Were YOU paying attention at all?
Before we get to the big picture, perhaps you'd best look at your watch; It is a matter of falling action.
Marty receiving the letter was not the end of the film, there was a whole additional scene of falling action following the climax. Just in case you forgot, Back to the Future Part II is part of a three-film series with overlapping events and re-capped the climax of the first film at the end of the second film. No such re-cap was performed in Waxwork II (save at the beginning), which, to go off on a slight tangent, is not even really a time-travel story; All locations are meant to be romanticized interdimensional vignettes, and in no way historically accurate or even remotely representative of actual historical periods.
Now for the big picture. Picture if you will: A man sees an engraving in his own handwriting written by himself whilst inhabiting a creature's body on pre-cambrian earth. That was in "The Shadow Out of Time" by Lovecraft. It was written back in the thirties in the pulp magazine Astounding. So, if we're going to look at the big picture, we have to look at Back to the Future Part II in terms of its own originality: Who's to say they didn't rip off Lovecraft! It's not a terribly original idea, so rip-off is pedantic, if not completely misplaced. After all, how can you rip-off something that may well be a rip-off itself? If you steal from a thief, are you only doing injustice to the thief? Better question, is the thief then made innocent by the transgression?
Emerson v. Davies (a court case, not a name)
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TheResponderUno
17 years ago
Matsugawa,
I see you like to set aside special time to humiliate yourself on the internet. I said it was the END of the film.... not the last scene. It was within the last 5 minutes of actually film time. That would be classified as the END of the film. You wouldn't refer to it as the beginning or middle... it was within the last FIVE MINUTES... it's considered the end of the movie.
BTTF part two didn't rip-off Lovecraft because Lovecraft didn't have an individual appear in some type of transportation... handing a letter from the past to the main character... in the same fashion of BTTF part 2 AND Waxwork 2 (and extremely similar dialogue).
How many times must I say it until it gets through your narrow-minded brain?
I understand what you are trying to say, even though you obviously don't. I'm finished talking with you because it goes no where. You're a hamster operating his wheel and I'm sick of watching... Your head would be better put to use as a paperweight.
You have become a bore, and a very dull one at that...
Extra Taco
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Crystanubis
17 years ago
A dull bore? You mean there are interesting bores? If that is the case, how can something be simultaneously boring and interesting?
"an individual appear in some type of transportation...in the same fashion of BTTF part 2 AND Waxwork 2..." the delivery man in Waxwork 2 walked up to Sarah on his own two feet. Granted, walking is a form of transportation, but if we're going to compare cars to feet, then maybe you should review the guidelines by which you cry, "rip-off." Would Deloreans make good taxi-cabs?
Was Marty McFly exiting a courthouse surrounded by members of the press when he received Doc's letter? Was the courier a jovial and kindly old man who found nothing strange at all about the transaction? Was it a bright and sunny day?
"extremely similar dialogue?" He said he was from the "oldest delivery company in the world." Does that sound like Western Union? Did he mention a bet among his co-workers about whether or not the recipient would be there at the appointed place and time specified in the delivery instructions? "what are you going to do now, Sarah?" doesn't sound anything like "Kid! What does this mean?" and "I'm going back!" could hardly be mistaken for "the Doc's alive!"
If you didn't want to hear a disagreement with your statement, then you should not have posted in the first place. If you eat kippers, expect bones. But, if you are growing dissatisfied with the dialogue you've opened (if you ever intended to open a dialogue by posting), perhaps you could suggest a different ending for the film? Surely if you can set aside special time to point out flaws (on the internet), you should at least have the capacity to make alternative suggestions?
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MiST_SYL
17 years ago
I believe that the term i need to utilise is "LMFAO" or something similar...
In general in order to pay homage to something the homage must directly "rip-off" the original material! Thus bitching about how the ending is a rip rather than an homage is, suffice to say, retarded
"And by retarded i mean they can do anything!"
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MiST_SYL
17 years ago
Holy mother of Mohammed!!!!
Waxwork was on Zone Horror at 5:30pm
then later in the evening i was channel hopping around 10pm
AND
Back to the future II was on, on ITV2
Madness i tell thee
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shane-305
17 years ago
Contrary to common belief, a person can indeed be a interesting bore. But, it takes lubricant, 3 feet of rubber hose, and a Yak.
(Yeah let's see who get that reference)
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