![]() ![]() What Back to the Future III also did for Silvestri was give him the opportunity to write his first ever classic western score, in the style of Elmer Bernstein, Jerome Moross, and all those other legendary greats of the genre. Within a few years of this film opening Silvestri would also write such career landmark works as Father of the Bride, The Bodyguard, and Forrest Gump this really was his golden period. The score for Back to the Future III was, of course, by Alan Silvestri, who by 1990 was firmly established as a Hollywood A-lister off the back of scores like Predator, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Abyss, and the two previous installments in this series. The conclusive action set piece on a runaway train is terrific, and on the whole the movie is one of my favorite action-adventure-comedies of the period – a perfect way to end the Back to the Future series. Fox is as charismatic as always, and Tom Wilson is a blast chewing the scenery as Mad Dog, but perhaps the best performance comes from Lloyd, who is finally given the chance to play a romantic lead against the lovely, optimistic, intellectually curious Steenburgen. The whole thing is a fun, exciting romp that blends contemporary comedy and 1980s attitudes with a whole host of exciting action, most of which pokes fun at Hollywood western tropes, especially the films of Clint Eastwood. With time running out to save the day and finally return home, one final issue arises when Doc falls in love with Clara Clayton, a beautiful schoolteacher played by Mary Steenburgen. Marty finds Doc happily working as a blacksmith, unaware of his future, but before long the pair starts getting into trouble, with Marty encountering both his own great-grandparents, and running afoul of one of Biff’s ancestors, the ruthless gunslinger Mad Dog Tannen. However, Marty discovers some devastating news about his friend’s fate, and manages to convince the 1955 version of Doc to send him back in time too. The ending of the second movie saw the 1985 version of Doc, and the DeLorean, being hit by lightning and sent back in time to Hill Valley in 1885, when it was a newly-build town in the Old West. ![]() Back to the Future II was less of an icon than the original, but has since proven prescient with its vision of a dystopian alternate world where Marty’s nemesis Biff Tannen becomes a Donald Trump-like multi-billionaire. Following the massive success of Back to the Future in 1985, director Robert Zemeckis shot a pair of sequels back-to-back, both of which continued the time traveling exploits of Marty McFly, the suburban kid from 1980s California, and his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown, who built a time machine out of a DeLorean. ![]()
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