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.
Yeah, basically all dancey electronic music was invented in the eighties-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.
Robin Williams did Aladdin on the proviso nobody would do a remake.
Edit: Okay, I'm wrong. It happens. Sometimes a lot.
It was on the proviso that Disney approve that his voice acting - and the Genie character - were not used in any of the film’s promotional material. They did it anyway, hence why he didn't voice the Genie for the 2nd film voiced by Dan Castanella (The Return of Jafar), and came back for the third (King of Thieves) after a public apology from the Disney head at the time, and $1,000,000.
Scrabbling a script isn't something you can to while scrambling. You end up dropping way too many letters and your dialog ends up consisting of mostly two and three letter words.
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".
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.
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....
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.
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.
1995-2005 was all about Chatrooms (AOL, IRC, AIM) and early 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
As I recall, they used to be more similarly priced. Like I remember being flabbergasted at how cheap the Elise was compared to my expectations. I was expecting something more like $60-80k but they were like $30-40k. Miata was a bit cheaper but not by a huge margin.
Though it was a bit different because the Miata was more of a comfort sports car while the Elise was more of a racing sports car with bare minimum interior. Though that makes it sound even better for Doc Brown to tinker with because he wouldn't have to strip out as much to fit his extra stuff in.
Oh another option just occurred to me, though I don't recall the specifics, but wasn't John Titor's time machine mounted in a vehicle of some sort? His story timeline matches up fairly well with this BTTF remake idea, though iirc he left from the 30s rather than the 20s, and I think his wasn't closely integrated with the vehicle (like I seem to recall he had said something about swapping the vehicle it was in during his journey). Could update the method from flux capacitors to virtual black holes and even show that laser bending trick (where all other light mysteriously isn't affected by whatever is affecting the laser lol) as a satirical nod to whoever did that hoax.
He could say he tried it with 3 android butt plugs cybertrucks before he realized the vanishing car/firetreads weren't the vehicle traveling through time, it was just that piece of shit vehicle exploding
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
Edit: I forgot the biggest thing! Cell phones weren't common yet. Getting ahold of someone while they weren't home or at their desk was unlikely to succeed.
I feel like it'd be better to say that the broad cultural attitude and even aesthetics havent changed too much since the 90s. You could throw me in my normal clothes (Read weeb shirt and surplus camo jacket) and there's a pretty good chance folks would just assume I'm punk or grunge. While culture has shifted the broad attitudes have really only gotten bleaker if more socially progressive, but here's the thing the culture that existed when my grandmother was 20 and what existed when my mother was 20 is for more different than my mother and I at 20. Throw me back to 1999 and I would only look different in that I'm a paranoid asshole trying to murder his own father.
Note I'm 26, just using 20 as a baseline since it's pre 9-11 for my mom and 1976 for my grandmother.
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.
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
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 couple 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 would be a lot more stark.
The lack of smartphones and social media would be a huge change for a 17 year old today going to 1996. That alone would probably give them difficulty in navigating society.
While you’re secifically right, that’s splitting hairs when compared to the wild differences betwen ‘55 and ‘85 - which is NO PCs, NO cellphones, NO internet, etc. and the point of the comparison was the differences between going back to ‘95 or ‘55 from the specified decades. NOT focusing on a single aspect of today vs ‘95 which, by comparison, is minor despite some 17 year olds having mental breakdowns over a cellphone addiction.
"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!"
And Tom Waits had the same name on a song twenty years before that. I don't think I'm off base assuming OP meant the Semisonic one and not all the other songs with the same name that weren't '90s Billboard top 10s.
So new guess for actual easily available flying cars is 2054?
Or maybe lemmy c/fuckcars gets their wish by then and the time machine turns into a 3-seat bicycle.
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otacon239@lemmy.world · 144 pts · 2d
He would play Daft Punk and they wouldn’t be ready for it.
JayDee@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 1d
Naw, he'd play something more incomprehesible to the 90s, like skrillex or the later evolutions of the genre.
otacon239@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1d
I feel like Dillon Francis is the right level of “starts out normal enough, then devolves into chaos”
serpineslair@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
"I Need YOU YOu You you yo y-"
Vespair@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 1d
Maybe some manic hyperpop
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Or some kpop
Vespair@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
Kpop started in the 90s with Seo Taiji and Boys.
Hyperpop didn't start until the 2010s.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
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.
5in1k@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
Opens with Marty mumble rapping in fron of a giant speaker that explodes.
13igtyme@startrek.website · 35 pts · 1d
I feel like he'd start talking in brain rot and be like, "Your kids are gonna love it."
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1d
“Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ‘99… wear… sunscreen.”
RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1d
Daft Punk were already around in 95 though
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Yeah, basically all dancey electronic music was invented in the eighties-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 · 3 pts · 21h
Daft! Daft! It’s Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Punk?
TechnicallyWrite@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Harder!
shittydwarf@piefed.ca · 76 pts · 2d
Tattorack@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 1d
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 · 33 pts · 1d
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.
https://consequence.net/2025/07/back-to-the-future-why-no-remake-sequels/
StabbingSky@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 1d
Heroes
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
Robin Williams did Aladdin on the proviso nobody would do a remake.
Edit: Okay, I'm wrong. It happens. Sometimes a lot.
It was on the proviso that Disney approve that his voice acting - and the Genie character - were not used in any of the film’s promotional material. They did it anyway, hence why he didn't voice the Genie for the 2nd film voiced by Dan Castanella (The Return of Jafar), and came back for the third (King of Thieves) after a public apology from the Disney head at the time, and $1,000,000.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/robin-williams-demands-for-aladdin-threequel/
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Did that include a Live Action remake?
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22h
Explicitly a live action remake
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Do The Return of Jafar and Aladdin and the King of Thieves not count?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1d
Scrambling?
ScottyTheEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 1d
Nope, scrabbling. The film will be written using whatever words the writers use in their scrabble game
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1d
They will be scrambling to scrabble a script...I see.
I hope they cobble something together that is somewhat comprehensible.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Scrabbling a script isn't something you can to while scrambling. You end up dropping way too many letters and your dialog ends up consisting of mostly two and three letter words.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Part II would be basically be Terminator and they'd still promise flying cars and hover boards.
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 pts · 1d
No, not 1885. 1926. It would be Gatsby era.
Doc would be stockpiling gold for the Depression and driving an early electric Model T.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
OH! Right! It would be 100 years earlier. I am not a smart man.
Oh well.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1d
It's all good. The joy of realization was a gift you gave me today.
shingalated@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
I mean, I would watch it.
OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 1d
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 · 3 pts · 1d
"Oh he means an image macro"
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1d
Well, there was the entire newsgroup alt.memetics...
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 1d
Super Mario Brothers was released closer to WWII than to today.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 25 pts · 1d
Joe Biden was born closer to the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln than to his own.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1d
I haven't heard this one before. Excellent.
Madeyro@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1d
Yew@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 2d
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 · 17 pts · 1d
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 · 12 pts · 1d
X@piefed.world · 7 pts · 1d
Wow what a reference lol
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 1d
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 · 8 pts · 1d
Sounds nova
TownhouseGloryHole@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
Stop, stop, it's getting too real!
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 1d
Doc: Who's president in 2025?
Marty: Donald Trump.
Doc: Donald Trump?! The dumbfuck?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1d
Flipping on the TV
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous is on
Donald Trump is talking about how he hopes his daughter is as fuckable as his second wife
"Mr. President!"
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1d
He finally won the Dem nom?
Though that was more on the second half of the 90s that it became popular.
topperharlie@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1d
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 · 7 pts · 1d
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.
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.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1d
Biff has a certain amount of sympathy from me. At least in the first one.
Biff engages in some morally unpleasant punching-down bullying. In return Marty breaks the laws of continuity and fucks up his whole bloodline.
Its a pretty disproportionate response.
nforminvasion@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
He's literally based on Trump
CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social · 6 pts · 1d
Marty doesn't know that
tmyakal@infosec.pub · 10 pts · 1d
Weird way to describe his attempted sexual assault on Lorraine.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1d
Rape. The word you're looking for is rape.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 1d
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 · 13 pts · 1d
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 · 11 pts · 1d
1995-2005 was all about Chatrooms (AOL, IRC, AIM) and early 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 · 5 pts · 1d
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 pts · 1d
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.
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2d
The more important question, what car would be the one modified ti become a time machine?
_chris@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 1d
Based on the stainless steel body requirements, I know the answer and I don’t like it.
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1d
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 · 12 pts · 1d
If they remake BTTF with a Cybertruck we should burn down the movie studio
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
Yeah, remember Doc Brown's reason for choosing the DeLorean was because, "If you're gonna travel through time, you ought to do it in style".
Cybertruck is not style unless you are a brain-rotted seven-year-old.
Maybe a Rivian? You'd have to come up with a different issue other than the car not starting, like the difficulty of charging it or something.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Except DeLorean's reputation was as unreliable and lame.
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
But stylish. Cybertruck is Sega Genesis graphics shoved into a ps1 body
X@piefed.world · 12 pts · 1d
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
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Based on Hollywood's current casting priorities, it would have to be a Subaru.
And Marty would have to be played by Zendaya. With Pedro Pascal as Doc.
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
I'm not ashamed to say i would enjoy that.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1d
I could live with that.
left_is_best@feddit.online · 4 pts · 1d
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 · 3 pts · 1d
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 pts · 1d
Yeah, my thought was either a Miata or maybe go a bit more exotic and go with the Lotus Elise (first released in 1996).
darklamer@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1d
Lotus Elise would almost have been a perfect fit, if it had been a little less expensive and released a couple of years earlier.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
As I recall, they used to be more similarly priced. Like I remember being flabbergasted at how cheap the Elise was compared to my expectations. I was expecting something more like $60-80k but they were like $30-40k. Miata was a bit cheaper but not by a huge margin.
Though it was a bit different because the Miata was more of a comfort sports car while the Elise was more of a racing sports car with bare minimum interior. Though that makes it sound even better for Doc Brown to tinker with because he wouldn't have to strip out as much to fit his extra stuff in.
Oh another option just occurred to me, though I don't recall the specifics, but wasn't John Titor's time machine mounted in a vehicle of some sort? His story timeline matches up fairly well with this BTTF remake idea, though iirc he left from the 30s rather than the 20s, and I think his wasn't closely integrated with the vehicle (like I seem to recall he had said something about swapping the vehicle it was in during his journey). Could update the method from flux capacitors to virtual black holes and even show that laser bending trick (where all other light mysteriously isn't affected by whatever is affecting the laser lol) as a satirical nod to whoever did that hoax.
DonkeyStar@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1d
My guess is that the time machine would be a Pontiac Grand Am.
FrChazzz@lemmus.org · 18 pts · 1d
Doc breathes you made a TIME machine catches breath out of a CyberTruck?
Einstein explodes
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Who would the terrorists be?
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Make it be Jan6ers
mattyroses@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1d
beat me to it
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
And instead of promising a functional dirty bomb he claimed he has irrefutable evidence of 2020 election tampering 😂🤣😂
mattyroses@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 22h
"I promised them I'd get them the true Q story, but I just took a bunch of Alex Jones rants and existing conspiracy theories and mixed them up"
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
He could say he tried it with 3
android butt plugscybertrucks before he realized the vanishing car/firetreads weren't the vehicle traveling through time, it was just that piece of shit vehicle explodingJohnmannesca@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
How about a Pontiac Aztek?
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
"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
mattyroses@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1d
It's ironic, which was invented in 2006
DonkeyStar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
“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.”
mattyroses@lemmy.today · 17 pts · 1d
Marshall? It's your cousin, Marvin. Marvin Mathers.
You know that sound about Aunt Debbie's spaghetti you've been looking for? Well, listen to this!
snoons@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 2d
Watch as my corporeal form fades into dust.
r0bi@infosec.pub · 15 pts · 1d
Marty would say "no cap" often causing Doc to ask what the future had to do with headwear.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1d
"Does everyone wear hats in the future? Did the ozone hole get bigger?"
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2d
Like, yeah, that's how time and math work.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1d
But not how humans tend to perceive the passage of time.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
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 · 3 pts · 1d
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
Edit: I forgot the biggest thing! Cell phones weren't common yet. Getting ahold of someone while they weren't home or at their desk was unlikely to succeed.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d
I feel like it'd be better to say that the broad cultural attitude and even aesthetics havent changed too much since the 90s. You could throw me in my normal clothes (Read weeb shirt and surplus camo jacket) and there's a pretty good chance folks would just assume I'm punk or grunge. While culture has shifted the broad attitudes have really only gotten bleaker if more socially progressive, but here's the thing the culture that existed when my grandmother was 20 and what existed when my mother was 20 is for more different than my mother and I at 20. Throw me back to 1999 and I would only look different in that I'm a paranoid asshole trying to murder his own father.
Note I'm 26, just using 20 as a baseline since it's pre 9-11 for my mom and 1976 for my grandmother.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
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.
jpablo68@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1d
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
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1d
Well, if you count Lemmy as social media, I guess usenet is... tho it's for nerds in universities.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
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 couple 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 would be a lot more stark.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
The lack of smartphones and social media would be a huge change for a 17 year old today going to 1996. That alone would probably give them difficulty in navigating society.
jpablo68@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 1d
yeah I'm talking about widespread use of all of that
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
While you’re secifically right, that’s splitting hairs when compared to the wild differences betwen ‘55 and ‘85 - which is NO PCs, NO cellphones, NO internet, etc. and the point of the comparison was the differences between going back to ‘95 or ‘55 from the specified decades. NOT focusing on a single aspect of today vs ‘95 which, by comparison, is minor despite some 17 year olds having mental breakdowns over a cellphone addiction.
Ninja876@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
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)
"I told you weren't leaving"
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1d
"I want a cheeseburger."
Ninja876@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
I’ll make you a very good, very traditional cheeseburger.
Yew@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Good movie. If anyone missed it. Add it to your watch list.
Delphia@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
I fucking hate the ending.
laranis@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 1d
Would watch.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
Marty would rap a bbno$ song that the kids wouldn't be ready for.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 1d
Marty: "This is a blues riff in B, watch me for the changes, and try to keep up, OK?"
Proceeds to play Smooth by Santana and Rob Thomas.
mattyroses@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 1d
I guess you guys aren't ready for that . . . but to your kids, it's gonna be a hot one
hansolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 13h
"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 · 8 pts · 1d
This is a remake I'd watch.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
It'd meet with the same level of success as "That 90's Show"
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 1d
And Closing Time. If you hosted any kind of dance and you didn't end it with Closing Time, you were not clever.
tmyakal@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 1d
That song didn't come out until '98. I guess Marty could play it, and they could change the name of the band leader to Marvin Semisonic.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space · 2 pts · 1d
The Leonard Cohen song of the same name came out in 1992.
tmyakal@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1d
And Tom Waits had the same name on a song twenty years before that. I don't think I'm off base assuming OP meant the Semisonic one and not all the other songs with the same name that weren't '90s Billboard top 10s.
wjrii@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
BTTF3 would just be the mid 1920s, which we haven't seen yet, so that's... something... right?
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1d
Marty went to 1931 in the Telltale game, which is close!
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1d
1996!
MrChewy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
I know the earth is old, but I don't think it's THAT old!
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1d
The song 1985 was released in 2004 which is 19 years after 1985 and 22 years before now.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 6 pts · 1d
Yeah, that's how time and math works
lntl@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1d
fuck
enphurgen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
The song is Cbat, watch for the key changes and try to keep up
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d
He'd introduce the music industry to the hip new sound of dubstep
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
DELET
ivanovsky@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
So new guess for actual easily available flying cars is 2054? Or maybe lemmy c/fuckcars gets their wish by then and the time machine turns into a 3-seat bicycle.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1d
BTTF3 did end with a (really stupid) time train, c/fuckcars might approve.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
I hope the advice he'd give is, "mind those Tide pods."
reksas@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1d
95 certainly feels like distant past now. like completely different world
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1d
'95 was only 10 years after '85 (which was the middle of the 80s) and is closer to 1969 than it is to now.
timeghost@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Marty, please take me with you.
Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1d
on the shitpost meter, you score 55%
Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
kamen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Time flies, yo.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 20h
Abd we would get a scene where Doc Brown disbelievers that Trump is president
goodboyjojo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22h
This made me feel old
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22h
I need to go take my medicine.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de · -6 pts · 1d
Aaaaaaand blocked.
octaviagracetrading@lemmy.today · -15 pts · 1d
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
Have you considered fucking all the way off forever?
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
This account was doing a banned speedrun.