# 6 Doc Brown

Doc Brown, the man who invented the flux capacitor and put it into a Delorean so we can Time Travel in style is by far the best Mad Scientist ever.

His constant comedic timeing and clever use of slap-stick comedy make him the perfect character to contrast Marty McFly who is focused on being cool.

Doc Brown is an unforgettable character. Christopher Lloyd is unforgetable and perfect.
Did you know that they considered Jeff Goldblum for a while when finding a Doc Brown?

As much as I love Jeff Goldblum (and I do) he could not have been Doc Brown.

# 7 Biff Tannen

Young Biff: Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here.

Old Biff: IT'S LEAVE! Make like a tree and Leave, you sound like moron.

A movie villain such as Biff had rarely been seen before. A bumbling idiot who barely makes sense, and harasses women on the regular, Biff Tannen is a piece of work.

  Usually we see films with bad-guy having a slue of idiot Hench men. Not Biff, he does his own idiot stuff on his own. He even supplies the womanizing and ass kicking. It's to bad his sweet ride gets covered in cow crap, and beat up by George McFly.

We are also lucky enough to to see six different biff's

1955 Biff
1985 pre- time travel Biff
1985 Post time travel
Alt universe Biff
Future Biff
And my personal favorite Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen

For all these characters who are so hilariously played Biff is my seconded favorite charcter in these films next to Marty.

Who couldn't love a bumbling idiot who hits on Loraine relentlessly or changed the future for the worse, or killed George McFly in the Alt universe.

Biff: That's about as funny as a screen door on a battle ship

Marty: It's a screen door on a submarine, you dork.

# 8 Time Travel

Lets face it at one point or time we've all thought about Time Travel.

Marty McFly was a very fortunate teenager to have Doc Brown as a friend. I know none of my friends are on the brink of inventing a flux capacitor to put into their sweet time traveling vehicle. Imagine rolling up to the Twin Peaks Mall and finding our your friend made a time machine out of a Delorean.

We all know that Marty McFly screwed up when his mom fell in love with him (awkward) instead of his dad, and when Biff got a hold of the Sports Almanac, and when his couldn't start it in the West in the third...BUT Time Travel is still cool. I think Marty just had some bad luck, or maybe he was just a chicken.

Watching Back to the Future we've all thought about where we'd go or what we would do.
A get rich scheme (It worked out pretty well for Biff for a bit) meet some cool people like Jesus or see some cool stuff like Roman or the Wild West.

Back to the Future took a complicated subject and made it fun, and seem almost easy. If someone like Doc Brown can do it, why can't we?

# 9 The Ride

When I was younger, my parents brought my brother and I to Universal Studio's.
For the most part the park was awesome, your favorite movies like Men in Black( minus the awful soundtrack) or the cable car of awesome King Kong rides or the awful Twister ride that made me forever afraid and stole my hat.

But the best part of the entire day was the Back to the Future ride.

The premise: You're a volunteer at the Institute of Future Technology. But all goes wrong when Biff sneaks back to the future to reek havoc on the Doc Brown.
After locking the Doc up he steals the original Delorean. lucky for you volunteers the Institute created a larger, faster eight seater Delorean. Your mission is to stop Biff from destroying the Space Time Continuum.

Sadly this beauty of a ride was replaced in 2007 by the Simpsons Ride.
The Back to the Future ride was awesome to say the very least. As amazing as the Simpsons are,
I feel very fortunet to have gone on the Back to the Future ride.
You can find the entire ride, including the pre-show and ride sequence on the DVD features of the special addition Back to the Future DVD.

#10 Johnny B. Goode

The final sequence of Back to the Future is nothing more then magical.

For the most part of the film the audience is on edge, watching Marty relentlessly trying to get George McFly and Lorraine Baines (his parents) to kiss at the Under the Sea dance.

And finally, after defeating Biff the bully and conquering the stupid ginger that tries to cut in, George and Lorraine finally kiss.

In celebration, Marty McFly shows 1950's a genre of music they'll come to loathe because of their kids. Rock and/or Roll.

 Featuring a shredding guitar solo he turns Chuck Berry's classic into something completely new.

Fox, learned to hand dub the actions. It looked so real that many fans still believe he played it live.

It's this scene in the movie that the audience relaxes and enjoys what this movie is, fun.
It's really magically for lack of a better word. It's the 80's coming to the 50's. Especially when Marvin Berry calls his cousin Chuck Berry to show him a new sound.
That's just good entertainment.

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Where we're going, we don't need roads.

In 1985 Robert Zemeckis along side Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd created one of the biggest cult classics Hollywood and Fan-boys have ever seen.

Back to The Future premiered July 3rd and grossed very little considering the budget it was given (You wouldn't think a Delorean would cost so much.) But over the years it's become a staple in the Fan-boys collection.


But in the beginning Back to the Future was shaping up to be a very different film.

Orginally in the role of Marty McFly, our time travelling hero, was Eric Stoltz,

Zemeckis had tight deadline with the film and was forced to ignore his obvious first choice Michael J. Fox who had a scheduling conflicts with his T.V show Family Ties. After five weeks of shooting,  Bob Gale the producer was approached by Zemeckis with the fact that the material was good, but not great.
They immediately shut down production, and waited for Fox to sort out scheduling. And thus Back to the Future was born.

Personally I believe this film is pure gold. All aspects of it are great, from the writing, actors,  comedic timing, and the film structure.

Like John Cussack in High Fidelity I believe in lists. So I've created the top ten things, actors, moments, etc. from Back to the Future.


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Cinema has fascinated the mind since its first appearance in the 19th century.
At first, cinema was short and sweet, usually consisting of every day life or slap-stick comedy no more then a minute long.

In the 1900's cinema changed, the manifestation of silent film hit cinema's all over North America and Europe. These films were up to a half hour long and usually had live bands or voice actors accompanying the film in theater for effect.

By 1929 Hollywood was birthing sound in films. The majority of this sound was static filled and hard to under stand. It wasn't until the 40's, after the war that the "Golden Age of Hollywood" emerged and began to flourish to become the cinema we recognize today.

Since its humble beginnings film and cinema has become a living, breathing thing that is constantly evolving into new directions.


Cinema 13 aims to give the film patron what they want out of movies.

So sit back and enjoy your feature presentation.