CLEVER HIPSTER APHORISM

17 Jul

huffish7arabugenta:

back to the future***

“If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour… you’re gonna see some serious shit.”

My favorite movie when I was a kid all summed up into one awesome graphic.

18 Aug

Why are Doc Brown and Marty McFly friends?

From The Onion AV Club:

By Sean O’Neal August 17, 2011
Though probably long since explained away by fan-fiction we implore you not to find, the specific nature and origin of the relationship between Marty McFly and Emmett “Doc” Brown has been one of the Back To The Future series’ most persistent mysteries-that-don’t-really-matter. After all, why would a teenaged, school-shirking, skateboarding “slacker” like Marty McFly spend so much of his time in the company of an old man scientist, let alone one as unpredictable and potentially dangerous as the Libyan terrorist-fraternizing, plutonium-juggling Doc?

The question was posed yet again yesterday on the blog Mental Floss, inspiring the usual round of theories that mostly involve pedophilia jokes. But then, along came a man claiming to be producer Bob Gale to deliver the truth. Granted, some particularly devoted BTTF fan could have been masquerading as Bob Gale, but the response he gives certainly sounds reasonable—which is to say, sort of dull and obvious:

“For years, Marty was told that Doc Brown was dangerous, a crackpot, a lunatic. So, being a red-blooded American teenage boy, age 13 or 14, he decided to find out just why this guy was so dangerous. Marty snuck into Doc’s lab, and was fascinated by all the cool stuff that was there. When Doc found him there, he was delighted to find that Marty thought he was cool and accepted him for what he was. Both of them were the black sheep in their respective environments. Doc gave Marty a part-time job to help with experiments, tend to the lab, tend to the dog, etc. And that’s the origin of their relationship.”

Thus solved, you can now enjoy the Back To The Future series without the distraction of any lingering mysteries, except for the one about how Marty’s parents end up breeding an exact replica of the guy who brought them together and changed their lives back in high school and apparently think nothing of it. [via Movieline]

8 Sep

thedailywhat:

It’s About Time of the Day: Just over a year after the revelation that Nike had patented the technology necessary to make the iconic power-lacing Nike Air Mags from Back to the Future II a reality, the finished product appears to be just around the corner.

Following a dramatic late-night announcement, Nike unveiled a teaser video entitled “McFly’s Closet,” which features row after row of kicks labeled “Nike Air Mag” (see below).

No word yet on an official release date, but additional details are expected shortly.

inb4 where’s my hoverboard.

[nicekicks.]

I know they wouldn’t match anything and would clash horribly with my wardrobe, but I definitely would (will?) buy these in an instant.

That’s maybe the fastest I’ve ever decided to reblog something. Totally agree with that hoverboard comment though. Now that’s something that I’ve wanted ever since I was a child.

(Source: thedailywhat, via castleoflions)

17 Dec

minimalmovieposters:

Back to the Future Trilogy by Brenton Powell

Brace yourselves, people. I’m about to talk at length about Back to the Future.

Definitely one of my very, very, very, very (that’s right; bold, underlined, and italicized for extra, extra, extra emphasis) favorite movie series when I was a kid. I must have put “hoverboard” on my Christmas list at least a few times until I realized they weren’t real (and then probably for another year after I found out they didn’t already exist because Santa’s magic anyway and he could probably have the accomplished elf scientists of the North Pole fabricate one, no problem).

I idolized Marty McFly. By now I sense there’s a clear pattern emerging in all of my childhood heroes. Ferris Bueller, Marty McFly, Han Solo, Zach Morris - all cocky assholes who know exactly how cool they are. Indiana Jones fits this role about half of the time but I still probably lump him into the more strong, solemn hero type. But McFly was just the coolest. Much like a Greek hero though, Marty actually gets punished for his hubris and we all learn a valuable lesson about humility, the end. About here is where I’m tempted to make an easy joke about being Asian and not seeing anything wrong with being called yellow (or Yellah! if it’s getting spat at you by Mad Dog Tannen) but instead I’ll refrain from my natural instinct to pun.

But gosh, how does one sum up what makes these movies so good? They’re fun, have a great sense of humor, and at the base of the movies are pretty tightly plotted and engaging. It’s also a movie that has a lot of great callbacks and plays well with its own mythology. But more than that, dude, how cool are hoverboards?! And those self-lacing shoes! Lord knows I hate laces. It’s always interesting to see how different people interpret what the future will bring.

The second movie was always my favorite partly because of the future section. It also played the most with time travel with the alternate 1985 and the brilliant sequence with the two Martys at the Enchantment Under The Sea Dance. Plus, Michael J. Fox plays his own daughter in it. You’ve got to respect a man comfortable enough with himself to rock tights and a skirt. Even when he’s playing a woman, MJF is the man.

23 Jan

This is probably the only way that Ocarina of Time could have been even cooler. Well, that and less long-winded speeches from that giant owl.

(via mustashh)

15 Apr

blog-of-rad:

BttF ride-ons are rad.

If I had this I would use it to go back and time and gift it to myself as a child.

Thusly creating a time paradox in which I probably wouldn’t exist or something. Darn.

Fun fact: I actually was one of the kids that was lucky enough to get a Hot Wheels car for one of my birthdays.
Funner fact if you know me at all: It was a hot pink Malibu Barbie Corvette complete with fake plastic car-phone.

(Source: imremembering, via )