Back to the Future
I saw this movie in a theater in 1985, the year it was released. I didn't like Back to the Future . My friend liked it. I recorded myself on audio tape talking about why I didn't like Back to the Future . I don't remember what I said, I no longer have the tape. I spoke on there about Tim Burton's debut, Pee Wee's Big Adventure . I found that movie a fresh viewing experience. Back to the Future seemed a typical product of Hollywood narrative. It's a Steven Spielberg production, directed by Robert Zemeckis. I must've been aware of Zemeckis. The year prior to Back to the Future , he directed a film I liked a lot, Romancing the Stone . To see the film forty years later, age sixty-one, whereas at the time I was twenty-one, I see better what the movie accomplishes, something I missed at the time. For me, the first clue as to why I rejected Back to the Future in 1985 comes in t...