Back to the Future Part III Movie Details
Back to the Future Part III taglines:They’ve saved the best trip for last… But this time they may have gone too far.
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| Directors: Robert Zemeckis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 7.0/10 out of 70,443 votes |
“Back to the Future Part III” 1990 by Robert Zemeckis – Movie Goofs
“Back to the Future 3″ Plot Summary
Enjoying a peaceable existence in 1885, Doctor Emmet Brown is about to be killed by Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen. Marty McFly travels back in time to save his friend. add synopsis
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“Back to the Future Part III” Goofs List
- Revealing mistakes: At night when Marty is sleeping and Doc is awake thinking about Clara, the shot of Marty sleeping clearly shows that a double is acting in his place.
- Continuity: Whenever we see Marty’s pick-up in Back to the Future 1 & 2 the lights on top don’t have yellow covers on them, but at the end of Back to the Future 3 they appear.
- Factual errors: When the diesel locomotive, Sierra County Railroad S-6 #11, hits the DeLorean in 1985, the engineer doesn’t stop the train, nor do any motorists seem to notice the accident (several are seen staring incredulously at the DeLorean as it passes by a nearby railroad crossing less than a minute before the DeLorean’s destruction). Furthermore, Marty and Jennifer return to the scene roughly an hour later, yet no police/fire/EMS have apparently been alerted to what would have been a very serious accident.
- Anachronisms: The camera used to take Doc and Marty’s photo in front of the clock wasn’t invented until 1887, two years after the scene is set.
- Continuity: The shadows of the speakers at the drive-in.
- Factual errors: The pace at which Marty passes speaker poles at the drive-in does not correspond with the speed at which he’d need to be going in order to achieve 88 mph before running into the screen.
- Continuity: The clouds in the sky when the Delorean is being chased by Indians.
- Continuity: Position of the Indians in different shots when Marty arrives in 1885.
- Continuity: After the scene in the saloon with Mad Dog and Marty, Mad Dog has a soiled shirt due to the spittoon. In the following scene when Mad Dog and his cronies are chasing Marty on their horses, Mad Dog has a clean shirt.
- Factual errors: When Marty arrives in 1885 and finds himself facing the Indians, he is able to skid the car to a halt and turn around quickly and easily. Time travel required a speed of 88 MPH. If he was actually going 88, there is no way he could have stopped that quickly.
- Continuity: Position of bear as it chases Marty.
- Continuity: The position of the shot glasses when Marty first meets Tannen. In one shot the filled glass is right next to the four empty ones, later on the filled glass disappears.
- Continuity: The shadow of the train at the end.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the train enters the station with Clara standing next to it, the warning bell can be heard ringing, though it is not seen ringing in the split second in which it is visible.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Doc Brown was very concerned about the creation of a paradox if Marty’s return altered events preventing his younger self’s return to 1985 in Part II, even being careful when accidentally interacting with himself. However, in Part III Marty is unconcerned that his interactions with Doc might cause Doc not to tape his warning letter together and dying in 1985, creating another paradox.
- Revealing mistakes: When Clara and Doc come back in the train time machine, and Marty and Jennifer look at them, the shadow of the train does not move while the train does.
- Continuity: When Doc and Buford Tannen are arguing at the clock tower, the shadows change repeatedly between shots.
- Factual errors: The train takes at least a minute to traverse the last quarter-mile of track, corresponding to a speed of 15 mph or less, nowhere near 88 mph.
- Revealing mistakes: When Clara pulls the train’s emergency stop cable, there is a shot of the train stopping from head on that is obviously filmed in reverse, as the steam disappears into the train.
- Revealing mistakes: The train jolts the camera as it pulls up into the station when Clara is waiting for it.
- Continuity: The arrow stuck in the side of the DeLorean was at a right angle to the driver’s side of the car, but that side was not exposed to the Indians during the chase.
- Revealing mistakes: In some of the overhead shots of the train sequence with Doc and Clara hanging off of the train, the cables holding the stuntmen are visible.
- Continuity: When Marty wakes up and picks up his gun belt, there is a missing bullet on the far right side of the belt, but when standing in front of the mirror with his belt on, the gun belt is fully loaded.
- Continuity: The walkie-talkie in Doc’s hand appears and disappears throughout the scene where he’s climbing on the train to get to the DeLorean.
- Crew or equipment visible: When Marty is being hanged by Mad Dog Tannen, a hand is briefly visible on Marty’s right foot, steadying him as he is lifted into the air.
- Crew or equipment visible: When Marty is running away from Buford Tannen and his gang after their first encounter at the saloon, a crewmember in blue shorts and a white t-shirt is running alongside a camera on the left side of the screen.
- Continuity: As Marty walks past the train station the sound of a telegraph can be heard yet there are no telegraph poles or wires visible in either direction.
- Continuity: When Doc is about to hug Marty, he places his hand on top of Marty’s shoulder, but in the next his hand is on Marty’s arm.
- Continuity: When Doc climbs aboard the running train on his horse and helps Marty climb up, Marty’s hat falls off. In the next shot his hat is still on his head.
- Revealing mistakes: On the morning that Marty is suppose to have his shootout with Mad Dog, an automated machine in Doc Brown’s shop makes breakfast. One part of the machine cracks some eggs and slides the frying pan over to an open fire. But as this happens, the eggs are pushed over too and you can see that some of the egg whites are already cooking, suggesting that the pan is already hot.
- Continuity: When Clara is on the train to leave town, she pulls a cord to trigger an emergency stop. Her hands are clad in dark brown leather gloves. However, right after she gets off the train and begins running, her hands are not gloved. She is then seen wearing these same gloves throughout the remainder of the film.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Marty is running up the street after Doc Brown thinks he’s sent Marty back to 1985, you can hear the sound of Marty’s footsteps. It sounds like Marty is running hard-soled shoes, not the sneakers he’s obviously wearing.
- Continuity: The shadows during the showdown: the camera angle from low down behind Marty shows him in full sunlight from the front, in other shots the sun is clearly throwing shadows at angles to Marty. After he’s being shot, Marty ends up well into the shadows of houses.
- Continuity: When Buford Tannen starts to hang Marty at the new courthouse, we see him whip one loop of rope around Marty’s neck before he pulls the rope tight to tie it to the hook. After Marty is pulled up into the air we see a close-up of him with his fingers inserted into at least three loops of rope around his neck.
- Crew or equipment visible: As Biff is closing the car door for Marty, when he finally returns home, camera and crew can be seen in the small window of the car door next to the mirror.
- Continuity: As Clara’s wagon goes over the cliff it rolls over sideways spilling some of the contents, but in the next shot the wagon is going over straight forward with the contents still in it until it almost hits the bottom.
- Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt doubles for Marty and Doc when they jump off their horses and onto the train. (Marty’s is more noticeable, since he seems taller than the 5′6″ Michael J. Fox)
- Continuity: The telescope changes position in Emmett’s hands while he’s talking to Clara in the barn. This is evident from the position of the adjusting wheels on the side of the telescope. Their position keeps changing showing the telescope is being rotated, but throughout the conversation, Emmett never moves his hands in that manner.
- Continuity: When Marty is backing into the cave, there is no arrow sticking out of the DeLorean.
- Revealing mistakes: When the train hits the DeLorean, a flash of dynamite from inside the car can be seen for one frame just before the train hits the car. Dynamite was used to blow up the car in filming, as Bob Gale says on the DVD extras.
- Anachronisms: Aircraft contrails visible when the horses are pulling the DeLorean.
- Continuity: When Doc pours whiskey into the DeLorean’s gas tank, he is adding it in the correct spot. However, he does this with the hood closed, indicating that this particular DeLorean has a fuel filler flap there. Previous shots of the DeLorean’s hood showed no flap (which is correct – the flap was deleted partway through productio
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