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Summary: Great collection
Review: This is a great addition to any DVD collection, and a must-have if you own the VHS version. The outtakes are funny, and the deleted scenes can and do add to the overall experience. The only issue I have with the collection is there aren't many outtakes, and I have a feeling more deleted scenes could have been added, and would have been wonderful. Those two small things are all that's keeping me from giving the collection 5 stars.
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Summary: Movies look great. Many extras!
Review: I don't remember any time that these movies ever looked or sounded so good. Even when they were in theatrical release. Crisp clear digital sound and picture lead to a great viewing experience. The movies of course are classics, and surprisingly, they have a hefty assortment of extras for them. In a time when movie makers didn't think to make to many extras, there is enough to warrent the purchase of these DVDs.
From behind the scenes making-of documentaries to makeup tests and deleted scenes they will keep you clicking around the beautifually rendered menus (designed differently for each movie) for hours.
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Summary: Great Box. I've been waiting for it.
Review: In response to the nay-sayers who wish to buy only the first film, I'm certain you'll see it sooner or later. As a collection completist, I'm relieved to receive all of them at once and at a reasonable price. The extras are superb.I haven't noticed the framing problems others have mentioned, but I'll watch for them. Muhammed Ali's appearance in the extras for Micheal Fox's Parkinsons fund-raiser was cute, too. Good to see Ali again. (And fun to watch him punch out Fox.)
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Summary: Excellent and entertaining.
Review: I have always liked this series. Now that I have the set and have watched all straight through all I can say is, WOW! This is a great and clean adventure that inspires imagination. The DVD's have great content but lack the subtitles that we like to have in the DVD. The rest of the content is great though with great narations and behind the scene history. Highly recommended for the family library.
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Summary: I don't mind the problems
Review: Back to the future has been out of print to buy for some years now and I think that it is great to see these movies for sale again. I enjoyed all three of these movies the color was great the picturing was better than what it looks like on television and I enjoyed everything that came with the movies including behind the scenes and stories about how they shot the movies it was all fun to watch. I really didn't care that they left out To Be Continued in the first movie I mean Who Cares! it is not like they left out any parts and who cares if the movies were incorrectly formatted for picturing they looked fine to me and I enjoyed these movies without any commericials honestly there are not any problems with this box set it is fine so buy it and enjoy and don't listen to people who say it is incorrectly formatted and missing To Be Continued if somebody has to complain about things like that in life they really need to get a life and quit crying like a baby and be thankful that they had to money to buy this box set some people would be so fortunate to own and with the world we are living in today these are stupit things to whine about and if somebody considers little things like that problems they really ought to see what real problems are.
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Summary: EVERYBODY GET A LIFE!!!
Review: I love the BTTF trilogy. I did pick up on part of the picture problem in BTTF 2 ....but for the life of me....I didn't catch in part 3. What I want to know...is why do you buy a DVD set just to rip it apart....geeze...people get a life...enjoy the movies...they sound and look great and packed with great extras. ALSO on BTTF 1....I worked in the movie industrie at the time the original was released...and at first run ...IT DID NOT HAVE "TO BE CONTINUED" ON THE FILM. That was later added when the movie was re-released when they had decided to do the sequals.STOP AND ENJOY THESE GREAT MOVIES...AND DON'T BE SO MUCH OF A CRITIC.I for one am not going to return my disc...because I fail to trust the postal service to get them there and back to me. And I won't shed a tear by not replacing them.
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Summary: The greatest adventure ride through time traveling ever!
Review: "Back to the Future" is one of my all-time favorite sci-fic trilogies. It stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, and Lea Thompson. Directed by Robert Zemeckis and produced by Steven Speilberg, it's a true classic. "BACK TO THE FUTURE" PLOT SUMMARY: In the first chapter, we are introduced to young, high school student, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), who befriends a "mad scientist", Emmett "Doc" Brown (Christopher Lloyd). Doc's latest invention is a time machine, which looks like a car. When Doc and Marty go out to test the invention, Doc gets shot, and for protection from the shooters, Marty jumps into the time machine, not realizing that the machine has been marked for the year 1955, when his now, divorced parents (popular mom, nerdy dad) met and fell in love. When he is sent back into 1955, it is up to Marty to get his parents back together before he and his siblings completely vanish from a photo, which means they never existed. "BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II"
The second chapter is a bit more confusing, since Marty must go back and forth through time. PLOT SUMMARY: Marty and Doc are back in 1985, but not for long. Doc soon goes through time on his own and comes back to warn Marty about his future. Marty is married to his high school girlfriend, Jennifer (Elisabeth Shue), but his future son is in danger with the law. So Marty and Doc (along with Jennifer) travel to the year 2015, where Marty is supposed to fix a deal with Biff Tannen's (Thomas F. Wilson), the bully who used to pick on Marty's dad in high school, grandson. The elderly Biff picks up a sports almenac that Marty bought in an antique shop in the year 2015, and travels back to 1955 to show his young self how to get rich. When Marty and Doc learn of this, Marty must go back to 1955 to retreive the almenac, before Biff changes history. Little does he know that damage has already been done, when he goes back to 1985 to learn that his whole life and hometown of Hill Valley has completely changed...with Biff as a wealthy leader, Marty's father is dead, and Marty's mother has been married to Biff! Now, once again, Marty must go back to 2015 to get back the almenac and not only save his future, but also his family's as well. "BACK TO THE FUTURE, PART III" PLOT SUMMARY: In the final conclusion of the trilogy, Doc has always dreamed of living in the Old West of the 1880s, so he travels back through time on his own. However, when Marty discovers that Doc's life might come to an end if he stays there, Marty must go back in time to rescue Doc. Unfortunately for Marty, Doc has fallen in love with a school teacher, Clara Clayton (Mary Steeburgen), and Marty has gotten himself in a duel against Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson), one of Biff's ancestors. Now it's up to Marty to face his fears once and for all, and to pursue Doc to come home where he'll be safe. MY OVERALL THOUGHTS: What is there to say? I love the complete trilogy. The acting by the entire cast is absolutely superb...Michael J. Fox is in his best role (er, "roles") to-date, and Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson are stand-outs. For 80's technology, the special effects are excellent. The storylines are funny, smart, creative, and original. The directing, producing, writing...everything is wonderful! The films provide twists, excitement, humor, action, and adventure! Perhaps "Part II" was the weakest of the three, mostly though because they tried bunching too much into one film. And you'll probably only enjoy "Part III", depending on how much you like Westerns films. But all three films are spectacular and you must own this DVD set! The DVD's special features, by the way, include a detailed discussion with Michael J. Fox, hilarious outtakes, deleted scenes, commentaries, Q&A by the films' writer/producer, "Hoverboard" tests, a complete making of the trilogy, animated anecdotes, music videos, evolution of the special effects, behind-the-scenes of each film, DVD-ROM extras, and the films are digitally remastered. The DVD is available in wide screen and full frame formats. I highly recommend the "Back to the Future" trilogy. Score of all three:
100/100
A+
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Summary: Cropped widescreen, I, II & II
Review: I was very,very mad to find our all three films Back to the future I, II, and III are all cropped down from a full screen version. This means the movie you see is a little more than a third of what you saw in the original theatrical release. These movies are one of my most favorites and it is very dissappointing to think that Universal can do this to ruin a classic. Even though there is no pan and scan in the first film it is also cropped. I compared it to the full screen version and you will see the difference. Check it for yourself. Besides this BIG problem these DVDs are awesome.
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Summary: Back to the Future - The Complete Trilogy (Widescreen Editio
Review: Disappointing that Universal rush this product out without further TQM, in simply trying to beat that Christmas rush in hoping to make a few extra $$$. I would had rather waited then unknowningly bought a deceptive sub-standard product that advertised "Widescreen" only to find out that it is "cropped." Waste of time and effort for the many buyers, who will have to spend the extra $$$ to simply send both Disc 2 & 3 in simply getting the correct "widescreen" edition. It is also sad, that many other people who do not have Internet access or knowledge that the item they had bought is sub-standard and it is more unforgiving that that Universal still allow this current Wide-screen edition to be sold.
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Summary: Back and Back and Back with 3 DVDs to the Future
Review: It seems that the new trend among movies that have sequels is to sell them as a packaged set only when released onto DVD. The Back To The Future Trilogy is, so far, the best DVD package that I have seen yet. To be honest, I'm only a fan of the first film. The other two movies are sequels that are pale in comparison to the original, but are still interesting to watch. The commmentary and behind the scenes for each movie is more than enough for any behind the scenes DVD junkie. Watching the first film, and hearing from the director and producers on the DVD commentary what was going on at the time the first film was made, was like going back in time to when this movie was the most inventive, and most state of the art movie ever made. This first film holds up even today. The whole movie has a dreamlike quality to it that is wonderful to watch, even today, and for a science fiction comedy, this movie considers time travel very, very seriously. The commentary for the second film, the makers of the film note an error with time travel into the future that I had never considered, but it makes perfect sense. If Marty and Jennifer were to travel into the future with Doc Brown, they would not be able to see their future selves and meet them face to face. If you went on a two week vacation and came back two weeks later, you wouldn't have any oppportunity of meeting your future self, right? A lot of this happened as a result of what was decided by what happened at the end of the first film, which the director and the script writers admitted that they had painted themselves into a very difficult corner, which they struggled to get out of after agreeing to produce the sequels. Overall, the packaged set was well planned, and allows anyone viewing the DVDs to watch the movie in several different formats, the movie itself, the movie with subtitled and animated commentary about behind the scenes trivia, commentary with producers Bob Gale and Neil Canton, and question and answer commentary at USC with director Robert Zemeckis and producer Bob Gale. I also liked the other extras included, including music videos from Huey Lewis and The News, and ZZ Top. My first introduction to the Back To The Future movie was seeing the movie trailer in the theater watching Michael J. Fox step into the Delorean, and someone asking him, "How far are you going", to which he responds, "About 30 years.", and then he takes off in a trail of flames. I would recommend this package to those who might be thinking of having a Back To The Future night. There is so much material on these discs that you could spend the entire night watching them.
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