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CharleyKerfeld said:

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MSFC Aggie said:

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Top 5 movie of all time

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Me: "We're going to see this movie Saturday."

Teen daughter: "I don't like science fiction."

Me: "Half of it is set at a high school and there's kissing and a school dance."

Teen daughter: "Oh, OK, I'll go."

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I predict she'll still want to "peace, out" when Darth Vader from the Planet Vulcan shows up.

Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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CharleyKerfeld said:

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MSFC Aggie said:

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Top 5 movie of all time

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Me: "We're going to see this movie Saturday."

Teen daughter: "I don't like science fiction."

Me: "Half of it is set at a high school and there's kissing and a school dance."

Teen daughter: "Oh, OK, I'll go."

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I predict she'll still want to "peace, out" when Darth Vader from the Planet Vulcan shows up.

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For the record, I love BTTF.

But in the 80's when I (we) were kids, the 1950's was only 30 years ago. Yet it seemed ancient to us (at least to me). For young people now, the 50's are 70's years ago. Relatability may be a problem.

During Covid year we decided to make our kids watch an "80's movie" with us about once a week or so. It didn't go as well as anticipated.

Urban Ag said:

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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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CharleyKerfeld said:

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MSFC Aggie said:

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Top 5 movie of all time

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Me: "We're going to see this movie Saturday."

Teen daughter: "I don't like science fiction."

Me: "Half of it is set at a high school and there's kissing and a school dance."

Teen daughter: "Oh, OK, I'll go."

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I predict she'll still want to "peace, out" when Darth Vader from the Planet Vulcan shows up.

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For the record, I love BTTF.

But in the 80's when I (we) were kids, the 1950's was only 30 years ago. Yet it seemed ancient to us (at least to me). For young people now, the 50's are 70's years ago. Relatability may be a problem.

During Covid year we decided to make our kids watch an "80's movie" with us about once a week or so. It didn't go as well as anticipated.

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We took our daughter (14 at the time) to see BTTF in a theater during Covid. We built it up for her, and she loved it.

I had just graduated high school when BTTF came out. Regardless of the setting 30 years prior, the movie was instantly relatable to me, mostly on the high school stuff like the bullying and the dances and all that social stuff.

Daveintx said:

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I need to get my hands on the popcorn bucket delorean....

Oh and, met parts of the cast this past summer at Dallas Fan Expo..... Tom Wilson (Biff) comes off as one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet......

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There is a popcorn bucket Delorean???? That would go well with my popcorn sandworm if I had ever found it....

Took the kids to see it Saturday night.

One said she got bored - she's out of the will.

Other one loved it, loved the romance, loved the comedy, really loved Marty going nuts on stage during Johnny B. Goode. Was super excited to find out there were sequels.

Probably the first time I've watched it straight through in at least 15-20 years.

I found myself staring hard at the 80s scenes as much as I used to the 50s scenes. Gas at the Texaco is $1.09 a gallon in 1985 in California.

Before the Libyans arrive, Doc says he's going forward 25 years, but then at the end of the movie he says 30. Obviously the actual 2010/2015 falls woefully short of what's in the movie, but doesn't that seem like way too short of a time to jump forward anyway, especially for a man of science?

Other than that, I mostly just got fixated on young Billy Zane in all the Biff bullying scenes. Zane doesn't get one single line that I could notice, but he plays "High School D*Bag" pretty well.

Saw it tonight. Such a good movie. They blend the scifi-ness with the fish out of water/quasi romcom so well.

My oldest and I saw it this past weekend. I had not seen it on the big screen since it came out in '85. There are so many little Easter eggs you see on the big screen that I hadn't really noticed in my many small screen rewatches.

Right off the bat, in the opening credits you see one of the clocks as the camera pans by and this clock has a small person attached to the second hand, hanging from it. I hadn't not noticed that before.

Did they make changes like in E.T.?

In the broadway version they cut out the Libyan terrorists.

Negative, the Libyans are still alive and well, using really terrible weapons, probably got them from the French, to try and kill an old man and a teenager.

The bigger plot hole question is why the hell is Marty trying to lose them by driving in circles around the mall parking lot? You live in california and it's 2 AM, get out on the freeway and smoke that van, dude.

But then the mall name wouldn't change from Twin Pines to Lone Pine.

tk for tu juan said:

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But then the mall name wouldn't change from Twin Pines to Lone Pine.

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Well sure. As the guy on Pitch Meeting, the reason is always "So the movie can happen".

Movie made $4.9 million over the weekend to sneak back into the Top 200 domestic all time.



Inflation adjusted it's 71st, with $555 million and 59.3 million tickets sold. That's ahead f The Two Towers, The Dark Knight Rises, the original Superman, the remake of Beauty nd the Beast, and the first Harry Potter and right behind Star Wars Ep 3.


This is a pretty neat list on Box office Mojo for inflation. It has approx # of tickets for each film.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_lifetime_gross_adjusted/?adjust_gross_to=2022

Only 11 of them have more than 100 million tickets sold, and the only one past 2000 is The Force Awakens.

Gone with the Wind is incredible with 200,000,000 tickets sold. It's crazy to think when that movie was released, the entire US population was only 130,000,000.

Belton Ag said:

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Gone with the Wind is incredible with 200,000,000 tickets sold. It's crazy to think when that movie was released, the entire US population was only 130,000,000.

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There was a quick scene in Spielberg's Empire of the Sun with the Gone With the Wind poster adorning the side of a building in Shanghai. If that is anywhere near accurate, that is why that movie sold such a huge number of tickets.

Belton Ag said:

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Gone with the Wind is incredible with 200,000,000 tickets sold. It's crazy to think when that movie was released, the entire US population was only 130,000,000.

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I remember an article on here or somewhere that mentioned it had been re-released just tons of times. Like every 5 years or maybe even shorter periods of times, which contributed heavily to it outslugging Star Wars overall.

Hang on, let me look it up.

Here it is

Metro Goldwyn Mayer bought the rights to Gone With The Wind in 1942 and re-released it in the same year. The movie was re-released again in 1947, 1954 and 1961. The 1954 version is the first time Gone With The Wind was shown in widescreen, but the 1967 re-release was shown in 70mm. The cropping of the academy ratio prompted heavy criticisms for altering the movie's composition and color.
The movie received its US television premiere in 1976, but UK and Irish viewers had to wait before it the big television premiere, screened over two nights on December 25th and 26th, 1981.

And then this from Wikipedia

There were further re-releases in 1971, 1974, and 1989; for the fiftieth-anniversary reissue in 1989, it was given a complete audio and video restoration. It was released in theaters one more time in the United States, in 1998, by Time Warner-owned New Line Cinema.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(film)#cite_note-46][41][/url][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(film)#cite_note-Kramer-47][42][/url]
In 2013, a 4K digital restoration was released in the United Kingdom to coincide with Vivien Leigh's centenary.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(film)#cite_note-48][43][/url] In 2014, special screenings were scheduled over two days at theaters across the United States to coincide with the film's 75th anniversary,[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(film)#cite_note-75th_anniversary_screenings-49][44][/url] and again over three days in 2024, to celebrate its 85th anniversary.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(film)#cite_note-50][45][/url]

Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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Belton Ag said:

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Gone with the Wind is incredible with 200,000,000 tickets sold. It's crazy to think when that movie was released, the entire US population was only 130,000,000.

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There was a quick scene in Spielberg's Empire of the Sun with the Gone With the Wind poster adorning the side of a building in Shanghai. If that is anywhere near accurate, that is why that movie sold such a huge number of tickets.

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Yeah but this list is domestic box office. How many more were sold outside the US? We probably can't know that answer.

We went this weekend as a family and the only disappointment I had was the lack of trailers for other films in 1985. That would have been an awesome way to kick things off.

One of my 8-year-old's favorite movies. We watch one, and she immediately wants to watch the next.

That was the day I invented time travel!