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Can you do Top 11 Treehouse of Horror episodes? You gave the Halloween episodes the number 2 spot on your Top 11 Simpsons Episodes list, so I'm curious which ones specifically were your favorites.
My grandma got to meet Christopher Lloyd way back in 1989 when they were filming Part 3 in her area. She even got his autograph, but that very sadly got destroyed more than 30 years ago after a bar and restaurant she and my grandpa had owned at the time caught on fire. When I met him last month at SiliCon in San Jose, I got one autograph for myself and a replacement one for my grandma that I plan to give to her as a Christmas present this year.
@@creatormanualdarytendotmve4748 how so? Jennifer and Marty are the same age, and while their exact ages aren't explicitly mentioned, it's implied Clara and Emmett are both vaguely in their late forties or early fifties.
One of the best theories I have read about Doc and Marty is that after the events of Marty's trip to the past, Doc searched out Marty and hired him as an assistant to create a stable time loop. He never told Marty that he knew him in the past because Doc was trying not to change the future.
@@river_acheron This would also explain how both versions of Marty (the one from the original timeline and the altered timeline), both ended up helping Doc with his time travel experiment despite probably having very different upbringing. In the comics, their meeting is explained as Marty needing a part for a speaker and Doc had bought all of that part; forcing Marty to go to his house and agreeing to become his assistant after their meeting. Then we find out he only bought that part for the box and tossed the tubes in the trash, which could imply he knew Marty needed that part and bought them purposely to get Marty to his house.
This makes sense. And Doc preserving the timeline is the only reason why he wouldn't create the time machine earlier and not waste his family fortune building it. He had his hands on the Delorean for over a week and rebuilt the time circuits, you can't tell me he couldn't have built another one before 1985 if he wanted to
@@HailHydra1001 He may have had to wait for the plutonium to become available, as well as certain companies to become advanced enough to make the circuitry. The joke in Part 3 is that the Doc from 1955 thinks anything made in Japan is junk, while most of the time machine parts in 1985 were probably from Japan.
@@DarkcIoud1111. Japan was Chinese products 1.0 lol. But there were alternative parts as early as 1948 I think Doc said. Plutonium definitely wasn’t easy to come by for anyone but he could’ve figured out an early version of Mr. Fusion. Just a thought because he had time for that as well
@jaredjams4267empire has a way higher budget than the first, looks different, actors look different, different directing, takes place after a time jump. No comparison to back to the future 2
All three movies can be watched entirely sequentially, and that is probably why they are so consistent. Obviously they heavily studied the original before making 2, and then made 2 and 3 together so everything slotted together nicely. Since I grew up often watching them together, I always really appreciated how much care obviously went into all the small details that carry over across the trilogy.
Bob Gale's explanation of Marty and Doc's "relationship" was basically this: "There's always that nut in the neighborhood that everybody warns you about when you're a kid, but that makes you want to know that guy all the more, if not become friends with him." He also mentions it was a take on LEAVE IT TO BEAVER when Beaver would often ask advice from the local fireman.
Even the comics explained why Marty is friends with Doc, as well as the episodic game Telltale Games which made it basically become the 4th film that you can actually play
The original script also explains how Doc and Marty met, Doc basically hired him as an assistant/helping hand around d his shop. Marty enjoyed working for him because Doc had an extensive record collection and Marty was annoyed by his parents.
I grew up in a tight-knit suburban neighborhood, so...exactly like the one in Back to the Future. And there were absolutely older folks that I got to know as a kid. When I was really young, our crossing guard was an older guy, who was incredibly friendly and every single kid loved the guy, as did our parents. With Back to the Future, it felt like Marty was a bit against the grain, so he probably didn't get along with a lot of other kids, and just found a friendship in Doc. To the NC's point, no one really thought anything of it back then. I guess the more cynical the world gets, the more we look back at these things.
Another fun fact about this amazing trilogy is: When Glover turned down a “lowball” figure of $125,000 to act in the sequel, Gale rewrote the script to lessen George McFly’s role, and the crew fashioned molds of Glover’s face to make prosthetics for his stand-in. Glover sued the filmmakers for stealing his likeness, and eventually settled for $765,000 out of court. Thanks to Glover, the Screen Actors Guild thus introduced new rules about illicit use of actors.
They should have just figured out how to write him out entirely. It wouldn’t have been easy, since he played kind of a big role in the first film, but it would have saved the headache.
The fact that your parents had lives before you, was basically the genesis of the movie. Bob Gale was visiting his parents, and flipping through his father's old high school yearbook, found out that his father was the president of his graduating class. He never knew this; and thought if he went to high school with his father, would he like him, or would he be embarrassed by him. That was the seed from which Back to the Future grew.
One thing I love about the first movie is, growing up, I thought of Marty as the main character. As I got older, I realized George is actually the main character, just being seen through Marty's eyes, almost like Marty's the guy that was there the whole time, telling us what happened. George is the one that changes and the plot depends on that change, and he finally became someone Marty could look up to at the end (which works more thematically than technically), and that first kiss on the dance floor becomes as magical as Lorraine remembers. It's a story of his parents becoming the people they should have been the whole time and told in a very unique way using the time travel plot. It will always be one of my favorites. That said, Doc and Marty finally getting character arcs makes the third one the second best in my opinion. The desperate "Yes!" Clara gives when Doc finally asks her to dance is my favorite. Anyone who had a moment in a relationship where they needed something to pan out and it finally did knows that "Yes!"
@russellcheck Yeah Marty doesn’t learn anything in the trilogy he is always rushing back to get in his own timeline. Yeah it’s George McFly who grows as a character in the first one and third one is more about Doc than Marty.
@@rmsgrey Yes but I can agree with what's been said by some people that the character is a bit too good to be true. There is a theory that the character is supposed to be dead in the trilogy which that is interesting.
In my opinion, Back To The Future is the most consistent movie trilogy, at least in terms of quality, which is ironic because it breaks the key rule of a trilogy of essentially doing the same story 3 times, yet it works given the motif of history repeating itself. Look at all of the elements that appeared in all 3 films: Marty saying "This is heavy" and Doc Brown saying "Great Scott," Marty hitting his head and waking up with a version of his mother taking care of him, Marty walking into a diner and encountering a Tannen as well as a Strickland, a chase scene in the town square and Marty almost crashing into a vehicle, a Tannen crashing into manure, a scene where a character wears a bullet proof vest, pictures/documents changing, Marty being called "chicken," and of course the entire clock tower scene all appear in each film.
@@Weewoo12 Part III is still better than Part II as far as I'm concerned. Say what you will about Part III's "outdated" Western and romance tropes, but at least it was more consistent with it's tone and storytelling and focussed more on the characters and setting, where's Part II put the effects and gimmicks above everything else.
The ending to the second movie always gives me goosebumps even after I've seen it a bunch of times. A random car waiting for him in the rain after losing doc, reading the letter. Seeing 50's doc and having him pass out is such a great ending.
what is funny is that growing up i remember the ending to part 2 more than part one. almost every time i watch part one and doc sees the car go back to the past, i keep expecting marty to run around the corner.
The only way to watch the sequels is in one sitting. You need the peace and warmth of that scene where they’re asleep in the living room to calm you down and lighten the mood after watching Marty left to soak in the bitter rain after seeing Doc (as far as he knew) blown to smithereens. The letter isn’t enough. If I have ever have kids, I’m not even going to mention the sequels when I show them the first film for the first time. I want them to experience each part in the way I never could because the trilogy was nearly as ubiquitous as Star Wars by the time I was born and able to experience them in the early ‘90s. I want them to actually feel the suspense, and not know what’s going to happen next. Does Marty get his parents together and prevent Doc’s death in the first one? Do they get the almanac, and what happened to Doc when the lightning struck the car in the second? How do they get home in the third? Going out and buying the VHS tapes altogether like my father did kind of ruined that. You know the answers to these questions simply by looking at the three covers.
I always felt the movie would have had a stronger ending if they simply cut short to black after the mysterious man calls out Marty by name and had the "To be Continued" WITHOUT the trailer to the third movie, it would have been so mysterious of a cliff hanger and in three it would have been a funny payoff to find out this mysterious guy......was a mail man XD
@@Gojiro7 I think audiences would've felt that the movie got cut off w/ that ending and that it didn't make any sense. Only to be even more disappointed that the mysterious man is just someone from Western Union later on. The perfect cliffhanger is Doc fainting after Marty said "I'm back from the future". It gave people the concept of the next film just like the first movie unintentionally did.
Doc telling Clara about the Time Machine and not showing her is actually rather well justified. He _doesn't_ want to tell her initially, correctly figuring out she wouldn't believe him. Then Clara says that he'd tell her the truth if he really loved her, and he's reluctantly guilt-tripped into revealing it. But he has neither the time nor the opportunity to show Clara, after she rejects his story.
I'm in my early 30's and at least half of my friends are middle aged or even twice my age. I never found Marty and Doc's friendship odd. I know now a days it's common for people to just suspect foul play, but come on. I don't know how common such friendships occur, but Marty is so mature for his age, it makes sense he'd connect with adults easier than some other teens would.
Also, can you imagine a hyperactive kid stumbling across a crazy lab with an incredibly prolific inventor and not wanting to befriend him? Doc is probably just accepting Marty's presence, he's too busy with inventions XD
That was always the case with me. As a child, and I do mean from 5 to 13, I never got along with other kids. I wanted to have conversations and discuss things and hear others stories but most other kids just wanted to talk about zombies or try to put each other down. So I just hung out with the adults around me and found them to be more fun company.
I always figured it was something like, Marty's clearly pretty good with tech stuff. So they likely met via Doc hiring an extra hand to help with a thing he was making. And they jsut hit it off, became friends, and it stopped being about Doc hiring him, and more just Marty liking to help Doc make the insane shit he makes
I've always felt that they did the same things in each movie to show that "history repeats itself". They all play out in almost the same way. Time travels then enters a Cafe/bar. Meets up with doc. Chases with Biff. Goes to a dance..all history repeating itself
I actually like how the third one subverts the Marty gets chased by Biff moment. Whereas the first two, Marty's skateboarding skills aid him, in the third one, he has no advantage and thankfully Doc saves the day.
I think Part 3 was considered so disappointing to many people because it didn't have the kind of time-hopping craziness that Part 2 displayed. That film explored the time travel premise even further than the first film did, so audiences were expecting even more of that in Part 3. But having Marty and Doc get stuck in a single timeline for most of the third film felt like a letdown and a wasted opportunity to get even crazier. Looking back though, the Old West is probably one of the worst times and places in American history to get trapped in. Harsh living conditions, no hospitals or modern medicine meant dying slowly and agonizingly from minor injuries and illnesses, and outlaws like Mad Dog Tannen who would kill you simply for looking at them wrong. So it does make sense that the final movie in the series would put the heroes in their most dangerous scenario.
Plus...the fact that you time travel at the point of location that you hit 80 mph/get struck by lightning, imagine the impossibility of them trying to escape California (or whatever state this took place in) BEFORE the Wild West.
I disagree with the Critic's take that part 3 could have taken place in any time period because the major plot component of the last film is using lesser technology to time travel back to the future. The odds are just as dangerous only they needed to achieve 88mph before they reached the unfinished train bridge vs having to reach 88mph the same time as the lightning strike. I would say the odds are even more against them in part 3 because failure results in certain death while missing the lightning strike just means Marty lives out the rest of his days in the past.
Ironically "the Old West" was really a tiny span of time between the Civil War and the Pre WW I period around 1905/10 when it basically was already tamed... Yet it has dominated american historical iconography so much... almost more than the Revolution Era or Civil War...
I grew up with these movies and have always loved all 3...i cannot watch the first one without watching parts 2 and 3 immediately after and am always left with a giant smile on my face..i think it's so fitting that a movie about time travel remains a timeless classic to this day
I was glad NC touched on that these movies are both timeless and dated in all the best ways. That's one (of the many) reasons it's one of my favorite franchisees of all time. That dichotomy works out, and the films (mostly) hold up. Whereas so many others just look silly after a few years... let alone decades.
That's what happens me when I watch The Phantom Menace or A New Hope, I need to finnish the whole trilogy, BTTF 1 works as a stand-alone film, but even when I'm watching Part 2 I feel like I need to watch Part 3, it's so funny, I always have good times watching these movies, they are part of the movies that I have watched most times in my life, I believe +60 times, in fact this video made me wanna rewatch the whole trilogy.
I like how the whole- Every gimmick repeating is actually apart of the story, an continues the lessons of the original. Notice how it is only when Marty learns from his past, that he finally changes his future. By choosing not to take being called a coward so personally at the end, and avoiding the street race. Its a clever way of showing not only his growth as a character, but fitting into the whole time travel thing.
The most hysterical thing about BACK TO THE FUTURE is that so many people rejected it, not because it was kind of a "Teen Movie", but that it was a SOFT "Teen Movie"; while it had its "rude humor" at times, most wanted "Teen Sex Comedies" like FAST TIMES and ANIMAL HOUSE, and for their money, BTTF was just "too Disney"................ UNTIL Zemeckis and Gale tried going to Disney, and Disney flat out tossed it because of the whole "Mother/Son" conflict, saying it was TOOOOOOO MUCH for "Disney".
Meanwhile, Disney is fine with literally killing parents and having evil parents try to murder their kids. Yes, that stuff is offscreen, but my point still stands!
Was this around the time Disney was making movies about a disfigured little man who was shubs into a tower to stay out of sight for all eternity by an evil inquisitor who murdered his family and was planning to burn all of Paris if he didn't get the girl.
Word of god: Bob Gale *telling us the story* he and Bob Zemeckis came up with behind Doc and Marty's friendship. a) Bob Gale: For years, Marty was told that Doc Brown was dangerous, a crackpot, a lunatic. So, being a red-blooded American teenage boy, age 13 or 14, he decided to find out just why this guy was so dangerous. Marty snuck into Doc's lab, and was fascinated by all the cool stuff that was there. When Doc found him there, he was delighted to find that Marty thought he was cool and accepted him for what he was. Both of them were the black sheep in their respective environments. Doc gave Marty a part-time job to help with experiments, tend to the lab, tend to the dog, etc. b) The 2015 IDW comic book, co-written by Gale himself, makes this canon. Apparently Marty was playing his guitar in the garage one day in 1982, and Needles showed up with his punk friends and insisted on "borrowing" the interocitor tube for his amp, in preparation for their show that night. They broke Marty's, and then dared him to steal one (using the old "chicken" trick). The rest is history. c) Even if their first meeting didn't make it into the films, the Bobs felt it still worked because they imagined a kid like Marty would naturally be interested in a quirky guy like Doc, and Doc would just be happy to have a friend who's so interested in his work. *And they were right.*
I never found Doc and Marty's friendship odd, because I had adult mentors/friends like that as a teen and younger. I like this official explanation, because it feels very real-life while also feeling very '80s movie.
No one I knew ever questioned that relationship when I was young, between Doc and Marty. There's a ton of films where there is literally just a friendship that we'd look more suspiciously towards today.
I also love that Marty mentions Clint Eastwood in 1955. Doc doesn't know who that is but Marty spots posters for Revenge of the Creature and Tarantula, both early Eastwood films, "That's right, you haven't heard of him yet."
To quote the late great Norm Macdonald and something i'm sure Michael J. Fox might think about is "I like doing a funny show where I don't have to act and fall in love with a girl."
For those who still don't know what the kid is doing behind Doc in Back to the Future 3: the child actor was mute, the hand gesture he made was his way to communicate that he needed to pee. Also, you missed on bit that changed from the original timeline in 1985 from the altered 1985. The original name of the mall is Twin Pine mall and Doc explains that back in the 50s, the mall was a farm land. When Marty arrives in 1955, he runs over one of 2 small pine trees. When he returns to 1985, the mall is now called LONE Pine mall.
I do like that the time travel changes can be considered an in universe Mandela effect as well, Marty from the original timeline remembers it being called "Twin Pine mall" while everyone else remembers it as "Lone Pine mall". Same with how the ravine's name get's changed in the 3rd movie. It's a neat little touch, even if it's unintentional.
I love how it's repetitive because it reminds me of the whole history is repeating itself and that old saying if we don't learn from our past we are doomed to repeat it since marty keeps on getting himself in trouble with biff and his gang no matter what timeline he travels too
That is an excellent point I don’t think I have ever considered! Marty’s arc is that his impulsive decisions or temper cause a future problem that becuse he immediately sees the consequences of, he has to learn cause and effect the hard way. It also goes a little deeper. Marty teaches his dad to stick up for himself, so Marty is raised to fight for himself but takes it too far. So Marty has to learn where and when to stand and fight, and when to walk away.
Back to the Future Part III is my 2nd favourite film behind Amadeus. I love that this is Doc’s film and that Christopher Lloyd gets to play both hero and romantic lead, which is probably the only time this happened in his career. And the train sequence is what made me want to be a filmmaker. I can see why people might not like it, but I always preferred this over part II. I know the first one is the undisputed masterpiece, but Part III will always be first in my mind.
I loved seeing that you love Part III so much! III was my favorite as a kid; now it's the first, but III is right behind it, and sometimes I think III is the favorite. I love Marty and Doc's friendship, all the inversions of plot points from the other two movies, and Doc's development. And everything's wrapped up so nicely by the end. That train sequence rivals the clocktower scene, which is a stunning achievement, as the clocktower sequence is perfection. Part III deserves more love from the fans.
There's a comic (a prequel) to when Marty and Doc Met. Marty was caught by doc stealing one of his tools for something and instead of getting him in trouble or turning him in, he brings up as a sort of assistant to help him out with stuff. They eventually got to understand one another and made fun little connections and in time doc becomes a friend/mentor to Marty That's why Marty hangs with Doc.
Part II was always my favorite one as a kid and it still is to this day. It was actually my favorite movie overall for awhile. I loved how much happened in it. The plot was more dynamic.
Agree, i feel they had found there footing and with and made a random end joke into a start of a hole movie. and all the repating jokes.. im just a sucker for those.
The first movie will always be my favorite. The sequels are fine but Crispin Glover's absence really hurt them in my opinion. George was my favorite character and the first movie is essentially about his character growth. The sequels just felt like they were missing something without him.
I met Christopher Lloyd last month at SiliCon in San Jose. Great guy, good sense of humor about himself, and super nice. I got my picture taken with him and he signed it! At his panel, I asked him who he had more fun playing: Doc Brown or Uncle Fester, and he said Fester, because he read the original Charles Addams comic strips in magazines as a kid. Blew my mind!
The native americans coming out of nowhere is a great part of the joke being told. marty says that if he goes straight at the screen that he's gonna crash into all those indians. then doc says that he isnt thinking 4th dimensionally and that when he goes back in time those indians wont even be there. to which marty looks at the indians again and give a "yea well you dont know my luck" kind of look. onec he gets into the past and sees the indians coming at him,its the punchline of the joke since doc said that they wouldnt even be there.
It's also a great set up for the train bridge time travel explanation later, when Doc again tells Marty he's not thinking fourth dimensionally and he says "yeah, I have a real problem with that."
the trilogy has always felt like one big incredible adventure to me, rather than three separate films. each part has strengths and weaknesses but i’ve been so enchanted by them since i was a child that i don’t have it in me to put any of them down in favour of another. i also love all of the extended media (the musical, animated series, ride, comics and video game). it’s the perfect amount of additions for people looking to experience more of this story and characters without the need to make a fourth film or reboot the franchise. plus, bob gale has said that everything in these additions is only ever half-canon as such, so you can simply disregard the choices you disagree with. it makes the franchise feel like a choose your own adventure story in that way, which is perfect for something that centres the limitless possibilities of time travel.
I've always loved that this series used "history repeating itself" kinda as its backbone joke. comedic crutch if you like. It’s the bulk of it’s identity and charm to me. As a kid i loved the first two and didn’t think much of the third, but as an adult i’ve come to love all 3 equally. As for why it’s in the wild west? 1st film goes one gen back, the second one gen forward… makes sense for the third to be a century back. I think Zemekis wanted to pay homage to the western. The genre of film that inspired so much of the original - the stand-offs, the comical bad guy and his faithful cowardly goons, the damsel in distress etc. And i think it Makes for a fond fairwell ending the series in a genre from cinemas golden age too! Smart and heartfelt decision straight from the inner child imo. This trilogy was made entirely with love and care at the heart of it, and I’ll always love it!
I still think the strangest thing about the first film is Ronald Reagan had to be approve the film before release and actually quoted the film in his 1986 State of the Union, saying, “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”
I love Part III and always have. As pointed out here, Part II is kind of all over the place; mostly relying on the gimmick of inserting themselves into the previous movie. But Part III is a much more structured film that takes its time and tells a very sweet love story with Doc and Clara. Sure, it's not as flashy as the second movie, but it knows what it's doing throughout. Also, it ends with a flying time train.
#2 & #3 are fine, but #1 is one of the best movies ever made. It works on every level. “Doc, are you telling me that you made a time machine… out of a Delorean?” Gets me every time.
I love all 3 equally. There's something about that cinematography throughout that I love. Plus,it was always my favorite how they would figure out how to fix everything that was wrong. Their buddy system was so genuine.
Back To The Future 2 has always been my favourite. It has the most time travel, and the most interplay between the four different worlds, five if you count Doc vanishing into 1885 at the end.
Fun Fact: Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale had worked together on the 1980 comedy “Used Cars.” Not long after that, Gale was looking through his father’s old yearbook and began to wonder if he would have been friends with his dad had they known each other as kids back then. This sparked the idea of time traveling to the past and meeting your parents, the kernel at the center of “Back to the Future”
I love the whole trilogy but the first one is just an all time classic. It's beyond perfect and can be rewatched endlessly. Just great stuff made from the best decade
@@adam1984pl Shut up and let people enjoy what they enjoy. 🤦♂️ God I hate people who refuse to acknowledge things exist because they don't like them. I hate Highlander 2 but I'm not out here denying it exists.
Their relationship is closer to mentor/student. Doc is passionate about his invention, and he's glad he can share them with Marty, who is just as impressed and maybe inspired by all of them.
I love these films especially the music which makes it so iconic. The theme fits into the theatrical score so well and you know that things will be OK when it is being played in the film xxxx
When I was a kid, I loved the second movie and hated the third. Over the years, I kind of came to appreciate all of them as just one big movie. Can't imagine just watching one of them and going "Yeah, that's enough."
@@luisfernando55 The locations of the "Twin Pines Mall" is actually Puente Hills Mall. And Marty's High School is actually Whittier High school. Both are in my hometown of Whittier, California.
I like that Doc and Marty are just treated as natural friends. He easily could have been explained as a family friend or his neighbor or science teacher, but they let the relationship just innocently exist without a bold explanation and it worked.
3rd movie paradox- Clara died in the ravine and that's why it's called Clayton ravine in 1985. Nobody (doc) came to pick her up and she died. Clara wasn't saved until Marty came back and he and doc saved her, resulting in doc's relationship with her. Therefore his tombstone in 1955 wouldn't reference his beloved Clara. In that timeline, Marty hadn't gone back to save him also saving Clara.
While it definitely works better as a stand alone (nothing tops the first one), I do like the arc they give Marty over the 3 films. He starts off as such a hot head, and by the third one he’s a bit rational but still has a little hot headedness. He learns patience and wisdom and uses it to temper his confidence and ego
They kind of had to. Marty has no arc at all in the first movie, he's just a force of nature that changes the people around him, like Ferris Bueller. But he can't do that for three movies. He has to grow in some way.
For DECADES, it drove me crazy that Marty couldn't get over this stupid "chicken" thing and kept letting it ruin his life... But one day it clicked for me that this is all happening over the span of a few weeks for his character. Makes a lot more sense after realizing that.
@@josh72456 not much, no. But more than zero. My only point was that in the first movie he had none, and that's fine in a standalone film but not sustainable over three movies.
I think that Back to the Future took a lot of inspiration from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Both films have: 1. A "crackpot" inventor who is working on a very special car. 2. The inventor has a dog named after a famous scientist. 3. Both films open with complicated Rube Goldberg machines for making breakfast.
“There’s no reason for the third movie to be the old west” Doc literally brought it up in the 2nd movie 😂😂 It was when they picked Jennifer up from Old Marty’s house and Doc was talking about destroying the Time Machine, stating that his biggest regret would be that he wouldn’t be able to visit his favorite era: the old west. And to figure out the other greatest mystery of the universe: women. Loved the video, but the old west setting was necessary since they teased that Doc really wanted to go there
I think he means it from a film making standpoint. The filmmakers could've chosen, say, Civil War times, the roaring 20's, etc., but chose Western specifically.
@@DarkDuke13 to be be Civil War times was Old West, but adding a war element would've changed the tone of the film. Roaring 20s wouldn't have been different enough from the 50s. Also, all possible times would be restricted to Hill Valley, as part of the point was seeing the town and people during the different times. This means Old West was the limit and the most extreme from the 21st Century so it made the most sense.
My Grandma’s neighbor was a VHS pirate. He’d go to video stores and copy movies onto tapes. When my family moved to the Midwest, he gave us a stack of Disney classics and some movies for my folks. I was introduced to the first movie when I was around 5 and loved it. Doc and Marty working off each other so well, the suspenseful climax, Alan Silvestri’s epic soundtrack. Then I found out about the sequels and grabbed them in the stack of VHS tapes. I love every single detail and can quote most of the first movie. It’s my favorite movie of all time. Interesting to hear your take.
I was hoping that someone would comment about the Telltale game.😀 I have such fond memories, playing it on the wii.😊 And yes, it's indeed a fantastic follow up to this wonderful trilogy.
No joke, my Dad literally first showed me Back To The Future II on new years eve of 2014! I remember freaking out because the "future" wasn't going to be the future much longer and it was just a really cool concept to me. And you could tell that my dad probably had this planned for years, as I'm pretty sure I had already seen that first Back To The Future. So part II is always going to be nostalgic for me for that reason.
I saw these movies as a kid in the mid 90s and really liked them, my favourite was the second one. The fact that it got dark felt right because while the first movie talked about the consequences, the second movie took that to a serious level. The whole point was to show how severe the consequences can be. A nightmare timeline was the escalation of this and it made perfect sense to me. It raises the stakes to such a point that you see why Marty would literally risk his life in a car chase with Biff to prevent it.
I'm just glad these films we're made because they revolutionized the way we currently think about Sci-Fi films and just imagine if these weren't made think about all the great classics we maybe would of never seen because of these films being so groundbreaking as they we're
1985 on the big screen, this was amazing. All of it, the FX, the script, the time travel tropes, it was terrific. Some argue waiting four years for the sequel may have been an effect but really, the two sequels genius playing on the time travel tropes and showing Marty having to let go of his impulse problems and such and I love how it all ends in a perfect way so a reason it's so loved.
I loved these movies growing up. These were very good movies. I still love them now. What's really surprising is that no one has tried to remake these movies with all the remakes that exist now. It just wouldn't work if someone tried to remake these movies. They deserve to remain classics. I like it better that way.
This was the first movie trilogy I ever watched as a kid and I still treasure the vhs (which were my father's). Now over 15 years later I still deeply love these movies, and after my recent rewatch I can confidently say I just can't pick a favourite. I particularly loved 2 and 3 more as a kid, but 1 is just a classic I could never skip. Truly a beloved series.
I just LOVE it in you last review, Jurassic World: Dominion when that Kayla sees that picture of Maisie and asks, "Is that your kid?" and you placed this line from Back to the Future 3 "It's a science experiment!" LOL Two thumbs up for that ingenious mix! 👍👍
Doc and Marty's friendship is part of a temporal causality loop and/or a chicken/egg paradox created by Marty going back in time to 1955 and interacting with Doc, becoming friends, Doc learning of what happens to himself in the future, Doc re-befriending Marty by 1985, so Marty can go back to 1955, become friends with Doc in 1955, and so on, and so on. They are friends, because they were friends, and because they would become friends.
Reading this made me think of the second Austin Powers movie where he tries rationalizing time travel and eventually stops and says “oh no, I’ve gone cross-eyed.”
Time travel theory is weird but technically there would be muiltiple origins including the loop theory, which itself is a paradox not unlike John Connor being fathered by someone he himself sent from the future. So there would have to be one or more timelines where Doc & Marty meet organically to even make the time travel events possible, and likewise a timeline would have to exist where John Connor is not fathered by Kyle Reese.
While I really like the idea of this theory, I don't think it applies to Back to the Future. At least not consistently. The reason being Marty didn't just interact with Doc in 1955 but also his parents. So if the chicken/egg paradox was consistent, his parents never would've been losers at the beginning of the film. It's only because of his influence that they become the best versions of themselves - and we know at the start of the film that Marty wasn't present the first time around because GEORGE was hit by the car and not Marty. It also makes me wonder what happened to the original loser versions of his parents. Did their consciousness simply shift from one to the other? Or did the universe save a new set of parents over the old ones, and in a way killing them? If true, I guess that would mean Marty killed and replaced a lot of people in the movie. Okay, this is why I should stop overthinking things!
There is a paradox in the sequels that I don't see people point out. Marty sees Doc's gravestone, dedicated to Clara, so he goes back to save Doc. But Marty only went back in time to save Doc. And it was only because Marty went back that Doc met Clara in the first place, she'd have died otherwise and created the name for the ravine. And because Marty went back, Doc never died so the gravestone would never have been created. Basically, the conditions needed to create the gravestone are because Marty went back, but because Marty went back the tombstone was never created, so how could the gravestone have been created? This can only be explained by a Doctor Who level "fixed point in time" concept where Marty was always going to go back.
There's no paradox. There was a scene earlier that etablsibed that Doc was suppose to meet the new school teacher AKA Clara at the train station. You can see her in the background went Marty and Doc are looking at map at station. Since in this timeline, Marty went back to rescue Doc, he evidently didn't meet Clara when he was suppose too, so their meeting is different. If Marty never went back, Doc would have still meet Clara therefore getting shot by Buford and having getting a tombstone dedicated by her. Doc would have still remembered the ravane being named after her either way because we know the altered timelines don't change the memories of the person time traveling from one point to another.
Fun Fact: writer Bob Gale said that for BTTF 2, he originally planned to have Marty and Doc go back to the 60s to retrieve the sports almanac from Biff instead of the events of the first film. There, George was an English teacher, Lorraine was a hippie-flower child protesting the Vietnam War which lead to Marty getting arrested at an Anti-War demonstration and other chaos.
My take is that this trilogy encompasses the term "Movie Magic". And it gets me excited, makes me laugh, gives me goosebumps and brings a tear to my eye to watch all three of them. "Movie Magic" indeed.
I maybe the odd one out but I always like the second film the best. Biff is both hilarious and terrifying. Everyone is having fun with their parts you can tell. And when Marty goes to his father’s gravestone it honestly still gets me alittle choked up.
Pat Buttram was also in almost every Disney movie in the 70s, including "Aristocats" (as Napoleon), "The Rescuers" (as Luke), and "The Fox and the Hound" (as Chief)
The fact that people find Marty and Doc’s relationship weird says more about how maladjusted the 21st century is than anything about the movie. Once upon a time it was considered normal for neighbors to be friends and mentors. Not having your own kids didn’t excuse you from societal participation in growing and helping the younger generation. If you were working in your garage when neighborhood kids rode by on their bikes, you may engage in a conversation. If they grew interests in an area you knew about, you might even support them and talk to their parents to encourage them. Today, people would see this as another task they have to worry about. And I really think that’s preventing the current generation from being socially capable.
I don't think Doug is giving the full context behind the Doc break up scene with Clara. Doc never intends to reveal anything about the time machine but seeing Clara get so upset at him ending things leads to him revealing the truth. The train scene works so well because Doc and Marty have no clue initially that Clara is on the train. Also, the look on Doc's face when Clara tells him she loves him Is one of the best moments of the trilogy.
Honestly the weirdest part about the original script still to me is that The DeLorean was not even in it which to me is kind of mind blowing because whenever someone think about Back to the Future most of the time the most popular image in most people's head is The DeLorean so it's kind of crazy to think it wasn't even a thought at first
Before BTTF came out the image of time machine was H.G. Wells time machine or something similar. A device that would move through time but not through space.
Robert Zemeckis told a "joke" in a behind the scenes interview that the Hoverboards were real, but that the government wouldn't let Mattel release them. That interview was aired on TV with the movies and suddenly a lot of people believed it had to be true because the director said it, including kid me. The fact that the behind the scenes footage literally shows them faking the hoverboard scenes didn't let people in on the joke well enough.
My favorite part about ZZ Top's cameo is the fact that Frank Beard (the one without a beard) finally gets to do the iconic ZZ Top Spin with his instrument.
Fun Fact! President Ronald Ragen loved this movie. That he had his entire cabinet watch it in the White House Theatre. When they made a crack about him in the movie, Nancy shouted “and Eastwood’s next!”
Part 3 will always be my favourite, even tho I know it's not the best. I just love Doc and Clara's relationship, they are easily my favourite film couple ever!!! 😁 And Clara, she remind me so much of my mum. I told her that once, almost like in passing, and every time she sees me watching it now, she very smugly chimes in, "She's just like me, isn't she, Beth?" EVERY SINGLE TIME!! Also....The West End was blessed with the stage musical. That has to be one of the best shows I have ever seen, I saw it twice. I hope it comes to Broadway someday, you Yanks absolutely deserve to see it. The flying car at the end is really emotional! ❤❤❤
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OMG, my mom introduced me to these movies when I was a kid, and I was completely captivated by them, and let me tell ya, ever since then the Back to the Future movies had always and will always continue to hold a very special place in my heart!❤️
I always thought Marty was his assistant. When I tried to look it up I found that basically Doc was seen as a mad scientist, Marty snuck into his lab on a dare but became interested in Docs inventions. Doc never had someone interested in his creations so he invited Marty to drop by when he wanted. Then their partnership grew.
Pat Buttram was actually more famous for playing the shyster Mr. Haney on Green Acres. He sounded just like the Sherriff of Nottingham. The series also co-starred Eva Gabor who voiced Duchess from the Arustocats and Miss Bianca in both Rescuers movies. The star of Green Acres was Eddie Albert who was also the star of Escape to Witch Mountain. The guy named Jason who drove the trailer and helped the kids. Pat Bttram did several voices for Disney. He was also in the Aristocats, the Reacuers, the Fox and the Hound and a Goody Movie posthumously as the possum that opened the Jamboree.
I saw on the bonus features that the filmmakers said in 3 there was a bit of role reversal with Doc and Marty with Doc being a bit like a lovstruck teenager and Marty being the voice of reason
I have absolutely no idea why people thought Marty and Doc Brown hanging out was weird. Even when seeing this movie as an adult the first thing my brain went to was, "this is fine." Why? Because it's high school, he's on the cusp of being an adult anyway; I had a few adult friends when I was in my junior or senior year of high school. We could still conversate, most of them were adults who did art just like I did. And though it was never explicitly stated, I could see Doc Brown being like...a family friend or, hell, someone Marty met once, and found out he was a scientist and they just---*became friends* While I admit that yes there is def a line in the sand with age differences and friendships, I don't believe there's one here.
Honestly the 3rd film might be my personal favorite just because yes it's not the best but honestly the 3rd film has some of the most impressive stuff we've seen from these films and the story while not the greatest still is a really serviceable attempt and does create some pretty unique moments that i'm kind of glad we saw from this film series before it ended
Originally growing up i did kinda see 3 as the weakest, but as I got older not only did I find it more entertaining I also realized that the romantic relationship was done so much better than in 1 or 2. with Marty and Jennifer we never really get to see them spend much time together besides a few minutes in the first one, and in the second she's knocked out through most of it. in 3 I could really feel the chemistry between Doc Brown and Clara which I think was really the main focus of the movie, and their chemistry is done in a really great way for the most part except for the pointless break up scene. even so I believed their chemistry, and I love Doc Browns message at the end about making your own future. it's hard for me to rank these movies, but 3 definitely grew on me as I got older.
The best thing about III is that it defies the now-common wisdom of jacking up the stakes even further. Instead, it kicks back and has some fun as a Golden Age cowboy movie...and lets Doc be happy.
I got one of the trilogy DVD sets growing up, and I remember one of the bonus features was of the writers talking about giving Doc a love interest because 1.) they felt that Marty's story was complete by the end of part 2. And 2.) They thought it would be interesting to explore when a serious science-minded guy like Doc did run into "the one".
@@nicholastosoni707 that's the thing, Part III really doesn't have cosmological stakes like in the first two so it can enjoy itself with the right amount of drama for a comedy.
Funny thing, growing up I could only ever see these movies the few times when they aired on TV (and I record them on VHS), and I wound up seeing them in Reverse Order (3, 2 then 1), so it made it quite an interesting time whenever I eventually get to watch the previous movie and see how the references tied up.
Even the trilogy wasn't supposed to be a trilogy. The studio asked for a sequel, but Bob Gale put so much stuff into the script that they were stuck deciding whether to cut out half the material or split it into two movies. Part of the reason for the negative reaction was that people weren't expecting this, it was basically unheard of at the time. Even when you have successive movies like James Bond or Star Wars, the films are essentially self contained stories. BttF2 ended on a huge cliffhanger, and even though they shot them together, even though the third one came out like six months later, even though they had a trailer right at the end of the movie, people still felt a little cheated by it. Nowadays, all the studios like making two movies out of their finale, and by doing it with established properties and saying up front "part 1", the audience has an easier time swallowing it. BttF walked so Twilight and Harry Potter could run. The strongest evidence of this is how much better the movies work watched back to back. There are actually a lot of setups in 2 that are paid off in 3. The Biff Museum, for example, introduces Mad Dog but people probably forgot about that by the time they went back to the theater. I still think BttF is a perfect comedy just the way it is, but I've grown to appreciate the sequels a lot more. They're genuinely great movies.
I find that most people who watch these movies now after not seeing them in their childhood are doomed to not like them the same way people like me do. I wasn't alive when the movies came out, but I did grow up with them. They were my first exposure to the limits of time travel. They exposed me to the concept of potentially being erased from existence if you screw up the past too much, and I think even the concept of changing the past and creating alternate realities were first shown to me through these movies. I remember when I first watched part 2, and when they landed in 1955 again and had to explain that not only did they have to complete their mission of getting the almanac, but they also had to avoid their other cells from the first movie. I didn't even think for a second that Marty would have another self in 1955 from part 1, but the moment Doc explained it, it magically appeared like the most obvious thing in the world, and I could no longer imagine it not being a problem. The back of the future movies are essentially time travel stories for beginners. They don't define the rules necessarily, but they're a good exposure to what kind of rules could be played about with. Even the movies themselves don't seem to really stick to a certain set of rules. The way I see time travel stories is that they can usually be played about in two different ways. Either going to the past will change the past and thus the future as well, or anything you do in the past will have already happened in the original timeline and there's no such thing as changing anything because any attempt you make to change the past we'll just result in it happening the way it always did instead. These movies seem to kind of combine those two ways, making it so that going to the past changes things, but also letting the rules be flexible with the concept of newspapers changing, Doc's letter making it to Marty no matter what, Old Biff making it to 2015 without it being apparent as to whether anything has changed yet, etc. I remember when I was a kid I literally wrote down the DeLorean time machine computer on a piece of paper and then the green zone I put 2022. As a kid, I legit thought that it was a fair bat that I would be intelligent and capable enough to literally build a time machine by this year. I also wrote lots of fanfictions for part 4, I loved the game and consider it cannon, and I even wrote down the entirety of Parts one and two using Peep and the Big Wide World characters, with gags such as Evil Biff shooting Quack's hat off his head and getting him aggravated and stuff. essentially, I think that if you watch these movies as your first exposure to time travel, you'll literally never forget them and see them through the eyes of the other people who claim they are timeless classics. If you watch a bunch of time travel stuff first though, and then watch these movies, they won't seem like anything special.
How do you rank the Back to the Future movies?
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1 and 2 are tied, then 3.
1. Back to the Future
2. Back to the Future Part 3
3. Back to the Future Part 2
Great Scott! What episodes will you breakdown when you finished Bat-May?
1. BTTF
2. BTTF 3
3. BTTF 2
My grandma got to meet Christopher Lloyd way back in 1989 when they were filming Part 3 in her area. She even got his autograph, but that very sadly got destroyed more than 30 years ago after a bar and restaurant she and my grandpa had owned at the time caught on fire. When I met him last month at SiliCon in San Jose, I got one autograph for myself and a replacement one for my grandma that I plan to give to her as a Christmas present this year.
Let us know how she reacts! Sounds so super sweet
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That’s so sweet
Awww, that's so sweet. She'll love it and you in that order! 🤣🤣
HAHA! NOW THAT'S AWESOME!
Marty and Doc’s friendship is so natural, there’s no need to question Doc’s intentions
nope none at all Morty
They are both in a age gap relationship 🥰
As a kid I thought Marty was docks assistant or something 😂😂😂😂.
@@creatormanualdarytendotmve4748 not since walter white and mike's relationship have i seen such a beautiful budding romance
@@creatormanualdarytendotmve4748 how so? Jennifer and Marty are the same age, and while their exact ages aren't explicitly mentioned, it's implied Clara and Emmett are both vaguely in their late forties or early fifties.
One of the best theories I have read about Doc and Marty is that after the events of Marty's trip to the past, Doc searched out Marty and hired him as an assistant to create a stable time loop. He never told Marty that he knew him in the past because Doc was trying not to change the future.
This actually....makes a TON of sense. He had to preserve a temporal causality loop.
@@river_acheron This would also explain how both versions of Marty (the one from the original timeline and the altered timeline), both ended up helping Doc with his time travel experiment despite probably having very different upbringing.
In the comics, their meeting is explained as Marty needing a part for a speaker and Doc had bought all of that part; forcing Marty to go to his house and agreeing to become his assistant after their meeting. Then we find out he only bought that part for the box and tossed the tubes in the trash, which could imply he knew Marty needed that part and bought them purposely to get Marty to his house.
This makes sense. And Doc preserving the timeline is the only reason why he wouldn't create the time machine earlier and not waste his family fortune building it. He had his hands on the Delorean for over a week and rebuilt the time circuits, you can't tell me he couldn't have built another one before 1985 if he wanted to
@@HailHydra1001 He may have had to wait for the plutonium to become available, as well as certain companies to become advanced enough to make the circuitry. The joke in Part 3 is that the Doc from 1955 thinks anything made in Japan is junk, while most of the time machine parts in 1985 were probably from Japan.
@@DarkcIoud1111. Japan was Chinese products 1.0 lol. But there were alternative parts as early as 1948 I think Doc said. Plutonium definitely wasn’t easy to come by for anyone but he could’ve figured out an early version of Mr. Fusion. Just a thought because he had time for that as well
This is the first film where when I saw the sequel it felt like the first movie just kept going. That is a monumental feat for anyone to accomplish.
"Hellraiser II" felt like that to me, too.
@@sidnew2739 Not as well known, but all the Hatchet movies accomplished this as well.
@jaredjams4267 LOTR yes, Star Wars no.
@jaredjams4267empire has a way higher budget than the first, looks different, actors look different, different directing, takes place after a time jump. No comparison to back to the future 2
All three movies can be watched entirely sequentially, and that is probably why they are so consistent. Obviously they heavily studied the original before making 2, and then made 2 and 3 together so everything slotted together nicely. Since I grew up often watching them together, I always really appreciated how much care obviously went into all the small details that carry over across the trilogy.
Bob Gale's explanation of Marty and Doc's "relationship" was basically this: "There's always that nut in the neighborhood that everybody warns you about when you're a kid, but that makes you want to know that guy all the more, if not become friends with him." He also mentions it was a take on LEAVE IT TO BEAVER when Beaver would often ask advice from the local fireman.
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Even the comics explained why Marty is friends with Doc, as well as the episodic game Telltale Games which made it basically become the 4th film that you can actually play
didn't the Telltale game mention that Marty saved Doc from a fire? i would call that a reason to create a connection
The original script also explains how Doc and Marty met, Doc basically hired him as an assistant/helping hand around d his shop. Marty enjoyed working for him because Doc had an extensive record collection and Marty was annoyed by his parents.
I grew up in a tight-knit suburban neighborhood, so...exactly like the one in Back to the Future. And there were absolutely older folks that I got to know as a kid. When I was really young, our crossing guard was an older guy, who was incredibly friendly and every single kid loved the guy, as did our parents. With Back to the Future, it felt like Marty was a bit against the grain, so he probably didn't get along with a lot of other kids, and just found a friendship in Doc.
To the NC's point, no one really thought anything of it back then. I guess the more cynical the world gets, the more we look back at these things.
Another fun fact about this amazing trilogy is: When Glover turned down a “lowball” figure of $125,000 to act in the sequel, Gale rewrote the script to lessen George McFly’s role, and the crew fashioned molds of Glover’s face to make prosthetics for his stand-in. Glover sued the filmmakers for stealing his likeness, and eventually settled for $765,000 out of court. Thanks to Glover, the Screen Actors Guild thus introduced new rules about illicit use of actors.
Incorrect. Check your sources. I think you’re referring to the use of his scenes from the first movie for the sequel and not being compensated.
They should have just figured out how to write him out entirely. It wouldn’t have been easy, since he played kind of a big role in the first film, but it would have saved the headache.
Sadly for the actor who played George in BttF pt. 2, he was caught in that crossfire, and was basically blacklisted in Hollywood.
Does this apply to actors post mortem?
wait wtf who's in the wrong here
The fact that your parents had lives before you, was basically the genesis of the movie. Bob Gale was visiting his parents, and flipping through his father's old high school yearbook, found out that his father was the president of his graduating class. He never knew this; and thought if he went to high school with his father, would he like him, or would he be embarrassed by him. That was the seed from which Back to the Future grew.
Not only that, but they also went to the same highschool, so if they were the same age *would* they be friends?
One thing I love about the first movie is, growing up, I thought of Marty as the main character. As I got older, I realized George is actually the main character, just being seen through Marty's eyes, almost like Marty's the guy that was there the whole time, telling us what happened. George is the one that changes and the plot depends on that change, and he finally became someone Marty could look up to at the end (which works more thematically than technically), and that first kiss on the dance floor becomes as magical as Lorraine remembers. It's a story of his parents becoming the people they should have been the whole time and told in a very unique way using the time travel plot. It will always be one of my favorites. That said, Doc and Marty finally getting character arcs makes the third one the second best in my opinion. The desperate "Yes!" Clara gives when Doc finally asks her to dance is my favorite. Anyone who had a moment in a relationship where they needed something to pan out and it finally did knows that "Yes!"
@russellcheck Yeah Marty doesn’t learn anything in the trilogy he is always rushing back to get in his own timeline. Yeah it’s George McFly who grows as a character in the first one and third one is more about Doc than Marty.
@@josh72456 He may not learn much, but there's a little - try calling him chicken early in the Trilogy, and you'll get a different outcome than later.
@@rmsgrey Yeah that was to illustrate how cool he appears yet he's accident prone which is part of the comedic aspects of the character.
@@josh72456 Developing the ability to refuse a dare is character development.
@@rmsgrey Yes but I can agree with what's been said by some people that the character is a bit too good to be true. There is a theory that the character is supposed to be dead in the trilogy which that is interesting.
In my opinion, Back To The Future is the most consistent movie trilogy, at least in terms of quality, which is ironic because it breaks the key rule of a trilogy of essentially doing the same story 3 times, yet it works given the motif of history repeating itself. Look at all of the elements that appeared in all 3 films: Marty saying "This is heavy" and Doc Brown saying "Great Scott," Marty hitting his head and waking up with a version of his mother taking care of him, Marty walking into a diner and encountering a Tannen as well as a Strickland, a chase scene in the town square and Marty almost crashing into a vehicle, a Tannen crashing into manure, a scene where a character wears a bullet proof vest, pictures/documents changing, Marty being called "chicken," and of course the entire clock tower scene all appear in each film.
I wouldn’t call the trilogy consistent. The third film is almost unanimously criticized as being weak
@@Weewoo12 Part III is still better than Part II as far as I'm concerned.
Say what you will about Part III's "outdated" Western and romance tropes, but at least it was more consistent with it's tone and storytelling and focussed more on the characters and setting, where's Part II put the effects and gimmicks above everything else.
Nope, the trilogy isn't consistent in terms of quality unless you mean consistent in terms of trending downward.
When was he called a chicken in the first movie?
@@Weewoo12 Weak but not bad. So that's that
The ending to the second movie always gives me goosebumps even after I've seen it a bunch of times. A random car waiting for him in the rain after losing doc, reading the letter. Seeing 50's doc and having him pass out is such a great ending.
what is funny is that growing up i remember the ending to part 2 more than part one. almost every time i watch part one and doc sees the car go back to the past, i keep expecting marty to run around the corner.
Yeah that ending with dope especially when the music start playing.
The only way to watch the sequels is in one sitting. You need the peace and warmth of that scene where they’re asleep in the living room to calm you down and lighten the mood after watching Marty left to soak in the bitter rain after seeing Doc (as far as he knew) blown to smithereens. The letter isn’t enough.
If I have ever have kids, I’m not even going to mention the sequels when I show them the first film for the first time. I want them to experience each part in the way I never could because the trilogy was nearly as ubiquitous as Star Wars by the time I was born and able to experience them in the early ‘90s. I want them to actually feel the suspense, and not know what’s going to happen next. Does Marty get his parents together and prevent Doc’s death in the first one? Do they get the almanac, and what happened to Doc when the lightning struck the car in the second? How do they get home in the third? Going out and buying the VHS tapes altogether like my father did kind of ruined that. You know the answers to these questions simply by looking at the three covers.
I always felt the movie would have had a stronger ending if they simply cut short to black after the mysterious man calls out Marty by name and had the "To be Continued" WITHOUT the trailer to the third movie, it would have been so mysterious of a cliff hanger and in three it would have been a funny payoff to find out this mysterious guy......was a mail man XD
@@Gojiro7 I think audiences would've felt that the movie got cut off w/ that ending and that it didn't make any sense. Only to be even more disappointed that the mysterious man is just someone from Western Union later on. The perfect cliffhanger is Doc fainting after Marty said "I'm back from the future". It gave people the concept of the next film just like the first movie unintentionally did.
Doc telling Clara about the Time Machine and not showing her is actually rather well justified. He _doesn't_ want to tell her initially, correctly figuring out she wouldn't believe him. Then Clara says that he'd tell her the truth if he really loved her, and he's reluctantly guilt-tripped into revealing it. But he has neither the time nor the opportunity to show Clara, after she rejects his story.
Ohh you're not talking about Doctor Who and Oswald.
@@evrint Now that you mention it, them having the same names is a fun coincidence.
I'm in my early 30's and at least half of my friends are middle aged or even twice my age. I never found Marty and Doc's friendship odd. I know now a days it's common for people to just suspect foul play, but come on. I don't know how common such friendships occur, but Marty is so mature for his age, it makes sense he'd connect with adults easier than some other teens would.
Also, can you imagine a hyperactive kid stumbling across a crazy lab with an incredibly prolific inventor and not wanting to befriend him? Doc is probably just accepting Marty's presence, he's too busy with inventions XD
@@TheDahaka1 and this kid i totally positive toward your inventions and wants to film them and give you credit, great ego boost
That was always the case with me. As a child, and I do mean from 5 to 13, I never got along with other kids. I wanted to have conversations and discuss things and hear others stories but most other kids just wanted to talk about zombies or try to put each other down. So I just hung out with the adults around me and found them to be more fun company.
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I always figured it was something like, Marty's clearly pretty good with tech stuff.
So they likely met via Doc hiring an extra hand to help with a thing he was making.
And they jsut hit it off, became friends, and it stopped being about Doc hiring him, and more just Marty liking to help Doc make the insane shit he makes
I've always felt that they did the same things in each movie to show that "history repeats itself". They all play out in almost the same way. Time travels then enters a Cafe/bar. Meets up with doc. Chases with Biff. Goes to a dance..all history repeating itself
I actually like how the third one subverts the Marty gets chased by Biff moment. Whereas the first two, Marty's skateboarding skills aid him, in the third one, he has no advantage and thankfully Doc saves the day.
I think Part 3 was considered so disappointing to many people because it didn't have the kind of time-hopping craziness that Part 2 displayed. That film explored the time travel premise even further than the first film did, so audiences were expecting even more of that in Part 3. But having Marty and Doc get stuck in a single timeline for most of the third film felt like a letdown and a wasted opportunity to get even crazier.
Looking back though, the Old West is probably one of the worst times and places in American history to get trapped in. Harsh living conditions, no hospitals or modern medicine meant dying slowly and agonizingly from minor injuries and illnesses, and outlaws like Mad Dog Tannen who would kill you simply for looking at them wrong. So it does make sense that the final movie in the series would put the heroes in their most dangerous scenario.
Plus...the fact that you time travel at the point of location that you hit 80 mph/get struck by lightning, imagine the impossibility of them trying to escape California (or whatever state this took place in) BEFORE the Wild West.
I disagree with the Critic's take that part 3 could have taken place in any time period because the major plot component of the last film is using lesser technology to time travel back to the future. The odds are just as dangerous only they needed to achieve 88mph before they reached the unfinished train bridge vs having to reach 88mph the same time as the lightning strike. I would say the odds are even more against them in part 3 because failure results in certain death while missing the lightning strike just means Marty lives out the rest of his days in the past.
It's also nice to see Doc Brown get an arc in it. I feel like 3 is more his story
Ironically "the Old West" was really a tiny span of time between the Civil War and the Pre WW I period around 1905/10 when it basically was already tamed... Yet it has dominated american historical iconography so much... almost more than the Revolution Era or Civil War...
@@Ugly_German_Truths idk, westerns can span across that entire period and still be westerns.
I grew up with these movies and have always loved all 3...i cannot watch the first one without watching parts 2 and 3 immediately after and am always left with a giant smile on my face..i think it's so fitting that a movie about time travel remains a timeless classic to this day
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I was glad NC touched on that these movies are both timeless and dated in all the best ways. That's one (of the many) reasons it's one of my favorite franchisees of all time. That dichotomy works out, and the films (mostly) hold up. Whereas so many others just look silly after a few years... let alone decades.
That's what happens me when I watch The Phantom Menace or A New Hope, I need to finnish the whole trilogy, BTTF 1 works as a stand-alone film, but even when I'm watching Part 2 I feel like I need to watch Part 3, it's so funny, I always have good times watching these movies, they are part of the movies that I have watched most times in my life, I believe +60 times, in fact this video made me wanna rewatch the whole trilogy.
I like how the whole- Every gimmick repeating is actually apart of the story, an continues the lessons of the original. Notice how it is only when Marty learns from his past, that he finally changes his future. By choosing not to take being called a coward so personally at the end, and avoiding the street race. Its a clever way of showing not only his growth as a character, but fitting into the whole time travel thing.
@Music Lover fair points but sequels are still repetitive narratively.
The most hysterical thing about BACK TO THE FUTURE is that so many people rejected it, not because it was kind of a "Teen Movie", but that it was a SOFT "Teen Movie"; while it had its "rude humor" at times, most wanted "Teen Sex Comedies" like FAST TIMES and ANIMAL HOUSE, and for their money, BTTF was just "too Disney"................
UNTIL Zemeckis and Gale tried going to Disney, and Disney flat out tossed it because of the whole "Mother/Son" conflict, saying it was TOOOOOOO MUCH for "Disney".
Meanwhile, Disney is fine with literally killing parents and having evil parents try to murder their kids. Yes, that stuff is offscreen, but my point still stands!
yeah Marty McFly is a pretty "innocent" teen movie character, even by 1985 standards. I guess he has a girlfriend and a cool car though, so it's ok
Yeah, remember when Disney had _standards?_
Was this around the time Disney was making movies about a disfigured little man who was shubs into a tower to stay out of sight for all eternity by an evil inquisitor who murdered his family and was planning to burn all of Paris if he didn't get the girl.
@@spiritwatcher It was around a decade prior. _Hunchback_ didn't start production until 1993.
Word of god: Bob Gale *telling us the story* he and Bob Zemeckis came up with behind Doc and Marty's friendship.
a) Bob Gale: For years, Marty was told that Doc Brown was dangerous, a crackpot, a lunatic. So, being a red-blooded American teenage boy, age 13 or 14, he decided to find out just why this guy was so dangerous. Marty snuck into Doc's lab, and was fascinated by all the cool stuff that was there. When Doc found him there, he was delighted to find that Marty thought he was cool and accepted him for what he was. Both of them were the black sheep in their respective environments. Doc gave Marty a part-time job to help with experiments, tend to the lab, tend to the dog, etc.
b) The 2015 IDW comic book, co-written by Gale himself, makes this canon. Apparently Marty was playing his guitar in the garage one day in 1982, and Needles showed up with his punk friends and insisted on "borrowing" the interocitor tube for his amp, in preparation for their show that night. They broke Marty's, and then dared him to steal one (using the old "chicken" trick). The rest is history.
c) Even if their first meeting didn't make it into the films, the Bobs felt it still worked because they imagined a kid like Marty would naturally be interested in a quirky guy like Doc, and Doc would just be happy to have a friend who's so interested in his work. *And they were right.*
I had a theory that was pretty similar to this. I'm happy to find out I was kind of right
And since his brother worked at the Burger King next door to Doc's lab/garage, it could've been a very spontaneous thing.
"interocitor" is also a reference to This Island Earth
Yep, an "interocitor tube" would be like today what we'd call a "flux capacitor"; i.e. a futuristic device or a part of a complicated machine.
I never found Doc and Marty's friendship odd, because I had adult mentors/friends like that as a teen and younger. I like this official explanation, because it feels very real-life while also feeling very '80s movie.
No one I knew ever questioned that relationship when I was young, between Doc and Marty. There's a ton of films where there is literally just a friendship that we'd look more suspiciously towards today.
People seem to have forgotten that friendship exists.
@@jarongreen5480 Indeed
True but sadly some people take advantage of that friendship and ruin it for everyone else 😕
I also love that Marty mentions Clint Eastwood in 1955. Doc doesn't know who that is but Marty spots posters for Revenge of the Creature and Tarantula, both early Eastwood films, "That's right, you haven't heard of him yet."
To quote the late great Norm Macdonald and something i'm sure Michael J. Fox might think about is "I like doing a funny show where I don't have to act and fall in love with a girl."
For those who still don't know what the kid is doing behind Doc in Back to the Future 3: the child actor was mute, the hand gesture he made was his way to communicate that he needed to pee.
Also, you missed on bit that changed from the original timeline in 1985 from the altered 1985. The original name of the mall is Twin Pine mall and Doc explains that back in the 50s, the mall was a farm land. When Marty arrives in 1955, he runs over one of 2 small pine trees. When he returns to 1985, the mall is now called LONE Pine mall.
I live by the actual mall and let me tell you....
It literally is LONE it’s practically dying barely anyone there
It took a long time to catch that. But I caught "Eastwood Ravine" from Part 3 right away.
Seems obvious. Watch Back to the Future predicted 9/11
I do like that the time travel changes can be considered an in universe Mandela effect as well, Marty from the original timeline remembers it being called "Twin Pine mall" while everyone else remembers it as "Lone Pine mall". Same with how the ravine's name get's changed in the 3rd movie. It's a neat little touch, even if it's unintentional.
I love how it's repetitive because it reminds me of the whole history is repeating itself and that old saying if we don't learn from our past we are doomed to repeat it since marty keeps on getting himself in trouble with biff and his gang no matter what timeline he travels too
That is an excellent point I don’t think I have ever considered! Marty’s arc is that his impulsive decisions or temper cause a future problem that becuse he immediately sees the consequences of, he has to learn cause and effect the hard way.
It also goes a little deeper. Marty teaches his dad to stick up for himself, so Marty is raised to fight for himself but takes it too far. So Marty has to learn where and when to stand and fight, and when to walk away.
@@UglyKenHart that's sooo true I never thought of that
Back to the Future Part III is my 2nd favourite film behind Amadeus. I love that this is Doc’s film and that Christopher Lloyd gets to play both hero and romantic lead, which is probably the only time this happened in his career. And the train sequence is what made me want to be a filmmaker. I can see why people might not like it, but I always preferred this over part II. I know the first one is the undisputed masterpiece, but Part III will always be first in my mind.
I loved seeing that you love Part III so much! III was my favorite as a kid; now it's the first, but III is right behind it, and sometimes I think III is the favorite. I love Marty and Doc's friendship, all the inversions of plot points from the other two movies, and Doc's development. And everything's wrapped up so nicely by the end. That train sequence rivals the clocktower scene, which is a stunning achievement, as the clocktower sequence is perfection. Part III deserves more love from the fans.
Watching this trilogy is something of a rite of passage in our family. My dad jokingly refused to let my hubby marry me until he'd seen all 3 movies.
He did the right thing.
As he should.
Note to self; Do the same for the Lord of the Rings.
Your Dad is a great man.
Smart dad
There's a comic (a prequel) to when Marty and Doc Met. Marty was caught by doc stealing one of his tools for something and instead of getting him in trouble or turning him in, he brings up as a sort of assistant to help him out with stuff. They eventually got to understand one another and made fun little connections and in time doc becomes a friend/mentor to Marty
That's why Marty hangs with Doc.
I heard Marty was peer pressured into it by Needles (the guy who calls him chicken).
What comic? I've heard of this but didn't know it was a comic. Would love to read/see it!
So like Hugo, but it doesn't turn into a love letter to Georges Melies.
Part II was always my favorite one as a kid and it still is to this day. It was actually my favorite movie overall for awhile. I loved how much happened in it. The plot was more dynamic.
Agree, i feel they had found there footing and with and made a random end joke into a start of a hole movie. and all the repating jokes.. im just a sucker for those.
The first movie will always be my favorite. The sequels are fine but Crispin Glover's absence really hurt them in my opinion. George was my favorite character and the first movie is essentially about his character growth. The sequels just felt like they were missing something without him.
I met Christopher Lloyd last month at SiliCon in San Jose. Great guy, good sense of humor about himself, and super nice. I got my picture taken with him and he signed it! At his panel, I asked him who he had more fun playing: Doc Brown or Uncle Fester, and he said Fester, because he read the original Charles Addams comic strips in magazines as a kid. Blew my mind!
That's awesome, it's cool that you got to meet him!
@Louis Duarte met him in London Comic Con but briefly though.
The native americans coming out of nowhere is a great part of the joke being told. marty says that if he goes straight at the screen that he's gonna crash into all those indians. then doc says that he isnt thinking 4th dimensionally and that when he goes back in time those indians wont even be there. to which marty looks at the indians again and give a "yea well you dont know my luck" kind of look. onec he gets into the past and sees the indians coming at him,its the punchline of the joke since doc said that they wouldnt even be there.
It's also a great set up for the train bridge time travel explanation later, when Doc again tells Marty he's not thinking fourth dimensionally and he says "yeah, I have a real problem with that."
the trilogy has always felt like one big incredible adventure to me, rather than three separate films. each part has strengths and weaknesses but i’ve been so enchanted by them since i was a child that i don’t have it in me to put any of them down in favour of another.
i also love all of the extended media (the musical, animated series, ride, comics and video game). it’s the perfect amount of additions for people looking to experience more of this story and characters without the need to make a fourth film or reboot the franchise. plus, bob gale has said that everything in these additions is only ever half-canon as such, so you can simply disregard the choices you disagree with. it makes the franchise feel like a choose your own adventure story in that way, which is perfect for something that centres the limitless possibilities of time travel.
I've always loved that this series used "history repeating itself" kinda as its backbone joke. comedic crutch if you like. It’s the bulk of it’s identity and charm to me.
As a kid i loved the first two and didn’t think much of the third, but as an adult i’ve come to love all 3 equally. As for why it’s in the wild west? 1st film goes one gen back, the second one gen forward… makes sense for the third to be a century back.
I think Zemekis wanted to pay homage to the western. The genre of film that inspired so much of the original - the stand-offs, the comical bad guy and his faithful cowardly goons, the damsel in distress etc. And i think it Makes for a fond fairwell ending the series in a genre from cinemas golden age too! Smart and heartfelt decision straight from the inner child imo.
This trilogy was made entirely with love and care at the heart of it, and I’ll always love it!
I still think the strangest thing about the first film is Ronald Reagan had to be approve the film before release and actually quoted the film in his 1986 State of the Union, saying, “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”
My favorite of the series is three and I actually become teary-eyed with Doc's end speech to Marty.
Agreed, while I'm not a fan of westerns, I loved Doc's speech to Marty and Jennifer, it always makes me sob tears of joy. 💗
Yea idk why but when doc shakes his hand at the end it makes me cry.
A man of great taste.
A man of great taste.
I love Part III and always have. As pointed out here, Part II is kind of all over the place; mostly relying on the gimmick of inserting themselves into the previous movie.
But Part III is a much more structured film that takes its time and tells a very sweet love story with Doc and Clara. Sure, it's not as flashy as the second movie, but it knows what it's doing throughout. Also, it ends with a flying time train.
That train remains one of my favorite movie vehicles. after the Delorean itself.
This trilogy is my favorite movie of all time!
#2 & #3 are fine, but #1 is one of the best movies ever made. It works on every level. “Doc, are you telling me that you made a time machine… out of a Delorean?” Gets me every time.
Doc got *STYLE*
one of my favorite lines from #1 (and I hear it on Sirius Radio every so often) is "im your density" lol
part 2 and 3 film,others should never came out.Just like Ghostbusters films.
I love this trilogy. And I'd say that even the repetition fits in with a time travel story. After all, "History repeats itself."
Also messed something in history to switch by the 3rd?
more Hytory Rymes with itselfm with the variations on the events
Exactly.
Plus it kind of gives the audience an anchor, to see similar things happening in different contexts.
@A88mph Technically The first one is more iconic despite being a time travel story and sequels are formulaic.
I love all 3 equally. There's something about that cinematography throughout that I love. Plus,it was always my favorite how they would figure out how to fix everything that was wrong. Their buddy system was so genuine.
Back To The Future 2 has always been my favourite. It has the most time travel, and the most interplay between the four different worlds, five if you count Doc vanishing into 1885 at the end.
Fun Fact: Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale had worked together on the 1980 comedy “Used Cars.” Not long after that, Gale was looking through his father’s old yearbook and began to wonder if he would have been friends with his dad had they known each other as kids back then. This sparked the idea of time traveling to the past and meeting your parents, the kernel at the center of “Back to the Future”
I love the whole trilogy but the first one is just an all time classic. It's beyond perfect and can be rewatched endlessly. Just great stuff made from the best decade
@Bender Bending Rodriguez I’m not sure it’sbeyond perfect I will say it’s an impactful film from the 80’s.
Part 2 and 3 should never came out.Just like Ghostbusters films.
@@adam1984pl That's how business works if a film is successful enough in the box office they will make sequels, remakes, reboots and etc.
@@adam1984pl Hoverboard, you clown
@@adam1984pl Shut up and let people enjoy what they enjoy. 🤦♂️ God I hate people who refuse to acknowledge things exist because they don't like them. I hate Highlander 2 but I'm not out here denying it exists.
Their relationship is closer to mentor/student.
Doc is passionate about his invention, and he's glad he can share them with Marty, who is just as impressed and maybe inspired by all of them.
I love these films especially the music which makes it so iconic. The theme fits into the theatrical score so well and you know that things will be OK when it is being played in the film xxxx
When I was a kid, I loved the second movie and hated the third. Over the years, I kind of came to appreciate all of them as just one big movie.
Can't imagine just watching one of them and going "Yeah, that's enough."
For me, all three films will always hold a special place in my heart. Especially the first one since some of the locations were filmed in my hometown.
Which locations? Thanks
I know the high school is a real school in Whittier California, Whittier High
You lived in Hill Valley?!
@@luisfernando55 The locations of the "Twin Pines Mall" is actually Puente Hills Mall. And Marty's High School is actually Whittier High school. Both are in my hometown of Whittier, California.
@@sherezadevergara9440 That's right.
I like that Doc and Marty are just treated as natural friends. He easily could have been explained as a family friend or his neighbor or science teacher, but they let the relationship just innocently exist without a bold explanation and it worked.
3rd movie paradox- Clara died in the ravine and that's why it's called Clayton ravine in 1985. Nobody (doc) came to pick her up and she died.
Clara wasn't saved until Marty came back and he and doc saved her, resulting in doc's relationship with her.
Therefore his tombstone in 1955 wouldn't reference his beloved Clara. In that timeline, Marty hadn't gone back to save him also saving Clara.
You know i'm pretty sure every old man is crazy and has a time machine just sitting in their backyard
While it definitely works better as a stand alone (nothing tops the first one), I do like the arc they give Marty over the 3 films. He starts off as such a hot head, and by the third one he’s a bit rational but still has a little hot headedness. He learns patience and wisdom and uses it to temper his confidence and ego
They kind of had to. Marty has no arc at all in the first movie, he's just a force of nature that changes the people around him, like Ferris Bueller. But he can't do that for three movies. He has to grow in some way.
For DECADES, it drove me crazy that Marty couldn't get over this stupid "chicken" thing and kept letting it ruin his life... But one day it clicked for me that this is all happening over the span of a few weeks for his character. Makes a lot more sense after realizing that.
@@TheSchaef47 He doesn't learn that much throughout the trilogy he always has one thing in his mind going back to his own timeline.
@Levi S. Sutton In all films he's kinda of a good to be true character he's just accident prone which is the comedic element.
@@josh72456 not much, no. But more than zero. My only point was that in the first movie he had none, and that's fine in a standalone film but not sustainable over three movies.
I think that Back to the Future took a lot of inspiration from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Both films have:
1. A "crackpot" inventor who is working on a very special car.
2. The inventor has a dog named after a famous scientist.
3. Both films open with complicated Rube Goldberg machines for making breakfast.
Part 3 has always been my favourite, I liked it best when I was a child, now as an adult I still like it best. And I love the ending of the part 2.
Me too. Dance Partner!
“There’s no reason for the third movie to be the old west”
Doc literally brought it up in the 2nd movie 😂😂
It was when they picked Jennifer up from Old Marty’s house and Doc was talking about destroying the Time Machine, stating that his biggest regret would be that he wouldn’t be able to visit his favorite era: the old west. And to figure out the other greatest mystery of the universe: women.
Loved the video, but the old west setting was necessary since they teased that Doc really wanted to go there
Also when he says people hate either 2 or 3 he really needed to source that because otherwise it does not come off great.
I think he means it from a film making standpoint. The filmmakers could've chosen, say, Civil War times, the roaring 20's, etc., but chose Western specifically.
@@DarkDuke13 Hill Valley, CA 1885- always was the same town. 1985, 1955, 2015- locale change would have been weird
almost a prequel and origin story
@@DarkDuke13 to be be Civil War times was Old West, but adding a war element would've changed the tone of the film. Roaring 20s wouldn't have been different enough from the 50s. Also, all possible times would be restricted to Hill Valley, as part of the point was seeing the town and people during the different times. This means Old West was the limit and the most extreme from the 21st Century so it made the most sense.
There are a lot of setups in 2 that are not paid off until 3. They also mention Mad Dog in the Biff Museum.
The most ironic things about these movies? BTTF2 predicted the Cubs would contend for the WS in 2015.
And one later………
My Grandma’s neighbor was a VHS pirate. He’d go to video stores and copy movies onto tapes. When my family moved to the Midwest, he gave us a stack of Disney classics and some movies for my folks. I was introduced to the first movie when I was around 5 and loved it. Doc and Marty working off each other so well, the suspenseful climax, Alan Silvestri’s epic soundtrack. Then I found out about the sequels and grabbed them in the stack of VHS tapes. I love every single detail and can quote most of the first movie. It’s my favorite movie of all time. Interesting to hear your take.
'Back to the Future: The Game' is fantastic as well. It's basically part iv.
Absolutely agree
I was hoping that someone would comment about the Telltale game.😀
I have such fond memories, playing it on the wii.😊
And yes,
it's indeed a fantastic follow up to this wonderful trilogy.
Honestly i'm so glad these films we're made because it just gave us some of the best scenes we've ever seen in cinema history.
Honestly i like that your covering 3 films in one big video and not just swiping over them but giving your thorough analysis of each film
No joke, my Dad literally first showed me Back To The Future II on new years eve of 2014! I remember freaking out because the "future" wasn't going to be the future much longer and it was just a really cool concept to me. And you could tell that my dad probably had this planned for years, as I'm pretty sure I had already seen that first Back To The Future. So part II is always going to be nostalgic for me for that reason.
I saw these movies as a kid in the mid 90s and really liked them, my favourite was the second one. The fact that it got dark felt right because while the first movie talked about the consequences, the second movie took that to a serious level. The whole point was to show how severe the consequences can be. A nightmare timeline was the escalation of this and it made perfect sense to me. It raises the stakes to such a point that you see why Marty would literally risk his life in a car chase with Biff to prevent it.
I'm just glad these films we're made because they revolutionized the way we currently think about Sci-Fi films and just imagine if these weren't made think about all the great classics we maybe would of never seen because of these films being so groundbreaking as they we're
1985 on the big screen, this was amazing. All of it, the FX, the script, the time travel tropes, it was terrific. Some argue waiting four years for the sequel may have been an effect but really, the two sequels genius playing on the time travel tropes and showing Marty having to let go of his impulse problems and such and I love how it all ends in a perfect way so a reason it's so loved.
I loved these movies growing up. These were very good movies. I still love them now. What's really surprising is that no one has tried to remake these movies with all the remakes that exist now. It just wouldn't work if someone tried to remake these movies. They deserve to remain classics. I like it better that way.
@Batman-Fan-F There's a musical in London.
This was the first movie trilogy I ever watched as a kid and I still treasure the vhs (which were my father's). Now over 15 years later I still deeply love these movies, and after my recent rewatch I can confidently say I just can't pick a favourite.
I particularly loved 2 and 3 more as a kid, but 1 is just a classic I could never skip. Truly a beloved series.
I just LOVE it in you last review, Jurassic World: Dominion when that Kayla sees that picture of Maisie and asks, "Is that your kid?" and you placed this line from Back to the Future 3 "It's a science experiment!" LOL
Two thumbs up for that ingenious mix! 👍👍
Doc and Marty's friendship is part of a temporal causality loop and/or a chicken/egg paradox created by Marty going back in time to 1955 and interacting with Doc, becoming friends, Doc learning of what happens to himself in the future, Doc re-befriending Marty by 1985, so Marty can go back to 1955, become friends with Doc in 1955, and so on, and so on. They are friends, because they were friends, and because they would become friends.
(Because I see no one else posted this) WHAT?!? Man, time travel hurts the brain.
like the idea of a Destined Friendship
Reading this made me think of the second Austin Powers movie where he tries rationalizing time travel and eventually stops and says “oh no, I’ve gone cross-eyed.”
Time travel theory is weird but technically there would be muiltiple origins including the loop theory, which itself is a paradox not unlike John Connor being fathered by someone he himself sent from the future. So there would have to be one or more timelines where Doc & Marty meet organically to even make the time travel events possible, and likewise a timeline would have to exist where John Connor is not fathered by Kyle Reese.
While I really like the idea of this theory, I don't think it applies to Back to the Future. At least not consistently. The reason being Marty didn't just interact with Doc in 1955 but also his parents. So if the chicken/egg paradox was consistent, his parents never would've been losers at the beginning of the film. It's only because of his influence that they become the best versions of themselves - and we know at the start of the film that Marty wasn't present the first time around because GEORGE was hit by the car and not Marty. It also makes me wonder what happened to the original loser versions of his parents. Did their consciousness simply shift from one to the other? Or did the universe save a new set of parents over the old ones, and in a way killing them? If true, I guess that would mean Marty killed and replaced a lot of people in the movie. Okay, this is why I should stop overthinking things!
There is a paradox in the sequels that I don't see people point out.
Marty sees Doc's gravestone, dedicated to Clara, so he goes back to save Doc. But Marty only went back in time to save Doc. And it was only because Marty went back that Doc met Clara in the first place, she'd have died otherwise and created the name for the ravine. And because Marty went back, Doc never died so the gravestone would never have been created.
Basically, the conditions needed to create the gravestone are because Marty went back, but because Marty went back the tombstone was never created, so how could the gravestone have been created? This can only be explained by a Doctor Who level "fixed point in time" concept where Marty was always going to go back.
There's no paradox. There was a scene earlier that etablsibed that Doc was suppose to meet the new school teacher AKA Clara at the train station. You can see her in the background went Marty and Doc are looking at map at station. Since in this timeline, Marty went back to rescue Doc, he evidently didn't meet Clara when he was suppose too, so their meeting is different. If Marty never went back, Doc would have still meet Clara therefore getting shot by Buford and having getting a tombstone dedicated by her.
Doc would have still remembered the ravane being named after her either way because we know the altered timelines don't change the memories of the person time traveling from one point to another.
Fun Fact: writer Bob Gale said that for BTTF 2, he originally planned to have Marty and Doc go back to the 60s to retrieve the sports almanac from Biff instead of the events of the first film. There, George was an English teacher, Lorraine was a hippie-flower child protesting the Vietnam War which lead to Marty getting arrested at an Anti-War demonstration and other chaos.
My take is that this trilogy encompasses the term "Movie Magic". And it gets me excited, makes me laugh, gives me goosebumps and brings a tear to my eye to watch all three of them. "Movie Magic" indeed.
I maybe the odd one out but I always like the second film the best. Biff is both hilarious and terrifying. Everyone is having fun with their parts you can tell. And when Marty goes to his father’s gravestone it honestly still gets me alittle choked up.
I also think the second is the best, though they're all great.
Pat Buttram was also in almost every Disney movie in the 70s, including "Aristocats" (as Napoleon), "The Rescuers" (as Luke), and "The Fox and the Hound" (as Chief)
The fact that people find Marty and Doc’s relationship weird says more about how maladjusted the 21st century is than anything about the movie. Once upon a time it was considered normal for neighbors to be friends and mentors. Not having your own kids didn’t excuse you from societal participation in growing and helping the younger generation. If you were working in your garage when neighborhood kids rode by on their bikes, you may engage in a conversation. If they grew interests in an area you knew about, you might even support them and talk to their parents to encourage them. Today, people would see this as another task they have to worry about. And I really think that’s preventing the current generation from being socially capable.
Honestly Bob Gale needs so much respect and attention for why these films turned out so good
Was talking about this trilogy the other day. Not underrated by any means, but doesn't get talked about enough. Masterpiece.
I don't think Doug is giving the full context behind the Doc break up scene with Clara. Doc never intends to reveal anything about the time machine but seeing Clara get so upset at him ending things leads to him revealing the truth. The train scene works so well because Doc and Marty have no clue initially that Clara is on the train. Also, the look on Doc's face when Clara tells him she loves him Is one of the best moments of the trilogy.
Honestly the weirdest part about the original script still to me is that The DeLorean was not even in it which to me is kind of mind blowing because whenever someone think about Back to the Future most of the time the most popular image in most people's head is The DeLorean so it's kind of crazy to think it wasn't even a thought at first
Before BTTF came out the image of time machine was H.G. Wells time machine or something similar. A device that would move through time but not through space.
Robert Zemeckis told a "joke" in a behind the scenes interview that the Hoverboards were real, but that the government wouldn't let Mattel release them. That interview was aired on TV with the movies and suddenly a lot of people believed it had to be true because the director said it, including kid me. The fact that the behind the scenes footage literally shows them faking the hoverboard scenes didn't let people in on the joke well enough.
Holy jeez I REMEMBER THAT!
Funny thing was that on October 21, 2015; the Cubs actually got swept by the Mets who ended up going to the World Series
My favorite part about ZZ Top's cameo is the fact that Frank Beard (the one without a beard) finally gets to do the iconic ZZ Top Spin with his instrument.
Fun Fact! President Ronald Ragen loved this movie. That he had his entire cabinet watch it in the White House Theatre. When they made a crack about him in the movie, Nancy shouted “and Eastwood’s next!”
Part 3 will always be my favourite, even tho I know it's not the best. I just love Doc and Clara's relationship, they are easily my favourite film couple ever!!! 😁 And Clara, she remind me so much of my mum. I told her that once, almost like in passing, and every time she sees me watching it now, she very smugly chimes in, "She's just like me, isn't she, Beth?" EVERY SINGLE TIME!! Also....The West End was blessed with the stage musical. That has to be one of the best shows I have ever seen, I saw it twice. I hope it comes to Broadway someday, you Yanks absolutely deserve to see it. The flying car at the end is really emotional! ❤❤❤
Pt. 1: The Dated yet Timeless Cult Classic
Pt. 2: The underappreciated gritty Empire Strikes Back-esque sequel
Pt. 3: The charming guilty pleasure conclusion
Godfather: The Dated yet Timeless Cult Classic
Godfather 2: The underappreciated gritty Empire Strikes Back-esque sequel
Godfather 3: The charming guilty pleasure
A New Hope: The Dated yet Timeless Cult Classic
Empire Strikes Back: The underappreciated gritty Empire Strikes Back-esque sequel
Return of the Jedi: The charming guilty pleasure
@@wserthmar8908I don't think Empire Strikes Back is underappreciated though. It's favored by many, including myself.
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My theory about Doc and Marty is that Doc simply needed a part-time assistant, and Marty took the job. Over time, a friendship formed. Not that weird.
I feel like these films tried to just put a touch of Jerry Seinfeld in them but instead gave us a giant Dennis Rodman instead
OMG, my mom introduced me to these movies when I was a kid, and I was completely captivated by them, and let me tell ya, ever since then the Back to the Future movies had always and will always continue to hold a very special place in my heart!❤️
I always thought Marty was his assistant.
When I tried to look it up I found that basically Doc was seen as a mad scientist, Marty snuck into his lab on a dare but became interested in Docs inventions. Doc never had someone interested in his creations so he invited Marty to drop by when he wanted. Then their partnership grew.
Pat Buttram was actually more famous for playing the shyster Mr. Haney on Green Acres. He sounded just like the Sherriff of Nottingham.
The series also co-starred Eva Gabor who voiced Duchess from the Arustocats and Miss Bianca in both Rescuers movies. The star of Green Acres was Eddie Albert who was also the star of Escape to Witch Mountain.
The guy named Jason who drove the trailer and helped the kids. Pat Bttram did several voices for Disney. He was also in the Aristocats, the Reacuers, the Fox and the Hound and a Goody Movie posthumously as the possum that opened the Jamboree.
So this is why Tony Montana is a mad scientist now
I kinda keep forgetting Rick and Morty was a messed up Paordy of Back to the Future
Same
Rick and morty sucks fight me
Really I mean that makes sense
I think we all did
Kinda hard to miss lolol
I saw on the bonus features that the filmmakers said in 3 there was a bit of role reversal with Doc and Marty with Doc being a bit like a lovstruck teenager and Marty being the voice of reason
I have absolutely no idea why people thought Marty and Doc Brown hanging out was weird. Even when seeing this movie as an adult the first thing my brain went to was, "this is fine." Why? Because it's high school, he's on the cusp of being an adult anyway; I had a few adult friends when I was in my junior or senior year of high school.
We could still conversate, most of them were adults who did art just like I did.
And though it was never explicitly stated, I could see Doc Brown being like...a family friend or, hell, someone Marty met once, and found out he was a scientist and they just---*became friends*
While I admit that yes there is def a line in the sand with age differences and friendships, I don't believe there's one here.
Honestly the 3rd film might be my personal favorite just because yes it's not the best but honestly the 3rd film has some of the most impressive stuff we've seen from these films and the story while not the greatest still is a really serviceable attempt and does create some pretty unique moments that i'm kind of glad we saw from this film series before it ended
Originally growing up i did kinda see 3 as the weakest, but as I got older not only did I find it more entertaining I also realized that the romantic relationship was done so much better than in 1 or 2. with Marty and Jennifer we never really get to see them spend much time together besides a few minutes in the first one, and in the second she's knocked out through most of it. in 3 I could really feel the chemistry between Doc Brown and Clara which I think was really the main focus of the movie, and their chemistry is done in a really great way for the most part except for the pointless break up scene. even so I believed their chemistry, and I love Doc Browns message at the end about making your own future. it's hard for me to rank these movies, but 3 definitely grew on me as I got older.
The best thing about III is that it defies the now-common wisdom of jacking up the stakes even further. Instead, it kicks back and has some fun as a Golden Age cowboy movie...and lets Doc be happy.
I got one of the trilogy DVD sets growing up, and I remember one of the bonus features was of the writers talking about giving Doc a love interest because 1.) they felt that Marty's story was complete by the end of part 2. And 2.) They thought it would be interesting to explore when a serious science-minded guy like Doc did run into "the one".
@@nicholastosoni707 that's the thing, Part III really doesn't have cosmological stakes like in the first two so it can enjoy itself with the right amount of drama for a comedy.
Funny thing, growing up I could only ever see these movies the few times when they aired on TV (and I record them on VHS), and I wound up seeing them in Reverse Order (3, 2 then 1), so it made it quite an interesting time whenever I eventually get to watch the previous movie and see how the references tied up.
2 was always my favourite. The future and altered timeline, the almanac plotline, more Biff... My only nitpick is there's not enough Crispin Glover.
Even though most people don't really enjoy the Third film i can still respect what they did and what they tried to do in that film
Even the trilogy wasn't supposed to be a trilogy. The studio asked for a sequel, but Bob Gale put so much stuff into the script that they were stuck deciding whether to cut out half the material or split it into two movies.
Part of the reason for the negative reaction was that people weren't expecting this, it was basically unheard of at the time.
Even when you have successive movies like James Bond or Star Wars, the films are essentially self contained stories. BttF2 ended on a huge cliffhanger, and even though they shot them together, even though the third one came out like six months later, even though they had a trailer right at the end of the movie, people still felt a little cheated by it.
Nowadays, all the studios like making two movies out of their finale, and by doing it with established properties and saying up front "part 1", the audience has an easier time swallowing it. BttF walked so Twilight and Harry Potter could run.
The strongest evidence of this is how much better the movies work watched back to back. There are actually a lot of setups in 2 that are paid off in 3. The Biff Museum, for example, introduces Mad Dog but people probably forgot about that by the time they went back to the theater.
I still think BttF is a perfect comedy just the way it is, but I've grown to appreciate the sequels a lot more. They're genuinely great movies.
I find that most people who watch these movies now after not seeing them in their childhood are doomed to not like them the same way people like me do.
I wasn't alive when the movies came out, but I did grow up with them. They were my first exposure to the limits of time travel. They exposed me to the concept of potentially being erased from existence if you screw up the past too much, and I think even the concept of changing the past and creating alternate realities were first shown to me through these movies.
I remember when I first watched part 2, and when they landed in 1955 again and had to explain that not only did they have to complete their mission of getting the almanac, but they also had to avoid their other cells from the first movie. I didn't even think for a second that Marty would have another self in 1955 from part 1, but the moment Doc explained it, it magically appeared like the most obvious thing in the world, and I could no longer imagine it not being a problem.
The back of the future movies are essentially time travel stories for beginners. They don't define the rules necessarily, but they're a good exposure to what kind of rules could be played about with.
Even the movies themselves don't seem to really stick to a certain set of rules. The way I see time travel stories is that they can usually be played about in two different ways. Either going to the past will change the past and thus the future as well, or anything you do in the past will have already happened in the original timeline and there's no such thing as changing anything because any attempt you make to change the past we'll just result in it happening the way it always did instead.
These movies seem to kind of combine those two ways, making it so that going to the past changes things, but also letting the rules be flexible with the concept of newspapers changing, Doc's letter making it to Marty no matter what, Old Biff making it to 2015 without it being apparent as to whether anything has changed yet, etc.
I remember when I was a kid I literally wrote down the DeLorean time machine computer on a piece of paper and then the green zone I put 2022. As a kid, I legit thought that it was a fair bat that I would be intelligent and capable enough to literally build a time machine by this year. I also wrote lots of fanfictions for part 4, I loved the game and consider it cannon, and I even wrote down the entirety of Parts one and two using Peep and the Big Wide World characters, with gags such as Evil Biff shooting Quack's hat off his head and getting him aggravated and stuff.
essentially, I think that if you watch these movies as your first exposure to time travel, you'll literally never forget them and see them through the eyes of the other people who claim they are timeless classics. If you watch a bunch of time travel stuff first though, and then watch these movies, they won't seem like anything special.
So this is why Danny DeVito robbed a Convenience Store with his friend who's a Octopus