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Posted on 1/14/24 at 9:19 pm to Nutriaitch
Buddy, c'mon. Really?
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:13 pm to Nutriaitch
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that song came out only 3 years later and rose to #2 on the charts.
So your entire premise is based on Marty knowing exactly what year that song was released and when it became popular….and let’s not forget, he wasn’t talking about that song, but the Rock n Roll guitar solo that followed. Which took a long time to become popular.
You missed the point of that scene.
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:58 pm to kciDAtaE
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He called his cousin who happened to be Chuck Berry. They did copy the song later with Chuck and it is implied Marty gave birth to rock and roll before it was supposed have started.
Uh don't reply to me like I ain't never not seen this movie a billion times. "They" didn't copy shite. Chuck did, not Chuck and Marvin and the Starlighters. He even says "the sound you are looking for" not "us" or "we".
Posted on 1/15/24 at 4:32 am to Deactived
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Biff who was trying to rape me, who now washes our cars
Yeah, I always forget that he really was going to rape her. And they’re just cool being around him in the 80’s after that happened Posted on 1/15/24 at 5:11 am to Bushwackers
I always wondered why George didn't ask for a DNA test after Marty was born and looked exactly like Calvin.
Posted on 1/15/24 at 10:01 am to Sus-Scrofa
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I wonder if Chuck Berry had been batting that song around in his head and then when his cousin called, if he was like “what the hell? I was thinking of a song just like that about a guitar player I know.”
Robot Chicken did a spoof covering EXACTLY that.
Posted on 1/15/24 at 10:26 am to Bushwackers
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Was just thinking about that movie today. How come “new” Marty parents at the end when they’re talking about Bif being the reason they fell in love don’t tell their kids about 50s Marty showing up in their lives, offering sage advice, giving George confidence, playing wild guitar at the dance, etc and then disappearing after a week. You’d think he would have made an impact enough to tell their kids with even having one of them that “resembles” this strange young man, right?
The way I look at it, Back to the Future isn't a "time travel" movie; it's closer to a "coming of age" movie with the built in component of one's own kid from the future coupled with the time travel allowing for a sense of urgency (Marty and his siblings disappearing), but otherwise the time travel is more plot device than driving force of the story (or, well, it is for the B story - getting the flux capacitor the energy it needs).
The closest to a true "time travel" movie is probably #2. Part 3 is more of a "fish out of water" combined with "western comedy".
Back to the Future is probably among the worst movies to start tearing apart the mechanics of time travel as literally nothing works if you do.
How did all three children end up looking the exact same? Did their parents get busy at the EXACT same time (and even that only assures that it's the same egg; the sperm is a 1 in a million chance).
What happened to the Marty that had been living in the updated timeline? Did he cease to exist? Did he merge with time traveling Marty?
Did Doc Brown keep clones of Marty and his siblings, kill the unborn children of Lorraine and secretly implant these clones into her, to make sure Marty always came home to somewhere that was familiar?
How is it that Marty can make such massive changes to not only his own history but the local history and yet never cause massive upheavals to the timeline - instead only ending up changing the name of a ravine and making life for his family better?
Is Doc Brown a god?
Posted on 1/15/24 at 1:49 pm to skrayper
I know that it’s been talked about before but having Lea Thompson as Marty’s great great grandmother in #3 cracks me up. Must’ve been SERIOUS incest issues in the ol’ Mcfly fam.
Posted on 1/15/24 at 2:10 pm to biglego
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Leave the incest alone. The incest is fine.
I mean, it’s Lea Thompson…
Posted on 1/15/24 at 2:42 pm to Nutriaitch
Guitar geek nitpick: Marty’s guitar, a Gibson ES335 wasn’t introduced until 1958 by Gibson.
Posted on 1/15/24 at 2:50 pm to Nutriaitch
I always wondered why the universe didn't blow up because Marty was playing a cover of Chuck Berry, then goes back in time and plays it, then Chuck Berry steals it from Marty, then repeat for infinity
Posted on 1/15/24 at 2:56 pm to TrapperJohn
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I know that it’s been talked about before but having Lea Thompson as Marty’s great great grandmother in #3 cracks me up. Must’ve been SERIOUS incest issues in the ol’ Mcfly fam.
The fact that Marty has the correct number of fingers and toes is nothing short of a miracle.
Posted on 1/15/24 at 8:26 pm to Adajax
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why George didn't ask for a DNA test
In the 70s?
Posted on 1/15/24 at 9:08 pm to Nutriaitch
Why did Lorraine take Marty's pants off?
Posted on 1/16/24 at 12:47 am to Vols&Shaft83
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Why did Lorraine take Marty's pants off?
Checking for priapism.
Posted on 1/16/24 at 12:50 am to Adajax
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I always wondered why George didn't ask for a DNA test after Marty was born and looked exactly like Calvin.
Marty isn't the oldest. His brother and sister were both older than him.
Posted on 1/16/24 at 7:12 pm to medtiger
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why George didn't ask for a DNA test
In the 70s?
Did they have time machines in the 70s?
Posted on 1/17/24 at 8:39 am to finchmeister08
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Marty isn't the oldest. His brother and sister were both older than him.
Your argument is that a third child can't be illegitimate?
Posted on 1/18/24 at 12:25 pm to kciDAtaE
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.and let’s not forget, he wasn’t talking about that song, but the Rock n Roll guitar solo that followed. Which took a long time to become popular.
You missed the point of that scene.
I readily admit I missed it being more about the style of solo vs the song itself.
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So your entire premise is based on Marty knowing exactly what year that song was released and when it became popular
um, Marty is in a rock cover band. pretty sure he would at least know that the song was from the 50s, even if he didn't know the exact year.
maybe average schmuck in the 80s wouldn't know. but a guy that plays a guitar in a band, and knows that entire song well enough to completely rock out to it would know something like that.
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