Roads? Where we're going we don't need...Roads.

Last night a big group of us went to see Back to the Future at the Paramount in Oakland. I hadn't seen the whole movie in a long time, but I would say that it along with Indiana Jones and Star Wars were the defining movies of my childhood. There are some others such as Blues Brothers, but that came out when I was too young to remember the rest of these released within my recollection. Anyways I was nervous to go see a movie that I had such fond memories of, because in the past when watching childhood favorites again they fail to move one in the way they did as a child. Back to the Future exceeded any expectations I had. I think it was actually better now than it was when I was a kid. The jokes were funnier. There were references that made more sense. There was dialogue that I understood. For example, as a kid I would always ask my parents what a 'reefer addict' was and they would say a drug addict. It never made sense, because in my school drug class we never heard about reefer. This wasn't an integral part of the movie, but something that stuck out. The HyWy made a good point about seeing the movie as adults we can understand how Marty goes back in time and his perspective on his parents changes. Along with the things that were experienced differently there were the things that were still cool if not cooler this time around. The skateboard chase and the Johnny B Goode scenes were hands down my favorites as a kid and I'm happy to report that they were just as cool today. I was surprised how much of the dialog and little details I still remembered. So after walking out of that theater I remembered what it was like to be a 10 year old that thought Marty was the coolest guy.