The last movie in my rewatch of the Back to the Future movies was Back to the Future Part III.

“Stranded in 1955, Marty McFly learns about the death of Doc Brown in 1885 and must travel back in time to save him. With no fuel readily available for the DeLorean, the two must figure how to escape the Old West before Emmett is murdered.”

I’m really impressed with Marty’s character development throughout this series. He’s not really a large, muscular person and so it seems a quite frequently that he’s doing everything he can to not wind up like his father in the first movie before he saves Lorraine at the dance. Before they meddle with time, George McFly is often a victim of bullying by Bif, even once they’re out of high school and adults. I think Marty doesn’t like how he sees his dad get pushed around so frequently and that’s kind of what pushes him to be so upset when people call him a chicken.

This also goes with how much peer pressure there used to be about being tough and how other people’s perceptions of you should shape how you carry yourself instead of just allowing people to be themselves. Marty’s character journey through all three movies shows him learning to take care of what’s important and to think things through instead of just falling for bully bait.

One of the things that amused me the most was when Marty goes back into the old west and he’s wearing the pink cowboy outfit and how everyone in the past thought his outfit was ridiculous. I couldn’t help thinking about Doc Holiday’s comments from Wynonna Earp season 1 where he’s given the Stone Witch’s car and he says the pink color of it is the only thing it has going for it because it’s strong and masculine and how women were always delicate and dainty in blue.

One of the weirdest things we’ve all done is to continuously push narratives about how the past lacked color or that everything was drab, boring colors. This applies to clothing, statues, buildings, and even castles. Now, I’m not a historian or fabric arts person or anything like that, but I see things on the internet about architectural wonders around the world and how vibrant, beautiful, and sometimes even very old, some buildings throughout the world are.

This was a really fun movie and I’m glad that I have and am able to rewatch the entire trilogy. This movie is going to stay at a three on my rating scale. It’s a great movie to watch every now and again.

Back to the Future Part III. Directed by Robert Zemleckis, Executive Producers Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall, Produced by Bob Gale and Neil Canton, performances by Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Universal Studios, 1990.