A truck is visible in the background when Doc and Marty are trying to jump on the caboose. [There isn't a truck in the background. Upon closer examination, it appears that it is merely the visible tip of a nearby mountaintop.]
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Marty: Clara Clayton was supposed to die in the ravine. All the teachers tell the kids a story about a schoolteacher named Clayton who died in the ravine, and all the kids in town remember it because they all have a teacher they'd like to fall in the ravine.
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Watch the scene with the Indians (just as Marty sticks the DeLorean into reverse) and see the differences of how close and far the Indians are from the DeLorean. See more...
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When filming the scene where Marty is being hanged from the clock tower, Michael J Fox agreed to really hang from the rope. Whilst filming, Fox held the rope away from his throat with his hand. At one time he wasn't holding the rope and was really being strangled. The film crew didn't realise, they just thought it was really good acting, until he passed out. See more...
Back to the Future Part III (1990) - 62 corrections
Directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Shue, Lea Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Michael J. Fox, Thomas F. Wilson (add more)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-fi, Western
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A truck is visible in the background when Doc and Marty are trying to jump on the caboose. [There isn't a truck in the background. Upon closer examination, it appears that it is merely the visible tip of a nearby mountaintop.]
At the beginning of the movie in 1955, Marty has Einstein with him and left him with Doc of 1955. At the end of the movie Doc from 1855 went back to 1985 to see Marty and said he had to come back for Einstein, but wasn't Einstein with the Doc of 1955. So how did Doc get him back, is there some kind of explanation? [Marty never has Einstein with him. The dog in 1955 was named Copernicus. Einstein had first been in 1985 (first movie), then travelled into the future with Doc, where he was cryogenically frozen in a kennel while Doc and Marty tried to straighten things out (second movie). Doc was then sent to 1855, made a new steam-powered time machine and went to the 21st century to "come back for Einstein", before dropping in on Marty in 1985 and say goodbye.]
Corrected by Twotall
At the very end of the movie when Marty and Jennifer are at the wreck on the train tracks, the thing starts dinging and the arms lower, indicating that a train is coming. But if Doc is coming from somewhere else in time, then it wouldn't say a train was coming, and one dosn't come later. [He can travel through time, I don't think it would be so hard to make a train signal activate.]
Corrected by shortdanzr
As the train approaches the DeLorean there is no wooden scaffold to hold the rubber tyres acting as a buffer, yet in the next shot a few seconds later, there is a wooden scaffold on the cow catcher. [The next shot is after a cut, in which time Doc could have mounted the (obviously home-made) scaffold on the cow catcher.]
Corrected by Twotall
The arrow stuck in the side of the DeLorean is perpendicular to the car, but that side wasn't facing the Indians during the chase so they couldn't have hit it. [There are several times during the chase where you see the Indians ride up on both sides of the DeLorean, including the driver's side. The mistakes, as noted elsewhere, is that the car after all these shots jumps to a point in front of the Indians, and that the arrow appears out of nowhere, but yes, there are occasionally Indians who pass the car on the driver's side.]
Corrected by Twotall
After the DeLorean is destroyed by the train, Marty goes to get his truck, picks up Jennifer, almost races with Needles, and then finally returns to the scene of the accident. Isn't it odd that a car was hit by a train, yet there are no emergency vehicles anywhere around, or that the train didn't stop afterward? [There are two reasons why there are no emergency vehicles - one, the train driver wouldn't have noticed the car (trains are usually too fast to notice), or the train driver assumed that Marty (as he escaped) would report the accident. As for the train stopping, it was probably going too fast to stop quickly (more than likely it would have stopped much further down the track if it did).]
Corrected by Andy Benham
When Doc is telling Clara he is leaving and will not see her again, and he tells her he is leaving in a time machine. Clara tells Doc that she also read the Time Machine and is a fan of Jules Verne, but the Time Machine was written by H. G. Wells. [Clara says: "I understand that because you know I'm partial to the writings of Jules Verne you concocted those mendacities in order to take advantage of me." At no point did Clara actually SAY that Jules Verne wrote The Time Machine. She does not mention The Time Machine at all, nor would she, as it was not first published until 1895, 10 years after the events of BTTF III.]
Given that Doc is so concerned about influencing future events, why does he set up shop right in the middle of town (creating a lot of loud and noisy inventions) and attend town meetings, and volunteer to pick Clara up at the train station? He should be a hermit, living as far away from people and civilization as possible. [It seems like Doc doesn't really care about time travel anymore, and that in the old west he decided to start a new life. It goes along with Doc saying "Well, I figured 'what the hell'" in the first movie in response to Marty asking him about not influencing future events. To him at this point, it doesn't really matter to him.]
When the 1955 Doc Brown and Marty went to retrieve the DeLorean from the cave, the passage between the room containing the car and the rest of the mine was rather narrow, and to remove the support beam on either side of the opening to widen the opening is to risk a cave in. How did the car get in there or out? Piece by piece? [We saw them dig out a hole into the room with the DeLorean and stopped when they could get a good look. It is entirely possible that they made a bigger hole off camera when it was not necessary to show it and brought the car out then.]
In the final scene when Clara hands Doc the framed photo it is completely wrapped in brown paper. A moment later, when Doc hands the gift to Marty the piece which supports the framed picture (allowing it to stand on a table) is visible, even before Marty unwraps the package. [That's the back of the original photo of Doc standing in front of the clock tower that Marty just picked up from the wreck of the Delorean.]
When the locomotive crashes from the bridge there is a huge explosion (may have been added digitally in a later version). However, there are no explosives in a steam-engine, only water and wood. [High pressure within the boiler causes the large explosion of the locomotive, like Doc previously said about the whole boiler going to explode after hitting temperature of 200 degrees.]
When the DeLorean travels forward through time at the beginning of the first movie, the car gets covered in ice. During all other subsequent time travel, this does not happen. [Actually, it does. It looks like steam coming off the car.]
There are two Time Machines in the Old West (1885). One is with Marty and the Doc. The other is in the mine where Doc put it. It has to be there because if it's not, Marty and the 1955 Doc could've never got it, repaired it, and sent Marty to 1885 to save the Doc of 1985. 1985 Doc and Marty could've saved themselves a LOT of trouble by going to the Time Machine in the mine (in 1885) and transporting the gas from it into the other Time Machine (and, of course, repair the fuel line). [This has already been corrected. The Time Machine in the mine will have had all its fluids (fuel, brake fluid, etc.) removed as it is placed in long term storage. Furthermore, if they go messing around with the Time Machine, which Marty will then use to return to 1885, they could create a paradox by doing irreparable damage to it. It's far too big a risk to take, especially with Doc being as cautious as he is.]
Isn't it strange that Doc didn't destroy all his stuff in the blacksmith's workshop before going back to the future? Clara goes back to the workshop and finds the model of the railroad and the Delorean, clearly labeled "time machine." [It's a small wooden model of a strange horseless wagon that says it has "magical" properties. Who would believe it was anything but a toy, or some crazy old man's imagination running wild?]
Corrected by Twotall
This would only be noticeable to the true movie geek, but when Doc and Marty are looking at the map to plan their trip back to 1985, Clara is standing in the background waiting for Doc to pick her up as he promised he would do. Since he doesn't show, she apparently rents a wagon herself and. . . well, the rest is history. [Clara's presence in the scene is (a) blatantly obvious and (b) the whole point of the scene. Hardly something only for true geeks.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
A device created by Doc makes a hen lay an egg. The egg breaks and falls in a salad dish then the white and yolk of the egg fall in the frying pan. But where are the shells of the eggs? [You can see the salad bowl has two holes in it, a bigger one at the end where the egg falls in, and a smaller one at the opposite side. The egg falls through the big slot and breaks. The bowl is tipped and the egg slides out the smaller hole. The shell is too big to follow and thus stays in the bottom compartment.]
Regardless of whether or not Doc is surprised to see Marty in 1885 (and there's nothing to indicate that he is), he should not be surprised to see his tombstone in the picture. He learned of his own death in 1955. [No he didn't. Doc found the tombstone because of Marty's time-travelling, which means the original Doc has no knowledge of it because time-travellers' memories are unaffected by changes in the timeline. This is consistent throughout the franchise.]
When Marty leaves for the future at the beginning of Part II, Biff is in his red tracksuit about to wash their cars and Marty's black truck is in the garage. Then in Parts II and III, Marty and Doc make plenty of changes in the past and Doc staying in 1885 would greatly change things on Marty's return to 1985. But when Marty's returns to 1985 at the end of Part III, Biff is still in his red tracksuit about to wash the cars and the same black truck is still in the garage. [But bear in mind that Doc left 1985 at the same point as Marty, so any effect he's had on history up to that point will remain, despite eventually going back to 1885. The ravine name changes, but nothing else world-altering happened.]
Why didn't Doc Brown think of getting the gasoline he needed from the DeLorean he had hidden in the mine? [He said in the letter that he sent to Marty that he took it out. He could have used it for experiments or just thrown it out.]
When Doc puts a buffer on the train, it has tires in it. No-one had cars so where would he get the tires from? [They are the tyres from the Delorean.]
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