Doctor Who thing of the day: Back to the TARDIS
I honestly never get tired of Doctor Who/Back to the Future mashups…
Back to the Future
question of the day: What’s your favorite movie ending?
I might have to go with the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark, with the ark being packed away into a warehouse, presumably never to be seen again…
question of the day: What is so genuinely special about ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark,’ and ‘Back to the Future’?
Tim Walker at The Independent made me cry yesterday, for reminding me how the movies of my childhood made me fall in love with movies, and for suggesting that such movies may never come again…
watch it: strange ‘Back to the Future’-themed ad from Argentina
No one seems to know what this ad from Argentina is selling, but it’s got Doc Brown and the time-traveling De Lorean, so it’s all good.
question of the day: Would banning time-travel stories make our TV healthier?
They apparently won’t be getting the Doctor Whos in China, where censors have all but banned time-travel stories. WTF? Or so crazy it just might work?
watch it: 1980s European Volkswagen Beetle commercial
A hilarious tie-in to this week’s unveiling of never-before-seen video of Eric Stoltz’s brief tenure as Marty McFly…
question of the day: If Eric Stoltz could have been Marty McFly, what other 80s movies might have been differently cast?
Did you know that Eric Stoltz was originally cast as Marty McFly in Back to the Future? I seem to vaguely recall hearing something along those lines, but now there’s video evidence… because Robert Zemeckis actually shot for weeks before deciding that Stoltz was wrong for the role.
question of the day: What is the greatest children’s film of all time?
The U.K.’s *Radio Times* — the British equivalent of the U.S.’s *TV Guide* — polled its readers to determine the best movies for kids ever made…
omg: somewhere in an alternate universe, Lisa Simpson is getting married today
Reader Martin reminds me that in a Simpsons-flavored parallel future-now, today — August 1, 2010 — was to have been the day that Lisa would have been marrying Hugh Parkfield…
Friday night fortune cookie: Doc Brown says…
“Why are things so heavy in the future?”
