Every MISTAKE in Back to the Future (1985) faster than 88mph! 

The answer to all these inconsistencies……time travel.

The fact that I've noticed none of these in almost 40 years of repeatedly watching this film speaks volumes about the quality of the story telling.

After firing Eric Stoltz, they basically had like an hour and a half to remake to the entire movie - plus they were pushed UP on the production schedule to get it out by July 4th weekend because the test audiences loved it so much and the studio wanted it OUT. And it became the #1 most iconic movie of all time. I think they did ok.

In the dozen or so times I've seen this movie I've never noticed a single one of these "mistakes". And not a single one of them affected my fondness for it.

Marty just goes back to the future so many times, he changed the future in every scene a few times.

The guitar Marty uses at the dance hadn't been produced yet. Gibson ES-345 didn't start production until 1958

You forgot one, Marty says, “We don’t have enough road to get up to 88.” When he had just watched Doc time travel on the same road the night before🤷‍♂️

Biggest goof was showing a DeLorean DMC-12 going anywhere near 50MPH without catching fire.

You missed the one I always said. How did Doc have a remote control on a stick shift car?

At the prom in 1955 you get a glimpse of the three point line on the basketball court. It wasn't around yet.

I don’t think the beer in the fridge was a mistake. It’s supposed to tell us something about Biff, that he’s either oblivious or just wants to bully someone.

There are three that you missed: 1. You can see the stunt driver dressed up as Einstein in a dog outfit when driving the car. 2. In that same scene you can see crewman off to the side as the car speeds by about to timetravel. 3. When biff get punched in the face by Marty in 1955 its said that was Eric Stolts fist, as after Eric was fired and Michael took over the role. Tom Wilson has gone on for years stating after Eric was let go he has no memories of ever reshooting that scene. So we have one possible shot of Eric Stoltz in BTTF.

0:36 - 0:41 - his sleeve is covering over his watch in the school scene 0:42 - 0:53 - Biff didn't care if George had regular beers or not, he was just thinking on the fly of another excuse to taunt George, it was Biff's nature to think of reasons to bully and taunt

The wonderful thing about the human brain is that we fill in the blanks and mis-steps. Did not see none of this when watching this movie!

I wouldn't consider the Flux Compressor/Capacitor a goof, necessarily, as that could be what he called it at the time he had the original idea. In 30 years, he could have easily changed the name of it several times, even. Especially, as he learned more about how the device would actually work.

Still my favorite movie of all time 😊

To be fair... They're not wrong arriving "Late" to school 😅

One flaw I always think of in BTTF3 is when Marty goes back to 1885 and the fuel is gone, technically there is another DeLorean that should be there when Doc went back where they could have got gas and fixed the fuel lines. Or just used the DeLorean Doc went back in. One of those paradox things.

Good calls except for #12 where the passenger side headlight was blocked, not necessarily out.

It's one of my favorite movies. We've heard the story about Michael J. Fox shooting the film mostly at night. That could explain the school windows. Doc Brown asks if Jane Wyman was First Lady in the future. By 1955 she and Ronald Reagan were divorced. He was already married to Nancy.

So you are saying..... Not just time travel.... Multiverse!!! Great Scott!!!!

It starts out in October 1985 but no Halloween decorations they forgot the Halloween decorations.

When Delorean goes to the future for the very first time, the flames 🔥 would have set on Doc’s and Marty’s lower legs on fire, yet they had no reaction from that, only regarding Delorean disappearing.

I noticed a goof when Marty is going back to 1985, and he slams his head on the steering wheel to try to start the car. Usually the horn on a Delorean is located on the control stalk next to the wheel, not in the center of the wheel. And for some reason, the horn sounds when he did this.

I like the explanation that we're watching all these different realities & that's where the inconsistencies come from.

When Marty says "we don't have enough road to get up to 88"... Welll, the road actually looks long enough to me...

Not one of these things were a mistake. They are all part of the reason it's so iconic.

You forgot the laundry line scene. When Marty is coaching his dad. Marty's pocket flap keeps ticking itself in and out.

They were not goofs, they were alternate realities bleeding in from time travel 😮

Lorraine’s dad’s car has the same licence plate as the car that almost hits Marty when he first arrives in Courthouse Square

Not goofs, its the space time continuum resetting itself

I enjoy this film so much I never noticed any mistakes in it at all

Time travel changes time lines with little differences and operates within the 4th dimension, that's why sometimes things disappear or reappear.

Great, now my entire childhood is ruined. Thanks a lot! 😔

Mayor Red Thomas' campaign car also loses a speaker.

1:45 Doc got into the DeLorean then drove it up into the back of the van. Using a remote control he closed the back of the van. Same remote then opens the back of the van.

When Marty meets Doc in 1955, i thought that Doc would look younger like when he was on Taxi with black hair.

I can't believe the skateboard's wheels changing colors when Marty arrives at the mall wasn't in this.

Cinemasins is so proud of you.

Yes, the song is in Bb, but if you look at Marty's hands he's playing it in B. Maybe the guitar was tuned down 1/2 step.

Einstein vanished when going 1 minute into the future. Marty and Jennifer did not vanish because they went 30 years into the future to see their non vanished future selves. 🤔

One Goof you missed: When Doc & Marty are in the high school. Doc asks Marty, "What did your mother ever see in that kid"? Marty says, "I guess he felt sorry for him". Michael J. Fox pronounces the word "sorry" in a Canadian accent.

Two more, about the barn scene: First, the car has no ice on it, despite just having traveled through time (it had ice on it in the mall parking lot, after time travel). And second, the car is facing the wrong way in the barn.

When Lorraine was pushed to the ground by Biff in the fight scene, clearly the ground was wet and her dress would have had stains on the back of it, but clearly doesn’t when she stands back up and escorted by George after he knocked Biff out.

Finally, what CinemaSins was supposed to be. F them. Love you.

Marty hooks up his camcorder to Dr. Brown's TV set, plays the video in black & white. Later, Marty comes into the lab and Dr. Brown is viewing the tape again on the same TV, but this time it's in color.

Missed this: When Marty is being chased, he comes across two kids with boxes on skateboards. In the first scene the left kid puts his hands on the right kid's box to stop it. In the next scene (1 second later) that kid has his hands on his own box and not on the other kid's box.

Each other time the Delorean would time travel, besides the first time, there is less of the ice laden effect

5:17 that's because his future wasn't bright enough.

Doc could've changed the name to flux capacitor after he drew up that original sheet.

Now, You’ve made me have to go watch the movie…again !! For the 100th time…

No one mentioned this one: The Libyans keep up with the Delorean in a VW van. VW vans have a top speed of 76 MPH but only if they are going Downhill with a tailwind! I used to own one and it stated 76 MPH in the owners manual.

I can reasonably justify the girl in the blue sweater, she’s avoiding class by walking the same path multiple times, very common trick I use

In Back to the Future 3, the biggest goof is that they never needed the train - they could have gotten the gasoline from the tank of the second Delorean that had previously been stored away in the mine.

Doc backing the DeLorean out of the truck, I like to imagine that he pulled it in and waited for Marty to show up for the big reveal. Some how he knew Marty arrived maybe he hear him talk to Einstein. The back of the truck opens automatically so it must be remote controlled.

Good video! I like these kinds of finds

Good spots mate I never spotted them mistakes before I've watched it over and over loads of time I never knew how many mistakes they made cheers mate look forward to your next video 👍

...and the Delorean has a V8 sound...though the stock engine was a 6-cylinder from Renault/France...and(!!) Doc says in the beginning: "This car runs electrical." 😅 .... anyway....best movie ever !!!

Some good catches!

Just enjoy the damn movie......every film has these maybe not as much but this is just completely killing it 😢

Not sure if it's counted as a goof. When Doc sends Einstein 1 minute into the future, the flames from the DeLorean is on a screen behind Christopher Lloyd and Michael J Fox, they're hovering in mid-air.

Probably more of a question than a goof, but I always wondered even if the terrorist crashed into the photomart thing, it's not like they died, in fact it really wasn't a serious accident. So wouldn't they still be looking for Doc and Marty, like immediately after this. Its not as if Doc and Marty were entirely out of danger.

There are so many more! 1. We see how the television in Doc's garage gets automatically turned on with a light switch. What turns it back off? 2. How does the Kal-Can dog food lid get removed from the magnet of the automated dog feeder? Where did the previous can's lid go? 3. What creates all the fog/smoke when Doc backs the car out of the van? And even if he somehow got into the gull-wing car after he closed up the van, why is smoke/fog coming from inside the time machine when he first makes an appearance? Was he chonging out with Jeff Spicoli or something? 4. The spedometer in the beginning (1985-to-1955) is MUCH different than the spedometer at the end (1955-to-1985 ). 5. When Doc took the suction cup from the dog's head, the mind-reading machine kept running, but when Marty pulls the suction cup from his head, it causes the machine to wind down to a stop. 6. Without completely disassembling Doc's 1955 television, how is Doc able to connect the AV cords from the JVC player to a simple vacuum-tube television receiver and get it to play as a video monitor in any fashion whatsoever? It's like getting a 1970s 9-volt transistor AM radio to play as a speaker for a compact disc player. Perhaps it is possible, but very time consuming nonetheless. 7. Does Lou have a chocolate milk just ready to slide across the bar to George in case he might come in and order one? Is it on the house or does George have a running tab? We sure as hell don't see George pay for it... 8. Who kills/unplugs the jukebox when Biff walks in and says "Hey McFly?" 9. How does hitting your head on the steering wheel ever turn over the ignition on ANY car? His hands were on the wheel, not turning keys. 10. How is the Peabody Farm and Lyon Estates two miles away from Hill Valley in 1955, yet much less than ten minutes running distance from downtown to the Lone Pine Mall in 1985? So many more than ten, but I've got to get on with my day. (I still LOVE the movie and think it's WAY better than the sequels.) Great video! ❤

Whoa!! Did we just go back in time and watched a video of the early days of Cinema Sins?

I know that it crosses over movies, but in part 3, when the clock tower is being built, there is a mountain behind it. At some point between 1885 and 1955, the mountain was demolished! Yikes, that's a hell of a bulldozer!

For the car being in the truck... The Delorean doors are actually quite efficient when in a tight space. I never had problems opening the door in a parking spot, as the door doesn't swing out, but rather directly up. 🙂

November 5th, 1955 is like 6 days after the death of James Dean and nobody ever mentions it in the film. A lot of teens were traumatized I think.

2:30 - I have had intermittent sealed beams before. Sometimes if you hit them, they turn on or off until the filament finally breaks.

This is way better than Cinema Sins, by far.

And wouldnt you notice that your teenage son looks exactly like the guy who set you up with your future spouse?

I was someone else hand once in a feature film changing a radio station.... It's not that this film has more mistakes than others, it's just that it's watched more often.

for the goof at 1:45, the doors can open up with ease with less than a foot of space, can wiggle in fine.

0:13 #1 You and I know that's lighting equipment but unless you're really, really looking hard it could just be the reflection of windows on the other side of Doc's lab. 0:22 #2 Let's just say during the cut that guy forgot something turned around real quick and walked back again. 0:29 #3 Nobody says those doors go directly outside. They could lead to the gym, or have a close building shading it. 0:38 #4 Marty couldn't have taken off his watch between skitching to school? However, at the end of the movie when Marty meets back up with Jennifer he's not wearing the watch. In the reshoot for Part 2 with Elizabeth Shue, he is wearing it. And the truck and license plate are different. 0:43 #5 Biff is an oblivious jerk. 0:58 #6 The candy jar. ACTUAL GOOF #1 1:12 #7 & 8 If heads can be erased from pictures, then video can be slightly altered too. Marty had already run over Peabody's pine, so that footage is from Lone Pine mall. So any changes are fair game. 1:39 #9 The digital stop watches aren't turned on. ACTUAL GOOF #2 1:45 #10 Doc pulled in the truck so he can pull out for dramatic effect and to surprise Marty. 2:02 #11 The speedometer on a Delorean only goes up to 85. This means that Doc had to fabricate a new dashboard along with all the other modifications. I like to think that while he was changing the dashboard, he accidentally messed up the odometer, and ever since it just spins around at random. 2:24 #12 Lights, especially on such a crappy car, can flick off and on at random. I wouldn't be surprised if that's even what actually happened while filming. Tom Wilson always says that car was a piece of garbage. 2:38 #13 A strong gust of wind? I'll give it to you. ACTUAL GOOF #3 2:45 #14 The Red Thomas sign. ACTUAL GOOF #4. 2:57 #15 Eh....nah 3:03 #16 Can't the bell be obstructed by his book? Can it be the bell of another bicycle? There had to be a second bell over on that grassy knoll. 3:10 #17 Call the RCA company to confirm that cable's viability. 3:19 #18 That was Doc's first draft of the Flux Capacitor. Marty is not reading the diagram, he's saying what it is. 3:23 #19 The girl in the blue sweater, like the guy outside the aerobics studio, turned around and came back real quick. 3:35 #20 Famous cut scene where Marty actually uses the hairdryer as a death ray. Since you couldn't know that just by watching the film, I'll give it to you. ACTUAL GOOF #5 3:50 #21 Twin brother? The could write it in the sequel if they wanted to. ACTUAL GOOF #5 Also, nobody's mouth is moving when the boy exclaims "HEY!" Also also, Biff and the gang stop right behind the kids, then when they cut to him saying "Wow, look at him go!" Biff and the gang are stopping right behind the kids again. 4:01 #22 So the car shimmied a little on impact. Okay. 4:13 #23 Bob Gale is still so stifled that some kid had nothing to do with his life but spend his time nitpicking minute mistakes in films. I mean, who does that, amirite?? But there's no excuse for this. ACTUAL GOOF #6 4:22 #24 The cuts are too close together so there is no excuse for the Pepsi case. ACTUAL GOOF #7 4:31 #25 Marty made a mistake. 4:48 #26 Strickland's hands on his ears. ACTUAL GOOF #8 4:50 #27 The Assembly of Christ needs to raise money to replace that cheap drywall. 5:04 #28 The box is empty then full then empty again. ACTUAL GOOF #9 5:12 #29 The glasses are so hard to notice through the shade. I'm not giving you that one. 5:20 #30 It's only the reflection of a camera because you KNOW it's the reflection of a camera. I bet if you have a poll to unsuspecting viewers they'd say it's the reflection of a house or a car. New final count: 9/30

During the Marty and George laundry scene, Marty’s breast pocket flap alternates between tucked and untucked.

Wow, great eye sights

At the beginning, when Marty blows the amplifier, all of the paper on the shelf falls on him. In the next scene, it's sitll falling.

I have seen these movies literally a thousand times each, so I picked up on a few of the Goofs you mentioned. But definitely NOT all of them. Goody eyes, Cinema Goofs! For example, I noticed the letters were different. They were written with a different pen and in different handwriting. But a couple of these I NEVER would have got. The reflection of the lights in Marty's glasses and the license plate, for examples. I never would have seen them. Now I can't unsee them!

How was Marty able to just hang out in the high school several times without being noticed? Clearly Strickland and the other school staff would have asked Marty if he was a new or existing student.

What about the fact that Marty didn't get the DeLorean to start until after alarm goes off which is a very big deal when the timing has to be very precise.

Proud that I noticed the videocam discrepancies back then!

Of all the Back to the Future scrutiny, Your catches have got to be the most amazing! Love it, keep this info available. Looks like they changed the time space continuum more than they thought! They made more things change than just making his parents not get together, or Marty cal wolf a half a jar of candy when someone turns their back. Love the way the Delorean odometer kept a record of when the scenes were shot. They must have altered time that way too.

How about the guy in the back of the car leaning INTO the manure dumping into the car or the kid with the board fighting Marty in one cut but then just standing there in the next. The one that totally bugged me was that every reference to Marty’s watch. He would shake it and then put it to his ear, even though it was a Casio calculator watch that is digital. WHY?!!!!

It's like cinnemasins before they decided to take themselves way too seriously.

Considering its 1985 movie, which was just sci-fi and didnt have much hopes anyway, they did a great job. You think 40 years later and they make more mestakes and more silly ones too in very serious films which often are not historically accurate and they have experts working on those

* He tells a bunch of black men to "try and keep up" and they don't kill him.

From what I've seen in another video here on RU-vid, the Delorean only needs a few inches to be able to open and close. Seems like it mostly swings up and down more than out.

When Marty goes, “I can go back early and warn him. 10 minutes ought to do it”. When adjusting the time circuits, he changes the minute mark from 1:35am to 1:24am, which clearly is 11 min and not 10 min. ⏰

The biggest goof is no smartphones and RU-vid in 2015. How dare they...

3:15 - RCA may have used two signals, one for sound, one for video - the sound one may have fallen out.

You missed George's crazy top pocket when he's hanging clothes talking to marty hatching the plan to get himself & lorraine back together.

The time machine jumps to a specific time, it doesn't jump a certain period of time, so Einstein's watch wouldn't be exactly a minute behind Doc's.

4:08 There is a very good reason why the letter that original Marty is seen writing in Lou's Cafe does not match the letter that appears at the end of BTTF1. To understand my rationale, you must watch and study the rules of time travel in BTTF2. It gets complicated and most people reading my comment will not be able to follow it. Rule: When time traveler A arrives in year X and another time traveler B departs (going to the past) from year X, then the surroundings of time traveler A instantaneously transforms around him to reflect the changes made by time traveler B. This happens in 2015 when old man Biff steals the DeLorean. 2015 instantaneously transforms around Doc, Marty, and Jennifer the instant old man Biff departs from 2015. My theory is that this also happens at the end of BTTF1 when original Marty arrives in 1985. Original Marty runs towards the Lone Pine Mall sign and witnesses Doc getting shot and affluent Marty departing 1985. Original Marty actually sees 2 different Docs at the Lone Pine Mall. The Doc that is seen before affluent Marty departs 1985 is the aged version of the Doc that original Marty interacted with in 1955. However, the moment affluent Marty departed 1985, the surroundings of original Marty instantaneously transformed around him to reflect the changes made by affluent Marty in 1955. The Doc that is seen after affluent Marty's departure from 1985 is the aged version of the Doc that affluent Marty interacted with in 1955. Therefore, the letter that Doc shows original Marty is not the same letter that original Marty wrote but instead is the letter that affluent Marty wrote. This theory also explains why George and Lorraine do not view Biff as the person who attempted to rape Lorraine 30 years ago but instead credit him for being their matchmaker. Events happened differently with affluent Marty in 1955. In affluent Marty's version of 1955, Biff somehow was positioned to play the role of matchmaker for George and Lorraine. Somehow, affluent Marty's privileged upbringing taught him how to manipulate Biff and position him to serve as a matchmaker instead of a romantic rival.

When it first came out, I was 16. But I did notice the missing hair-dryer during the "melting my brain" scene. I found only a couple more when I rewatched it just a few years ago. Nice catches. You know... if you do the first movie in the franchise... you are obligated to do the other 2 movies... it's sacrilege to only stop at the first one.

The hair dryer is from doc's suitcase in the delorean in a deleted scene

Definitely it's a movie and not a documentary.

That “hair part” was definitely because of the helmet and the wind.

When Marty piggybacks on the Jeep riding through town, the driver on the Jeep looks back at Marty a couple of times, first on wide shot and again(like it was the first time) on the close up shot

In the mall scenes, Marty say out loud "Let's see if you bastards can do 120." But the speedo in the Delorean only goes to 95 MPH.

This is magnificently picky! *subscribes*

Not only does Morty go back in time, the cars’s miles do as well