On Tuesday the 20th of October I watched Back To The Future for the first time and its safe to say that it lived up to the hype!
Michael J Fox made the movie for me, he fit the role perfectly and gave the film that extra thing it needed to go from just being a good movie to a being a great movie. He played the protagonist, Marty McFly, with so much charisma that its hard to think of a cooler charterer, I loved him. Fox had bags of confidence when playing the Marty he made him funny and extremely likeable, which made the audience buy into him and his story and root for Marty in any situation. As well as this Fox brought lots of variation to the table as he also managed to pull of scenes that were dramatic and required heaps of emotion. The part of Marty was originally written for him, however at the time Fox was to busy shooting for his show 'Family Ties' and wasn't available, so Eric Stoltz got the part. After only a few weeks of filming they scrapped everything, got rid of Stoltz and brought in Fox. This risky move from Director Robert Zemeckis turned out to be a master stroke, as Fox fit right into the part and made it his own the film just wouldn't be the same without him.
Not just Marty but all of the charterers were written for fantastically by writers Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, they made every one unique and memorable. Christopher Lloyd played his part of Doc Brown near perfectly, him and Fox played off of each other really well, the two characters felt real and gave the audience the feeling that they'd been friends for years and not just two guys on a movie set playing a character, which in turn created extra emotion during the last scenes where Doc Browns life is in danger and Marty must warn him.
As well as this the film had fantastic special effects and CGI for its time, the CGI still holds up well to this day despite the film now being 30 years old! The thing I did not enjoy about the film was the length of the ending, obviously the director chose to draw out the ending to try and create tension and I will give him that, it is tense. But it was just drawn out a little bit to much, especially in the scene where Doc is moving across the clock tower. The scene is good, the use of pathetic fallacy through the storm helps create that extra sense of danger and makes us feel on edge as Doc slowly navigates his way across the thin ledge of the clock tower however the pace of it doesn't fit the pace of the rest of the film and I think that's why it threw me off. I'd rather end on a high though! My favourite scene is the one where Marty punches Biff in the face in a packed diner whilst defending his (future) father George McFly and then is chases through the street by Biff where he manages to one up him again. Marty just makes you wish you were this cool!
Overall I would give the film 9/10 nothings perfect, but this is close!
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