Co-writer and director Robert Zemeckis, who has final rights to all films in the Back to the Future franchise, has stated that he will block all attempts to remake or reboot the original films, so no new episodes in the foreseeable future. And I'm ok with that. They're perfect as is.
There's a comic book sequel called Tales from the Time Train written by the film's writer Bob Gale, about Doc and his adventures with Clara before he goes back to meet Marty again. I guess it counts as "canon" if that matters at all.
I second that notion. It is better to make a new story with time travel than to try to add to this series. It is unlikely any sequel could add something making the whole better. Also the original cast is now unavailable.
The guy who played Biff is so underrated, he really should have won some kind of award for how well he played all of his different Biffs. First 1985 Biff, 1955 Biff, New (whimpy) 1985 Biff, Future Biff, 1985 Rich Biff, and 1855 Mad Dog Tannon.
Fun fact: in 1885 gasoline was a toxic wast product from refining kerosene. It was dumped into the river because Standard Oil couldn't think of anything to do with it. Because it was so cheap, early car builders designed their engines to run on it.
I was going to say that with a little bit of chemistry knowledge, they could have made gasoline even in 1885. But that would only have been 10% of the fun they had with the steam engine… 😊
People seem perplexed when mechanics use gasoline as a solvent to clean grease off of parts. But that's because we're not using fuel as a cleaning solution-- we invented a motor that happens to burn a cleaning solution for a fuel.
How many people noticed the foreshadowing in the second movie, where Biff is watching a Clint Eastwood movie and makes a remark about the bulletproof vest. Giving you the ending of the 3rd movie in the second movie. Clever!
Clara had to rent a cart because she was left waiting at the train station. Normally, Doc volunteered to get her, but now, with Marty's warning, he won't go. She can be quickly seen waiting at the station during the scene while doc and Marty are checking the map for the bridge. Also at the end, you can seen that the ravine was renamed the Eastwood ravine after Marty "dying" in 1885
Yes, damsel in distress, but one can guess that she was to fall in either scenario, but Doc realized what his interference has done to the original timeline.
Without Doc in 1885, Clara dies, as that is what Marty remembers. With Doc and No Marty in 1885, Clara survives Doc, and Doc dies. With Doc and Marty in 1885, Clara still survives.
You missed the part where Jeamus (or Seamus) McFly tells Marty that he "HAD" a brother named Martin who got a a Bowie knife shoved in his belly, in Virginia City, because he allowed people to provoke him into fighting. Martin thought people would think of him to be a coward if he refused to fight. It means something later when Doc reveals to Marty that he does not need to lose his judgement in the future.
Because Clara (Mary Steenburgen) did not go over the cliff the Ravine was not named after her. It was named, instead, Eastwood Ravine. It is just like in the first one, when Marty Destroys one of "Old Man Peabody's" Pine Trees, the Mall's name was changed from "Twin Pines Mall" to "Lone Pine Mall."
The funny thing is that bringing Clara with them is actually the most logical thing to do. In the proper timeline, she died by falling into the ravine. Doc saving her caused a big change in the timeline, which he even acknowledged and was troubled by. Taking her with them actually fixes the timeline by removing her from it.
I know this comment is 2+ years old, but technically it would mess up the timeline starting in 1985 / whatever year they bring her to just by having a new person walking around butterfly effect-ing everything.
@@jasonutty52 despite his constant protesting to the contrary, doc really doesn't actually care about messing up the timeline, as the entirety of the second and third movies only happen because he wanted to take marty to 2015 to change marty jr's future. further, the only reason he didn't die at the end of the first movie is because he read the letter marty gave him in 1955. doc don't give a fuck about preserving timelines.
Well, the most suitable alternative was for Doc to build a new time machine so they could settle in the future. Hence the reply Doc makes after Marty asks if he's going back to the future: "Already been there!"
Some Easter eggs people miss, the horse and wagon that Clara was riding in was rented from Joe Statler, you can see his shop when Marty enters Hill Valley. In 1955, the Statler Studebaker dealership is located right next to the movie theatre, then finally in 1985, Marty wants and later gets a Toyota Truck from Statler's Toyota.
also that Biff in the hot tub is watching the Clint Eastwood film A Fistful Of Dollars where Marty gets the boiler plate idea, to prevent Buford from killing him.
I loved the names of Doc and Clara's sons, Jules and Verne. Very fitting as Jules Verne was an author well ahead of his time. He wrote 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea between 1869 and 1870. The story revolves around a nuclear powered submarine named the Nautilus. This was some 85 years before the first nuclear powered submarine, christened the USS Nautilus, was commissioned by the United States Navy in 1954. My favorite Jules Verne quotation is, "Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real." So it came to pass with the nuclear powered submarine.
You really have to respect the intergenerational friend relationship between Marty and Doc Brown. As long as the trust and respect can go both ways, it's real.
11:54 Someone may have cleared this up, but I'll type it out anyway. In the original history, Clara had no one to meet her at the railroad depot and went off alone on her horse and crashed into the Ravine. But then Doc alone went back to 1885 and was there to meet her. She and Doc fell in love, spent a week together before he was shot by Tannen. In this timeline, the Shonash Ravine likely remained, but Marty was never there to see it. And then after Marty goes back, history is changed again. Again nobody is there to meet Clara, but Doc was in the right place at the right time to save her. And since "Clint Eastwood" died there after hijacking the train, the ravine now bears his name.
I think the ravine was named Eastwood Ravine to commemorate Clint Eastwood fighting and beating Buford Tannen in the town square, since unless the engineer recognized Marty's clothes, the townsfolk would have no way of knowing he was there.
23:15 "Isn't Doc old to have two young children?" I love that the writers actually set up a fix for that in Part II. When Doc is peeling that mask off of his face after they arrive in 2015 he says that he went to a rejuvenation clinic, which _"added a good 30 to 40 years to my life"._ They SPECIFICALLY did that so Doc could feasibly have a long life with Clara despite his already decently advanced age in 1985, and I just love it. 💜
@@ashleighelizabeth5916 No, not that. I know how basic human reproductive biology works. lol What I was talking about "fixing" was extending his natural lifespan so he could have a _long life_ with Clara. Like I already said. I think she meant it as in "won't he die when his kids are still really young", not "old men can't sire children".
@@MrLadiesman216 Christopher Lloyd himself was 52, yes, but has it been established how old Doc is supposed to be in 1885? Even going by that age, 53-55 is still pretty late in life to have kids. If he was 55 when Jules was born, for example, he'd be 73 by the time Jules was 18. Either way, the rejuvenation clinic was a nice touch to enable Doc to have a full life with Clara and his kids.
One of the best things of this trilogy is how they all played so many parts of family. Not sure if you noticed, you didn't mention it in the reaction, but Michael J. Fox played BOTH of his kids, his son and his daughter. Also, while there is not an actual 4th movie, there is the Universal Studios ride which I'm sure you can find a video of it online. I actually went on the ride myself at Universal Studios Orlando. While you are in line for the actual ride part, they have large TV screens with all the cast having returned to tell the new "story".
Thomas F. Wilson playing Biff in all of those movies is just amazing. His performance, especially in Part 2+3, kicks everyone else out of the room in my opinion.
What I really enjoyed about these Back To The Future movies with Cassie is how she tries her darndest to understand time travel scenario's and how she asks so many questions that it proves that lovely Cassie actually follows along with all her reactions to the movies. 😘
I love Doc's line at the end. He is answering jennifer, when she asks about the note she brought back from 2015 where Marty had been fired. The words "You're Fired" were erased. Jennifer then asks Doc what that means. Doc said, "Your future hasn't been written yet, no one's has, so make it good one, both of you."
I always wondered why Doc tells Marty and Jennifer that the future isn't written yet, but then in the second movie tells Marty he needs to go to the future to save his son.
@@patrickho6588 In the first one Doc travels into a future where Marty's son is about to ruin his life. In that future, Marty had an accident which made him give up on his dream of playing his music. In the thrid one, they had straightened out the problem with his son and the problem with Biff. But, unfortunately, Doc was sent back to the Old West. Marty finds out Doc is shot by Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen! So, Marty goes back to save Doc. It is there that Doc tells Marty: "You can't go losing your judgment every time someone calls you a name!" it was that advice that caused Marty not to race Needles, in 1985. Therefore, the future Marty and Jennifer would have had, where Marty gave up on his dream of playing music, never occurred. Therefore, the future of Marty and Jennifer was unwritten because Marty made different choices. I wish we all could do that!
15:48 I love that edit. "Marty we all have to make decisions that effect the course of our lives." And it jumps right to, "I've made a decision. I'm not going with you tomorrow."
@@Itwasalwaysme_Noone There's that word again heavy... Why is everything so heavy in the future? Is there something wrong with the earths gravitational pull?
So, so many great details throughout all three of these movies. In my book, one of the very best that's completely unique to this movie (not a callback to a gag from the first two) is Doc falling onto the organ when he's frightened by Marty, and it plays a perfect horror chord.
I never understood why Doc didnt just want to bring Clara back in the first place, since she wasnt supposed to be alive back then anyway. The only way to minimize the damage to the timeline would either be to kill Clara or bring her to the future.
The original is undeniably the best, but I've always enjoyed the whole trilogy. Interesting fact: In the scene where Mad Dog hangs Marty, Michael J Fox was actually losing oxygen, they thought he was just acting, but in fact he nearly died!
It depends, the 1st and 3rd films are relatively similar in the end, in a nutshell it's "being stuck in the past and trying to find a way to go back to the future". The 2nd is different but at the same time it's also the less predictable of the 3, it's when the story really went crazy, I loved it. My favorite moment was really when Marty got that letter from 70 years ago, crazy.
It's true. Actually, Michael J. Fox talked about in his biography that shortly after the near-hanging incident he started to see his first signs of Parkinson's (little tremors in his fingers) but, at the time, he thought it was some kind of side effect of his brain being deprived of oxygen from the accident.
@logandarklighter I believe he noticed some signs before that, such as when he was hover boarding away from Biff in Part II, and that was filmed before Part III. 🤷♂️
Taking Clara with them actually would have made the most sense. Doc is against it, but if you think about it _she's_ not supposed to be there either, she was supposed to die going into the ravine. So taking her with them removes Doc, Clara, and Marty (who are all not supposed to be living their lives there) out of 1885. If Marty had thought about it, as another argument for Doc not staying, he could have mentioned that Doc volunteering to pick her up (and thus preventing her death) is already potentially drastically changing history.
@@jrv7054 I'll start by saying that it's all completely unpredictable. However, she was _supposed_ to go over the side of the ravine in her wagon. So her staying and being a teacher in 1885 will change history. Maybe her descendants change things. Maybe she's a particularly good teacher and some of her students go on to be prominent historical figures. That's the damage Doc is afraid of. They've _already_ done damage by Doc being there and her surviving, even if for just a few more days. Bringing her with them is the course of action that prevents _further_ damage that would be caused by any of them continuing on living in 1885.
Marty was never portrayed as the one to come up with good logical arguments especially when it concerns all the time paradoxes, as he has been always having trouble grasping them. Not to mention he could have felt this one to be a bit unfair and unkind. After all, they both (or perhaps actually Marty alone) had only the vaguest idea about Clara's death before their arrival to 1885. They didn't know that she was supposed to die the day she arrived to the town, thus Doc couldn't have known that he was going to be interfering with her death when he agreed to meet her at the train station.
11:54 - Let me help clear up the confusion: Doc is the variable. Clara was gonna day (and did die, according to Marty when he tells that story). But since Doc went back to 1885, he changed history by merely being present, then the 1985 Marty -- the one who's in 1955 with "1955" Doc -- look up the records, the original Doc has already been back in 1885 for "eight months" according to his letter and has already changed history, which is why the 1955 Doc and Marty see the tomestone that says "beloved Clara". Hope that helps. ;-)
4:07 - BTTF 1, 2, and 3 "It's been like a week." And, the funny thing is that Marty was late to school and failed the band auditions on a Friday, met Doc at Twin Pines Mall later that night (i.e 1:15 a.m on Saturday), and by the time he goes back to school on Monday he would have been time-traveling all over Hill Valley history. What a weekend !
I grew up down the street from where the race with Needles was filmed and currently I live about a mile away from where the DeLorean was destroyed by the train.
Originally Clara was by herself. Her horse got spooked and she went over the cliff. But then when Doc goes back in time, he volunteers to pick her up at the train station. So her horse never got spooked and she never went over the cliff. But then when Marty comes to 1885 and tells Doc about his "beloved Clara", Doc decides not to pick her up. So it goes back to her being by herself. Her horse gets spooked and she goes over the cliff
There are so many call backs to the other movies, it's hard to spot them all. My favorite is when they are talking about the tombstone and Marty yells Doc's usual line "Great Scott!" to which Doc replies "I know, this is heavy"... which is something Marty had said multiple times!
I love that all 3 of these movies have more or less the exact same plot line several repeated events, the epitome of history repeating itself, and they are still amazing movies. They are so well done.
@@PopcornInBed The 80s had a lot of great music and they used it for a lot of lovely movies like Ghostbusters 1, Beverly Hills Cop 1+2, First blood or Die Hard 1, Lethal Weapon. Maybe a few suggestions and recommendations for you? I've you haven't seen them yet. Definitely a big thanks for your reaction.
@@MisterDevos I really don't want to assume you're some sort of COVID truther but just in case... Ms. Clayton had diphtheria. A disease that has symptoms such as a bad cough and which can be spread by those who are asymptomatic. Sound familiar? It's extremely uncommon nowadays, especially in the developed world, thanks to... vaccines. So to anyone who is a COVID truther or anti-vax... grow up and listen to the people who have dedicated their lives to science and medicine instead of MAXPATRIOTTRUTH1776's Facebook page.
@@MisterDevos *the diseases back then hadn't yet had a vaccine developed. They do now. Mostly. But new ones are evolving all the time as they replicate and mutate much faster than we do. If bubonic plague ever comes back we're all fucked going by people like yourself and their attitude to pandemic safety.
@@bicranium Yep. Was vaccinated against diptheria when I was a kid, along with measles, mumps, polio, rubella, and chicken pox. I never got any of them. As an adult, I got a shingles shot (only needed once), get flu and pneumonia shots yearly, and got my covid vacc this year. I'm a firm believer in preventative vaccination. (Jan Griffiths).
I love this trilogy. These movies made you feel like you really knew the characters and you became so invested in what happened to them. Side-note: Needles is Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers
I like this movie because it is different but also really shows BIFF's versatility in acting. I think he did a great job in all three movies truly playing real different characters in each one. #1 and #3 are the best of the 3
If Clara never stopped the train so she could tell Doc she loved him, Marty and Doc would have missed it. Like the theme song says, “That’s the power of love.”
True, but once Buford Tannen was dealt with, there would have been no pressure to catch that particular train. Neither was going to die. They could wait for the next train.
@@BunBun299 They had to wait days for that train so the next one would probably be days away too, plus the DeLorean was out in the open and probably would be harder to get off the tracks than it was to put it on. Also that wouldn’t flow with the story, in all three movies they are on the clock/in a rush at the climax.
I would give anything to go back in time. On a side note: I think it's interesting how all 3 movies took great care to focus in on key elements each time. Part 1 focused on the future of Marty's parents, part 2 focused on the future of Marty's own family and part 3 focused on Doc's future. Great character development too.
Fun Fact: In the 1800s there were no quality standards, some products labeled as whiskey or bourbon were actually distilled with a variety of low-grade ingredients and additives such as burnt sugar, glycerin and sulphuric acid.(Aka: Cheap liquor.) "That's probably why Marty's whiskey smoked when it spilled over on the counter." 🥃☠️🤔🤔
The recurring themes that they work into all three of these films are just pure genius screenwriting. Marty waking up with his 'mom' tending him, 'Biff' in the saloon/diner picking a fight with McFly, etc. etc.
It's all really fun from a viewer standpoint, but it always kinda irks me that the actress that plays his 1985 mom played the wife in 1885. Marty's ancestor "looking like" him makes sense, but his wife married in so there shouldn't be any resemblance lol. Unless their family diverged and came back together with some 2nd cousin incest stuff with Marty's parents in 1955 xD
I was a make-up on films and worked on an Indi-film starring Thomas F. Wilson, who played Biff in BTTF and he was an extremely nice guy. Just goes to show you how good of an actor he is.
This will explain the confusion about as to why the tombstone was erected by his "beloved Clara" when she was supposed to die. In the original timeline completely unaltered by Marty and Doc, Clara had no one to meet at the station and so she had to rent her own wagon and ended up falling into the ravine. Once Doc traveled back to 1885 by himself, he met Clara at the station and they fell in love. Doc soon thereafter got shot and killed and she put up the stone in his memory. But when Marty went back in time to save Doc, Doc got distracted by their plan to use the train to push the DeLorean and forgot to pick up Clara at the train station (you can see her waiting for her ride in the background of the train station scene when Doc and Marty are looking at the map of the railroad layout). So Clara ended up renting her own wagon anyway which led to her meeting Doc and Marty. But here's something to consider though. Marty saying "What's the worst that could happen? So they don't name the ravine after her." is much more of an ignorant statement than he realizes because Clara not dying when she was supposed to has HUGE implications on the future. What if she had gone on to fall in love and marry someone other than Doc? It's the same situation as the first BTTF movie when Lorraine almost didn't fall in love with George. It almost screwed up Marty's entire family timeline. If Clara had married someone else, this gentleman wouldn't have married who he was supposed to. And then if they had kids and those kids married people they weren't supposed to, it severely messes up who knows how many family trees going forward for generations. Also, Clara is a school science teacher. Teachers can have a major impact on the futures of countless children. So what if she ended up teaching kids who, because of her influence, went on to have vastly different futures and careers than they were meant to have? I go back to the whole "marrying people they weren't supposed to" thing I just mentioned a second ago. If these kids she taught ended up having a different future because of her, they may take a different career path and eventually meet and fall in love with different people than the original timeline intended. Yes, Doc is very much eccentric and overdramatic, but he's 100% right when he throws around the word "catastrophic" when referring to the timeline and how even the smallest ripple can have severe consequences.
Which is why actually taking Clara back to 1985 with them was the CORRECT choice to make. She wasn't supposed to be alive in the original, pre- time machine timeline, and history happened the way it did without her. With her still alive in history instead of dead, it could had seriously changed things. Ergo, taking her back to 1985 would have actually corrected the new problem they created because she would have AGAIN been removed from a history she had no part in after she died in the horse wagon accident in 1885. It would be like Doc and Marty traveling to 1863 after the Battle of Chancellorsville, then accidentally running into Stonewall Jackson before he could be pointlessly gunned down by his own troops. What if Stonewall hadn't died and the Confederacy had magically gone on to win the Civil War? The entire history of the United States would be different.
The old timer that says “Musta got that shirt off a dead chinese” in the first saloon scene is Pat Buttram. He was also in petticoat junction as mr Haney. The 3 member band at the town festival is ZZ Top
Mr. Haney was also in "Green Acres". He was always trying to sell Mr. Douglas (Eddie Albert) some piece of crap that didn't work. Mr. Douglas also bought Green Acres from him. (Jan Griffiths).
"Is the DeLorean a real car?". Yes, it was. The DeLorean DMC-12, manufactured from 1981-1982. Only 9000 were ever made before the DeLorean Motor Company went bankrupt, and they were infamous for breaking down easily. However, they gained fame thanks to these movies, and now people own one for geek cred more than anything else.
In the original timeline (Before the events of the first film, the ravine was named after Clara. This is the timeline that Marty remembers her falling into the ravine. She fell into the ravine because no one was there to meet her at the train station. Because Doc went back to 1885 in the second film, he agreed to meet her at the train station, so she never fell into the ravine and they fell in love. Then Doc is murdered by Bufford. When Marty sees the tombstone he goes back to 1885 and because he intervened Doc wasn't there to meet her at the train station and she almost fell in again. Hope that clears things up.
To answer your question at 11:55; Clara fell into the ravine in the original timeline that existed before the whole time travel thing began. This was changed when Doc was sent back to 1885 because before Marty went back there Doc picked Clara up at the train station. By the way, I enjoyed your reactions.
Fun Fact: There are 4 DeLoreans in 1955. You have the one Marty took back in the first film, the one Biff took back from 2015, the one Marty and Doc took back from 1985B and the one Doc buried in the mine.
Interesting fact: In the hanging scene, Michael J Fox almost died. The rope he was hanging from actually choked him, but the film crew thought he was just acting. And keep a close eye on Vernes' hands. There are answers to all questions
In the original timeline no one is at the train to meet Clara when she comes to town, resulting in her horses getting spooked and plunging into the ravine. When Doc gets stuck in 1885 the mayor requests him to meet her at the train, altering the chain of events leading up to the horses being spooked and preventing her death. When Marty goes back it puts the spooked event back on course, but places Doc and himself into the position to rescue Clara before plunging into the ravine.
You're right, he's gone through all these misadventures over the course of just a couple weeks, and in each one he sustains a serious enough head injury to induce _hours long unconsciousness._ Marty's brain is doneski.
As fanciful and silly as this trilogy is in many ways, they're actually some of the best when it comes to the actual mechanics of time travel. Too many movies & tv shows involving time travel end up just making a mess of things, but these movies did a great job of keeping things simple enough that the ending of the story actually made sense and felt earned.
Not really...why would doc bring marty from the past to change the future? It was a terrible ending to part one and both sequels were made from this badly written premise
@@serwinzzalot9989 well he needed 1985 Marty to impersonate Marty Jr. This actually worked lol. Things went south when they put jenny in the Alley instead of leaving her in time machine 😂
The amount of subtle in-jokes and references in this movie series is astounding. I don't know if you remember but in the first movie when Marty met Strickland in the past, he made a remark "Didn't that guy ever have hair?" Then, when you see his descendant in this movie, he has a long flowing head of hair.
Just starting this video now, expecting you to enjoy it! I'd love to recommend The Truman Show if you've not seen it, classic 90s in the vein of Groundhog Day (but also very different!)
Oh yeah. The soundtrack to that movie is fantastic. And the themes of loss, both in love and control over your own life, are phenomenally brought to life by Jim Carrey.
Yes the Delorean is a real car. John Delorean worked for Pontiac for years before making his own car company. He created the GTO, Firebird and Trans Am plus more.
There sorta actually exist more "Doc & Marty" in a roundabout way. The cartoon show "Rick & Morty" was heavily inspired by these films, however the slapstick humor is also infused by a lot of heavier subjects so it's not exactly the same.
Am I the only one who loves Back to the Future... and despises Rick & Morty? I hate the drawing style. I hate the voice acting. I hate the themes. I hate the characters. I hate the attempts at absurdist humor. I hate the attempts at shock humor. In my experience, I have not seen Rick & Morty do anything that wasn't already done much better by shows like Family Guy, Beavis and Butthead, and Ren and Stimpy. I know a lot of people love it, but I watched a couple of minutes a couple of times, and every minute I watch, I like it even less than I already did.
Fun fact: The band that plays when Doc and Clara have their dance is none other than the legendary ZZTop. They are playing a different version of their single used in the movie.
10:57 - 11:06 If you get the chance, watch Time After Time, with Malcolm McDowell and the late David Warner. McDowell plays H.G. Wells, author of the Time Machine, who's tracked Jack the Ripper to 1979, and he too falls in love with Mary Steenburgen.
I don't know how I stumbled on your page but i'm glad I did. I've been watching this trilogy since I was 4 back in 88. It's always been my favorite. I just watched all three from your perspective and it made me feel like a kid watching it for the first time through an adult lens. Such a simple idea you are doing with this channel but I love it! Thanks for sharing your first experiences of these classics with us. Can't wait to see your reaction to Return of the Jedi!
@@alanmurray5963 Well this is interesting. You and Bob both have 2 upvotes. And, though I'd always assumed it was bug, I'm now quite unsure whether he's being called an insect or a dog. Oi vey, life's little conundrums.
I got to see all three of these in the theater. I never get tired of watching this trilogy. They had a cartoon based on these stories for a short time.
Your reactions are so heart felt and meaningful. Thanks for sharing. ❤️. Reliving young times. Back to the future was my first cinema date with a girl in 1986. I was 13. Back to the future 3 was made in 1989 but not shown until the early 1990s. I was working in kota Kinabalu Malaysian Borneo for work experience (university year 3) and they had this on video. They also had tombstone and far and away, both of which you should see. I was 21 then in 1993/4. Long time and lots of world ago. I've been away from my Cornwall town now for 28 years. When I go home and the town hall clock tings, it reminds me of back to the future. Some times I'm away for years and go back there, and back to the future is really how it feels. ❤️.thanks for listening to my story. 🤠
From my earliest childhood (1960s) to the '90s, I waited out each week of school for the ever-so-holy weekend and the 5 or 6 hours of Saturday morning cartoons that started it off at 7:00 AM. In 1991, one offering was BTTF -- the Animated Series. Despite Robert Zemeckis' edict that there would be no more sequels, the series actually handled things quite well. Doc's young sons were the perfect "viewpoint characters" for young watchers; each episode revolved around a scientific principle -- which Christopher Lloyd himself explained in live-action "Bill Nye the Science Guy"-type segments. And, of course, we saw Biff Tannen and an endless stream of his ancestors and descendants. Our heroes went from the dinosaur era to futures way beyond 2015. And Clara was often a major character. There were two season, which I've got on DVD. And a good thing, too: One Saturday in 1992 I turned on the TV to discover that -- there was to BTTF show, or any other cartoons. There was, instead, a CBS news/talk show. They explained that they had CBS Sunday Morning, and a news show every weekday -- then the network execs realized they were wasting Saturday on stupid cartoons! Then NBS started a Saturday Today Show and, well -- there went the tradition of Saturday morning animation . . . Anyway, I recommend the BTTF Animated Series if you can find it.
Doc’s presence in the past would have changed the timeline Marty knew regardless. So in the original timeline she went into the ravine and it was name Clayton Ravine. then in the Marty-less timeline Marty read about, Doc picked her up at the station; presumably the ravine is named after someone else, maybe even Doc himself when he gets shot. But Marty intervenes in that timeline, Clara is saved and he ‘steals’ the train and goes into the ravine. Hence ‘Eastwood Ravine.’
I'll try to explain Clara Clayton's fate: In the original timeline she drove off the cliff. However when Doc went back in time he volunteered to pick her up at the train station so she never died and fell in love with him before he was killed. When Marty traveled back Doc got busy trying to get them both back to the future so he never picked her up so it went back to the original event with her driving of the cliff only doc managed to save her.
I love your videos. I love how happy and excited you get when things work out. Your face when the Time Machine Trains blasted into the present in front of Marty was great!
This trilogy to me was my childhood. I was about 10 when parts 2 and 4 came out. I remember we had two VCRs that we had hooked up together and I copied all three films to one tape making a giant 5ish hour movie since each began where the last ended. It was a bit awkward with the credits from 2 and 3 cut out.
Indeed, I'm still dying to see Zemeckis eventually cut all 3 movies into one seamless 5-hour movie available for streaming. Sure, there's the whole issue of 2 different Jennifers, but I'm sure most of us can overlook that at this point.
I thought it might also be interesting one time to just skip from the scene in I in which Marty goes back to 1985 after the lightning hits the clock tower straight to the beginning of III. But I'd probably never do that since I love the whole trilogy, especially Part II.
love these series so much, its so quirky and the more times you re-watch it, the more little details you notice. My favorite is that doc is always in a rush and out of time even though he has a time machine haha xD
Doc was a bit old to be a dad to young kids, but in BTTF 2 he said he's added 30 years to his life with treatments, like new blood etc. Wish we could do that!
Love your honest reactions! 🥰 At a round table discussion with the principles of the film they let it slip that the role of Clara Clayton was written specifically for actor Mary Steenburgen and they had no intention of offering it to any other actor. & If Mary Steenburgen had turned it down & the role went to another actor they would have to re-write the entire part. Mary Steenburgen who was sitting at the table, slammed her hand on the table! BOOM. Why didn’t you mention that, when we were negotiating my salary for the film? Side note (Mary Steenburgen is married to actor Ted Danson)
Christopher Lloyd is 83 and is still working his ass off. He has 241 IMDB credits since 1975. His first was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. But I see him as Reverend Jim from Taxi.
Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale (Director and writer) stated that they don't enjoy movies that are set in the future because they never get it right, so most of the future stuff in 2015 was done mostly as a joke like flying cars etc.
If you loved the trilogy and you want to know more, Bob Gale was the creator of the movies and he made a collection of comics to complete the story (how they met in the first time for example) and how they continue like a BTTF part 4. Search them, Back to the Future comics from Bob Gale, the official creator.
Timelines.... 1. No Doc or Marty. Clara rents wagon goes over cliff. 2. Just Doc. Meets Clara at station falls in love. 3. Doc and Marty. Doc doesn’t meet Clara at station, saves her later from wagon. Hope this helps. When I saw part 1 in 1988 it started my love affair with the Delorean DMC-12, I saw this when it came out and the ending when it’s hit by the diesels locomotive broke my little heart. The car and the man behind it John Z Delorean have a fascinating history.
12:00 Earlier in the movie, the mayor tells Doc that the new teacher (that he previously agreed to pick up at train station) was going to arrived later during the day. So if Marty did not show up, Doc would have pick her up. She rent a cart and a horse because nobody came to pick her up.
This really is one of those series which did cinema... suprisingly well. Glad that you had the chance to watch all three and I am delighted that you enjoyed them. For the record, DeLoreans really do exist, although the ones without time circuits were (and are) notoriously underwhelming. Thankfully, they have become pop culture icons.
Co-writer and director Robert Zemeckis, who has final rights to all films in the Back to the Future franchise, has stated that he will block all attempts to remake or reboot the original films, so no new episodes in the foreseeable future. And I'm ok with that. They're perfect as is.
Although the animated series was fun
There's a comic book sequel called Tales from the Time Train written by the film's writer Bob Gale, about Doc and his adventures with Clara before he goes back to meet Marty again. I guess it counts as "canon" if that matters at all.
I second that notion. It is better to make a new story with time travel than to try to add to this series. It is unlikely any sequel could add something making the whole better. Also the original cast is now unavailable.
@@firstclaw1 Deep fake/cgi could do it.
Pretty sure a few years ago I heard they were going to continue making these movies as reboots or a continued story
The guy who played Biff is so underrated, he really should have won some kind of award for how well he played all of his different Biffs. First 1985 Biff, 1955 Biff, New (whimpy) 1985 Biff, Future Biff, 1985 Rich Biff, and 1855 Mad Dog Tannon.
The guy is also a stand-up comedian. Pretty funny too. And by all accounts, is actually a nice guy.
He really is one of the best movie villains.
You forgot Griff.
He also was "Maniac" in the Wing Commander Games franchise (III, IV, V if I remember correctly). He's basically Biff in Space.
Tom Wilson.. he has a podcast where he talks about his life, his work, and of course BTTF
Fun fact: in 1885 gasoline was a toxic wast product from refining kerosene. It was dumped into the river because Standard Oil couldn't think of anything to do with it. Because it was so cheap, early car builders designed their engines to run on it.
I was going to say that with a little bit of chemistry knowledge, they could have made gasoline even in 1885. But that would only have been 10% of the fun they had with the steam engine… 😊
People seem perplexed when mechanics use gasoline as a solvent to clean grease off of parts. But that's because we're not using fuel as a cleaning solution-- we invented a motor that happens to burn a cleaning solution for a fuel.
How many people noticed the foreshadowing in the second movie, where Biff is watching a Clint Eastwood movie and makes a remark about the bulletproof vest. Giving you the ending of the 3rd movie in the second movie. Clever!
Pretty much everybody. Good catch.
@@mikecronis condescend much?
@@mikecronis pretentious?
never saw that one.
Well they were written at the same time together for continuity purposes.
Clara had to rent a cart because she was left waiting at the train station. Normally, Doc volunteered to get her, but now, with Marty's warning, he won't go. She can be quickly seen waiting at the station during the scene while doc and Marty are checking the map for the bridge. Also at the end, you can seen that the ravine was renamed the Eastwood ravine after Marty "dying" in 1885
Yes, damsel in distress, but one can guess that she was to fall in either scenario, but Doc realized what his interference has done to the original timeline.
Without Doc in 1885, Clara dies, as that is what Marty remembers.
With Doc and No Marty in 1885, Clara survives Doc, and Doc dies.
With Doc and Marty in 1885, Clara still survives.
You missed the part where Jeamus (or Seamus) McFly tells Marty that he "HAD" a brother named Martin who got a a Bowie knife shoved in his belly, in Virginia City, because he allowed people to provoke him into fighting. Martin thought people would think of him to be a coward if he refused to fight. It means something later when Doc reveals to Marty that he does not need to lose his judgement in the future.
Because Clara (Mary Steenburgen) did not go over the cliff the Ravine was not named after her. It was named, instead, Eastwood Ravine. It is just like in the first one, when Marty Destroys one of "Old Man Peabody's" Pine Trees, the Mall's name was changed from "Twin Pines Mall" to "Lone Pine Mall."
never saw the mall name change. LOL
The funny thing is that bringing Clara with them is actually the most logical thing to do. In the proper timeline, she died by falling into the ravine. Doc saving her caused a big change in the timeline, which he even acknowledged and was troubled by. Taking her with them actually fixes the timeline by removing her from it.
I know this comment is 2+ years old, but technically it would mess up the timeline starting in 1985 / whatever year they bring her to just by having a new person walking around butterfly effect-ing everything.
@@jasonutty52 despite his constant protesting to the contrary, doc really doesn't actually care about messing up the timeline, as the entirety of the second and third movies only happen because he wanted to take marty to 2015 to change marty jr's future. further, the only reason he didn't die at the end of the first movie is because he read the letter marty gave him in 1955.
doc don't give a fuck about preserving timelines.
@@holden_tldor is Doc doing all of those things him actually making the timeline what it SHOULD be?
Well, the most suitable alternative was for Doc to build a new time machine so they could settle in the future. Hence the reply Doc makes after Marty asks if he's going back to the future: "Already been there!"
Some Easter eggs people miss, the horse and wagon that Clara was riding in was rented from Joe Statler, you can see his shop when Marty enters Hill Valley. In 1955, the Statler Studebaker dealership is located right next to the movie theatre, then finally in 1985, Marty wants and later gets a Toyota Truck from Statler's Toyota.
also that Biff in the hot tub is watching the Clint Eastwood film A Fistful Of Dollars where Marty gets the boiler plate idea, to prevent Buford from killing him.
And the manure hauling company in 1955 was also from a descendent of someone in this movie
Little Vern is pointing downstairs to his parents on the set because he had to take a huge piss after 50 takes of the ending without a break.
I loved the names of Doc and Clara's sons, Jules and Verne. Very fitting as Jules Verne was an author well ahead of his time. He wrote 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea between 1869 and 1870. The story revolves around a nuclear powered submarine named the Nautilus. This was some 85 years before the first nuclear powered submarine, christened the USS Nautilus, was commissioned by the United States Navy in 1954.
My favorite Jules Verne quotation is, "Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real."
So it came to pass with the nuclear powered submarine.
You really have to respect the intergenerational friend relationship between Marty and Doc Brown. As long as the trust and respect can go both ways, it's real.
11:54 Someone may have cleared this up, but I'll type it out anyway.
In the original history, Clara had no one to meet her at the railroad depot and went off alone on her horse and crashed into the Ravine.
But then Doc alone went back to 1885 and was there to meet her. She and Doc fell in love, spent a week together before he was shot by Tannen. In this timeline, the Shonash Ravine likely remained, but Marty was never there to see it.
And then after Marty goes back, history is changed again. Again nobody is there to meet Clara, but Doc was in the right place at the right time to save her. And since "Clint Eastwood" died there after hijacking the train, the ravine now bears his name.
Well said.
@@MatthewSantry So you enjoy mansplaining,...weird.
Yeah, Shonash Ravine to Clayton Ravine which never got named and instead Eastwood. Brilliant writing!
I think the ravine was named Eastwood Ravine to commemorate Clint Eastwood fighting and beating Buford Tannen in the town square, since unless the engineer recognized Marty's clothes, the townsfolk would have no way of knowing he was there.
Exactly, she just wasn't thinking fourth dimensionally.
23:15 "Isn't Doc old to have two young children?"
I love that the writers actually set up a fix for that in Part II. When Doc is peeling that mask off of his face after they arrive in 2015 he says that he went to a rejuvenation clinic, which _"added a good 30 to 40 years to my life"._
They SPECIFICALLY did that so Doc could feasibly have a long life with Clara despite his already decently advanced age in 1985, and I just love it. 💜
@@ashleighelizabeth5916 No, not that. I know how basic human reproductive biology works. lol What I was talking about "fixing" was extending his natural lifespan so he could have a _long life_ with Clara. Like I already said.
I think she meant it as in "won't he die when his kids are still really young", not "old men can't sire children".
Despite appearances,Christopher Lloyd was only 52 in BTTF3.
@@MrLadiesman216 Christopher Lloyd himself was 52, yes, but has it been established how old Doc is supposed to be in 1885? Even going by that age, 53-55 is still pretty late in life to have kids. If he was 55 when Jules was born, for example, he'd be 73 by the time Jules was 18.
Either way, the rejuvenation clinic was a nice touch to enable Doc to have a full life with Clara and his kids.
< 60, More likely that he'd keel over during the act of conception. Usually men stay capable, just the count and stamina go down.
Also, the rejuvenation clinic thing was also used so Christopher Lloyd could play Doc without wearing age makeup.
One of the best things of this trilogy is how they all played so many parts of family. Not sure if you noticed, you didn't mention it in the reaction, but Michael J. Fox played BOTH of his kids, his son and his daughter.
Also, while there is not an actual 4th movie, there is the Universal Studios ride which I'm sure you can find a video of it online. I actually went on the ride myself at Universal Studios Orlando. While you are in line for the actual ride part, they have large TV screens with all the cast having returned to tell the new "story".
Thomas F. Wilson playing Biff in all of those movies is just amazing. His performance, especially in Part 2+3, kicks everyone else out of the room in my opinion.
“I feel bad that I never heard about a Delorean before.
Is it a real car?” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Read this as she said it
What I really enjoyed about these Back To The Future movies with Cassie is how she tries her darndest to understand time travel scenario's and how she asks so many questions that it proves that lovely Cassie actually follows along with all her reactions to the movies. 😘
Taken together, these three movies are without doubt the most sophisticated depiction of time travel ever put on film😊
I love Doc's line at the end. He is answering jennifer, when she asks about the note she brought back from 2015 where Marty had been fired. The words "You're Fired" were erased. Jennifer then asks Doc what that means. Doc said, "Your future hasn't been written yet, no one's has, so make it good one, both of you."
I always wondered why Doc tells Marty and Jennifer that the future isn't written yet, but then in the second movie tells Marty he needs to go to the future to save his son.
@@patrickho6588 In the first one Doc travels into a future where Marty's son is about to ruin his life. In that future, Marty had an accident which made him give up on his dream of playing his music. In the thrid one, they had straightened out the problem with his son and the problem with Biff. But, unfortunately, Doc was sent back to the Old West. Marty finds out Doc is shot by Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen! So, Marty goes back to save Doc. It is there that Doc tells Marty: "You can't go losing your judgment every time someone calls you a name!" it was that advice that caused Marty not to race Needles, in 1985. Therefore, the future Marty and Jennifer would have had, where Marty gave up on his dream of playing music, never occurred. Therefore, the future of Marty and Jennifer was unwritten because Marty made different choices.
I wish we all could do that!
Biff is one of the best bad guys and heels of all time. Improvised a lot of his lines, too. Iconic, and hilarious.
15:48 I love that edit. "Marty we all have to make decisions that effect the course of our lives." And it jumps right to, "I've made a decision. I'm not going with you tomorrow."
I saw that too! Loved it!
One of the things I like about this one is the role reversal between Marty & Doc.
That's heavy
@@Itwasalwaysme_Noone There's that word again heavy... Why is everything so heavy in the future? Is there something wrong with the earths gravitational pull?
This time marty uses the bulletproof vest. This time clara visits docs during the planning scene
@@jrv7054 Huh, never thought of it that way - nice catch.
Great Scott!
So, so many great details throughout all three of these movies. In my book, one of the very best that's completely unique to this movie (not a callback to a gag from the first two) is Doc falling onto the organ when he's frightened by Marty, and it plays a perfect horror chord.
I never understood why Doc didnt just want to bring Clara back in the first place, since she wasnt supposed to be alive back then anyway. The only way to minimize the damage to the timeline would either be to kill Clara or bring her to the future.
The original is undeniably the best, but I've always enjoyed the whole trilogy.
Interesting fact: In the scene where Mad Dog hangs Marty, Michael J Fox was actually losing oxygen, they thought he was just acting, but in fact he nearly died!
It depends, the 1st and 3rd films are relatively similar in the end, in a nutshell it's "being stuck in the past and trying to find a way to go back to the future". The 2nd is different but at the same time it's also the less predictable of the 3, it's when the story really went crazy, I loved it. My favorite moment was really when Marty got that letter from 70 years ago, crazy.
It's true. Actually, Michael J. Fox talked about in his biography that shortly after the near-hanging incident he started to see his first signs of Parkinson's (little tremors in his fingers) but, at the time, he thought it was some kind of side effect of his brain being deprived of oxygen from the accident.
@@SwiftFoxProductions Can Parkinson's be CAUSED by something like that? Or was that just a coincidence?
@logandarklighter I believe he noticed some signs before that, such as when he was hover boarding away from Biff in Part II, and that was filmed before Part III. 🤷♂️
Taking Clara with them actually would have made the most sense. Doc is against it, but if you think about it _she's_ not supposed to be there either, she was supposed to die going into the ravine. So taking her with them removes Doc, Clara, and Marty (who are all not supposed to be living their lives there) out of 1885. If Marty had thought about it, as another argument for Doc not staying, he could have mentioned that Doc volunteering to pick her up (and thus preventing her death) is already potentially drastically changing history.
So what will happen if they brought her back to the future?, will history be majorly altered
@@jrv7054 I'll start by saying that it's all completely unpredictable. However, she was _supposed_ to go over the side of the ravine in her wagon. So her staying and being a teacher in 1885 will change history. Maybe her descendants change things. Maybe she's a particularly good teacher and some of her students go on to be prominent historical figures. That's the damage Doc is afraid of. They've _already_ done damage by Doc being there and her surviving, even if for just a few more days. Bringing her with them is the course of action that prevents _further_ damage that would be caused by any of them continuing on living in 1885.
@@jrv7054 Yes, but not that much. Life in the old town would be the same, only this time Clara is confirmed as missing instead of dead.
Marty was never portrayed as the one to come up with good logical arguments especially when it concerns all the time paradoxes, as he has been always having trouble grasping them.
Not to mention he could have felt this one to be a bit unfair and unkind. After all, they both (or perhaps actually Marty alone) had only the vaguest idea about Clara's death before their arrival to 1885. They didn't know that she was supposed to die the day she arrived to the town, thus Doc couldn't have known that he was going to be interfering with her death when he agreed to meet her at the train station.
11:54 - Let me help clear up the confusion: Doc is the variable. Clara was gonna day (and did die, according to Marty when he tells that story). But since Doc went back to 1885, he changed history by merely being present, then the 1985 Marty -- the one who's in 1955 with "1955" Doc -- look up the records, the original Doc has already been back in 1885 for "eight months" according to his letter and has already changed history, which is why the 1955 Doc and Marty see the tomestone that says "beloved Clara". Hope that helps. ;-)
4:07 - BTTF 1, 2, and 3 "It's been like a week." And, the funny thing is that Marty was late to school and failed the band auditions on a Friday, met Doc at Twin Pines Mall later that night (i.e 1:15 a.m on Saturday), and by the time he goes back to school on Monday he would have been time-traveling all over Hill Valley history. What a weekend !
I grew up down the street from where the race with Needles was filmed and currently I live about a mile away from where the DeLorean was destroyed by the train.
That’s awesome man 😎👍🏼
Originally Clara was by herself. Her horse got spooked and she went over the cliff. But then when Doc goes back in time, he volunteers to pick her up at the train station. So her horse never got spooked and she never went over the cliff. But then when Marty comes to 1885 and tells Doc about his "beloved Clara", Doc decides not to pick her up. So it goes back to her being by herself. Her horse gets spooked and she goes over the cliff
There are so many call backs to the other movies, it's hard to spot them all. My favorite is when they are talking about the tombstone and Marty yells Doc's usual line "Great Scott!" to which Doc replies "I know, this is heavy"... which is something Marty had said multiple times!
I love that all 3 of these movies have more or less the exact same plot line several repeated events, the epitome of history repeating itself, and they are still amazing movies. They are so well done.
One of my favourite trilogies ever.
Well written, good music and it ended in the right way.
True popcorn 🍿 movies
yes exactly!! That music was so great
@@PopcornInBed
The 80s had a lot of great music and they used it for a lot of lovely movies like
Ghostbusters 1,
Beverly Hills Cop 1+2,
First blood or Die Hard 1,
Lethal Weapon.
Maybe a few suggestions and recommendations for you?
I've you haven't seen them yet.
Definitely a big thanks for your reaction.
"I was quarantined for 3 months"
"hmm !"
i felt that.
Yep. Pretty much every reactor who's watched these movies over the last year has gotten a rise out of that line.
No you havent. The diseases back then were actually real
@@MisterDevos I really don't want to assume you're some sort of COVID truther but just in case...
Ms. Clayton had diphtheria. A disease that has symptoms such as a bad cough and which can be spread by those who are asymptomatic. Sound familiar? It's extremely uncommon nowadays, especially in the developed world, thanks to... vaccines.
So to anyone who is a COVID truther or anti-vax... grow up and listen to the people who have dedicated their lives to science and medicine instead of MAXPATRIOTTRUTH1776's Facebook page.
@@MisterDevos *the diseases back then hadn't yet had a vaccine developed.
They do now.
Mostly.
But new ones are evolving all the time as they replicate and mutate much faster than we do.
If bubonic plague ever comes back we're all fucked going by people like yourself and their attitude to pandemic safety.
@@bicranium Yep. Was vaccinated against diptheria when I was a kid, along with measles, mumps, polio, rubella, and chicken pox. I never got any of them. As an adult, I got a shingles shot (only needed once), get flu and pneumonia shots yearly, and got my covid vacc this year. I'm a firm believer in preventative vaccination. (Jan Griffiths).
I love this trilogy. These movies made you feel like you really knew the characters and you became so invested in what happened to them.
Side-note: Needles is Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers
I like this movie because it is different but also really shows BIFF's versatility in acting. I think he did a great job in all three movies truly playing real different characters in each one. #1 and #3 are the best of the 3
DeLorean is a real car, and has a very interesting history. They aren't painted their outer shell is stainless steel.
It's the best looking pile of junk ever made
@@JmAnYoShI HOW DARE YOU! 😄
And the original speedometer doesn't even go to 88 mph, it stops at 85
And ever since this trilogy came out, I've always wanted one.
Some were painted
The Delorean DMC 12 was a real car with a troubled history worth making it's own movie about.
There was! Two movies in fact. “Driven” in 2018 and a documentary in 2019 called “Framing John DeLorean”.
I am honestly surprised no one has.
@@DeanStrickson correct!
@@dantheman8103 ...
I remember the Delorean dealership on I-45 South in Houston when I was in high school.
If Clara never stopped the train so she could tell Doc she loved him, Marty and Doc would have missed it. Like the theme song says, “That’s the power of love.”
True, but once Buford Tannen was dealt with, there would have been no pressure to catch that particular train. Neither was going to die. They could wait for the next train.
@@BunBun299 They had to wait days for that train so the next one would probably be days away too, plus the DeLorean was out in the open and probably would be harder to get off the tracks than it was to put it on. Also that wouldn’t flow with the story, in all three movies they are on the clock/in a rush at the climax.
I would give anything to go back in time. On a side note: I think it's interesting how all 3 movies took great care to focus in on key elements each time. Part 1 focused on the future of Marty's parents, part 2 focused on the future of Marty's own family and part 3 focused on Doc's future. Great character development too.
The Back to the Future saturday morning cartoon continues after this movie , with the boys and Emmet and Marty going on more time travel adventures
really? Never saw them
Fun Fact: In the 1800s there were no quality standards, some products labeled as whiskey or bourbon were actually distilled with a variety of low-grade ingredients and additives such as burnt sugar, glycerin and sulphuric acid.(Aka: Cheap liquor.) "That's probably why Marty's whiskey smoked when it spilled over on the counter." 🥃☠️🤔🤔
The recurring themes that they work into all three of these films are just pure genius screenwriting. Marty waking up with his 'mom' tending him, 'Biff' in the saloon/diner picking a fight with McFly, etc. etc.
It's all really fun from a viewer standpoint, but it always kinda irks me that the actress that plays his 1985 mom played the wife in 1885. Marty's ancestor "looking like" him makes sense, but his wife married in so there shouldn't be any resemblance lol. Unless their family diverged and came back together with some 2nd cousin incest stuff with Marty's parents in 1955 xD
I was a make-up on films and worked on an Indi-film starring Thomas F. Wilson, who played Biff in BTTF and he was an extremely nice guy. Just goes to show you how good of an actor he is.
That one dislike comes from Biff...
That's about as funny as a screen door on a battleship.
It's now up to 4 which means Biff's three dopy henchmen friends also didn't care for it. After 4, I got nothin'.
@@THOMMGB three biffs from the movies and a small dikked ars3 trying to over compensate.
Why don't you make like a tree, and get outta here.
@@THOMMGB its past 12
This will explain the confusion about as to why the tombstone was erected by his "beloved Clara" when she was supposed to die.
In the original timeline completely unaltered by Marty and Doc, Clara had no one to meet at the station and so she had to rent her own wagon and ended up falling into the ravine. Once Doc traveled back to 1885 by himself, he met Clara at the station and they fell in love. Doc soon thereafter got shot and killed and she put up the stone in his memory. But when Marty went back in time to save Doc, Doc got distracted by their plan to use the train to push the DeLorean and forgot to pick up Clara at the train station (you can see her waiting for her ride in the background of the train station scene when Doc and Marty are looking at the map of the railroad layout). So Clara ended up renting her own wagon anyway which led to her meeting Doc and Marty.
But here's something to consider though. Marty saying "What's the worst that could happen? So they don't name the ravine after her." is much more of an ignorant statement than he realizes because Clara not dying when she was supposed to has HUGE implications on the future.
What if she had gone on to fall in love and marry someone other than Doc? It's the same situation as the first BTTF movie when Lorraine almost didn't fall in love with George. It almost screwed up Marty's entire family timeline. If Clara had married someone else, this gentleman wouldn't have married who he was supposed to. And then if they had kids and those kids married people they weren't supposed to, it severely messes up who knows how many family trees going forward for generations.
Also, Clara is a school science teacher. Teachers can have a major impact on the futures of countless children. So what if she ended up teaching kids who, because of her influence, went on to have vastly different futures and careers than they were meant to have? I go back to the whole "marrying people they weren't supposed to" thing I just mentioned a second ago. If these kids she taught ended up having a different future because of her, they may take a different career path and eventually meet and fall in love with different people than the original timeline intended.
Yes, Doc is very much eccentric and overdramatic, but he's 100% right when he throws around the word "catastrophic" when referring to the timeline and how even the smallest ripple can have severe consequences.
Which is why actually taking Clara back to 1985 with them was the CORRECT choice to make. She wasn't supposed to be alive in the original, pre- time machine timeline, and history happened the way it did without her. With her still alive in history instead of dead, it could had seriously changed things. Ergo, taking her back to 1985 would have actually corrected the new problem they created because she would have AGAIN been removed from a history she had no part in after she died in the horse wagon accident in 1885. It would be like Doc and Marty traveling to 1863 after the Battle of Chancellorsville, then accidentally running into Stonewall Jackson before he could be pointlessly gunned down by his own troops. What if Stonewall hadn't died and the Confederacy had magically gone on to win the Civil War? The entire history of the United States would be different.
@@matthewcastleton2263 Exactly
Just realised after all these years that the gun seller is in Blazing Saddles , jesus how did I not see that before
OMG
I just recently found your channel. Your reactions are wonderful and I enjoy them immensely. Thank you so much.
It is adorable watching you so determined to get the space time continuum timelines right.
15:48 "We all have to make decisions that effect the course of our lives"
15:52 "I've made a decision"
I see what you did there 😂😂😂
"I feel like they haven't made movies like that in a long time".... ain't that the truth!!
Girl. The Doc allways comes back.👍😃
The old timer that says “Musta got that shirt off a dead chinese” in the first saloon scene is Pat Buttram. He was also in petticoat junction as mr Haney. The 3 member band at the town festival is ZZ Top
Mr. Haney was also in "Green Acres". He was always trying to sell Mr. Douglas (Eddie Albert) some piece of crap that didn't work. Mr. Douglas also bought Green Acres from him. (Jan Griffiths).
RIP Dusty Hill
"Is the DeLorean a real car?". Yes, it was. The DeLorean DMC-12, manufactured from 1981-1982. Only 9000 were ever made before the DeLorean Motor Company went bankrupt, and they were infamous for breaking down easily. However, they gained fame thanks to these movies, and now people own one for geek cred more than anything else.
In the original timeline (Before the events of the first film, the ravine was named after Clara. This is the timeline that Marty remembers her falling into the ravine. She fell into the ravine because no one was there to meet her at the train station. Because Doc went back to 1885 in the second film, he agreed to meet her at the train station, so she never fell into the ravine and they fell in love. Then Doc is murdered by Bufford. When Marty sees the tombstone he goes back to 1885 and because he intervened Doc wasn't there to meet her at the train station and she almost fell in again. Hope that clears things up.
To answer your question at 11:55; Clara fell into the ravine in the original timeline that existed before the whole time travel thing began. This was changed when Doc was sent back to 1885 because before Marty went back there Doc picked Clara up at the train station. By the way, I enjoyed your reactions.
Fun Fact: There are 4 DeLoreans in 1955. You have the one Marty took back in the first film, the one Biff took back from 2015, the one Marty and Doc took back from 1985B and the one Doc buried in the mine.
Well, not really. "in 1955" Strictly speaking, in the orig film, the 1885 stuff had not happened on that timeline so it was not buried.
Interesting fact: In the hanging scene, Michael J Fox almost died. The rope he was hanging from actually choked him, but the film crew thought he was just acting.
And keep a close eye on Vernes' hands. There are answers to all questions
In the original timeline no one is at the train to meet Clara when she comes to town, resulting in her horses getting spooked and plunging into the ravine. When Doc gets stuck in 1885 the mayor requests him to meet her at the train, altering the chain of events leading up to the horses being spooked and preventing her death. When Marty goes back it puts the spooked event back on course, but places Doc and himself into the position to rescue Clara before plunging into the ravine.
You're right, he's gone through all these misadventures over the course of just a couple weeks, and in each one he sustains a serious enough head injury to induce _hours long unconsciousness._ Marty's brain is doneski.
As fanciful and silly as this trilogy is in many ways, they're actually some of the best when it comes to the actual mechanics of time travel. Too many movies & tv shows involving time travel end up just making a mess of things, but these movies did a great job of keeping things simple enough that the ending of the story actually made sense and felt earned.
Most movies get stuck trying to explain or undo paradoxes that time travel creates.
Not really...why would doc bring marty from the past to change the future? It was a terrible ending to part one and both sequels were made from this badly written premise
@@serwinzzalot9989 well he needed 1985 Marty to impersonate Marty Jr. This actually worked lol. Things went south when they put jenny in the Alley instead of leaving her in time machine 😂
I love that throughout all 3 you kept asking questions and every single one of them gets answered
This franchise was so ahead of its time!!
The amount of subtle in-jokes and references in this movie series is astounding. I don't know if you remember but in the first movie when Marty met Strickland in the past, he made a remark "Didn't that guy ever have hair?"
Then, when you see his descendant in this movie, he has a long flowing head of hair.
Just starting this video now, expecting you to enjoy it! I'd love to recommend The Truman Show if you've not seen it, classic 90s in the vein of Groundhog Day (but also very different!)
Oh yeah. The soundtrack to that movie is fantastic. And the themes of loss, both in love and control over your own life, are phenomenally brought to life by Jim Carrey.
Yes the Delorean is a real car. John Delorean worked for Pontiac for years before making his own car company. He created the GTO, Firebird and Trans Am plus more.
There sorta actually exist more "Doc & Marty" in a roundabout way. The cartoon show "Rick & Morty" was heavily inspired by these films, however the slapstick humor is also infused by a lot of heavier subjects so it's not exactly the same.
there is an actual cartoon about BTTF that plays after 3. called BTTF ran for 2 seasons
Am I the only one who loves Back to the Future... and despises Rick & Morty?
I hate the drawing style. I hate the voice acting. I hate the themes. I hate the characters. I hate the attempts at absurdist humor. I hate the attempts at shock humor.
In my experience, I have not seen Rick & Morty do anything that wasn't already done much better by shows like Family Guy, Beavis and Butthead, and Ren and Stimpy.
I know a lot of people love it, but I watched a couple of minutes a couple of times, and every minute I watch, I like it even less than I already did.
Fun fact: The band that plays when Doc and Clara have their dance is none other than the legendary ZZTop. They are playing a different version of their single used in the movie.
I love the "Oh My Gosh" It's almost like, "Great Scott!"
10:57 - 11:06 If you get the chance, watch Time After Time, with Malcolm McDowell and the late David Warner. McDowell plays H.G. Wells, author of the Time Machine, who's tracked Jack the Ripper to 1979, and he too falls in love with Mary Steenburgen.
“Remember that word son, discipline.”
In BTTF 2 the word “discipline “ is on a sign over principal Strickland’s office door
Rembember that word son Discipline I will paw I will
I don't know how I stumbled on your page but i'm glad I did. I've been watching this trilogy since I was 4 back in 88. It's always been my favorite. I just watched all three from your perspective and it made me feel like a kid watching it for the first time through an adult lens. Such a simple idea you are doing with this channel but I love it! Thanks for sharing your first experiences of these classics with us. Can't wait to see your reaction to Return of the Jedi!
The Mcflys are Irish, not Scottish. Scottish rolls the tongue more.
"Hey- Mcfly, yu Irish Bug!"
(Biff's first 1955 Diner Scene- Back To The Future 1.)
I believe it was "Pug."
Bug
@@bobriemersma if you put on the subtitles on the dvd he says bug
@@djvaultz "Bug" because of his name "McFLY" I guess. Absolutely awful Irish accents too ;)
@@alanmurray5963 Well this is interesting. You and Bob both have 2 upvotes. And, though I'd always assumed it was bug, I'm now quite unsure whether he's being called an insect or a dog. Oi vey, life's little conundrums.
I got to see all three of these in the theater. I never get tired of watching this trilogy. They had a cartoon based on these stories for a short time.
Your reactions are so heart felt and meaningful. Thanks for sharing. ❤️. Reliving young times. Back to the future was my first cinema date with a girl in 1986. I was 13. Back to the future 3 was made in 1989 but not shown until the early 1990s. I was working in kota Kinabalu Malaysian Borneo for work experience (university year 3) and they had this on video. They also had tombstone and far and away, both of which you should see. I was 21 then in 1993/4. Long time and lots of world ago. I've been away from my Cornwall town now for 28 years. When I go home and the town hall clock tings, it reminds me of back to the future. Some times I'm away for years and go back there, and back to the future is really how it feels. ❤️.thanks for listening to my story. 🤠
From my earliest childhood (1960s) to the '90s, I waited out each week of school for the ever-so-holy weekend and the 5 or 6 hours of Saturday morning cartoons that started it off at 7:00 AM. In 1991, one offering was BTTF -- the Animated Series. Despite Robert Zemeckis' edict that there would be no more sequels, the series actually handled things quite well. Doc's young sons were the perfect "viewpoint characters" for young watchers; each episode revolved around a scientific principle -- which Christopher Lloyd himself explained in live-action "Bill Nye the Science Guy"-type segments. And, of course, we saw Biff Tannen and an endless stream of his ancestors and descendants. Our heroes went from the dinosaur era to futures way beyond 2015. And Clara was often a major character. There were two season, which I've got on DVD.
And a good thing, too: One Saturday in 1992 I turned on the TV to discover that -- there was to BTTF show, or any other cartoons. There was, instead, a CBS news/talk show. They explained that they had CBS Sunday Morning, and a news show every weekday -- then the network execs realized they were wasting Saturday on stupid cartoons! Then NBS started a Saturday Today Show and, well -- there went the tradition of Saturday morning animation . . .
Anyway, I recommend the BTTF Animated Series if you can find it.
Doc’s presence in the past would have changed the timeline Marty knew regardless. So in the original timeline she went into the ravine and it was name Clayton Ravine. then in the Marty-less timeline Marty read about, Doc picked her up at the station; presumably the ravine is named after someone else, maybe even Doc himself when he gets shot. But Marty intervenes in that timeline, Clara is saved and he ‘steals’ the train and goes into the ravine. Hence ‘Eastwood Ravine.’
DeLorean DMC-12 is really a real car produced 1981-1982 and is interesting because the whole body is made of stainless steel.
I think you might like the 1989 Spielberg movie, "Always". It stars Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Audrey Hepburn and John Goodman.
I'll try to explain Clara Clayton's fate: In the original timeline she drove off the cliff. However when Doc went back in time he volunteered to pick her up at the train station so she never died and fell in love with him before he was killed. When Marty traveled back Doc got busy trying to get them both back to the future so he never picked her up so it went back to the original event with her driving of the cliff only doc managed to save her.
This girl is so calm and so smart ! We need her reaction on Star Wars and The Lord Of The Rings !
I love your videos. I love how happy and excited you get when things work out. Your face when the Time Machine Trains blasted into the present in front of Marty was great!
This trilogy to me was my childhood. I was about 10 when parts 2 and 4 came out. I remember we had two VCRs that we had hooked up together and I copied all three films to one tape making a giant 5ish hour movie since each began where the last ended. It was a bit awkward with the credits from 2 and 3 cut out.
I love that!! I think the nostalgia is totally a reason people love this trilogy so much, I wish I could’ve watched it in the theaters back then!
@@PopcornInBed Hop in the DeLorean and go back to 1985. No COVID to worry about so you can watch it in a packed theater.
Indeed, I'm still dying to see Zemeckis eventually cut all 3 movies into one seamless 5-hour movie available for streaming. Sure, there's the whole issue of 2 different Jennifers, but I'm sure most of us can overlook that at this point.
@@mem1701movies Awesome. I have fond memories of watching that show on Wednesday nights with my mom when I was about 10-12 or so.
I thought it might also be interesting one time to just skip from the scene in I in which Marty goes back to 1985 after the lightning hits the clock tower straight to the beginning of III.
But I'd probably never do that since I love the whole trilogy, especially Part II.
I've seen this movie so many times but I never noticed how excited that boy petting the dog was @ 23:12. That's adorable.
OMG, you are so adorable. I absolutely love the way you get into these movies, and your reactions when you watch them.
Clara was adorably played by Mary Steenburgen, who also featured in another time travel themed movie called "Time After Time" (1979).
love these series so much, its so quirky and the more times you re-watch it, the more little details you notice. My favorite is that doc is always in a rush and out of time even though he has a time machine haha xD
I actually grew up where they filmed the time travel train scene at the end when they go to the present😅
Doc was a bit old to be a dad to young kids, but in BTTF 2 he said he's added 30 years to his life with treatments, like new blood etc. Wish we could do that!
The actor was actually only 47 when the first movie came out, so not thaaat old. Still possible for him to have kids
Love your honest reactions! 🥰
At a round table discussion with the principles of the film they let it slip that the role of Clara Clayton was written specifically for actor Mary Steenburgen and they had no intention of offering it to any other actor. & If Mary Steenburgen had turned it down & the role went to another actor they would have to re-write the entire part. Mary Steenburgen who was sitting at the table, slammed her hand on the table! BOOM. Why didn’t you mention that, when we were negotiating my salary for the film? Side note (Mary Steenburgen is married to actor Ted Danson)
Christopher Lloyd is 83 and is still working his ass off. He has 241 IMDB credits since 1975. His first was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. But I see him as Reverend Jim from Taxi.
I was one of the few that liked him as a Klingon in Star Trek 3
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Kirk and crew going back in time on a Klingon bird of prey belonging to Christopher Lloyd.
@@derwindhund116 You know your right never got the irony of that.
Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale (Director and writer) stated that they don't enjoy movies that are set in the future because they never get it right, so most of the future stuff in 2015 was done mostly as a joke like flying cars etc.
If you loved the trilogy and you want to know more, Bob Gale was the creator of the movies and he made a collection of comics to complete the story (how they met in the first time for example) and how they continue like a BTTF part 4. Search them, Back to the Future comics from Bob Gale, the official creator.
Timelines....
1. No Doc or Marty. Clara rents wagon goes over cliff.
2. Just Doc. Meets Clara at station falls in love.
3. Doc and Marty. Doc doesn’t meet Clara at station, saves her later from wagon.
Hope this helps.
When I saw part 1 in 1988 it started my love affair with the Delorean DMC-12, I saw this when it came out and the ending when it’s hit by the diesels locomotive broke my little heart. The car and the man behind it John Z Delorean have a fascinating history.
Please watch "Galaxy Quest" ! (Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tim Allen, Sam Rockwell, Tony Shalhoub...)
2:51 - There are a few like that, such as *SUPER 8* - that film came out about 5 or 10 years ago, it has the feel of films like this!
12:00 Earlier in the movie, the mayor tells Doc that the new teacher (that he previously agreed to pick up at train station) was going to arrived later during the day. So if Marty did not show up, Doc would have pick her up. She rent a cart and a horse because nobody came to pick her up.
I also immerse in movies like this but you are LIVING them. You have so much compassion, you are an inspiration. Thank you!
This really is one of those series which did cinema... suprisingly well. Glad that you had the chance to watch all three and I am delighted that you enjoyed them.
For the record, DeLoreans really do exist, although the ones without time circuits were (and are) notoriously underwhelming. Thankfully, they have become pop culture icons.
The 3rd one is some people's favorite of the 3 Back To The Future movies