Back to the Future 2 and 3 are very much worth watching. In fact, some people prefer 2 or even 3 to the first movie. It is often regarded as one of the best trilogies.
I'm finding that out! I always assumed that the first movie was the only one everyone talked about, but it seems everyone talks about the whole trilogy being great
most people would rank the movies 3 1 2 or 1 3 2 in terms of prefence. at least that's what i hear the most. but all 3 movies must be watched to understand the entire thing it's pretty much 1 huge script that was devided into 3 movies which work in the ends as one
@@Netscape-kd6mg Not quite. Most people rank the movies 1,2,3, also reflected by IMDB which is the most accurate "polling data" we have on this. I also think 1 is the best personally, but part two is right up there. Robert Zemeckis has called part two THE most interesting movie he ever made. Part three is a perfect ending, although the reason it generally scores lower is that the pacing is very different from the first two. Very slow. Takes its time, lacks some of the magic of the first two, but seen as a whole it's a perfect ending...it offers a change of pace and wraps things up in a superb way.
@@Netscape-kd6mg But even for you to make a qualified guess in a regional context, you'd have to ask a LOT of 'neighbors". IMDB is worldwide, and the best, most comprehensie we have on this.
The 80s was a decade where movies weren't afraid to go a bit over the top, even into a bit of silliness or cheesiness. Karate Kid, Back to the Future, Predator, Robocop, all very 80s, all a little silly when you think about it, and all awesome. 80s cheese is best cheese!
This movie was a huge hit when it came out. It became an instant cultural touchstone. Far more time has passed now (37 years) than how far back Marty went back in time (only 30 years)!! Which means watching this is a time capsule as good as any converted DeLorean.
Though the "real" present of 1985 seems like a pretty dreary period ... If by some miracle this movie could have been shown to people in 1955, I think they might have been puzzled by how their "present" is somehow treated as very exotic, but they would have been more disappointed by the "future world" of 1985. No robots, no flying cars, just a weird period with horrible music and no sense of style and fashion.
@@Cenindo Still, they were depicting Hill Valley, California, in 1985. I was five in 1985, but the town I grew up in didn't feel depressing like this at all.
My theory on Marty's mom. Her dad said "Another boy jumped in front of the car ". That tells me she knows these guys are checking her out and that George was just the most recent. Yes, you need to rewatch just for the changes Marty causes. But the main thing to remember is how much stupid fun you had while it was on. Happy holidays
I love how we got to see just how different Lorraine is from what I expected her to be like based on hearing what Marty says about her before he went to the past
So many reactors see the name Steven Spielberg as presenting the film and assume that means he directed it-he did not, it is just his production company.
The story is best taken as a binge-watching trilogy. Back in the '80s, we had to wait years between installments, but it is definitely more fun to watch them straight through.
It was a hoot watching them so close to each other. I would have wanted to rewatch the previous ones before going to see the next one in theatres if I had been old enough to go to the theatres when they released
At least the second and third movies were not spaced as far apart as the first and second. That's because the third one began production almost as soon as the second one was done. Also, once they had decided on a sequel to the first one, they decided to do a third as well.
that is your opinion I think it is best to rewatch the first a bunch of times before ever touching sequels - it's how the experience is better, because you *know* the first more just passing on to the nextd doesn't make it as close to the heart, as familiar in the brain
The reason Marty made the comment about his mother regretting drinking later in life is because in his reality she was a alcoholic and he did not want her to turn out that way.
Also, Lorraine in the original timeline was the biggest hypocrite. "When I was your age I never chased a boy or called a boy or sat in a parked car with a boy." But when Marty visits 1955, and Lorraine falls in love with Marty/Calvin, she was absolutely chasing after him, and very quickly agreed to sit in a parked car with him... :D
@@VerowakReacts All three films are fully loaded with small details! You can watch them 5 times and you'll always see and find new things you've missed before. For example, the mall was called "Twin Pines Mall" in 1985. But then, Marty travelled back to 1955 and when escaping the shooting farmer, accidentally knocks over one of the two pines with the DeLorean. So, when he returns to 1985, the mall is now called "Lone Pine Mall". Also at the beginning of the movie, the concrete slab beneath the clock is totally fine. Then, in the night of the thunderstorm in 1955, Doc Brown breaks a part of it with his foot... So, from now on, when you see the clock tower in 1985 and later, the concrete is missing a piece. And in the first scene, where you can see Doc Brown's clock collection, there is a foreshadowing of the later plot, where you can already see a small miniature clock tower and a clock with a man hanging from the minute hand. And there will be a lot more in Part 2 and 3.
@@VerowakReacts Oh, and yes... it was never planned to have a sequel. The last scene about the problem with their kids in the future was just supposed to be a funny open ending. But the movie was so successful, that they just had to continue with that storyline! And one very important tip for Part 2: At the end of Part 2, when the screen turns dark, there will appear a text "To be concluded..." Please immediately stop at this point!!! - Because after that, in most releases there will be a short trailer with spoilers for Part 3.
When Lorraine says, "Biff, you're drunk." Has anyone ever thought maybe Biff and Lorraine may have had a date or two before George came into the picture? Sounds like she's "parked" before with several guys around school for excitement.
It was meant to be just the one movie. The ending was a joke, and proved to be a tricky one when the sequels were planned 4 years later. One big pickle (see what I did there)was putting Jeniffer in the car. Also: It really makes no sense going in to the future to change anything. But in the end, they make it work and all 3 movies are amazing
"It was very... over the top". Yeah, it was the 80's. "Over the top" is a gross understatement of the whole decade!! I'm 50 now, and I STILL miss the 80's.
Yes, 2 & 3 are worth a watch. They were shot back to back, so they tie into each other and have a continuous flow. You'll be doing yourself a disservice if you skip on them. However, when "to be concluded" flashes after part 2, hit stop. They show the previews for part 3 and it can ruin some good parts to the movie.
Van Halen transcends time and space. Though a sequel was not initially planned, Part II and III are worth the time and won't disappoint. Spielberg got his 1.21 gigawatts out of the clock tower scene. Fabulous reaction video!
If you look closely at the cassette tape that Marty used, it said Edward Van Halen. That's because the band would not give permission to used any of their songs. And so they just got Eddie Van Halen to record a short riff on tape.
"How is Einstein still alive? That must not be Einstein." THANK YOU. I can't tell you how many reactors ask that first question but never seem to consider that Doc could have had multiple dogs over the span of his life.
While filming this . Michael J Fox was starring in Family Ties on Primetime network tv . He was already a household name . Christopher Lloyd starred in the show Taxi in the early 80’s .
@@VerowakReacts Naturally, you will have an affinity towards one more than the others but it’s better to think of them as a ‘whole’, and as one thing, it’s a pretty remarkable feat of story and filmmaking.
@@VerowakReacts Absolutely. I think 2 is the best, and while I think 3 is the worst it's still really good and definitely a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy. And in case nobody has told you yet: do NOT watch the after credits stinger at the end of 2, it spoils too much from 3. Once 2 ends, cut it off.
And now for the dissenting opinion -- Part 2 is my least favorite (but not by much) because it's so chaotic. I think Part 3 is the best one, storywise. Plus, it has a connection to 1979's "Time After Time," another time-travel movie that I love.
"Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads..." President Ronald Reagan actually used parts of this line in one of his State of Union speeches (after Back to the Future premiered). And yes, Reagan used to be an actor before he went into politics. But in 1955... he was still an actor.
There are many fun facts about this movie. For instance this was Ronald Reagan's favorite movie at the time. He watched it over and over. It was also Eddie Van Halen's favorite movie too, because he is actually who you hear whenever Marty is playing guitar. From the exploding chord in the very beginning, to playing with the band in the 50's, it was all Eddie Van Halen. I can picture the President and Eddie Van Halen sitting in the oval theater digging out of the same popcorn bucket watching this.
Thanks for watching this. I saw this in the theatre and was so excited for a sequel not knowing that the intention was just to make a one off. I's actually be satisfied with this being the only movie made. If you do not like spoilers then do not watch the section after the credits of the second movie. It shows clips of the third movie. Elsa Raven, the clock tower lady just died early Nov 2022.
Fun fact - the movie's producers modeled the Biff Tannen character off of Donald Trump. Now I realize; the scene where Biff assaults Lorraine is so prophetic.
Love watching BTTF reactions as I grew up on these movies. I freaking lost it when the red headed kid cut into George and Loraine's dance and you said " what, sherminator!?" Thank you for the laugh, I immediately hit the sub button after that.
Fun fact: Eric Stolz was originally cast. They got into filming and realized he didn't fit the part. He was fired and replaced by Michael J. Fox. Stolz does still appear in the film. The actor that played Biff confirmed the scene where Biff gets punched in the cafe is Eric Stolz fist because they never reshot that scene. BTW he went to 2015. I got to talk to Doc.
Great reaction. It’s very subtle, but at the dinner at the very beginning, Lorraine asks her husband what he was doing in the tree before he was hit by the car. He doesn’t answer. Lorraine gives him a look that suggests she knows exactly what he was doing in that tree.
@@stevebiggs I had not considered that angle but I think you’re right. A lot of the fun of the movie was how she was as a teenager and her attitude during the original timeline.
You make a great point that the element of the story, where his mom is enamored with him, certainly does go to show how much times have changed. My daughter, who's 24, refuses to watch any of this trilogy, because she HEARD of that theme being part of it. There are a few subjects that illicit a Pavlovian response in millennials and zoomers that are results of last 3 decades of conditioning.. to the point where certain people aren't even 'allowed' to talk about these subjects, even jokingly. I often find current popular culture to be a bipolar mix of puritanism and degeneracy. Love your redactions! 🙂
I didn't see it as her falling randomly in love with a guy that turned out to be her son. I saw it as her immediately feeling a "connection" (because he actually is her son) and interpreting that as love. The controversal plot was, I believe, the main reason Disney turned down offers to make it (and probably seriously regretted doing so after its ultimate success). Great Christopher Lloyd movie which is also among the best movies ever made: One Flew Over the Coocoo's Nest. Nice Lea Thompson movie: Some Kind of Wonderful. Great Crispin Glover movie: What's Eating Gilbert Grape
I much prefer your interpretation of her infatuation! Though, I don't think that's normally the first thing that people think of. But at the same time, she married George who was in exactly this same situation, so it feels like she would fall for whoever was in that situation.
@@VerowakReacts Agreed. I think part of her being so forward is due to the "running gag" that they wanted to make her extremely flirty after all she said before Marty traveled to the past about "Girls calling boys- what is the world coming to!? When I was your age I never called a boy!". Just to show in a humorous way how easily adults forget what they were like when they were kids...
As many have commented, the "That's Too Loud" megaphone guy is Huey Lewis, a major rock star (leader of Huey Lewis and the News) whose song "The Power of Love" is played at the beginning of this movie.
Going back 30 years now to 1993 wouldn't be a big deal - the biggest differences would be slow computers, no cell phones (this would be the biggest shock), 4:3 CRT TVs, and cheap game graphics. But in 1985, going back to 1955, yeah, a LOT of differences there.
I grew up in the 90s, and it was so different. I was always out and about (which is why I haven't seen many movies lol). going to 1955... that would feel like a whole different world!
When you were questioning about sending Marty back at the exact time he left (“but people will be shooting at him”). The only thing I can tell you about that without risk going into a boring explanation is this. A quote doc will say in one of the sequels is “You’re not thinking 4th Dimensionally”.
Be aware that not shown in Part 1 was that Marty also ran into Jennifer's father and their interaction affected his future relationship -so he wound up marrying a different girl who turned out to be the cousin of Ali Mills' mother from Encino, Los Angeles.
Michael J. Fox in "Family Ties" TV show, and also, "Spin City" TV Show, plus some other movies like "Doc Hollywood", "The Secret of My Success", "Teen Wolf", "Light of Day (with Joan Jett)", "The American President" and others. Christopher Lloyd was incredible in the TV show "Taxi" as "Jim" the stoner.
A lot of reactors miss that Twin Pines Mall changes to Lone Pine Mall...Marty ran over one in 1965 😉 I like that George was "bird watching"....in the 60s girls were called "Birds" for some reason.
Fun fact: This is the movie that launched Ryan George's "Pitch Meeting" series. He saw John Mulaney's stand-up bit about how absolutely bonkers the script is, and what a weird thing it would be to sell to a studio, and decided to make a CZcams sketch about it. I don't think the tone or performances are very dated. The things you noticed are products of aiming for family audiences. If you want to hold the attention of a seven-year-old, characters have to speak and react more expressively. For more recent examples, I would point to Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and the first couple Pirates of the Caribbean movies (which do get more and more "over-the-top" as the series progresses). For me, "campy" implies some level of irony. While Back to the Future may not be naturalistic, it is earnest. You are meant to care about the characters and story without much self-conscious detachment. For campy, look to John Waters movies or the ultimate camp, Rocky Horror Picture Show.
It's funny watching someone your age react to this movie. BTTF was an incredibly popular movie when it came out. I wish kids could see it the way I saw it. In a crowded movie theater. People were laughing from almost the start, right through to the end. Something about seeing a comedy with others makes it funnier. There are also jokes that played to the experiences of 1985 audiences that you wouldn't get. Still I think the movie ages fairly well. Michael J Fox was the most popular TV actor when BTTF came out and it was the most popular movie of that year as well. He was a fabulous comedic actor who lost his appeal when he was afflicted with Parkinson's disease.
Rick and Morty, Doc and Marty, one's a tall slightly mad "scientist" the other is a teenager tagging along... yeah, I can see how those are related. XD Also when you kept asking if the time machine wouldn't end up somewhere else (ie "But where will Einstein end up." or "But won't he just end up with the terrorists again.") I had to shout at my monitor "YOU'RE NOT THINKING 3RD DIMENSIONALLY!" (It'll make sense when you watch the other movies). There's so many small things you'll catch rewatching the movie, like the Mall where Doc and Marty meet is at first called Twin Pines Mall. Doc explains that "Old Man Peebody used to live here, and had this crazy idea about breeding pine trees." Marty goes back in time, visits the Peebody farm, and runs a Pine Over ("YOU SPACE BASTARD YOU KILLED A PINE!") nothing comes of this except for when Marty gets back to 1985 the Mall is now called "Lone Pine Mall." Tonnes of other small things if you're paying attention.
Look for "The movies that made us" in netflix, they have a chapter about how BTTF was born, from a simple idea to all the problems they had to film it, very interesting and fun to watch
One thing that's missed a lot is Laurene is as creepy as George. Her dad says "Another one of these boys jumped in front of my car". Meaning, it's an ongoing thing and she's in on it. It's not the first guy she sees, because she's not only "parked" before, but she was the aggressor.
I really wish subtitles didn't constantly give away dialogue and jokes before the actors have a chance to deliver the lines. It just feels like a really unnatural way to experience a movie. This happens with a lot of reactors, where you can see them "reading ahead" of the scene, which also distracts them from the beats of the acting and the visuals.
I've sadly gotten so used to subtitles either from foreign movies/TV series or because the audio in movies is terrible. I've noticed lots of movies have loud action scenes and quiet dialogue and I got tired of missing it or having to go back and play it again.
@@VerowakReacts - yeah, I can understand that. And I'd guess it would be especially important for a reactor not to miss out on plot details, or else the commenters would let them have it.
When they created that ending, they had no plans for any sequels, but the studios and fans sort of demanded them and so they obliged. Had they planned for sequels they would not have ended it like that or gone to the future at all, they kind of forced themselves into it, lol.
1. The cranky principal also played the ship's squadron leader in "Top Gun". 2. The teacher that tells Marty, "I'm afraid you're just too darn loud" is Huey Lewis himself. (Heart of rock and roll) 3. If it wasn't for this movie they wouldn't have sold ANY DeLoreans. 4. Eric Stoltz was supposed to play Marty. He had already filmed part of the movie, but something wasn't working, and he was let go. Thankfully, we got a much better person for the gig. 5. It's always fun to see how people react to the Marty and his mom car scene. 🤣 6. George McFly/Crispin Glover didn't like that the story ended with the family being prosperous. 7. IMVHO part II is the best of the trifecta. 8. If you want a first time/share of an OUTSTANDING movie where Christopher Lloyd plays the heavy you must do "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
I've never seen Top Gun (yet) maybe I'll be able to recognize him when I see it! So this movie helped sell DeLoreans? I wonder if they got any money for that fact. I'm just glad his mom sobered up after the kiss... it could have been even worst! I find it very interesting how people find 2 either the best or the worst of the trilogy :D I've never seen Who Framed Roger Rabbit, seems like I'll have to at some point
Eric Stoltz was playing Marty with a darker take, and he wanted to go really method with it, leading to him irritating the cast and crew more and more. The schedule negotiations with Michael J Fox (who they wanted anyway) coming through when they did was probably lucky for Stoltz because Tom Wilson was about ready to introduce him to fist dentistry when Stoltz wouldn’t listen to him about easing up on the fight scenes.
@@VerowakReacts 1. He was also in Masters of the Universe. It's probably not a good movie, but it's such a fun, stupid/silly popcorn flick that doesn't take itself seriously
Do you think you would be friends with your parents if you met them while they were in high school? That's the premise of this film. Bob Gale, the producer, was looking through family items one day, and stumbled upon his dad's high school yearbook, and asked himself what was he like back then? And, would we be friends? The original script had the time travel device be a refrigerator?!?!?!?!?! Spielberg rejected it cause he thought very young kids would be influenced by the film, and masses of them would find themselves locked in fridges all over the place trying to go 'back in time'. The role of Marty was originally played by Eric Stoltz. He played Marty as very dark, and it just didn't jibe with the tone Robert Zemeckis was going for, and he was fired. So, they got their first choice Michael J. Fox to take over. The reason their first choice didn't take the role was that, Fox was on the TV show Family Ties. The studio in charge of the show would not allow Fox to be released in order to play Marty at the same time he was filming the show. So, when they got Fox to sign on, he had to work a suicidal schedule of Family Ties during the day, during the week, and Back to the Future 6 nights a week, as long as his performance on the show wasn't compromised. To this day I dont know how Fox had the stamina to do that. If you notice almost all of Marty's scenes are played at night. There's a ton of details in this great film, but one they got wrong was; The Honeymooners episode that Marty's mom's family was watching aired on December 31, 1955, and not on November 5, 1955.
The title, as you've now seen, refers to the main character, Marty McFly, returning to his own time (1985) after going 30 years back in time in a panic while being attacked by terrorists. In 1955 he meets his parents when they were his age and...well, you've seen the plot. I don't know if anyone esle has mentioned this (I'm too lazy to read all the comments on all the reactions I've been watching) but when I first saw this movie (when I was 29) in a movie theater just after it was released in '85, I was familiar with both main actors who at the time were in separate TV sitcoms. Fox was in "Family Ties" as a conservative Republican teen at political/philosophical odds with his ex-60s-hippie parents, with whom he lived with his 2 sisters. From what I've read: He was still doing the TV show when filming BTF, which stretched his schedule and sometimes caused him to mistakenly call his TV dad "Doc," probably in scenes that had to be re-taken. Lloyd portrayed an eccentric character, one of the cab drivers, who acted kind of like Doc. He was one of the cast of cabbies in "Taxi," about a taxi company whose drivers all had different personalities and reacted with each other and their passengers. The dispatcher was played by Danny DeVito. Fox, who now has Parkinson's disease, is an advocate for others afflicted with that condition. He's 62 and married to Tracy Pollan, who had played his girlfriend in "Family Ties." BTF did indeed inspire "Rick and Morty," I just learned on CZcams, where I saw Lloyd (now in his 80s) in a brief live-action version of the cartoon, also on CZcams. (Culturally at age 67 I'm stuck in the '80s, which I miss more and more as the decades pass. I hadn't watched the cartoon on TV's "Adult Swim." Also on CZcams there is a 2015 segment of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" where Marty and Doc visit the talk show on stage. It's obvious in retrospect that BTF2, filmed in 1989, predicted a lot of 2015 wrong. We still have no flying cars!) I've tried to send clips of this stuff in these replies but CZcams's technology is blocking that. Thanks.
One aspect of time travel that I find rather unique with Back to the Future, as described in the 2nd film is the "ripple effect". This is why Marty didn't immediately get erased from existence in the 1st film. It took some time for "time" to catch up. For Marty, the point of no return was the kiss between George and Lorraine which ultimately sealed the deal that they would get married, and have kids (one of them, being Marty) I think most time travel stories, they either say you can't change certain events (the grandfather paradox), or if you do change things in the past, the changes are felt immediately.
Yes this is definitely a fudge for dramatic purposes. While you can sort of debate the legitimacy of whether Marty would be immediately erased or not, the photos are pure plot device. There is literally no course of events changed or otherwise that would result in a photo of half a person. Or in the third movie, noone would take a photo of a *blank* with no name on. I could also sort of buy that Marty alone would be immune to altering events because he was in the past at the time it took place, but even he starts to fade away eventually.
The movie also muddies the water by combining divergent timelines with self fulfilling prophecies. It SEEMS like the future changes because Marty disrupts his parents meeting, but Goldie Wilson is mayor in the original timeline, but SEEMS to get the idea for running for mayor FROM Marty when he goes back in time.
I once had an argument with a friend about which time-travel film made more sense: this one, or "The Terminator." In "The Terminator," the time travelers changed nothing; everything that they did led to the creation of the world that they came from. (The sequels were another matter altogether.)
When you watch Part 2. Please end it up right after you see "To be concluded..." Part 2 and 3 have been filmed together and there a trailer for part 3 at the end of part 3 and it may spoil some interesting plots. So if you want to go completely blindly through part 3, I suggest you to not watch the trailer.
Back to the Future 2 and 3 are what completes the story. There are so many ways the movies are tied in with each other that you really have to see all three to get the whole experience. Just don't let the second movie discourage you from watching all three. It really is the weakest of them all IMO.
This movie has a very tight and well written screenplay. Every step is foreshadowed, referenced, and played to a T. It's over the top, but it's consistently over the top.
_"That would've been nice to know they would appear right there"_ They DID know. In the initial experiment, Doc sends Einstein one minute into the future. The DeLorean reappears exactly where it disappeared, just one minute later (or one minute into the future, relative to it's departure time). So basically, the DeLorean disappears at the start of the minute, Doc & Marty experience the minute, then the DeLorean reappears exactly 1 minute after it left. Here, things get kind of weird due the Theory of Special Relativity. As Doc explains, the trip was instantaneous from Einstein's frame of reference, but Doc & Marty had to wait one minute from their frames of reference. Doc best sums it up with the line, _"He [Einstein] skipped over that minute."_ When the DeLorean travels through time, it doesn't experience time as a duration, but rather it removes itself from the chains of spacetime so that it can move instantaneously between different times. Some fans have speculated that this is why the DeLorean is iced over after a trip -- for a nanosecond, the DeLorean essentially "doesn't exist," because it's outside spacetime. There's no heat energy outside of spacetime, so any condensation or moisture on the body would freeze instantly.
okay there's things about this - and the subsequent movies - that people miss as they're largely a sight reference but if you watch you see that there's a massive difference. we started out in the Twin Pines Mall, that's where Marty went back to 1955. we ended up at the Lone Pine Mall, this is because Marty ran over one of the Pine Tree's the land owner was trying to breed when fleeing from them with their shotgun. This universe is not the same one as the universe we started out in and that's because Marty made significant changes to the history of Hill Valley during his time in 1955. Now. My theory has been since I first saw these movies as a kid, that what I've just described is an ever enhancing and changing world. The Marty we see go back in time at the end of the movie will NOT have the same life experiences as the Marty we know (there's enough similarities to argue that they're close in personality but they are not the same, a happy family would breed a different young man with adversity) Due to this, the Marty going back at the end is going to make changes and create a different timeline for himself - not the Marty we see - and when he's tried to stop Doc Brown in 55 in a similar way to our Marty, he'll return to the time 20 minutes before going back. And there will not be an erasing of timelines with this, as 1955 is sort of a nexus point of time where massive changes happen due to the first recorded time travel into the past event happens there. So what that means ultimately is that the Marty we know lived in a world that was shaped by a Marty that had gone back in time before this and made his own alterations, just as our Marty did and the subsequent ones do, it's an endlessly improving series of events that makes the 'Current' Marty make his future time better by action and example.
The awkward thing is that when they made this flick, there was no expectation that there'd actually be a sequel. That last scene was there for the fun of it....but then BttF became a huge hit and the studio started pressuring them for a sequel. As a result, that "just for fun" scene kind of hamstrung them when it came to plotting Part II.
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Such a classic. The 2nd gets a bit more complex n the 3rd one is very different. My favorite is this one, very rarely sequels are better than the 1st one.
I was born in may of 86 and grew up watching the trilogy multiple times and now own the movies on dvd and Blu-ray as well as the dvds of the animated series that came after the movies.
Christopher Lloyd was one of the stars of a wonderful sitcom named _"Taxi,"_ which ran from 1978 to 1983. Lloyd played "Reverend" Jim "Iggy" Ignatowski. Reverend Jim was a nice, gentle person, but rather spacy due to his extensive drug use during the sixties. Later, Christopher Lloyd played Captain Kruge, the primary Klingon villain in _"Star Trek III: The Search For Spock."_ The extensive makeup and prosthetics certainly made him look like a typical Klingon villain, and his acting was spot-on, but it was very disconcerting to hear the voice of Reverend Jim making dire threats against the Enterprise and its crew.
That is so weird; I've watched this movie at least half a dozen times, and just this time I noticed there was a red motorcycle near the clock tower, exactly like one I owned way back then. How did I miss that? Netflix; Brain Games?
There is a whole world of difference between 2022 vs 1992 and 1985 vs 1955. The path we were on changed dramatically in the mid-late 60s causing the way our society was progressing to alter quite a bit.
Lea Thompson (Lorraine) has said that the actors were told to play up the melodrama, which is why the performances seem a little over the top. It wasn't exactly a 1985 thing, as it was over the top even back then, though other teen comedies (like John Hughes' films) followed suit after. It kind of set a tone in a way, I guess. Personally, though, I think it works, as it keeps us from taking it all too seriously. A lot of people now try to dissect the ramifications of Marty changing everything, including his family, but the tone is there to keep us from doing exactly that. It's an intelligent script, but not at the expense of being a fun ride.
Doc's reveal of the vest has become a meme around these parts thanks to a cartoon parody of that scene. the character playing Doc's equivalent has a raspy voice, and always ends his lines with the equivalent of "you see?" or "Y'see?". so, EVERY TIME a character is shot and revealed to have a vest, we all go back to that cartoon scene and mimic that guy's voice: "Got a vest, y'see?". when the new Mulan came out we all pointed out she got saved by a Genuine Y'See Vest.
fun fact, that plutonium that looks "suspiciously like water" is fairly similar to what certain oxidation states of suspended plutonium actually look like! though its a bit more red than actual plutonium IV. you can see several other colors also, right on the wikipedia page for plutonium.
Thank you for the reaction. BTTF was released weeks after I graduated from college. The 1985 scenes make me feel like I am returning to the old family home.
13:32 : 1,21 Gigawatts = 1,210,000,000 Watts. Basically 1,21 Gigawatts is the power that would be necessary to light 12 100 000 light bulbs of 100Watts for 1 second.
Michael j. Fox was watching the VHS tape when learned there was going to be a sequel from the tag at the end. The tag wasn't in the theaters, as they had no idea there would be a sequel.
Christopher Lloyd played Uncle Fester in the Adams Family movies and the villain in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Michael J Fox played in Family Ties and Teen Wolf, also Spin City in the early 2000s
I just found your channel thanks to the algorithm, and I'm a new fan. I really enjoyed your reaction. It makes me so happy to see young people watch and even enjoy the movies I grew up with. A few bits of useless trivia if it hasn't already been mentioned: when Marty goes back in time, he ran over one of the two pine trees Mr Peabody was growing. Because of this, the Twin Pines mall becomes the Lone Pine Mall when Marty comes back to 1985. You can also see the broken ledge on the clock tower back in 1985, the ledge Doc breaks while trying to plug in the cable. The reason the teacher told Marty that his band was just "too loud" is because that was actually Huey Lewis... the artist who wrote and performed the song Marty's band was playing. Marty played it a little more hard rock than the original version. This is why Huey took "offense" with it. Also, you didn't mention it but when Marty is playing Johnny B Goode. Marvin Barry calls his cousin Chuck Berry. "You know that sound you're looking for... well, listen to this!" Chuck Berry wrote and performs Johnny B Goode. You were so great at predicting a lot of things. Things a lot of us old timers didn't put together so easily. I hope you'll continue with the trillogy. They are all so good. Watch for many of the actors playing different roles at the same time (i.e., family members) and some great cameos. Zz Top appears in part 3. Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers is in parts 2 and 3. Anyway, I'm off to binge your other vids. Thank you for the hard work you put into this. You're a lot of fun, and you have a great personality and sense of humor.
This movie was before anyone knew how to pronounce "giga-" because it was long before computers had gigabytes of storage. Only scientists and engineers ever used "giga-" back then, and there were two accepted ways of pronouncing it. The pronunciation wasn't really standardized until "gigabytes" became commonplace, which was years after this movie came out.
They originally shot many scenes with a different actor playing Marty McFly (forget who that was.) But he didn't have the comic talents to pull it off--so they re-shot everything with Fox. You can see these unused scenes on You Tube. This script is so good that it is cited in film schools as "perfect."
It is a funny movie and a little over the top on purpose. It is a comedy after all. The reason you find it corny now is because you've seen hundred of tv shows and movies that copied from this one (Rick & Morty is just one example). In order to fully appreciate old classic movies we need to put them in context with the time when they were made. Nice reaction btw.
Christopher Lloyd was in Who framed Roger Rabbit. Where cartoons and humans interact together. Funny and brillant how they pulled it off. He also was a character in the 1970's TV sitcom "Taxi"
It’s a good thing lightning hits the clock at exactly 10:04PM and not 10:04:30PM. Otherwise Marty would have just pulled down the line with the hook with zero chance of resetting.
You mentioned that you haven't really seen Christopher Lloyd in many films. I would suggest 1985's "Clue," (if you haven't already seen it) which is a black comedy / mystery. Lot of campy humor, kind of silly - but some really great performances. Also starring Tim Curry, who is always a delight.
One of the greatest movies of all time, don't think you appreciated it fully tbh. More that you felt as if you had to like it because of its iconic status. Some of your comments were somewhat confusing and you just need to relax and enjoy the adventure and look for the genius script writing and subtle differences due to the changes in the timeline. The 80s was a golden generation for movies. I may be wrong and that's not criticism, merely my opinion.... appreciate your reaction
Ah yes I felt compelled to like the movie. You are definitely wrong on that, if I don't like a movie I won't pretend to like it. If my comments are confusing, well... not sure what to tell you, that's how I react. I enjoyed the adventure, I was relaxed and I noticed quite a heck of a lot probably 90%+ of the differences due to the changes in the timeline based on what I've read since having watched the movie. Overall it was a great movie, and time travelling makes it just that much better for me. Also, this is a first time watching, it's expected that things may be missed :)
Part II and III are awesome and make a complete trilogy. This thing about this movie is that it does not take itself too serious. It is light hearted entertainment that is not trying to push an ideology or be preachy. From a more innocent time when people lived and let live and did not worry about trying to tell others how they should live.
The DeLorean was a real car, a failed effort to produce a new car....that was the joke that the professor got it cheap because no one wanted to buy those suckers, had too many problems and too expensive. Huey Lewis of the band Huey Lewis and the News, famous in the 1980's plays the school counselor with the megaphone at the audition in the gym early on, and his band also provides the song the Power of Love. in the theater, the Ronald Reagan line got a huge laugh back in 1985 when this film was new.
This has to be its own comment: YES the sequels are worth a watch! Also at the end of the second movie theres a post credit scene thingy which is just a trailer for the 3rd movie ,but i recommend you NOT to watch that (its not the end of the world if you do, but still)
oh yeah... that end scene is really just a preview of the third one with minor spoilers. And it's not even post credits but starts right after the "To be concluded..." text. Best to stop watching the second movie right there.
Fun trivia (and typing this before you do your trivia on the video) Huey Lewis who sings "The Power of Love" for the movie is the judge at the school who tells them they are "too loud"
This is a classic that I've never seen before!! I'm looking forward to your comments
I`d travel back to see my parents again.... they`ve been gone 25 years.... I now see them every night in my nightmare's of how they died...
I call bs. I think you've seen this movie before and are faking it. But I'm speculating. Don't mind me ...
I dunno, if I was in 1985 I'd be tempted to see 1885...
@@47imagine Your speculation is wrong. I have no clue why you would think I've seen this before
@@kylereese4822 Sorry to hear :( Going back to see them would be very nice for sure
Back to the Future 2 and 3 are very much worth watching. In fact, some people prefer 2 or even 3 to the first movie. It is often regarded as one of the best trilogies.
I'm finding that out! I always assumed that the first movie was the only one everyone talked about, but it seems everyone talks about the whole trilogy being great
most people would rank the movies 3 1 2 or 1 3 2 in terms of prefence. at least that's what i hear the most. but all 3 movies must be watched to understand the entire thing it's pretty much 1 huge script that was devided into 3 movies which work in the ends as one
@@Netscape-kd6mg Not quite. Most people rank the movies 1,2,3, also reflected by IMDB which is the most accurate "polling data" we have on this.
I also think 1 is the best personally, but part two is right up there. Robert Zemeckis has called part two THE most interesting movie he ever made.
Part three is a perfect ending, although the reason it generally scores lower is that the pacing is very different from the first two. Very slow. Takes its time, lacks some of the magic of the first two, but seen as a whole it's a perfect ending...it offers a change of pace and wraps things up in a superb way.
@@blackswanaudiostudios3947 strange cause i've heard more the second movie in last position then in your order. guess it's a reagionnal thing
@@Netscape-kd6mg But even for you to make a qualified guess in a regional context, you'd have to ask a LOT of 'neighbors".
IMDB is worldwide, and the best, most comprehensie we have on this.
The 80s was a decade where movies weren't afraid to go a bit over the top, even into a bit of silliness or cheesiness. Karate Kid, Back to the Future, Predator, Robocop, all very 80s, all a little silly when you think about it, and all awesome. 80s cheese is best cheese!
It's definitely not a bad thing, and definitely well done cheese! Very fun (at least BttF since idk about the other lol)
This film is PERFECT. Absolute masterpiece and the script is flawless one liners the whole way through.
I never expected to enjoy this movie so much, it felt like it had so many different things that added up to something amazing!
umm, no
@@zerpblerd5966 But yes.
it IS perhaps as close to perfect as any film has ever been
This movie was a huge hit when it came out. It became an instant cultural touchstone. Far more time has passed now (37 years) than how far back Marty went back in time (only 30 years)!! Which means watching this is a time capsule as good as any converted DeLorean.
Though the "real" present of 1985 seems like a pretty dreary period ... If by some miracle this movie could have been shown to people in 1955, I think they might have been puzzled by how their "present" is somehow treated as very exotic, but they would have been more disappointed by the "future world" of 1985. No robots, no flying cars, just a weird period with horrible music and no sense of style and fashion.
@@Cenindo Still, they were depicting Hill Valley, California, in 1985. I was five in 1985, but the town I grew up in didn't feel depressing like this at all.
@@Cenindo the music in the 80s was horrible? I beg to differ.
My theory on Marty's mom. Her dad said "Another boy jumped in front of the car ". That tells me she knows these guys are checking her out and that George was just the most recent. Yes, you need to rewatch just for the changes Marty causes. But the main thing to remember is how much stupid fun you had while it was on. Happy holidays
I love how we got to see just how different Lorraine is from what I expected her to be like based on hearing what Marty says about her before he went to the past
So many reactors see the name Steven Spielberg as presenting the film and assume that means he directed it-he did not, it is just his production company.
The story is best taken as a binge-watching trilogy. Back in the '80s, we had to wait years between installments, but it is definitely more fun to watch them straight through.
It was a hoot watching them so close to each other. I would have wanted to rewatch the previous ones before going to see the next one in theatres if I had been old enough to go to the theatres when they released
At least the second and third movies were not spaced as far apart as the first and second. That's because the third one began production almost as soon as the second one was done.
Also, once they had decided on a sequel to the first one, they decided to do a third as well.
that is your opinion
I think it is best to rewatch the first a bunch of times before ever touching sequels - it's how the experience is better, because you *know* the first more
just passing on to the nextd doesn't make it as close to the heart, as familiar in the brain
The reason Marty made the comment about his mother regretting drinking later in life is because in his reality she was a alcoholic and he did not want her to turn out that way.
Also, Lorraine in the original timeline was the biggest hypocrite. "When I was your age I never chased a boy or called a boy or sat in a parked car with a boy."
But when Marty visits 1955, and Lorraine falls in love with Marty/Calvin, she was absolutely chasing after him, and very quickly agreed to sit in a parked car with him... :D
Considered one of the greatest script ever in movie history, studied in cinema class. Lots of things you didn't see as a first timer.
I knew people liked the movie, I didn't know it was THIS important and well made
@@VerowakReacts All three films are fully loaded with small details! You can watch them 5 times and you'll always see and find new things you've missed before.
For example, the mall was called "Twin Pines Mall" in 1985. But then, Marty travelled back to 1955 and when escaping the shooting farmer, accidentally knocks over one of the two pines with the DeLorean. So, when he returns to 1985, the mall is now called "Lone Pine Mall".
Also at the beginning of the movie, the concrete slab beneath the clock is totally fine. Then, in the night of the thunderstorm in 1955, Doc Brown breaks a part of it with his foot... So, from now on, when you see the clock tower in 1985 and later, the concrete is missing a piece.
And in the first scene, where you can see Doc Brown's clock collection, there is a foreshadowing of the later plot, where you can already see a small miniature clock tower and a clock with a man hanging from the minute hand.
And there will be a lot more in Part 2 and 3.
@@VerowakReacts Oh, and yes... it was never planned to have a sequel. The last scene about the problem with their kids in the future was just supposed to be a funny open ending. But the movie was so successful, that they just had to continue with that storyline!
And one very important tip for Part 2:
At the end of Part 2, when the screen turns dark, there will appear a text "To be concluded..."
Please immediately stop at this point!!! - Because after that, in most releases there will be a short trailer with spoilers for Part 3.
When Lorraine says, "Biff, you're drunk." Has anyone ever thought maybe Biff and Lorraine may have had a date or two before George came into the picture? Sounds like she's "parked" before with several guys around school for excitement.
It was meant to be just the one movie. The ending was a joke, and proved to be a tricky one when the sequels were planned 4 years later. One big pickle (see what I did there)was putting Jeniffer in the car. Also: It really makes no sense going in to the future to change anything. But in the end, they make it work and all 3 movies are amazing
All 3 movies are really just fantastic! I love how there are so many recurring jokes and everything meshes so well!!
"It was very... over the top". Yeah, it was the 80's. "Over the top" is a gross understatement of the whole decade!! I'm 50 now, and I STILL miss the 80's.
Strangely a LOT of people seem to take offense to me saying it's over the top 😂
Yes, 2 & 3 are worth a watch. They were shot back to back, so they tie into each other and have a continuous flow. You'll be doing yourself a disservice if you skip on them. However, when "to be concluded" flashes after part 2, hit stop. They show the previews for part 3 and it can ruin some good parts to the movie.
That's strange and thanks for the heads up! I'll stop at to be concluded then, thanks!
@@VerowakReacts You're welcome. I hope you enjoy them. 🙂
Van Halen transcends time and space. Though a sequel was not initially planned, Part II and III are worth the time and won't disappoint. Spielberg got his 1.21 gigawatts out of the clock tower scene. Fabulous reaction video!
Originally it was meant to finish at the end of this movie?! I'm glad they ended up continuing the series!!
If you look closely at the cassette tape that Marty used, it said Edward Van Halen. That's because the band would not give permission to used any of their songs. And so they just got Eddie Van Halen to record a short riff on tape.
@@ronfehr7899 Oh that's a neat fact!
@@ronfehr7899 It sounded kinda like Eruption.
"How is Einstein still alive? That must not be Einstein."
THANK YOU. I can't tell you how many reactors ask that first question but never seem to consider that Doc could have had multiple dogs over the span of his life.
The dog in 1955 looks like a different breed as well, but I'm not too familiar with dog breeds so I could be wrong.
@@LuckySmurfthe dog in 1955 was named Copernicus
While filming this . Michael J Fox was starring in Family Ties on Primetime network tv . He was already a household name . Christopher Lloyd starred in the show Taxi in the early 80’s .
Glad you reacted to this! Please do Part 2 especially while its still fresh in your mind. Its brilliant!
Will do! I didn't know that all three movies were regarded as really great.
@@VerowakReacts i didnt really like the 3rd one, but I'd have to see it again
@@VerowakReacts Naturally, you will have an affinity towards one more than the others but it’s better to think of them as a ‘whole’, and as one thing, it’s a pretty remarkable feat of story and filmmaking.
@@VerowakReacts Absolutely. I think 2 is the best, and while I think 3 is the worst it's still really good and definitely a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy. And in case nobody has told you yet: do NOT watch the after credits stinger at the end of 2, it spoils too much from 3. Once 2 ends, cut it off.
And now for the dissenting opinion --
Part 2 is my least favorite (but not by much) because it's so chaotic. I think Part 3 is the best one, storywise. Plus, it has a connection to 1979's "Time After Time," another time-travel movie that I love.
"Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads..."
President Ronald Reagan actually used parts of this line in one of his State of Union speeches (after Back to the Future premiered). And yes, Reagan used to be an actor before he went into politics. But in 1955... he was still an actor.
Quentin Tarantino considered this as one of the perfect films.
I completely understand how he could say that. This movie is actually really, really great!
I like it anyway.
Many people in the business do.
There are many fun facts about this movie. For instance this was Ronald Reagan's favorite movie at the time. He watched it over and over. It was also Eddie Van Halen's favorite movie too, because he is actually who you hear whenever Marty is playing guitar. From the exploding chord in the very beginning, to playing with the band in the 50's, it was all Eddie Van Halen. I can picture the President and Eddie Van Halen sitting in the oval theater digging out of the same popcorn bucket watching this.
It's great when other actors or musicians get referenced in movies or get to have a small part in a movie that they end up really loving
Finally someone else noticed the resemblance to the shermanator 🤣
Finally someone noticed me noticing the resemblance to the Sherminator!! I'm glad you did, I was afraid I'd be alone in this 😂
Thanks for watching this. I saw this in the theatre and was so excited for a sequel not knowing that the intention was just to make a one off. I's actually be satisfied with this being the only movie made. If you do not like spoilers then do not watch the section after the credits of the second movie. It shows clips of the third movie.
Elsa Raven, the clock tower lady just died early Nov 2022.
Fun fact - the movie's producers modeled the Biff Tannen character off of Donald Trump. Now I realize; the scene where Biff assaults Lorraine is so prophetic.
Love watching BTTF reactions as I grew up on these movies. I freaking lost it when the red headed kid cut into George and Loraine's dance and you said " what, sherminator!?" Thank you for the laugh, I immediately hit the sub button after that.
Fun fact: Eric Stolz was originally cast. They got into filming and realized he didn't fit the part. He was fired and replaced by Michael J. Fox. Stolz does still appear in the film. The actor that played Biff confirmed the scene where Biff gets punched in the cafe is Eric Stolz fist because they never reshot that scene.
BTW he went to 2015. I got to talk to Doc.
Great reaction.
It’s very subtle, but at the dinner at the very beginning, Lorraine asks her husband what he was doing in the tree before he was hit by the car. He doesn’t answer. Lorraine gives him a look that suggests she knows exactly what he was doing in that tree.
And "another one of these kids jumped in front of my car" suggests she might have been putting on a show for the boys regularly!
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I had not considered that angle but I think you’re right. A lot of the fun of the movie was how she was as a teenager and her attitude during the original timeline.
You make a great point that the element of the story, where his mom is enamored with him, certainly does go to show how much times have changed. My daughter, who's 24, refuses to watch any of this trilogy, because she HEARD of that theme being part of it. There are a few subjects that illicit a Pavlovian response in millennials and zoomers that are results of last 3 decades of conditioning.. to the point where certain people aren't even 'allowed' to talk about these subjects, even jokingly. I often find current popular culture to be a bipolar mix of puritanism and degeneracy.
Love your redactions! 🙂
I didn't see it as her falling randomly in love with a guy that turned out to be her son. I saw it as her immediately feeling a "connection" (because he actually is her son) and interpreting that as love. The controversal plot was, I believe, the main reason Disney turned down offers to make it (and probably seriously regretted doing so after its ultimate success). Great Christopher Lloyd movie which is also among the best movies ever made: One Flew Over the Coocoo's Nest. Nice Lea Thompson movie: Some Kind of Wonderful. Great Crispin Glover movie: What's Eating Gilbert Grape
I much prefer your interpretation of her infatuation! Though, I don't think that's normally the first thing that people think of. But at the same time, she married George who was in exactly this same situation, so it feels like she would fall for whoever was in that situation.
@@VerowakReacts Agreed. I think part of her being so forward is due to the "running gag" that they wanted to make her extremely flirty after all she said before Marty traveled to the past about "Girls calling boys- what is the world coming to!? When I was your age I never called a boy!". Just to show in a humorous way how easily adults forget what they were like when they were kids...
She was also a perv. She changed in front of the window on purpose. 😉
As many have commented, the "That's Too Loud" megaphone guy is Huey Lewis, a major rock star (leader of Huey Lewis and the News) whose song "The Power of Love" is played at the beginning of this movie.
19:18 "That's a _great_ idea. I'd love to park."
Clearly, 1985 Lorraine thinks back on 1955 Lorraine with a bit of embarrassment.
Going back 30 years now to 1993 wouldn't be a big deal - the biggest differences would be slow computers, no cell phones (this would be the biggest shock), 4:3 CRT TVs, and cheap game graphics.
But in 1985, going back to 1955, yeah, a LOT of differences there.
I grew up in the 90s, and it was so different. I was always out and about (which is why I haven't seen many movies lol). going to 1955... that would feel like a whole different world!
Back to the Future 2 and 3 is definitely worth to watch
When you were questioning about sending Marty back at the exact time he left (“but people will be shooting at him”). The only thing I can tell you about that without risk going into a boring explanation is this. A quote doc will say in one of the sequels is “You’re not thinking 4th Dimensionally”.
Be aware that not shown in Part 1 was that Marty also ran into Jennifer's father and their interaction affected his future relationship -so he wound up marrying a different girl who turned out to be the cousin of Ali Mills' mother from Encino, Los Angeles.
23:30 When you're an action protagonist, you've got to have the most _unyieldingly_ strong grip.
16:57 "I'm your _density."_
That's George McFly; a very dense young man.
Michael J. Fox in "Family Ties" TV show, and also, "Spin City" TV Show, plus some other movies like "Doc Hollywood", "The Secret of My Success", "Teen Wolf", "Light of Day (with Joan Jett)",
"The American President" and others. Christopher Lloyd was incredible in the TV show "Taxi" as "Jim" the stoner.
A lot of reactors miss that Twin Pines Mall changes to Lone Pine Mall...Marty ran over one in 1965 😉
I like that George was "bird watching"....in the 60s girls were called "Birds" for some reason.
Fun fact: This is the movie that launched Ryan George's "Pitch Meeting" series. He saw John Mulaney's stand-up bit about how absolutely bonkers the script is, and what a weird thing it would be to sell to a studio, and decided to make a CZcams sketch about it.
I don't think the tone or performances are very dated. The things you noticed are products of aiming for family audiences. If you want to hold the attention of a seven-year-old, characters have to speak and react more expressively. For more recent examples, I would point to Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and the first couple Pirates of the Caribbean movies (which do get more and more "over-the-top" as the series progresses).
For me, "campy" implies some level of irony. While Back to the Future may not be naturalistic, it is earnest. You are meant to care about the characters and story without much self-conscious detachment. For campy, look to John Waters movies or the ultimate camp, Rocky Horror Picture Show.
It's funny watching someone your age react to this movie. BTTF was an incredibly popular movie when it came out. I wish kids could see it the way I saw it. In a crowded movie theater. People were laughing from almost the start, right through to the end. Something about seeing a comedy with others makes it funnier. There are also jokes that played to the experiences of 1985 audiences that you wouldn't get. Still I think the movie ages fairly well. Michael J Fox was the most popular TV actor when BTTF came out and it was the most popular movie of that year as well. He was a fabulous comedic actor who lost his appeal when he was afflicted with Parkinson's disease.
Rick and Morty, Doc and Marty, one's a tall slightly mad "scientist" the other is a teenager tagging along... yeah, I can see how those are related. XD
Also when you kept asking if the time machine wouldn't end up somewhere else (ie "But where will Einstein end up." or "But won't he just end up with the terrorists again.") I had to shout at my monitor "YOU'RE NOT THINKING 3RD DIMENSIONALLY!" (It'll make sense when you watch the other movies).
There's so many small things you'll catch rewatching the movie, like the Mall where Doc and Marty meet is at first called Twin Pines Mall. Doc explains that "Old Man Peebody used to live here, and had this crazy idea about breeding pine trees." Marty goes back in time, visits the Peebody farm, and runs a Pine Over ("YOU SPACE BASTARD YOU KILLED A PINE!") nothing comes of this except for when Marty gets back to 1985 the Mall is now called "Lone Pine Mall." Tonnes of other small things if you're paying attention.
Look for "The movies that made us" in netflix, they have a chapter about how BTTF was born, from a simple idea to all the problems they had to film it, very interesting and fun to watch
One thing that's missed a lot is Laurene is as creepy as George. Her dad says "Another one of these boys jumped in front of my car". Meaning, it's an ongoing thing and she's in on it. It's not the first guy she sees, because she's not only "parked" before, but she was the aggressor.
Oh she's definitely creepy, 100% 😱
Time travel does not change your location, it just changes the time you are there.
I am glad I am not the only one who thought the ginger at the end was "The Sherminator" lol. It was not Chris Owen though but Courtney Gains.
I haven't seen many red haired actors, so it was the most logical assumption 😂
I really wish subtitles didn't constantly give away dialogue and jokes before the actors have a chance to deliver the lines. It just feels like a really unnatural way to experience a movie. This happens with a lot of reactors, where you can see them "reading ahead" of the scene, which also distracts them from the beats of the acting and the visuals.
I've sadly gotten so used to subtitles either from foreign movies/TV series or because the audio in movies is terrible. I've noticed lots of movies have loud action scenes and quiet dialogue and I got tired of missing it or having to go back and play it again.
@@VerowakReacts - yeah, I can understand that. And I'd guess it would be especially important for a reactor not to miss out on plot details, or else the commenters would let them have it.
@@WastedPo Comments are already harsh as it is a lot of the time😒
When they created that ending, they had no plans for any sequels, but the studios and fans sort of demanded them and so they obliged. Had they planned for sequels they would not have ended it like that or gone to the future at all, they kind of forced themselves into it, lol.
I'm glad they went to the future! They did a great job expanding on the story
@@VerowakReacts Yeah they did
That principal's mouthwash just ain't cutting it.
1. The cranky principal also played the ship's squadron leader in "Top Gun".
2. The teacher that tells Marty, "I'm afraid you're just too darn loud" is Huey Lewis himself. (Heart of rock and roll)
3. If it wasn't for this movie they wouldn't have sold ANY DeLoreans.
4. Eric Stoltz was supposed to play Marty. He had already filmed part of the movie, but something wasn't working, and he was let go. Thankfully, we got a much better person for the gig.
5. It's always fun to see how people react to the Marty and his mom car scene. 🤣
6. George McFly/Crispin Glover didn't like that the story ended with the family being prosperous.
7. IMVHO part II is the best of the trifecta.
8. If you want a first time/share of an OUTSTANDING movie where Christopher Lloyd plays the heavy you must do "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
I've never seen Top Gun (yet) maybe I'll be able to recognize him when I see it! So this movie helped sell DeLoreans? I wonder if they got any money for that fact. I'm just glad his mom sobered up after the kiss... it could have been even worst!
I find it very interesting how people find 2 either the best or the worst of the trilogy :D I've never seen Who Framed Roger Rabbit, seems like I'll have to at some point
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is same director and is a monumentally groundbreaking film. Also, funny.
Eric Stoltz was playing Marty with a darker take, and he wanted to go really method with it, leading to him irritating the cast and crew more and more. The schedule negotiations with Michael J Fox (who they wanted anyway) coming through when they did was probably lucky for Stoltz because Tom Wilson was about ready to introduce him to fist dentistry when Stoltz wouldn’t listen to him about easing up on the fight scenes.
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1. He was also in Masters of the Universe. It's probably not a good movie, but it's such a fun, stupid/silly popcorn flick that doesn't take itself seriously
@@0okamino Isn't IMDB a wonderful resource? I love it😁
Do you think you would be friends with your parents if you met them while they were in high school?
That's the premise of this film.
Bob Gale, the producer, was looking through family items one day, and stumbled upon his dad's high school yearbook, and asked himself what was he like back then?
And, would we be friends?
The original script had the time travel device be a refrigerator?!?!?!?!?!
Spielberg rejected it cause he thought very young kids would be influenced by the film, and masses of them would find themselves locked in fridges all over the place trying to go 'back in time'.
The role of Marty was originally played by Eric Stoltz. He played Marty as very dark, and it just didn't jibe with the tone Robert Zemeckis was going for, and he was fired.
So, they got their first choice Michael J. Fox to take over.
The reason their first choice didn't take the role was that, Fox was on the TV show Family Ties. The studio in charge of the show would not allow Fox to be released in order to play Marty at the same time he was filming the show.
So, when they got Fox to sign on, he had to work a suicidal schedule of Family Ties during the day, during the week, and Back to the Future 6 nights a week, as long as his performance on the show wasn't compromised.
To this day I dont know how Fox had the stamina to do that.
If you notice almost all of Marty's scenes are played at night.
There's a ton of details in this great film, but one they got wrong was;
The Honeymooners episode that Marty's mom's family was watching aired on December 31, 1955, and not on November 5, 1955.
Hahaha I love how the time travel.machine was a refrigerator at first! That would have been very different
The title, as you've now seen, refers to the main character, Marty McFly, returning to his own time (1985) after going 30 years back in time in a panic while being attacked by terrorists. In 1955 he meets his parents when they were his age and...well, you've seen the plot. I don't know if anyone esle has mentioned this (I'm too lazy to read all the comments on all the reactions I've been watching) but when I first saw this movie (when I was 29) in a movie theater just after it was released in '85, I was familiar with both main actors who at the time were in separate TV sitcoms. Fox was in "Family Ties" as a conservative Republican teen at political/philosophical odds with his ex-60s-hippie parents, with whom he lived with his 2 sisters. From what I've read: He was still doing the TV show when filming BTF, which stretched his schedule and sometimes caused him to mistakenly call his TV dad "Doc," probably in scenes that had to be re-taken. Lloyd portrayed an eccentric character, one of the cab drivers, who acted kind of like Doc. He was one of the cast of cabbies in "Taxi," about a taxi company whose drivers all had different personalities and reacted with each other and their passengers. The dispatcher was played by Danny DeVito. Fox, who now has Parkinson's disease, is an advocate for others afflicted with that condition. He's 62 and married to Tracy Pollan, who had played his girlfriend in "Family Ties." BTF did indeed inspire "Rick and Morty," I just learned on CZcams, where I saw Lloyd (now in his 80s) in a brief live-action version of the cartoon, also on CZcams. (Culturally at age 67 I'm stuck in the '80s, which I miss more and more as the decades pass. I hadn't watched the cartoon on TV's "Adult Swim." Also on CZcams there is a 2015 segment of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" where Marty and Doc visit the talk show on stage. It's obvious in retrospect that BTF2, filmed in 1989, predicted a lot of 2015 wrong. We still have no flying cars!) I've tried to send clips of this stuff in these replies but CZcams's technology is blocking that. Thanks.
23:00 nope DeLoreans actually just did that, had many quality problems failing electrical systems was chief among them still a very cool car tho
More with Christopher Lloyd: Clue, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and the sitcom Taxi.
One aspect of time travel that I find rather unique with Back to the Future, as described in the 2nd film is the "ripple effect". This is why Marty didn't immediately get erased from existence in the 1st film. It took some time for "time" to catch up. For Marty, the point of no return was the kiss between George and Lorraine which ultimately sealed the deal that they would get married, and have kids (one of them, being Marty)
I think most time travel stories, they either say you can't change certain events (the grandfather paradox), or if you do change things in the past, the changes are felt immediately.
Yes this is definitely a fudge for dramatic purposes. While you can sort of debate the legitimacy of whether Marty would be immediately erased or not, the photos are pure plot device. There is literally no course of events changed or otherwise that would result in a photo of half a person. Or in the third movie, noone would take a photo of a *blank* with no name on. I could also sort of buy that Marty alone would be immune to altering events because he was in the past at the time it took place, but even he starts to fade away eventually.
The movie also muddies the water by combining divergent timelines with self fulfilling prophecies. It SEEMS like the future changes because Marty disrupts his parents meeting, but Goldie Wilson is mayor in the original timeline, but SEEMS to get the idea for running for mayor FROM Marty when he goes back in time.
I once had an argument with a friend about which time-travel film made more sense: this one, or "The Terminator." In "The Terminator," the time travelers changed nothing; everything that they did led to the creation of the world that they came from. (The sequels were another matter altogether.)
24:03 Did you notice that Twin Pines Mall is NOW called LONE Pine Mall? It's because Marty ran over that one pine tree in 1955.
When you watch Part 2. Please end it up right after you see "To be concluded..." Part 2 and 3 have been filmed together and there a trailer for part 3 at the end of part 3 and it may spoil some interesting plots. So if you want to go completely blindly through part 3, I suggest you to not watch the trailer.
Thank you for the heads up! I don't like the fact that they do that without warning, it's much more fun going in without knowing anything
Back to the Future 2 and 3 are what completes the story. There are so many ways the movies are tied in with each other that you really have to see all three to get the whole experience.
Just don't let the second movie discourage you from watching all three. It really is the weakest of them all IMO.
I've heard conflicting statements. Some people say 2 is the best, others say it's the worst 😂
This movie has a very tight and well written screenplay. Every step is foreshadowed, referenced, and played to a T. It's over the top, but it's consistently over the top.
I remember recording this on VHS when I was little. Great reaction!
Thank you! Do you still have the VHS?
@@VerowakReacts oh man, that is long gone lol. Had commercials too
14:37 The oldest sibling was born first, so he's disappearing first maybe?
_"That would've been nice to know they would appear right there"_
They DID know. In the initial experiment, Doc sends Einstein one minute into the future. The DeLorean reappears exactly where it disappeared, just one minute later (or one minute into the future, relative to it's departure time).
So basically, the DeLorean disappears at the start of the minute, Doc & Marty experience the minute, then the DeLorean reappears exactly 1 minute after it left.
Here, things get kind of weird due the Theory of Special Relativity. As Doc explains, the trip was instantaneous from Einstein's frame of reference, but Doc & Marty had to wait one minute from their frames of reference. Doc best sums it up with the line, _"He [Einstein] skipped over that minute."_
When the DeLorean travels through time, it doesn't experience time as a duration, but rather it removes itself from the chains of spacetime so that it can move instantaneously between different times. Some fans have speculated that this is why the DeLorean is iced over after a trip -- for a nanosecond, the DeLorean essentially "doesn't exist," because it's outside spacetime. There's no heat energy outside of spacetime, so any condensation or moisture on the body would freeze instantly.
Doc Brown is NEVER way too over the top. He is perfect =)
okay
there's things about this - and the subsequent movies - that people miss as they're largely a sight reference but if you watch you see that there's a massive difference.
we started out in the Twin Pines Mall, that's where Marty went back to 1955.
we ended up at the Lone Pine Mall, this is because Marty ran over one of the Pine Tree's the land owner was trying to breed when fleeing from them with their shotgun.
This universe is not the same one as the universe we started out in and that's because Marty made significant changes to the history of Hill Valley during his time in 1955.
Now.
My theory has been since I first saw these movies as a kid, that what I've just described is an ever enhancing and changing world. The Marty we see go back in time at the end of the movie will NOT have the same life experiences as the Marty we know (there's enough similarities to argue that they're close in personality but they are not the same, a happy family would breed a different young man with adversity)
Due to this, the Marty going back at the end is going to make changes and create a different timeline for himself - not the Marty we see - and when he's tried to stop Doc Brown in 55 in a similar way to our Marty, he'll return to the time 20 minutes before going back. And there will not be an erasing of timelines with this, as 1955 is sort of a nexus point of time where massive changes happen due to the first recorded time travel into the past event happens there.
So what that means ultimately is that the Marty we know lived in a world that was shaped by a Marty that had gone back in time before this and made his own alterations, just as our Marty did and the subsequent ones do, it's an endlessly improving series of events that makes the 'Current' Marty make his future time better by action and example.
The awkward thing is that when they made this flick, there was no expectation that there'd actually be a sequel. That last scene was there for the fun of it....but then BttF became a huge hit and the studio started pressuring them for a sequel. As a result, that "just for fun" scene kind of hamstrung them when it came to plotting Part II.
i would like to highly recommend the following classic movies:
Phantoms (1998)
From Hell (2001)
Red Planet (2000)
The Blob (1988)
Color out of Space (2019)
The Void (2017)
Rubikon (2020)
Angel's Heart (1987)
The Colony (2013)
Altered States (1980)
Life Force (1985)
Last Days on Mars (2013)
Event Horizon (1997)
Young Sherlock Homes & enigma of the Pyramid (1985)
League of Extraordinary Gentleman (2003)
Such a classic.
The 2nd gets a bit more complex n the 3rd one is very different. My favorite is this one, very rarely sequels are better than the 1st one.
I was born in may of 86 and grew up watching the trilogy multiple times and now own the movies on dvd and Blu-ray as well as the dvds of the animated series that came after the movies.
Welcome to Back To The Future....the perfect Trilogy!!!!!
My favourite movie
It's a great movie to have as favorite!!
Christopher Lloyd was one of the stars of a wonderful sitcom named _"Taxi,"_ which ran from 1978 to 1983. Lloyd played "Reverend" Jim "Iggy" Ignatowski. Reverend Jim was a nice, gentle person, but rather spacy due to his extensive drug use during the sixties.
Later, Christopher Lloyd played Captain Kruge, the primary Klingon villain in _"Star Trek III: The Search For Spock."_ The extensive makeup and prosthetics certainly made him look like a typical Klingon villain, and his acting was spot-on, but it was very disconcerting to hear the voice of Reverend Jim making dire threats against the Enterprise and its crew.
Doc’s dog in 1955 is named “Copernicus “ . you don’t learn this until the third film
4:54 "I'm afraid you're just too darn loud."
Come on, man. If it ain't loud, it ain't _rock and roll!_
That is so weird; I've watched this movie at least half a dozen times, and just this time I noticed there was a red motorcycle near the clock tower, exactly like one I owned way back then. How did I miss that? Netflix; Brain Games?
There is a whole world of difference between 2022 vs 1992 and 1985 vs 1955.
The path we were on changed dramatically in the mid-late 60s causing the way our society was progressing to alter quite a bit.
Lea Thompson (Lorraine) has said that the actors were told to play up the melodrama, which is why the performances seem a little over the top. It wasn't exactly a 1985 thing, as it was over the top even back then, though other teen comedies (like John Hughes' films) followed suit after. It kind of set a tone in a way, I guess. Personally, though, I think it works, as it keeps us from taking it all too seriously. A lot of people now try to dissect the ramifications of Marty changing everything, including his family, but the tone is there to keep us from doing exactly that. It's an intelligent script, but not at the expense of being a fun ride.
Doc's reveal of the vest has become a meme around these parts thanks to a cartoon parody of that scene.
the character playing Doc's equivalent has a raspy voice, and always ends his lines with the equivalent of "you see?" or "Y'see?".
so, EVERY TIME a character is shot and revealed to have a vest, we all go back to that cartoon scene and mimic that guy's voice:
"Got a vest, y'see?".
when the new Mulan came out we all pointed out she got saved by a Genuine Y'See Vest.
fun fact, that plutonium that looks "suspiciously like water" is fairly similar to what certain oxidation states of suspended plutonium actually look like! though its a bit more red than actual plutonium IV. you can see several other colors also, right on the wikipedia page for plutonium.
That's so neat! And also pretty awesome that you know this 😀
@@VerowakReacts i watch too many youtube pop-sci videos!
@@XcaptainXobliviousX OR .... just the right amount
Thank you for the reaction. BTTF was released weeks after I graduated from college. The 1985 scenes make me feel like I am returning to the old family home.
That's awesome that watching the movie can bring you back!
13:32 : 1,21 Gigawatts = 1,210,000,000 Watts. Basically 1,21 Gigawatts is the power that would be necessary to light 12 100 000 light bulbs of 100Watts for 1 second.
I've heard of Gigawatts just never with a soft G. Sounds so strange
Michael j. Fox was watching the VHS tape when learned there was going to be a sequel from the tag at the end. The tag wasn't in the theaters, as they had no idea there would be a sequel.
12:05 Yup, no matter how many times I see it this still makes me flinch.
I know, right? I hate seeing that lol
Christopher Lloyd played Uncle Fester in the Adams Family movies and the villain in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Michael J Fox played in Family Ties and Teen Wolf, also Spin City in the early 2000s
I've never seen any of those lol This is my first movie with each of those actors (I'm pretty sure)
I just found your channel thanks to the algorithm, and I'm a new fan. I really enjoyed your reaction. It makes me so happy to see young people watch and even enjoy the movies I grew up with.
A few bits of useless trivia if it hasn't already been mentioned: when Marty goes back in time, he ran over one of the two pine trees Mr Peabody was growing. Because of this, the Twin Pines mall becomes the Lone Pine Mall when Marty comes back to 1985. You can also see the broken ledge on the clock tower back in 1985, the ledge Doc breaks while trying to plug in the cable. The reason the teacher told Marty that his band was just "too loud" is because that was actually Huey Lewis... the artist who wrote and performed the song Marty's band was playing. Marty played it a little more hard rock than the original version. This is why Huey took "offense" with it. Also, you didn't mention it but when Marty is playing Johnny B Goode. Marvin Barry calls his cousin Chuck Berry. "You know that sound you're looking for... well, listen to this!" Chuck Berry wrote and performs Johnny B Goode.
You were so great at predicting a lot of things. Things a lot of us old timers didn't put together so easily.
I hope you'll continue with the trillogy. They are all so good. Watch for many of the actors playing different roles at the same time (i.e., family members) and some great cameos. Zz Top appears in part 3. Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers is in parts 2 and 3. Anyway, I'm off to binge your other vids. Thank you for the hard work you put into this. You're a lot of fun, and you have a great personality and sense of humor.
"What!?... shermanator.?.... Lmao... The original Shermanator... The OG of red heads in all the classic movies ... Courtney Gains!... 👍🏼
The resemblance is uncanny!
This movie was before anyone knew how to pronounce "giga-" because it was long before computers had gigabytes of storage. Only scientists and engineers ever used "giga-" back then, and there were two accepted ways of pronouncing it. The pronunciation wasn't really standardized until "gigabytes" became commonplace, which was years after this movie came out.
They originally shot many scenes with a different actor playing Marty McFly (forget who that was.) But he didn't have the comic talents to pull it off--so they re-shot everything with Fox. You can see these unused scenes on You Tube. This script is so good that it is cited in film schools as "perfect."
It is a funny movie and a little over the top on purpose. It is a comedy after all. The reason you find it corny now is because you've seen hundred of tv shows and movies that copied from this one (Rick & Morty is just one example). In order to fully appreciate old classic movies we need to put them in context with the time when they were made.
Nice reaction btw.
Christopher Lloyd was in Who framed Roger Rabbit. Where cartoons and humans interact together. Funny and brillant how they pulled it off. He also was a character in the 1970's TV sitcom "Taxi"
It’s a good thing lightning hits the clock at exactly 10:04PM and not 10:04:30PM. Otherwise Marty would have just pulled down the line with the hook with zero chance of resetting.
You mentioned that you haven't really seen Christopher Lloyd in many films. I would suggest 1985's "Clue," (if you haven't already seen it) which is a black comedy / mystery. Lot of campy humor, kind of silly - but some really great performances. Also starring Tim Curry, who is always a delight.
One of the greatest movies of all time, don't think you appreciated it fully tbh. More that you felt as if you had to like it because of its iconic status. Some of your comments were somewhat confusing and you just need to relax and enjoy the adventure and look for the genius script writing and subtle differences due to the changes in the timeline.
The 80s was a golden generation for movies.
I may be wrong and that's not criticism, merely my opinion.... appreciate your reaction
Ah yes I felt compelled to like the movie. You are definitely wrong on that, if I don't like a movie I won't pretend to like it. If my comments are confusing, well... not sure what to tell you, that's how I react. I enjoyed the adventure, I was relaxed and I noticed quite a heck of a lot probably 90%+ of the differences due to the changes in the timeline based on what I've read since having watched the movie. Overall it was a great movie, and time travelling makes it just that much better for me.
Also, this is a first time watching, it's expected that things may be missed :)
@@VerowakReacts no problem and I really appreciate the response
Part II and III are awesome and make a complete trilogy. This thing about this movie is that it does not take itself too serious. It is light hearted entertainment that is not trying to push an ideology or be preachy. From a more innocent time when people lived and let live and did not worry about trying to tell others how they should live.
You will want to watch parts 2 & 3 in the near future. 3rd best trilogy Hollywood has ever made.
What would you say are better trilogies?
@@VerowakReacts The original Star Wars Trilogy takes the #2 spot.
#1 goes to Lord of the Rings.
Many say, this is the best movie ever made. I cannot disagree.
I was not expecting the movie to be so amazing, so I was pleasantly surprised
The DeLorean was a real car, a failed effort to produce a new car....that was the joke that the professor got it cheap because no one wanted to buy those suckers, had too many problems and too expensive. Huey Lewis of the band Huey Lewis and the News, famous in the 1980's plays the school counselor with the megaphone at the audition in the gym early on, and his band also provides the song the Power of Love. in the theater, the Ronald Reagan line got a huge laugh back in 1985 when this film was new.
$388.8 million box office in 1985 dollars. I’d say it was pretty “okay.”
It's almost like today's culture has gone backwards in time with how restrictive and sensitive people are.
Not at all, it's not about being sensitive it's about finally being able to be vocal about things that bother us
VerowakReacts No, things definitely bother people now that didn’t in the past. Studies back this up. People report way higher levels of anxiety now.
This has to be its own comment: YES the sequels are worth a watch!
Also at the end of the second movie theres a post credit scene thingy which is just a trailer for the 3rd movie ,but i recommend you NOT to watch that (its not the end of the world if you do, but still)
oh yeah... that end scene is really just a preview of the third one with minor spoilers. And it's not even post credits but starts right after the "To be concluded..." text. Best to stop watching the second movie right there.
Noted and will do that!! Thanks
Fun trivia (and typing this before you do your trivia on the video) Huey Lewis who sings "The Power of Love" for the movie is the judge at the school who tells them they are "too loud"