Continuing with my trend of watching movies from the 1980s, today’s movie was Back to the Future: Part II.

“After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985 … without interfering with his first trip.”

The movie starts with a look at 21 October 2015. In 1989 when this movie was made, thirty years in the future looked like we would have flying cars, hoverboards, instant pizza, an instant judicial system with no lawyers, self-tying shoelaces, and auto-fitting clothes.

(As it’s now 2024, we definitely didn’t get any of the cool toys they promised us).

Marty and Doc Brown succeed in fixing the future from 2015 but then go back into the nightmare 1985, a nightmare 1985 that feels closer and closer to our real-world potential reality with every major election in the United States these days, starting from (oddly) 2016.

Anyway. I do like how the second movie did all that research to make the first movie and this one play so well together and how they give hints for the third movie throughout this one. It’s a really well-done and creative movie.

Overall, this movie is a high two on my rating scale. I’m glad I bought the 25th anniversary box collection but I don’t need to rewatch this too frequently, especially how horribly the alternate 1985 is and how it reminds me of the potential future if certain people continue to be worshiped as false idols and allowed in positions of power.

Back to the Future: Part II. Directed by Robert Zemleckis, Executive Producers Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall, Produced by Bob Gale and Neil Canton, performances by Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, and Thomas F. Wilson, Universal Studios, 1989.