2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTell me future boy, who's the President in 2017?
t appears Dr. Emmett Brown is a fan of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
On Wednesday afternoon also Back to the Future Day, as it is the moment Marty McFly travels to from 1985 Sanders posted a picture over social media with actor Christopher Lloyd dressed as his iconic character.
Tell me, future boy, who's President of the United States in 2017?
"Bernie Sanders."
Bernie Sanders?! From Vermont?
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/christopher-lloyd-dresses-as-doc-833815
LiberalArkie
(15,730 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,520 posts)and his costume would not have all of the wrinkles.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)I mean, it's bad enough we don't have hoverboards, but clothes that still wrinkle? Heck, I think I'll stay right in 1985!
frylock
(34,825 posts)ZM90
(706 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)And the BernieBro comment up thread had me laughing.
Zany Gnome
(9 posts)Thank you for sharing this picture. It's quite enjoyable as Doc Brown is currently making his rounds before heading back to 1985.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)Thanks for that Uncle Joe. Great OP!!!
FEEL THE BERN!!!!
RoverSuswade
(641 posts)I loved the part where "Chuck Berry's brother Marvin" calls up Chuck so he could listen to Marty McFly play guitar.
Juicy_Bellows
(2,427 posts)"The only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of Bernie."
George II
(67,782 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,459 posts)Sorry to burst the bubbles of Cubs fans, Back to the Future fans and fans of sheer randomness, but Ive got some bad news for you: The second movie in the trilogy doesnt actually predict that the Cubs would win the World Series in 2015 (something thats growing less likely in our current year, but is still technically possible). Oh, it predicts it in the 2015 to which Marty and Doc originally travel, but if youll bear with me through some high-level nerdery, youll see why said prediction was only made within a timeline that no longer exists in the world of the film.
Okay and youre going to have to bear with me here (Cubs pun!) so Doc, Marty and Jennifer go to 2015 from 1985 because something has to be done about their kids. Doc knocks out Jennifer and then tells Marty to go into the Cafe 80s to stop his son from making a disastrous pact with Biffs grandson, Griff. Marty looks around, sees the hologram news feed of the Cubs beating Miami in a sweep, meets the old guy who wants to save the clock tower, discusses the baseball news in which Marty is surprised by Miamis existence, not the Cubs winning, to which the old man says the line that sets the whole plot in motion: I wish I could go back to the beginning of the season and put some money on the Cubbies.
The win is even mentioned in the next days USA TODAY (the Cubs swept in five, suggesting MLB had moved to the old best-of-nine Series format). It also gets little publicity in the paper, suggesting the Cubs winning wasnt as momentous as it would have been this year or that baseball is no longer a huge sport. I mean, its under the Slamball playoffs beginning, for Great Scotts sake! But, in this timeline, the Cubs did win the World Series over Miami. That part is completely true.
(snip)
At the end of the film, with Marty and Jennifer milling about the destroyed time machine, Doc comes back in the time-machine train with Clara, Jules and Verne and says that since the time machine is smashed and Marty didnt get hurt in a drag race, he has altered history in such a way that the future isnt written. We leave the films with a 2015 in which anything can happen. The history is unwritten. So all that stuff that happened in the beginning Martys kid hanging around with Griff, the crash through the clock tower, the release of Jaws 19 and, most importantly, the Cubs winning doesnt necessarily have to happen in this new timeline. Its life a butterfly effect thing.
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/10/back-to-the-future-2-doesnt-predict-cubs-will-win-world-series-timeline-1985-2015
George II
(67,782 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,459 posts)Back to the Future.
It's remarkable though, how close that scenario played out, the odds against the Cubs even being in the World Series.
BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)Cool post!
Demeter
(85,373 posts)and many more of them for Bernistas.
Uncle Joe
(58,459 posts)mike dub
(541 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,867 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Well worth an R&
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)To FB too. Love it! Love that movie
Uncle Joe
(58,459 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)BootinUp
(47,201 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Volaris
(10,275 posts)Love that Plate, and where's my goddamned HOVERBOARD???
'Jesus!, Doc!...You disintegrated Einstein!'
Lol@ The Lybians
rpannier
(24,342 posts)Obama is going to declare martial law, elections will be postponed, he'll take over complete control of the country, the military, the police, etc. The UN forces that have been living in specially built shelters in the sewers under Detroit will climb out from their hidey hole and take over the US
We'll become an Islamo-Fascist, Socialist, Radical Christian hell hole
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Change the future to something we can live and love and shape ourselves -- you know, Democracy.
Thank you, Uncle Joe! Great OP and thread.
azmom
(5,208 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,459 posts)Back to the Future villain based on Trump
Back to the Future villain Biff Tannen was inspired by Donald Trump, according to the films writer.
We thought about it when we made the movie! screenwriter Bob Gale told the Daily Beast on Wednesday.
A high school bully who terrorizes Marty McFly in the original, Tannen appears in the sequel as a golden-haired casino mogul who uses his money and influence to assume political power in a dystopic America, circa 2015.
Are you kidding? You watch Part II again and theres a scene where Marty confronts Biff in his office and theres a huge portrait of Biff on the wall behind Biff, and theres one moment where Biff kind of stands up and he takes exactly the same pose as the portrait? Gale said.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/257578-back-to-the-future-villain-based-on-trump
azmom
(5,208 posts)again. Thanks Uncle Joe
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)cindyperry2010
(846 posts)sweet
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Love that white hair...on both of them!
My hair is just starting to turn white, but I call it platinum!
Uncle Joe
(58,459 posts)No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.
Sextus Propertius
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sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)senz
(11,945 posts)For the sake of this country and its people, I hope we can make it reality.