Inspired by the "Does it bother you" thread - just thought I'd ask who of us likes BTTF or Star Wars more.

Trilogies like this seem to be either a "love 'em or hate 'em" kinda thing - rarely is there the inbetween crowd. Personally, I never could get into Star Wars, even though I semi liked Episode 1.

Also feel free to give your thoughts on both here (hey, the BTTF-er in me can get into more discussions, and I can learn more about SW!).  :D

I will have to go with "Back To The Future" because I have never really been a fan of "Star Wars".  I have tried to watch "Star Wars" movies twice and fell asleep both times so I figured that was a pretty good sign that I wasn't a fan.

Star Wars

Back to the future all the way!  :D

Back to the Future

I was never a Star Wars fan....ever...Gimme Star Trek any day though!

back to the future is not even good science. at least star wars is space opera, so i pick star wars.

Yeah, BTTF for me as well, I always found Star Wars a tad....tedious  :o

Back To The Future!

Star WARS!!!!!.......*due to my MAD obsession with it*



Back to the future was good too.



But boba fett perpetually stole my heart <3


~Beth :)

I voted both, but I have a tendency to like BTTF more.

Tanya

I like both but chose Back To The Future 8)

I will have to go with "Back To The Future" because I have never really been a fan of "Star Wars".


Ditto.  :)

Back To The Future!  I get caught up watching it everytime it comes on TV.  I cannot do Star Wars........boring. :-\\

Heathens!!!

From the opening credits of 'A New Hope' i was hooked.

I am the uber star wars geek or the surrounding area. Whenever somebody mentions it, i give them the full commentary, and usually see them running away about 12 minutes later.

^i'm the same. good thing all of my friends feel the same way. you know your a star wars geek when you can discuss imperial politics and foreign diplomacy all night with others of your kind.

you can't do that with BTTF.

^i'm the same. good thing all of my friends feel the same way. you know your a star wars geek when you can discuss imperial politics and foreign diplomacy all night with others of your kind.

you can't do that with BTTF.


Bingo.

I once had a discussion for about an hour regarding the way 'The Corporate Sector' was becoming increasingly more like Imp Space.  ;D

you know your a star wars geek when you can discuss imperial politics and foreign diplomacy all night with others of your kind.

you can't do that with BTTF.


Dam, and I wanted to spend my whole night discussing BTTF. ;) ;D

Most definatley BTTF! It is the only series that I can force myself to sit down and watch.

Didn't like either, in retrospect. They were okay at the time, but I guess it woulda been Star Wars back in the day.

Didn't like either, in retrospect. They were okay at the time, but I guess it woulda been Star Wars back in the day.


Well I have actually never saw Star Wars because it is one of those movies I think I could only watch 5 minutes of, before turning it off in complete boredum.

Sorry but "Back to the Future" is more fun to watch. I thought Star wars was kinda cheesy.

i had to say Star Wars because even though BTTF is good i just don't like to sit around and watch them.

Star Wars, in my opinion, is much better than Back to the Future.

Heathens!!!

From the opening credits of 'A New Hope' i was hooked.

I am the uber star wars geek or the surrounding area. Whenever somebody mentions it, i give them the full commentary, and usually see them running away about 12 minutes later.




SCORE ONE FOR THE GOOD GUYS!!!!!...*high five*



~Beth :)

i had to say Star Wars because even though BTTF is good i just don't like to sit around and watch them.



SCORE ONE FOR THE GOOD GUYS!!!!!...*high five*

~Beth :)

Star Wars, in my opinion, is much better than Back to the Future.


Score 3 more

Score 3 more



Woot! *dances*


Umm...back to the future = OLD MAN....wheres the fun in that?

STAR WARS = SLick lightsaber action, "The Force" usage....and for the love of god "BOBA FETT!!!!"



Now THAT should change your mind

~Beth

Umm...back to the future = OLD MAN....wheres the fun in that?

Yeah, but Doc Brown ain't exactly your "typical" 65-year-old man!  ;D

In the first timeline - where George is a nerd, Biff is a bully, etc - I would assume Marty was happy to become friends with him (and really, despite their huge age difference, they did seem like actual good friends with each other), in part to get out of the house and away from his loser family as much as possible.

Maybe, since Doc was a scientist -- and hence, always working on inventions and stuff -- Marty, around 1980, might've become a helper of sorts to Doc, and that could be how they got to know each other (this actually has been suggested by writer Bob Gale as a possibiliy - and I tend to agree!).

Of course, in the 2nd timeline -- where George is cool and knocks out Biff -- Doc would have to befriend this Marty in 'cool 1980' to keep history on track! In fact, I wonder how that might've went. Could you see the following scene happening in, say 1974 of the "cool George" timeline:

LITTLE MARTY: Dad, this weird old man won't leave me alone here!
DOC: But Marty, if we don't meet and become friends, it could be potentially damaging to the space-time continuum!
LITTLE MARTY: Daaaaad!!!  ;D

I like both. :)

I like both. :)


BOTH?!?!?


I don't think that was the question there, SKIPPY!

chose or you will pay....IN BLOOD!


~Beth

Is that a challenge?

Does crap smell?



*sits back and acts tough*





~Beth

You aren't so tough. I bet you aren't tough at all.

You aren't so tough. I bet you aren't tough at all.




Don't make checks that your mouth can't pay for bucko


*sits back...again and acts tough*



~Beth

I voted BTTF.  I never really got Star Wars.  BTTF, though, is the best movie since Safety Last! with Harold Lloyd.

ask this question on a gamer forum and see the flames fired at BTTF.

ask this question on a gamer forum and see the flames fired at BTTF.


That's cool - to each his own, LOL.

As far as illogical though - ask me anything time-travel related for the BTTF's, and I promise I'll find a way to work it out! ;)

That's cool - to each his own, LOL.

As far as illogical though - ask me anything time-travel related for the BTTF's, and I promise I'll find a way to work it out! ;)


BTTF creates a mobius strip, a continous trap in time, an indefinite loop where time keeps repeating itself. so, one can't go back in time and change the past because the present already happened. if you could go back in time, every concieavable coincidence would pop up to stop you from changing the past.

a more plausible time travel story (and theoretically possible) is that going back in time creates a seperate quantum reality from the time you came from. you can back in time, kill hitler before WW2 and you create a universe where hitler never caused the war but the time and universe where you came from, hitler still existed and WW2 happened.... :)

Cool, I always love a good debate. :)


BTTF creates a mobius strip, a continous trap in time, an indefinite loop where time keeps repeating itself. so, one can't go back in time and change the past because the present already happened. if you could go back in time, every concieavable coincidence would pop up to stop you from changing the past.

Ah, interesting, but I slightly disagree based on what we see on-screen.

BTTF's universe does indeed operate (also according to Bob Gale & Robert Zemeckis) on a 'changeable timeline'. At the beginning, George is a grown-up nerd who gets pushed around by Biff since at least high school. Lorraine is depressed and Marty's siblings are losers.

In this original 1955 -- as Lorraine recounts at the dinner table -- she met George when her dad hit him with the car. There obviously was no Marty in this version of history.

At the end of Part 1 though, we do see the 'new' 1985 where George stood up to Biff and the family is much better off. This was a result of Marty's actions and presence in 1955.

However, Bill & Ted operates on the kind of timeline you described - a "fixed" history where something always happened (it's much easier to figure out that way, but also way less fun - assuming it were real, LOL!!). So even when Bill & Ted are 8 years old, there would still be a history of Napolean and everyone else having visited San Dimas, then being returned to their home times.

As for why there was no known mention of this? Maybe they thought it was all a dream. Maybe they never told anybody, could be a number of reasons

a more plausible time travel story (and theoretically possible) is that going back in time creates a seperate quantum reality from the time you came from. you can back in time, kill hitler before WW2 and you create a universe where hitler never caused the war but the time and universe where you came from, hitler still existed and WW2 happened.... :)


I like the parallel universe theory - much more sci-fi. Although it beats the heck outta me as to how it would work (i.e. if there are parallel universes out there, how do you get from one to the other?).

Back to the future

Star Wars is a long series of movies and after you've seen them all then you don't really want to see them any more

Back To The Future seems more believable.

Star Wars is a long series of movies and after you've seen them all then you don't really want to see them any more

Hmmmmm Annimal... Star wars to me is just 3 movies and they are just as enjoyable everytime as when I first viewed them :)