So there's this part in Back to the Future (Part I) that made no sense to me. At the beginning of the movie when Doc "died", the mall he was at was called "Twin Pine Mall" (or something like that).
After Marty comes back from 1955, the mall's name on the sign is different. Now "Lone Pine Mall". Is this a goof or did Marty and/or Doc do something in the past to change it?
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
Marty does... listen to the dialogue right before the Libyans show up and watch carefully as Marty drives off from the barn.
Posted by 1lobo1 (Member # 7762) on :
I think he runs over a pine tree in the 50s....
Posted by Salsa (Member # 10530) on :
I wish I wasn't lazy...I don't wanna get back on On Demand. Ok well I will anyway...
*Watching*
Haha. "YOU KILLED OUR PINE!"
But how is anyone supposed to remember some guy hit a pine tree many years later?
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
Old Man Peabody had a crazy idea about breeding pine trees.
It wasn't just any old pine tree that was killed.
Posted by BandoCommando (Member # 7746) on :
This attention to detail is one of the many things I love about this movie. Other examples litter the sets, as you see businesses change From 1955 to 1985 to 2015. Yes, Marty ran over a pine tree, but I think the Doc also alluded to the old farmer and his crazy idea to start a tree farm.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
Salsa: docmagik gave you the other hint that the movie makes about pines. I am 100% sure they changed the name of the mall in the future to reflect that incident with car/tree.
I never get tired of Back to the Future, the only thing that makes me sad about the movie is that Crispin Glover hates Steven Spielberg now. There's just something about hate that mars even the most pleasant memories.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:This attention to detail is one of the many things I love about this movie.
Like how the hair dryer/blaster jumps from Marty's left to right side as scares his father. Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head:
quote:This attention to detail is one of the many things I love about this movie.
Like how the hair dryer/blaster jumps from Marty's left to right side as scares his father.
Pssh! Must you spoil our fun?
edit: *silently notes that when Marty steals that kids makeshift skate board that inexplicably Marty's board develops modern wheels and trucks midride.*
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Frequin' nerds.
Can you believe it's been the better part of 30 years since that movie was made?
Imagine a Back to the Future where they go back to the 80s instead of the 50s.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:Imagine a Back to the Future where they go back to the 80s instead of the 50s.
They already did that. It's called The Wedding Singer.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Except that one had Adam Sandler (waves of suck slowly rising from his body) and it wasn't about time travel. And it didn't have Elizabeth Shue.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Yeah, they often change little things like that in remakes.
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
Strictly speaking it wasn't Marty that killed the 2nd pine that the Twin Pines Mall was named after. Old Man Peabody shot it when he was trying to shoot Marty, because he thought Marty was a space alien. (Not entirely plausible at the distance, but, oh well.)
Posted by BandoCommando (Member # 7746) on :
quote:Originally posted by Will B: Strictly speaking it wasn't Marty that killed the 2nd pine that the Twin Pines Mall was named after. Old Man Peabody shot it when he was trying to shoot Marty, because he thought Marty was a space alien. (Not entirely plausible at the distance, but, oh well.)
Old Man Peabody shot the mailbox, I thought. I'll have to watch.
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