October 21st, 2015, came and went the other day. The hover boards and flying cars don't exist in any commercial sense, and fax machines all over your house aren't a thing, but skinny wall-mounted 16:9 aspect televisions and world "enhancing" glasses are.
Those were some of the highlights from the Future scenes in 1989's "Back to the Future II", the day that Doc Brown, Marty, and Jennifer headed back to the future.
That specific day from the movie, October 21st, 2015, was last Wednesday.
Some movie futures we remember, like Judgement Day from T2. How about Danny Glover hunting his Predator in the same summer-of-'97 LA where Skynet takes over and launches the apocalypse?
Anyway, the Back to the Future franchise was more viscerally important to me, likely due to the age of exposure. Seeing the first movie as a kid had a special impact. I remember being able to wrap my head around Marty McFly's surreal predicament---he may erase his own existence because his mothers's lusting for him---better than other adult-y situations I'd seen up until then.
The Cubbies getting ousted on 10/21 was more sad, as people had hoped that the predictive element of the film could help lead the North Siders to their first World Series victory since 1908, as the news declares in the movie. "Against Miami?!?" Marty says. The AL team against the cubs in BttF2 is called the Gators, the mascot of the university in Gainesville. That Florida would have a team---two even in reality---takes a back seat to the Cubs winning.
A day so far off in the future is now in the past.
The march slogs on...
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