Things You Only Notice In Back To The Future After Watching It More Than Once

Back to the Future is one of the great movies of the 1980s, and its sequels continued its story in fine fashion. It's frequently cited as a favorite film, and for good reason — the more you focus on the way these films are put together, the more you realize how thoughtful every filmmaking decision was. BTTF frequently makes allusions to outside events, and it likes to sneakily reveal future narrative events long before they occur. Issues like nostalgia and abuse are handled with great care and thoughtfulness, and you can't help but admire the film the more for this. These are thing you only nice in Back to the Future after watching it more than once.

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Plenty of foreshadowing | 0:00
Sequel bait | 1:02
Safety Last! | 2:07
A timeless slogan | 3:02
The good old days? | 4:01
Just like in the movies | 5:08
Tardy Marty | 6:18
Precision lightning | 7:09
Like father, like son | 8:06
Not ready for that yet | 9:15
Book-lover bonus | 10:09

[Looper]

What did you notice in Back to the Future only after you watched it again?

[KGBeast.]

There's no such thing as watching the Back To The Future movies "too many times"

[jessetorres]

In my opinion, Back To The Future is the most consistent movie trilogy, at least in terms of quality, which is ironic because it breaks the key rule of a trilogy of essentially doing the same story 3 times, yet it works given the motif of history repeating itself. Look at all of the elements that appeared in all 3 films: Marty saying "This is heavy" and Doc Brown saying "Great Scott, " Marty hitting his head and waking up with a version of his mother taking care of him, Marty walking into a diner and encountering a Tannen as well as a Strickland, a chase scene in the town square and Marty almost crashing into a vehicle, a Tannen crashing into manure, a scene where a character wears a bullet proof vest, pictures/documents changing, Marty being called "chicken, " and of course the entire clock tower scene all appear in each film.

[davidm]

The danger of Doc hanging from the clock tower is that he could have moved the hands.

The reason they knew exactly what time lightning struck was presumably because it stopped the hands in place.

If he moved them on accident then it would give a false time and might change the future/past where Marty has the wrong time and they miss the lightning altogether

[jojohill]

Got the blu-ray special editions of these films some of my favorites of all time

[JV-pukx]

If there is any technology we need from BttF's 2015, it is definitely "Mr Fusion."

[mmcfreds]

Even better than worrying about the exact second lightning strikes, ask yourself how Doc could have known the time machine would stall at the starting line, delaying it from reaching the clock tower. Then worry about whether or not Doc knew the performance specs of the car, then worry about Marty dragging the clutch from 2nd-3rd gear, and only then you’ll start to realize how many times I’ve seen this movie.

[julieabraham]

There are two dark and unsettling details that I have noticed.
One: Biff attacked Loraine and would have raped her, if George had not saved her, yet older George keeps Biff around for menial tasks. And Loraine is ok with this?
Two: Marty came back home to a family that he did not grow up with. All the memories and experiences that he had were with a family in an alternate timeline. His family may be "better" but this Marty does not belong with them. And what happened to the Marty who does belong there? Did he land with the more dysfunctional timeline or did he blink out of existence?

[iamrenvik]

Love finding new things in any movie after watching it again and again

[JrGoonior]

This may be considered a paradox: Marty's first time around with a wimpy father figure who's constantly bullied by Biff may have caused Marty to seek out a "stronger" father figure and friendship in Doc. When Marty gets done in 1955 George McFly is no longer the wimp and is a stronger person. When Marty gets back to 1985, his father is no longer bullied by Biff and still has his stronger personality, would Marty still be friends with Doc Brown?

[khatimahmad]

You know one thing I noticed when Marty taught his dad how to have courage his dad said In back to the future part 2 that he always told a son not to let anybody call him chicken. Which causes Marty to crash into the Rolls Royce. So all the events go back to the future part 2 wouldn't have happened if if back to the future part one didn't happen

[TheaterGeek]

I've always thought they could just pull the delorean up to the wire until it touches, lift the drive wheels up on jack stands and step on the gas until the speedometer hit 88 MPH. That way, no matter which of the 60 seconds in that minute the lightning hit, contact is assured. Then, after the time jump back to 1985, the wheels would hit the ground, and Marty could just hit the brakes.

[fasdfdsdfs]

In the beginning as the camera is panning around Doc Brown's garage(?) it passes a picture of a guy hanging off the face of a clock. And what happens at the end? Doc Brown hanging off the face of a clock.

[davidpumpkinsjr.]

I always figured that Doc's mention of discovering the next 25 World Series winners was just Doc making a joke and he was never serious about this.

[lauraleecreations]

I love this series. I watch 2 and 3 a lot! My middle child used to watch it all the time

[bdc]

I immediately noticed (for the first time) that starting around 1:48 Doc is wearing a shirt with trains on it. While they're not the type seen in BTTF3, I wonder if that was a deliberate nod to what was to come.

[marknorville]

A darker plot twist in BTTF is the amount of time that Biff with Marty's Mum in the car. The amount of time that he was locked in the car, and the time that it takes George to reach the car was enough time for a drunken Biff to get his end away. So that is the darker side to the movie, however it was assault either way no matter what he did.

[ravenrog]

They knew exactly what second the lightning would strike. The flyer said PRECISELY at 10:04 pm. 10:04:00. Shouldn't bother y'all.

[BLAPYOU]

Knowing the exact second the lightning strike has always bothered me.

[urboialex]

Back to the future is by far the most perfect movie ever made