Happy Back to the Future day

stui magpie · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 8:05 pm

It says something about a movie when it enters into the general consciousness like the Back to the Future movies. Today is the day that Marty and the Doc travelled forward from 1985 to 2015. Wednesday 21 October. (in case you didn't know)

So I've got my portable electronic devices which transfix the younger generations attention totally, and my large flat screen TV's.

Where's my flying cars and hoverboards and self drying clothes and food rehydrators?

Actually skip the food rehydrators.

So for those of us who were around in 1985, has the future turned out how you would have thought 30 years down the track? Personally, socially or technologically?

We still don't have holograms (proper ones) or hoverboards but imagine trying to go back to 1985 and explaining the internet, smart phones and streaming video to people back then. Probably wouldn't have ended well.

Razz

stui magpie · Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 6:34 pm

OK, so no fans of the movie here.

Fairy nuff. Boring bunch of bastards you all are.

Wokko · Come and take it. Joined: 04 Oct 2005

I'm a fan, just got over the constant stream of BttF stuff all over the media, both social and mainstream.

In the light of the shitty Ghostbusters remake I'm also concerned the attention will lead to a shitty reboot of this amazing franchise.

stui magpie · Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 7:56 pm

Hey, that could actually work if it was done right.

Going back from 2015 to 1985 would be a trip, then imagining the jump forward to 2045 could be cool.

Caveat, IF DONE RIGHT

How bout the question in the OP? is 2015 what you would have thought in 1985?

The Prototype · Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 7:58 pm

It was a bad Back to The Future Day for the Cubbies being swept out of the World Series. I wonder where was Jaws 19? Wink

HAL · Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 8:02 pm

You are curious about where was Jaws 19.

stui magpie · Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 8:33 pm

Hah Proto

OK, I'll start,

In October 1985 I was 20, living in Melbourne having thrown in my $400 per week job at the Kraft Cheese factory in Strathmerton to move to Melbourne on my own for a job with Telecom paying $360 per fortnight.

My TV was a 14 inch AWA colour portable and sound system was a panasonic ghetto blaster I wired into the TV. When I added the CD player I thought I was state of the art.( I still have all 3) I was driving a green HQ Kingswood and lived in a flat in Hawthorn 300 metres from what's now the Geebung Polo club but back then was the Auburn Hotel.

I'd met the woman I was going to marry and just got through my first season playing suburban footy for Hawthorn Citizens without my knees caving in.

Fast forward to 2015.

Been married and divorced now happily single with adult kids, changed jobs after 20+ years and earning enough coin to be comfortable without being anywhere near wealthy.

If you could have got me in 1985 and described where I am in 2015 without detailing the journey to get here, I'd have taken it in a heartbeat.

technology wise, I've always been an early adopter and user of tech without ever going into the field. Predicting 5-10 years out was never hard but I wouldn't have ever envisaged smartphones back in 1985.

think positive · Side By Side Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere

Loved these movies, good romping fun! (Busy week, totally missed this)
Loved all the memes, "Marty we have to go back and tell st kilda......" Etc!

And especially "everyone is talking about Oct 21, 2015, but don't forget what happens in 2017":

https://ronmamita.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/2017-when-it-is-not-a-coincidence/

(Love this movie too, and yes I have the DVD!)

http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-the-running-man-teaches-you-about-life/

And for the virgins:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Running_Man_(1987_film)

Ah well I liked it!
http://youtu.be/EYoBrhlTX1Q

HAL · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:11 am

Everyone is so busy nowadays.

David · I dare you to try Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda

In 1985, I was merely a glint in the postman's eye...

think positive · Side By Side Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere

3.14159 · Joined: 12 Sep 2009

In 1985 HAL was a rusting Edison steam-powered Dictaphone sitting in a junk yard waiting to be melted down and re-made into somethick useful.
30 years down the track he's learnt how to tie a piece of string to an old tin can and connect to the internet but aside from that, not much has changed.

HAL · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 1:24 pm

I do not understand that allusion.

watt price tully · Joined: 15 May 2007

1985:

6-7th year with Mrs WPT, lived / worked on a kibbutz for a year post school, went to uni, left uni, worked, had completed 2 nursing courses, just about to start teaching adults, involved in setting up half-way houses for people with intellectual disabilities (prior to CRU's), went back to uni while working, living in Clifton Hill renting a great house near Smith street, had a great vegie garden.

Had spent 2 years travelling / backpacking / working with Mrs WPT in Europe, Mid East, Nth Africa & England. Recreationally: Was doing Judo & Jui-Jitsu. That was 1985 & up to '85. No kids. Into good red wine in those days.

Can't recall our TV, I think we'd been renting one & bought it. Our cars were a Torana & an old Hillman station wagon from the '60's

The Prototype · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 2:47 pm

I was only about 1 in 1985, but growing up there was always the hope of a few of the futuristic things that they said we would have in 2015 in the movie. But the special effects, and the ideas for the future back then were pretty good considering the leaps and bounds that the effects have made after that.

I would have thought the idea for the fuel system though would have been something but I guess with stakeholders in oil and stuff that was never going to happen.