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  • Essay / The Back to the Future Trilogy - 1225

    The “Back to the Future” trilogy is by far my favorite of all time; especially the first one, this film alone is on my Mount Rushmore of films. The trilogy is about a teenager who accidentally travels back in time and prevents his parents from getting married, which then prevents him from being born. So now he must find a way to return to the future and reunite his parents. The entire trilogy is great; I even thought it had its bad moments, but hey, what trilogy doesn't have them? The series is a series of smart and fun films that leave you with a good feeling after watching them. That being said, when you make a film about time travel, there are bound to be mistakes and "Back to the Future" is no exception. I can talk for days about all the mistakes in this trilogy based on the things I noticed and the research I did, but I'm just going to write about the ones that seem most important to me. So I guess you can call this the “Not Top 10” of “Back to the Future”. I'll start nice and easy before getting to the more brain scrambling stuff. In the first film, Marty (Michael J. Fox) travels back in time and accidentally takes his father's place the first time he and Marty's mother were supposed to meet. This causes a snowball effect, leading to them not getting married and ultimately Marty not being born. In the film, Marty's mother Lorraine has a crush on him, leading her to spend the rest of the film trying to draw her attention away from him and back to George. This would mean they would have to spend a lot of time together. And even towards the end there is a scene where George and Lorraine thank him, which would suggest that he was an important person in their lives. Now with...... middle of paper...... "The Plot Holes and Paradoxes of the Back to the Future Trilogy." Geek Den. Den of Geek, October 24, 2010. Web. February 18, 2014. McGarrigle, Darach. “8 Classic Movies That Got Away With Gaping Plot Holes.” Crack.com. Cracked, September 16, 2008. Web. February 18, 2014. Back to the Future. Real. Robert Zemeckis. Perf. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Thomas F. Wilson et. Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, U-Drive Productions, 1985. DVD. Back to the Future II. Real. Robert Zemeckis. Perf. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Thomas F. Wilson et. Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, U-Drive Productions, 1985. DVD. (1)Back to the Future III. Real. Robert Zemeckis. Perf. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen and Thomas F. Wilson et. Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, U-Drive Productions, 1985. DVD.