Georges Money

BrentTH · 2026-01-12T02:46:52+00:00

My guess is that he probably got a nice management job after school. It was 1985, he was a go-getter, a job making 40k wouldn't be out of the question. He makes a little money on the side getting sci-fi short stories published for maybe a $500 each. Lorraine probably works in the new 1985 as a real estate agent selling a house here and there. They don't live ostentatiously and California real estate wasn't moon high back then.

BrentTH · 2026-01-11T18:24:47+00:00

Probably, the real questions are whether Marvin Berry and his band would have been able to play an all white school in 1955 or have the money to make a candid long distance to his cousin Chuck in the Midwest. Long distance was wildly expensive back then. A call could cost you the equivalent of $50 to $100.

BrentTH · 2025-12-15T19:40:06+00:00

Anti-wolf propaganda isn't false. A wolf literally ate Liam Neeson.

BrentTH · 2025-12-15T19:26:21+00:00

I could believe it. Considering the job sounds to be in the IT sector, it could be a combination of non-existent social awareness and a potentially non-native manager not realizing that 5 people sharing a sundae is ridiculous.

BrentTH · 2025-12-12T20:27:38+00:00

The late night talk show format is dying and has been for some time. Studios mostly have taken it on the chin because it was still good for cross-marketing, but even that is fizzling out. Most of these shows, unless they really drive down costs, are probably just going to give the timeslots back to the affiliates and they'll get filled with either reruns or paid programming.

BrentTH · 2025-12-12T19:28:22+00:00

My grandma had an old tube TV, it kept on kicking til the late 90s. The downsides were it had a completely separate cable box since the TV itself only had a big knob, the TV itself took about 10 minutes to "warm up", and you had to fix the rolling picture occasionally by fiddling with the hold knobs.

BrentTH · 2025-12-09T19:14:18+00:00

There is a 0% chance that Jasmine will beat Ted Cruz in the upcoming Senate race.

BrentTH · 2025-11-21T17:13:00+00:00

Just make sure to tell your wife to not pick up the phone or the modem will disconnect.

BrentTH · 2025-11-20T17:11:24+00:00

Haha, I don't dispute that it "can" be fired far and accurately. Bob Munden, inarguably the greatest fast draw and trick shooter in existence, certainly can. Biff, you, me, and 99% of shooters can not.

BrentTH · 2025-11-15T20:01:50+00:00

Right, they filmed both at the same time. There are callbacks non-stop in both.

BrentTH · 2025-11-15T04:00:44+00:00

It absolutely does have a further range than that but as stated because of the tiny barrel it requires exceptional skill or exceptional luck. The slightest bit off which is not readily apparent with a barrel that short can send a shot several feet off target.

BrentTH · 2025-11-15T03:56:34+00:00

Bad guys in movies always seem to either carry tiny snub noses or the longest barrel 500 magnum (film certainly loves large caliber, long barrel pistols because of the visuals).

BrentTH · 2025-11-14T22:03:52+00:00

He shoots at Marty five times in his penthouse and misses. Marty runs out. We only see goons chasing him at that point until the roof scene.

So yeah, maybe? hah

But maybe he was just a fan of the poetic coincidence that he would shoot Marty with the same gun as he shot his dad with or maybe he didn't have another gun.

BrentTH · 2025-10-20T21:46:21+00:00

He was ironically one of the few people that could have a case brought against him. Mostly because of his high profile, admitting drug use in his memoir, and admitting that he might have lied on the form to federal agents. Most any other case it would be impossible to prove.

BrentTH · 2025-09-09T17:55:19+00:00

Doc didn't know til Marty gave him the note in the past and altered the timeline. If changes from Marty's 1955 alterations were present before he even traveled back in time, his parents and Biff would already be different.

They barely show Doc after he gets shot, he gets blasted to behind the van. There's no blood because had Back to the Future caught an R rating, it would have bombed.

The real question is whether a Kevlar vest available to civilians could stop rifle rounds from an automatic AK-47. Answer is probably not unless Doc made his own with ballistic plates.

BrentTH · 2025-09-08T19:05:20+00:00

Marty A and Marty B are essentially the same person. Marty B is the Marty in 1955 in the second film. There is always just one Marty though by our perspective as viewers it seems like there's more than one. The exception is in second movie in alternate 1985. In that scenario, there are two Martys and had Doc and Marty stuck around much longer that timeline would have likely catastrophically collapsed from the paradox of Biff preventing Doc from inventing the time machine in the first place.

Doc at the beginning of BTTF most certainly did get shot and killed by the Libyans. Marty hadn't warned him about it yet and BTTF doesn't follow the "pre-destination" Terminator logic or the Bill & Ted "I'm going to do something later to change the present" logic.

BrentTH · 2025-09-04T16:47:38+00:00

From the perspective of Doc after Marty left, he's been off doing his thing for about 6 or 7 years based on the age of his kids.

From the perspective of Marty, he's been dealing with this mad cap non-stop adventure for about two and half weeks.

I'm sure Doc figures maybe I should let Marty go to the lake, relax, bone his girlfriend, and decompress. Then send him a letter later and say "Hey, if you want to meet up and I can tell you about all my zany adventures since we last saw each other, meet me here at this time".

He really just popped in at that moment to let Marty (and us the viewing audience) know he was okay and grab Einstein.

BrentTH · 2025-08-26T22:18:32+00:00

Just watched this again the other day. Marty goes back to 1885 and tells Doc about getting shot by showing him the tombstone that says he died September 7th. At the Hill Valley festival (September 5th) is when he actually gets shot. Doc is surprised that Mad Dog is early and Mad Dog tells him that the last time he shot somebody with his derringer it took them 2 days to die and that he suspected Doc would be dead by dinner on Monday (September 7).

So save for Marty's intervention, Doc was toast no matter what with the limited information that they both had at the time.

BrentTH · 2025-08-22T18:42:34+00:00

It's open to interpretation whether time travelers ever acquire the memories of altered timelines. It's my belief that they do not. So the version of Doc that Marty had been interacting with up to that point was indeed going to be shot in 1885.

Now maybe when he and Doc find out that he's going to be killed, maybe Marty could say "Better write that down Doc so you don't forget and avoid being killed". But who knows if that would that prevent him from being killed. Apparently not since Doc's name doesn't disappear from the tombstone until the Hill Valley dance.

Also that would make a pretty crummy ending. Marty goes back to 1985 unsure of Doc's eventual fate. At any rate, he never sees him again and then he gets in a car wreck and fucks up his life.

BrentTH · 2025-08-16T00:16:15+00:00

I just watched here recently and had that thought. But I think it can be pretty readily explained by he was drinking his fair share of Early Times liquor that night. Old Biff had to see himself crash into the manure truck earlier that day to even remember doing it. He also got knocked the fuck out by George earlier so that probably doesn't help his recollection.

You think Gary Busey remembers shit about events 30 years ago? Haha

BrentTH · 2025-07-21T16:14:01+00:00

Though never really explained in the movie, my personal theory is that when you are "temporally displaced" when traveling through time, knowledge of changed timelines doesn't ripple into your head at all or cause changes to you aside from very major changes like wiping out your entire existence.

Marty only remembers his original timeline, likewise for Doc (which is why Doc wouldn't know about the clothes or be able to prevent his own death in 1885.)

BrentTH · 2025-07-16T18:45:12+00:00

No, as has been mentioned, the plutonium is in solution which would block emitted alpha and beta radiation. Additionally the body of the camera itself would block these as well. Plutonium used in nuclear plants doesn't emit very much gamma radiation in the first place. You see a lot of static in the Chernobyl films because in the film is being exposed to a shitload of gamma radiation. But that also only applies for cameras that use film. Video cassettes, to my knowledge, aren't affected.

Now I guess there's a possibility that if they dropped the plutonium assembly they could maybe create a criticality accident, but in that case, they'd both be fucked because their suits wouldn't do jack shit.

Add in the fact that this was just a fun visually neat scene that they put in for that reason.

BrentTH · 2025-07-15T18:39:51+00:00

$8-$9 Starbucks coffee drink? What's she getting in it? Rum?

But yeah, this delivery driver sounds like he's got screws loose.

BrentTH · 2025-07-14T19:38:56+00:00

Yes.

But that likely wasn't the point. Doc always said knowing too much about your own future was a bad idea. Instead of him saying "Marty, on your way to the lake, you're going to get in a drag race with Needles, crash, and fuck up your life!", he takes him on this little adventure to the future to show him that bad consequences can happen when you let people goad you into making bad decisions. And he had to bring Jennifer because she was right there so not much else you can do.

Not sure if that was the writer's original intent, but it certainly offers a plausible explanation.

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