So if Back to the Future's 1955 seems like a much-thumbed reference diary of the creators and its 2015 was simply wild predicting, 1885 is clearly a love letter to Hollywood Westerns. The saccharine '50s Americana and parentally obsessed narrative is influenced by the upbringing of director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale, who were both born in the decade, and producer Steven Spielberg, who turned 9 in 1955.
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Sure, Part III's 1885 is not as drenched in real-world character as the preceding films' 1955, but there's a clear reason for that.
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It endures because a) all the high-tech stuff looks cool and b) it's now 2015, so we can all be incredibly witty about not having flying cars in our garages just yet. There's an air of Return of the Jedi about it, another much-maligned threequel that's always better than you remember it, clearing the palate after an oppressively dark preceding film and a clearly-intended-to-be-standalone original - except we get horses instead of Ewoks.īack to the Future Part II, by contrast, ties itself in knots. Indeed, returning to Back to the Future Part III is a surprisingly uplifting experience. Compared to most third instalments, it's positively amazing.ģ0 geekiest things you never knew about Back to the Future Yet surely that's just within a very high standard of films? Come on - Jaws 3D, Terminator 3, Spider-Man 3, Matrix Revolutions, Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Even less forensic analysis shows it to be everyone in the office's least favourite flick in the series. "It ain't only the DeLorean that's out of gas," reads the top review on Rotten Tomatoes. Just look at those collective review scores: a shabby 55 compared to the first's 86 on Metacritic.
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Filmed at the same time as Back to the Future Part II, and released the following year after a big cinema teaser trailer at the end of the sequel, it's often seen as a cash-in - the original "let's make every franchise a trilogy" misstep. If Back to the Future, with its 30th anniversary this week and much Secret Cinema loving of late, has become one of the most celebrated '80s movies, it's fair to say, ahem, time hasn't been as kind to its second sequel, released at the turn of the '90s.īack to the Future Part III, wisdom suggests, is where Marty and Doc limped out of their time travels.