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[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

lathe-of-heaven the cyber truck will leave production in 3 years, and a Back to the Future reboot featuring a time traveling cyber truck will release in 2029

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was just going to post a thread about a Back to the Future reboot for the 40th anniversary next year, so fuck it, I'll just post my ideas here:

  • Obviously the Cybertruck is going to be the time machine, that way you can get my-hero on board because there's no way he'd realize the joke is that his truck's a piece of shit just like the DeLorean.
  • Trump might be president then, so you can recycle the joke about Reagan being president, just replace "Ronald Reagan" with "Donald Trump".
  • 30 years ago was 1995, so tap into that millennial nostalgia with jokes about the information superhighway, PlayStation, Space Jam?
  • Soundtrack: Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, 2Pac, Macarena for a silly scene?
  • Cameo by Ernest Cline in a DeLorean? Do people still care about that guy?
  • In the dance scene at the end, Marty plays Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit.

Hollywood, get in touch, you know this shit prints money.

[-] drinkinglakewater@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

"Hey Fred! It's me your cousin! Yeah, Bill Durst! You gotta listen to this!"

[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

realize the joke is that his truck's a piece of shit just like the DeLorean.

huh today i learnt something

[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

A total of four recalls were issued by the factory to correct problems such as a sticking throttle

First as tragedy, then as farce.

[-] Zuzak@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

In the dance scene at the end, Marty plays Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit.

Imo it's gotta be 100 gecs.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've always thought the "your kids are gonna love it" line was weird. They're in 1955, even if their kids were born right that second, they would've been the same age as them in the early 70s. By that same logic, it has to be something more recent in 1995.

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

unless i'm missing something, the math on "your kids are gonna love it" checks out.

let's say the chronological age of appreciation for Eddie Van Hallen style is something like 15 - 25, so long as the listener is hearing it for the first time between the years 1974-1985, which is when Eddie Van Halen was in Van Halen and would exist in a world where crazy hair/glam metal shredding was beloved/cool in the music world.

If Cousin Marvin Berry (of Marvin Berry and the Starlighters) had a kid that was born between 1949 - 1970, it works. The actor playing Cousin Marvin was 31 at the time of the movie (1955), so if he had kids at any age between 25 and 46, it works.

but yeah, in a modern reimagining, the "wack music" would have to be something from today that people in the 1990s would have found too far out / unpartyable even when they were young, so like a skibidi toilet and kanye+grimes mashup

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[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

he's 3 years early for Johnny B. Goode (1958) so it's supposed to be pointing at a near-future but massive cultural change

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Shit, if the movie was set in 1990 he could be playing Smells Like Teen Spirit sadness Five years too late.

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[-] assyrian@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

this movie would make like a billion dollars and everyone will talk about it for months

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Obviously the Cybertruck is going to be the time machine

I can see like, maybe they in-universe lore explanation is something about the easily rusting outer material is better for time travel. But also, it might be offputting for the audience when they wonder "why is the time machine based on a leftover playstation-era 3D model asset?"

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

30 years ago was 1995, so tap into that millennial nostalgia with jokes about the information superhighway, PlayStation, Space Jam?

real estate prices, college tuition, living wages, malls still open, fewer tent cities, nobody knows what climate change is yet

also, guess doc brown can't have the libyans after him anymore, whoops

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

real estate prices, college tuition, living wages, malls still open, fewer tent cities, nobody knows what climate change is yet

We didn't start the fire

[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

They're gonna make it Iranians, just wait.

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

stop it spray-bottle why does nobody ever lathe anything good

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

The Lathe can only produce bad things

It would take a brave soul to throwselves into it to grind it to a halt

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I predict the halting of the lathe posadist-nuke fukuyamover

[-] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd rather live believing that Musk would be [REDACTED] by some 17 year old neo-nazi mad about being banned on twitter or else someone trying to impress the 2020's equivalent of young Jodie Foster before that date

....Though I guess that still wouldn't preclude it from the AI script writer picking it as the quirky replacement car

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Why not both? The cyber truck leaves production becausemy-hero gets got, and the rest continues as scheduledsicko-satan

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Fuck I can totally see that happening

[-] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

more likely there is a Breaking Bad reboot where instead of a Pontiac Aztek, the main character drives the cybertruck to reflect how pathetic and trying to be cool the guy is, which feeds into chasing drug kingpin status

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

No, the cybertruck must be reserved for this Better Call Saul character:

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is that Colin Robinson from What We Do in the Shadows (TV)?

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago
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[-] ItsPequod@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Inshallah Zemeckis never dies, the lathe needs not touch this one.

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[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

I never have to worry about getting a fucking software update with a DeLorean

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

If you're forced into the horrors of car ownership, and you're not absolutely impoverished, is a DeLorean actually that bad? For anti-car enthusiasts like me, the DeLorean is merely known as the Cool Retro Time Travel Movie car, to most of us, especially the younger, it might not actually be clear they made a real car based on the movies. But if a DeLorean and a CyberTruck pool up at my street corner, I know which customer's car I'm hopping into.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

The car in the movie malfunctions so often not only as a device for dramatic tension, but to realistically depict the experience of being in a delorean

[-] Maturin@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Jerry Seinfeld drove one on an episode of comedians in cars getting coffee and it broke down and started smoking half way through. I think that’s a pretty typical experience with them.

[-] LemonGrease@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

I'd break down and start smoking if I had to spend any amount of time with Jerry Seinfeld too

[-] assyrian@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

I hate him so much. no one's ever fallen upwards more than Jerry Seinfeld. he's extremely unfunny, Curb Your Enthusiasm being essentially the same show as Seinfeld proves that the whole show was only good because of Larry David. he somehow got lucky enough to make the show during a time where you could make like a trillion dollars off of syndication deals. then after the show finishes, he comes up with the brilliant idea "hey I'll film myself in my expensive cars bullshitting with my friends" and that ended up being a major success for no reason too.

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[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

At least the DeLorean doesn't look goofy and stupid when looked at within its context.

[-] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the DeLorean looks like a typical sports car of its time. Cybertruck looks out of place in all the eras.

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

wdym, it's clearly peak performance

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Even this scathing comparison is pretty generous to the cybertruck.

The DeLorean had poor build quality, but I can't see any indications that it will trap you in water to drown, or stick down the accelerator, or break immediately after fording shallow water or going in a car wash. I believe it can also survive being wet in daylight, and doesn't need to be offline for hours at a time to update.

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

This car is known for being a death trap, if it flips you won't be able to break or open the windows and the doors are wing doors and need space above you to open them, also you need a special way of washing it

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[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

that DeLorean pic has to be from the 1980s, right? no way that many of them are around in one place today

[-] 420stalin69@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

What you do see is get it up to 58 miles per hour and then you can photograph whatever you want

[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

There are a couple businesses that specialize in restoring them, could be one of those.

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[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Whenever I hear about these lots with Teslas as far as the eye can see I wonder whether one of those 'charging port door' remotes would create like a physical representation of the remote's range. Like a wave of doors opening. Could be kinda cool to film with a drone.

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

IDK how tesla doors work, but in the drone footage, they're all denting each other, right?

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

They re not that big. It's the little charging port door. The Tesla equivalent of a fuel tank door. Flipper zero people do it all the time but you can do the same with like a $10 Arduino equivalent

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