Day Eighty Six: In defense of Back to the Future: Part III

Firstly, if you're one of those soulless people who doesn't enjoy, nay, love the Back to the Future movies, then it's probably best that you stop reading now. Honestly, we're going to get deeply nerdy about all three of the films, and if you're not a fan, then you'd best move on. There's nothing for you here.

So, the third film in the trilogy. It always gets a lot of stick, which I think is sort of endemic of these big film trilogies. There's always a solid opening film, an awesome second film, and then the third just tends to be a bit shit. It's true for the Godfather trilogy, it's true for Jurrassic Park, and it's certainly true for Star Wars.

(THERE WERE ONLY EVER THREE STAR WARS FILMS YOU SHUT YOUR FILTHY WHORE MOUTH)

But yeah. We look at the Back to the Future trilogy, and obviously the first one kicks ass, and the second improves on it in every single possible way. It's pretty much a textbook example of how to do an awesome sequel, in that it actually relives moments from the original film, and makes them funnier. That's pretty hard to do, given that the original rocks the house, but it manages it so, so well. And that, I think, is why the third gets a lot of stick. It simply can't be as awesome as the film that preceded it, which, I think, is actually impossible.

Still, I think the third one rocks, because, well, COWBOYS. And also resolving the plotline, giving the Doc a romantic companion, and of course blowing a freaking train up and then making another train into a flying timeship. There are many reasons why it rocks, but mainly it's because without it we wouldn't have these. And man, that's totally worth it.

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