Word: spielbergisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...muscle and luster to the new season's prime-time competition, which promises to be the tightest in years, NBC has lured the executive producer of Back to the Future, Steven Spielberg, to mastermind a suspense anthology series called Amazing Stories. With Hollywood's alltime hitmaker anchoring the Sunday night lineup, and with a flock of summer comers, Tinker figures that "this fall may be the time when NBC blows right by everybody." Tartikoff seems energized by the thrill of the chase. "In the past," he says, "every time a show bit the dust, you figured you'd be joining...
...FINALLY back, Cutting hits way through the saccharine fallout-ridden movies of a Steven Spielberg summer, Mad Max has adventure and wry humor that puts Indiana Jones in the back seat. He is truly a welcome respite in these dog days of moviedom, when the only other adventurer on the screen is the barely articulate, militantly mad Stallone...
This is where Back to the Future becomes a Spielberg movie, and where the film picks up speed. Doc Brown is killed by the arab terrorists, and Marty escapes--via the DeLorean--back to 1955. He may be stuck there, however, because he is out of plutonium...
Marty's return to the future will have you pondering whether Spielberg tied up all the loose ends, and wondering in which reality the movie now takes place. Spielberg does a remarkably good job of keeping each timeline consistent, making Back to the Future not only one of his best movies ever, but also one of his most realistic (time machines, etc. not withstanding...
Because it lacks both the one-word title of a Goonies and the kill-all-the-bad-guys aspects of a Rambo or Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future may get lost in this summer's plethora of Spielberg and Spielberg ripoff movies. This is unfortunate, as Back to the Future is what a movie ought to be: two hours of non-stop enjoyment...