Still, despite the wonky special effect in that scene, Back to the Future is adored by several generations of fans.
“The thing that people don’t always understand about Back to the Future and what really makes it work, because people say, ‘Oh, let’s do a time travel series.’
That’s just sort of … everybody else is just is fading out of existence, and, why is there this hole in his hand?
Back to the Future works because it’s the story of this family, and time travel is an element of it, but you are totally with those characters.”