“Back to the Future” –the day has arrived

Posted on 21 October 2015 by JLusk

A mock Doc and Marty pose with a pooch Founders Day, on Feb. 14.

A mock Doc and Marty pose with a pooch (“Dante”) Founders Day, on Feb. 14, 2015.

By Rachel Galvin

In Back to the Future Part II, the second of the trilogy, Marty McFly travels from 1985 into the future with Doc Brown to save his unborn children. The year shown is Oct. 21, 2015, a date in real life that just came to pass yesterday. This momentous occasion has become news-worthy as people are abuzz about what the movie got right and wrong in its predictions.

There are no flying cars as shown in the film, but there are some hover boards being experimented with currently. There is no self-adjusting or self-drying clothing, but the Cubs are in the World Series (but are not going to  win, although they were predicted to in between promos of Jaws 19, a feat that, in reality, has not happened in over 100 years). In the film, it said they would be battling a Miami team; Miami did not have a team when the film was released in 1989, but it does now. [The Cubs are currently battling the Mets.] Marty’s children watched multiple channels on their TV screens and communicated through live videos. They answered the phone and were entertained through their glasses. Today, we have Google Glass and Virtual Reality glasses, including Oculus Rift, Avegent Glyph and Sony PlayStation VR, among others. Although not everything in the film was prophetic, it seems that Robert Zemeckis’s creation didn’t do too badly in predicting what would happen in 2015.

Christopher_LloydBack to the Future fans will get a chance to meet the real Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) at the upcoming Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival when he is present at the screening of his new film “The Boat Builder” on Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. at Cinema Paradiso in Ft. Lauderdale (subject to change). He also will be receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award. His co-star, Lea Thompson, who played Marty’s mom, Mrs. McFly in that film, was at FLiFF 2013 and received a Career Achievement Award. For more information, visit www.fliff.com.

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