Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Did You Know: Twin Pines Mall

In Back To The Future, the mall where Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) meets Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) for their time travel experiment is called "Twin Pines Mall". Doc Brown comments that old farmer Peabody used to own all of the land, and he grew pines there, hence the name. When Marty goes back in time, he runs over and knocks down a pine tree on the Peabody's property. When he comes back to the mall at the end of the film, the sign at the mall identifies the mall as "Lone Pine Mall".

4 comments:

beckn32 said...

That's nifty. The first Back to the Future was the best by far of all the ones they did (three right?). It always seems to be that way. They have a good thing and just have to make more money on it.

Anonymous said...

I love little things like that, it makes it worth going back and looking for it.

I thought the third one was good when it came out, but after seeing it again a few times I don't think it holds up as well as the first one. It's got its moments.

I never really liked the second one except when they went back to the '50s and you can see the events of the first movie happening around them. That's really the only thing that makes that one watchable.

But after saying all that, I'd probably still stop and watch all three if I was flipping through the channels.

Anonymous said...

Hi. Ken here, just checking in as I infrequently do.

Will said...

BTTF 2 and 3 were meant to be one movie, but got so big that they split it apart, which left 2 a little lacking in that there was no real ending.