Where did Doc Brown go in Back to the Future 3?

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s7cbassplayer

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I just got done watching Back to the Future 3 (yet another movie masterpiece in the trilogy), and had a thought. At the end of the movie Marty asks the Doc where he is going in his new time machine. He asks if he's going back to the future, and Doc says,

"No already been there".

So, where did he go?? Farther back in the past, in the distant future, or into some wierd paradox?? What do you all think??? <img src="graemlins/glee.gif" border="0" alt="[Glee]" />
 

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Originally posted by s7cbassplayer:
<strong>I just got done watching Back to the Future 3 (yet another movie masterpiece in the trilogy), and had a thought. At the end of the movie Marty asks the Doc where he is going in his new time machine. He asks if he's going back to the future, and Doc says,

"No already been there".

So, where did he go?? Farther back in the past, in the distant future, or into some wierd paradox?? What do you all think??? <img src="graemlins/glee.gif" border="0" alt="[Glee]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>

Combination of all 3. ;)

Never really understood that. If he doesn't want to go to the future since he has already been there, it would leave either 1885, or perhaps farther back.
 

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No one knows...but I really hate BTTF3. I'm sorry man, I totally worship the first flick, thew second flick was very enjoyable (especially since it came out so long after the first...I remember being really excited waiting in line at the theater) but the third one is just snoresville. Same tired Biff jokes, only in a considerably duller Western theme, with a boring love story (Doc & Clara) to bring it down even more. I mean, c'mon, they had to have known this at the studio, hence the Trilogy box release instead of individual DVDs for each film. I know I would have only bought the first one right away, then waited for the second one to come into my store used.

I say all this knowing that it has been a LONG time since I watched any of these, so who knows...perhaps I'll even enjoy BTTF3 this time.
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Doc knowingly pulled "A Foster". Meaning like how Foster the CIA dude from the Ninja Gaiden games who haunted Ryu Hyabusa was ripped into a million atoms in a dimensional rift in part III... At the end of *Back To The Future 3* he is burnt out with life as he knows it. I figure he knows that if he sets the Delorean's time counter to all zeros... just like flipping a cartridge back in the day... he in effect goes so far into the future that he is ripped into a billion pieces along with the car and as the timer hits zero he's suddenly alive in an alternate reality where he never was even a scientist or something and might well have the ability to live a normal hum drum life. Sort of how like Matsumoto has numereous versions of Captain Harlock and Tochirio dies 10 different ways. None are correct, because all of them a right... it's a matter of the fact the very theory of time is based on logic anyhow in a physical sense. The dead have no need for time, only living sentient beings who have something to gauge their exsitence with and measure events in a linear order that permeates the mind. Thus Doc with all his scientific know how just got bored... he wanted to interface with just one of the millions of other DOCs that exsit at the same moment everywhere for enternity by more or less speeding up not TIME as we think of it, but by altering the forces of nature and universe to literally send him to the alternate that exsited for him, but by doing so he would never remember Marty in the sense he knew him because he would no longer exsit within the perception of the people in our world the way we see Reality.

You asked for a theory, that's mine based off the "No Time, Cyclic -always has been, past and future is present for infinity- scenario"
 

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Originally posted by s7cbassplayer:
<strong>I just got done watching Back to the Future 3 (yet another movie masterpiece in the trilogy), and had a thought. At the end of the movie Marty asks the Doc where he is going in his new time machine. He asks if he's going back to the future, and Doc says,

"No already been there".

So, where did he go?? Farther back in the past, in the distant future, or into some wierd paradox?? What do you all think??? <img src="graemlins/glee.gif" border="0" alt="[Glee]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>

Their was rumor going around back when part 3 came out that that scene was added in at the last minute in case they decided to do a second trilogy or a 4th movie.

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i like all three movies, my fav being the second. however, i don't think it really matters where doc is going, but if he's going back to 1885 with that flying retro-future train then it would SERIOUSLY fuck up the timeline onward. So who knows. i'm sure all involved just wanted to put it to bed.
 

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I hear he travelled to the 80's and created a few movies about his wacky old-man adventures.
 

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Originally posted by Kid Aphex:
<strong>I hear he travelled to the 80's and created a few movies about his wacky old-man adventures.</strong><hr></blockquote>

i heard that as well, but he split up with his wife and she took the kids (jules + vern)

he spent some time in a mental institute to get over things and took a job as a taxi driver

i could be wrong though

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Originally posted by MegaDrive 20XX:
<strong>Doc knowingly pulled "A Foster". Meaning like how Foster the CIA dude from the Ninja Gaiden games who haunted Ryu Hyabusa was ripped into a million atoms in a dimensional rift in part III... At the end of *Back To The Future 3* he is burnt out with life as he knows it. I figure he knows that if he sets the Delorean's time counter to all zeros... just like flipping a cartridge back in the day... he in effect goes so far into the future that he is ripped into a billion pieces along with the car and as the timer hits zero he's suddenly alive in an alternate reality where he never was even a scientist or something and might well have the ability to live a normal hum drum life. Sort of how like Matsumoto has numereous versions of Captain Harlock and Tochirio dies 10 different ways. None are correct, because all of them a right... it's a matter of the fact the very theory of time is based on logic anyhow in a physical sense. The dead have no need for time, only living sentient beings who have something to gauge their exsitence with and measure events in a linear order that permeates the mind. Thus Doc with all his scientific know how just got bored... he wanted to interface with just one of the millions of other DOCs that exsit at the same moment everywhere for enternity by more or less speeding up not TIME as we think of it, but by altering the forces of nature and universe to literally send him to the alternate that exsited for him, but by doing so he would never remember Marty in the sense he knew him because he would no longer exsit within the perception of the people in our world the way we see Reality.

You asked for a theory, that's mine based off the "No Time, Cyclic -always has been, past and future is present for infinity- scenario"</strong><hr></blockquote>

Dang, that was pretty intense crap man. Really got me thinking. My head hasn't hurt this bad from thinking since I saw Fight Club (for those of you who have seen it, you know why :D ). Yea, I just think it's interesting how they just left it with you thinking at the end of 3.

I loved every movie myself and loved how they integrated parts from all of the movies and intertwined them together giving all of the movies continuity. One of the best movies if not the best movie ever made!!!
 

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I think people are reading to much into Doc's closing statements. I just think he meant that he would time travel to any and every year. Not just one set destination. Oh well, just a guess.
 

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He went to the 90's to inflict Parkinson's Disaese on some bastard that upstaged him several times and took skinny dumps in all of his inventions.
 
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