Back to the Future... The Ride (1991)

Actors: Bob Gale (writer), Thomas F. Wilson (actor), Steven Spielberg (miscellaneous crew), Frank Welker (actor), Alan Silvestri (composer), David de Vos (actor), Robert Zemeckis (writer), Michael Klastorin (actor), Christopher Lloyd (actor), Les Mayfield (miscellaneous crew), Douglas Trumbull (actor), Douglas Trumbull (director), Peyton Reed (writer), Tamara Bally (miscellaneous crew), Arish Fyzee (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Visitors to the "Institute of Future Technology" enter what they believe to be a tour of the facilities, but instead get involved in a chase through time to recover a time-machine stolen by Biff Tannen.

Keywords: ellipsis-in-title, imax, ride-film, sequel, six-word-title, special-venue, theme-park-attraction, time-travel
Genres: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Short,

Quotes:

Doc Brown: We've been swallowed!

Biff Tannen: What are you lookin' at, butthead?

Biff Tannen: [after tripping a scientist] Have a nice trip, see you next WINTER!

Biff Tannen: [after short-circuiting the lab, and trapping Doc in his own office, he knocks] Hello! Hello! Dr. Brown!::Doc Brown: Biff! How in the blazes did you get here?::Biff Tannen: [revealing the tied up scientists] Why don't you ask these bozos?::Institute Scientist: [Biff removes the tape off of the scientist's mouth] Dr. Brown. Our team was conducting an experiment back in 1955.::Female IFT Scientist: He must have stowed away!::Biff Tannen: Hey! I'm not the one to pass on a free ride!

Doc Brown: Go fourth time travelers, and remember the future is what you make it!

Biff Tannen: Hasta la bye bye!

Back to the Future Part III (1990)

Actors: Dub Taylor (actor), Marc McClure (actor), Bill McKinney (actor), Michael J. Fox (actor), Burton Gilliam (actor), Michael J. Fox (actor), Christopher Lloyd (actor), Richard Dysart (actor), Matt Clark (actor), Flea (actor), Pat Buttram (actor), Harry Carey Jr. (actor), Michael Klastorin (actor), Jeffrey Weissman (actor), James Tolkan (actor),

Plot: Stranded in 1955, Marty McFly receives written word from his friend, Doctor Emmett Brown, as to where can be found the DeLorean time machine. However, an unfortunate discovery prompts Marty to go to his friend's aid. Using the time machine, Marty travels to the old west where his friend has run afoul of a gang of thugs and has fallen in love with a local schoolteacher. Using the technology from the time, Marty and Emmett devise one last chance to send the two of them back to the future.

Keywords: 17-year-old, 1880s, 1950s, 1980s, 19th-century, 20th-century, abandoned-mine, actor-playing-multiple-roles, actress-playing-multiple-roles, adult-actor-playing-teenage-boy
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Western,
Taglines: They've saved the best trip for last... But this time they may have gone too far.

Quotes:

Doc: You're just not thinking fourth dimensionally!::Marty McFly: Right, right. I have a real problem with that.

[Doc Brown and Marty are hijacking a train]::Doc: Reach!::Engineer: Is this a holdup?::Doc: It's a science experiment!

[after the duel between Buford Tannen and Marty, which ended with Buford landing in green horse dung]::Seamus McFly: [chuckling to himself] That was good.

Marty McFly: Listen, you got a back door to this place?::Bartender: Yeah, it's in the back.

Jennifer Parker: Dr. Brown, I brought this note back from the future and now it's erased.::Doc: Of course it's erased.::Jennifer Parker: But what does that mean?::Doc: It means your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has. Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one, both of you.::Marty McFly: [Marty wraps his arm around Jennifer] We will, Doc.

Doc: Clara was one in a million. One in a billion. One in a googolplex!

Doc: Marty, I gave you explicit instructions not to come here but to go directly back to 1985.::Marty McFly: I know, Doc. But I had to come.::Doc: But it's good to see ya, Marty.

Doc: Marty, you can't go losing your judgment every time someone calls you a name. That's exactly what causes you to get into that accident in the future.

[at the town festival]::Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Then let's finish it, right now!::Buford's Gang Member #1: Uh, not now, Buford. Uh, Marshal's got our guns.::Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Like I said, we'll finish this tomorrow.::Buford's Gang Member #2: Tomorrow, we're robbin' the Pine City Stage.::Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: What about Monday? Are we doin' anything Monday?::Buford's Gang Member #1: Uh, no, Monday'd be fine. You can kill him on Monday.::Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: I'll be back this way on Monday! We'll settle this then... right there... out in the street... in front of the Palace Saloon!::Marty McFly: Yeah, right. When? High noon?::Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Noon? I do my killin' before breakfast! Seven o'clock!::Marty McFly: Eight o'clock. I do my killin' after breakfast!

[last lines]::Marty McFly: Hey, Doc! Where you goin' now? Back to the future?::Doc: Nope. Already been there.

Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Actors: James Tolkan (actor), Gian Maria Volonté (actor), Christopher Lloyd (actor), Crispin Glover (actor), Clint Eastwood (actor), Flea (actor), Neil Ross (actor), Charles Fleischer (actor), George 'Buck' Flower (actor), Michael J. Fox (actor), Michael J. Fox (actor), Michael J. Fox (actor), Joe Flaherty (actor), Thomas F. Wilson (actor), Jeffrey Weissman (actor),

Plot: Marty McFly has only just gotten back from the past, when he is once again picked up by Dr. Emmett Brown and sent through time to the future. Marty's job in the future is to pose as his own son to prevent him from being thrown in prison. Unfortunately, things get worse when the future changes the present.

Keywords: 17-year-old, 1950s, 2010s, abandoned-library, absent-mindedness, actor-playing-female-role, actor-playing-multiple-roles, adult-actor-playing-teenage-boy, altering-history, alternate-history
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: Getting back was only the beginning. Synchronize your watches. The future's coming back... Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads! We're Back Do You Remember... The Future? It's About Time.

Quotes:

[last lines]::Young Doc: No! It can't be; I just sent you back to the future!::Marty McFly: No, I know; you *did* send me back to the future. But I'm back - I'm back *from* the future.::Young Doc: Great Scott!::[Doc faints]::Marty McFly: Doc! Doc! Doc! Oh, fantastic.

Biff Tannen: That's about as funny as a screen door on a battleship.::Marty McFly: [under his breath] It's "screen door on a submarine," you dork.

Lorraine Baines: Biff Tannen, I wouldn't be your girl even if - even if you had a million dollars.

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[Jennifers from two different times confront one another]::Young Jennifer: I'm old!::Old Jennifer: I'm young!

[Flying above Biff in 1955]::Marty McFly: There he is, Doc! Let's land on him, we'll cripple his car.::Doc: Marty, he's in a '46 Ford, we're in a DeLorean. He'd rip through us like we were tin foil.

Marty McFly: [Reading the newspaper from 2015] "Within two hours of his arrest, Martin McFly Jr. was tried, convicted and sentenced to fifteen years in the state penitentiary."? Within two hours?::Doc: The justice system works swiftly in the future now that they've abolished all lawyers.

Doc: The time-traveling is just too dangerous. Better that I devote myself to study the other great mystery of the universe: women!

Doc: Marty! What in the name of Sir Isaac H. Newton happened here?

Marty McFly: [arriving in 1955] Oh, this is heavy, Doc. I mean, it's like I was just here yesterday.::Doc: You were here yesterday, Marty.

Back to the Future (1985)

Actors: Thomas F. Wilson (actor), Billy Zane (actor), James Tolkan (actor), George DiCenzo (actor), Read Morgan (actor), Jason Hervey (actor), Tom Tangen (actor), Norman Alden (actor), George 'Buck' Flower (actor), Michael J. Fox (actor), Marc McClure (actor), Courtney Gains (actor), Crispin Glover (actor), Lea Thompson (actress), Christopher Lloyd (actor),

Plot: Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the Eighties, is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean "time machine" invented by slightly mad scientist. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time, Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be meet and fall in love - so he can get back to the future.

Keywords: 1950s, 1980s, 555-phone-number, altering-history, alternate-history, audio-feedback, automobile, band, barn, battle-of-the-bands
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: He's the only kid ever to get into trouble before he was born. [UK] He was never in time for his classes . . .Then one day he wasn't in his time at all. 17 year old Marty McFly got home early last night. 30 years early. He was never in time for his classes... He wasn't in time for his dinner... Then one day... he wasn't in his time at all. Marty McFly's having the time of his life. The only question is -- what time is it? Meet Marty McFly. He's broken the time barrier. Busted his parents' first date. And, maybe, botched his chances of ever being born. Marty McFly just broke the time barrier. He's only got one week to get it fixed.

Quotes:

George McFly: Last night, Darth Vader came down from Planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out, that he'd melt my brain.

Marty McFly: Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?::Dr. Emmett Brown: The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?

[1955 Doc is watching a video of 1985 Doc]::Dr. Emmett Brown: What on Earth is this thing I'm wearing?::Marty McFly: Ah, this, this is a radiation suit.::Dr. Emmett Brown: Radiation suit? Of course. 'Cause of all the fallout from the atomic wars.

[in the past, Marty observes his dad's incompetence]::Marty McFly: Jesus, George, it was a wonder I was even born.

George McFly: Lorraine. My density has popped me to you.::Lorraine Baines: What?::George McFly: Oh. What I meant to say was...::Lorraine Baines: Wait a minute. Don't I know you from somewhere?::George McFly: Yes. Yes. I'm George. George McFly. I'm your density. I mean, your destiny.

Mr. Strickland: I noticed your band is on the roster for the dance auditions after school today. Why even bother, McFly? You don't have a chance. You're too much like your old man. No McFly ever amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley!::Marty McFly: Yeah, well, history is gonna change.

[repeated line]::Marty McFly: If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.

Biff Tannen: Mr. McFly! Mr. McFly, this just arrived. Oh, hi, Marty. I think it's your new book.::Lorraine Baines: Oh, honey! Your first novel.::George McFly: Like I've always told you, you put your mind to it, you can accomplish *anything*.::Biff Tannen: Oh, Marty. Marty, here's your keys. You're all waxed up, ready for tonight.::Marty McFly: Keys?

Marty McFly: "Too loud." I can't believe it. I'm never gonna get a chance to play in front of anybody.::Jennifer Parker: Marty, one rejection isn't the end of the world.::Marty McFly: Nah, I just don't think I'm cut out for music.::Jennifer Parker: But you're good, Marty. You're really good, and this audition tape of yours is great. You've gotta send it in to the record company. It's like Doc's always saying.::Marty McFly: Yeah, I know. I know. "If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything."::[Marty notices two girls walk by and looks at them]::Jennifer Parker: [turns Marty's head back to her] That's good advice, Marty.::Marty McFly: All right, okay, Jennifer. What if I send in the tape in and they don't like it? What if they say I'm no good? What if they say, "Get out of here kid. You've got no future"? I mean, I just don't think I can take that kind of rejection. Jesus, I'm starting to sound like my old man.::Jennifer Parker: Come on. He's not that bad. At least he's letting you borrow the car tomorrow night.::Marty McFly: [sees a tow truck pull up with a 4x4 Toyota on the flat bed] Check out that 4x4. That is hot. Someday, Jennifer. Someday. Wouldn't it be great to take that truck up to the lake? Throw a couple of sleeping bags in the back. Lie out underneath the stars.::Jennifer Parker: Stop it.::Marty McFly: What?::Jennifer Parker: Does your mom know? About tomorrow night?::Marty McFly: No, get out of town. My mom thinks I'm going camping with the guys. Look, Jennifer, my mother would freak out if she knew I was going out with you, and I'd get the standard lecture about how she never did that kind of stuff when she was a kid. I mean, look, I think the woman was born a nun.::Jennifer Parker: She's just trying to keep you respectable.::Marty McFly: Well, she's not doing a very good job.::Jennifer Parker: Terrible.

Biff Tannen: And where's my reports?::George McFly: Well, I haven't finished those up yet, but you know, I... I figured since they weren't due till...::Biff Tannen: Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Huh? Think, McFly. Think! I gotta have time to get them retyped. Do you realize what would happen if I hand in my reports in your handwriting? I'll get fired. You wouldn't want that to happen, would ya? Would ya?::George McFly: Of course not, Biff. Now, I wouldn't want that to happen. Now, look. I'll, uh, finish those reports on up tonight, and I'll run 'em on over first thing tomorrow, all right?::Biff Tannen: Not too early. I sleep in Saturday. Oh, McFly, your shoe's untied.::[jabs his finger up to George's face]::Biff Tannen: Don't be so gullible, McFly. Got the place fixed up nice, though, McFly.