History YMMV / BackToTheFuturePartIII

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Clara is either a boring SatelliteLoveInterest or a interesting character on her own right and the perfect pairing for the Doc.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The movie received a video game adaptation for the Platform/SegaGenesis, which it was ported to the Platform/MasterSystem. It had only four levels the whole game, all based on moments from the movie. It starts off with a tedious horse riding level that is very easy to make mistakes and lose due to how many hazards and enemies it throws at the player.

** Clara doesn't believe Doc when he claims to be a time traveler, but when she discovers the model of Doc and Marty's restart-the-Delorean plan, she races to the railroad line desperately calling his name. Did the model actually convince her that Doc was telling the truth earlier and he was from the future? Or did it convince her that the man she loved, whom she already knew had been stricken with grief, had crossed the DespairEventHorizon and was ''about to get himself killed'' by acting out a delusional fantasy, going over a cliff in a fake homemade "time machine"?

** During the climax, Doc Brown has Marty specifically enter October 27, 1985, 11:00 am as the destination time. Given Doc's predilection for trains and remembering certain events down to the moment, and given his desire to destroy the time machine, did he remember the 1985 train schedule and have Marty set the time circuits in such a way that the [=DeLorean=] would be almost immediately destroyed upon their return to the future? On the other hand, given that Marty was only barely able to get out before the train hit, would he be willing to do something that, if something went wrong, could have gotten himself and Marty killed?

** The word "dude" is actually used in a period correct way. In the 1800s it meant something along the lines of "city slicker". This meaning is preserved today in the term "dude ranch". The modern usage of the term as a slang term to refer to any person, not even exclusively male, didn't start until the 1960s and the rise of surfer culture.

** The word "dude" is actually used in a period correct way. In the 1800s it meant something along the lines of "city slicker". This meaning is preserved today in the term "dude ranch". The modern usage of the term didn't start until the 1960s.

* AwardSnub: The only film in the series not to be nominated at the MediaNotes/{{Academy Award}}s. It was one of the shortlisted films for Best Visual Effects along with ''Film/DickTracy'', ''Film/Ghost1990'' and ''Film/TotalRecall1990'', but due to Oscar voting rules at the time, only ''Total Recall'' received enough votes to advance to the final nomination, so there were no official nominees in that category and ''Total Recall'' received a special achievement award.

* AwardSnub: The only film in the series not to be nominated at the UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s. It was one of the shortlisted films for Best Visual Effects along with ''Film/DickTracy'', ''Film/Ghost1990'' and ''Film/TotalRecall1990'', but due to Oscar voting rules at the time, only ''Total Recall'' received enough votes to advance to the final nomination, so there were no official nominees in that category and ''Total Recall'' received a special achievement award.

** Similarly, 1885 Hill Valley has a sizeable Chinese population, but the same town has nay an Asian on sight again until 2015. 1885 is right before growing anti-Chinese violence in the late 1880s pushed Chinese-Americans away from rural Western areas and towards large cities like San Francisco.

** When the 1955 Doc reads the letter his future self sent to Marty, he's confused when it asks Marty to "take care of Einstein", before Marty explains that Einstein is the name of Doc's dog in 1985. The 1955 Doc's confusion comes from the fact that UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein died earlier in 1955 (on April 18, seven months before the events in the BTTF films).

** It makes perfect sense that 1955 Doc would think that the chip from Japan would be a piece of junk while Marty remarks that "all the best stuff is made in Japan". Prior to the mid-1970s, Japanese products were notorious for their shoddy quality and were essentially the "made in China" of their day. However, after that point, there was a massive restructuring of the Japanese manufacturing industry which is what caused a sudden leap forward in quality products. Which means that Marty would be too young to remember when Japan didn't make good products. Also, having grown up during World War II, Doc would likely harbor some anti-Japanese sentiments.

** Clara doesn't believe Doc when he claims to be a time traveler, but when she discovers the model of Doc and Marty's restart-the-Delorean plan, she races to the railroad line desperately calling his name. Did the model actually convince her that Doc was from the future? Or did it convince her that the man she loved, whom she already knew had been stricken with grief, had crossed the DespairEventHorizon and was ''about to get himself killed'' by acting out a delusional fantasy, going over a cliff in a fake homemade "time machine"?

** One of the more enduring images of the film is the scene where the [=DeLorean=] is pulled across Monument Valley by a team of horses.

* SoOkayItsAverage: While the movie wasn't critically received, it is still an adequate adventure story and finale to the original trilogy.

* UnfortunateImplications: One of the old timer’s comments “Musta got that shirt off a dead Chinee” seems like a slightly amusing case of RacistGrandpa at first, but could also be referring to a very real race riot, the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Springs_massacre Rock Springs massacre]], where at least 28 Chinese miners were killed.

* UnfortunateImplications: One of the old timer’s comments “Musta got that shirt off a dead Chinee” seems like a slightly amusing case of RacistGrandpa, but could also be referring to a very real race riot, the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Springs_massacre Rock Springs massacre]], which would have occurred the day before Marty strolled into town.

** When the 1955 Doc reads the letter his future self sent to Marty, he's confused when it asks Marty to "take care of Einstein", before Marty explains that Einstein is the name of Doc's dog in 1985. The 1955 Doc's confusion comes from the fact that UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein died earlier in 1955 (on April 18, seven months before the events in the BTFF films).

** Seamus [=McFly=] frequently is ridiculed for wearing a bowler hat instead of the typical Wild-west cowboy hat everyone else has on. The comedy in this may well have been intentional, but bowler hats were ''actually'' the popular style back then. The cowboy hat we know today (the Stetson)? Back then, it looked like [[http://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/3/1/7/177317_v1.jpg this]].

* HarsherInHindsight: The [[Film/BackToTheFuture first film]] had Doc and Marty use lightning striking Hill Valley's clocktower to enable the [=DeLorean=] and Marty to get back to 1985; this lightning damaged the clock, causing it to stop functioning completely. The town used for the 1885 Hill Valley was destroyed by lightning in 1996.

-->The Old West of ''Back to the Future Part III'' might have been interesting if it had been an approximation of the real Old West - the one we saw in ''Film/McCabeAndMrsMiller'', say. But this movie's West is unfortunately a sitcom version that looks exactly as if it were built on a back lot somewhere. The movie is so filled with old Western cliches that the regulars in the bar even include Pat Buttram. Now don't get me wrong: I was delighted to see Buttram again (he was Gene Autry's sidekick in the old days) and even happier to hear that his voice still is in need of oiling. But the town in ''Future III'' is made up of lots of pieces from old movies, including even a shootout on Main Street and the usual troubles with the local sheriff.

* RealityIsUnrealistic:

** Machines to make ice already existed in 1885; Doc's genius is that he was able to build a working prototype using ''podunk Hill Valley parts''.

** In-universe, the bar patrons scoff at Doc Brown's ramblings of the future, dismissing cars as "autowhatsits". In actuality, extremely primitive cars did already exist in 1885 which one of them, [[https://static01.nyt.com/images/2007/08/17/automobiles/600-oldest.jpg?year=2007&h=340&w=600&s=f037c51d1deb52512dce49faae1fc8874d220b8532cdcad9ff62241ea8fa98ee&k=ZQJBKqZ0VN the 1884 La Marquis]], is currently the record-holder for the oldest functional car. In fact, thirty years prior in the 1850s, [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudgeon_(steam_automobile_company) a company existed that built self-propelled steam carriages]] that did not catch on with only two being built and only one still surviving. Steam-powered tractors, aka traction engines, were also in existence at the time and were essentially small steam locomotives that weren't bound by rails.

** The word "dude" is actually used in a period correct way. In the 1800's it meant something along the lines of "city slicker". This meaning is preserved today in the term "dude ranch". The modern usage of the term didn't start until the 1960's.

* AwardSnub: The only film in the series not to be nominated at the UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s. It was one of the shortlisted films for Best Visual Effects along with ''Film/DickTracy'', ''Film/Ghost1990'' and ''Film/TotalRecall'', but due to Oscar voting rules at the time, only ''Total Recall'' received enough votes to advance to the final nomination, so there were no official nominees in that category and ''Total Recall'' received a special achievement award.