Your favorite Back to the Future movie

[Kilana2]

There have been two sequels to the original Back to the Future movie with Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd.

I love the original one and Part III with Marty visiting the Wild West, but never got into Part II for reasons I can't determine.

What's your favorite one? Or do you like them equally? Or do you consider them as outdated?

For me these movies are childhood classics....

 

[MacLeod]

If I had to absolutly had to pick 1, I lean towards the first film.

 

[hux]

If I was only allowed to watch one, I'd stick with the first one but they work best when you watch all three of them in a row.

 

[John Clark]

They're all good fun but I guess my least liked (even though I do enjoy it) is the second.

I think the first one has the edge for best of the three though.

 

[Mr Light]

2 was always my favorite for the future sequence. 3 was always my least favorite because as a kid I hated Western movies.

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

2 was always my favorite for the future sequence. 3 was always my least favorite because as a kid I hated Western movies.

I was the same way.
Until I watched the movies again a few years back and found that I enjoyed the 3rd movie more than the 2nd. It wasn't as over the top and had a stronger emotional core that I must have missed when I was younger.

 

[Commander Richard]

^ I probably would have picked the 2nd one but I haven't seen the movies in a long time and figured that my perspective might be different now and that what you said might be the case.

 

[sojourner]

I like the one with Billy Zane.

 

[RandyS]

Number two is my favorite. Number one is good, and number three is the worst of the bunch.

 

[Harvey]

The first film is obviously the best.

The sequels are fun, though.

 

[Goji]

The first one is the only one I've ever really liked all that much.

 

[Galileo7]

BTTF and the Empire Strikes Back of this trilogy of films BTTF2.

 

[Kilana2]

Currently watching part I. I thought that I'm familiar with the whole movie. Obviously not. It was about time for a re-watch......

 

[kirk55555]

I voted all equally, but mostly because my actual situation isn't listed (I like all 3 a lot, but two of them a bit more than the third). Basically, I count Parts 1 and 3 as tied, with Part 2 slightly below them. I know some people say Part Three is the weakest, but I like it a lot, and Part 2 has always felt like kind of a weak movie to me. Its still a good movie, but I don't like it as much as the others.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I agree. I think II is the weakest of the three as well.

 

[The Lensman]

Easily the first film. Like Star Wars and The Matrix, it really doesn't need it's sequels and can be viewed alone. People forget that Back To The Future didn't say "To Be Continued..." in the theaters as it was intended to be one film, not a trilogy.

 

[JediKnightButler]

As a whole, it is one of my favorite film trilogies and it's kind of hard to evaluate them independent of each other though the first one is pretty self-contained. The second one is probably the weakest of the films, however it serves its purpose as the "bridge" between the other two films. The third film nicely wrapped up all of the plot threads left hanging by the first two and leaves you with a good feeling about the end of the story. The only question I've ever had about the last movie is, why did Doc spend most of the movie talking about how it was a mistake for him to create the time machine in the first place and how he just wanted it to be destroyed- yet goes off and (somehow) builds a brand new spanking Locomotive one at the end. Not really a complaint per se as it was really cool-looking but just a minor nitpick. My wife and (late) mother-in-law adore these movies and they're hard to avoid watching whenever they're on TV.

 

[DWF]

As a whole, it is one of my favorite film trilogies and it's kind of hard to evaluate them independent of each other though the first one is pretty self-contained. The second one is probably the weakest of the films, however it serves its purpose as the "bridge" between the other two films. The third film nicely wrapped up all of the plot threads left hanging by the first two and leaves you with a good feeling about the end of the story. The only question I've ever had about the last movie is, why did Doc spend most of the movie talking about how it was a mistake for him to create the time machine in the first place and how he just wanted it to be destroyed- yet goes off and (somehow) builds a brand new spanking Locomotive one at the end. Not really a complaint per se as it was really cool-looking but just a minor nitpick. My wife and (late) mother-in-law adore these movies and they're hard to avoid watching whenever they're on TV.

I think Clara gae Doc a new leash on life and a new purpose as well as two sons. In the end she changed his life or the better.

 

[Harvey]

Easily the first film. Like Star Wars and The Matrix, it really doesn't need it's sequels and can be viewed alone. People forget that Back To The Future didn't say "To Be Continued..." in the theaters as it was intended to be one film, not a trilogy.

The Blu-Ray does not include the "To Be Continued..." title card that was added to earlier home video releases.

 

[Gaith]

The first is of course the best, but though I haven't watched them in ages, I voted II because it's the one I remember enjoying most - there's very little of Lorraine's icky (narratively genius, of course, but still icky) hitting on Marty, the future and "Hell Valley" sequences are both awesome in their own funny and creepy ways, respectively, and the replay of the 1955 scenes is just insanely fun.

There's some good stuff in III, particularly the beginning and the Doc/Clara scenes, but there's also a whole lot of just plain stupid, from 1950s Doc thinking a 1950s-movie cowboy outfit is at all historically accurate, the magic teleportation from real-world Monument Valley, Utah to wherever they shot 1885 Hill Valley, the sudden and frankly off-putting casualness about firearms that has no precedents in the first two movies, and all those huge, gaping plot holes which Trekker 4747 so expertly once listed.

So, yeah, tonight, my favorite vote, as opposed to overall best vote, goes to II.