What’s Aged the Worst?
The peeping Tom kids; bad reads as an STD allegory; audiences judging the characters' intelligence
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- The peeping Tom kids are never understood: she is the leftover prom queen the neighborhood boys still stare at, and in 2014 climbing up to look through her window is criminal activity, though that's how George McFly met his wife.
- Bad reads of the movie: the number of people who think this is just an allegory for STDs or the perils of AIDS, which it's not.
- Contemporary audiences focus way too much on the intelligence of the characters and whether they make the right call; if it came out today people would call these kids idiots over the hair dryer plan.