Movies Michael J. Fox acting performance in Back to the Future

[Takes Two To Tango]

I know these type of performances tend to be overlooked.

But Michael was just picture perfect as Marty.

I can't imagine anyone else playing this role as good Michael J. Fox.

They even had Eric Stoltz initially perform this before Michael stepped on board.

I think it's masterclass of acting in this type of genre.

 

[tank666]

One of my favourite movies of all time where everything that happens, happens for a reason. And agree MJF is great in it.

 

[Kardashians]

despite me being enamoured with the 80s, i still haven't seen this film. i intend on watching it though, i have it on vhs. i guess im just worried with all the hype that its gonna let me down.

 

[elreece]

despite me being enamoured with the 80s, i still haven't seen this film. i intend on watching it though, i have it on vhs. i guess im just worried with all the hype that its gonna let me down.

leave right now. Do not return until you have done the trilogy.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

despite me being enamoured with the 80s, i still haven't seen this film. i intend on watching it though, i have it on vhs. i guess im just worried with all the hype that its gonna let me down.

Check it out, it's definitely worth watching once. You won't be disappointed even with all the hype.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

despite me being enamoured with the 80s, i still haven't seen this film. i intend on watching it though, i have it on vhs. i guess im just worried with all the hype that its gonna let me down.

It's literally GOAT tier ... @Pliny Pete

 

[I Am Legion]

Iconic performance. Absolutely nailed it and gave us all a time capsule of the 1980s.

 

[Streeter]

Whoever wrote script i this k i heard wrote it with MJF solely in mind. I think only reason they started with Stoltz is They had trouble getting MJF away from Family Ties. I think after watching Stoltz they tmtbrew more money at the show an they let him do it. Unsure tho .

 

[ColemanwastheGOAT]

despite me being enamoured with the 80s, i still haven't seen this film. i intend on watching it though, i have it on vhs. i guess im just worried with all the hype that its gonna let me down.

Have you seen Summer Camp Nightmare?

You can't really understand the 80s if you don't know Runk the Punk.

 

[Spam On Rye]

The Chuck Berry and the mom banging scene are forever etched in my soul.

 

[Gene Tunney]

Michael J. Fox brought the quirky everyday guy element to the film, whereas Stoltz injected agency to the character.

MJF is number one. Still would like to see the Stoltz version.

 

[ChosenOne]

despite me being enamoured with the 80s, i still haven't seen this film. i intend on watching it though, i have it on vhs. i guess im just worried with all the hype that its gonna let me down.

Such a weird 'fear'.

Your fear is 'so many people love it, i fear it may be no good' and that is why you do not watch it? Is that normal for you that when a film is a pretty universally considered great you do not like it, and correspondingly the ones considered bad, you do like?

I understand there can be outlier ones for all of us, where we go against consensus but that would not be such a fear for me, that i would refuse to see one considered great.

 

[GoodBadHBK]

The Chuck Berry and the mom banging scene are forever etched in my soul.

Essentially that's all back to the future is all about. Dude goes back in time gets stuck, has to stop his horny mom from trying to bang him, she even kisses him which should freak out Marty or you would think he would have done anything to prevent it but he lets it happen and then the rest of the movie is trying to get his parents to fall in love so all can be right.

 

[Kardashians]

Such a weird 'fear'.

Your fear is 'so many people love it, i fear it may be no good' and that is why you do not watch it? Is that normal for you that when a film is a pretty universally considered great you do not like it, and correspondingly the ones considered bad, you do like?

I understand there can be outlier ones for all of us, where we go against consensus but that would not be such a fear for me, that i would refuse to see one considered great.

Oh I don’t refuse to see it, I just keep putting it off. Most films that have a lot of hype I tend to not end up enjoying myself. It’s more I don’t want to put in the time when I’ve got other enticing films on my list of things to watch.

 

[Leonard Haid]

I thought it was contrived. The scene where he tries Doc's amp, gets tossed into the wall from the force of the sound, then says "rock & roll" turned me right off to Michael J. Fox as an actor. It was such a non-rock & roll performance.

When Mojo Nixon sang in "Elvis is Everywhere" that Michael J. Fox was the only person on Earth who had no Elvis in him, I wondered if he based that on that scene in Back to the Future.

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Michael J. Fox brought the quirky everyday guy element to the film, whereas Stoltz injected agency to the character.

MJF is number one. Still would like to see the Stoltz version.

There's multiple versions???

 

[TheNinja]

10

 

[Madmick]

I know these type of performances tend to be overlooked.

But Michael was just picture perfect as Marty.

I can't imagine anyone else playing this role as good Michael J. Fox.

They even had Eric Stoltz initially perform this before Michael stepped on board.

I think it's masterclass of acting in this type of genre.

Reminds me of a feature piece I recently read about The Princess Bride. Apparently Wallace Shawn spent the entire time filming just certain that Rob Reiner was gonna eventually can him. It was only a matter of time. He knew that the first choice of casting for Vizzini was Danny DeVito. He said he couldn't do a scene without neurotically berating himself for playing it so badly while imaging how much more brilliantly DeVito would have played the scene than him.

Yet, in the decades since, expecting any of the millions of fans of the movie to merely imagine anyone else playing the role is...

 

[Gene Tunney]

There's multiple versions???

Not quite. Perhaps, in the future, just enough material exists for an advanced AI system to synthesize a completed second version.

 

[RoseHDCovington]

Saw 1 & 2 on Back to the Future Day in a movie theater.