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This just in: to mark its 25th anniversary the Back to the Future Trilogy is being released in Blu-Ray and with never-before-seen footage. I couldn't be more excited about this news. The list of movies I would get this pumped about is very short and includes: Indiana Jones, Groundhog Day, and The Notebook.

To honor this momentous event I have given my quick thoughts and summary of each movie:

Back to the Future

What can I say that hasn't already been said. This iconic movie transcends the big hair, leg warmers, and cassette tapes of the decade in which it was filmed. We were introduced to some of our favorite movie characters like Marty McFly, Emitt "Doc" Brown, and hopelessly nerdy, certifiably creepy, yet completely lovable George McFly. And who could forget the time machine itself? Natrually the producers of the movies used the Cadillac of cars, the DeLorean, for the time machine. Between the gull-wing doors, 170 horse-power engine, and Flux Capacitor the DeLorian was a modern marvel.

The plot took us on along with Marty as he was accidentally sent to the year 1955 after he witnessing his friend Doc get gunned down by some Libyans (in Libya the movie ends there. It won the Libyan version of an Oscar for Best Short Film). While in 1955 Marty gets into all kinds of tomfoolery. Ultimately Marty must ignite the spark between his young mother and young father. SPOILER ALERT!!! He is successful and proceeds to rock the house to the classic Johnny B. Good and an insane guitar solo that the crowd isn't quite ready for, but their kids are going to love.
In an epic scene, Marty is able to leave the past by channeling 1.21 gigawats of electricity from a lightning strike directly into the Flux Capacitor. At the end of the movie Marty and his girlfriend, Jennifer, are visited by Doc who says they need to travel to the future in the now flying DeLorean ("Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads").

Additionally in 1988 a much younger version of myself saw this movie for the first time and tormented my parents with my favorite line, "What are you looking at, butthead?"

Check back tomorrow for my summary of the second movie.