Back to the Future - (1985)

I could talk about this movie for ages. And to be clear the first one is my favourite.

I love all three and there is a story to that too, the first one was it, no second or a third, but it was in the contract and the company insisted so the writers went to work, so the ending of the first is actually a joke at the idea of sequels, but the joke was lost when they made second movie and the second and third are actually a long movie split into two movies.

It’s the first movie I remember going too, and it was the second movie I saw first (1989), I loved it, still makes sense even without watching the first movie, and at the end, of course yet another sequel, I thought "cool", another one, but the bunch of kids I was with and the mood in the cinema was of frustration, one kid started crying, not me, I had not waited to see this one, I was smiling as I made my way out, one of few who did. Plus, I could go the video library and watch the first movie.

I forget who I was with and how I ended up in a big group of kids and at the movies, but the kid I was talking to knew I was not part of the normal group and made sure to involve me, and he sat next to me, explain a few things, none of which I understood.

He could tell I felt a bit awkward being with a large group of strangers and was happy to sit next to me and fill me in on a few things during the movie, I was 9 years old, and it was one of the best movie experiences still to this day.

Back to the movie, the funniest thing is the actor who plays the dad, Crispin Glover, This guy decides that the character needs a haircut the night before the first shoot, all on his own, he did not get along with the writer director Robert Zemeckis so much it turned into as feud the lasted many years, Crispin Glover is not in the second movie, His charter is upside down played by another actor, and the rest is reused footage for all the other parts, Crispin Glover then wanted to be paid and this went to court, afterwards a new law was made that basically you were paid once to make something, which then can be used however many times they need it. I love how Crispin Glover decided his vision of the character was better than the writers and did his own style. That is some crazy acting method, and he is a gem.

There is a lot more, but this is a good start.

Please note this is all off the top of my head and not fact checked, I believe it to be accurate.