Headaches from Back to the Future.

[ReneeLouvier]

Does anybody else get headaches from tying to figure out BTTF? I can seem to wrap my head around this trilogy, and it's really throwing me for a loop!

I mean...geezus, if you've got DeLorean, and Marty from 1985 takes it back to 1955, and 1955 Doc sees the Flux Capacitor, how do you know he invented it and didnt' just copy from his future self?

And...wow.

 

[MrsPepper]

Maybe he did copy it from his future self and that's the only way it ever got invented in the first place...

Whoa. I see what you mean.

 

[Skeeter Muppet]

I mean...geezus, if you've got DeLorean, and Marty from 1985 takes it back to 1955, and 1955 Doc sees the Flux Capacitor, how do you know he invented it and didnt' just copy from his future self?

Because in the beginning of the first movie, Doc told Marty that he got the idea for the Flux Capacitor from a vision he had after slipping and hitting his head on the bathroom sink.

So, Marty goes back in time to 1955, and the date set for arrival is the date of Doc's accident. What I don't think most people realize is that he arrives there VERY EARLY IN THE MORNING, and spends most of his day wandering around 1950s Hill Valley (not to mention meeting his future father, getting hit by his future grandfather's car and having his future mother fall in love with him) before he finally gets out to 1955!Doc's house. In fact, it's evening/nightfall by the time he gets out there.

When Doc of 1955 answers the door, there's a white bandage on his head. Which means Doc's accident in the bathroom and the vision of the Flux Capacitor that resulted from it had already happened that day. Marty even pointed it out, which was one of the factors that made 1955!Doc believe his story about being from the future. Probably the only thing that seeing the Flux Capacitor in real life, inside the time machine, did for Doc was give him a confidence boost about his abilities as an inventor.

-Kim

 

[Vic Romano]

Excellent call Kim. As far as time traveling movies go, I always thought that BTTF was the most thorough. If something happened in the past, it altered the future and they showed why and how (a small lesser known example is in the begining of the first movie when the lady pettitions Marty to donate money to the clock tower, only the clock itself is damaged, where at the end of the movie and consistently there after, the ledge that Doc broke remains cracked and damaged). Not like movies like Bill & Ted where they just say they're gonna' do something and it happens or TMNT 3 where the movie shifts scenes between the present and the past like it's a different location. BTTF really went into depth about the fragile nature of the time and space theory (meaning that just because you traveled back in time, you didn't end up in a location hundreds of miles away from your original starting point).

The ONLY issue I have with BTTF is that Marty's parents never look at their son in the present 1985 after his initial trip to 1955 and acknowledge to eachother: "Hey, did you ever notice how familiar our kid looks like Calvin Klien?"

 

[ReneeLouvier]

XD I know. Thanks you guys. I've just been toiling in my head how the movies are and everything. I understood most of it, but man...I really was getting headaches trying to piece everything together and how it worked out and...gah, ya know?

 

[Gonzo14]

In October I bought the Complete Trilogy on DVD, and within 3 Days, watched all the movies and the special features, I suffered Major Back to the Future Burnout

 

[MGov]

The night before BTTF 3 opened, I went to a theatre that ran all three movies back to back to back. The first one is one of my all-time favorites.

I just wish that, after the future was changed, they had let Uncle Joey out of jail. Or at least had him working for Biff in the alternate 1985 in #2.

And to really screw up your head: When Marty is fading away at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance, it's because his parents didn't kiss and fall in love so he never existed. If he never existed, he never went back in time. If he never went back in time, he never kept his parents from meeting and falling in love. If his parents fell in love, then he didn't change the future.





hehehehehehehe!!!

 

[Louise]

Just wanted to add to this thread to say that I love BTTF! I'm definitely going to get the trilogy one of these days!

 

[ReneeLouvier]

In October I bought the Complete Trilogy on DVD, and within 3 Days, watched all the movies and the special features, I suffered Major Back to the Future Burnout

Try watching all three in less then 12 hours. >_O That's what I did when I rented them last weekend. Wow, I swear I thought my head was going to go on fire when I finally got done with it all.

 

[Vic Romano]

The best thing about the DVD trilogy is all the extra features; that answers a LOT of questions. I really wanna' go home and watch 'em now!!! And MGov, I totally agree with you, the first is by far the best. The third really ties 'em all together, but it would have been nicer if it was more time traveling and less of a western.