Awesome / Back to the Future Part II

Well, it was awesome while it lasted.

• 2015 Hill Valley: Sleek hovercars, skyways, hoverboards, self-drying jackets and power-laced shoes, rehydrated food, life-prolonging procedures, Mr. Fusion, holographic cinemas, multiple channel TVs, a "weather service", and then some. Even if it could've never possibly come to fruition, it was at one point a wondrous vision of what the future potentially held–at least apart from a few drawbacks (lawyers abolished?).
  • Despite being in a situation and time period completely unknown to her, Jennifer manages to stay hidden and learn valuable information before running into her future self.
• Sort of a combined one for Doc and Marty. Marty, faced with a gun by the 1985-A version of Biff Tannen, steps off the roof of the Pleasure Paradise. Biff walks forward slowly, muttering "Idiot." Cue Marty rising up, standing on the hood of the DeLorean, and Doc opening his door just in time to whack Biff in the face with it. "Nice shot, Doc" indeed!
• Speaking of 1985-A, the moment Biff pulled out the gun after explaining to Marty how he got the Almanac. He may be a sleazy ass, but he can sure pull off an Oh, Crap! moment.
• 1985-A Lorraine tries to stand up to Biff after he insults George's memory. Her indignation at Biff insulting the man she loved shows that Lorraine is no Gold Digger; she may be staying with him, but it's only because of her desire to protect her kids.
  1985-A!Lorraine: Don't you dare speak that way about George! You're not even half the man he was.
• Back in 1955, after Marty realizes he's just followed a false trail and gotten nothing but Biff's dirty magazine.
  Doc Brown: Marty, the entire future depends on you finding Biff and getting that book back!
  Marty: I know! I just don't know where...
  (Sounds of Biff and George's fight in the parking lot from Part I)
  Marty: OF COURSE!!!
  • And this time he actually got to see his dad deck Biff!
• The scene in which Marty surreptitiously makes his way to the stage and climbs the ladder onto the rigging, to drop the sandbags on Biff's goons to prevent his past self from being beaten up and the universe from being destroyed.
• Biff crashing into the manure truck for the second time.
  Biff: MANURE! I HATE MANURE!!!
• After all the trouble it's caused him and a long struggle to get it back, Marty finally retrieves the almanac and torches it, thus fixing the future and saving his dad. As he does so, the label on the matchbook changes from "PLEASURE PARADISE" to "AUTO DETAIL".
  • Fridge-Awesome: There's also the scope of how he destroys the almanac: by lighting it with the matches from "Pleasure Paradise". Yep, the product of the future the almanac created happens to be what destroys it!
  • All it takes is two simple words from Doc to seal the triumph of the moment:
  Doc: Mission Accomplished!
• Shortly after lightning struck the DeLorean, Marty stands in the rain gazing at the sky. And then a car pulls up, an ominous-looking guy in a trench coat walks over, and hands Marty a 70-year-old letter. From his friend. Who just disappeared in a flash of lightning. So awesome, they've used the same plotline in the third movie, where Doc gets to sum it up: "You can't keep a good scientist down!"
• After a street gang nearly shoots down Marty and 1985-A Strickland in a drive-by shooting, Strickland gets his shotgun and starts shooting at them as they drive off.
  Strickland: EAT LEAD SLACKERS!
• Minor, but there's something oddly badass in how Marty marches into Biff's jacuzzi room and delivers the line "Grey's. Sports. Almanac." to Biff...
  Biff: ...you heard him girls. Party's over.
• In a deleted scene, it's revealed that Biff of Alternate 1985 won't live Happily Ever After forever: Lorraine eventually shoots him, causing his older self to fade out of existence. All in all, it's somewhat cathartic to know Lorraine of Alternate 1985 could make him pay for murdering the man she loved and essentially ruining her life. It took 12 years, but she freed herself from Biff one more time.
• 1955-Lorraine gets a great moment of standing up to Biff when he sexually harasses her outside of a dress shop and goes Crazy Jealous Guy upon learning that she's going to the dance with "Calvin." Lorraine kicks him in the shin, hits him over the head with the box containing her dress, and yells that she wouldn't be his girl if he had a million dollars. Granted, in the Bad Future, she does reluctantly become his wife when he's rich, but in that moment, it's pretty awesome.

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