Back To The Future: 10 Giant Plot Holes You Probably Missed
Where we're going... things don't have to make sense.
Back To The Future is potentially my favorite movie of all time. As a kid, I would design my own flux capacitor powered time machines in my room and only enjoyed playing with train sets when I could put a car in front of them to be pushed up to 88 mph. And yes, I did try to make my own hoverboard using a vacuum cleaner. Back To The Future is my "trilogy," and it is for these reasons that I feel most critical of it - it is close to my heart, like that family member I can make fun of and no one else can. So that's why I find it important to pick up on the points that blemished the otherwise exceptional film series. With any time travel movie, one must suspend disbelief and allow the film to function within the rules it sets for itself, and it is therefore key for those rules to be consistent, and not to be full of holes. Sadly, the BTTF trilogy was never quite as committed to that agenda as it should have been. So, I present the following portrait of Back To The Future's plot holes out of love, having watched the films somewhere north of 500 times...