Back to the Future (1985)

  Here's a movie that's gotten a resurge of popularity.  It seems like you can't go anywhere on the internet without someone saying what a classic this film is.  Personally, I don't have much of stake in this one.  The third one was more of my speed.  It came out when I was eight-years-old, which is probably the most appropriate age to see it, before you hit your teens and everything becomes lame.

Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is a typical high school nobody who happens to be friends with the local scientific kook, Dr. Emmet Brown (Christopher Lloyd).  When Dr. Brown builds a time machine, Marty is on hand to film the testing.  But then Libyan terrorists show up and Marty ends up traveling to 1955 to try and escape them.  Stranded in the past with no juice to get back home, he looks up the Doc Brown of this time and enlists his help.  Unfortunately, Marty also manages to disrupt the first meeting between his parents, jeopardizing his future.  He has to find a way to make them interested in each other while also fending off the local bully. 

Watching it now, all I can see is the horrible age makeup.  They did their level best, but technology has not been kind.  I know that's a minor thing to get hung up on but there you go.  Otherwise, it's exactly as I remember it.