Lorraine is making dinner. She opens the pizza.

Marty Jr.: Hey, pizza!
Marty: Alright, just wait.
Marty Jr.: Grandma, can you just shove it in my mouth? (laughs)
Marty: Don’t you be a smart ass!
Marty Jr.: Oh, great, it’s the atrocity channel.

Lorraine puts the pizza in a Black and Decker Hydrator.

Lorraine: Hydrate level 4 please.

4 seconds later, she takes the pizza out, and it’s become full size.

Marty Jr.: Is it ready?

Lorraine puts the pizza on the table.

Lorraine: Here you go.

Marty, Marlene and Marty Jr. all take a slice. Marlene and Marty Jr. both have television/telephone goggles on.
Marty: Oh boy, oh boy Mom, you sure can hydrate a pizza. (Marty takes a bite.) Now I’m sorry I missed that whole thing.

Hallway

Lorraine: Now I’m just worried about Jennifer.

Kitchen

Lorraine: Why isn’t she home yet?
Marty: I’m not sure where Jennifer is Mom. (He pours himself and his son some juice. Marlene has a Pepsi.) Should have been home hours ago, and I’m having a hard time keeping track of her these days.
Marty Jr.: Hey fruit, fruit please! (The fruit thing comes down.) Thank you.
Lorraine: Aren’t you and Jennifer getting along?
Marty: Oh yeah, great Mom, we’re like a couple of teenagers, ya know.

The phone rings on the kids goggles.

Marty Jr.: Dad, telephone, its Needles.
Marlene: Dad, it’s for you.
Marty: All right, well, I’ll take it down in the den. Excuse me.
Marty Jr.: (re: fruit machine) Retract!

1. The Aviator – Chocolate Chip Cookies

The 2004 film The Aviator was a critical and commercial success. In one of the scenes from the movie, Howard Hughes (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) buys chocolate chip cookies. Well, it is a blooper because the writers didn’t realize that chocolate chip cookies weren’t invented until 1930, which is two years after the movie was set.

2. Braveheart – Wearing A Kilt

This American epic historical fiction war film was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won five. But the issue is that William Wallace (Mel Gibson) character wore a kilt. It is because Scots used to wear them, but not in 1300 in which the movie was set. Wearing a kilt became popular in the 1600s.

3. Forrest Gump – Apple Stocks

Okay, this is one of those errors that could make anyone laugh. In the movie, Forrest Gump receives a letter from Apple, but the film was set in 1975. Surprisingly, the famous rainbow logo of Apple was not designed until the following year, and Apple became a publically traded company in 1981.

4. Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets – Cameraman On Set

You can find tons of bloopers of the famous Harry Potter film series. It is probably because most of the actors in the films were kids. But there is one particular blooper that is absurd and unbelievable. You may remember the scene in which Malfoy is on the ground, and Hogwarts students are looking at him. In that scene, you can clearly see a cameraman, and it makes one think that the editors were smoking something during post-production.

5. Pirates of The Caribbean – Granny Smith Apples

If you’re a fan of Pirates of The Caribbean movies, you may have noticed that Captain Barbossa likes to eat apples. In one scene, you can see him with an apple, Granny Smiths, which didn’t even exist until 1868, approximately 140 years after the film was set.

6. Lord of The Rings – Gandalf’s Watch

We all know how great of a wizard Gandalf is, but we didn’t expect this from him. Gandalf was not only after the Ring but also watches as well. In one battle scene, you can notice that he was wearing a watch. Although not many people noticed the blooper, some people were quick to point it out. It is safe to assume that even if the audiences had seen the watch, they still would’ve been fans.

7. Gladiator – Gas Canister

Here is another error from Gladiator. The movie was great, but how could they not notice this mistake in post-production. The error is from one of the most famous scenes from the film, and we can clearly see a gas canister in the back of a chariot.

8. Back to The Future – Marty’s Guitar

If you’re a big fan of the movie, you must have remembered the scene when Marty McFly travels back in time to 1955 and goes to a high school dance to play a cool Gibson ES-345 guitar. It is a big blooper because the ES-345 wasn’t even produced until 1958. Maybe it only happens in time traveling.

9. 300 Movie – Black Powder

This error is something you may have thought about while watching the movie. You see, the Xerxes army tries everything to beat the Spartans and even use bombs to defeat them. It is a huge error because the black powder wasn’t invented until the 9th century. The movie is excellent but not historically correct.

10. Sherlock Holmes – Geography

Sherlock Holmes is an excellent movie to watch, especially the chase scene at the end of the film, which started in the sewers and ended at Tower Bridge. However, the issue with it is that the sewers at the Houses of Parliament and Tower Bridge are over two miles apart. So, it is not feasible at all.

11. The Patriot – Totally Ageless

One thing we know for sure after watching The Patriot is that aging can get complicated and awkward to portray when there’s a movie that spans several years. We don’t know if you noticed it or not, but no one ages in the movie, not even the children.

12. Malcolm X – Somebody (Can’t) Call 911

We notice in the movie that Malcolm X yells out for someone to call 911 when his home is under fire. However, the issue here is that 911 wasn’t even launched until three years after the assassination of Malcolm X.

13. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows – Green Eyes

People who have read Harry Potter books always say that the movies are not as good as the books. It became evident when the creators of the Harry Potter film series didn’t take into account what J.K. Rowling wrote about Harry having the same color eyes as his mother. In the books, the author described the mother’s eyes as green, and they are portrayed as blue in the films. To make matters worse, in a flashback scene, the mother’s eyes are shown as brown.

14. Charlie’s Angels – Getting Names Mixed Up

The 2000 film Charlie’s Angel received mixed reviews from critics but performed quite well at the box office. Crispin Glover played the role of a creepy, slick-haired bad guy in the movie. In one scene, the Angels chase him down and dodge the bullets from his pistol. They fight with him, and at that moment, Drew accidentally calls Lucy by her real name instead of Alex.

15. The Shawshank Redemption – The Poster

Anyone who loves film can include this movie on their top ten list without thinking twice. It is a brilliant movie, and the scene in which Andy Dufresne escapes by covering the escape hole with a Raquel Welch poster is just amazing. However, the error is that the poster of Raquel Welch is from the poster of “One Million Years B.C.,” which came out one year after The Shawshank Redemption was set.

source: (article; picture and video): 35 Giant Movie Bloopers Even The Biggest Movies Can’t Hide by Danny Sullivan, Kueez; Forrest Gump (1994) Trailer #1, Movieclips Classic Trailers, Youtube

A cikk elolvasása után válaszolj a következő kérdésekre!

1. In which film is the call 911 inappropriate?
2. Why was the use of kilt inappropriate in which film?
3. Why was the use of a special type of apple absolutely inappropriate in which film?
4. In which film Apple caused similar trouble?
5. In which movie did the film-makers fail to follow the original version of the book?

keys/megoldások:
1. Malcolm X; 2. In Braveheart because wearing kilt was popular 300 years later than the film was set.;
3. In the Pirates of The Caribbean because Granny Smith Apples existed 140 years after the film was set.;
4. In Forrest Gump, when Forrest receives a letter from Apple, but the film was set in 1975 and
the famous logo was designed in the following year and it became a publicly trading company in 1981.;
5. In Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows (and of course in every Harry Potter movie) because
in the novel Harry has green eyes, so does her mother, but in the movie, Harry has blue eyes
and his mother has brown eyes.

The sequel was released in November 1989.

And watching it back nearly 26 years later, it’s impressive to note how many tech trends it predicted, even if it also contained its fair share of misfires.

Getting around

“Where we’re going, we don’t need roads…” – well, that’s one promise that didn’t work out.

Flying cars have always seemed to be just over the horizon. Boston-based Terrafugia, for example, promised to start selling a model in 2012, but is still trying to get its business off the ground.

But while BTTF was overly optimistic about vertical take-offs becoming the norm, it did nail one detail.

Listen to the sound effects used for its automobiles as they pass, and you hear the near-silent hum that’s become associated with Toyota’s Prius and other electric-powered four-wheelers.

Throwing your rubbish into a car’s Mr Fusion energy converter to provide it with power remains fanciful.

But there have been moves towards powering vehicles with waste.

Bristol and Bath recently started running buses powered by treated thrown-away food and sewage, and there are efforts elsewhere to convert agricultural waste into a petrol supplement.

Furthermore, Biff’s payment of his taxi ride with a thumb-print isn’t totally dissimilar to how we now hail cars and cashlessly pay for them using Uber, Hailo, Lyft and innumerable other pick-up services.

Even the film’s iconic hoverboard chase scene is no longer totally outlandish.

Lexus showed off a working hoverboard of its own in August, albeit one that relied on a hidden metal track being buried into the ground. More recently, skateboarder Tony Hawk was filmed trying out a rival version, called Hendo, based on similar magnet-based technology.

(The less said about non-hovering hoverboards the better.)

Barcode registration plates, however, have made little progress beyond the odd April fool.

Looking good

The tech world’s current fascination with wearable tech was foreshadowed by Marty’s talking jacket.

And while today’s clothes can’t yet blow-dry us when we get wet, some fashion pioneers are experimenting with weaving electronics into their fabrics.

So, BTTF’s message-flashing police hats have a parallel in CuteCircuit’s tweet-displaying dresses, and Nike has even filed a patent for self-lacing shoes similar to those featured in the film.

When it comes to our own bodily care, we can’t yet exfoliate away the years with a Doc-style “rejuvenation clinic” facial.

But the 6.7 million botox injections and 1.2 million chemical peels carried out in the US last year suggest many are at least trying.

Rise of the robots

BTTF’s drones may only make fleeting appearances, but feel very “of the moment”.

Media organisations, including the BBC, have started deploying camera-enabled aircraft to get new perspectives on the news – even if they might not be comfortable sending them into the kind of crowded situation USA Today’s model films in the movie.

Dog-walking drones are also a real thing – at least if you believe everything you see on Vimeo and YouTube.

Another type of robot featured in the film is a mechanical car fuel attendant.

The Netherlands has already tested such a device a few years back, with the TankPitstop project, and Tesla is developing something similar for its electric vehicles.

Entertainment

We’ve, thankfully, been spared Holomax sequels to Jaws.

But the film industry hasn’t given up on the idea of 3D technologies – its latest pitch is a laser-projection system said to deliver “brighter, crisper and clearer” images.

Rather neatly, the innovation premiered in London earlier this month with Robert Zemeckis’ latest film The Walk – he is, of course, also the director of the BTTF trilogy.

Back to the Future II was closer to the mark when it came to home entertainment.

A roll-up flatscreen shown in the McFlys’ home is reminiscent of the flexible panels LG recently showed off at trade shows, which are rumoured to be featuring in commercial products soon.

Meanwhile, voice-controlled televisions are already a reality thanks to smart TVs from Samsung and Sony as well as set-top boxes from Amazon and Apple.

Smartglasses but no smartphones…

We get little hint at what Marty Jr sees via his hi-tech specs in the film, and their brand, JVC, is a much smaller force in consumer electronics than it once was.

But several of today’s bigger names are betting on various forms of the tech, whether it’s Microsoft’s Hololens, Facebook’s Oculus Rift virtual reality headset or version two of Google Glass.

The film’s biggest miss, however, is arguably its lack of a smartphone.

Marty Jr is even seen using an AT&T payphone at one point – all the more ironic since the company was first to offer the iPhone.

It’s not that BTTF’s filmmakers didn’t envision a data-connected world – a Skype-like video chat program features at one point showing off not only the caller but also private details about them – but repeatedly communication occurs via a TV rather than a handheld display.

Likewise, it’s hard not to feel the film missed a trick by using a newspaper to warn of Marty Jr’s impending arrest, instead of a touchscreen.

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 – released two decades earlier – had already featured its own “newspads”.

And a campaigner trying to restore Hill Valley’s clock tower even seems to be using a tablet in one of Back to the Future II’s other scenes.

An offline future

It’s hard to be too critical, however, when you consider that the World Wide Web was only invented the same year that the film was released, and Tim Berners-Lee did not create its first browser until the following year.

That might explain why CD-Roms and their larger counterparts Laser Discs feature so prominently in piles of rubbish.

Similarly, in an age before email even got its name, it’s perhaps not surprising that the film’s futurists imagined we would want to fax from the pavement.

But even that does not quite explain why the McFlys’ home has quite so many fax machines.

Other hits and misses

Computer-controlled ovens are still a relative rarity – although a robotic chef was indeed one of the highlights of a recent start-up showcase in San Francisco.

Sadly, pizza hydrators are still the stuff of pepperoni-fuelled dreams – and selfie-taking fridges have proved to be scant compensation.

BTTF does score a hit with computer-controlled door locks – Yale was the latest to release such a product earlier this month.

But the idea of an Ortho-lev machine holding George McFly upside down seems like a rush of blood to the writers’ heads – until you realise it was only included in the movie to disguise the fact that a different actor was portraying the character than in the first film.

source: BBC

The time warp of the Back to the Future trilogy

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Many of us have seen the Back to the Future trilogy – at least once, maybe in a cinema, on VHS tape or catching the occasional rerun on TV. But do you remember that in Back to the Future II Marty goes to 2015? His future became our present, so let’s walk down memory lane and see how his time machine worked and how his 2015 differs from our 2015.

Written by Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, directed by Zemeckis and starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, the trilogy was a huge box office hit and has been a fan favourite ever since. In the first 1985 film, Marty McFly is an American teenager who lives with his unhappy mother, Lorraine, and his father, George, who is bullied by his supervisor, Biff. Marty gets transported from 1985 back to 1955 in a time machine made out of a DeLorean by his scientist friend “Doc” Brown. The car is powered by plutonium, and he soon realises that there is not enough to return. Marty meets young George and saves him from an oncoming car. This action mixes up everything, because now it is Marty whom Lorraine meets and becomes infatuated with instead of George. Marty tries to find the 1955 Doc to get some help and Doc tells him that the only way he can get the car going is to catch a bolt of lightning. Fortunately, Marty knows that the town house was (or rather will be) struck by lightning. He makes several attempts to get George and Lorraine together, but fails until George manages to save Lorraine from Biff at the school dance. When he finally gets back to his present, his whole family is changed. His father is a successful author, his mother is happy and fit and Biff is not a bully anymore, but his father’s subordinate. After Marty reunites with Jennifer, his girlfriend, Doc takes them to the future in his DeLorean.

In the second installment, Marty travels to 2015 with Doc and Jennifer to prevent his future son from taking part in a robbery with Biff’s grandson Griff. Marty switches places with his son, refuses Griff’s offer and they get into a fight resulting in Griff’s arrest. Meanwhile, Jennifer is shocked to find herself in their 2015 house and realises that her future life with Marty is not what she expected. When they get back to 1985, they find a dramatically changed present: Biff is wealthy and corrupt, George is dead, Lorraine was forced to marry Biff and Doc is in an insane asylum. After finding evidence that 2015 Biff went back in time to change his past, they travel back too and get back the sporting events almanac from 1985 Biff – as it was the knowledge of the results of major sporting events from 1950 to 2000 that made him rich in 1985. Before going back to the future, the time machine is struck by lightning and disappears with Doc. Marty, though, soon finds out that Doc was sent back to 1885.

In Back to the Future Part III Marty travels back to 1885 to save Doc. He meets his own great-great-grandparents as well as Biff’s ancestor, who is trying to kill Doc. They attempt to use a locomotive to push the DeLorean up to speed and Doc rescues passenger Clara Clayton on the way. They fall in love immediately. After a series of adventures, Marty goes back to 1985 and finds that everything has returned to the improved timeline. Doc and Clara return as well – on a locomotive time machine with their two children – just to disappear into an unknown time. In the closing scene Doc tells Marty and Jennifer that the future has not been written yet.

The creators were not fortune tellers, so it’s not that easy to recognise our present in the 2015 scenes. On the one hand, parts of this vision are a lot more modernised than our world today: children don’t use hoverboards (there are no hoverboards!) and there is a lot less traffic in the sky than the film anticipated. On the other hand, certain things have progressed quicker than they would have thought. When Marty jokingly remarks after watching a commercial for the new Jaws movie that animation is still not at its best, we cannot help but realise that 3D technology is much better today than in movie-2015. As for clothing, the outfits in the film are painfully colourful, but Marty’s Nikes would probably work very well today!

For the 30^th anniversary of the film, a new blu-ray package is coming out with hours of bonus features. And Back to the Future Day is coming too – be prepared, it’s 21^st October, 2015!

És ami miatt ezt megnéztük az az, hogy megtanuljuk a BE CHICKEN idiómát (magyarul NYUSZI, persze nem szó szerint…).

If you are chicken, you are not brave enough to do something, you are a coward. Example:

‘Why won’t you dive in? Are you chicken?’
‘Don’t be chicken!’

És ami miatt ezt megnéztük az az, hogy megtanuljuk a BE CHICKEN idiómát (magyarul NYUSZI, persze nem szó szerint…).

If you are chicken, you are not brave enough to do something, you are a coward. Example:

‘Why won’t you dive in? Are you chicken?’
‘Don’t be chicken!’