The shark still looks fake.

27 years since BTTF came out I have yet to meet a person who didn't love the original movie. The sequels are good, but the original is still one of top 5 favorite movies.

Its sad, but many kids today have never even seen the BTTF trilogy. A BTTF video game was released last year, and I remember many kids asking whether they needed to watch the movies first in order to understand the game.
I was literally .

I introduced BTTF to my kids last year. Two girls, 5 & 7. They loved it.

It's really funny to see this thread discussion because out of the blue my young daughter saw this title on the shelf and asked about it just yesterday. She's never seen it and I smiled when I thought about how fun it would be to introduce it to her.

It is funny going back and re-watching all the movies I loved as a kid with my kids. Also eye opening how much language was in those films. Most of them are pretty liberal with everything but the F-word. That wouldn't happen nowadays. I don't have an issue with it (I turned out fine), but I'll tell friends what I showed them and they remember the language or this and that and look at me like I'm crazy. I told a female friend about BTTF specifically a few weeks ago and recommended popping it in with her kids 7 & 10. She looked at me like I had two heads because of Doc getting gunned down and the language.

I can't wait to take my oldest to see the re-issue of Jurassic Park next year. She loves dinos.

I'll be honest, that's what caused me to hold off on showing my daughter (a couple of years older than your kids) the BTTF films. I can recall there being a little language, but I figured it would probably be even more than I actually remember.

I just recently re-watched The Goonies, and I was surprised at a few things that went completely over my head as a kid.

Chunk breaking the penis off a statue and saying the mom will be mad because its her favorite piece, and also the pirate named One Eyed Willie which is also slang for penis.

I also remember re-watching Three's Company when it came out on DVD several years back. Wow. I did not get that show at all when I was a kid. The whole thing with a man pretending to be gay so he can live with two women went completely over my head. When I was a kid, I just liked watching Jack Tripper act like a goofball. I'm really surprised my parents let me watch it.

Watched the first BTTF last night and was impressed by every single scene. The level of detail is outstanding; each frame is packed with information, objects, and action in the background.

I was also struck by how the movie has transcended its time period. It dosen't look dated. It now looks like that fact it was filmed in 1985 was an artistic decision.

I'm on the fence about how bad the language is. There is the doc's line "You're gonna see some serious shit", Marty saying "Holy shit!" when the Libian's arrive, "Holy shit!" again when they whip out the rocket launcher, and Biff saying "Shit!" when he smashes into the manuare truck. That dosen't seem that bad to me. Profanity is less offensive when it is used as an expletive.

There is quite a few "goddams" and "Jesus Christs". So if you are one of those religious people, then maybe the lanuage is overly rough for your ears. YMMV.

One thought that occurred to me was how if the movie had been made 15 or so years later, Michael Richards could have done a good job playing the Doc.

One detail I found odd, something I never noticed before; in the beginning of the movie, when Marty and Jennifer are sitting infront of the clock tower, there looks to be something black hanging over the clock face near the 12. Is that Doc's electrical cord from 1955? Still hanging there 30 years later? I was watching on the SD DVD so I can't tell for certain, but it looks like there is something hanging there. So what does that mean? Is it just a continuity error, and intentional in-joke? Story-wise, it doesn't make sense for the cord to be there. It seems to me we are watching Marty going back in time for the first time. Or perhaps this is all part of a loop, Marty doomed to going back over and over, changing the future, sometimes for the better (the version of the family we see at the end) sometimes for the worse (the family we see at the start of the movie), and the filmmakers just choose to show us the section of the time loop that appeared to have a happy ending.

The old age makeup may be a little over done, but I would bet that was intentional. The filmmakers knew they were making a pretty convoluted story of multiple timelines and actors playing multiple roles. They probably wanted to make absolute sure the audience understood this was an older Marty from the future. If they only put a couple of wrinkles on him and a bit of grey hair it might confuse the audience.

I saw all three in the theater on original release. I was 11 when I saw Part II and I remember finding the future stuff extravagent and obviously played for laughs. It's as if the 1980's had a dream of what the future would be like. Stuff like Jaws 19 and "Oh look a Dustbuster" and Cubs win World Series were all obvious jokes. Clearly, of all the time periods the heroes visit, the future is treated the most lightly. And the rediculous clothes like two neckties was funny.

Also, I hope that everyone realizes that in that picture above of MJ Fox and L Thompson that's Lea Thompson done up to be THE GRANDMA--the 78 year old Loraine McFly.

Another thing I was wondering about was The Honeymooners episode they were watching. I wasn't quite sure when the show was on, but yes, it aired in 1955, on Saturday night (Marty has gone back and watches it on Saturday, Nov 5th 1955) so it would have been on.

Obviously, they choose the episode where Ralph dresses up as a spaceman to tie into Marty dressing up as one to scare George. But I thought about how awesome it would be if Nov 5th was the night "The Man From Space" originally aired. Would that be an amazing coincidence or did they pick the entire timeline of the movie around The Honeymooners?

Sadly, according to epguides.com , the episode airing on Nov 5th 1955 was "The Sleepwalker". "The Man From Space" aired on Dec 31st 1955. So as well as not being a re-run, I guess the episode that night was actually a "sneak preview".

Now she went from looking bad for someone in their 40s to a lady who doesn't look too bad for pushing 80.

I already corrected that in the second post with the actual picture of 47 year old Jennifer.

I still find it funny though that Marty looks the same age as his mom in that other pic. They both look like they are in their 60s. Marty's makeup makes him look too old, and Lorraine's makeup makes her look too young.

Yes, but it would have meant not having that great line, "There's only one man who can help me now."

The thing that always confused me about Part III, is that once Marty gets to the Old West, everyone seems to forget that there are TWO DeLoreans in 1885. So when the gas tank gets damaged in the one DeLorean, why not just swap it with the one that Doc already buried? But you can drive yourself crazy with all the paradoxes...Bob Gale and Bob Zemeckis pretty much wrote the definitive movies on time travel (at least as far as entertainment value goes).

So what was up with that creepy kid?

I still haven't watched part 3, iirc. I'll hit it in 2016 for the Leap Day Challenge.

Since the trailer for III was attached to part II, not really.

Speaking of, I remember my theater took the trailer, which was supposed to be at the end and put it at the beginning.

Well, if they took parts from the buried DeLorean, then Marty wouldn't be able to drive it back to the old West in 1955.

The thing that bothered me about Part 3 was that Marty seems to have forgotten about the warning letter he wrote Doc brown in the first movie. The original chain of events was 1955 Doc rips up the letter, sends Marty back to time, and in his euphoria decides "What the hell" and picks up the pieces of the letter to tape them back together. In Part 2/3 Doc sends Marty back to time, but then the other Marty shows up and Doc faints, so he dosen't collect the letter pieces and presuambley gets shot by the terrorists in 1985.

BTTF was one of, if not the first, films I obsessed over as a kid. BTTF, Indiana Jones trilogy, Star Wars, Psycho a bit later.

I even had the color changing hat from the 2nd movie. Everyone loved that hat. I still have it too!

I suppose the Doc Brown in 1955 would have a better shot at repairing or replacing the fuel line with what's available in 1955 than 1885, but yeah that would still be a big risk.

Still my absolute favorite franchise of all time. I've loved these movies since the first time my parents showed them to me as a kid (I was probably around 7 or 8). The series is just so well made and I agree with another poster here that they really haven't aged badly at all. Maybe it's partly because there's a lot of scenes that were stylistically chosen to be set in the past but even the scenes in the 80s are fine. Also the chemistry between Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd is just amazing if you ask me. I could never in a million years think of two better people to play those parts. I think my favorite of the trilogy is Part II, although I really do love all three of them. I'd still love to own a DeLorean some day

Yep. That was a pretty good move to put in Fox for Eric Stoltz.

This paradox has been frequently addressed, just go check out the IMDb board for BTTF 3.

But this......is a new one on me and I don't have an explanation.

What was the reason that Marty's girlfriend from the original never appeared in II & III?

Her mom came down with cancer so she had to turn both movies since they were filmed back-to-back.