• It felt like a long time between Tron and its sequel... felt like decades.... wait... it was! =P Anyway I remember vividly seeing this movie (as a kid) at a theater in Albuquerque, NM with my dad and his friends. I still vividly remember seeing that final bit with the delorean as well. Anyway those two parts ARE very close except for minor differences and the mentioned actress. I was a little dissapointed that the original actress didn't come out in the sequel. That almost ruined the film for me but BTTF2 was still awesome and I watched it many times. The best things about the two clips in my opinion are Christopher Lloyd's performance and the fact they had the exact same trash piled the exact same way in both movies. The new Jennifer did a pretty good job too at some points she was perfectly synced with the old Jennifer. I would like it if Robert Zemeckis made moves like this, Roger Rabbit and Death Becomes Her again.

• It was sort of the reverse for me; while Back to the Future Trilogy is my favorite movie (seriously, I don't even like to think of them individually except in historical and trivia-type contexts; it's all one great thing to me), I actually did not see the first one until after I'd seen part II. But I do know that it seemed like the 1985 of the original seemed like a lifetime ago-- which at that point, it was only half a lifetime to me. And Back to the Future part III came out in no time flat. No complaints here.

• I don't think this is an age thing at all, it's a technology thing back in the 80s we didn't have the internet so we couldnt watch the trailer, the making of, behind the scenes, & not finished work prints 40x in one day on youtube so when a movie was to be continued it really meant to be continued till they finished the goddamn thing.

• I'm totally with you on the epic wait for a sequel. I didn't even see the first film until it was out on video. They showed it to us in school when I was in 4th or 5th grade, which would have only been a year or two before the sequels. My parents weren't keen on going to movies and they wouldn't have wanted me to see any of these films, so I probably didn't see the sequels until I was a teenager and they aired on TV. In the end, I guess I still waited years between them. This ends my boring childhood story...

• Nail on the head as far as the eternity between sequels! Particularly since home release took a while, so knowledge of a sequel wasn't unusual to have by VHS time. 4 years is longer than the typical, shit-out cash grab sequel you sometimes see, but I agree totally as well with the statement about having an entirely different awareness at that time. Funny to mention Batman being 20! I used that film as my "getting old" movie for years. When it was 10 and even 15, it blew my mind, I forgot totally about the 20. That was like my own "Star Wars" since I was born into a world where Star Wars had just become the most important thing in the universe. The cool thing about the insufferable wait is how we were bitchslapped with another cliffhanger, but then immediately treated to a teaser for the 3rd film right there in the theater! It was a relief, since I didn't know about trilogies and all beforehand at that age. Also, I watched BTTF2 recently with my girlfriend, and while it's still cool, it's pretty bad in a lot of ways, my girlfriend was constantly pissed at Marty for all of his shifty decisions throughout the thing. Still, it introduced the hoverboard to an entire nation of schoolyard liars, each claiming they existed.

• Thankfully, when I was 7 years old, the entire trilogy was on VHS. But God, did I wear them out. Still my favorite movie of all time.

• Monty's correct. What's more: there was no "To Be Continued" at the end of the movie until it was released on video. On the time thing: oh, HELL yes. I was 13 for the first; saw it opening day. MJ Fox represented everything it meant to be a teenager, and I actually considered Huey Lewis to be one of my favorite musicians for a while (um, "thanks" to the movie)II came out when I was a "new wave" HS senior. It would have benefited if they came out closer together. Watching the takes side by side, while AMAZING, reminds me of what i thought at the time I saw II. The scenes where they went back into the first movie (Particularly Johnny B Goode) didn't have the same "snap". Now, if somebody could do that side-by-side thing w/ the footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty? Hells yes. (google it, on the off chance you've didn't know about it...)

• Mmmmm, Elisabeth Shue.

• lol seeing those two clips together = time paradox. GREAT SCOTT!!!

• Man, if Zemeckis made that up--- between that and the hoverboard incident, he is the biggest douche on earth.

• Yeah, man, I want some of that Buckaroo sequel, too! Yesterday, even!

• More scary math: Grace Slick is 70 years old. Aerosmith's <I>comeback</I> album is twenty-two years old. Kurt Cobain killed himself fifteen years ago. Alice Cooper has been making music for forty years. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Tim Burton's Batman are 20. Britney Spears has been a star for over a decade. Etc...

• "But yeah, 4 years was a long time for a sequel that was clearly intended from the start." There was never a plan for a sequel; "To Be Continued" was a gag. Zemeckis has stated that if he'd planned to do a sequel, he wouldn't have put Jennifer in the car, necessitating knocking her unconscious for the duration of two sequels.

• Time crawls when you're a lad. Put it this way: The Offspring's SMASH just turned fifteen years old. Do you know how old that album seems to kids today? Here's a hint: When SMASH came out, albums that were as old as it is now came out in 1979.

• You aren't alone Rob, the wait between the two films seemed like an eternity. I was so frantic for BTTF II that I read the novelization the day it was released. Sad, really. I remember the Pizza Hut promotion with the strange sunglasses and some bizarre pins that had "futuristic" catchphrases like "look before you gleek" along with pictures of hoverboards. I wonder if anyone on eBay wants them?

• Was the making-of special the one with Kirk Cameron? If you haven't seen this, it is hilarious (and available on the DVDs.) I, for one, am still waiting on my promised sequel to Buckaroo Banzai, in which he takes on the World Crime League.

• I remember seeing a "Making Of" special on BTTFII, which was probably the first time I knew of a sequel. Then I learnt they were shooting II & III together. After II came out, the wait for III seemed interminable, even though it was only 6 months or so. There was a cinema near me that showed all 3 films back-to-back after part III came out, I begged my parents to take me (I was only 10). I think there were only about a dozen people in the whole cinema...

• Er, sorry for the double post.

• I felt the same way too maybe because I caught part 1 when I was a kid and when I caught part 2, I was in the middle of my teen. The director Robert Zemeckis had to do a good job to make it identical as by then, they would be lot of hardcore fans know the ending of part 1 by hard. It is necessary to pick up the audience back to the story. That what time travel is all about right?

• Lucky for me I was born in the early 90s, by the time I saw Back to the Future I could watch all three on the same day. But I bet the wait would feel long, things often do when you're expecting something.

• I was 4 when the first one came out. I was 8 when the 2nd one came out. So in proportion it would be like a 30 year old have to wait until he was 60 for something. But yeah, 4 years was a long time for a sequel that was clearly intended from the start.

• Lucky for me I was born in the early 90s, by the time I saw Back to the Future I could watch all three on the same day. But I bet the wait would feel long, things often do when you're expecting something.

• What really felt like a long time was the stretch between "Star Wars" and the "Empire Strikes Back." Even as a kid, I knew there would be a sequel but I didn't know how long it would be before one came out. The years between "Empire" and "Return of the Jedi" didn't seem nearly as long, though.

• It's a well-documented fact that time went wayyyyy slow in those days... I remember thinking it seemed like it took a million years too, and I remember my older brother ragging on me for holding my breath, confident as he was that the "To Be Continued..." at the end of the first movie was intended to be a joke (which is true, of course!). So it was doubly sweet when I found out they were actually doing the sequel, because I could rub it in his irony-comprehending face! Now that I'm old 4 years between sequels doesn't seem that bad at all... The real test of perception would be whether that measly one year wait between parts 2 and 3 seemed like a long time (it did!)

• The shots with Marty and Jennifer are similar, but I think the shots withot Elizabeth Shue are the exact same shots used in the first movie, which lends to the feeling of sameness.

• Maybe you're all just old. If you were born at the right time; you would have watched Back to The Future on USA Network when the advertisements for Back to the Future II started airing. Back to the Future III was then out by the following week.

• Being born in 1979, by the time I could watch movies, I had Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back ready to watch, and Return of the Jedi was coming out in theaters (remember watching it in there). So when something awesome comes along like Back to the Future, and especially when it TEASES more adventures, to a kid, 4 years might as well be 40. Also really odd that they filmed both sequels at the same time, but I think it works. Surely Matrix and Pirates should have learned a thing or two from BttF.

• Weirdo? Naaaaah, dude. I was itchin' to see the further adventures of Marty and The Doc, myself -- I even made the mistake of reading the novelization before seeing the movie (NEVER AGAIN). Matter of fact, I remember the day I went to see <i>Back to the Future</i>. It was February of 1986, I think, at a little-bitty multiplex in Mexico -- in the Plaza Satelite mall to be exact. I was 11 years old and I had a bad haircut, so I was wearing this stupid straw cowboy hat (Hey -- 11 years old in Mexico, all right?). So I'm standing in line for the tickets while my Dad and Stepmom wandered around the mall, and these two older girls get in line and they notice my dumbass hat...and <i>they start chatting with me</i>. I spend the next -- what? Fifteen, twenty minutes talking to these girls about movies (particularly a famous Mexican horror gflick called <i>La Llorona</i>), and then the ticket booth opens, we get the tickets... ...and the girls are gone. Well, we go in to see the movie, and of course it rocks because I'm 11, the movie is damn good stuff and it's 1986 (not as rad as 1985, but still close). And <i>I TALKED TO GIRLS</i>. Ah... ...good times. Oh, and then there's the day I went to see <i>Aliens</i> at the Hollywood in Northernm Mexico City...

• LOL, I felt the exact same way. I remember when I saw "to be continued..." I was all hyped. Then I thought it would never happen and I forgot all about it. Then I was like "ah dude they are finally doing a sequel!" Kind of reminds me of Ghostbusters.

• I'm in the same place with the Ghostbusters films. They felt so far apart, they were like whole separate parts of my popular awareness. Or something. The point is, the DeLorean is awesome.

• Felt the same way about Batman and Batman Returns...seemed like a couple decades in between the two. Am getting nostalgic just thinking about my young life when my older cousin's rumors regarding potential movies were the closest thing I had to IMDB. The Air Wolf feature length film he promised me was coming, was sadly, never made.

• When you are young, time and space move at a different rates. I saw Naked Gun in the theaters and it felt like it didn't come out on VHS for another three years. Also, a drive to the grocery store seemed to be FOREVER away when I was five. Now, I think I walk to that same store.

• Seeing the flying version of the Delorean in part II is one of my first memories of how awesome a movie could be. Hell, between that and the hoverboard, my childhood mind was super-psyched for the future. Little did I know...

• Not crazy. I felt the exact same thing - like there would never be a BTTF2. Maybe because we were younger and time moved much more slowly or maybe because there was no internet (or TR) to keep us up to date. But then 2 came out and then 3 like the next day it seemed like.

• I definitely felt the same way about the sequel, I was in first grade when a friend showed me the vhs release of the first movie. Years had passed and I had given up on the "to be continued..." and to my pleasant surprise I was in middle school when the sequel came out. The young me was very happy for that closure.

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