Just Watched "Back to the Future" Trilogy for the First Time Ever..
05-02-12 | 05:53 PM
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Her mom got cancer so she declined the role to be with her. Just watched an interesting clip with her, she got the part, but then had a commitment to a tv show that was picked up, so her part got recast while Eric Stolz was playing Marty. Eight weeks later when they dropped Stolz for Fox, she was available so they dropped her replacement and took her back. I never knew that.
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05-02-12 | 05:54 PM
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05-02-12 | 06:41 PM
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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.
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.
Even if he did toss it in the air, Doc had a lot of cleaning up to do regardless so he could have still picked up the letter pieces in the process.
05-02-12 | 07:53 PM
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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 actually agree with you. Often I feel folks can't suspend belief enough to enjoy a movie. Still, for whatever the reason, I can't stand the look of this make-up job and it always pulls me out of the movie, so much so I hate the flick. And I absolutely love 1 & 3. I feel the same way about all of Zemeckis' animated films too. Hate the look. Hate the flicks.
And, I think the shark in Jaws looks awesome.
05-02-12 | 10:06 PM
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In three years, a Marty McFly in a remake can go back the BTTF-standard 30 years and cause a mishap that stops the original BTTF from filming.
05-02-12 | 10:45 PM
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And you're going to compare BTTF Part II to one of his CGI/live action movies like Polar Express, Beowulf, or A Christmas Carol, based off of the fact that one is makeup and the other three are computer generated films.
I'm not going to knock your tastes, you can hate whatever you want, but to discount a film in a series (since you "absolutely love 1 & 3) because of some makeup is one of the stupidest things I've ever read on these forums.
I don't care if it's Back to the Future or fucking Avatar. That's just very poor logic.
05-02-12 | 11:11 PM
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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).
As for why not digging up the DeLorean in the mine. Doc was smart enough to know you don't leave gas in a car that will be sitting there for 70 years. He probably drained it of all fluids that could have caused damage sitting all those years. As for what he did with the gas. Well he probably used it up living in 1885 before Marty got there.
05-02-12 | 11:14 PM
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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.
05-02-12 | 11:36 PM
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05-03-12 | 12:37 AM
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05-03-12 | 01:06 AM
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Re: Just Watched "Back to the Future" Trilogy for the First Time Ever..
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.
05-03-12 | 01:30 AM
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Whew! Now I can get to sleep.
05-03-12 | 08:08 AM
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05-03-12 | 12:09 PM
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Makeup in a 15 minute scene makes you hate en entire film?
And you're going to compare BTTF Part II to one of his CGI/live action movies like Polar Express, Beowulf, or A Christmas Carol, based off of the fact that one is makeup and the other three are computer generated films.
I'm not going to knock your tastes, you can hate whatever you want, but to discount a film in a series (since you "absolutely love 1 & 3) because of some makeup is one of the stupidest things I've ever read on these forums.
I don't care if it's Back to the Future or fucking Avatar. That's just very poor logic.
And you're going to compare BTTF Part II to one of his CGI/live action movies like Polar Express, Beowulf, or A Christmas Carol, based off of the fact that one is makeup and the other three are computer generated films.
I'm not going to knock your tastes, you can hate whatever you want, but to discount a film in a series (since you "absolutely love 1 & 3) because of some makeup is one of the stupidest things I've ever read on these forums.
I don't care if it's Back to the Future or fucking Avatar. That's just very poor logic.
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05-03-12 | 12:24 PM
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Mod Note: Let's remember to keep this civil. Opinions will differ on everything. There is no need to belittle members for expressing themselves.
05-03-12 | 02:43 PM
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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?
10-22-12 | 06:53 AM
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I always wondered how Biff knew how to operate the time machine. Marty had to get Doc to help him operate it but suddenly Biff knows how to use something that complex. Then I remember oh yea it's just a movie.
10-22-12 | 09:44 PM
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As for setting the time coordinates and turning on the time circuits, that doesn't seem like it would have taken too long to figure out in a time machine. But even if it did... he was in a time machine. He could have spent a week trying to figure it out. It doesn't matter because once he learned how to do it, he could return at a point just a few minutes after he stole it in the first place.
10-23-12 | 03:14 PM
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^ But the flying capabilities were just added on by Doc. The car was still able to drive so old Biff could have just driven it.
10-23-12 | 10:00 PM
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I always wondered how seeing disappearing, flying car could make middle aged Biff suddenly return to his "old self" after being George McFly's bitch for 30 years.
10-23-12 | 11:55 PM
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Maybe it triggered memories and made him think how that kid in 1955 looks just like Marty does now (1985). He was top dog until Marty showed up in '55.
10-24-12 | 07:11 PM
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I can't recall the faces of people I saw all 4 years of high school, and that was 14 years ago. Biff can recall the face of some "butthead" he knew for a single week, 30 years before?
Forget luckiest man alive, him and Marilu Henner need to write books about Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory.
Forget luckiest man alive, him and Marilu Henner need to write books about Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory.
10-30-12 | 02:40 PM
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