies were CA centric when in reality no one gives a fuck about california. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41214301) |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 3:42 PM Author: sienna clown crackhouse also very much a commentary on the influence and power of genetics (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41206866) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 1:24 PM Author: Bateful Insecure Theater Stage Uh it's pretty laughably unscientific in this regard? It asserts the premise that random events of happenstance in high school completely alter one's life trajectory and that of their progeny forever. What's up with all the morons MFEing in this thread? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41213702) |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 10:56 PM Author: Big Bear Energy In other words…Clique (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#50011170) |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 3:35 PM Author: insanely creepy up-to-no-good area liquid oxygen It's a family film about incestuous longing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41206784) |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 3:37 PM Author: Amber Messiness a "family" film, eh? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41206812) |
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Date: October 28th, 2020 5:35 PM Author: Silver People Who Are Hurt does marty mcfly qualify as nerd or loser? he has a Hot Girl. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41207793) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:57 AM Author: Wild Chartreuse Business Firm It's pure fantasy, not to mention it's about going back in Time to an era before Clique became so salient, both for us going just back to the 80s, and for Marty going to the 50s where there was just a nascent Clique System in place. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212898) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 12:03 PM Author: Amber Messiness the whole trilogy takes place in less than a day of the present 1985, right? We know almost nothing about MArty in that setting. He's got a hot girlfriend and he's in a band so there's that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212942) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 1:01 PM Author: Silver People Who Are Hurt Musicians are losers though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41213496) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:15 AM Author: cracking embarrassed to the bone patrolman twinkling uncleanness MJF you're just supposed to look the other way on them being midgets. he falls somewhere between Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in that regard.
of all the shit you pick out you focus on them saying JC or holy shit? maybe focus on how they don't make movies even remotely like that anymore instead and how that is more indicative of our shit culture. |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 12:01 PM Author: Wild Chartreuse Business Firm Brad Pitt is a Normal Bro/pumo phenotype. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212933) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 2:26 PM Author: cracking embarrassed to the bone patrolman twinkling uncleanness yea but he's like 5'8 in timberlands (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41214380) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 8:55 PM Author: Stimulating domesticated pocket flask Brad Pitt is 5'11" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41217593) |
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Date: November 2nd, 2020 4:03 PM Author: cracking embarrassed to the bone patrolman twinkling uncleanness i'm 6'5 then (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41244216) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:15 AM Author: chest-beating theater party of the first part Weirdly uncredited OP from our resident film curator (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212499) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:23 AM Author: mischievous costumed elastic band Just watched it recently w the kids. Hadn't seen it in probably 25 years. It's amazing how well it holds up. The pacing is great. My kids were on the edge of their seats and never got bored.
I never realized that Doc was getting a "shake down" from the cop in 1955. I always thought he had a permit for the weather equipment lol.
Crispin Glover is a complete weirdo, and his early George seems over the top, but the transition he does is great. It's actually a pretty good performance. |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:29 AM Author: cracking embarrassed to the bone patrolman twinkling uncleanness how the fuck do you not end up seeing at least part of that movie once a year or so? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212621) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:53 AM Author: mischievous costumed elastic band I don't have cable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212872) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 2:26 PM Author: cracking embarrassed to the bone patrolman twinkling uncleanness gay (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41214385) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 3:19 PM Author: mischievous costumed elastic band Overpriced garbage. Cable companies are out of control. Don't miss it at all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41214841) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 8:52 PM Author: cracking embarrassed to the bone patrolman twinkling uncleanness Lolno. Online streaming is such unusable garbage and completely detached from how anyone who isn’t extremely online actually lives their life. Example 1: you haven’t seen back to the future in 25 years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41217572) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 9:21 PM Author: mischievous costumed elastic band You seem mad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41217801) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:45 AM Author: Amber Messiness They showed this at a local drive in last month; my kids loved it and it's a really great drive in movie.
I think Crispin Glover's performance is just about perfect. His teenage version is introduced as a peeping tom (how different that would read today) and he plays the line between lovable outcast and weirdo pervet perfectly. |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 1:37 PM Author: Bateful Insecure Theater Stage Moment to moment he so perfectly deconstructs while exactly portraying what was disturbing about the moralistic repression of 50s culture. Like you know on some basic level within his first 30 seconds speaking on screen that the original 1985 Crispin Glover was a serial rapist with a micropenis in that cookie cutter subdivision like GSK. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41213833) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 1:42 PM Author: magenta national (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41213882) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:31 AM Author: Demanding affirmative action yarmulke Terrible OP (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212636) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:31 AM Author: rusted lodge ET, Star Wars, and other lesser 80s movies like Goonies, etc, will all fade from memory in time, but Back to the Future will still be of interest to people in 100 years. its stature only grows every year. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212644) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:35 AM Author: magenta national (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212687) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 2:50 PM Author: cream chapel tattoo ET has already faded bigly
It's hard to envision Star Wars ever fading, but it might be self-destructing before our eyes
The sad thing is that shitlennials and zoomers can relate to slacker McFly much more than Indiana Jones
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:39 AM Author: Boyish Kitty i read someone else post this on xoxo before, but Back to the Future is basically the perfect movie. Great story, great suspense, memorable characters, and it functions simultaneously as a comedy, action movie, sci fi movie, and romcom (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212746) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:40 AM Author: magenta national (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212753) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:47 AM Author: Amber Messiness I think that was me. I actually stole that take from a film school grad friend of mine. He'll go on forever about how every second of the film is perfectly paced. I give him shit for the corny "Pepsi Free" bit at the diner but I mostly agree with him. There's not a moment of that movie that distracts you from the characters and plot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212817) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:50 AM Author: Boyish Kitty I agree. Its a universally awesome movie and every scene is great (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212836) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:55 AM Author: adventurous tan toilet seat background story It really is a wonder of filmmaking. There needs to be an in-depth study of what exactly came together in the 70s and 80s to produce so much classic shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212878) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:57 AM Author: Amber Messiness Zemeckis had to make Romancing the Stone before anyone would bite on the BTTF script. Also barely got MJF on board; Marty was almost Eric Stoltz, I think (talk about alternate timelines). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212895) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 12:01 PM Author: mischievous costumed elastic band They actually filmed w Eric Stoltz for 6 weeks before realizing it just wasn't working. They had to reshoot all of it, but some footage still survives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCx__7IDYbk
Apparently he was also not very pleasant to work with. Tom Wilson (Biff) absolutely hated him. He insisted on being called Marty even off-camera lol. |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 12:01 PM Author: Wild Chartreuse Business Firm Don't forget having Spielberg as Impresario, same as Forrest Gump. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212929) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:59 AM Author: bespoke stead A big reason is that the 70s and 80s had a breakout of young filmmakers with fresh new ideas.
Coincidentally, those filmmakers are still making films today and are jealously hoarding their power and influence. |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 12:07 PM Author: adventurous tan toilet seat background story Spielberg hasn't made a truly classic film since Saving Private Ryan. I've argued about this before here but I think that his making Schindler's List (a truly classic film) basically broke his brain. He decided he needed to become "serious" and it ruined him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212978) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 12:17 PM Author: Amber Messiness I'll go to the mat for A.I. but I get that it didn't click with most people.
Catch Me if You Can is, for me, a true classic.
Ready Player One is in his top three (probably two) worst but I'm still excited to see what he does with West Side Story. |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 1:08 PM Author: adventurous tan toilet seat background story Don't get me wrong I think he's made plenty of good, very good, even great films post Saving Private Ryan. But I don't think he's made an AFI-100 caliber film since then and that's a stark difference vs. his output in the prior two decades when he was almost inhuman in his ability to produce classic after classic. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41213558) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 2:24 PM Author: awkward concupiscible toaster War of the Worlds was great (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41214361) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 7:27 PM Author: insanely creepy up-to-no-good area liquid oxygen (literal retard) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41217003) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 11:43 AM Author: Impertinent lay candlestick maker i love his truck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212776) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 12:02 PM Author: Wild Chartreuse Business Firm There's a poaster who has the truck as his moniker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41212937) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 12:14 PM Author: provocative boiling water That’s a Jeep you moron (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41213033) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 2:12 PM Author: Wild Chartreuse Business Firm Marty's truck is a Tacoma or something. Nameless Toyota pickup, rather. You moron. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41214212) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 2:16 PM Author: Bateful Insecure Theater Stage LOL the pair of autists talking past each other subthreads on this bort are better than any other place on the web. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41214266) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 8:57 PM Author: cracking embarrassed to the bone patrolman twinkling uncleanness Shut the fuck up you foreign weirdo. Go the fuck back to Canada (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41217608) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 9:16 PM Author: bat-shit-crazy fanboi They were called simply Toyota Pickups back then. I would love to have one of those simple trucks now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41217762) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 9:19 PM Author: magenta national You can pick one up for under $10k (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41217786) |
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Date: October 29th, 2020 9:24 PM Author: bat-shit-crazy fanboi Strongly considering it. But my Toyota SEDAN is so reliable I hate to give it up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4664656&forum_id=2E#41217822) |