Where are the hover boards and flying cars?

If you are a fan of the "Back to the Future" movies like I am, then you already know this past Wednesday was a big day.

The date on the calendar was Oct. 21, 2015, which is very significant to the film franchise that originally hit the big screens back in the 1980s.

In Back to the Future Part II, the characters Dr. Emmett Brown, or "Doc," Marty McFly and Marty's girlfriend, Jennifer, leave their home in the year 1985 and travel into the future all the way to Oct. 21, 2015.

They travel to that particular day because Marty and Jennifer's future kids end up getting in trouble with the law, so they travel to the future in hopes of stopping the crimes from happening.

So Back to the Future fans celebrated this past Wednesday because we finally made it to the "future" in the movies.

My wife and I went to the Tri-County Cineplex here in Corbin that evening because they played the entire movie trilogy in one of their theaters. It was just $3 to watch all of them, and was really a lot of fun. I will even admit I got goosebumps when the crowd in the theater cheered as Doc set the time machine for Oct. 21, 2015.

A big theme of that movie though is how much things had changed and how much technology had advanced from 1985 to 2015.

In addition to cars that drive on roads, they also had flying cars in the year 2015.

Instead of the skateboards that Marty rode in 1985, they had hover boards in the future.

If you happen to get rained on, they had clothes that dried off in an instant with the pull of a switch. And instead of having to deal with the hassles of lacing up shoes, the movie version of 2015 had shoes that actually laced themselves.

There were also some pop culture references in the movie when they traveled to 2015.

The movie "Jaws 19" had just been released in theaters, and the Chicago Cubs finally won the World Series.

If you were on social media, or watched certain TV shows this past Wednesday though, you likely heard or read a lot of jokes about how different the year 2015 is in the movie from the year 2015 in real life.

Of course we don't have flying cars or hover boards yet. We still have to dry our clothes in a dryer, and we still have to lace our own shoes. The Jaws movies ended with Part 3 so we never got around to Part 19. And to beat it all, the real-life Cubs actually got eliminated from the playoffs on the day they won the World Series in the movie.

There are some similarities between our 2015 and the movie's though.

We can make video phone calls with our smart phones, or through computer programs like Skype.

And finger print technology is slowly being used more and more by businesses and consumers. Plus, I've heard rumors that Nike may soon release a shoe that does, in fact, lace itself.

But the movies finally come to an end with a scene where Doc tells Marty and Jennifer, "Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one, both of you."

This reminds me of Jeremiah 29:11 from the Bible which says, "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."

In 1985, the movies — and I'm sure many people — believed there would be all of these new inventions like hover boards and flying cars in 2015. So it's safe to say the "future" isn't quite the way we had planned it to be.

But there is a wonderful future we can plan for, and that's eternal life.

All we have to do is give our hearts to Jesus Christ, and have a personal relationship with Him by praying and spending time in His Word.

We just have to listen to what He tells us, and live our lives according to His will.

Then He will give us all the peace and all the joy in the world. And when our day comes to leave this world, we won't have to die — we'll get to spend forever and ever with Jesus in our Heavenly home.

So we've finally made it to the future according to the movies, and it isn't exactly how we envisioned it. But no hover boards or flying cars will compare to the awesome future God has planned for us.

Brad Hall is the nighttime editor for the Times-Tribune. He can be reached at bhall@thetimestribune.com. You can also visit his blog at hallthingsconsidered.blogspot.com.

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