As of this movie there are FOUR Time Machines in 1955. The first DeLorean to be present in Hill Valley on November 12, 1955 had actually been there for over 70 years, hidden by Doc Brown in the Delgado Mine after his arrival in 1885. Another DeLorean, the one that transports Marty McFly back to 1955 in the first Back to the Future, arrives in Hill Valley on November 5. A third DeLorean time machine shows up in Hill Valley on November 12, after 2015 Biff Tannen uses it to travel back and give his younger self the sports almanac, which leads to the dystopian alternate 1985 timeline. This leads Marty and Doc to travel back to November 12 and take the almanac back from young Biff, creating the overlapping period where four different DeLoreans are all present in Hill Valley on November 12, 1955, beginning at 1:40 pm local time.
Technically, the answer should be 0 as the plot of the 2nd movie is impossible, based on it's own established rules. A shame because I love the movie lol. Old Biff stole the machine and went back, changing the future of his Younger self right? This would lead to a unresolved paradox though. 1. The Book shouldn't exist for 1955 Biff- this is because the moment the book reached Young Biff, the alternative timeline was born and Old Biff would/should no longer exist, meaning he couldn't hand himself the book because old Biff would either cease existing or become an Alt Old Biff in a different situation meaning he never see's the book. Also, In Alt 1985, we also learn Doc never creates the time machine because he was declared insane and locked away (likely by Biffs influence) meaning most importantly there are *no time machines* but also it means by implication, Doc and Marty never go to any version of 2015, not even an alternative version , which then of course means Marty never buys the book, which also means Old Biff never retreives the book (he would be totally different anyway) and couldn't even go back to hand it to himself, as there is no time machine. Paradox issue 2. Old Biff in the movie somehow travels back to original 2015 after making the change and it's still the one he's from, which should be impossible, based on what Doc explains in the movie about timelines. Even if you count the pained expressions of Old Biff as he gets out the car as potentially starting to fade from existence, the fact is the future he should have returned to would be an alternate 2015, with Rich Old Biff in it, not the one he was originally from. The time machine should have ceased existing the moment he re-entered 2015 or he and the car cease existing in 1955 when he gives the book. Further to this, like with Jennifers moves from different 1985s, 2015 Doc and Marty (who were still looking for Martys house and Jennifer) should have changed to Alt 2015 along with everything else and also been changed themselves by the effects of the change of the alternative timeline started by Old Biff, but that change never happens, even though it should. Technically if they did change over I would imagine Alt 2015 means Doc is dead (never time travels so never gets de-aging surgery) and who knows what the effect of having Biff as your dad would do to his alt 2015 older Marty life. Basically it's a paradox mess but essentially the TLDR is the moment the book left Old Biffs hands to his younger self he caused a critical unresolved paradox.
What doesn't make sense is that since there were two Deloreans in 1885, they could have repaired the leak and used the fuel from the Delorean Doc Brown hid in the cave. Even after months of sitting there, the fuel still should have been usable.
@@MrXMysteriousX I don’t agree with you. (Time traveling is impossible, but let’s forget that.) Even if alternative timelines are born, the people involved in time traveling is not necessary affected. Remember that Marty didn’t know about how his family had changed after the first trip to 1955. Somehow they all remain the same for now. We can se this several times. Doc don’t remember that he gave Marty those cowboy clothes because it happened Doc after old Doc’s disappearance to 1855. Somehow new doings tend to be delayed in space time continuum. And the same thing can be multiplied (the time machine four or five times at the same time). So the almanack can be brought from the first 2015 timeline back to Biff in 1955 without disappearing in that moment. You can pick things from one timeline and stil produce a second one in a new timeline. Old Biff travelled back to 2015. That’s hypothetically possible. There are never two timelines parallel to each other at the same time. So he must arrive somewhere in present 2015 from Marty’s and Doc’s perspective. Perhaps everything around them changed without them noticing it. Perhaps the two alternative 2015 collided and so we have an explanation for Old Biff’s vanishing. He was stuck in between to timelines somehow. So when you speak about him returning to “an alternate 2015”, you are talking about “another place”. But there is no other place. Time and space are the same. Same old earth, same old place in time. They never mentions another earth, etc. I perceives it as you mixes together people in one event with another. Doc gets de-aging surgery in a timeline where it exists. You can’t take that experience away from him even if it couldn’t have happened in the alternative timeline which they experienced later on in their altogether experiencing of all timelines in a row as it is shown to us. Yes, when he puts the book in the hands of his younger self, he causes changes. But Doc and Marty never checks out what that means to the “new” 2015, only the “new” 1985, and all their memories and stuff (hover board, etc) can they keep. When and how do things change? I believe that Marty’s family is poor and depressed even when he comes back to 1985 for the first time. Then he sees himself being chased by terrorists. Even that chased Marty remembers the poor and depressed family. But! In exactly the moment when returning Marty sees himself disappearing in front of the terrorist car, THAT’S(!) when everything around him changes. That’s the key event which changes everything for him. So he couldn’t remember any changes in his family until he woke up the next morning and experienced it - for the first time. But ofcourse: then he would have seen the sign first as "Twin Pines Mall" and later on as "Lone Pine Mall". Perhaps that's the only real paradox ...? ;-)
14:55 Prior to Marty going back to 1885 Emmet would have still been asked by the Sherriff to pick her up from the train station. With no Marty to change the timeline Emmet picks her up from the train station safe and sound altering History. In the Original UNALTERED 1885 There was no one to pick her up from the station so she rented a wagon and went over the edge of Clayton Ravine.
11:37 and you can even see at the moment before it cuts to Doc and Marty visiting the bridge... if you look carefully, there's Clara waiting for Emmett in the background. But she obviously decided to rent the wagon due to his absence.
See, this kind of thing shows that you can think you made something obvious in a story you write only for it not to actually be clear enough to the audience. My first few times watching it I didn't actually think there was a plot hole, but I still misunderstood what happened because I assumed that Doc Brown had been at the ravine to rescue Clara even without Marty's help. It wasn't until repeat viewings that I figured out that he had picked her up at the station and the snake had never spooked the horses in that timeline.
The ending is just a great way to finish the trilogy. It's so positive and happy. I don't think you can ever remake this movie. It was so unique for its time.
Universal has been pleading with Zemeckis to make a reboot/continuation/spin off for a long time now. Zemeckis told the Telegraph that his and Gale’s original contracts with Universal and Steven Spielberg‘s production company Amblin Entertainment outlined how the two would have final say on any future Back to the Future or related films for as long as both were alive. Zemeckis, said “Oh God, no” at the possibility of a remake or a Jurassic World-type continuation, adding that it “can’t happen until both Bob [Gale] and I are dead.” Gale was co-writer on all three films.
14:44 "If she died going into the river then how did she dig the grave for him?" That's easy to explain. Originally she died because no-one was there to pick her up at the station. She borrowed a carriage, but some snakes spooked the horses, and the carriage fell to the ravine. When Emmett Brown went back in time, he was there to pick her up at the station - so no carriage, no snakes, no dead teacher. We saw Emmett and the mayor making the plans for Emmett to pick her up. Emmett and Clara fall in love. When Marty arrived, Emmett stood Clara up by visiting the train engineer asking about how fast the train can go. You can see Clara in the background. Clara was back to getting the carriage, snakes spooked the horses, the whole shebang again. But this time Emmett saved Clara. They fall in love.
Ironically, I've met the actor who plays the Tannens (Thomas F. Wilson) and he was one of the friendliest and funniest celebrities that I've interacted with at a convention. His stories in the Q&A about these roles was freaking hilarious!
The 7-Eleven line during the shooting range scene is a reference to the arcade game "Wild Gun" that Marty plays in Cafe 80s in Part 2. Back in the 80s, 7-Elevens would have arcade games in them, so Marty became a sharp shooter playing Wild Gun.
I think that Alyska was confused by what "seven eleven" could be in the first place. It's a chain of convenience stores in the US. The name derived from the stores' hours of operation (07:00 to 23:00).
There used to be a chain of stores in the Ohio/Indiana/Kentucky tristate called King Kwik. They even had their own beer, KK (called "double K"). It was terrible. Anyway, I mention this because one local store featured an Asteroids arcade machine that my best friend and I practically _owned_ back in the late 80s.
Not Einstein - he's still in 1985. It's Copernicus the dog in 1955. The real Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543) was the father of modern astronomy. And, that very strange show on TV was the classic children's TV series Howdy Doody which ran from 1947 to 1960. It was hosted by Buffalo Bob Smith (his nickname a take on the famous Buffalo Bill Cody) with his marionette pal Howdy Doody (the name a variation of "how do you do?"). The show's Western frontier themes anticipate what is coming next for Marty.
15:07 - 7-Eleven is an American multinational chain of retail convenience stores. Back in the 1980's, most 7-Eleven's had arcade video games and it's where Marty would play "Wild Gunman" which you see him playing in the Cafe 80's in Back to the Future 2.
15:09 "7-Eleven? Is there, like, a shooting game there or something?" 7-Eleven is a convenience store(or "mini mart") in the U.S. (like at gas stations). You might remember that, when Marty went to the future in the previous movie, he recognized and played that "old-school" arcade game at the "retro" diner (and totally failed to impress the kids who thought the tech was too obsolete to be interesting).
Also think about it: Doc got the hover board in 1885 when Marty goes back to his time. My guess is that someday Doc got curious about how the board works and sees that he has enough parts to built another time machine.
19:41 god I love when that beautiful melody of the theme plays following Doc whispering- your right Marty-the moment when Doc commits to the heart of the movies, what’s true to him in being a scientist
I got stressed out by the end of this film too. It's just too exciting! Scary fact: in the scene where Marty gets dragged behind the horse and they try to hang him, something went wrong and Michael J. Fox was actually very close to dying. You're watching a guy getting hanged for real. Luckily, they caught him in time.
The way Marty escapes dying in his duel was actually foreshadowed in the previous film. There's a bit where we see "Donald Trump Biff" watching a scene from a Clint Eastwood film (A Fistful of Dollars, I think) where the main character pulls that exact same trick. Just one of the benefits of shooting both sequels at the same time
Frisbee was thought up and invented by someone throwing a pie plate. He didn't say "was there meat on that" he said, "what was the meaning of that?" Not knowing that this thing later became the Frisbee.
It's amazing how much connection these movies have to each other. Like the saloon / cafe with Tannen coming in saying "you're not ___ McFly". Or the dance / festival. Or the garage with a love interest coming to the door.
In the second movie, the alternate 1985, Biff was watching For a Fistful of Dollar movie. The scene shown inspired Marty with the bulletproof plate in the third movie.
You have to give the actor who played Biff props though. Like Michael J. Fox the Biff actor also played so many different characters and ages. He played the Mad Dog character so well that to this day people don't realize it's the same actor.
711 is a convenience store, they used to have arcade games at them. A lot of stores and some restaurants in the 80's had at least one arcade game. It was a great decade, the 80's rocked. 😁
In the 1980s some 7-11 stores in the US had video game arcade games. That's what he's referencing when he's shooting game. It is also seen in the 80s cafe in BTTF part 2.
14:44 "Wait, but if she died going into the river [ravine], then how did she dig the grave for him?" Marty's memories are from _before_ Dr. Brown went back to 1885, and in that original timeline she simply died in the ravine and there was no Doc to bury.
@@acesfn7316 True. Marty had only just watched Doc get zapped away, so maybe he retained his memories from the previous timeline? But then why wouldn't this have changed in all the time it took him to recover the buried Delorean? These movies have all kinds of these little logic issues. For example, in 2, after Old Biff delivered the sports almanac to his younger self, how did he return the Delorean to Marty in an as-of-yet unchanged future? Oh well.
@@bigdream_dreambig The timeline took time to change as seen with many photos and pictures changing. In a deleted scene after old Biff returns to 2015 he fades away
@@acesfn7316 Ah! Now that you mention it, I do remember him seeming somewhat ill. That fading away would've been smart to include in the final cut. Unfortunately it doesn't resolve Marty's memory glitch...
This is my personal favorite of the Back to the Future films because it's a western. Doc Brown even got a cameo in Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways to Die in the West (highly recommend that film). As for the frisbee joke, that was a pie dish.
In the 1980's you could find Duck Hunt, among other various arcade games, at your local 7-11. This is what Marty is referring to when he says he learned to shoot like that at a 7-11.
Marty's trick in the duel is from a western called "A Fistful of Dollars," the first of three westerns with Clint Eastwood by Sergio Leone. I think I remember you stating that you usually don't enjoy older movies, but I strongly recommend watching them, starting with "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," then watching "For a Few Dollars More," and ending with "A Fistful of Dollars"
Thomas Wilson based his character, Mad Dog Tannen, on Lee Marvin playing Liberty Valance in the early 1960's western, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance".
theres no way that they couldnt have gotten a hold of some crude oil and the doc would then be able to refine it into something that would at least let them run the car the one time they needed it.
Or fetch a gallon of gas from the DeLorean that Doc buried in the mine. I also doubt a genius inventor like Doc wouldn't have known better than to pour 1885 local rot gut liquor into the fuel injectors, considering all the impurities that had to be in that liquor of that time.
The 7:11 is a chain of high end convenience stores. Here in Montreal we have Couches Tard. Which essentially means sleep late or late night. But some 7:11's can have an arcade game or two in their back areas. Away from shoppers but open to public. Marty practiced on an arcade game in a convenience store, is what he's saying.
15:15 @Alyska, because you were curious, 7-Eleven is a convenience store known for selling hot foods, hot coffee, assorted snacks, drinks, and the ever famous Slurpee and Big Gulp.
7-11 back in the 80's and early 90's had one or two arcade games to play, usually one of them was a first person shooter game like Wild Gunman like you saw in the 2nd film for example.
Doc at the start of Part II: "Don't talk to anyone, don't do anything, don't touch anything" Doc at the end of Part III: Has two children with a woman 100 years younger than him that should have fallen from a cliff
@@willwilliamson9580 He talks about being able to witness things with the time machine that he would normally never be able to see in his lifetime not making money off of them
For anyone who really enjoyed the BttF trilogy and enjoys games I'd highly recommend TellTales Back to the Future game. It's a quasi part 4 with cameos from the og cast and written by one of the original writers Bob Gale.
Check out the "Man With No Name" trilogy starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Sergio Leone. They are: A Fistful of Dollars (the clip shown in Back to the Future 2 is from that), For A Few Dollars More, and The Good The Bad and The Ugly.
7-Eleven are convenience stores that Marty played a shooting game just like the shooting game there. Which is why he was so good with the gun. I think you saw him playing a futuristic version of the game in the second movie.
1. Take apart the ice cube machine and build a crude oil fractional still, and make a small amount of gas. 2. Wherever people are getting their kerosene for their lanterns, they should have gas. Gasoline is a byproduct of making kerosene. 3. What did doc do with the gasoline from the DeLorean that’s in the mine? 4. Go to the mine and write bring more gas underneath docs initials. That would cause a slight paradox in which Marty arrives a short time later maybe avoiding all of the earlier events.
Frizbee used to just be a fruit pie making company, it was only when people took to throwing their disposable plates around for fun that they became known as 'frizbees' which way outlived the pies!
Does anyone know if Univeral parks offer a picture set up where you dress in old west outfitting and stand by the clock like Marty and Doc? If not, I think they have missed a great opportunity. I sure would get one done if I made a trip there.
If you hunger for more & stream games, Telltale Games made BTTF The Game, which has a plot based in 1986 & it has the blessing & acting of Lloyd, Gale & Fox, among more!
Adorableness on steroids. I already loved the reaction just with the thumbnail and headline. It was "love at first sight!" :) Then the not knowing Howdy Doody at 1:05. Howdy Doody was a VERY FAMOUS kid show in the 1950s- a little puppet and his buddy Buffalo Bob. :) 2:07 That 1950s dog is not Einstein. That's Copernicus. Einstein is his dog in the 1980s. I agree with your order. The original, then part 3, then part 2. You're brilliant. Looking forward to your Django Unchained reaction. It's Tarantino's best. You're the best! :)
So cute A! CLARA made at least one more time travel movie. "Time after time" she meets HG Wells and Jack the ripper. The metal plate is a tribute to Clint Eastwood movie "fist full of Dollars ". Was a movie Biff was watching in the hot tub in #2. Glad you got your happy ending!
I recommend playing the Telltale Games Back to the Future game if you can get your hands on it. It continues the story after this movie and is really good.
When Marty displays his impressive sharp shooting at the town gathering at night, the vendor asks where he learned to shoot and Marty replies with 7 Eleven. 7 Eleven are famous for their Slurpee Freeze Drinks. They're big in the US and back in the 80's and 90's they had Arcade games where you could shoot animals and targets via a gun remote. The exact machine was actually featured in the Cafe of the 80's in Back to the Future Part II when the kids said it was like playing with a "baby's toy". The More You Know 🌈 I lived your reactions to this Trilogy and wish you the best in the future. 😁🤙🏻
That TV show you found so strange was a popular Childrens show in the 50's. Buffalo Bob and his puppet Howdy Doody. It was a western theme childrens show because westerns were very popular in the 50's
7-Eleven is a quickie Mart or corner market gas station put the shooting game is based off an actual arcade game which you seen him play in the '80s diner and Back to Future too called *wild gunman*
7-Eleven is a chain of convenience stores in the US with stores in many other countries including the UK back in the 1980s and 90s. Many of them used to have arcade games, including shooting games that would have been used by Marty.
Back in the '80s, several convenience store chains (including 7/11) and restaurants (especially pizza restaurants) had one to three video games. I have clear memories of playing Ms Pac Man and Galaga on "cocktail-style" arcade cabinets (shaped like a square table, with the screen beneath the glass facing up).
When I was a little kid this was my favorite of the trilogy. I must have seen it over a 100 times. I use to have it memorized. So glad you're reacting to it.
Good call on not including the scene at the end where Doc's younger son points at his... you know. An ex-GF pointed that out to me on her first time watching and now I can never un-see it.
I just had a stroke of genius. After Doc is hurled back to 1855 when he's struck by lightning, he stashes the Dolorean in the mineshaft for Marty (and himself) to find 70 years later in 1955. Marty goes back in time to get Doc, but ruptures the gas tank... Putting him and Doc through an ordeal as there's no gas in 1855. Well actually, there is. In the gas tank of the Dolorean in the mineshaft that Doc JUST put there. They could have, in theory, just taken some gas there to get back to 1985... Just enough for the return trip. No one would have noticed.
Excellent fourth-dimensional thinking, though the likelihood is that Doc would have drained the tank when he put the DeLorean in storage as it was going to be left there for 70 years.
Why not leave the Delorean alone and just write “bring extra gas” under Docs initials in the mine. This would cause a small paradox in which Marty would arrive at a slightly later point in time, probably avoiding all of the original issues.
"Seven Eleven" (in fact "7 eleven") is a huge chain of retail convenience stores all over the world. About 80.000 stores in 19 countries according to Wikipedia. ;-)
You cut off one of the lessons of the movie where Jennifer asked about her future and it's your future hasn't been written yet nobody has make it what you will
You left out the best and most important line in the whole trilogy... "It means your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has. Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one."
just two things Mad-Dog killed the Marshall that is why he has only one part in the movie and we did have 7-11s here but I think you are too young to remember that. There used to be one opposite the cinema in my hometown but they were brought out.
Clint Eastwood was relatively unknown in 1955 but when Marty comes out in the pink cowboy outfit at the Drive In Movies, the two posters to his left are the first two films in which Clint Eastwood acted (in small roles).
Clint Eastwood is one of the most famous actors in history. He got big first in Westerns like The Good The Bad and The Ugly and other Westerns shot in Italy called Spaghetti Westerns. He then became the most Badass cop types in the 70s. Clint Eastwood is more famous than probably any actor you can think of.
I watched them in that order too, for some reason. So in Part 3 when Marty explains to Doc how they "had to get the book back from Biff", it made no sense to me at the time! LOL
...I have watched this movie dozens of times, but it never even occurred to me that it was a spittoon that got emptied on Buford's chest. I always thought that there was just alcohol in it. This makes a lot more sense, though.
As of this movie there are FOUR Time Machines in 1955. The first DeLorean to be present in Hill Valley on November 12, 1955 had actually been there for over 70 years, hidden by Doc Brown in the Delgado Mine after his arrival in 1885. Another DeLorean, the one that transports Marty McFly back to 1955 in the first Back to the Future, arrives in Hill Valley on November 5. A third DeLorean time machine shows up in Hill Valley on November 12, after 2015 Biff Tannen uses it to travel back and give his younger self the sports almanac, which leads to the dystopian alternate 1985 timeline. This leads Marty and Doc to travel back to November 12 and take the almanac back from young Biff, creating the overlapping period where four different DeLoreans are all present in Hill Valley on November 12, 1955, beginning at 1:40 pm local time.
Technically, the answer should be 0 as the plot of the 2nd movie is impossible, based on it's own established rules.
A shame because I love the movie lol.
Old Biff stole the machine and went back, changing the future of his Younger self right?
This would lead to a unresolved paradox though.
1. The Book shouldn't exist for 1955 Biff- this is because the moment the book reached Young Biff, the alternative timeline was born and Old Biff would/should no longer exist, meaning he couldn't hand himself the book because old Biff would either cease existing or become an Alt Old Biff in a different situation meaning he never see's the book.
Also, In Alt 1985, we also learn Doc never creates the time machine because he was declared insane and locked away (likely by Biffs influence) meaning most importantly there are *no time machines* but also it means by implication, Doc and Marty never go to any version of 2015, not even an alternative version , which then of course means Marty never buys the book, which also means Old Biff never retreives the book (he would be totally different anyway) and couldn't even go back to hand it to himself, as there is no time machine.
Paradox issue 2.
Old Biff in the movie somehow travels back to original 2015 after making the change and it's still the one he's from, which should be impossible, based on what Doc explains in the movie about timelines.
Even if you count the pained expressions of Old Biff as he gets out the car as potentially starting to fade from existence, the fact is the future he should have returned to would be an alternate 2015, with Rich Old Biff in it, not the one he was originally from.
The time machine should have ceased existing the moment he re-entered 2015 or he and the car cease existing in 1955 when he gives the book.
Further to this, like with Jennifers moves from different 1985s, 2015 Doc and Marty (who were still looking for Martys house and Jennifer) should have changed to Alt 2015 along with everything else and also been changed themselves by the effects of the change of the alternative timeline started by Old Biff, but that change never happens, even though it should.
Technically if they did change over I would imagine Alt 2015 means Doc is dead (never time travels so never gets de-aging surgery) and who knows what the effect of having Biff as your dad would do to his alt 2015 older Marty life.
Basically it's a paradox mess but essentially the TLDR is the moment the book left Old Biffs hands to his younger self he caused a critical unresolved paradox.
What doesn't make sense is that since there were two Deloreans in 1885, they could have repaired the leak and used the fuel from the Delorean Doc Brown hid in the cave. Even after months of sitting there, the fuel still should have been usable.
Paradox #2 It was a deleted scene, old Biff vanished he did not go back to 2015. Throughout all 1955 never changed.
That is true unless the other Delorean was damaged when it was struck by lighting when it sent Doc back to 1885.
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I don’t agree with you. (Time traveling is impossible, but let’s forget that.)
Even if alternative timelines are born, the people involved in time traveling is not necessary affected. Remember that Marty didn’t know about how his family had changed after the first trip to 1955. Somehow they all remain the same for now. We can se this several times. Doc don’t remember that he gave Marty those cowboy clothes because it happened Doc after old Doc’s disappearance to 1855. Somehow new doings tend to be delayed in space time continuum.
And the same thing can be multiplied (the time machine four or five times at the same time). So the almanack can be brought from the first 2015 timeline back to Biff in 1955 without disappearing in that moment. You can pick things from one timeline and stil produce a second one in a new timeline.
Old Biff travelled back to 2015. That’s hypothetically possible. There are never two timelines parallel to each other at the same time. So he must arrive somewhere in present 2015 from Marty’s and Doc’s perspective. Perhaps everything around them changed without them noticing it. Perhaps the two alternative 2015 collided and so we have an explanation for Old Biff’s vanishing. He was stuck in between to timelines somehow. So when you speak about him returning to “an alternate 2015”, you are talking about “another place”. But there is no other place. Time and space are the same. Same old earth, same old place in time. They never mentions another earth, etc.
I perceives it as you mixes together people in one event with another. Doc gets de-aging surgery in a timeline where it exists. You can’t take that experience away from him even if it couldn’t have happened in the alternative timeline which they experienced later on in their altogether experiencing of all timelines in a row as it is shown to us.
Yes, when he puts the book in the hands of his younger self, he causes changes. But Doc and Marty never checks out what that means to the “new” 2015, only the “new” 1985, and all their memories and stuff (hover board, etc) can they keep.
When and how do things change? I believe that Marty’s family is poor and depressed even when he comes back to 1985 for the first time. Then he sees himself being chased by terrorists. Even that chased Marty remembers the poor and depressed family. But! In exactly the moment when returning Marty sees himself disappearing in front of the terrorist car, THAT’S(!) when everything around him changes. That’s the key event which changes everything for him. So he couldn’t remember any changes in his family until he woke up the next morning and experienced it - for the first time.
But ofcourse: then he would have seen the sign first as "Twin Pines Mall" and later on as "Lone Pine Mall". Perhaps that's the only real paradox ...? ;-)
The back to the future trilogy is one of the greatest ever
Not long after this, Michael J Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's.
Damn straight
14:55 Prior to Marty going back to 1885 Emmet would have still been asked by the Sherriff to pick her up from the train station. With no Marty to change the timeline Emmet picks her up from the train station safe and sound altering History. In the Original UNALTERED 1885 There was no one to pick her up from the station so she rented a wagon and went over the edge of Clayton Ravine.
11:37 and you can even see at the moment before it cuts to Doc and Marty visiting the bridge... if you look carefully, there's Clara waiting for Emmett in the background. But she obviously decided to rent the wagon due to his absence.
GREAT SCOTT!! I've always had the same thought Alice had, but your explanation now does make it all make sense. I love these movies.
See, this kind of thing shows that you can think you made something obvious in a story you write only for it not to actually be clear enough to the audience. My first few times watching it I didn't actually think there was a plot hole, but I still misunderstood what happened because I assumed that Doc Brown had been at the ravine to rescue Clara even without Marty's help. It wasn't until repeat viewings that I figured out that he had picked her up at the station and the snake had never spooked the horses in that timeline.
I thought he would’ve gotten involved in his smithing and forgot about her, you know science guys and their difficulties remembering appointments…
The ending is just a great way to finish the trilogy. It's so positive and happy. I don't think you can ever remake this movie. It was so unique for its time.
Universal has been pleading with Zemeckis to make a reboot/continuation/spin off for a long time now.
Zemeckis told the Telegraph that his and Gale’s original contracts with Universal and Steven Spielberg‘s production company Amblin Entertainment outlined how the two would have final say on any future Back to the Future or related films for as long as both were alive.
Zemeckis, said “Oh God, no” at the possibility of a remake or a Jurassic World-type continuation, adding that it “can’t happen until both Bob [Gale] and I are dead.” Gale was co-writer on all three films.
If you start/resume the movie right near the end where the train teleports it scares the living hell out of you. :)
That's true of the entire trilogy of course.
They're gonna remake this with Kevin Hart as Marty and The Rock as Doc Brown.
@@One.Zero.One101 Nope, Marty would be a Black lesbian woman, and Doc would be a Trans identifying as a hammer
Lesson of the movie: You're never too old to fall in love at first sight and have butterflies in your belly. Way to go, Doc! (And Clara ^^)
But the love of your life may have died 100 years before so get busy building a time machine?
The Doc and Clara romance was so well done. Better than Twilight.
@@One.Zero.One101 yes.
@@One.Zero.One101 Like that's hard to do.
14:44 "If she died going into the river then how did she dig the grave for him?"
That's easy to explain. Originally she died because no-one was there to pick her up at the station. She borrowed a carriage, but some snakes spooked the horses, and the carriage fell to the ravine.
When Emmett Brown went back in time, he was there to pick her up at the station - so no carriage, no snakes, no dead teacher. We saw Emmett and the mayor making the plans for Emmett to pick her up. Emmett and Clara fall in love.
When Marty arrived, Emmett stood Clara up by visiting the train engineer asking about how fast the train can go. You can see Clara in the background. Clara was back to getting the carriage, snakes spooked the horses, the whole shebang again. But this time Emmett saved Clara. They fall in love.
Ironically, I've met the actor who plays the Tannens (Thomas F. Wilson) and he was one of the friendliest and funniest celebrities that I've interacted with at a convention. His stories in the Q&A about these roles was freaking hilarious!
The 7-Eleven line during the shooting range scene is a reference to the arcade game "Wild Gun" that Marty plays in Cafe 80s in Part 2. Back in the 80s, 7-Elevens would have arcade games in them, so Marty became a sharp shooter playing Wild Gun.
I think that Alyska was confused by what "seven eleven" could be in the first place. It's a chain of convenience stores in the US. The name derived from the stores' hours of operation (07:00 to 23:00).
There used to be a chain of stores in the Ohio/Indiana/Kentucky tristate called King Kwik. They even had their own beer, KK (called "double K"). It was terrible.
Anyway, I mention this because one local store featured an Asteroids arcade machine that my best friend and I practically _owned_ back in the late 80s.
She's a bit young to remember but we did have 7eleven in England in the 80s early 90s
I Love This Trilogy Of This Movie
14:10 the 3 musicians playing are ZZ Top, an American rock band. They also did one of the songs for the film :)
I have to remind you: Einstein was Doc's dog in the 80ies. In the 50ies it was Copernicus; and equally cute. 🙂❤
Not Einstein - he's still in 1985. It's Copernicus the dog in 1955. The real Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543) was the father of modern astronomy. And, that very strange show on TV was the classic children's TV series Howdy Doody which ran from 1947 to 1960. It was hosted by Buffalo Bob Smith (his nickname a take on the famous Buffalo Bill Cody) with his marionette pal Howdy Doody (the name a variation of "how do you do?"). The show's Western frontier themes anticipate what is coming next for Marty.
"Not hijack... borrow" 🤣🤣🤣
Which leads to my favorite line of the movie "Is this a robbery?!" "It's a science experiment!"
I just watched an experiment with a motorcycle powered by a steam engine - it reached a speed of 160 miles per hour in four seconds!
15:07 - 7-Eleven is an American multinational chain of retail convenience stores. Back in the 1980's, most 7-Eleven's had arcade video games and it's where Marty would play "Wild Gunman" which you see him playing in the Cafe 80's in Back to the Future 2.
15:09 "7-Eleven? Is there, like, a shooting game there or something?" 7-Eleven is a convenience store(or "mini mart") in the U.S. (like at gas stations). You might remember that, when Marty went to the future in the previous movie, he recognized and played that "old-school" arcade game at the "retro" diner (and totally failed to impress the kids who thought the tech was too obsolete to be interesting).
Also think about it: Doc got the hover board in 1885 when Marty goes back to his time. My guess is that someday Doc got curious about how the board works and sees that he has enough parts to built another time machine.
15:08 -- The 7-11's back in the 80s used to have arcade games.
19:41 god I love when that beautiful melody of the theme plays following Doc whispering- your right Marty-the moment when Doc commits to the heart of the movies, what’s true to him in being a scientist
I got stressed out by the end of this film too. It's just too exciting! Scary fact: in the scene where Marty gets dragged behind the horse and they try to hang him, something went wrong and Michael J. Fox was actually very close to dying. You're watching a guy getting hanged for real. Luckily, they caught him in time.
Yeah, they thought Fox choking to death was Fox acting!
The way Marty escapes dying in his duel was actually foreshadowed in the previous film. There's a bit where we see "Donald Trump Biff" watching a scene from a Clint Eastwood film (A Fistful of Dollars, I think) where the main character pulls that exact same trick. Just one of the benefits of shooting both sequels at the same time
4:38 "Nike" is two syllables: Nigh-KEY
Frisbee was thought up and invented by someone throwing a pie plate. He didn't say "was there meat on that" he said, "what was the meaning of that?" Not knowing that this thing later became the Frisbee.
It's amazing how much connection these movies have to each other. Like the saloon / cafe with Tannen coming in saying "you're not ___ McFly". Or the dance / festival. Or the garage with a love interest coming to the door.
In the second movie, the alternate 1985, Biff was watching For a Fistful of Dollar movie. The scene shown inspired Marty with the bulletproof plate in the third movie.
You have to give the actor who played Biff props though. Like Michael J. Fox the Biff actor also played so many different characters and ages. He played the Mad Dog character so well that to this day people don't realize it's the same actor.
The band on stage at the town festival is ZZ Top. (the drummer and the 2 guitar players).
Don’t want to burst your bubble but the dog in 1955 is not Einstein. He’s in 1985. The dog in 55 is Copernicus.
Sadly Dogs don’t live 30+ years.
You should play the Back to the Future game by Telltale.
It's essentially the 4th story and really cool
29:59 I know that guy. He’s a Nihilist. I think he was in a band called Autobahn.
711 is a convenience store, they used to have arcade games at them. A lot of stores and some restaurants in the 80's had at least one arcade game. It was a great decade, the 80's rocked. 😁
There's a couple of episodes of Doctor Who that had a western setting and also Red Dwarf had western setting.
Check out these movies Weird Science(1985), The Goonies(1985), The Terminator(1984), The Karate Kid(1984), Gremlins(1984), Jurassic Park(1993).
Tarantino did NOT direct this. Robert Zamiskas did. He also directed Forest Gump and Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1:04 That's the Howdy Doody show. I think my dad watched it when he was really little.
In the 1980s some 7-11 stores in the US had video game arcade games. That's what he's referencing when he's shooting game. It is also seen in the 80s cafe in BTTF part 2.
The comment about the 7-11. It is a convenience store that used to be open from 7 am to 11pm. There was probably an arcade shooting game in there.
That small adorable dog in *1955* is NOT *Einstein* that is *Copernicus* who passes away at some time & replaced by *Einstein* the *1985* dog
14:44 "Wait, but if she died going into the river [ravine], then how did she dig the grave for him?" Marty's memories are from _before_ Dr. Brown went back to 1885, and in that original timeline she simply died in the ravine and there was no Doc to bury.
14:44? 1444 💀
Before Marty went back to save Doc he was supposed to pick Clara at the station so she would still had lived
@@acesfn7316 True. Marty had only just watched Doc get zapped away, so maybe he retained his memories from the previous timeline? But then why wouldn't this have changed in all the time it took him to recover the buried Delorean? These movies have all kinds of these little logic issues. For example, in 2, after Old Biff delivered the sports almanac to his younger self, how did he return the Delorean to Marty in an as-of-yet unchanged future? Oh well.
@@bigdream_dreambig The timeline took time to change as seen with many photos and pictures changing. In a deleted scene after old Biff returns to 2015 he fades away
@@acesfn7316 Ah! Now that you mention it, I do remember him seeming somewhat ill. That fading away would've been smart to include in the final cut. Unfortunately it doesn't resolve Marty's memory glitch...
"I have never seen a western film before."
**Ennio Morricone music starts playing**
This is my personal favorite of the Back to the Future films because it's a western. Doc Brown even got a cameo in Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways to Die in the West (highly recommend that film).
As for the frisbee joke, that was a pie dish.
"You've already disrupted it, Doc. If you're stickin' to what's supposed to happen, you would just yeet her off the edge of a cliff?!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
In the 1980's you could find Duck Hunt, among other various arcade games, at your local 7-11. This is what Marty is referring to when he says he learned to shoot like that at a 7-11.
Doc's dog's name in 1955 is , "Copernicus"
The actors who play doc and Clara are in a western with Jack Nicholson and Danny Devito called Goin' South (1978)
Marty's trick in the duel is from a western called "A Fistful of Dollars," the first of three westerns with Clint Eastwood by Sergio Leone. I think I remember you stating that you usually don't enjoy older movies, but I strongly recommend watching them, starting with "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," then watching "For a Few Dollars More," and ending with "A Fistful of Dollars"
Always loved the part where Buford's buddy has to hold up 7 fingers to let him know what number comes after 6. LOL
Thomas Wilson based his character, Mad Dog Tannen, on Lee Marvin playing Liberty Valance in the early 1960's western, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance".
That dress is pre fast fashion tbf. It's probably more hard wearing material than we're used to these days
theres no way that they couldnt have gotten a hold of some crude oil and the doc would then be able to refine it into something that would at least let them run the car the one time they needed it.
Or fetch a gallon of gas from the DeLorean that Doc buried in the mine. I also doubt a genius inventor like Doc wouldn't have known better than to pour 1885 local rot gut liquor into the fuel injectors, considering all the impurities that had to be in that liquor of that time.
The 7:11 is a chain of high end convenience stores. Here in Montreal we have Couches Tard. Which essentially means sleep late or late night. But some 7:11's can have an arcade game or two in their back areas. Away from shoppers but open to public. Marty practiced on an arcade game in a convenience store, is what he's saying.
15:15 @Alyska, because you were curious, 7-Eleven is a convenience store known for selling hot foods, hot coffee, assorted snacks, drinks, and the ever famous Slurpee and Big Gulp.
7-11 back in the 80's and early 90's had one or two arcade games to play, usually one of them was a first person shooter game like Wild Gunman like you saw in the 2nd film for example.
Doc at the start of Part II: "Don't talk to anyone, don't do anything, don't touch anything"
Doc at the end of Part III: Has two children with a woman 100 years younger than him that should have fallen from a cliff
It actually makes sense. Since she’s supposed to be dead he can remove her out of the timeline without it affecting anything
Also Doc: "I figured... what the hell"
@@benkelly2024 nice.
in part one he talks about making money with knowledge from the future.
@@willwilliamson9580 He talks about being able to witness things with the time machine that he would normally never be able to see in his lifetime not making money off of them
For anyone who really enjoyed the BttF trilogy and enjoys games I'd highly recommend TellTales Back to the Future game. It's a quasi part 4 with cameos from the og cast and written by one of the original writers Bob Gale.
Loved the reactions to these films!! Enjoyed them so much! Thank you Alyce!
Check out the "Man With No Name" trilogy starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Sergio Leone. They are: A Fistful of Dollars (the clip shown in Back to the Future 2 is from that), For A Few Dollars More, and The Good The Bad and The Ugly.
7-Eleven are convenience stores that Marty played a shooting game just like the shooting game there. Which is why he was so good with the gun. I think you saw him playing a futuristic version of the game in the second movie.
1. Take apart the ice cube machine and build a crude oil fractional still, and
make a small amount of gas.
2. Wherever people are getting their kerosene for their lanterns, they should have gas. Gasoline is a byproduct of making kerosene.
3. What did doc do with the gasoline from the DeLorean that’s in the mine?
4. Go to the mine and write bring more gas underneath docs initials. That would cause a slight paradox in which Marty arrives a short time later maybe avoiding all of the earlier events.
Frizbee used to just be a fruit pie making company, it was only when people took to throwing their disposable plates around for fun that they became known as 'frizbees' which way outlived the pies!
The trains whistle at the very end still gives me goosebumps 😃
Does anyone know if Univeral parks offer a picture set up where you dress in old west outfitting and stand by the clock like Marty and Doc? If not, I think they have missed a great opportunity. I sure would get one done if I made a trip there.
If you hunger for more & stream games, Telltale Games made BTTF The Game, which has a plot based in 1986 & it has the blessing & acting of Lloyd, Gale & Fox, among more!
Not a lot of people notice that Biff has a different tracksuit colour at the end. 👀
Adorableness on steroids. I already loved the reaction just with the thumbnail and headline. It was "love at first sight!" :) Then the not knowing Howdy Doody at 1:05. Howdy Doody was a VERY FAMOUS kid show in the 1950s- a little puppet and his buddy Buffalo Bob. :) 2:07 That 1950s dog is not Einstein. That's Copernicus. Einstein is his dog in the 1980s. I agree with your order. The original, then part 3, then part 2. You're brilliant. Looking forward to your Django Unchained reaction. It's Tarantino's best. You're the best! :)
Frisbee actually did start up making pie tins.
So cute A! CLARA made at least one more time travel movie. "Time after time" she meets HG Wells and Jack the ripper. The metal plate is a tribute to Clint Eastwood movie "fist full of Dollars ". Was a movie Biff was watching in the hot tub in #2. Glad you got your happy ending!
15:35 It's a pie plate. That's blueberries or something.
23:21 that is some wheel slip from central Pacific 131 steam locomotive because the engineer pulling out the throttle out to much
I recommend playing the Telltale Games Back to the Future game if you can get your hands on it. It continues the story after this movie and is really good.
Flying cars are 100 years away, and in 2100, they will still be 100 years away
Damn! Alyska predicted nearly every single turn of this flick! Great stuff!
When Marty displays his impressive sharp shooting at the town gathering at night, the vendor asks where he learned to shoot and Marty replies with 7 Eleven. 7 Eleven are famous for their Slurpee Freeze Drinks. They're big in the US and back in the 80's and 90's they had Arcade games where you could shoot animals and targets via a gun remote. The exact machine was actually featured in the Cafe of the 80's in Back to the Future Part II when the kids said it was like playing with a "baby's toy". The More You Know 🌈
I lived your reactions to this Trilogy and wish you the best in the future. 😁🤙🏻
Great job, loved the reaction to all 3 movies!!!! The BTF trilogy is my second favorite after the Star Wars OT, so glad you enjoyed it too.
Frisbee was a pie company so, never fear, the only innards on that plate were the remains of a fruit pie.
That TV show you found so strange was a popular Childrens show in the 50's. Buffalo Bob and his puppet Howdy Doody. It was a western theme childrens show because westerns were very popular in the 50's
Since you've never seen a western, you should watch the True Grit remake. I think you'd like that one!
The only trilogy other than the original Star Wars that the third movie is just as good as the first.
7-Eleven is a quickie Mart or corner market gas station put the shooting game is based off an actual arcade game which you seen him play in the '80s diner and Back to Future too called *wild gunman*
7-Eleven is a chain of convenience stores in the US with stores in many other countries including the UK back in the 1980s and 90s. Many of them used to have arcade games, including shooting games that would have been used by Marty.
Back in the '80s, several convenience store chains (including 7/11) and restaurants (especially pizza restaurants) had one to three video games. I have clear memories of playing Ms Pac Man and Galaga on "cocktail-style" arcade cabinets (shaped like a square table, with the screen beneath the glass facing up).
When I was a little kid this was my favorite of the trilogy. I must have seen it over a 100 times. I use to have it memorized. So glad you're reacting to it.
The show on the tv was The Howdy Doody Show and yes it was a real show. There are clips and episodes available to watch on RUclips
7-Eleven is a convenient store, that used to have a couple arcade games. The mess in the frisbee plate was a cherry pie.
Good call on not including the scene at the end where Doc's younger son points at his... you know. An ex-GF pointed that out to me on her first time watching and now I can never un-see it.
I just had a stroke of genius. After Doc is hurled back to 1855 when he's struck by lightning, he stashes the Dolorean in the mineshaft for Marty (and himself) to find 70 years later in 1955. Marty goes back in time to get Doc, but ruptures the gas tank... Putting him and Doc through an ordeal as there's no gas in 1855. Well actually, there is. In the gas tank of the Dolorean in the mineshaft that Doc JUST put there. They could have, in theory, just taken some gas there to get back to 1985... Just enough for the return trip. No one would have noticed.
Excellent fourth-dimensional thinking, though the likelihood is that Doc would have drained the tank when he put the DeLorean in storage as it was going to be left there for 70 years.
Why not leave the Delorean alone and just write “bring extra gas” under Docs initials in the mine. This would cause a small paradox in which Marty would arrive at a slightly later point in time, probably avoiding all of the original issues.
When Doc makes the reference to the Von Brauns, is he referring to Werhner?? Cuz that'd be fucking cool
There's a lot of Doctor Who elements in this trilogy
Fun fact: Christopher Lloyd's first on screen kiss
"Seven Eleven" (in fact "7 eleven") is a huge chain of retail convenience stores all over the world. About 80.000 stores in 19 countries according to Wikipedia. ;-)
You cut off one of the lessons of the movie where Jennifer asked about her future and it's your future hasn't been written yet nobody has make it what you will
Hot Salsa drink 22:10
7-Eleven is a chain of convivence stores. They used to have a couple of arcade games to play inside.
8:22 Me too. Spitting is a disgusting habit that just makes me want to gag.
Same 🤢🤮
You left out the best and most important line in the whole trilogy... "It means your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has. Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one."
just two things Mad-Dog killed the Marshall that is why he has only one part in the movie and we did have 7-11s here but I think you are too young to remember that. There used to be one opposite the cinema in my hometown but they were brought out.
Clint Eastwood was relatively unknown in 1955 but when Marty comes out in the pink cowboy outfit at the Drive In Movies, the two posters to his left are the first two films in which Clint Eastwood acted (in small roles).
Clint Eastwood is one of the most famous actors in history. He got big first in Westerns like The Good The Bad and The Ugly and other Westerns shot in Italy called Spaghetti Westerns. He then became the most Badass cop types in the 70s. Clint Eastwood is more famous than probably any actor you can think of.
My order of favorites is the same as yours 1, 3, then two which for some weird reason was also the order i watched them in.
I watched them in that order too, for some reason. So in Part 3 when Marty explains to Doc how they "had to get the book back from Biff", it made no sense to me at the time! LOL
7-11 in the US is a chain of food convenience stores. Some had arcade games in them.
...I have watched this movie dozens of times, but it never even occurred to me that it was a spittoon that got emptied on Buford's chest. I always thought that there was just alcohol in it. This makes a lot more sense, though.