Y'all might not be ready for this
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shittydwarf@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Marty would be teenager from today. He’d be livestreaming Doc Brown’s experiment. He’d see his dad watching the dancing baby in the 90s and be like, “I’ve seen this meme, it’s classic”. They’d be like, “wtf is a meme”.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
“Oh he means an image macro”
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Well, there was the entire newsgroup alt.memetics…
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Please for the love of all the gods do not give studio execs this idea or they’ll be scrabbling for a remake.
moncharleskey@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The original director and screenwriter aren’t allowing anyone to do a remake, so I guess we are safe as long as they are alive.
StabbingSky@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Heroes
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Robin Williams did Aladdin on the proviso nobody would do a remake.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Scrambling?
ScottyTheEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Nope, scrabbling. The film will be written using whatever words the writers use in their scrabble game
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Part II would be basically be Terminator
Here’s a few events from 1885:
Mark Twain publishes “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
Washington Monument dedicated
Convicted murderer gets spared from death when gallows malfunction
Apache leader Geronimo flees Arizona reservation, setting off panic
Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor
Chinese miners are massacred in Wyoming Territory
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
No, not 1885. 1926. It would be Gatsby era.
Doc would be stockpiling gold for the Depression and driving an early electric Model T.
shingalated@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean, I would watch it.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Super Mario Brothers was released closer to WWII than to today.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 weeks ago
Jo Biden was born closer to the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln than to his own.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I haven’t heard this one before. Excellent.
Yew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Blame it on the Rain. I’d be like “oh I’ve seen these guys before, they lip sync and the guy on the left is about to die.”
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Dad crawls out from under the desk
“Hey hey hey, now we can surf the World Wide Web!”
Marty: “Hey I’ve seen this funny image before.”
Kid: “How have you seen it before? It just got posted.”
Marty: “Yeah, it’s a… repost.”
Kid: “What’s a repost?”
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
X@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Wow what a reference lol
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And then he’d be in the future of '56 where people are calling each other “choom” and solar power doesn’t work cause of all the dust and pollution in the sky, but people wear two neckties sometimes.
pentastarm@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Sounds nova
TownhouseGloryHole@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Stop, stop, it’s getting too real!
topperharlie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If back to the future was released today more than 1/3 of the population would root for biff and would say that the movie is “too political” and “woke propaganda”.
Then again, being OK with child rape by that same group of people wasn’t something I would have expected even 10 years ago… I knew they were brain-dead, just not that much…
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If back to the future was released today more than 1/3 of the population would root for biff and would say that the movie is “too political” and “woke propaganda”.
That was half the joke of the original movie. Biff got super rich off cheating at sports gambling and was rewarded for his sudden financial success with political authority, because the writers of the movie knew that’s how Americans respond to anyone who appears to be financially successful practically overnight.
Biff was a critique of the people who elected Ronald Reagan. People who were saying exactly the same fascist shit as MAGA Trumpies today.
Then again, being OK with child rape by that same group of people wasn’t something I would have expected even 10 years ago…
You must have slept through the whole Catholic Sex Abuse moment. The sex-crimes apologists were crawling out of the woodwork. Guys like Ross Douthat made their first nut trying to defend the indefensible. Half of the Peggy Noonan columns were just her whining about anti-Catholic bias every time another child-rape story broke. JD Vance made his Catholic Turn right in the middle of the scandal, seemingly to suck up to the rich Catholic fuckwits gullible enough to believe he was going to protect them.
Before that, you had the string of scandals at the Texas Youth Corrections office. And the Abramoff Scandal, which had an often-undercovered element of child sex trafficking in the Marianas Islands. And, of course, Epstein himself got off with multiple slaps on the wrist across multiple administrations, thanks to his DC (and Mossad) connections. All these people and institutions retained conservative support in the face of a deluge of accusations and a torrent of new victims coming forward.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I think the difference is between how much things were chamging back then. The 50s were very different to the 80s. Technology changed completely and also the 80s were post-vietnam which caused huge changes in the culture. As for the 90s its all about digital technology and computers aaand so is today? Theres a reason for(at least for people arround me cause im gen z 💀) our grandparents being ‘technology shocked’ so much while our parents grew up sorta with the same stuff as us. Yes the access was different but my mom used to play pirated videogames on a computer at the library. That definitely wasnt a thing in the 50s. Thats my perspective at least. Also me being eastern european may influence this cause for us time and progression was locked for so long and the 80s freed all of it up.
Dadifer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In 1998, my father sent me to school with a pager you could leave voice messages on. My friends were amazed how advanced it was.
Serinus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
1995-2005 was all about Chatrooms (AOL, IRC, AIM) and easily social media. 2015-2026 is all about Chatrooms and social media being taken over by corporate interests, state actors, and political public opinion manipulation all posing as the AOL, IRC, AIM era.
left_is_best@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
The omnipresence of the internet and its perversion into a tool of the surveillance state would be the most shocking thing to a lot of people, I think. If you told an adult from the early 90s that all of their communications would go through one device that you kept in your pocket and that large corporations and governments were collecting data from it 24/7, they’d shit a brick.
I think a teenager like Marty from today would have a hard time navigating communication in the 90s as well. Like you had to get your hands on the Yellow Pages and use a pay phone or a land line somewhere. People weren’t walking around with cell phones that you could just borrow, and you couldn’t just look someone up with their name on social media and send them a DM. That’s something that I think is much more different 1996 to 2026 than 1955 to 1985.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Today, the Internet is something which just exists and is deeply (forcefully) entrenched in our everyday lives. A teenager from today would have their mind blown that in 1995 you had to hook your computer up to the phone jack to access the Internet and it’d be difficult to do much without Google as the default search.
mattyroses@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Marshall? It’s your cousing, Marvin. Marvin Mathers.
You know that sound about Aunt Debbie’s spaghetti you’ve been looking for? Well, listen to this!
Harvey656@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The more important question, what car would be the one modified ti become a time machine?
_chris@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Based on the stainless steel body requirements, I know the answer and I don’t like it.
Harvey656@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think about joke in the movie would be its supposed to be a cyberpunk, but the vehicle falls apart during a test run, so they use a Ford focus instead.
VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
If they remake BTTF with a Cybertruck we should burn down the movie studio
X@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
What car could they be referring…
stainless steel body…
AH FUCK YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH
Took me a second and I wish I hadn’t figured it out
left_is_best@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
As far as short-lived US brands with only one production model go, there are two choices in the recent past - Fisker Karma and Lordstown Endurance.
darklamer@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
In the category of “quirky and iconic but affordable sports car just a few years old at the time of the plot” there’s probably only one obvious choice for 1995: Mazda MX-5
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, my thought was either a Miata or maybe go a bit more exotic and go with the Lotus Elise (first released in 1996).
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Based on Hollywood’s current casting priorities, it would have to be a Subaru.
Harvey656@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m not ashamed to say i would enjoy that.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I could live with that.
DonkeyStar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My guess is that the time machine would be a Pontiac Grand Am.
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
Doc breathes you made a TIME machine catches breath out of a CyberTruck?
Einstein explodes
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Who would the terrorists be?
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He could say he tried it with 3
android butt plugscybertrucks before he realized the exploding car/firetreads weren’t the vehicle traveling through time, it was just that piece of shit vehicle exploding
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How about a Pontiac Aztek?
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“The way I see it, if you’re gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?”
Yeah no wouldn’t work with an Aztek
DonkeyStar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“I had to modify it so that it would be able to reach 88 miles per hour. The tires are the only factory original parts left.”
cattywampas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Like, yeah, that’s how time and math work.
snoons@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Watch as my corporeal form fades into dust.
r0bi@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Marty would say “no cap” often causing Doc to ask what the future had to do with headwear.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Funny the massive cultural change between the 1950s and the 1980s whereas it really feels like far, far less has changed between the 1990s and today.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Idk, the internet, smoking rates, queer issues, maga, americans identifying as socialists, mass surveillance, etc.
Marty would be showing up in the 90s with a mustache and crop top, confused as to why everything is smoky as hell and why so many people are calling him homophobic slurs, as he has to figure out how to get onto and use the internet. Also a lot of his slang will be incomprehensible to the people of the 90s
jpablo68@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
yeah but in 1995 there was no broadband internet so going online to check or search for something right away was out of the question, no widespread cellular phone usage so no contacting anyone at any moment, no social media, I think the cultural change in regards of how we perceive the world as interconnected has changed
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes. But we did have computers, basic social media, cell phones, and yes, we did have what constituted fast internet wirh DSL or T1 lines. No, it wasn’t “broadband” by today’s standards, but it was fast enough. Cable internet came out for consumers in ‘96.
Point being anyone going back to ‘95 would have little trouble understanding the world, and vice-versa. The big difference would be carrying the internet, CD collection, and movies in your pocket on a phone. I daresay there would be no small number of people who would prefer the ’90s to all the bullshit happening over the last coupled decades.
Going from home PCs, early gaming consoles, cable TV, laser-discs, and a whole other shitload of changes technologically and societally between 1985 and 1955 IMO have a lot more stark differences.
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Well, if you count Lemmy as social media, I guess usenet is… tho it’s for nerds in universities.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think a big part of that is how the 80s/90s had inherited a lot from the 1950s that never really made it over the 2000s divide.
So what you had in the 1980s was 50s revanchism that dominated mainstream culture while a strain of alt-media was growing in the cracks. And now that old 50s/80s culture has been fully strangled by an outgrowth of 90s/00s culture which has become the cornerstone of modern media and culture.
FFS, there’s a Hillary Duff revival going on. Won’t be long until Britney Spears is rediscovered and we have another Bush running for the White House.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Marty would rap a bbno$ song that the kids wouldn’t be ready for.
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Marty: “This is a blues riff in B, watch me for the changes, and try to keep up, OK?”
Process to play Smooth by Santana and Rob Thomas.
mattyroses@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I guess you guys aren’t ready for that . . . but to your kids, it’s gonna be a hot one
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
“Hey Carlos! Carlos, it’s your cousin! It’s your cousin - Enrique Santana. Hey, you know that new comeback sound you’re looking for? Well listen to this!”
Holds cordless landline phone at the band
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is a remake I’d watch.
laranis@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Would watch.
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
And Closing Time. If you hosted any kind of dance and you didn’t end it with Closing Time, you were not clever.
FatVegan@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Yeah, that’s how time and math works
Ninja876@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The movie this screen capture is from is so bizarre in a scary way (don’t want to give away the plot)
The Menu (2022)
Ralph Fiennes Anya Taylor-Joy Nicholas Hoult Hong Chau Janet McTeer Judith Light John Leguizamo
“I told you weren’t leaving”
wjrii@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
BTTF3 would just be the mid 1920s, which we haven’t seen yet, so that’s… something… right?
lntl@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
fuck
enphurgen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The song is Cbat, watch for the key changes and try to keep up
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
DELET
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I hope the advice he’d give is, “mind those Tide pods.”
timeghost@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Marty, please take me with you.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
95 certainly feels like distant past now. like completely different world
otacon239@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He would play Daft Pubk and they wouldn’t be ready for it.
JayDee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Naw, he’d play something more incomprehesible to the 90s, like skrillex or the later evolutions of the genre.
otacon239@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I feel like Dillon Francis is the right level of “starts out normal enough, then devolves into chaos”
Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Maybe some manic hyperpop
5in1k@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Opens with Marty mumble rapping in fron of a giant speaker that explodes.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not quite the same timeframe, but that clip of the surviving members of The Doors listening to Skrillex is one of the most hilarious things I’ve ever seen.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ‘99… wear… sunscreen.”
RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Daft Punk were already around in 95 though
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, basically all electronic music was invented in the nineties, little remained to discover. Idm and breakcore already came about with the crazy structures. Dubstep is the one major missing link, but it’s pretty straightforward evolution from dnb.
Fun fact: Scorn’s ‘Greetings from Birmingham’ came out in 2000 (made by former Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris), but somehow the dubstep genre got entirely hijacked by the London people later on.
DrWorm@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Daft! Daft! It’s Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Punk?
TechnicallyWrite@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Harder!
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nah dubstep