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Does what it says on the box. This is all 3 BTTF films, cut up and scenes played out by the date/time order. That means starting in 1855, then 1955, then 1985 (twice), then ending in 2015. It's very well-edited and professional, with some nice touches like the opening credits. (There's just one audio moment as Marty sneaks past the car in 1955 where all foley/music is notably removed except for the dialogue in the car as Marty passes. It's a bit obvious, but maybe more of a style choice than an 'error'.) The A/V quality is standard and not fantastic for the file size, especially when played on a nice big TV, but it'll do the job.

In terms of the fanedit itself, the absolute high point is where the original BTTF scenes are mixed in with the BTTF II scenes of Marty and Doc revisiting this time period. It's a seamless piece of editing work that's really enjoyable to watch. We get to see, for example, the whole throwdown between Marty and Biff and George at the car from multiple angles as we catch it from different people's perspectives. The fanedit skips past a few bits of repetition and just lets us really enjoy everything leading up to the famous finale and Marty going "back" to 1985 (which we're then seeing in this for the first time.)

This handles the '85 sequences as first the original, then the alternate '85 that had been changed, then the new alternate '85 that was changed by Marty's carelessness with the almanac when they go to the future to help his kids (which hasn't happened yet). It's interesting and not as clunky to watch as it may sound, but it has the effect of leaving all the 2015 stuff to the end so that you see people resolving problems that you didn't know they had, then see the start of those problems. It's not a bad way to rewatch, but not exactly fulfilling to get to the furthest point in time already knowing how everything wrapped up, and then just watch them end with the jump backwards.

I'd say to make this into an actual perennially rewatchable movie, you probably need to play slightly loose with the concept here. Sure, there are a couple of paradoxes when you watch everything in this order, as you've seen causality happen but then see what should've been changed based on what you've already seen. Essentially: NOT following a character's subjective perspective makes the time travel seem broken. But from a movie standpoint, it doesn't really matter, except you just want a good ending. I'd say that if you save the 2nd reset of 1985 (the happy one) until after everyone returns from 2015, you can view it as the corrections snapping into place and time being "righted". It would be a slight cheat on the "chronological" front, but a better fanedit viewing experience.

As-is though, this is still fun, and I'll now probably be humming Silvestri's main theme for days since I've just heard it so many times in a row....