Back to the Future

If there were a way for Doc and Marty to have gotten to this alternate 1985, there would be nothing to prevent them from going back to 1955.  They embark on a fool's errand:  they seek to change the present by changing the past and, as we discussed with Terminator, there are only three possible outcomes of this:  first, you can fail to make the necessary change, so that the past is intact and you still desire to change it, causing an N-jump; second, you can make the change, eliminating your reason for doing so, and so undoing the change, creating an infinity loop; third--the almost impossible result--you can make the change and create a different reason for yourself to know to come back in time to make the change, creating a sawtooth snap which will hopefully terminate in an N-jump (but might still result in an infinity loop).  Marty and Doc return to 1955 with the intent to alter history; furthermore, they are basing their efforts once again on information which they are about attempt to erase.  A disaster stands before us.

You've got to love this guy

this proves he is great, u r all gay (except N)

Did you write the The Beggar's Opera?

Pope.

Chaucer.

trewartha.

g-kit

*confused*

The mall at the beginning of the movie in 1984 is called 'Twin Pines'. The doc tells Marty about an old man Peabody who used to own this land and had a 'crazy idea of breeding pine trees'.
When Marty goes back to 1955 he runs over and kills one of Peabody's pine trees.
Marty then returns at the end of the film to 1984, but now the mall is called 'Lone Pine'.

Ha, i thought that was brilliant. and couldn't believe I'd never noticed it before.

but i won't

Wait, do people not know that part of the “act” for the entire trilogy is seeing how little changes in the past alter the future?

wait BTTF has TIME-TRAVELING in it?

every movie has time traveling in it imo

we’re traveling through time right now

Well, we were, but now we're in the future.

i love how he points out that the replacement of one sign with a completely different sign they built for the movie is "not a mistake". do people think that they film movies entirely in sequence, striking each set after every scene and the rebuilding it again when there's a later scene in the same location?

i think some people think the film is being acted out live every time the dvd is put on

ME AND BTTF2:
"Oh man, Biff is so evil...can you imagine if the world was really like that? It would be hell...I can't believe Biff took over the world...it's so scary....Biff is so evil..."

― Abbott, Monday, September 15, 2008

Yes I can definitely imagine that.

But why is 2015 Biff such a crusty asshole? He came from the timeline where Biff is a happy, meek friend of the family.

biff is never happy and meek, only cowed in the presence of big george who terrorises him relentlessly

Yeah they don't show it but I always imagined Biff seething after George goes back inside the house after the "Don't con me!" scene. Biff would be even more miserable in that timeline

he came from an alternate timeline where only one-play was available

*one-ply

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqQ6whOG-Pg

MJF is fucking hilarious in this…favorite part is the slow stare at dad coming into frame in the coffee shop

What a perfect movie. And it would have been perfect even without the "Johnny B. Goode" scene -- I mean, it adds nothing to the plot -- it's just a moment of pure elation. It rockets the film into the statosphere.

Tom Wilson (Biff) was asked the same questions by BACK TO THE FUTURE fans so often, he wrote a song answering them. This is great. pic.twitter.com/OTXN6UdwOI

— All The Right Movies (@ATRightMovies) September 10, 2022

I've often kinda wondered what happened to the other Marty seen at the end of the first movie, who seemingly is sent back to the 1955 of his timeline, which is the 1955 where the protagonist Marty changed the past. So I came up with silly fan theory...

This has bugged me for a long time, but my "fan theory" is that Doc Brown knew he couldn't send that Marty back to 1955 ('cuz he'd crash right into Marty-Prime arriving at that same spot); so instead he set the dial for 1055 or something. Sent that fool back to the Dark Ages, where he figured he couldn't cause any trouble and would die quickly. BUT! -- somehow Nu-Marty survives, claws his way back to the present (or, let's say, 2025 – for purposes of developing this into a new movie), and he's hella pissed... now he's a bad guy, coming for revenge! Watch Peacock for BTTF 4, coming in two years...

So he's basically Khan? Sounds great/terrible.

Yeah, or Superboy-Prime from the DC Universe