Make it a good one.

I love the Back To The Future films. I think they’re great; I grew up watching these films and, and twenty-four, I still want a hoverboard. That said you really have to love something to notice its flaws, and the BTTF films have some amazing errors.

First of all, a big one, at the end of the first film Marty’s home life has completely changed. His father is confident and out-going. As a result his mother is happier and his siblings and have more of a go-get-it attitude. Where does the Marty that has been brought up by the ‘other’ family, his family, fit into this? Presumably he was brought up differently too, so are his family not going to notice a major change in personality? And why doesn’t Marty’s mother recognize him. Hell, Marty is named after himself.

Also in the first film when Doc is explaining time travel after he sent his dog, Einstein, one minute into the future he says that Einstein skipped over that minute to instantly arrive one minute in the future. In the second film Marty, Doc and Jennifer (Marty’s woman) travel thirty years into the future. Given the logic of the first film they ‘jumped over’ those thirty years. So they should have travelled to a world were this merry trio have been missing for that period of time. Stands to reason. Even if you look at it from the point of view that it simply means that they get back to their time and get happily married then that just takes all the fun out of the rest of the film.

Since each flaw so far has been to do with the first two films this flaw should be with the third. Marty rips the fuel line when he goes back to 1885 and they have no fuel. Marty coming back means that there were two DeLoreans in 1885; the one Doc came back in when it was struck by lightning and the one Marty came back in. Yes, it’s the same car but from different times in its life. Anyway, why not drain the fuel from the car Doc hid in the mineshaft? Even if he drained the fuel out already then what did Doc do with it?
AND Doc says that building the time machine was a huge mistake, so why does he build another one?

The biggest problem with finding fault with these films is that they are dealing with such an odd subject. There are only theories when it comes to time travel, no first hand data. They can bend logic or even flat out ignore it in the name entertainment. And that’s all these films are. Just a big, fun adventure. As long as I get a hoverboard in the next six years I’ll be happy.

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