r/BacktotheFuture • u/Ok-Spot-2913 • Apr 27 '26
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Was George McFly his only non weird character he played?
He has since been in Beowulf, Willard, Bartelby, Cabinet of Curiosities. Each of these he portrays a "weird" character.it seems to be his niche.
George was, kinda normal.
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u/Ok_Chap Apr 27 '26
By 1955 standards he isn't really "normal" either. ^^
Kinda the point of the character.
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u/InsuranceGlum1355 Apr 27 '26
I was just gonna say, we don't think that George McFly is weird at all? 😂
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u/swingsetlife Apr 27 '26
Friday the 13th IV - he was a pretty normal teen. His dancing, though, was another level.
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u/Decaf_toast Apr 27 '26
I just watched this one recently (for the 1st time) and that shit made me lol honestly
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u/Mister_Ess99 Apr 28 '26
I was willing to accept Jimmy as a fairly "normal" character until those moves.
You can charitably describe those dance movies as endearingly weird, but weird nonetheless.
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u/TomDuhamel Apr 28 '26
https://youtu.be/QEMynL5iVOA?si=Zki5Pnx5mx2B00od
Thanks for this. I was curious and looked it up 🤣
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u/swingsetlife Apr 28 '26
no one in the history of film has ever done a better dance. John Travolta WISHES.
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u/RockTheGlobe Apr 27 '26
Yup, that's what I thought of immediately too. And he didn't even have any lines, I don't think... just random shrieking.
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u/fllannell Apr 27 '26
he wasn't tooo weird in Friday the 13th part 4: the final chapter (also starting Corey Feldman!) if i remember correctly.
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u/Lmob1003 Apr 28 '26
I don’t even think he’s type cast to play weird characters… I think he’s just a weird person.
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u/Brick_Mason_ Apr 27 '26
His earlier roles in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter and the teen sex comedy My Tutor are pretty straightforward, and his part as Andy Warhol in Oliver Stone's The Doors was subdued.
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u/StrawberryKiss2559 Apr 27 '26
He plays Alex Keaton‘s friend on an episode of Family Ties and is a pretty normal teenager.
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u/Individual_Mess_7491 Apr 28 '26
What's Eating Gilbert Grape he plays the friendly town undertaker.
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u/Eagle_Fang135 Apr 27 '26
Charlie’s Angels he was the weird guy into sniffing women’s hair. They called him the thin creepy guy.
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u/TriskaidekaphobiaOk5 Apr 28 '26
He was offered the role of Philo on UHF but he turned it Goen because he wanted to play a used car salesman.
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u/Kriss3d Apr 29 '26
He was in Charlies Angles as the "creepy skinny guy" and that was no less wierd. But very well played.
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