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[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 33 points 1 day ago (6 children)
[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 71 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In Back to the Future, Marty uses his father's love of sci-fi books to scare him by pretending to be an alien called Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan. This meme shows the realisation later when the father watches Star Wars (the father is played by Crispin Glover)

https://youtu.be/hHZctSnNrsw

[–] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan, and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out, that he'd melt my brain!

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Back To The Future, where Marty McFly calls himself Darth Vader in front of his terrified father, while pretending to be an alien.

[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Oooh, ok, that's hilarious. Had no idea about that! Was that in the movie? No recollection!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you can't quote every line from memory, clearly you need to watch the whole trilogy again.

That is a fair argument.

Goes to pop some popcorn

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Yep! Sounds like it’s time for a rewatch!

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was at least partially a deleted scene actually? I'm not sure anymore either... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaYADHcpdng

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The part that was actually in the released movie ends at 0:45. (You can also tell by the fact that the audio/video very obviously changes to daily footage at that point.)

See also the scene afterward where George tells "Calvin" about the encounter, which IMO worked way better than actually showing the rest of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUXjfYFwgZo

[–] ApplyingAutomation@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whaaat!? I have no recollection of this! Was this is in the final cut?

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

And then there's a follow-up scene the next day, where George tells "Calvin Klein" about the encounter.

Having George retell it worked way better than showing it directly, IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUXjfYFwgZo

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

This one took me a minute. The actor in the pic played Marty McFly's dad in Back to the Future. There is a scene in the movie where Marty is trying to scare his young dad, and wakes him up wearing a hazmat suit with face covering, putting headphones over his ears to blast Van Halen and calling himself Darth Vader.

[–] jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yes, it's true

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yea imma need a bit of explanation on this one, this feels like AI just posting random shite