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Back to the Future Reminder (October 21)
26 years ago, Marty McFly and Doc Brown climbed into their time-traveling flying DeLorean and set the controls to the distant future — October 21, 2015 — which happens to be this week.
This is a fun post about the predictions that Back to the Future got right, the predictions they got wrong, and the amazing technologies we have today that they just completely left out.
Meanwhile, in New York:
Ride-hailing service Lyft is offering free DeLorean rides Wednesday, October 21st in New York City to celebrate Back to the Future Day, when Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled to the future in the (let's face it) middling sequel to the 1985 original blockbuster. The company is partnering with Universal and Verizon for the promotion, which will be offered to users from 11AM to 5PM via a "McFly Mode" toggle on the app.
Rides will be free, but the ability to travel either forward or back through the timestream is dependent on reaching 88 mph, and the speed limit in the Big Apple was just lowered to 25 mph, so don't get your hopes up.
Star Wars Ticket Demand Crashes Cinema Websites
Huge demand for tickets to the first screenings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens has put a strain on cinema websites.
Odeon and Picturehouse said their sites were affected, with Picturehouse saying it had seen "unprecedented" demand. However a Vue spokesman said it had sold 10,000 tickets in 90 minutes, adding "our customers continue to purchase online with ease".
The new film, which hits cinema screens on 17 December, is one of the most anticipated titles of the year. It reunites stars from the original trilogy of films including Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher. Advance tickets went on sale this morning, but the volume of people trying to buy them was too high for website servers to cope.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 20 2015, @07:55PM
I get to see it a day early. It's nice knowing someone who rents the entire theatre for the night. No lines, screenings the day before release, givaways. Now... Did Luke go to the dark side? Is it going to be better than episodes II and III?
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Tuesday October 20 2015, @08:09PM
Growing up in the 90s, suffering from the U.S. being months ahead of the rest of us with things like trek and SG1, and worst of all in 2005 when Serenity was release in the US 6 weeks ahead of the UK.
I have a nice dose of schadenfreude when I see modern release dates.
Star Wars:
It will be released in France, Italy and other European nations on December 16, in Germany and the United Kingdom on December 17, and in the United States on December 18,[122] in 3D and IMAX 3D
Star Trek Into Darkneess
released on May 9 in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Europe and Peru,[6] with other countries following. The film was released on May 16 in the United States and Canada, opening at IMAX cinemas a day earlier
Avengers 2:
The film was released in 11 territories on April 22, with its release jumping to 55% of its international market (44 countries) by the end of its first weekend,[161][162] before the North American release on May 1, in 3D and IMAX 3D.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday October 20 2015, @08:26PM
Adding insult to injury its already October 21st in Moscow and in the sandbox, as far as I can recall plus or minus daylight savings time etc. Or at least its darn close.
So around the time I'm eating dinner on the 16th, the Germans will be watching because it'll be the 17th in Berlin.
The relevant question is when is the torrent getting released? That's the day the internet gets to see it.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday October 20 2015, @09:58PM
Here's the new and final trailer, you be the judge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGbxmsDFVnE [youtube.com]
The guy at 0:50 sounds cheesy to me.
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(Score: 2) by jbWolf on Thursday October 22 2015, @02:48AM
It sounds cheesy because it does not allow you to identify the gender. I've heard that kind of voice in news interviews before, although I haven't heard it in a long time. They used to disguise the voice when they did interviews in the dark and were protecting their sources.
My guess is that the bad guy is a woman. We'll find out somewhere between two months and two sequels from now.
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