Back to That Future Part III

[madhair60]

Shit til they get to 1885 then good

[Blumf]

My least favourite of the BTTF films. Controversial opinion, I know, but I stand by it.

[ASFTSN]

The line "These are our sons....

Jules.....


....and Verne."

makes me want to be sick but apart from that it's a pretty good film.  Why hasn't there been an incredibly shit, ill-advised reboot of this franchise yet (apart from MJF illness I mean).

[Sebastian Cobb]

I like it when he says 'nobody calls me yella'.

[idunnosomename]

Why no dinosaurs?

[madhair60]

Mind the bit with the train goin over the cliff though.

[Kelvin]

Shit til they get to 1885 then good

Doesn't he go to 1885 within the first 10 to 15 minutes? I remember the whole film being set there, more or less.

[madhair60]

Yeah and that's 10-15 minutes of PELCH Kelvin.

[ASFTSN]

Why no dinosaurs?

There was an dinosaur in the Universal Studios Back to the Future simulator.  Chews on you right and proper, it does.

[Kelvin]

Yeah and that's 10-15 minutes of PELCH Kelvin.

With the exception of James Bond films, the first 10 minutes of every film are PELCH madhair.

[Steven]

The kid pointing to his weiner, though.

[colacentral]

Worst aspect is the Doc Brown romance subplot.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Worst aspect is the Doc Brown romance subplot.

Says you, Clara seemed nice.

[popcorn]

A thing I wrote about this film ages ago:

BTTF3 has the same fantastic pep and zing and two lead performances, but some of the script is weird. It's like they used the first draft.

MARTY: Clint Eastwood never wore anything like this!
DOC: Clint who?
MARTY: Oh, that's right. You haven't heard of him yet...

Why add the last line?

DOC: All you have to do is drive the time vehicle directly toward that screen accelerating to 88 miles an hour.
MARTY: Wait a minute, Doc. If I drive straight towards the screen, I'm gonna crash into those Indians.
DOC: Marty, you're not thinking fourth dimensionally. You'll instantly be transported back into 1885, and those Indians won't even be there.

This is crowbarred in to ramp up the dramatic irony of Marty then emerging in a load of Indians on horseback, but it ruins the surprise and makes the joke obvious.

And why would Marty suddenly forget now, in the third movie, that the Delorean travels in time...?

There's millions of these. Marty says "My car - uh, horse broke down." That would be funnier if he just said "My horse broke down", like he thought he was being smart but still didn't realise horses don't really break down.

[bgmnts]

I object to Back to the Future III in the strongest possible terms.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Anyone fancy an argument?

BTTF > BTTF2 > B&T > B&T'sBJ > BTTF3

[Icehaven]

At the street party the band play the same tune over and over and over again. Even after Cowboy Biff turns up and the music stops for a bit, when they start up again it's the same damn tune.

[Avril Lavigne]

Why hasn't there been an incredibly shit, ill-advised reboot of this franchise yet (apart from MJF illness I mean).

Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale said they won't allow it to happen.

At the street party the band play the same tune over and over and over again. Even after Cowboy Biff turns up and the music stops for a bit, when they start up again it's the same damn tune.

I assume that was to make sure people got the tune stuck in their heads so that they went out and bought the tie-in ZZ Top single it was based on.

[Sebastian Cobb]

BTTF2 had the best soundtrack. 3's is good too.

[biggytitbo]

Good before they get to 1885, less good after.

[St_Eddie]

The thing that bothers me about Back to the Future III is that Doc talks about how the time machine must be destroyed because of the dangers of causality.  Then at the end, once it's destroyed, he builds a new one and says "I figured, 'what the heck'!".  It's completely out of character.  Also, the time traveling train is rubbish, in comparison to the DeLorean.  Absolutely no children were asking for that toy at Christmas.

At the street party the band play the same tune over and over and over again. Even after Cowboy Biff turns up and the music stops for a bit, when they start up again it's the same damn tune.

They're the wild west equivalent of the cantina band from Star Wars.

[madhair60]

With the exception of James Bond films, the first 10 minutes of every film are PELCH madhair.

DRIVEL. LEAVE CaB.

[madhair60]

the time traveling train is rubbish

Fucking ridiculous statement

[St_Eddie]

Fucking ridiculous statement

I guess we've found the one person in the world, who asked for the time traveling train toy for Christmas.

Don't even try to pretend that it holds a candle to the DeLorean.  Imagine if they'd made a fourth movie, who would want to watch a movie with the train as the time machine?  There's a reason why TellTale's Back to the Future adventure game came up with an excuse to bring the DeLorean back.

[Replies From View]

The train is supposed to be a joke ending, not a set-up for further films.  And as a gag it finishes off the trilogy perfectly well.

[Twed]

I like imagining that every time Doc says "roads" he's actually saying "Rhodes", and has a complex about the Rhodes piano being obsolete. Adds another dimension to the movies.

[Blumf]

I like imagining that every time Doc says "roads" he's actually saying "Rhodes", and has a complex about the Rhodes piano being obsolete. Adds another dimension to the movies.

Wrong Rhodes



I think we can all agree, where ever we go, nobody needs that Rhodes.

[Shaky]

I used to dislike BTTF3 (don't really like Westerns, see) but it's solid and occasionally very good. Obviously not a patch on the second film, which is of course the best one.

[St_Eddie]

I used to dislike BTTF3 (don't really like Westerns, see) but it's solid and occasionally very good. Obviously not a patch on the second film, which is of course the best one.

What bizarro world are you living in?!  Back to the Future II is easily the weakest of the trilogy; it's a mess, albeit a fun mess with some wonderful ideas and concepts (the hoverboard being chief among them).  The first movie is the best, by quite some margin and the third is good fun, if a bit fluffy (it has a certain 'made for TV' feeling to it).

[Shaky]

What bizarro world are you living in?!  Back to the Future II is easily the weakest of the trilogy; it's a mess, albeit a fun mess with some wonderful ideas and concepts (the hoverboard being chief among them).  The first movie is the best, by quite some margin and the third is good fun, if a bit fluffy (it has a certain 'made for TV' feeling to it).

Those reasons are enough to make me like 2 the most. The first is a better made film definitely but the second goes gonzo with the established ideas and I like that. It announces, "I'm the second film in a trilogy so I can let it all hang out." It's a beautiful freak.