BACK TO THE FUTURE turns 40 this year… so if ‘Doc’ had decided to go 40 years ahead instead of 30, he’d arrive in 2025.
It feels unreal that that the film is 40 (and that I’m pushing 50). I watched it with my 5 year-old this morning and he absolutely loved it!
The script (by Zemeckis and Gale) is still taught at film schools today as an absolutely brilliant example of Three Act structure and how to set-up/payoff.
So tell me - were you around in ‘85 to see it theatrically? Did a parent show it to you? How do you think the film plays today? For me it works just as well and I even occasionally find things I’d never noticed before.