7 "Perfect" Movie Endings That Are Way More Contrived Than You Think

7. Marty Tells Doc "To Back Up" Because There's Not Enough Road To Get Up To 88; There Totally Is - Back To The Future

Back to the Future tells the story of one Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), an awesomely cool teenager who gets sent back in time to 1955 in a time travelling DeLorean and accidently prevents his parents from meeting. His mission, of course, is to get them back together before he's erased from existence. To do this, he teams up with the younger version of the time machine's inventor, Doc Emmet L. Brown (Christopher Lloyd), who eventually helps Marty to achieve his goal and succeeds in sending him "back to the future" - that is, back to 1985. Upon driving him back to his house in the present, Doc speeds off at 88 miles an hour (the speed at which time travel is permissible) and goes on vacation to the future. The classic ending to this movie has Doc returning and telling Marty that they have to go to the future to prevent a crisis from occurring with Marty's kids. Marty, his girlfriend Jennifer, and the Doc climb into the DeLorean at this point, only for Marty to tell Doc: "Hey, Doc, you better back up, we don't have enough road to get up to 88." "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads," the Doc quips, as the DeLorean takes off from the ground - newly equipped with thrusters - and flies off. It's a seeming perfect ending to a perfect movie, with one contrived nitpick: when the Doc dropped Marty off on the same road earlier on from the exact same position, he drove off fine and managed to get to 88mph on the exact same amount of turf. Marty's line about not having enough road to get to 88, then, makes zero sense, because they're on that same darn road. The purpose Marty's dialogue cue, of course, was to initiate the now immortal final line of the movie, but it - ultimately - means zilch. And yet we'll forgive it, because this movie is too awesome.