Great Scott! Back to the Future lives up! Let's go back to 1985 and have a blast watching Back to the Future. Neither Jess nor Amanda had seen this movie in a while, and we love spotting things that we didn't pick up on when we watched it as kids. One of the things Amanda really appreciated in this viewing was the deliberate portrayal of societal problems in all the timelines; neither the 1980s nor the 1950s were an ideal place to live. In the beginning of this film, Marty skateboards through the town center; we get a visual of 1980's moral decay. It shows shops that have permanently closed, there's a porno theater in the center of town, and vandals have tagged high school with graffiti. Normally, we review 80's films that present New York City as the big, scary, heathenish hellhole (Coming to America, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), so it's interesting to see small town America getting the same treatment here. Skateboarding past the moral decay in 1985 When ...
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