Doc was constantly tinkering with the DeLorean, as evidenced by the hover conversion. Any good scientist would fix errors as they are discovered. Assume the first version he demonstrates to Marty as being still in Beta. By the end of the first film, after he’s spent months in 2015, it will be the full release, maybe even v1.1, and that would correct any Year 0 mistakes. I also assume he corrected for Gregorian vs Julian calendars.
“What if we go nowhere”?
“Then this will be your big chance to get away from it all!”
I suppose we can only resolve this if we fully understand how the Flux Capacitor works.
If you can set it to simply move you forward or backward a specific amount of time (the way I’m picturing it), then the actual destination date is irrelevant; you only need to know the relative amount of time between now and then.
But maybe the FC can somehow fixate on a specific point in time, past or future, and transport itself and the Delorean directly to that particular point. If this is the case, then I suppose it does indeed need to know more about where it’s going.
Anybody have Doc Brown’s email so we can ask him?
I find it interesting that most people have it 1,3,2. I always thought 3, with the Western setting, was the least interesting. Sure, maybe the climax is better, but there’s a whole lot before that which I can barely remember. But I remember the future, the alternate timeline, and being able to go back to the first movie. And first movie is just a great story and interesting premise.
I’m not entirely sure I don’t like 2 better than 1, really–though it requires 1 to understand any of it.
Doc didn’t convert the DeLorean himself. There were businesses in 2015 that converted ordinary ground cars to hover cars. Doc simply paid such a shop to do the conversion for him. If you remember, hovercars were common by 2015 and had designated skyways along which they flew.
Here’s an ad from Goldie Wilson III offering hover conversions for “only” $39,999.95.
That still counts as tinkering.
Both the shopping center and downtown are terrible places to deploy the time machine. I’m wondering if a DeLorean could even get up to 88, and then brake back down to 0 in the room available. And when you reappear after the time trip, what are the odds there won’t be something to crash into upon your return.
Remember, you can set the return time down to the minute.
You also have to return to the same place from where you left. Marty left the shopping mall to go to 1955, but when he returned, he was speeding down the main street and crashed into the Assembly of Christ church.
Just ask old man Peabody about that.
And in reality, I’m not even sure a Delorean can get up to 88 in any amount of time.
I had a theory that the reason the car i supposed to go 88 is that is the sepeed Doc Brown picked where the time machine can distinguish “car” from “not car”. You need to have a boundary iof what is actually considered “time machine”. If the flux field or whatever extended past the car even a little, you’re going to send asphault and air and whatever else is close to the car along through time with the car. That’s why having the hover car feature works better for time travel. Less chance of hitting anything at the destination, too.
Of course, you’re also both displacing the air at the destination, and creating a vacuum at the departure. 'Twould be very loud. But we’ll just ignore that.
Or maybe 88 looks like two infinity (möbius strips?) symbols because time is a loop? Though according to Endgame all time travel theories from back to the future are incorrect…
//i\\Saw was the classic with Cary Elwes. No one thought the ending was coming. Saw II and III were both mediocre at best. Hard to believe your parents let you go see them in the theater.
DMC’s comparison literature noted that the DeLorean could achieve 0–60 miles per hour (0–97 km/h) in 8.8 seconds[ citation needed ], when equipped with a manual transmission. When equipped with an automatic transmission, the DeLorean would accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour (0 to 97 km/h) in 10.5 seconds as tested by Road & Track magazine.
Though I would expect Doc had some work done.
I rewatched Back to the Future Part II a few days ago. I definitely didn’t like it as much as the first time I saw it way back when.
The thing that struck me is that only Michael J. Fox and Thomas F. Wilson are given anything to do in the film. Lea Thompson and Christopher Lloyd’s performances consist of standing around delivering awkward chunks of exposition (“Hey, remember that time when Marty was a kid and someone called him chicken and then he got hit by a Rolls Royce and he broke his hand and he couldn’t be a rock star and his whole life went downhill from there?”) and unsubtle plugs for Back to the Future Part III.
The part in the 2015 was basically pointless (aside from a few amusing jokes about life in the future) up until the point where Biff brings the almanac back to his younger self (and then returns the time machine to Doc and Marty for some reason?). The brief part in the evil 1985 was probably the most interesting section because of how crazy it is. I remember the trip back to 1955 being pretty cool as a kid, but it was only mildly entertaining the second time around. And then it ends on a dumb cliff-hanger.
Not to mention the weirdly smutty parts for what is essentially a trio of kids’ movies. (Did we really need two separate gags about breast implants?)