Personally I never used the word "confusing" because I don't think it is, I just feel like all the travelling back and forth, multiple times, in three time periods doesn't have the same elegant nicely balanced curve of events the first one had. Weird to answer my comment with a comment about GBG's comment...
I say it because you immediately responded to GBG with
"I agree completely, GB."
Originally Posted by MovieMeditation
But anyways, "Not as straight forward" is clearly said in context as to why I think that, so it's not really nonspecific - maybe for people who haven't watched the movie but even for my long cinema reviews I try to keep spoilers at a minimum but still shine enough light on my problems so that people who saw the movie would be able to draw the direct connection.
The movie's surely not as straightforward as the first, but the first didn't make full use of it's concept either, it's not unlike the
The Time Machine, which inspired the movie, they only travel one direction in time from their starting point and we never get to see the the other direction, I don't think that should be neglected. Part II shows us the future
and the past and plays with concepts like The Butterfly Effect and The Grandfather Paradox in a more narratively tenable manner while also giving us previously
unexplored tropes without seriously invoking plotholes and paradoxes.
Originally Posted by MovieMeditation
"Tacky" is admittedly a little nonspecific, buf it mainly refers to the goofy "oversaturated" outer look of the film and the overacting to go in hand with that. I wasn't a fan of the "dress up game" in the first film, but that was at a minimum; here it is boosted to a level a little too ridiculous and goofy for my taste. That's basically what I meant and tbh that element annoys me more than the story structure
Doc was always a mad mugging fool, Biff, Elaine, George and even Marty on occasion all overact like crap in the first movie (
"He's such a dream~!!"), but that's part of what makes it fun.
I'm not sure if you just notice it more easily with robot Biff flippin' out in brightly-colored 80s Futureland, but it hardly seemed any different in Part II.