Oral history of...

1980s movies are way more fucked up than we remember them.

 

Love BttF, but Dave Dameshek is right when he brings up the two main flaws of the first one. 1) At the end of the movie, Biff literally tries to rape Lorraine. It defies logic that the McFlys would then employ him as their butler type 20 years later. 2) Lorraine and George never say, "Hey isn't it weird that our son looks like that guy Calvin Klein who mysteriously disappeared from our lives on prom night?"

They could have worked around both of those things - For #1, have Biff be the bum on a bench when Marty flies back to 1985, so he's still a loser but not involved with the family. #2, just have Lorraine and George mention it in passing and make a joke of it. "Oh, you never knew that's why your middle name is Calvin, Marty? It's because of that guy who helped your father and I get together. It's weird, you remind us of him..."

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I'd like a proper oral history of Adult Swim. There's one here, but it's not actually one; it's more of a proper story, with not as many extended quotes as you'd like to see.

Nintendo is famously extremely tight-lipped about its projects, to the point that people who have been retired for dozens of years from there STILL won't talk about stuff they worked on. (They apparently got some shit after "Game Over" by David Sheff came out, and since then, they're tight about everything.) As a result, you pretty much only get the sanitized / company-approved version of stories about the development of Super Mario Bros., the NES, etc.

 

It looks like he's fallen on hard times, reduced to review caps on his YouTube channel and racking up 11 views over four days for his effort. Rough fall for the guy who was so far ahead of his time in being a crypto/sports betting/MAGA bro before those things even existed.

 

Didn't his brother hang out here for a bit too?

 

Sure did. RokSki.

 

Piersall ran backwards while he was with the Mets.

 

I never understood why Marty gets so mad when anyone calls him a chicken when it’s never me mentioned in the first movie.

And while we’re at it, why is it that everyone is no longer worried about Rocky going blind after his second fight with Apollo when he ends up having 10 title defenses, fights Clubber Lang twice, fights Drago, gets in a street fight, then fights in his 60s.

 

In all fairness to Marty, he wasn't trying to fuck his mom. He was trying not to fuck his mom.

And I'd say Biff later became the McFlys' yard lackey, nothing anywhere close to the butler types.

 

That's still super weird. It just feels like them trying too hard to show you how badly Biff has fallen, when you could do it in other ways.

 

tbf, This tracks with actual boxing, as depressing as that is. The 30 for 30, "Muhammad and Larry," was a tough watch.