I just watched this again after a long absence. It's like a middle child that doesn't get the attention that the others do, but I love how complex the story is, and how dark the second act becomes. I do wish they hadn't shoehorned in Marty's "chicken" character flaw, but it doesn't sink anything.
A couple of little things I never noticed before:
The first act is a bit weak, but that couldn't be helped. They sort of limited their options by ending the first one the way they did, since they weren't really worrying about setting up a series at the time. But once they get out of 2015, there's a lot of gold to be had.
Incidentally, we're 8 years from that future. I'm not seeing any controlled weather, flying cars, hoverboards or holographic movie displays. Somebody needs to get crackin'.
A couple of little things I never noticed before:
- Charles Fleischer playing an old man in 2015 trying to save the clock tower, and a young mechanic in 1955 who fixes Biff's car, presumably the same character. I just think it's cool to do something like that with a cameo.
- A small inconsistency: in the newspaper that shows George's death in 1973, the headline is "Local Author Shot Dead". But according to the first film, George's first book isn't published until 1985.
- Why does Marty steal a matchbook from Biff's office? It only pays off as evidence that the future has been repaired, a function that the newspaper fulfills just as easily. And I don't see why he'd want it in his current situation.
The first act is a bit weak, but that couldn't be helped. They sort of limited their options by ending the first one the way they did, since they weren't really worrying about setting up a series at the time. But once they get out of 2015, there's a lot of gold to be had.
Incidentally, we're 8 years from that future. I'm not seeing any controlled weather, flying cars, hoverboards or holographic movie displays. Somebody needs to get crackin'.
