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One of my favourite lines from the franchise is spoken at the end of the first film and the beginning of the second. Doc, Marty and Jennifer are about to travel to the distant future ...

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Steve Nichol
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I am an unashamedly massive fan of the Back to the Future film franchise. Yes, even the sequels.

One of my favourite lines from the franchise is spoken at the end of the first film and the beginning of the second. Doc, Marty and Jennifer are about to travel to the distant future (2015, to be precise). When Marty points out there might not be enough road to get up to 88 mph, Doc flips down his brushed aluminium shades and intones: "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads." And the DeLorean flies off to the future thanks to an early 21st century hover conversion.

Brings a smile to my face every time

There's then something quite prophetic in the fact that despite the second film's somewhat idealised depiction of the (then) future, the three of them materialise in the middle of the hovercar equivalent of a traffic jam on the interstate. In the rain. So even in a world of hyper-accurate weather forecasts and super-quick justice (having, God forbid, disposed of

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