Back to the Future Movie Details
Back to the Future taglines:He’s the only kid ever to get into trouble before he was born. [UK]
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| Directors: Robert Zemeckis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 8.4/10 out of 181,232 votes |
“Back to the Future” 1985 by Robert Zemeckis – Movie Goofs
“Back to the Future” Plot Summary
In 1985, Doc Brown invents time travel; in 1955, Marty McFly accidentally prevents his parents from meeting, putting his own existence at stake.
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“Back to the Future” Goofs List
- Continuity: When the DeLorean goes 1 minute into the future, the fire goes between Doc’s legs but when the camera switches angles, it no longer does.
- Continuity: Odometer in the DeLorean throughout the movie. During the chase scenes with the Libyans, it is first shown as 33061 (When Marty says “C’mon move! Dammit!”), then it drops to 32994 (when Marty makes a sharp right turn and the speedometer drops significantly), then back up to 33062 (just before jumping to 1955), and finally towards the end of the movie , back down to 33051 (just before going back to 1985).
- Revealing mistakes: When Marty is being chased by terrorists, it appears as though a stunt double is driving the car. Actually, this is footage that was shot with the actor Eric Stoltz playing Marty. Michael J. Fox was later chosen over him, but they kept the driving scenes at the mall with Stoltz in, since the shots were fairly distant and the driver’s face is not particularly visible.
- Continuity: When Marty hitches a ride on the back of a truck, as he waves to the girls in the fitness center you can see he has a watch on his left hand. But when he meets Jennifer in school moments later, it has gone.
- Continuity: After Marty has been thrown into the bookshelf after the amp explodes, he is lying on the floor with his left leg bent at the knee. In the very next shot, he has not moved but both legs are straightened and on top of each other.
- Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double for Biff when he and his thugs are chasing Marty around the town square.
- Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in Marty’s sunglasses after he is thrown across the room by the amplifier.
- Continuity: When Marty is escaping from the Libyans, the time circuit is already on when he moves his hand from the ignition to the gearshift. But when he shifts the second time, the time circuit seems to be off until he bumps its power switch.
- Continuity: A picture on the table below Biff, and the candy in Biff’s hand when he is talking to George about his car in 1985.
- Continuity: The sign atop Red Thomas’ campaign car in 1955 changes direction as it turns the corner and one of the large loudspeakers disappears (the rear one).
- Continuity: Length of Marty’s hair before he runs into Lou’s Diner.
- Continuity: The menu in the diner when Marty talks to George after talking to Biff.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Marty hits the final note of Johnny B Goode, you can hear the note being sustained with vibrato, yet Marty isn’t applying any.
- Continuity: When George and Marty are in the diner the first time, being accosted by Biff, George is looking at one of them in one shot, and when the shot changes, his gaze cuts sharply to the other one.
- Factual errors: The Seeburg remote-selection wall-boxes seen in the diner are incompatible with the Wurlitzer 1015 jukebox.
- Anachronisms: The episode of “The Honeymooners” (1955) that Lorraine’s family watches wasn’t shown until 31st December, 1955, yet is seen in November 1955.
- Factual errors: The JVC camcorder requires constant pressure to operate the rewind feature, not just a single push and release.
- Continuity: When talking to George at the clothesline, both of Marty’s shirt pocket flaps are out, but in the next shot one of them is tucked in. Shortly after that, both pocket flaps are out again.
- Continuity: Biff’s car changes quickly when he is chasing Marty on the skateboard.
- Continuity: When being chased by Biff, Marty’s grip on the truck momentarily changes from the back to the side.
- Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double when Marty is walking all over Biff’s car to avoid the manure truck.
- Continuity: Marty’s skateboard suddenly gains modern wheels and trucks.
- Continuity: The wheels on Marty’s skateboard when the Doc backs the DeLorean out of the truck change from yellow to pink.
- Continuity: When Marty is pretending to be Darth Vader, the hair dryer in his belt appears and disappears (some extra footage, wherein Marty moves the hair dryer, was cut from the final version).
- Anachronisms: The guitar Marty plays in 1955 is a Gibson ES-345 with a retrofitted Bigsby vibrato (you can still see the studs on which the original stop tailpiece had been fitted); both the guitar and vibrato were introduced after 1955. The ES-345 was first produced in 1958 and it uses humbucker pickups invented by Seth Lover of Gibson in 1957.
- Revealing mistakes: When Marty and Jennifer arrive late at school, you can see through the windows at the end of the hall that it’s dark outside.
- Continuity: Strickland holds his hands over his ears then puts them down after Marty plays “Johnny B Goode”, then in the wide shot of the crowd Strickland has his hands over his ears again.
- Continuity: When Marty is “hitching a ride” on the back of a jeep, he passes the aerobic center (formerly Lou’s Diner) three times. Each time is a different angle.
- Continuity: During the Enchantment Under the Sea dance the left speaker is atop a box, but when Marty gets on stage and kicks over the speaker the box is gone.
- Continuity: When Doc is telling Marty how his time machine works, he says, “Never mind that now, never mind that now.” When he says this, Marty has the camera down by his side and isn’t filming, yet later in the film when Marty shows the film to Doc in 1955, the film starts out with the camera on Doc saying, “never mind that now, never mind that now…”
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the opening scene, Doc’s invention overflows Einstein’s food bowl. When Marty enters, you see an empty bowl, but that’s the water bowl.
- Continuity: In the beginning of the film, the 1985 Marty is in his house discussing the wrecked car with George and Biff. A glass candy jar is shown, filled to the top with candy. In the next scene, the candy jar is only half full.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the “save the clocktower” scene, the can for donations makes the sound of a few noisy coins inside, but when Marty donates a quarter, it makes the sound of only one coin dropping into an empty can.
- Revealing mistakes: In 1955 when Marty is playing the JVC video camera for Doc Brown, one of the wires falls off but the picture keeps playing.
- Anachronisms: The dinner plates used by the Baines family in the 1950s were not made until the 1970s.
- Continuity: When Doc dislodges the cable from the lamppost you can see the minute hand on the clock tower advance, yet one moment later when he looks over his shoulder the minute hand advances again.
- Continuity: When Marty shows the Doc of 1955 the videotape, the Doc of 1985 says “the flux capacitor stores it and then releases it”, something he didn’t say at the original scene at the mall. There are other differences between the two scenes.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Marty returns to 1985, in under 10 minutes he runs a distance shown as 2 miles on a 1955 sign. That sign shows the distance by road, and he took a short cut.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Although not widely used until after the establishment of the SI in 1960, the metric prefix “giga-” was invented in 1951, so Doc could indeed have known it in 1955.
- Continuity: The “Save The Clock Tower” flyer that Marty shows to Doc Brown in 1955 is smooth and pristine when he first unfolds it; in later shots it alternates between being wrinkled and smooth before Doc Brown wads it up.
- Revealing mistakes: Near the end of the movie, Marty positions the DeLorean and realizes he can go back earlier and warn Doc. However, Marty seems to press the buttons 458708 which have no correlation to 10/26/85 0124am.
- Continuity: At the dance, the picture under the strings at the head of Marty’s guitar disappears in long shots.
- Continuity: When Marty is getting ready to be sent back to 1985 and the DeLorean won’t start, his foot isn’t on the clutch. When he bangs his head and it finally starts, we see him taking his foot off the clutch.
- Crew or equipment visible: When the Delorean backs up before lifting off at the ending of the movie, the camera is reflected on the rear license plate.
- Continuity: When Doc is talking about the significance of November 5 1955, Marty’s camera alternates from his side to his eye between shots.
- Continuity: Just after Marty tells Biff to “Get your meat hooks… off…” he and Biff grab each other’s lapels, poised to punch. In the next shot, Marty is no longer holding him and his collar is neat.
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