Monday, November 08, 2004

Tour guide is a skinny old woman. Shows us tons of paper (6 weeks supply) in the storage milf room and robots called automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) and then we're condemned to watch printing process. Yawn and frown interminably. Completely irrelevant to studies. Caroline encourages us to have robust discussion. I ask if any machinery has malfunctioned and have any tragic accidents occured. Skinny old woman says the rolls of paper in storage room once toppled over while she was a slut wife giving tour to group of students. Look wistfully at reels of paper and start wishing one (1 tonne or 15.7kms) would roll in my direction.

Monday, November 01, 2004

Back to the Future Part II

Back to the Future Part II
Back to the Future Part II is a movie that opened Wednesday, November 22, 1989. It is part two of a trilogy, following Back to the Future and followed by Back to the Future Part III. Back to the Future Part II earned $47 million in its first weekend of US release and $118 million total US gross – $332 million worldwide. However, this was still not as much as first film made. Part III came out only six months later. On Tuesday, December 17th, 2002 Universal Studios released all three movies in a
milf three disc DVD and three tape VHS boxed set which did extremely well when it was released. However, the early DVD widescreen transfers seems to have a minor framing flaw which Universal has since corrected. Just pick up any set manufactured after February 21, 2003.AwardsThe movie won a Saturn Award for Ken Ralston (the special effects supervisor), a BAFTA Film Award for Ken Ralston, an AOL Movies DVD Premiere Award, a Golden Screen, and a Young Artist Award. A new computer-controlled camera system, called VistaGlide, was invented specifically for this movie — it enables one actor to play two or even three characters in the same scene while the boundary between the sections of the split screen and the camera itself can be moving.StoryThe story continues with Marty McFly and Doc Brown as they now go into the year 2015 to stop Marty's kids from destroying their lives. But in the process, their 1985 is changed and they must go back to 1955 as they did previously to change it back.Cast and CrewMichael J. Fox .... Marty McFly/Marty McFly Jr./Marlene McFly Christopher Lloyd .... Dr. Emmett Brown Lea Thompson .... Lorraine Baines McFly Thomas F. Wilson .... Biff Tannen, Griff Tannen Elisabeth Shue .... Jennifer Jane Parker / Mrs. Jennifer McFly Billy Zane .... Match Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writers: Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale.Rumors and Urban LegendsDuring an interview, director Robert Zemeckis jokingly said that the hoverboards (flying skateboards) used in the movie were real. A surprising number of people thought he was telling the truth and demanded them at toy stores. After the release of Part III, Robert had the opportunity to explain in another interview that all of the flying scenes were accomplished using special effects.
During one scene, Marty watches a holographic sports news broadcast that states the outcome of the 2015 World Series, in which the Chicago Cubs have defeated a team from Miami. A significant number of people believe this scene correctly predicted the outcome of the 1997 and 2003 World Series, in which the Florida Marlins (based in Miami) were victors, and that this is especially remarkable because Miami did not have a baseball team the year this movie was made. This is obviously a case of selective memory; the movie deals with the year 2015 and not any other year, the Miami team lost the fictional World Series, and in the event that the Chicago Cubs did win a World Series, it would not come against the Marlins, as both teams are in the National League. It was also meant as a joke, since the Chicago Cubs have not won the World Series since 1908.