Look, I’m on the record: the first two Back to the Future films are my favorite blockbuster-and-sequel set of all time. And as maybe the most powerful cinematic treatment of the conflict between nostalgia (romance) and the true weight of history (responsibility) to come along since the dawn of the blockbuster era, it’s a no brainer that those of us who have seen it so many times that we could sing it like a song would look for new opportunities to wallow in our fandom. But somebody’s got to start imposing limits. Behold the following:

Exhibit A: That Donnie Darko sequel that everyone’s mad about? One of its stars indicated to MTV News (via Indie Eye) that it’s actually more like a remake of Back to the Future 2. “It goes into all different dimensions, but it’s really about turning something around for somebody else, and being able to go back and have another chance…We just come back [in time] and change what happened in the first one.”

…and the far more egregious Exhibit B: Whitney at Pop Candy alerts us to the news that ThinkGeek.com is selling a non-functional yet “movie accurate” replica of the Flux Capictor––for $249. In the movies, the Flux Capacitor is the plutonium-fueled gadget which makes time travel possible, but in real life, it’s apparently a glorified paperweight which makes shitty sweded Back to the Future remakes like the above possible. This is where normal, healthy nostalgia passes over to the point of capitalism-aided psychosis, and it just makes me sad.