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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: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday October 20 2015, @11:31PM
I don't know if I'd worry about the merchandising. Allow Yogurt to explain. [youtube.com] They're just being a good little corporation and milking consumers for all they've got.
Let's hope J.J. knows better than to include Jar-Jars or even the cringe-worthy Trade Federation. I might give Ewoks a pass at some point in VIII or IX just because I think they're cute, but I doubt we'll see any of those either. Let's also hope they scrap midichlorians.
J.J. might actually be the right choice for this movie. It looks exciting. If his two Star Trek movies had been Star Wars instead, I might have even forgiven the protagonist's ship [Enterprise/Millennium Falcon] entering the atmosphere from cislunar orbit in a matter of minutes with the people inside falling faster than the ship before it even gets close to the atmosphere.
(Not to start a Star Trek vs. Star Wars flamewar, but Star Trek: Renegades is the 11th Trek film as far as I'm concerned.)
Where do you see a new BTTF movie? If you're talking about cinemas running the trilogy back-to-back, more power to them I guess, but the local one isn't (and I have to work anyway, but somewhat surprising since they usually have 1 weekly screening of a classic from Metropolis [Fritz Lang's, not the awful anime one] to Casablanca to 2001, even did the Star Trek II-IV trilogy once iirc, wouldn't be surprised if they do Star Wars ep. IV-VI before VII comes out). If there is a new BTTF film, it had better darned well include the continuity and characters from this game series [wikipedia.org]. It's worth a play though even if some of the puzzles are lame.