@@iansrife5107 Yeah I've played those games. While they were good, I'm not really sure I'd consider them to be a fourth instalment more of a companion piece. The alternate timelines it explores are interesting, including the terrifying one where Doc is 'Citizen Brown' the head of a dystopian society.
When you think about it, taking Clara was always the correct thing to do to preserve the timeline. Saving a person who was supposed to die and then leaving them in that timeline would butterfly-effect into who knows what after a while.
This is true although you can forgive both of them for not thinking about as Doc’s emotions were getting the better of him and Marty is kind of an idiot when it comes to the science stuff 😆
Yeah, in the alternate timeline where she survived because of Doc's intervention but Doc is shot by Tannon she marries another man and later gives birth to a daughter Edith. Edith marries and is widowed by a man named Thomas Keeler. During the great depression Edith Keeler runs a homeless shelter and mission and starts a peace movement that keeps the US out of WWII allowing the Nazi's to create the bomb first. Another timeline incursion stops this and returns us to the prime timeline.
She's supposed to die in the original timeline. 0. No one was available to pick up the new school teacher, a snake spooks her carriage horses and she goes over, with the ravine being named after her becoming a legendary joke that lasts a hundred years into Marty's time. 1. Doc volunteers to pick up the new school teacher and she lives, consequences unknown. 2. Doc misses his appointment to pick up Clara because he was busy checking out the unfinished bridge with Marty. She can be seen in the background while they were at the train station looking at the map. It was luck that Clara happened to be near the bridge when her horses lost their freaking minds. They were also stuck in 1885 for another 7 years or so. There didn't appear to be anything amiss when they returned to 1985, so perhaps they lived in relative isolation, knowing not to make waves.
@@TigerNightmare - I always figured it was reasonable to assume that in the second timeline where Doc is murdered, Clara left Hill Valley nursing a broken heart - just as she was about to do when she thought Doc had lied to her about returning to 1985. If that's the case then her survival had very little effect on the timeline as far as Hill Valley is concerned by 1955 - in fact, the only thing that would change from the original timeline would be that the ravine was never named after her, but the subject is never brought up before 1955 Doc sends Marty back to 1885. It's bloody clever writing. [EDIT : This also means that because of the way time travel works in the BTTF universe, 1985 Doc, Marty and Jennifer are the only people who will remember it was ever called Clayton Ravine. ]
I recently got to meet the Cast of Back to The Future in LA. The actor for Biff was so nice and he talks and takes his time with every single fan. He made me laugh because I told him how much he meant to my family and I and he responded, " thank you so much and tell your family I love them, even the ones that disappoint me" lol
A soldier from Lincolnshire, England was called "yellowbellies" because their uniforms were green with yellow accents. Though Yellow became the color associated with cowardice and it's said that it's because a large portion of men from Lincolnshire didn't enlist in the war and stayed back to farm the fields. So if you were a coward you were called "yellow", "yellowbelly", or "yeller bellies".
Moden day etymology. The color of yellow associates with the color of urine and with pissing your pants and running away or being paralyzed in facing down a tough situation on the battlefield or a fight, which is identified as cowardice with men.
That boiler door as a chest protector thing was actually foreshadowed in BttF 2, when alternate future Biff was watching a Clint Eastwood movie where he did the same thing.
@@JPSE57 I'm actually not a fan of the movie. I never liked Clint Eastwood's films. And I'm really not a Western fan. But if she chooses to watch it, then I hope she likes it
I had the incredible opportunity to meet Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, and Thomas F. Wilson a couple weeks ago at Rhode Island Comic Con. They were all very nice!
Wilson gets a bad rap for playing Biff, but he’s the nicest guy around. Fun fact: He also played Maniac in some of the Wing Commander game cinematics alongside Mark Hamill
Tom Wilson (the actor who plays Biff, Griff, and Mad Dog Tannen) is apparently one of the nicest guys on the world, too! Now, you really need to look up "Tom Wilson Question Song." It's about his experiences talking to people about the movies for the past several decades, and it's BRILLIANT!
Here' something to blow your mind: At one point in time, there were FOUR time machines in 1955! There was the first one that Marty went back in, in the first movie. There was the one that Marty and Doc took back to intercept old Biff. There was the one that old Biff went back in. And there was the one from 1885, hidden in the mine.
That brings an error to light. 1985 Marty hid his Delorean behind the billboard. 2015 Marty and Doc hid theirs behind the same billboard. They were both there at the same time, so why didn't they see the first car there?
@@PhysicalMediaPreventsWea-bx1zm I have to admit that I didn't pay that much attention to the dates. Did Marty and Doc from the future go back to the same day as Marty in the original film, or did they get there at least a day later?
@@lurkerrekrul Actually another commenter mentioned that 1985's Delorean was moved into Docs garage before 2015 Delorean got there so I guess that makes sense.
Indeed. Most people forget that when they see those movies. Actually even Titanic made the same mistake, when Jack Dawson sits on the dinner table with the rich people, and he says like ''i have to live with 10 dollars in my pocket day by day'' ... 10 dollars in 1912 for a day was quite a lot money.
You can't win either way. Either you have to be inaccurate or half the audience won't understand (most people don't think about that stuff unfortunately). But yes i prefer it being accurate
Fun fact: Needles' gang is made up of one member from each of the Tannen gangs. The guy riding shotgun was in Buford's gang, the guy in the back in yellow was in Griff's gang, and the other guy was in Biff's gang.
16:02 "I bet that's Clara." Not only that, but you actually see her in the scene prior to when Doc and Marty talk about the plan to use the bridge to get back to 1985 15:50 If you look carefully behind while Marty and Doc are looking at the map, you can see Clara waiting for Doc to pick her up. Before Marty went back to get him, what had happened was that Doc picked Clara up from the station and fell for her at first sight. In this case, with Marty here, Doc tried to avoid meeting Clara and forgot about picking her up which is why she rents a horse carriage by herself. Also, the fun detail when Marty rolls past the train crossing at the end: the ravine isn't Clayton ravine anymore, it was changed to Eastwood ravine. It wasn't in the reaction but wanted to point that out.
When Marty said that he learned how to shoot at "7-11", he's talking about the convenience store chain, but the intended suggestion is that the Colt salesman probably assumed it was the name of a ranch. A lot of ranches had simple names involving letters and numbers so they could easily design a logo for the brand. That's where the store chain Circle K got their name, back in the day if you saw an escaped cow branded with a K inside a circle, you knew it was from the Circle-K ranch. This is one of those "old timey" things that kids used to be aware of because of cartoons, but more recently the knowledge is being lost.
@@tenmark7055 Yeah but that is not where Marty learned to shoot, the second movie also showed this with the video game that the kids were playing with in the cafe in the future.
I would have assumed that he would have interpreted it as referring to gambling. 7-11 could refer to the winning numbers in the game of craps (known as "naturals"). If you spent a lot of time gambling in the old west, you'd probably encounter a lot of shady, dangerous people, and you'd need to learn how to defend yourself and how to shoot a gun.
Fun Fact: When Marty comes out and says “ Clint Eastwood never wore anything like this”, you can see a poster for Revenge of the Creature, which indeed came out in 1955, and was Clint Eastwood’s first ever movie appearance… nice lol
12:40 and 16:04 Something I like deeply about this movie is the horsemanship shown by the stunt men. Mounting the horse with a leap and leading the reins while having the horse at a full gallop shows that the stunt men spent years around horses.
If I remember right, they hired a lot of old actors and stuntmen that used to work on the old western tv shows and movies. I'd imagine they were very familiar around horses and cameras.
@@arcanaskCorrect. The 2 Bob's said they had a lot of professional stunt horse rider trying to get signed up for the movie because they wanted to work in film, and very few westerns were being made anymore.
Yes that is ZZ Top and yes you can get that song as a single . And it is genius in this version . I listen to that every day at my workout. And my personal favorite detail of all time is when Marty gets out in the 50s saying that Eastwood never dressed that stupid … with a poster in the background of one of the first Eastwood films where he literally dressed that stupid . That is so brilliant to this day I can’t get over it
18:53 those three gentlemen with the beards are the band ZZ Top. Story goes they were a last minute inclusion in the actual filming of the movie as they were coincidentally on set the day of and somebody asked them if they wanted to be in the movie since they were already doing the main theme song. If you listen to the song they are playing it is in fact an acoustic version of their feature song.
In regards to being mad about having a ravine named after you if you fell in it and died, in Australia one of our Prime Ministers (Harold Holt) disappeared while swimming at the beach and was presumed drowned and lost at sea....we named a municipal swimming pool after him.
Mary Steenburgen, who played Clara, has also been involved in another time travel movie, the 1979 film Time After Time. The difference was that she was in the present, and not the past.
Thank you! I was hoping someone would mention this! I absolutely love the game for its story. I've never played it myself, but I watch a full playthrough of it as though it's a movie. 10/10 would recommend!
Fun fact: During the hanging scene, he was originally standing on a box for the close-up shots. His double was filmed for the long shots. However, he couldn't get the "swinging" right, and he suggested that they actually hang him instead of standing on a box. He was supposed to position his hand so that it wouldn't choke him, but he positioned it wrong, and he was actually hanged. The crew didn't know anything was wrong until he actually passed out. His main artery was blocked because of the stunt. Michael J. Fox nearly died on set
If you notice the name of the ravine at the train in the future was no longer " Clayton Ravine ", it's now " Eastwood Ravine " because Clint Eastwood (Marty) supposedly fell into the ravine. Kind of like in the first movie the name of the shopping mall was changed from Twin Pines Mall, to Lone Pines Mall because Marty ran over one of the pine trees in 1955.
Neat facts. You look behind Doc and Marty while talking to train guy you can see them unloading the big clock from the train. And Docs face mask is made from the remains of the shirt he wore in part w which had a cowboy theme as an extra Easter egg
You’re right about Tom Wilson. He plays so many Tannens. Original 1985 Biff. New 1985 Biff. Alternate 1985 Biff. 1955 Biff. 2015 Biff. Griff. Buford, and the voice of Gertrude, Biffs Grandma. His song The Question song, which is about constant questions he gets asked about the trilogy is on his RUclips channel.
5:35 The Dark Age was long over by the 1600s. 6:00 Dr. Brown put the car in the mine, and then buried it. 6:10 Japan's boom happened after World War 2 ended. 6:58 Buford Tannen is Biff's great-grandfather, and played by the same actor. 18:58 The festival band is played by ZZ Top.
Thanks for explaining these things. Yes, the Dark Ages were a long time before North America was discovered by the White man, but for a lot of Americans, they automatically think of Salem witch trials. I was shocked she didn't recognise ZZTop! Exactly-it was actually the original Godzilla film being a worldwide success that helped Japan have the economic boom to get into electronics
that "Yellow" Tannen used it was for the asian slaves they were using in that time, since they were scared of bieng hurt, they refer to them by their skin.
Clint Eastwood was apparently flattered by the shout-out, and a lot of Back to the Future fans like to joke that Clint's grandparents heard of this one gunslinger from Hill Valley from 20 some-odd years ago and named Clint's father Clinton Eastwood after him. (Since Clint is a Junior.)
One cornerstone of humor is incongruity-- a joke that comes out of nowhere. _"Clint Eastwood is the biggest yella-belly in the West..."_ is only funny if you appreciate how ridiculous that sentence sounds. So it's no surprise the real Clint Eastwood would take it as a back-handed compliment if the line was played for laughs.
I showed this trilogy to my kids and when Marty and Jennifer are looking at the destroyed DeLorean my son asks, "Why are there no police there yet?" Now that's all I think about when I get to that part. Damn kids.
@@EsotericRage My kid watching it asked me why the railroad crossing warning went off when Doc returned in his train, and I didnt have an answer for him.
1. A couple hours probably passed between Marty running home and picking up Jennifer. The cops came, didn’t find a body in the car or a valid license plate to run, told CSX to shut down the tracks until the debris field could be cleared, went to lunch not too concerned about evidence preservation since the most likely crime committed was simple insurance fraud 2. The arriving time train created a charged electrical field in the air and triggered the limit switch that causes the gates to go down and the alarms to go off
I thought the same thing. In reality, the train would have come to stop as soon as it could- it wouldn’t have just kept going- and the authorities would have been notified. They certainly wouldn’t have just left the debris there on the tracks.
Okay, here’s one: Doc was supposed to pick Clara up at the train station but when he’s a no-show she suddenly has a wagon and horses? Did Avis exist back then?
Not to be racist, but for context - Doc's comment about 'made in Japan' would have been mostly accurate. From the 50's-70's, American manufacturing had a huge leg up on most of the world, which had suffered huge damage from the Second World War. America, being isolated, did not. Japan tried to get it's manufacturing up to the same level, but until the late 70's, they were the equivalent of the Temu-level crap coming from modern China (China also produces excellent products, just not en masse). In the 80's, the positions were reversed, with Japan producing superb vehicles and consumer electronics - the best stuff WAS made in Japan, while the US took big growth and big hits to its manufacturing industries.
@@HalloweenYearRound exactly, in the 80s everything good was either made in Japan or made in West Germany as they rebuilt from scratch with nice new everything
So this got a Saturday Morning Cartoon that attempted to continue the story. There was a McDonald's Happy Meal tie-in for it, and DeLoreans being DeLoreans, the time machine toy from week one of the tie-in got recalled for safety reasons. There's also been comic books, and a motion-control large screen format ride at Universal Studios that tried to tell further stories in this setting but arguably the best continuation was from Telltale Games who made a video game picking up after the events of BttF 3. Script co-writer Bob Gale says the game is the closest thing to a fourth movie that we'll ever get.
Amazing. Yesterday, I had nothing to do, so I started switching channels on t.v. and I found a channel that played all 3 back to the future in a row, without commercials, so it was like a giant movie without cuts. And today, I open you-tube and see your reaction to the 3rd part, so here I am, still fresh in memory from yesterday, so I'm going to watch your reaction. Hope you enjoyed the whole trilogy. Have a nice day.
Flea (bassist in Red Hot Chili Peppers) is the guy driving the red truck at the end. And zz top is playing in the dance scene. Michael J Fox actually almost got hanged in the scene in the beginning.
One thing about ZZ Top is that the guitarists had special guitar harnesses that let them spin their guitars 360 for music videos and concerts. This would have looked out of place in the old west, but it finally let the drummer get in on the gimmick. His name was Frank Beard, something that I only remember because he's the one member of the band that is clean shaven.
@@SnabbKassa no dude. what? jack black cant sing. I remember him when he was like 20 in the skate board movie airborne. but on ZZtop or any other group. no
toot toot 🚂 A delightfully fun and timeless movie reaction! 🤩👍 coincidental trivia from an alternate timeline: One of the first Newcombe steam engines was used at Griff Colliery mine near Nuneaton England in early 1700s. In 1886 HG Wells lived a few miles from Nuneaton and later wrote the novel "The Time Machine". A few years later Griff Colliery opened the Griff Clara Mine, The Griff Clara Mine closed for good in the year 1955, yes that 1955. My scientific theory is an alternate timeline did exist where Griff (Pt 2) also stole the DeLorean, went to 1885 to meet Mad Dog Tannen but kidnapped Clara (Pt 3) before she could meet Doc and fall in love. Griff took Clara to industrial England distracting her by the revolutionary science while Griff muscled in on the colliery since it had his name. HG Wells heard rumor of these time travelers inspiring him to write "The Time Machine." The neighborhood in Nuneaton where many miners lived was called Bermuda, like in Bermuda Triangle. When Doc and Marty restored all the timelines in Parts 1, 2, and 3, the Griff Clara Mine ceased to exist in 1955. Otherwise it would have unraveled the very fabric of the space time continuum and destroyed the entire universe... Thus time travel is real and possible as proven by the BTTF trilogy.
Fun fact: they almost got Ronald Reagan to play the mayor of the town. This was because Reagan was reportedly a huge fan of the first movie and loved the famous joke about him.
I've always loved Mary Steenburgen, and Clara is one of her very endearing characters. I've always been so satisfied with the resolution to this trilogy and Doc Brown finally getting to have a family and share time-travel adventures with them.
She was in another time travel film called Time After Time with Malcom McDowall and it was about H.G. Wells who used a time machine to travel to 1979 to chase a killer and she worked in a bank. This was years before she was in this
The band playing at the festival is ZZ Top. To call someone "yellow" is to call them a coward. Also, even though I'm I night owl I find myself having to wake up by 6 most mornings.
The final chapter in the Back To the Future Trilogy! Hollywood should look at these kinds of movies and show the audience how to properly end their films on a high note.
To do that, film writers should write trilogies together. It does not matter if it is show or film franchise: if you don't have the proper end to your story, it won't work no matter how many seasons or films you make. This is why Back to the Future, Nolan's Batman trilogy, Breaking Bad, Better call Saul worked, and many failed
The reason why there’s never been a Back to the Future Part IV or even a reboot is because Universal don’t actually own the production rights to the movies; the director Robert Zemeckis does which means they would need his permission to do more and he clearly doesn’t want to which I support him for.
I'm so glad you made it around to this one. This is absolutely my favorite installment in the franchise. Both Doc *and* Marty get to grow as characters, Doc finds love, and the Wild West setting gives it something unique. Not a lot of sci-fi takes place in the Wild West (Firefly being one of the rare examples). And they weren't afraid to go all out at the end with Doc showing up in the new time machine. It's the perfect end to the trilogy.
That's a most interesting scene and is certainly the stuff that QAnon conspiracies are made of! I've heard it was a pre-arranged hand signal to indicate he needed to go to the bathroom but the directors didn't want to interrupt the take... or something like that. It is odd though, that during such a short scene is precisely when the kid needed to take a wee.
If you think about it, Clayton ravine's name changed in the first movie the moment Marty traveled to 1965. When he returned to 1985 more than just the mall got a new name, he just didn't have time to find out as he was only in 1985 for a few hours before jumping forward in time....
That would be the case, if you assume that once he went back it started a chain of events that would inevitably lead to them both being in 1885. But given the trilogy’s overall theme of “the future is written yet,” I don’t think inevitability plays a part here.
In the original 1st timeline, Claras horse was spooked and she died in the ravine. Giving it her name. But after Doc went back, he met up with her at the station, and she never died. She fell in love with Doc, who later died after the festival. Then Marty came back, and now Doc never met up with her, so now she wouldve died again, except Doc saved her. Then Marty came back, and everyone thought he died when the train went in the ravine, so now the name of the ravine is "Eastwood ravine"
I don't think the name of the ravine changes until Doc goes back to 1885 at the end of Part 2 - he meets Clara off the train and as a result she isn't killed in the ravine. That said, there are definitely a few "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" differences in the timeline Marty created in the first movie. As I mentioned in another comment, the cinema from 1955 which had become a porn cinema in the original timeline is now a church - I reckon it's because Goldie takes his job as mayor rather more seriously in order to prove his old boss wrong (as he said when Carruthers mocked him, he's making an effort to clean up the town). Also, the chunk of ledge on the clock tower that Doc dislodged when performing improvised repairs to the cable is still missing in the new timeline- in the original timeline at the start of the movie the ledge is intact. Zemeckis and co. paid some serious attention to detail there.
Imo this is easily the most underrated film in the Back to the Future trilogy, it’s not the best but still it was very enjoyable and a worthwhile conclusion.
A lot of folks don't quite understand the intention of the ending. Marty asks if Doc is going back to the future, Doc says he's already been there, but he never says where he's going, and some reactors tend to get confused as to where he's going next. The sequence of the train transforming and taking flight is supposed to imply that the vehicle is built for space travel. They've been to the past and the future, now they're exploring the stars in a contraption exactly like something Jules Verne imagined.
You've never heard of the 7-Eleven convenience store? And that was ZZ Top performing at the festival. Also, yellow is the color of fear much like green is the color of jealousy, blue is the color of sadness and red is the color of anger. Calling someone yellow is just another way of calling them a coward.
6:11 In this timeline it's barely been 10 years since the war, at this point Japan is still war-battered and slowly rebuilding. If I remember correctly all they had to offer were cheaply made toys (think chinese quality from years ago for reference)
Its acually Michael J Fox idea to make the 3rd movie to be set back then, because he always wanted to do a western movie. Ohh and I bet you didnt notice after Doc and Marty talked to the guy about the speed of the train and they went to check on the map discussing the name of the revine that you can see Clara is standing there waiting for Doc to pick her up. Yellow is the wild west version of calling someone chicken.
Little known fact (that most people may or may not know): When Marty was being "strung up" by Mad Dog, Michael J. Fox was actually being strangled and suffered a broken collarbone from the incident
That's true except for the broken collarbone part. Had that really happened they would have had to stop shooting for several weeks if not months. But he did almost strangled to death. Ironically the same exact thing happened to Brendan Fraser 10 years later while filming The Mummy!
It's worth noting that Marty's bulletproof vest idea came from a movie he saw Billionaire Biff watching in part 2 - A Fistful of Dollars, starring Clint Eastwood.
There is/was a Telltale game series that was extremely faithful to the films and serves as a de facto sequel. It was very fun to play but equally enjoyable just watching a playthru.
This is one of my favorite trilogies of all time. And the soundtrack to the 3rd one is always in my playlist since the 90s, when I owned it on cassette. And yes, I did see these in theaters. As I was driving earlier, I was actually quoting this one to myself. I said, "It's a nice telescope," like Marty did about Clara's telescope. I love how all three movies depict a bulletproof vest of some sort. Doc in the first one when he gets shot, Clint Eastwood on the TV that Biff is watching in the hot tub in the second one, and then Marty in this one. So many repeated themes.
Ready to have your mind blown? The Delorean was in 1955 at 4 different points _simultaneously._ Once Doc gets sent to 1885 •It was there about a week from Marty travelling there in the first movie •Old Biff used the delorean to go there for a few hours(?) and give himself the almanac •Doc and Marty go there for roughly a day to retrieve the almanac, during which old Biff is there. •Doc ended up in 1885 and hid the delorean for Marty to find in 1955. There are some continuations of the story. An animated series mainly focussing on Jules and Verne, a point and click video game set soon after this movie, comics I think
Actually it’s only 3 places. Original DeLorean, Old Biff DeLorean and future DeLorean. The one in the mine won’t be there until Doc gets struck by lightning because of the ripple effect of time travel
The good thing about it being over is that you can just watch all three over and over and over again anytime and they literally are always just as good as the first time :) So glad they never made any more of these...
Mind blown as an kid that Part II & III were filmed, back to back. I loved the teaser trailer for Part III at the end of Part II, couldn't wait to see the grand finale. Part III is the only film in the series that i've seen in theaters. The new Universal Pictures title logo of the time was introduced for it's 75th anniversary, running through it's studio logos from the past to the present. Fox as Marty Mcfly still iin his growth as an person learning to be brave while on these adventures throughout time has great. Overcoming his fear and finally going home. But Chris Lloyd as ELB having his own story and finding love for more than just science was wonderful. 3 of the band members (2 guitarists and 1 drummer) was the real-life legendary band, ZZ Top. They performed the film's song, "Doubleback", heard within the ceremony and in the end credits. I played the video game, BTTF part II & part III. Both stories in one game for the Sega Genesis. Very complicated to play and full of craziness. There was an animated series and ran between 2 networks. It ran 2 seasons (26 episodes) with the adventures of Marty, Einstein, ELB with his wife and kids. Both vehicles, the Train and a new Delorean are used. A couple of castmembers from the films were involved as voices. Thomas F. Wilson reprised as Tannen characters (obviously) and Mary Steenburgen reprised her role as Clara. Universal Studios opened the BTTF ride afterwards in Hollywood and Orlando, Florida. This was a solid ending to the trilogy and further defining of what every trilogy should be.
This wasn't even the first time this was done. If you were a kid here, you might be too young to remember this, but the Three and Four Musketeers movies from the 70s (with Oliver Reed and Michael York) were filmed back to back as well. Even Superman I and II were too!
I'm such a need so i figured out that marty should by all means have a concussion all 3 movies take place in 15 days and then he gets ko'd and is out cold only to be woken up by his mom 9hrs pt1 2hrs pt2 6hrs pt3
It's funny you say it feels like it's the "end of an era." For me, in real life, it WAS the end of an era. The first movie came out when I was 17, about to enter my senior year of high school. The third movie came out as I was wrapping up my last year of college, with a whole lot of "what's next for me?" kind of thoughts. Doc's advice that no one's future has been written yet, so "make it a good one," landed on very appropriate ears. I truly did feel in my bones it was the end of an era, personally.
Minor "mistake" that I never caught until today when I decided to research it: November 13, 1955 was a Sunday. The Howdy Doody show never aired on Sunday in its initial run. It started as a Monday to Friday show, and was eventually moved to Saturday, but it was never a Sunday show.
Another "mistake" is that noone believes doc when he visions a future with automobiles. The internal combustion engine had existed for decades at that point and there were several prototype experimental cars by 1885. The first car to be manufactured and sold was just 3 years after in 1888, by Karl Benz in Germany.
The best part of Marty using the bulletproof vest in the duel is that it was foreshadowed in the previous film. Alt-1985/Donald Trump Biff was seen watching a scene from A Fistful of Dollars where Clint Eastwood's character uses this tactic in a showdown before Marty confronts him about the sports almanac, and then in this film he actually uses that technique against Biff's ancestor. It's honestly a great bit of storytelling, and a great side-effect of shooting both sequels back-to-back. And while we're on the subject, if you're looking for recommendations for Westerns to react to, I'd definitely recommend the Dollars trilogy - A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and the Good the Bad and the Ugly. Absolutely iconic and brilliant films that totally redefined the genre, turned Clint Eastwood into a Hollywood icon overnight, and are just as exhilarating to watch now as they were when they came out 60 years ago.
FYI: Grover Cleveland was President of the United States in 1885. He was serving his first term at that point. He was elected in 1892 for his second term, and he was the first U.S. President to serve 2 non-consecutive terms.
It's weird, when I first saw this film in the cinema in 1990, it was widely regarded as an improvement on BTTF2, but in recent years, the "zeitgeist" seems to have shifted, and people now, call this film a "sequel for the sake of a sequel". But I'm firmly in the first camp.
Ever since I saw this movie, I thought it was better than BTTF2. Everything about this movie feels "lived in"; all the actors feel like they were really comfortable with their roles, Tom Wilson was absolutely hamming it up as Buford, the love story between Doc and Clara was adorable and deserved... this was my favorite movie of the trilogy, and continues to be.
I'd argue that anyone making that claim likely isn't paying as much attention as they should be. For what it's worth I think both the sequels are great (though for me at least, the first movie is in a league of its own). The original movie is justifiably lauded as having one of the tightest scripts in Hollywood history - everything the script sets up gets a satisfying payoff - even relatively minor details*, and while the ending feels like sequel-bait with 20/20 hindsight, the fact is that it was originally supposed to be one last gag to wrap things up. The two Bobs are on the record as saying if they'd intended to set up a sequel, they'd never have written Jennifer getting in the car with Marty and Doc, because once they get to the future, there's not an awful lot for her to do narrative-wise. Part 2 is arguably somewhat hamstrung in the first instance because they had to write themselves out of the corner they'd unwittingly painted themselves into - and in the second instance because the narrative has to do a lot of heavy lifting - not only having to create an entirely new set of plot problems that Marty and Doc have to solve in Part 2 itself, but it also has to lay the groundwork and set things up for Part 3 such that the story feels like a natural progression and doesn't have the occasional moments of awkwardness that were a bit of a necessary evil to make Part 2 work. In the hands of a less talented and savvy writing team, things could have gone distinctly awry with the sequels. [* - One of my favourites that I didn't spot for years was that the cinema on the town square in 1955 had become a porn cinema in the original 1985 timeline, but when Marty returns to 1985 (and accidentally ram-raids the building), it is now being used as a church. The implication is that in the new 1955 timeline, when Marty told Goldie he was going to be mayor and his boss Carruthers mocked him for even thinking about it, Goldie decided he had a point to prove and he's more discerning about the kind of businesses he wants on his town square. ]
I'm always amazed how enamored reactors are with the BTTF trilogy even though they miss so much by looking away and talking over the dialog. Really shows the impact of the story that they're still impressed despite seeing only incongruent parts of it!
Back to the Future 3 the is best of the BTTF trilogy and it is a comedy science fiction and and western all rolled up in one movie take care thank you awesome V.🕊️📺🕊️
Glad you liked it! I remember Part 3 being all the buzz at school, but sadly didn't get to see it until it was shown on BBC1 about two years later. Favourite film of the trilogy, which is probably because I like westerns! Cheers! 😎
An amazing conclusion to one of the greatest film trilogies ever made. I was 14 when the first movie came out and 19 when the third one came out. They were an essential part of my teenage years. I love the adventure, I love the music and, most of all, I love the bond between Marty and Doc. And seeing Doc fall in love was beautiful.
There was an animated series that followed up on the main trilogy. Jules and Verne were main characters and in every episode they'd visit a new time period. And yes, there was another Tannen in almost every time they visited.
If Marty goes back to 1885, that means there's 2 Deloreans in that time. His and Doc's. Did Doc's Delorean not have any gas left in it? We never acknowledge that there are 2 Deloreans in that time.
And following that line of thought, in 1955 there are actually 3 DeLoreans for the full week that Marty stays there, the one from the first movie, the one from the second movie and the one buried from the third movie (and for a brief moment, there's a fourth DeLorean from when old man Biff brings the almanac back to his younger self)
Doc would've drained the gas (and any other fluid) out of the Delorean he arrived in, because that's what you're supposed to do when preparing a car for long term storage.
I see people bring up this point all the time but the logical assumption is that Doc would have drained the gas tank before hiding it in the mine. Leaving 70 year old gas in the tank isn't good for the car.
@@cbuchner6862Though the first movie seems to contradict itself in this regard The name of the mall changing implies that changing the past changes the future. But inspiring Johnny B. Goode implies a predestination paradox. It’s like a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff…
"Why do I have the feeling it's Biff's ancestor?" I don't know... Maybe because you heard the surname. Maybe because you saw it written. Maybe because you saw his picture. You did immediately recognize Marty's ancestor a second later, after all...
The three cowboys in tavern are famous characters actors in over 100 westerns from 69s to the 80s. The gut with the distinctive voice with the mustache was also in Lady and the Tramp as the old houndig
I don't think Pat Buttram voiced Trusty. He absolutely did do some voice work for Disney later though - playing the Sherriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood and Luke the muskrat in The Rescuers.
I'm still surprised over how few reactors know that "yellow" is a synonym for "cowardly." I didn't think it had become that uncommon.
Gotta read more Green Lantern comics, I guess.
I don't think VKunia is a native speaker
I first heard the term "yellow-belly" lol. But that's how i knew what it meant.
It's just because she's a bit green.
They've never watched a western before.
Man, I love the running gag about the models not being to scale. That one always gets a smile out of me.
One of the best aspects of these movies is the parallel scenes among the movies.
The running gag that keeps on giving. How many times has it been referenced in movies since?
34:54 Yes it's done. And for anyone who's watching; please please please DO NOT reboot or remake this. It's perfect the way it is.
Zemeckis has said he will never sell the rights to make a sequel or reboot.
Isn't there a Tell Tales game that's basically like a Back To The Future 4? I heard it was pretty good, but I never played.
Gale and Zemeckis only helped produce a stage version, which is pretty faithful and hams up a few characters. 👍
@@iansrife5107 Definitely worth playing if you're a fan.
@@iansrife5107 Yeah I've played those games. While they were good, I'm not really sure I'd consider them to be a fourth instalment more of a companion piece. The alternate timelines it explores are interesting, including the terrifying one where Doc is 'Citizen Brown' the head of a dystopian society.
When you think about it, taking Clara was always the correct thing to do to preserve the timeline. Saving a person who was supposed to die and then leaving them in that timeline would butterfly-effect into who knows what after a while.
This is true although you can forgive both of them for not thinking about as Doc’s emotions were getting the better of him and Marty is kind of an idiot when it comes to the science stuff 😆
Yeah, in the alternate timeline where she survived because of Doc's intervention but Doc is shot by Tannon she marries another man and later gives birth to a daughter Edith. Edith marries and is widowed by a man named Thomas Keeler. During the great depression Edith Keeler runs a homeless shelter and mission and starts a peace movement that keeps the US out of WWII allowing the Nazi's to create the bomb first. Another timeline incursion stops this and returns us to the prime timeline.
they should've just pushed Mad Dog into the ravine
She's supposed to die in the original timeline.
0. No one was available to pick up the new school teacher, a snake spooks her carriage horses and she goes over, with the ravine being named after her becoming a legendary joke that lasts a hundred years into Marty's time.
1. Doc volunteers to pick up the new school teacher and she lives, consequences unknown.
2. Doc misses his appointment to pick up Clara because he was busy checking out the unfinished bridge with Marty. She can be seen in the background while they were at the train station looking at the map. It was luck that Clara happened to be near the bridge when her horses lost their freaking minds. They were also stuck in 1885 for another 7 years or so. There didn't appear to be anything amiss when they returned to 1985, so perhaps they lived in relative isolation, knowing not to make waves.
@@TigerNightmare - I always figured it was reasonable to assume that in the second timeline where Doc is murdered, Clara left Hill Valley nursing a broken heart - just as she was about to do when she thought Doc had lied to her about returning to 1985. If that's the case then her survival had very little effect on the timeline as far as Hill Valley is concerned by 1955 - in fact, the only thing that would change from the original timeline would be that the ravine was never named after her, but the subject is never brought up before 1955 Doc sends Marty back to 1885. It's bloody clever writing.
[EDIT : This also means that because of the way time travel works in the BTTF universe, 1985 Doc, Marty and Jennifer are the only people who will remember it was ever called Clayton Ravine. ]
I recently got to meet the Cast of Back to The Future in LA. The actor for Biff was so nice and he talks and takes his time with every single fan. He made me laugh because I told him how much he meant to my family and I and he responded, " thank you so much and tell your family I love them, even the ones that disappoint me" lol
A soldier from Lincolnshire, England was called "yellowbellies" because their uniforms were green with yellow accents. Though Yellow became the color associated with cowardice and it's said that it's because a large portion of men from Lincolnshire didn't enlist in the war and stayed back to farm the fields.
So if you were a coward you were called "yellow", "yellowbelly", or "yeller bellies".
Moden day etymology. The color of yellow associates with the color of urine and with pissing your pants and running away or being paralyzed in facing down a tough situation on the battlefield or a fight, which is identified as cowardice with men.
That boiler door as a chest protector thing was actually foreshadowed in BttF 2, when alternate future Biff was watching a Clint Eastwood movie where he did the same thing.
A fistful of dollars
@@SJHFoto Next on VKunia's list to watch? 😀
@@JPSE57 I'm actually not a fan of the movie. I never liked Clint Eastwood's films. And I'm really not a Western fan. But if she chooses to watch it, then I hope she likes it
I had the incredible opportunity to meet Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, and Thomas F. Wilson a couple weeks ago at Rhode Island Comic Con. They were all very nice!
I second that - Boston Fan Expo '18. They were so personable.
Wilson gets a bad rap for playing Biff, but he’s the nicest guy around.
Fun fact: He also played Maniac in some of the Wing Commander game cinematics alongside Mark Hamill
Aw, man! I totally missed that.
That scene of Doc falling face first straight into a table will always be in my top 10 funniest moments ever.
Fun thing to note. In the end when Marty returns to the future, Clayton ravine is now named Eastwood ravine.
she was probably looking at herslef in the mirror or away from the screen....
That’s one of those little details that most of us never noticed back when all we had was VHS.
Tom Wilson (the actor who plays Biff, Griff, and Mad Dog Tannen) is apparently one of the nicest guys on the world, too! Now, you really need to look up "Tom Wilson Question Song." It's about his experiences talking to people about the movies for the past several decades, and it's BRILLIANT!
There area tapes of him as a stand up comedian on Johnny Carson, he was damned hilarious....
Here' something to blow your mind: At one point in time, there were FOUR time machines in 1955!
There was the first one that Marty went back in, in the first movie. There was the one that Marty and Doc took back to intercept old Biff. There was the one that old Biff went back in. And there was the one from 1885, hidden in the mine.
Sounds like a nexus point
That brings an error to light. 1985 Marty hid his Delorean behind the billboard. 2015 Marty and Doc hid theirs behind the same billboard. They were both there at the same time, so why didn't they see the first car there?
@@PhysicalMediaPreventsWea-bx1zm I have to admit that I didn't pay that much attention to the dates. Did Marty and Doc from the future go back to the same day as Marty in the original film, or did they get there at least a day later?
@@lurkerrekrul Actually another commenter mentioned that 1985's Delorean was moved into Docs garage before 2015 Delorean got there so I guess that makes sense.
$80 in 1885 is equivalent to over 2 grand today. So, yeah, kind of a big deal.
Indeed. Most people forget that when they see those movies. Actually even Titanic made the same mistake, when Jack Dawson sits on the dinner table with the rich people, and he says like ''i have to live with 10 dollars in my pocket day by day'' ... 10 dollars in 1912 for a day was quite a lot money.
You can't win either way. Either you have to be inaccurate or half the audience won't understand (most people don't think about that stuff unfortunately). But yes i prefer it being accurate
the best part about these movies is that when you rewatch them you can pick up on subtle Easter eggs referencing the different eras
Fun fact: Needles' gang is made up of one member from each of the Tannen gangs. The guy riding shotgun was in Buford's gang, the guy in the back in yellow was in Griff's gang, and the other guy was in Biff's gang.
the guy driving was Flea from the Chilli Peppers
@@santanamauricio i was wondering, the hair was throwing me off :D
That one guy in the back always reminds me of a young Jeff Goldblum.
THIS I didn't know!
Good eye mate. Ive never noticed that in over 34 years of watching. I noticed two but never the last.
16:02 "I bet that's Clara."
Not only that, but you actually see her in the scene prior to when Doc and Marty talk about the plan to use the bridge to get back to 1985
15:50 If you look carefully behind while Marty and Doc are looking at the map, you can see Clara waiting for Doc to pick her up.
Before Marty went back to get him, what had happened was that Doc picked Clara up from the station and fell for her at first sight. In this case, with Marty here, Doc tried to avoid meeting Clara and forgot about picking her up which is why she rents a horse carriage by herself.
Also, the fun detail when Marty rolls past the train crossing at the end: the ravine isn't Clayton ravine anymore, it was changed to Eastwood ravine. It wasn't in the reaction but wanted to point that out.
"why are they obsessed with his color" 🤣calling someone yellow or yellow-bellied the old way of calling someone a chicken
yellow snow from ice age too :) :)
@DlugR. Thats a piss joke though 😂
Viki always making me feel old when she doesn't understand phrases that used to be super common 😅
Well maybe in 20 years people are wondering why biff calls him a chicken.
When Marty said that he learned how to shoot at "7-11", he's talking about the convenience store chain, but the intended suggestion is that the Colt salesman probably assumed it was the name of a ranch. A lot of ranches had simple names involving letters and numbers so they could easily design a logo for the brand. That's where the store chain Circle K got their name, back in the day if you saw an escaped cow branded with a K inside a circle, you knew it was from the Circle-K ranch. This is one of those "old timey" things that kids used to be aware of because of cartoons, but more recently the knowledge is being lost.
I thought I'd never again come across a bit of BTTF trivia I've never heard, but there it is! So cool!
7-11 was an chain of gas marts stores that were almost everywhere in the U.S, in the 80's, but yes it could have been interpreted as a ranch name.
There is a 7 11 ranch in Quartz Creek Valley of Gunnison County, Colorado. Dont know if it dates to the 1800s though
@@tenmark7055 Yeah but that is not where Marty learned to shoot, the second movie also showed this with the video game that the kids were playing with in the cafe in the future.
I would have assumed that he would have interpreted it as referring to gambling. 7-11 could refer to the winning numbers in the game of craps (known as "naturals"). If you spent a lot of time gambling in the old west, you'd probably encounter a lot of shady, dangerous people, and you'd need to learn how to defend yourself and how to shoot a gun.
Fun Fact: When Marty comes out and says “ Clint Eastwood never wore anything like this”, you can see a poster for Revenge of the Creature, which indeed came out in 1955, and was Clint Eastwood’s first ever movie appearance… nice lol
and the poster beside it is for "Tarantula", another one of his movies from the same year.
12:40 and 16:04 Something I like deeply about this movie is the horsemanship shown by the stunt men. Mounting the horse with a leap and leading the reins while having the horse at a full gallop shows that the stunt men spent years around horses.
If I remember right, they hired a lot of old actors and stuntmen that used to work on the old western tv shows and movies. I'd imagine they were very familiar around horses and cameras.
@@arcanaskCorrect. The 2 Bob's said they had a lot of professional stunt horse rider trying to get signed up for the movie because they wanted to work in film, and very few westerns were being made anymore.
Also the kiss Doc had with Clara was the first onscreen kiss for Mr Lloyd
Didn't he kiss Leslie Anne Warren in Clue?
Yes that is ZZ Top and yes you can get that song as a single . And it is genius in this version . I listen to that every day at my workout. And my personal favorite detail of all time is when Marty gets out in the 50s saying that Eastwood never dressed that stupid … with a poster in the background of one of the first Eastwood films where he literally dressed that stupid . That is so brilliant to this day I can’t get over it
GOT TO DOUBLE BACK MY FRIEND
That seems like odd workout music. Now, I want to try it!
@@smdias65that’s what I thought . Try it it very strangely works
She didn't even recognize ZZTop. She thought one of them was Jack Black!😂
"What is that stance?!"
🤣🤣🤣
I love the way Mad Dog laughs and staggers around when he thinks he's won. He's such a cartoon cowboy villain 🤠
It also reminds me a little of Lee Marvin in "The Man who Shot LibertyValance" when he was staggering around Drunk......
It looks like it could be the stance of a drunk.
18:53 those three gentlemen with the beards are the band ZZ Top. Story goes they were a last minute inclusion in the actual filming of the movie as they were coincidentally on set the day of and somebody asked them if they wanted to be in the movie since they were already doing the main theme song. If you listen to the song they are playing it is in fact an acoustic version of their feature song.
The overlapping of each movie makes this such an amazing experience. So fun watching you enjoy all three. 😊
One of the movies at the theater before Marty heads to 1885 is "Revenge of the Creature"- which is Clint Eastwoods' first film appearance.
and the poster beside it is for "Tarantula", another one of his movies from the same year.
In regards to being mad about having a ravine named after you if you fell in it and died, in Australia one of our Prime Ministers (Harold Holt) disappeared while swimming at the beach and was presumed drowned and lost at sea....we named a municipal swimming pool after him.
That's really messed up.
so apt and fitting for a politican.
But... is he mad about it? We have to know.
I literally just heard about this 2 days ago on YT shorts.
Mary Steenburgen, who played Clara, has also been involved in another time travel movie, the 1979 film Time After Time. The difference was that she was in the present, and not the past.
great movie
Technically the Back to the Future The game is a sequel. And the people involved include writer producer and creator from the movie
Thank you! I was hoping someone would mention this! I absolutely love the game for its story. I've never played it myself, but I watch a full playthrough of it as though it's a movie. 10/10 would recommend!
@ I know it’s on an abandonware site. I have not tried playing it. I had it when it was available for iPad.
Fun fact: During the hanging scene, he was originally standing on a box for the close-up shots. His double was filmed for the long shots. However, he couldn't get the "swinging" right, and he suggested that they actually hang him instead of standing on a box. He was supposed to position his hand so that it wouldn't choke him, but he positioned it wrong, and he was actually hanged. The crew didn't know anything was wrong until he actually passed out. His main artery was blocked because of the stunt. Michael J. Fox nearly died on set
… and while they were treating him for what they thought were symptoms of that, they discovered he had Parkinson’s.
That fact was not fun. I demand a refund.
The exact same thing happened to Brenden Fraser 10 years later during the filming of The Mummy!
I just love how we see Marty and Doc's friendship grow through the course of these movies. It really shines through in this one.
The gang's reaction to being told to "Lighten up jerk!" is fantastic.
If you notice the name of the ravine at the train in the future was no longer " Clayton Ravine ", it's now " Eastwood Ravine " because Clint Eastwood (Marty) supposedly fell into the ravine. Kind of like in the first movie the name of the shopping mall was changed from Twin Pines Mall, to Lone Pines Mall because Marty ran over one of the pine trees in 1955.
they should've just pushed Mad Dog into the ravine
Neat facts. You look behind Doc and Marty while talking to train guy you can see them unloading the big clock from the train. And Docs face mask is made from the remains of the shirt he wore in part w which had a cowboy theme as an extra Easter egg
You can also see Clara in the background looking around when they were staring at the map.
You’re right about Tom Wilson. He plays so many Tannens. Original 1985 Biff. New 1985 Biff. Alternate 1985 Biff. 1955 Biff. 2015 Biff. Griff. Buford, and the voice of Gertrude, Biffs Grandma.
His song The Question song, which is about constant questions he gets asked about the trilogy is on his RUclips channel.
5:35 The Dark Age was long over by the 1600s.
6:00 Dr. Brown put the car in the mine, and then buried it.
6:10 Japan's boom happened after World War 2 ended.
6:58 Buford Tannen is Biff's great-grandfather, and played by the same actor.
18:58 The festival band is played by ZZ Top.
Thanks for explaining these things. Yes, the Dark Ages were a long time before North America was discovered by the White man, but for a lot of Americans, they automatically think of Salem witch trials. I was shocked she didn't recognise ZZTop! Exactly-it was actually the original Godzilla film being a worldwide success that helped Japan have the economic boom to get into electronics
that "Yellow" Tannen used it was for the asian slaves they were using in that time, since they were scared of bieng hurt, they refer to them by their skin.
Clint Eastwood was apparently flattered by the shout-out, and a lot of Back to the Future fans like to joke that Clint's grandparents heard of this one gunslinger from Hill Valley from 20 some-odd years ago and named Clint's father Clinton Eastwood after him. (Since Clint is a Junior.)
One cornerstone of humor is incongruity-- a joke that comes out of nowhere.
_"Clint Eastwood is the biggest yella-belly in the West..."_ is only funny if you appreciate how ridiculous that sentence sounds. So it's no surprise the real Clint Eastwood would take it as a back-handed compliment if the line was played for laughs.
The director actually asked Clint Eastwood if they could use his name in the film, and he agreed.
4:43 Notice the clock over the toilet? This is the clock he was hanging when he hit his head. 😆
I showed this trilogy to my kids and when Marty and Jennifer are looking at the destroyed DeLorean my son asks, "Why are there no police there yet?" Now that's all I think about when I get to that part. Damn kids.
@@EsotericRage My kid watching it asked me why the railroad crossing warning went off when Doc returned in his train, and I didnt have an answer for him.
1. A couple hours probably passed between Marty running home and picking up Jennifer. The cops came, didn’t find a body in the car or a valid license plate to run, told CSX to shut down the tracks until the debris field could be cleared, went to lunch not too concerned about evidence preservation since the most likely crime committed was simple insurance fraud
2. The arriving time train created a charged electrical field in the air and triggered the limit switch that causes the gates to go down and the alarms to go off
I thought the same thing. In reality, the train would have come to stop as soon as it could- it wouldn’t have just kept going- and the authorities would have been notified. They certainly wouldn’t have just left the debris there on the tracks.
Okay, here’s one: Doc was supposed to pick Clara up at the train station but when he’s a no-show she suddenly has a wagon and horses? Did Avis exist back then?
@@Tconlon251_2 That is a pretty fantastic answer! Thank you. My mind is at peace.
Not to be racist, but for context - Doc's comment about 'made in Japan' would have been mostly accurate. From the 50's-70's, American manufacturing had a huge leg up on most of the world, which had suffered huge damage from the Second World War. America, being isolated, did not. Japan tried to get it's manufacturing up to the same level, but until the late 70's, they were the equivalent of the Temu-level crap coming from modern China (China also produces excellent products, just not en masse). In the 80's, the positions were reversed, with Japan producing superb vehicles and consumer electronics - the best stuff WAS made in Japan, while the US took big growth and big hits to its manufacturing industries.
Also gotta remember 1955 is only 10 years after the end of WWII and Japan was still rebuilding.
The teachings of W. Edwards Deming transformed Japan's quality control ethos so it became the best in the world in the space of 25 years.
Not being racist.
Quit being so sensitive.
@@HalloweenYearRound exactly, in the 80s everything good was either made in Japan or made in West Germany as they rebuilt from scratch with nice new everything
So this got a Saturday Morning Cartoon that attempted to continue the story. There was a McDonald's Happy Meal tie-in for it, and DeLoreans being DeLoreans, the time machine toy from week one of the tie-in got recalled for safety reasons.
There's also been comic books, and a motion-control large screen format ride at Universal Studios that tried to tell further stories in this setting but arguably the best continuation was from Telltale Games who made a video game picking up after the events of BttF 3. Script co-writer Bob Gale says the game is the closest thing to a fourth movie that we'll ever get.
Amazing. Yesterday, I had nothing to do, so I started switching channels on t.v. and I found a channel that played all 3 back to the future in a row, without commercials, so it was like a giant movie without cuts. And today, I open you-tube and see your reaction to the 3rd part, so here I am, still fresh in memory from yesterday, so I'm going to watch your reaction. Hope you enjoyed the whole trilogy. Have a nice day.
Flea (bassist in Red Hot Chili Peppers) is the guy driving the red truck at the end. And zz top is playing in the dance scene. Michael J Fox actually almost got hanged in the scene in the beginning.
I normally don't care for "Wild West" settings, but BTTF III found a way to make it compelling!
the band's name is ZZ Top.
I think Jack Black could get in to the band with the beard he has now, but not when he was 20
One thing about ZZ Top is that the guitarists had special guitar harnesses that let them spin their guitars 360 for music videos and concerts. This would have looked out of place in the old west, but it finally let the drummer get in on the gimmick. His name was Frank Beard, something that I only remember because he's the one member of the band that is clean shaven.
@@SnabbKassa no dude. what? jack black cant sing. I remember him when he was like 20 in the skate board movie airborne. but on ZZtop or any other group. no
toot toot 🚂 A delightfully fun and timeless movie reaction! 🤩👍
coincidental trivia from an alternate timeline:
One of the first Newcombe steam engines was used at Griff Colliery mine near Nuneaton England in early 1700s.
In 1886 HG Wells lived a few miles from Nuneaton and later wrote the novel "The Time Machine".
A few years later Griff Colliery opened the Griff Clara Mine,
The Griff Clara Mine closed for good in the year 1955, yes that 1955.
My scientific theory is an alternate timeline did exist where Griff (Pt 2) also stole the DeLorean, went to 1885 to meet Mad Dog Tannen but kidnapped Clara (Pt 3) before she could meet Doc and fall in love. Griff took Clara to industrial England distracting her by the revolutionary science while Griff muscled in on the colliery since it had his name. HG Wells heard rumor of these time travelers inspiring him to write "The Time Machine." The neighborhood in Nuneaton where many miners lived was called Bermuda, like in Bermuda Triangle.
When Doc and Marty restored all the timelines in Parts 1, 2, and 3, the Griff Clara Mine ceased to exist in 1955. Otherwise it would have unraveled the very fabric of the space time continuum and destroyed the entire universe... Thus time travel is real and possible as proven by the BTTF trilogy.
Fun fact: they almost got Ronald Reagan to play the mayor of the town. This was because Reagan was reportedly a huge fan of the first movie and loved the famous joke about him.
You just watched my most favorite movie in this trilogy. Thank you for sharing and enjoying this awesome movie with us.
I've always loved Mary Steenburgen, and Clara is one of her very endearing characters. I've always been so satisfied with the resolution to this trilogy and Doc Brown finally getting to have a family and share time-travel adventures with them.
She was in another time travel film called Time After Time with Malcom McDowall and it was about H.G. Wells who used a time machine to travel to 1979 to chase a killer and she worked in a bank. This was years before she was in this
I've only seen her in this and the 90s Gulliver's Travels
The band playing at the festival is ZZ Top. To call someone "yellow" is to call them a coward.
Also, even though I'm I night owl I find myself having to wake up by 6 most mornings.
The final chapter in the Back To the Future Trilogy! Hollywood should look at these kinds of movies and show the audience how to properly end their films on a high note.
I do believe this trilogy is taught in many film schools.
Preach it, Brother Shaine! ✊🏿
To do that, film writers should write trilogies together. It does not matter if it is show or film franchise: if you don't have the proper end to your story, it won't work no matter how many seasons or films you make. This is why Back to the Future, Nolan's Batman trilogy, Breaking Bad, Better call Saul worked, and many failed
The reason why there’s never been a Back to the Future Part IV or even a reboot is because Universal don’t actually own the production rights to the movies; the director Robert Zemeckis does which means they would need his permission to do more and he clearly doesn’t want to which I support him for.
REALLY?!? This movie SUCKED!! It was terrible. And part 2 was completely superfluous.
The only one that mattered, was the first movie, PERIOD!!!
I'm so glad you made it around to this one. This is absolutely my favorite installment in the franchise. Both Doc *and* Marty get to grow as characters, Doc finds love, and the Wild West setting gives it something unique. Not a lot of sci-fi takes place in the Wild West (Firefly being one of the rare examples). And they weren't afraid to go all out at the end with Doc showing up in the new time machine. It's the perfect end to the trilogy.
The McFlys and the Tannens are pretty much the Back to the Future equivalent to the McCoys and the Hatfields.
Rewatch the scene where Doc introduces his family and pay attention to Vernes hand gesture 😂
That's a most interesting scene and is certainly the stuff that QAnon conspiracies are made of! I've heard it was a pre-arranged hand signal to indicate he needed to go to the bathroom but the directors didn't want to interrupt the take... or something like that. It is odd though, that during such a short scene is precisely when the kid needed to take a wee.
If you think about it, Clayton ravine's name changed in the first movie the moment Marty traveled to 1965.
When he returned to 1985 more than just the mall got a new name, he just didn't have time to find out as he was only in 1985 for a few hours before jumping forward in time....
Wait, what? 1965? :)
@@exile220ifyThey meant 1955, right?
That would be the case, if you assume that once he went back it started a chain of events that would inevitably lead to them both being in 1885. But given the trilogy’s overall theme of “the future is written yet,” I don’t think inevitability plays a part here.
In the original 1st timeline, Claras horse was spooked and she died in the ravine. Giving it her name.
But after Doc went back, he met up with her at the station, and she never died. She fell in love with Doc, who later died after the festival.
Then Marty came back, and now Doc never met up with her, so now she wouldve died again, except Doc saved her.
Then Marty came back, and everyone thought he died when the train went in the ravine, so now the name of the ravine is "Eastwood ravine"
I don't think the name of the ravine changes until Doc goes back to 1885 at the end of Part 2 - he meets Clara off the train and as a result she isn't killed in the ravine. That said, there are definitely a few "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" differences in the timeline Marty created in the first movie. As I mentioned in another comment, the cinema from 1955 which had become a porn cinema in the original timeline is now a church - I reckon it's because Goldie takes his job as mayor rather more seriously in order to prove his old boss wrong (as he said when Carruthers mocked him, he's making an effort to clean up the town). Also, the chunk of ledge on the clock tower that Doc dislodged when performing improvised repairs to the cable is still missing in the new timeline- in the original timeline at the start of the movie the ledge is intact. Zemeckis and co. paid some serious attention to detail there.
Imo this is easily the most underrated film in the Back to the Future trilogy, it’s not the best but still it was very enjoyable and a worthwhile conclusion.
My step-dad was 7 years old in 1955 and says he remembers watching Howdy Doodie as a kid. It was his favorite show!
My parents were in their 20s. They're a bit older than George and Lorraine would be if they were real people. (And they are still around)
A lot of folks don't quite understand the intention of the ending. Marty asks if Doc is going back to the future, Doc says he's already been there, but he never says where he's going, and some reactors tend to get confused as to where he's going next. The sequence of the train transforming and taking flight is supposed to imply that the vehicle is built for space travel. They've been to the past and the future, now they're exploring the stars in a contraption exactly like something Jules Verne imagined.
You've never heard of the 7-Eleven convenience store? And that was ZZ Top performing at the festival. Also, yellow is the color of fear much like green is the color of jealousy, blue is the color of sadness and red is the color of anger. Calling someone yellow is just another way of calling them a coward.
she was commenting on the character's reaction to Marty saying it.
In all fairness, I had to have that explained too in 1990 (as I was in Canada)
Yeah, without a doubt, this was one of the best trilogies ever filmed.
Thomas F. Wilson is absolutely the unsung hero of the trilogy. 7 distinct characters / versions of characters.
Actually they did have skin moisturizer in the Old West and you'd 've been a fetching lass back in that day.
6:11 In this timeline it's barely been 10 years since the war, at this point Japan is still war-battered and slowly rebuilding. If I remember correctly all they had to offer were cheaply made toys (think chinese quality from years ago for reference)
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Yes Frisbee. Actually came from throwing pie plates for fun at college
Far out.
Its acually Michael J Fox idea to make the 3rd movie to be set back then, because he always wanted to do a western movie.
Ohh and I bet you didnt notice after Doc and Marty talked to the guy about the speed of the train and they went to check on the map discussing the name of the revine that you can see Clara is standing there waiting for Doc to pick her up.
Yellow is the wild west version of calling someone chicken.
All that is left is the Back to the Future animated cartoon series.
And the Telltale game
And the Universal Studios ride
There was a Back to the Future animated series that follows Doc, Clara, Jules and Vern in the 90s
It was great! And actually it was where Bill Nye the science guy got his start
Little known fact (that most people may or may not know): When Marty was being "strung up" by Mad Dog, Michael J. Fox was actually being strangled and suffered a broken collarbone from the incident
That's true except for the broken collarbone part. Had that really happened they would have had to stop shooting for several weeks if not months. But he did almost strangled to death. Ironically the same exact thing happened to Brendan Fraser 10 years later while filming The Mummy!
It's worth noting that Marty's bulletproof vest idea came from a movie he saw Billionaire Biff watching in part 2 - A Fistful of Dollars, starring Clint Eastwood.
It's on the screen so briefly that I never noticed this until I saw it in a reaction video, and it blew my mind.
34:28 watch the kids hands :D
There is/was a Telltale game series that was extremely faithful to the films and serves as a de facto sequel. It was very fun to play but equally enjoyable just watching a playthru.
Don't forget there was a cartoon continuation that's now on DVD, and independent comic book company IDW Publishing did a number of comics too. 😊
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personally, I would be more afraid of disease and other things like that.
After playing RDR2, I know how deadly a disease can be 😔
She'll be afraid if she ever finishes RDR2. 🤣🤣
This is one of my favorite trilogies of all time. And the soundtrack to the 3rd one is always in my playlist since the 90s, when I owned it on cassette. And yes, I did see these in theaters. As I was driving earlier, I was actually quoting this one to myself. I said, "It's a nice telescope," like Marty did about Clara's telescope. I love how all three movies depict a bulletproof vest of some sort. Doc in the first one when he gets shot, Clint Eastwood on the TV that Biff is watching in the hot tub in the second one, and then Marty in this one. So many repeated themes.
Ready to have your mind blown? The Delorean was in 1955 at 4 different points _simultaneously._ Once Doc gets sent to 1885
•It was there about a week from Marty travelling there in the first movie
•Old Biff used the delorean to go there for a few hours(?) and give himself the almanac
•Doc and Marty go there for roughly a day to retrieve the almanac, during which old Biff is there.
•Doc ended up in 1885 and hid the delorean for Marty to find in 1955.
There are some continuations of the story. An animated series mainly focussing on Jules and Verne, a point and click video game set soon after this movie, comics I think
Actually it’s only 3 places. Original DeLorean, Old Biff DeLorean and future DeLorean. The one in the mine won’t be there until Doc gets struck by lightning because of the ripple effect of time travel
@ so then after doc gets struck by lightning, the timeline has the delorean in 4 places at the same time
@@jonmercano1138 no, because by that time Old Biff has already returned to 2015
@@weirds0up but it’s been in the mine for years
@ yes. But it hadn’t been in there years, yesterday
The good thing about it being over is that you can just watch all three over and over and over again anytime and they literally are always just as good as the first time :)
So glad they never made any more of these...
Not that I wasn't already, but your outfit and hat for most of the vid deserves a sub.
Mind blown as an kid that Part II & III were filmed, back to back.
I loved the teaser trailer for Part III at the end of Part II, couldn't wait to see the grand finale.
Part III is the only film in the series that i've seen in theaters.
The new Universal Pictures title logo of the time was introduced for it's 75th anniversary, running through it's studio logos from the past to the present.
Fox as Marty Mcfly still iin his growth as an person learning to be brave while on these adventures throughout time has great.
Overcoming his fear and finally going home.
But Chris Lloyd as ELB having his own story and finding love for more than just science was wonderful.
3 of the band members (2 guitarists and 1 drummer) was the real-life legendary band, ZZ Top.
They performed the film's song, "Doubleback", heard within the ceremony and in the end credits.
I played the video game, BTTF part II & part III.
Both stories in one game for the Sega Genesis.
Very complicated to play and full of craziness.
There was an animated series and ran between 2 networks.
It ran 2 seasons (26 episodes) with the adventures of Marty, Einstein, ELB with his wife and kids.
Both vehicles, the Train and a new Delorean are used.
A couple of castmembers from the films were involved as voices.
Thomas F. Wilson reprised as Tannen characters (obviously) and Mary Steenburgen reprised her role as Clara.
Universal Studios opened the BTTF ride afterwards in Hollywood and Orlando, Florida.
This was a solid ending to the trilogy and further defining of what every trilogy should be.
This wasn't even the first time this was done. If you were a kid here, you might be too young to remember this, but the Three and Four Musketeers movies from the 70s (with Oliver Reed and Michael York) were filmed back to back as well. Even Superman I and II were too!
@SJHFoto yes I knew that too.
I'm such a need
so i figured out that marty should by all means have a concussion
all 3 movies take place in 15 days
and then he gets ko'd and is out cold only to be woken up by his mom
9hrs pt1
2hrs pt2
6hrs pt3
It's funny you say it feels like it's the "end of an era." For me, in real life, it WAS the end of an era. The first movie came out when I was 17, about to enter my senior year of high school. The third movie came out as I was wrapping up my last year of college, with a whole lot of "what's next for me?" kind of thoughts. Doc's advice that no one's future has been written yet, so "make it a good one," landed on very appropriate ears. I truly did feel in my bones it was the end of an era, personally.
This was the end of an era for me too as it was one of the last movies I saw in the theatre before I moved to the States
Minor "mistake" that I never caught until today when I decided to research it: November 13, 1955 was a Sunday. The Howdy Doody show never aired on Sunday in its initial run. It started as a Monday to Friday show, and was eventually moved to Saturday, but it was never a Sunday show.
Somsthing Doc and Marty did back in 1885 must have lead to it changing from Sunday after the events of BTTF1.
Another "mistake" is that noone believes doc when he visions a future with automobiles. The internal combustion engine had existed for decades at that point and there were several prototype experimental cars by 1885. The first car to be manufactured and sold was just 3 years after in 1888, by Karl Benz in Germany.
@cuffzter they didn't have trouble believing an automobile could exist, their problem is the idea that walking and running would be niche activities.
@@cuffzterThat's true, but the local newspaper probably didn't carry the story about it. And I doubt that the guys at the bar could even read...
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Point taken, but I doubt news traveled that far back then, plus they didn’t exactly look like newspaper-reading types.
The best part of Marty using the bulletproof vest in the duel is that it was foreshadowed in the previous film. Alt-1985/Donald Trump Biff was seen watching a scene from A Fistful of Dollars where Clint Eastwood's character uses this tactic in a showdown before Marty confronts him about the sports almanac, and then in this film he actually uses that technique against Biff's ancestor. It's honestly a great bit of storytelling, and a great side-effect of shooting both sequels back-to-back.
And while we're on the subject, if you're looking for recommendations for Westerns to react to, I'd definitely recommend the Dollars trilogy - A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and the Good the Bad and the Ugly. Absolutely iconic and brilliant films that totally redefined the genre, turned Clint Eastwood into a Hollywood icon overnight, and are just as exhilarating to watch now as they were when they came out 60 years ago.
FYI: Grover Cleveland was President of the United States in 1885. He was serving his first term at that point. He was elected in 1892 for his second term, and he was the first U.S. President to serve 2 non-consecutive terms.
It doesn’t need a sequel, it doesn’t need a reboot. It just needs to be enjoyed and left alone.
Exactly!
It's weird, when I first saw this film in the cinema in 1990, it was widely regarded as an improvement on BTTF2, but in recent years, the "zeitgeist" seems to have shifted, and people now, call this film a "sequel for the sake of a sequel".
But I'm firmly in the first camp.
Ever since I saw this movie, I thought it was better than BTTF2. Everything about this movie feels "lived in"; all the actors feel like they were really comfortable with their roles, Tom Wilson was absolutely hamming it up as Buford, the love story between Doc and Clara was adorable and deserved... this was my favorite movie of the trilogy, and continues to be.
I definitely like it more than 2, personally.
I'd argue that anyone making that claim likely isn't paying as much attention as they should be. For what it's worth I think both the sequels are great (though for me at least, the first movie is in a league of its own). The original movie is justifiably lauded as having one of the tightest scripts in Hollywood history - everything the script sets up gets a satisfying payoff - even relatively minor details*, and while the ending feels like sequel-bait with 20/20 hindsight, the fact is that it was originally supposed to be one last gag to wrap things up.
The two Bobs are on the record as saying if they'd intended to set up a sequel, they'd never have written Jennifer getting in the car with Marty and Doc, because once they get to the future, there's not an awful lot for her to do narrative-wise. Part 2 is arguably somewhat hamstrung in the first instance because they had to write themselves out of the corner they'd unwittingly painted themselves into - and in the second instance because the narrative has to do a lot of heavy lifting - not only having to create an entirely new set of plot problems that Marty and Doc have to solve in Part 2 itself, but it also has to lay the groundwork and set things up for Part 3 such that the story feels like a natural progression and doesn't have the occasional moments of awkwardness that were a bit of a necessary evil to make Part 2 work. In the hands of a less talented and savvy writing team, things could have gone distinctly awry with the sequels.
[* - One of my favourites that I didn't spot for years was that the cinema on the town square in 1955 had become a porn cinema in the original 1985 timeline, but when Marty returns to 1985 (and accidentally ram-raids the building), it is now being used as a church. The implication is that in the new 1955 timeline, when Marty told Goldie he was going to be mayor and his boss Carruthers mocked him for even thinking about it, Goldie decided he had a point to prove and he's more discerning about the kind of businesses he wants on his town square. ]
I'm always amazed how enamored reactors are with the BTTF trilogy even though they miss so much by looking away and talking over the dialog. Really shows the impact of the story that they're still impressed despite seeing only incongruent parts of it!
Back to the Future 3 the is best of the BTTF trilogy and it is a comedy
science fiction and and western all rolled up in one movie take care
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Glad you liked it! I remember Part 3 being all the buzz at school, but sadly didn't get to see it until it was shown on BBC1 about two years later. Favourite film of the trilogy, which is probably because I like westerns!
Cheers! 😎
I feel bad for her. Imagine mistaking Dusty Hill for Jack Black; poor girl hasn't gotten to know ZZ Top.
That irked me too, but she is young, so I understand
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!!! Ahhh thank you so much John!🥰❤️✨
It's been a long time waiting! Finally!!!
An amazing conclusion to one of the greatest film trilogies ever made. I was 14 when the first movie came out and 19 when the third one came out. They were an essential part of my teenage years. I love the adventure, I love the music and, most of all, I love the bond between Marty and Doc. And seeing Doc fall in love was beautiful.
Great Scott!!! 😊
There was an animated series that followed up on the main trilogy. Jules and Verne were main characters and in every episode they'd visit a new time period. And yes, there was another Tannen in almost every time they visited.
If Marty goes back to 1885, that means there's 2 Deloreans in that time. His and Doc's. Did Doc's Delorean not have any gas left in it? We never acknowledge that there are 2 Deloreans in that time.
And following that line of thought, in 1955 there are actually 3 DeLoreans for the full week that Marty stays there, the one from the first movie, the one from the second movie and the one buried from the third movie (and for a brief moment, there's a fourth DeLorean from when old man Biff brings the almanac back to his younger self)
Doc would've drained the gas (and any other fluid) out of the Delorean he arrived in, because that's what you're supposed to do when preparing a car for long term storage.
I see people bring up this point all the time but the logical assumption is that Doc would have drained the gas tank before hiding it in the mine. Leaving 70 year old gas in the tank isn't good for the car.
@HiveDrone47 The one in the mine didn't appear until the other was struck by lightning. The timeline doesn't change until the characters change it.
@@cbuchner6862Though the first movie seems to contradict itself in this regard
The name of the mall changing implies that changing the past changes the future. But inspiring Johnny B. Goode implies a predestination paradox. It’s like a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff…
When Bartender when a sh*t about you enough to get to know your name and care about you.
"Why do I have the feeling it's Biff's ancestor?"
I don't know...
Maybe because you heard the surname.
Maybe because you saw it written.
Maybe because you saw his picture.
You did immediately recognize Marty's ancestor a second later, after all...
Also the video playing at the entrance to the Biff Tannen Museum in the Hell Valley portion of BttF2 mentioned Mad-Dog?
CBS did a 2-season run of Back to the Future: The Animated Series in the '90s if you're interested in more adventures with Doc Brown.
The three cowboys in tavern are famous characters actors in over 100 westerns from 69s to the 80s. The gut with the distinctive voice with the mustache was also in Lady and the Tramp as the old houndig
I don't think Pat Buttram voiced Trusty. He absolutely did do some voice work for Disney later though - playing the Sherriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood and Luke the muskrat in The Rescuers.