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Questions about Back to the Future...
Posted on 4/17/11 at 1:36 pm
Posted on 4/17/11 at 1:36 pm
1. How did Marty and Doc become so close? Did Marty work for the Doc or something? Their relationship seems strange to me.
2. Why wouldn't the car start when he ended up hiding the car behind the billboard? They seemed to infer that the plutonium levels were low, but the car started later (without any added plutonium) when they were headed for the lightning strike.
3. Isn't it a pretty strange coincidence that the day Doc designed the flux capacitor just happenned to be the EXACT SAME DAY that Marty's parents met, not to mention the exact same week that lighting struck the clock tower?
4. What about the Libyan terrorists? There's no way they died in that collision with that tiny building??
5. At the end, Doc just takes off to the future. Wasn't the whole point for Marty to record Doc's time travel experiment?
Just a couple things that came to mind when watching it last night...
2. Why wouldn't the car start when he ended up hiding the car behind the billboard? They seemed to infer that the plutonium levels were low, but the car started later (without any added plutonium) when they were headed for the lightning strike.
3. Isn't it a pretty strange coincidence that the day Doc designed the flux capacitor just happenned to be the EXACT SAME DAY that Marty's parents met, not to mention the exact same week that lighting struck the clock tower?
4. What about the Libyan terrorists? There's no way they died in that collision with that tiny building??
5. At the end, Doc just takes off to the future. Wasn't the whole point for Marty to record Doc's time travel experiment?
Just a couple things that came to mind when watching it last night...
This post was edited on 4/17/11 at 2:26 pm
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Posted on 4/17/11 at 1:41 pm to JPLSU1981
1. They never really go in to how they "first" became friends. I always assumed that it was somehow connected to Marty's guitar playing and Doc's experimental amplifier/speaker system.
2. Remember, the car's not nuclear, it's electrical. After the time travel and running from the farmer the batteries are pretty much depleted. Once Doc and Marty towed it back to Doc's place, he was able to charge the batteries up enough to get it running.
3. umm, yeah...
2. Remember, the car's not nuclear, it's electrical. After the time travel and running from the farmer the batteries are pretty much depleted. Once Doc and Marty towed it back to Doc's place, he was able to charge the batteries up enough to get it running.
3. umm, yeah...
Posted on 4/17/11 at 1:44 pm to JPLSU1981
quote:in retrospect maybe but a lotta shite prolly happened that day.
3. Isn't it a pretty strange coincidence that the day Doc designed the flux capacitor just happenned to be the EXACT SAME DAY that Marty's parents met?
Posted on 4/17/11 at 1:53 pm to JPLSU1981
4. Wouldn't his parents be a little freaked out when they realized Marty looks just the kid that brought them together?
Posted on 4/17/11 at 1:59 pm to FootballHog
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4. Wouldn't his parents be a little freaked out when they realized Marty looks just the kid that brought them together?
I thought the same thing, then I realized that people I went to Middle School through High School with are starting to become fuzzier physically in my memory after only 8 years. While Marty's role in their lives may be bigger and therefore easier to remember, he was only around maybe a few weeks? And then a decade or more passed before he was even born then another 15 years until he would even start looking like the guy that put them together.
Posted on 4/17/11 at 2:02 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
I want a BTTF4!!!
Posted on 4/17/11 at 2:07 pm to JPLSU1981
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3. Isn't it a pretty strange coincidence that the day Doc designed the flux capacitor just happenned to be the EXACT SAME DAY that Marty's parents met?
space time continuum is a strange being.
Posted on 4/17/11 at 2:23 pm to JPLSU1981
According to another poster folks in China will never know the answers to any of these questions!
Posted on 4/17/11 at 2:33 pm to JPLSU1981
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3. Isn't it a pretty strange coincidence that the day Doc designed the flux capacitor just happenned to be the EXACT SAME DAY that Marty's parents met, not to mention the exact same week that lighting struck the clock tower?
November 5, 1955 had some kind of great significance in the time-space continuum.
Posted on 4/17/11 at 3:05 pm to FootballHog
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Wouldn't his parents be a little freaked out when they realized Marty looks just the kid that brought them together?
Also, you'd figure if they thought enough of Marty for bringing them together in 1955 to name one of their kids after him, they would have named their first born Marty, and not waited until the 3rd.
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At the end, Doc just takes off to the future. Wasn't the whole point for Marty to record Doc's time travel experiment?
The experiment was with Einstein going into the future. Marty recorded that at the beginning of the movie.
This post was edited on 4/17/11 at 3:07 pm
Posted on 4/17/11 at 3:30 pm to JPLSU1981
This is probably one of the best though out and realized time travel movies ever made.
Do not question it.
Do not question it.
This post was edited on 4/17/11 at 3:31 pm
Posted on 4/17/11 at 3:38 pm to Pectus
The wikipedia entry for Marty Mcfly says this
How exactly Marty and Doc met has never been explained, although a draft script for the first film states that, in 1983, Doc turned up at Marty's garage one day and offered him $50 a week, plus free beer and use of his record collection, to clean his garage.[6] This explanation is not accepted by most fans, as it contradicts the characterizations of Marty and Doc as seen in the finished film. Writers Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale say they once considered expanding on their relationship, but decided against it, reasoning that children and adolescents are often drawn to eccentric or mysterious neighbors.
How exactly Marty and Doc met has never been explained, although a draft script for the first film states that, in 1983, Doc turned up at Marty's garage one day and offered him $50 a week, plus free beer and use of his record collection, to clean his garage.[6] This explanation is not accepted by most fans, as it contradicts the characterizations of Marty and Doc as seen in the finished film. Writers Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale say they once considered expanding on their relationship, but decided against it, reasoning that children and adolescents are often drawn to eccentric or mysterious neighbors.
Posted on 4/17/11 at 3:39 pm to FootballHog
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Wouldn't his parents be a little freaked out when they realized Marty looks just the kid that brought them together?
What about if George realized Lorraine looked exactly like his (great?) grandmother Maggie McFly?
Posted on 4/17/11 at 3:40 pm to Pectus
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This is probably one of the best though out and realized time travel movies ever made.
Bill and Ted was way more thought out and realized.
And that's not sarcasm. Bill and Ted got that shite right.
Posted on 4/17/11 at 3:48 pm to Pectus
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This is probably one of the best thought out and realized time travel movies ever made.
In the same way that Contact is one of the best thought out and realized alien communication movies ever made!
Posted on 4/17/11 at 3:53 pm to chinese58
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In the same way that Contact is one of the best thought out and realized alien communication movies ever made!
2001 is a little better, but it about is more than that.
So yes, Contact is. It beats Mission to Mars.
Don't laugh at me. Wait until the Sunday night M/TV Board crowd comes to my defense.
Posted on 4/17/11 at 3:56 pm to JPLSU1981
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3. Isn't it a pretty strange coincidence that the day Doc designed the flux capacitor just happenned to be the EXACT SAME DAY that Marty's parents met, not to mention the exact same week that lighting struck the clock tower?
I seem to remember that Doc punched in that date when he was demonstrating to Marty how the flux capacitor worked. He said to Marty it was the date he came up with the idea of time travel.
Posted on 4/17/11 at 4:16 pm to STEVED00
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I seem to remember that Doc punched in that date when he was demonstrating to Marty how the flux capacitor worked. He said to Marty it was the date he came up with the idea of time travel.
Yes, that's how that date got plugged in to begin with, but what are the odds that on that particular day Marty's parents met as well? (which eventually formed the whole storyline once Marty traveled back) Pretty large coincidence IMO, not to mention the clock tower lighting strike happening on that one particular occasion as well.
Still love the movie, one of my favorites, but approaching it with more of a skeptical approach this time around.
Posted on 4/17/11 at 4:34 pm to JPLSU1981
Here's my question. Think back on III. When Marty runs into his Irish relative in the old west, his wife looks just like his mom does in current day. What the crap? Is it a coincidence that they look the same, or are they implying a family tree with no branches? That's the only thing about the whole series that bothered me.
Posted on 4/17/11 at 4:36 pm to Broseph Barksdale
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Bill and Ted got that shite right.
yeah because a time traveling phone booth was completely realistic for time travel. If so, why didn't they all die when they were time surfing in the phone booth sideways? As soon as it landed the dude on the bottom would have been crushed.
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