Today's comic has a time travel theme, much like Monday's. This is no coincidence. Twenty-five years ago this weekend, my all-time favorite time travel comedy*--Back to the Future--premiered.In just the same way I gave Star Wars a week, I'm giving Marty McFly, Doc Brown, and Biff a week of their own. (Oh, and don't worry, I really have no intention of honoring Batman and Robin later this summer. This should be the last of my very-special-posts-honoring-a-movie-of-my-childhood for some time.)
*For your edification, my top five time travel comedies are as follows:
1.Back to the Future
2.Groundhog Day
3.Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
4.Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
5.Terminator 2: Judgment Day
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I really wanted to put Somewhere in Time in the fifth spot of my all-time favorite time travel comedies and make some joke about Superman; Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman; and Captain von Trapp, but I realized that that would be a joke so obscure that even my extremely pop culture-savy readers wouldn't get.
ReplyDeleteOh, and according to Back to the Future Part II, we are only five years away from flying cars and hoover skateboards. I am so excited!
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of classifying Terminator as a "time travel comedy," although Terminator 3 may fit that category better. And how could you forget Austin Powers?
ReplyDeleteI do feel edified. Thank you for sharing. :)
ReplyDeleteEric, here are some of the time travel comedies that didn't make the list and why:
ReplyDeleteAustin Powers--haven't seen it, but my understanding was that Austin Powers was simply frozen and de-thawed years later (hence it doesn't quite qualify as a time travel movie).
Hot Tub Time Machine--haven't seen it nor do I plan on seeing it.
Time Bandits--haven't seen it for so long that I don't remember anything about it (I might need to revisit it, though).
Peggy Sue Got Married--blah.
Arie, if I were to psychoanalyze your blog, I would say you had a childhood dream of becoming a historical film critic that got suppressed somewhere along the way and is resurfacing in your blog posts.
ReplyDeleteOh, and I love that you posted this particular comic on the 1st of the month!
ReplyDeleteTimecop? Not really meant as a comedy, but Van Damme's acting is always a joke.
ReplyDeleteAnd while we are at it, does Groundhog day really count as time travel? I mean if Austin Powers is disqualified on a technicality, shouldn't we have the same rules for Groundhog day, even though it may be Bill Murray's finest work?
Sure, Austin Powers didn't travel through time in his first moview, but what about the critically acclaimed sequel? He takes the time-traveling shagmobile back to 1975 to hunt down Goldmember and meet up with Foxxy Cleopatra.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about Time Bandits, but I take Joel's side on the issue of Jean Claude Van Damme (which, by the way, is the second time in a week that Joel has referenced Van Damme in a blog comment).
Here's the blog Eric is referring to. I'm sure his sense of self-consciousness precluded Eric from linking it himself.
ReplyDeleteAnd, dang it, Joel's right. Jean Claude Van Damme is funnier than Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Like the cartoon, but the Austin Powers comment has me wondering...how does one become de-thawed? If thawing is melting, wouldn't de-thawing be refreezing?
ReplyDeleteWait, how do you make a joke about Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman? That show was amazingly awesome.
ReplyDeleteDr. Quinn, Medicine Woman????? You were 6 weeks old when that show was cancelled.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, Arie, have you noticed that you are up to 14 comments already? And you're post is only 2 days old. The only way I could ever get that many comments is if I libeled the Husker football team. Unless . . . maybe I should do a time travel theme . . . ?
ReplyDeleteEric, Mom and I were faithful viewers of the critically acclaimed Jane Seymour hit, thank you very much. I know I look like I'm 20 years old but I was born in 1978.
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