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"I'm sure the car is fine" makes no sense

posted 2 years ago by avortac4 (3770)
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Movies cheat so much. Agents can't use the ability to take over people's bodies in 'The Matrix (1999)' before the audiences are revealed that ability, and this movie can't acknowledge that the family has AT LEAST two cars before the audience is revealed that fact.

Why can Marty have his own car, but the other family members can't? Why would they even live in the same house, if their lives are so different? Wouldn't Dave that always wears a suit to the office at least live somewhere in the city area or at least his own house or apartment?

In any case, WHY would the family assume they talk about the BMW when Marty talks about "the car"?

Why wouldn't at least SOMEONE say something about Marty's OWN damn 4-by-4 car? "So what if THE car is wrecked, you have your OWN car?" would be more logical than "why am I always the last to know about these things", or whatever.

The whole family reaction about 'THE CAR' just doesn't make any sense, when we take into account that Marty has his own car, and the family should be aware of at least TWO CARS, so even if "THE CAR" (and it doesn't make sense to talk about 'THE car' in a family that has more than one anyway!) is wrecked, there's still "A CAR" that's not.

This family's reaction to what Marty says makes no sense.

[–] blindfolded (1661) 2 years ago

"Hey let's bring up 'The Matrix' in an unnecessarily long and stupid rant about Dave McFly and a car!"

Who said Dave lives there? Maybe he lives nearby and enjoys his family's company before work while enjoying his coffee and newspaper. They seem to be a well-adjusted tight-knit family. There's no reason to think he doesn't spend lots of his free time with his parents and answering his sister's boyfriend's calls to the house. I have family members who live nearby and we're in and out of each other's houses all the time.

Why did you assume that? You know what happens when you ASSuME?

You are by far the worst person to have ever watched this trilogy.

[–] Bossdog677 (1582) 2 years ago

A successful business man still living at home makes sense in the Biden era but definitely not the Reagan era.

[–] strntz (12773) 2 years ago

You didn't read the unredacted script..

Why can Marty have his own car, but the other family members can't?

Who (besides you) is saying they can't? Dave is saving money for a new house, and for now at least, he's hitching a ride to work where he works for George at the company where George is boss. Linda for now is taking a bus to work but her boyfriend drives them around otherwise. She's considering buying a yellow Mustang convertible.

Wouldn't Dave that always wears a suit to the office at least live somewhere in the city area or at least his own house or apartment?

What's so unusual? Dave is fresh out of college and just got his first real job at his dad's company. He's saving for his first house. I lived with my parents until the day I got married at 26. I saved enough money to put a substantial down payment on our first multi-family that my wife and I originally lived in.

The whole family reaction about 'THE CAR' just doesn't make any sense, when we take into account that Marty has his own car, and the family should be aware of at least TWO CARS, so even if "THE CAR" (and it doesn't make sense to talk about 'THE car' in a family that has more than one anyway!) is wrecked, there's still "A CAR" that's not.

Well, Marty doesn't have a "car", he has a 4X4 truck (assuming we're going to be generous and call the Toyota a "truck"). So when he said the car was wrecked, the only logical vehicle he could have meant was the BMW.

[–] hurricane (1967) 2 years ago

In this scene, after George's book has arrived, he hands Marty the keys. This implies that he is giving Marty the car as a present. It's not a stretch to assume that they hadn't told Marty that he was getting the car as a present. Maybe prior to that, Marty had been borrowing his dad's car. So, it makes perfect sense that the other members of the family would've known what car he was referring to, when he talks about it being crashed. Even assuming his brother and sister knew that he was getting the car as a present that morning, there's no reason they'd think he was referring to anything other than his father's car if that's the one he'd been using up until that point.

Onto your other points. How do we know that the other two siblings don't have their own cars? Just because it isn't mentioned that they have a car each, doesn't mean they don't have one. Or maybe they just don't drive? Not everybody does. There are ways to explain this.

And, onto Dave having lived there. It's been discussed dozens of times on this board. Just because he was there early in the morning, doesn't mean he lives there. It's a Saturday, and he mentions going to work. Maybe he goes in a bit later on Saturdays, and as such, has stopped by his parent's for breakfast. Maybe he lives near to them, or their house is on his way to where he works.