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!
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 😆
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
"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...
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'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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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"
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
13:55 - Vicky: "As if you wouldn't remember that." Time travel: you can't keep it straight in your head. The Doc zapped back to 1885 ain't the same Doc who dressed him in that outfit. Keep up! lol
@@Pixelologist The novelization had Doc remember immediately after Marty told him; the way Time Travel Works in these movies, it IS the same Doc but there's a strange delay in everything syncing up with different times.
As cute as this franchise is, I wonder what became of the future Tannen family line? Did they change or did they continue to be a line of scum bags and murderers?? What about Doc's kids? What becomes of them?
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.
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)
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…
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
If Clara would have gone to the future it wouldn't have changed things because she was meant to die. Michael J Fox almost lost consciousness when Mad Dog Tannen hung him. They had the rope tied to tight and had him hanging almost to long. The Frisbee pie plate was a joke because that pie plate company invented the Frisbee toy.
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.
"Did he die? Almost immediately?" That's basically what would happen to any of us who traveled back in time. And it wouldn't even have to be 100 years. If I traveled back to the 70s I think I'd be dead within a week.😅 $80 in 1885 would be around $2500 today.
If you liked this, try "Time After Time" (1979). Mary Steenbergen (Clara) falls in love with another time traveler. For real, too. She married her co-star, Malcolm McDowell.
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.
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.
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.
In a nice bit of continuity writing, Clint Eastwood used a similar trick of putting a steel plate in his clothing during a gun fight and Biff was watching that scene in Back to the Future 2 as Marty came in and interrupted it.
Christopher Lloyd & Mary Steenburgen were also in Old West in "Goin' South" w: Jack Nicholson, Danny DiVito, & John Belushi in '78 dark Western comedy!
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.
If you loved Doc having a family, I vaguely remember that there was a short-lived cartoon series about the adventures of the Brown family after the third movie, with Jules and Verne being the main characters who got into all kinds of hijinx.
When Mad Dog called him "Dude" the term back then meant an obvious city-slicker somewhere in a rural place (like Hill Valley was in 1885). That's where "dude ranch" comes from, a ranch where city slickers can come for a few days to dress up and pretend to be cowboys.
This movie ties a bow around the whole theme of the trilogy, to a perfect conclusion: Finding Love. Doc and Clara didn't get together like Martys parents, first out of shared trauma, once the past changes out of fortune-following-courage into a yuppie lifestyle. Not because it is expected of them, the way Marty and Jennifer end up, trying to fulfill a societal expectation. Not because someone coerced the other into a marriage by force, like Biff in the alternate timeline... No. Doc and Clara, meet suddenly, and in but a moment, are but two strangers, joined by fate, no hesitation. And it is why the third one, is the real heart of it all. It just took two movies to get there. They have, an immediate connection, *genuinely* fall in love. Also, they're finally leaving the 50s setting, and not retreading anything but slight outlines of the past of Hill Valley, making it feel enjoyably different. BTTF3 is my favorite out of them all for these reasons. And may there never be a remake!
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.
They cant just kill Tannen. That would drastically alter the future, and specifically Marty's future. Its why Marty knew he couldnt gun fight him. It would have been a lose/lose situation.
If you like time travel stories, ya gotta check out the GOAT: "Predestination". Original writer Robert Heinlein perfected this art and the film's a mind-fu** :)
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 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!
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 😆
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
Thanks, I didn't know it. BTTF fun from Poland. Remember watching in the 90's on VHS.
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.
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.
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! ✊🏿
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
"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 😅
"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 🤠
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.
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.
One of the movies at the theater before Marty heads to 1885 is "Revenge of the Creature"- which is Clint Eastwoods' first film appearance.
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.
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.
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.
Well, it was 30 years ago. We had no police society and monitoring on every corner like we have rite now...
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?
Fun thing to note. In the end when Marty returns to the future, Clayton ravine is now named Eastwood ravine.
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.
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.
In 1955 "Japan" was like some cheap China/USSR crap 🙂
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.
My step-dad was 7 years old in 1955 and says he remembers watching Howdy Doodie as a kid. It was his favorite show!
"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?
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'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.
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.
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.
Also the kiss Doc had with Clara was the first onscreen kiss for Mr Lloyd
$80 in 1885 is equivalent to over 2 grand today. So, yeah, kind of a big deal.
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
Technically the Back to the Future The game is a sequel. And the people involved include writer producer and creator from the movie
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.
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"
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Yes Frisbee. Actually came from throwing pie plates for fun at college
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.
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
And the hanging scene almost killed Fox gor real actually passed out for real
Rewatch the scene where Doc introduces his family and pay attention to Vernes hand gesture 😂
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
34:26 that freaking kid lol
Yup. Once I first read about that and saw it for myself, it forever ruined the ending of an otherwise perfect trilogy for me 😂
Actually they did have skin moisturizer in the Old West and you'd 've been a fetching lass back in that day.
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.
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.
13:55 - Vicky: "As if you wouldn't remember that." Time travel: you can't keep it straight in your head. The Doc zapped back to 1885 ain't the same Doc who dressed him in that outfit. Keep up! lol
@@Pixelologist The novelization had Doc remember immediately after Marty told him; the way Time Travel Works in these movies, it IS the same Doc but there's a strange delay in everything syncing up with different times.
4:43 Notice the clock over the toilet? This is the clock he was hanging when he hit his head. 😆
As cute as this franchise is, I wonder what became of the future Tannen family line? Did they change or did they continue to be a line of scum bags and murderers?? What about Doc's kids? What becomes of them?
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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 😔
I normally don't care for "Wild West" settings, but BTTF III found a way to make it compelling!
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.
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)
Back to the Future III is my favorite because it's a Western.
$80 in 1885 = $2,600 today
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…
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
Came for the reaction, stayed for the wardrobe changes.
If Clara would have gone to the future it wouldn't have changed things because she was meant to die. Michael J Fox almost lost consciousness when Mad Dog Tannen hung him. They had the rope tied to tight and had him hanging almost to long. The Frisbee pie plate was a joke because that pie plate company invented the Frisbee toy.
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.
I feel bad for her. Imagine mistaking Dusty Hill for Jack Black; poor girl hasn't gotten to know ZZ Top.
"Did he die? Almost immediately?" That's basically what would happen to any of us who traveled back in time. And it wouldn't even have to be 100 years. If I traveled back to the 70s I think I'd be dead within a week.😅
$80 in 1885 would be around $2500 today.
If you liked this, try "Time After Time" (1979). Mary Steenbergen (Clara) falls in love with another time traveler. For real, too. She married her co-star, Malcolm McDowell.
Not that I wasn't already, but your outfit and hat for most of the vid deserves a sub.
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.
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.
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.
When Bartender when a sh*t about you enough to get to know your name and care about you.
There was a Back to the Future animated series that follows Doc, Clara, Jules and Vern in the 90s
21:13 oh my dear sweetheart - i wake up every morning at 4 AM for work
10/10 movie! Best Back to the Future movie I've ever seen in my life!
In a nice bit of continuity writing, Clint Eastwood used a similar trick of putting a steel plate in his clothing during a gun fight and Biff was watching that scene in Back to the Future 2 as Marty came in and interrupted it.
Christopher Lloyd & Mary Steenburgen were also in Old West in "Goin' South" w: Jack Nicholson, Danny DiVito, & John Belushi in '78 dark Western comedy!
The gang's reaction to being told to "Lighten up jerk!" is fantastic.
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.
In the scene where Jennifer asks Doc why the note from the future had been erased, take a closer look at the younger kid.
So there were actually two DeLoreans in 1885... 🙂
80 dollars back then is equal to 2,575.93 dollars today. so yeah.. it was alot
Great reaction as always, but one of my favourite things about it is the struggle with the cowboy hat over the headphones 😂
I totally agree with you. 'Borrowing' the locomotive is not what they were doing.
If you loved Doc having a family, I vaguely remember that there was a short-lived cartoon series about the adventures of the Brown family after the third movie, with Jules and Verne being the main characters who got into all kinds of hijinx.
2 seasons on CBS. Introduced the world to Bill Nye.
Yeah, without a doubt, this was one of the best trilogies ever filmed.
No, it's not Jack Black in the band!
But, it is ZZ top!
Thomas F. Wilson is absolutely the unsung hero of the trilogy. 7 distinct characters / versions of characters.
I love the reference made to this movie in "A Million Ways to Die in the West" by Seth MacFarlane. Very funny movie if you love family guy humor.
You have to understand $80 was a lot of money back in the 1880's. Today it would be worth over $2500.
At least you still had the poncho on, even though you had to get rid of the hat.
When Mad Dog called him "Dude" the term back then meant an obvious city-slicker somewhere in a rural place (like Hill Valley was in 1885). That's where "dude ranch" comes from, a ranch where city slickers can come for a few days to dress up and pretend to be cowboys.
The director and writer said as long as they are alive there will be no new versions or reboots of these movies. Awesome
Love the ending in this movie. Always brings a tear to my eye. 🥲
There is a Back to the Future animated series that continues Doc and Marty's adventures, but its definitely for kids.
This movie ties a bow around the whole theme of the trilogy, to a perfect conclusion: Finding Love.
Doc and Clara didn't get together like Martys parents, first out of shared trauma, once the past changes out of fortune-following-courage into a yuppie lifestyle. Not because it is expected of them, the way Marty and Jennifer end up, trying to fulfill a societal expectation. Not because someone coerced the other into a marriage by force, like Biff in the alternate timeline...
No.
Doc and Clara, meet suddenly, and in but a moment, are but two strangers, joined by fate, no hesitation. And it is why the third one, is the real heart of it all. It just took two movies to get there. They have, an immediate connection, *genuinely* fall in love.
Also, they're finally leaving the 50s setting, and not retreading anything but slight outlines of the past of Hill Valley, making it feel enjoyably different.
BTTF3 is my favorite out of them all for these reasons.
And may there never be a remake!
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.
They cant just kill Tannen. That would drastically alter the future, and specifically Marty's future. Its why Marty knew he couldnt gun fight him. It would have been a lose/lose situation.
If you like time travel stories, ya gotta check out the GOAT: "Predestination". Original writer Robert Heinlein perfected this art and the film's a mind-fu** :)
They should make another one where Jules and Verne are grown up and one is evil going thru time changing stuff on purpose.
I adore your reactions. Back to the Future is one of, if not the best, trilogies ever made.
I hope they don't remake this or make a Back to the Future 4. It perfect (even with all it's flaws) the way it is.
34:28 watch the kids hands :D
All that is left is the Back to the Future animated cartoon series.
And the Telltale game
And the Universal Studios ride