Back to the Future as one film (Released) — Page 2

Knightmessenger said:

I have the dvd set but after seeing them air on Encore, I got the idea. Why not edit the scene from part II where Loraine gets her dress and Biff talks all big about how he's going to marry her and gets his car fixed. Then cut it before Old Biff is seen in his car.

That way you have a scene from 1955 inserted in the first movie which was not affected by any of the actions in the sequels. So it happened anyways.

So many movie trilogies have a great first one, a decent second one and a forgettable third one. (Matrix, Spider Man, X-men [Ive heard], Indiana Jones 4) The Back to the Future series is solid all the way through. There's probably a bigger drop off from Empire to Jedi than II to III. And the entire storyline had already been written for the Star Wars trilogy, Lucas had to take the first third and make that the original movie. They had to make the sequels for Back to the Future from scratch because it wasn't known the first movie was going to be a success.

 

I'm liking that idea, as well as a few others by some in the thread. I'm ALMOST considering making an edit for fun once I get my new RAM next week. Personally I'd edit all 3 movies down to an hour and a half total, but I'm not sure I'd have the patience to actually do so by sitting, watching the movies in order, trying to figure out where I'd want it to go and sit there with pen and paper making notes along the way. Too much work for me, personally...

I also did a chronological order version of this.  My source was the old laser disks and I did it a loooooong time ago before folks were doing stuff on computers with professional editing tools and TB hard drives.

Sat down with the movies first and made a list of disk/side/time for each cut and then tweaked it from there.  Spent hours with a VCR and the LD player going from disk to disk etc.  I had no problems with transitions from movie # 2 -3.  

My take was film 1 opens, pretty much as you see it.  When the car goes to the future I cut to when Marty comes back at the end of the show, taking it through his changed family.  When Doc comes back with the car we go to the future.  When they come back to the changed 1985 and head back to the past, that's where the fun began.  It took hours but I managed to get together all the 1950's stuff from 1 & 2.  BttF 2 ends and segues nicely into 3 which you have to watch to get the full deal.  

I still have it, a probably 15 year old videotape, recorded on EP setting to get all three movies on one tape.  Watched a bunch of times with my friends.  I have no intention of even trying it on a computer, got a baby on the way and real life will not allow me the indulgence of a project like this.

After BttF I did the same integration with Krystof Kieslowski's Three Colours Trilogy, probably the most obscure fanedit you'll ever see on these forums. Cut together Blue, White and Red the same way using LD and VHS and I loved it.  Loaned it to a friend and it didn't track well on his VCR so he thought the tape was junk and threw it away....without asking if I minded.  

You know, if a hard drive crashes there is some hope of recovering something but when this happens, you're just SOL.

in reading this...i made some thoughts...in Part 1...remove any "visual" sign of jennifer......theres still mention of her when Marty's sister sais "jennifer parker called"  leave movie intact up till point where marty gets keys from biff and opens garage door..then jennifer (elisabeth shue) walks up and bout that time doc brown shows up they fly off into the sky and...cut away  part 2 credits and then cut to the flying thru traffic in the air and landing.....and continue from there..that solves to me the jennifer switcheroo

The way I cut it the film works as Marty's parents look differnet(-ish) so for her to look somewhat different, too, doesn't really stand out.  Then off to the future and folks look different then, too (including the way that they handled the absence of Crispin Glover returning for the sequel).  Folks looking different just adds a bit to the time travel aspect....you mess with time and things, people included, don't look exactly the same.

they looked different in the future cause they are older......wasnt far stretch to   cover up the fact a different actor was playing the crispin glover rold...but for the same scene in 2 different movie and 2 different  actors playing the same rols as in Claudia well/ elisabeth shue....thats a hole nother issue in my eyes...i was just trying to think of way past thhat the rest  doesnt matter since their are much much older in part 2....

that would work.. we can also assume the  recieving of said flyer happened off camera