Back to the Future triology

[mechanicx]

Recently the Back to the Future movie triology has been airing. I'm not a big movie watcher but I really liked these movies. I'm a big fan of the 80's and have thought that time travel would be great. I imagine time travel as usually becoming you're younger self though lol. I like all three but if I had to rank them, I think they got better as the series went on and I like III best then II and I.

There are probably other events or paradoxes and I know it's a movie that isn't suppose to be taken too seriously but there's one scene at the end of BTTF I that I had wondered about recently. Let me explain the scene.

OK so when Marty tries (with a letter that Doc tears up) but can't warn 1955 Doc that he'll be killed by the Lybians when Doc reveals his time machine at the Mall parking lot in 1985, Marty sets the time machine a few minutes early before going back to 1985 to warn Doc. Marty arrives in 1985 but the time machine won't start to drive to the mall parking lot where Doc is, and the vehicle with the assasins passes him. Marty gets there too late and sees the Lybian shoot Doc (Doc survives with a bullet-proof vest since he read the letter)and sees himself drive off in time in the Delorean (to 1955 since that is where Doc had left the time machine set).

The last part where the earlier in time Marty drove off to 1955 is never explained in I or the other 2 movies that I know. Anyone have any ideas? At the end of I Marty and Doc are in 1985 with the time machine but what happened with the other Marty and time machine in 1955?

 

[Hethaerto]

They carried on in a parallel universe?

 

[mechanicx]

But I thought the basis of the movies was of a time-space continuum and no paralell universes? In all of the movies they have to be careful of what they do or they will change the future. For example in I Marty had to make sure his parents got together in 1955 or he and his siblings would not exist in the future.

 

[mechanicx]

I thought about it for a minute and I think I figured it out lol. Marty basically replayed what had already happened in 1985 right before he was originally sent back to 1955. So everything had already played out earlier in the movie in regards to what happened in that scene. It makes sense if you think about it and that's probably why no explanation for it was given in the movie. BTTF can throw you for a loop if you are like me lol.

It's just really confusing because for at least 10 mins there is 2 Marties and 2 Delorean time machines existing at the same time. In II Marty also goes back to the same time in 1955 as in I to get the sports book from Biff so 2 Martys and 2 Docs exist for a period of time.

 

[river_rat]

Originally Posted By: mechanicx
...I'm a big fan of the 80's and have thought that time travel would be great.

I had a lot of fun in the '80s, but if I had a time machine I'd go straight back to, maybe, 1958 and stay there.
The world today kind of creeps me out. I don't get it.
I would be happy in Mayberry with Sheriff Taylor and Barney.

 

[Nick R]

Always loved these movies. Some day, I plan on owning a DeLorean DMC-12.

 

[onion]

I think it's a [censored] good thing that the second Marty quickly left and went back to 1955. Because as we've learned from Futurama, a time-paradox duplicate is ALWAYS doomed.

 

[bruiser123]

Doc explains it clearly in the movie. It is alternate timelines.

 

[mechanicx]

Originally Posted By: river_rat
Originally Posted By: mechanicx
...I'm a big fan of the 80's and have thought that time travel would be great.

I had a lot of fun in the '80s, but if I had a time machine I'd go straight back to, maybe, 1958 and stay there.
The world today kind of creeps me out. I don't get it.
I would be happy in Mayberry with Sheriff Taylor and Barney.


I agree. I think I'd be happiest living in that time period.

 

[OVERKILL]

Those movies were fantastic. I am a big fan of the 80's myself, as that's where I spent most of my childhood.

 

[crinkles]

they give me a warm fuzzy feeling too.

 

[kb01]

Back to the Future is definitely one of my top 10 favorite movies. I saw it when it was in the theater back in 1985 and can remember thinking how 1955 seemed like ancient history.

It's funny to think that we're close to being 30 years away from 1985 and it feels like yesterday.

 

[Nick R]

I think it's even funnier that we are so close to 2015, and absolutely nothing is as it was like in BTTF 2.

 

[Cutehumor]

In 1985, I was 8 yrs old, it's still one of my favorite movies of all time.

 

[addyguy]

All the Back to the Future movies were great, but the first one is a classic.

I know it's as cheezy as heck, but the guitar-playing scene in the first movie is still one of my all-time favourite movie scenes - I never get sick of it!

 

[mechanicx]

Originally Posted By: Nick R
I think it's even funnier that we are so close to 2015, and absolutely nothing is as it was like in BTTF 2.

If you think about the real 2015 is shaping up to look more like the 1985A dystopia in BTTF2 after Biff got rich with the sports almanac than the retro-futuristic version lol.

 

[Cutehumor]

In back to the future 2, in 2015, we had flying cars and the cubs won the world series. We are SOOOO close on both fronts.

 

[mechtech2]

Marty also sees himself in other times.
Like at the Prom.

 

[Schmoe]

....and when he goes back to get the almanac. There were alternate timelines, both with their own dangers. That made me think....if time travel was possible by anybody or alien races, I wonder what would be different? Also if your a Trekkie, theree is an episode in The Next Generation, where as Warf, goes into many alternate timelines but they all end up at the same point. I've always wanted to watch that one again, but could never find it and don't even know the name of it. This is the one where he marries Counselor Troy.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Originally Posted By: Schmoe
....and when he goes back to get the almanac. There were alternate timelines, both with their own dangers. That made me think....if time travel was possible by anybody or alien races, I wonder what would be different? Also if your a Trekkie, theree is an episode in The Next Generation, where as Warf, goes into many alternate timelines but they all end up at the same point. I've always wanted to watch that one again, but could never find it and don't even know the name of it. This is the one where he marries Counselor Troy.

This one? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708752/

A shocking climax, as Enterprises from other realities come popping into the main reality of "our" Enterprise. One ship, commanded by a wild-eyed, panicked Riker, is from a universe where the Borg have taken over everywhere, and there's no place left to run. . . .