I added me, this was a good idea Matt!

I came here to see if I was the only person hearing glitches....instead I got a cat in zero G.

...my picture seems to have disappeared... it was, "I'm okay with this.jpg"

Just because I'm curious, what causes the skipping & 1hr + dead air at the end of the file?

Somewhere in a parallel universe, a crafty paparazzi sneak a camera onto Trey's "paid for by Transformers beach."

As you can tell I am extremely anxious, but I do want the job. , I've just never been in the position of "the bucks stops here". Right now I'm just project manager / staff engineer, if the shit hits the fan, I have a boss to hide behind.

I'll be doing long term renovations to several northeast US air force & naval bases as well as VA hospitals.
It's work that I'm interested in and the new place seems nice, I'm just worried because it's the next level...

Thanks for sharing too, moving cross country with no guarantee of a job -- with no contacts, you're a braver man than I.

First DiF surprises everyone with Back to the Future, now Roger Rabbit!
Admit it, someone on the forum is actually Zemeckis.
It's a conspiracy, man.

You guys won't be able to penetrate my brain with your government rays.

I didn't vote for WFRR, but I'm always glad to see another commentary being done

Se7en doesn't have a boss fight, but it does have a box fight.

Also, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and Manhunter (the predecessor to Silence of the Lambs) both came out in 1986. I was only 6 at the time so I cannot speak from memory on their impact, but it is my understanding that Henry was well received for its bold, realistic and unflinching take on serial killers.

They are certainly both better than the slasher movies released that year (Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, Psycho III, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II)

Zarban....is....Tysto....
Tysto.....is....Zarban....

Tysban.....Zarsto.....

....Zardoz....

/confession: I may be responsible for some of the erroneous thousands of hits for DiF because sometimes I'm too lazy to open iTunes. If it makes you feel any better I listen to it with the concentration of a thousand people.

Thanks for articulating your points Bullet3, I think there is some merit to a few of the things you say, but I disagree with the point you make below:

Both Zemeckis & Gale have stated that they didn't want to spend a lot of time in the future because predicting the future is hard and your film will look stupid if it's full of lame predictions. The hook at the end of part I was just a joke that needed to be paid off. (You COULD totally remove 2015 from BTTF2 if you add an insert of young Biff finding a 1985 Sport's Illustrated in the trash on main street..maybe Doc was cleaning out the DeLorean before sending it back to 1985).

One thing to remember is that BTTF2 was shot in or around 1988, so I think it's fair to say concept art for costumes and sets could have been started as early as 1987. Zemeckis & Gale do talk about their vision of the future on the DVD commentary for BTTF2.  They specifically dialed up references to Asian culture because in the late 80's it seemed as though the USA would be bought out by the Japanese. Also, look at fashion in the 80's, if you amped up the ridiculousness of that decade's fashion I can see how they went off the wall in BTTF2. I think it's a matter of perspective. In 1989 it probably didn't seem TOO far fetched, as scary as that may seem...

In regards to future cars, many of those cars were concept cars produced by American car companies & reused for the film - and I the police cruiser was inspired by the Bladerunner spinner.

Lastly, I don't think there was any way around redressing the sets since so much of the action takes place on a backlot set. The first move extensively redressed the set to go from 1955 to 1985. For me that's part of the charm of the trilogy. Hill Valley is supposed to be the odd little microcosm of America, I think it would have been hard (i.e. expensive) to duplicate that feeling if actual locations were used.

Unrelated: in the commentary DiF talks about how they mentally dealt with the disappearing siblings in the photo while viewing the film as children. I was truly disturbed by that concept as a kid. In 1985 Dave (the older brother) leaves to take the bus to work. Later in 1955 his head is gone...I was convinced for years that there was a headless Dave corpse on the bus in 1985. I had nightmares about it.

I haven't listened yet, but I expect Trey to start doing a commentary for the Simpsons movie after about 10 minutes...Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, etc.

I hope you were all visited by a generous fat man.

Since everything is on hiatus till 2012 I'll just say <Generic pleasantry pertaining to your specific holiday> I hope you all have goods time with <the beings that interest you> and <the being(s) that rubs your genitals in a pleasing manner>.