film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997
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A hilarious tie-in to this week’s unveiling of never-before-seen video of Eric Stoltz’s brief tenure as Marty McFly…
Just because the idea of Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future sounds wrong doesn’t mean he wouldn’t have been awfully cute as Marty McFly…
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.
Some people are bitching about the smoking in Avatar, which is more of the same-old, same-old we’ve been hearing for years now: smoking is evil, won’t someone think of the children, lighting up is worse than murder (at least on film), etc. Now, I’m not a smoker and I never enjoyed being in a smoky … more…
