Masterton fanboy AJ Hunter, who went to the 1985 world premiere of Back to the Future in LA, with then girlfriend Laurie de Santis atop the DeLorean from the film. FILE PHOTO
YOU SHOULD never underestimate the energy and nostalgia of those who lived through the eighties.
Yesterday a TV film crew visited Masterton to film those who were attending the screening of eighties cult flick Back to the Future, on the day and time the hero was supposed to appear in
the future.
Star Wars technically had its origins in the late seventies but thrived into the eighties. Now the hype around the seventh Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens, is colossal.
It is also obvious, when viewing the Times-Age Facebook comments, particularly around Thought of the Day, that we have plenty of eighties fans. A basic question on Best Movie Line earlier in the year yielded more than 100 offerings, the bulk of them from eighties classics.
It is likely the second movie of Back to the Future, set in 2015, postulated a world without newspapers (and a world with hoverboards). We assumed computer technology would advance to the point of Star Trek. Yet we continue with newspapers, just as we do with internal combustion engines, watches that tick, paperback books and knitting.
