San Francisco man pays homage to 'Back to the Future' with DeLorean hovercraft
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Michael J. Fox traveled roughly 30 years forward to Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015 in the second movie in the "Back to the Future" trilogy.
Many local theaters celebrated the day by showing "Back to the Future II."
"The first time they went back to the past, then the future and then the past, past," said Peter Lattimer, a San Francisco tourist.
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October 21, 2015, is just an ordinary day, right? Not if you remember the 1980s. Officially, it's Back to the Future Day. Though for Matt Riese of San Francisco, that future has long been part of his past. He built a hovercraft in the shape of a DeLorean. Riese insisted he be referred to as a character, David Lorean, who will be using his invention as a time machine.
ABC7 News asked the character David what impact the movie has had on him.
"What movie?" David Lorean said.
Years later we can now say the movie got some stuff wrong and some stuff right. Wearables? Yes, those exist and so do flat screen televisions. A few years ago, Nike floated self-lacing shoes. However, the film also predicted that skateboards would become hoverboards. It kind of missed on that one.
"I kind of like my regular skateboard," said Julius Berry, a skateboarder in San Francisco.
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Who can blame him? Especially when David Lorean, aka Matt Riese, still has his hovercraft primed to break the time barrier. He does have another job.
"I drive my other car for Lyft and Uber," he said.
The movie didn't predict those, either.
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