Back To The Future Part III

Well, Ladies and Gentlemen we have made it to the third and last installment of the Back To The Future Trilogy. Unfortunately in this case last is least. I've never been a big fan of westerns, but Robert Zemeckis was and always wanted to do one, so for BTTF3, he sends them back to the Old West, throws in a love story for the Doc and well, it doesn't really work on the same level as the first 2 movies, but it's not terrible. It's still watchable and I will do that now. But before we get to it, by 1990 Huey Lewis had more or less run his course, so while they didn't have any musical tie-ins for 2, they decided to have one for 3, and they got ZZ Top, and they had a song Doubleback, which had a video and here it is:

Now this is more like what i was talking about with them using footage from the movie and just incorporating it into the video.

Back To The Future Part III release May 25th, 1990 starring, Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Lea Thompson, Thomas F Wilson, Elisabeth Shue, James Tolkan, Flea and ZZ Top. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, produced by Steven Spielberg. It grossed 87m domestic and 156m foreign.

0:00: Universal Studios, but it was their 75th anniversary in 1990, so we got a special treat with a collection of their openings. Once again we start off where we left off, this time they do use the same scene, no need for a reshoot this time around.

0:05: Now the movie really gets started back at the Brown Mansion, where Doc is coming back to his senses after being in shock of seeing Marty again.

0:06: I wonder how many times they actually say Back To The Future in these films. They do a good job of trying to catch everyone up to speed about what happened in part 2, with the Doc from 1985 getting sent back to 1885 after he came back to 1955 with Marty after he sent him back to 1985 form 1955, but only after they went to 2015, got it, you, good.

0:08: That's a pretty detailed letter that Doc sends back, gets pretty emotional, still don't understand their relationship, it's still confusing.

0:11: Ok, just remembered another element of this movie that I was never a huge fan of, all the references to Jules Verne and all his books and stuff.

0:12: 1950s shot at Japan, I guess it was still pretty soon after WWII, so whatever

0:13: Ok, so turns out Doc gets killed by Biff's grandfather only a week after he wrote the letter, so now Marty is gonna go back to get save him, and there's your plot of part 3.

0:16: I don't know about this western gear, not sure that's what the 50's view would have been of the west gear, looks more like the 80s version.

0:18: It's interesting that Marty was concerned about crashing into the Indians which shouldn't have been there, but then ended up actually being there, but yet there was never any concern about crashing into the movie theater in the first movie.

0:20: There are lots of elements of this movie that mirror the first one, much more then the 2nd one did. He rips the fuel line, which causes the car not to be able to run, much like the whole needing 1.21 gigawahtts. He has the picture that he keeps looking at and keeps changing.

0:22: "Mom? Mom, is that you?" once again, although this time it's not actually his mom, it's his great great grandmother I guess. He's Clint Eastwood instead of Calvin Klein.

0:25: Ok, so Michael J Fox ends up only playing 2 roles in this film, down from the 5 he played in the last one.

0:27: Another thing that was different about this movie as opposed to the other 2 that I was not a huge fan of was they changed the main music  and had it have a western theme for a lot of the movie instead of the normal music we all knew and loved.

0:30: "Hey McFly, I thought I told you to never come in here"

0:32 No better way to get out a sticky situation then to do the moonwalk.

0:33 Another chase scene through Hill Valley, although this time around things actually don't go so great for Marty, he almost gets hung, but with a little help from Doc, he gets out of it.

0:38: That is a pretty ridiculous contraption in order just to make ice, but hey if you want iced tea in 1885 guess you have to do something.

0:39: Ok, so if the Doc knew that the fastest horse in the world could only run 35-40 miles, why did they even bother to try.

0:42: Marty always has issues thinking fourth dementionally, you would have figured that after traveling through time as many times as he has now, he would have figure this stuff out by now.

0:43: And Clara Clayton makes her first appearance and the love affair between her and Doc begins.

0:46: Oh man, Doc wrecked history, way to go man.

0:47: Really, those walkie talkies are still working in 1885, that's ridiculous, even when I had those they would only work for a little bit and then break.

0:48: This plan to get the car up to 88mph seems a bit more reasonable then the plan from the first movie that involved lightning and lots of timing, whereas this one they just need to get it going fast enough before the end of the tracks.

0:51: Nice job that they do in showing the introduction of the clock for the clock tower, since that has played a huge part in the franchise.

0:52: Pretty strange to see ZZ Top not wearing sunglasses.

0:53: Man, Doc ends up being quite the player, who would have guessed. I guess it took for him to get sent back to 1885.

0:54: Well, they did a good job of establishing that Marty is a good shot, they showed it when he was playing Wild Gunman in the 2nd movie, but ultimately what was the point, he never shoots anyone.

0:56: Kinda disappointing that Stickland doesn't call anyone a slacker in this movie. Also a lack of Libyans in this movie.

0:58: "Well, lookie what we have here." guess it runs in the family. Is there really some kind of gun that if you got shot with it, it could take 2 days to kill you.

0:59: So, in this movie he doesn't like being called Yella, it's just a good thing that he didn't call him a Yella Chicken.

1:00: "I'll hunt you down and shot you like a duck."

1:03: Ok, so Marty had a great great great uncle, i guess it would be named Martin cause he didn't like people calling him a coward and got killed in a fight. I also just realized something, so Lea Thompson is playing his great great grandmother, but that doesn't make sense, cause she's a McFly, not a Baines, so does that mean there was some inbreeding going on?

1:05: Doc even had the breakfast contraption set up in 1885, what a scientist this guy was. So, Marty is named Clint Eastwood, so then why did he quote Robert Deniro from Taxi Driver?

1:08: Uh, oh, Doc spilled the beans a little big about the car accident that he got into which was reference in part 2, but if he knows, won't he know not to do it, I mean why doesn't Doc just tell him, after all remember what happened with the Libyans.

1:13: This whole Doc-Clara relationship really bogs down this movie, it's just not interesting and takes away from the film, that's just my opinion.

1:16: Well, a broken hearted man turning to the bottle, sounds about right. I wonder what happened to the Doc on the 4th of July though, man apparently can't handle his liquor, probably got a little out of control.

1:18: Ok, that's another "Back To The Future" I haven't been counting, but that's a lot of times that they have said it in this movie. I feel like they worked up to it in the first one, and said it just twice, but it's like every other line in this one.

1:19: Man, Doc really can't handle his liquor, he only had one shot of whiskey and it knocked him out, really? Wake up juice, what the hell is that exactly, wonder if it really works.

1:24: The trains a leaving and they ain't on it, they better hurry up with this whole Tannen business.

1:26: So, Marty finally confront Mad Dog, and wouldn't you know he uses a trick out Clint Eastwoods book, which they actually foreshadowed in the 2nd movie when Biff was in the Hot tub with the chicks watching the movie in which he uses a bulletproof vest, nice call back as it were.

1:28: And the icing on the cake, Marty punches Mad Dog and he falls into Manure, and guess what he has to say " I hate manure"

1:32: The train part of this movie is pretty good I guess, makes it a little more interesting then just trying to get the car up to 88mph like in the other movies, although it did fly in the 2nd one, so that was probably cooler.

1:35: Of course here comes Clara to screw everything up, why didn't see just believe him to begin with, could have saved everyone a whole lot of trouble.

1:36: I kinda wonder if it would have actually been possible to get one of these old trains up to 88mph, I have my doubts, but then again I have no idea how fast trains can go. I know they got those like bullet trains that go really fast, but like how fast can a normal train now go?

1:40: Good to see the Hoover board getting used in 1885, seeing as how that thing doesn't even exist now, it would seriously blow everyone's mind away in 1885. But here the thing, why after he gets on the board and gets clara, didn't he just go back to the car, he could have made it, instead went off. Cool explosion though,

1:42: And finally Marty is back in the real 1985, and interesting to note it is now called Eastwood Ravine, cause he assumingly perished in the ravine. And the Delorean is destroyed, kinda sad really, but it was what the Doc wanted, you know cause time travel is too dangerous and everything.

1:44: Note that is clearly not Crispin Glover, but he did have a line, but just stayed in the background, really wonder what his role would have been in these movies had he signed on, would have been totally different movie I would guess.

1:46: Funny that Jennifer thinks it a dream, but Marty kinda ruins that by telling her about Hildale, and there's Flea and Power of :Love is back again. And there is where the car accident would have been that would have ruined his life, and the message is erased.

1:49: A Time traveling Train, well, now I've seen everything. So after all the stuff Doc said about destroying the time machine, time travel is too dangerous, he then of course builds another time machine, i guess probably have a happy ending and to keep it open ended, if they ever did want to do a 4th one.

1:50: You're future isn't written yet, kinda the same sorta message as in T2, no. and of course end it with one more Back To The Future. The End

Ok, so that does it all 3 Back To the Futures, one of the best Trilogies of all time, not exactly sure where I would rank it exactly, but it's got to be up there with Lord of the Rings, the Original Star Wars Trilogy, The Matrix, The Godfather I guess, if you even want to count that, 3rd one shouldn't have happened. I don't know, it's up there.

I will acknowedge that there was a cartoon that sorta continued the story with Doc, Clara, Jules, Vern and Marty traveling through time in the Train, but I never really watched it, and wouldn't really consider it a true continuation of the movie franchise.

Well, that's it thanks for reading, not sure what my next project will be, but I'm sure I'll think of something.