I notice when reactors watch the sequel so quickly after the original they understandably get quite distracted by Jennifer being recast with a different actress. When the movies came out they were four years apart, plus people saw the trailer and may have read about it in a newspaper or magazine. It was originally much less distracting.
It's a shame Claudia W. wasn't able to do the sequel . It's surprising they went with Elisabeth Shue , as imo she doesn't resemble Claudia . But they made it work with the hair style and clothes . I think Elisabeth is great in the Karate Kid , and many other's after she did . But still think Claudia was the better Jennifer .
@@SJ-ty5rw And before Claudia Wells Melora Hardin was cast first as Jennifer Parker with Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly. She was recast because Melora was much taller then Fox and that's when Claudia Wells was cast as Jennifer. This is heavy!🤔🙄🤨🙆
@@amandamiquilenaif you think this was crazy, wait til you hear about George McFly. Crispin didn't want to return for whatever reason, so they hired someone else and made them up in Crispin's likeness. Crispin actually sued the studio and because of that, actors now have protections against such things. Studios can't use your likeness without permission. But nowadays with the advent of AI and such, this is starting to become an issue again and I believe was part of one of the recent strikes Hollywood had. With AI people can now duplicate voices and all kinds of things.
This movie had the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series in 2015. They actually won in 2016. It’s a significant mention because the Cubs were always a bad luck team and was known as a losing team every season and some believed a curse was put on the team.
All the 2015 "future" stuff is cute. But I really like the 1955 part of this movie, especially the playing around with the scenes from the first movie. It's really fun.
I always loved how righteous Doc was about using time travel for financial gains. But he carries around an entire briefcase full of money from various different time periods. Can't help but think there's a story there..
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The reason we didn't get everything predicted in 2015 is because most of the technology was lost in the big explosion at Cyberdyne Systems, setting us back decades.
Zemeckis and his team had no intention of portraying the future accurately. In the first place, the ending of the first film had just been a joke - there were no plans for a second film but then the incredible success of the first one had the studio all but demanding a second film so now their little ending joke dictated where the sequel would have to start. And secondly, Zemeckis recognized that the future they'd be portraying was so near that we'd be reaching it in reality very soon. Having already "predicted" flying cars, they decided to have fun with it and just go for cartoonishly unrealistic predictions instead of accuracy.
Scriptwriter Bob Gale acknowledged that it was a big problem to have Jennifer come with Marty and Doc to 2015. But he actually didn't plan for a sequel when he wrote the first movie. The ending with the DeLorean taking off and flying was only meant to be a funny gag. But after the movie became the biggest hit of the year, the studio pushed for a sequel. Gale said that if he had known from the beginning that he was going to make a sequel, he would not have put Jennifer in the DeLorean because her presence created big problems for him when he started writing the script for Part 2. It's why she spends most of the movie either asleep or passed out off-screen. He had to find a way to write her out of the plot so the focus could be on Marty and Doc.
1. It's not often sequels hold up to the original, but this does. Thank you 1980s. 2.This one is the best of the bunch. The next one is inventive but I'm not really into the story. That said, it is the perfect wrap. 3. The stunt woman that flew into the glass window partially missed and injured her arm. 4. Michael J. Fox also played Marty's daughter. 5. Sammy Hagar, "I can't drive 55"😎 6. Good thing Biff shoots like a Star Wars Stormtrooper🤣 7. The tunnel at the end is the same one they used for Tune Town in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit
I'm really glad you're enjoying the Back to the Future series! I was too young to watch them when they came out, so I only saw them a few years later when they were on TV, but I loved them and watched them every chance I got! Part 3 is a little different, but I'm sure you'll enjoy it just as much despite (or possibly because of) those differences.
2:16 They didn't think we'd be that advanced; not really. For starters, the writers didn't actually plan on making a sequel, until the studio pressed for one. They've even said if they had known there would be more movies, they never would have put Jennifer in the car; which is why they ditched her so quickly. Second, when going into writing part II they knew that they had established that Doc had gone forward to 2015, which would be the most likely point in time they'd go to in the sequel. But the writers also knew that most other shows and movies that tried to depict the future always got it wrong; and something would end up looking dated almost immediately. So they decided to intentionally depict the most far out, waky parody of the future they could think of; extrapolating the most ridiculous historical trends and things that were becoming popular at the time. So everyone has a fax in every room. Kids have ridiculous fashions. Adults have stupid fashions, like the two ties. Inflation is over the top, where Marty need $50 to buy a Pepsi; and instead of the person asking to donate 50 cents or a dollar towards the clocktower preservation it's, "thumb a hundred bucks" A great sight gag is all the laser discs being tossed out, because in the 80s everyone thought laser disc would be the next big media fad for video; and it never caught on, before ultimately being replaced with CDs and DVD. The stuff with biometrics and thumb scans being used for ID and financial transactions. They got the video conferencing right, if albeit a few years early than it really caught fire. It had a little bit of popularity prior to lockdown, but video teleconferencing has been right around the corner for decades; but we're talking about going back to a time of CRT displays and, at best, telephone/dial-up connections, with low-resolution video as the standard. Even 8+ years ago, the technology was there and better than it ever was, but still not quite so far as it needed to be to really be practical for widespread use.
I was about to comment about there wasn't planned a sequel, but you did it a lot better job than I could have as you added Info I didn't know. Good job. 👍👍
To be fair to Laserdiscs, they really were better quality video than DVDs and even some early BluRays, while the audio was outstanding. The problem was they were too expensive, non-anamorphic (meaning you couldn't rescale the video), and were basically aimed at the high-end market who could afford everything else needed for a home theatre (speaker system, etc.). Too bad LED TVs didn't become commercially viable for another two decades.
They were not entirely that wrong on biometrics. See: iPhones, tablets, laptops, etc that use thumb scans and retina scans to unlock them. .....or smart guns (which unfortunately have not caught on as much as they should have)
@@Cbricklyne I mean, biometrics has been "right around the corner" for literally decades. But even now, I'd argue that the needle hasn't moved that much compared to the 80s or 90s. Yes, it's there, and arguably a little better than it was, but still mostly on the periphery. Sort of what video conferencing was prior to the pandemic.
You are so like-able, loved watching your expressions as the movies unfolded, this is my favorite of the three since I just happened to stumble upon the filming of the Mr. Strickland shotgun porch when I was coming home from my nightshift job and noticed really bright lights 3 blocks from my apartment. I walked over to see what happening and was thrilled when I found out they were filming the sequel , now when I see that scene, I can imagine my younger self there watching in awe and getting a sneak peek of things to come. Keep it up you're doing great.
Wow, that was fast. They brought Jen because the ending was already made and they didn't plan on a sequel. This makes the recreations of the first films scenes even more impressive.
I actually forgot that she was in the car right at the end. That's true! That's why they needed to bring her along. One question though: Why did they change the actress?
@@amandamiquilena Sad reason. Claudia Wells had to turn down the offer to return as Jennifer because her mother (who was also her manager) was dying of breast cancer.
Yeah, they never intended to have sequels so they didn’t know what to do with her character. The original version of the movie ended with “to be continued” on the screen as a joke. That was removed in later versions.
I remember being a kid and being really excited about part III coming out in the theater. Also, remember being a little disappointed. BUT the Back2theFuture ride at MGM studios was fantastic.
Great reaction Amanda like always, this one is amazing this might be my favorite trilogy of all time so I love seeing how much you love it! I can't WAIT for you to see Part III. There are some fun facts about this one. This movie was filmed back-to-back with Part III. If you notice they replaced the actress who played Jennifer Parker, Claudia Wells in the original Back to the future, but had to pull out of appearing in Part II after her mother was diagnosed with cancer. Elizabeth Shue was cast in the role instead and even re-shot the final scene of the first film, so it could be ‘replayed’ at the beginning of the second. This was Elijah Wood in his very first film role, Wood’s role, as an awed child by the arcade cabinet playing that game with pistols, Crispin Glover who portrais Mcfly Sr in the first one did not apper on this one. According to Glover, he discovered that he was offered far less to reprise his role in any given sequel than Lea Thompson for a similarly sized role, Glover’s agents demanded a higher fee and script approval, and Bob Gale responded by offering even less money than before. As a result, Glover pulled out of the sequel as was replaced by Jeffrey Weissman in heavy prosthetics. This is partly why George McFly is almost always shot in the dark, from behind, or upside-down. One of the more memorable gags about the future occurs when Marty is assailed by a holographic shark outside the cinema (or ‘Holomax’). The Jaws films, in spite of the critically panned Jaws 3-D and Jaws 4, are still going strong in the fictional 2015, marking the nineteenth entry in the franchise. Jaws 19 is directed by Max Spielberg, son of the legendary director. Max was born in June 1985, the ‘present’ era of the trilogy. Actors playing themselves is nothing new - and it wasn’t new in 1989, either. However, this was mostly achieved with clever camerawork and body doubles. Back to the Future Part II broke the mould by using a VFX trick that allowed the same actor to feature twice in the same frame: the ‘Vista Glide.’ As usual, necessity is the mother of invention. Given the number of times characters interact with their past selves, or alternate future selves, or narrowly avoid continuum-obliterating paradoxes, exactly this technique was needed. There are a genuine stunt injury in this film in the hoverboard chase. Due to a technical difficulty with the wires suspending the actors, Cheryl Wheeler-Duncan - the stunt double for Darlene Vogel’s Spike veers off-course and slams into the concrete pillar next to the glass. Ouch! She then falls 30 feet on to the concrete below. Evidently Zemeckis saw a silver lining in this on-set mishap, as that take is the one we see in the film. Keep up the good work.
Actor Billy Zane has an expanded role in this sequel. He portrays Match from Biffs gang in the 50's as well as in the 1985 alternate universe aka timeline he's wearing a cowboy hat and is apart of Biffs gang once again! Most people don't know he appears in two time lines in the sequel. Michael J. Fox portrays Marlene McFly in the 2015 timeline. The daughter of Marty and Jennifer McFly. 🤠👍🍕🙋
The actress that played Jennifer in part one had a conflict with scheduling because of another film she was working on. That is why she was replaced for parts two and three. Parts two and three were filmed at the same time.
0:59 "Is That The Same Girl?" No, that's not Claudia Wells, who played Jennifer in the first "Back To The Future" movie. That's actually Elizabeth Shue in the role of Jennifer, because Claudia Wells' mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and Claudia opted to take of her, thus the reason why Elizabeth Shue was cast as Jennifer
The 2015 in this film was not meant to predict anything. It was meant to be funny. I think it succeeds in that. 😉 Also, "We don't have flying cars; we have TikTok," is the funniest thing I've heard today.
There was originally no plan for a sequel, so the ending was just in fun. Had the success of the first movie been predicted, Jennifer would have been left in 1985. As it was, they had to create a small storyline for her, in order to make her coming along make sense.
It's always funny to see someone's vision of the future from the past. Flying cars seemed to be a common idea. It's quite far from reality, but if you look back at a certain point, they went from having a relatively primitive lifestyle, to having cars, and planes, and nuclear energy, and computers, and lasers, and television all in the time of an average lifespan. I'm sure when they envisioned the future, they thought the momentum wouldn't stop. Why wouldn't there be flying cars and hoverboards?
I think the flying cars thing in Back to the Future 2 was more just the fact that they’d already established it at the end of the first movie (and it was only supposed to be a goofy joke to end the movie on anyway, since they never intended to make sequels).
Some engineers, scientists and futurists claim that it would have been possible to have at least some level of hover vehicles built now but technology is much more controlled than people realize. If you look at the rate of advancement from WWII to the 80's and them to now it seems like technology was intentionally bottlenecked and hampered. We certainly have technology for comfort and convenience but not so much for personal/individual liberty. If you know about how mega corporations lobby government to control markets it starts to make sense than things would shift towards making everyone consumers. As well as the Invention Secrecy Act gives government the authority to "lock away" innovations that they consider threats to government power. An example of this is with 3D printing, in the 80's we had it at the level he had just a few years ago but a 30 year restriction was put on the patient so people couldn't innovate on that until just a few years ago.
I've seen a lot of predictions of how it will be around 30 years in the future, and there are two things that are almost always there. As far back as the 1920s or 1930s the predictions usually are that we have flying cars and cities on the moon. Crazy, right? And the saddest part is that we have had the technology to make it work since the 60s. Sure, the flying cars would be a nightmare to manage if everyone has one but the fuel costs would probably make it quite exclusive, and the moon colony would take an insane amount of work and resources.
1 - I LOVE this movie because I just love how they subvert expectations. You think they're going to the future, and "fixing" Marty's future is going to be the point of the movie, but like 15 mins in it's fixed. Instead they go back to '55 and weave the story of 2 in and around 1. Brilliant. 2 - It's amazing how many people remark on how BttF 2 failed to predict the future. It's a movie, they weren't trying to predict the future, they were making a fun movie. 3 - Biff was based on donald trump. Because in the '80s and '90s, everybody knew he was a villain - the most obvious, stereotypical villain - and many movies actually made their villains thinly-veiled references to him (Time Cop, Super Mario Bros, BttF). Not to get political...
It's a fun movie State surface level if you try to dig you miss the jokes about the weather service & lawyers. You'll be focusing on little inconsistencies
Yes, that was Elijah Wood a/k/a Frodo. You should watch and review the Mel Gibson movie "Forever Young" (1992), which was kind of a breakout role for Wood. He was about 10 at the time. After that movie, he started appearing in everything, including Super Bowl ads.
You don't have to be a millennial to feel this film has more heart ❤️ then some other new movies. Almost every reactor says the same thing. It has been voted the best trilogy ever made! Much love to you and Ukraine 💙💛💙🌻🌻🌻
"I'm gonna stop you right there, Scott. Are you seriously telling me that your plan to save the universe is based on Back To The Future?" -- Tony Stark
The first movie originally had a "To Be Continued..." title card at the end, even though they didn't mean it. Then, after they made the decision to actually continue it, they took that title card off. But they put a "To Be Concluded" title card at the end of Part 2. Weird. Re-creating all those 1955 scenes was a lot of work, but they did a great job. Parts 2 and 3 were shot as one production. That's why you could have the preview at the end of Part 2, even in theatrical release. And they released Part 2 on VHS the same week that Part 3 came out in theaters. Yup, they did understand marketing.
Why would they remove the "To Be Continued" card once they decided to actually continue it? That doesn't make any sense at all. What version of the movie was it removed from? I saw the first movie in theater, I had it on vhs, saw it on tv back in the day, had the dvd and bluray. All versions had To Be Continued at the end. You are right about the To Be Concluded part though.
@@mattschliemann9683 It makes no sense, but that's the deal. I remember the "To Be Continued" in theatrical release. Everyone does. I think it was on early VHS releases, too. I no longer have my VHS copies of the series. But I do have a DVD three-pack that I bought in 2008 or so. I just now rechecked the end of Part 1, and the title card is not there. It goes straight from the flying DeLorean shot to the rollups.
Part of the joke with all the super futuristic stuff is that it's a callback to 1950s science fiction. Early SF was basically fantasy in space. Kids in robot suits defending the moon base from aliens in the 1980s. Flying cars, universal digital money & ID, instant food, all this was common in old SF. With the BTTF series so invested in the year 1955, they're just showing a 1950s/60s idea of the future. It highlights one of the fundamental themes of the films that life is cyclical. @15:25 "I stiff can't believe he's named Biff." -- Biff was originally a nickname; it's an old English word for "a fast punch". It started becoming more common as a given name around 1900. Pretty uncommon today.
They didn't originally plan any sequels. I was actually pretty surprised when they first announced the sequels 5 years later and that they were filming them back to back. Back to back was a pretty cool concept to me at the time and thirst time I had ever heard of two movies being filmed on purpose so quickly like that. Didn't hurt they also said they'd be released like 6 months apart. Since then there's been a few movies filmed this way. The two matrix sequels for example. It's a good way to avoid any schedule conflicts with the actors or even deaths, tho the matrix did have one real life actor death to deal with while making their two sequels.
The Salkinds are famous for this. They made The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers at the same time ( 1973 and 1974 ). The actors sued and 'The Salkind Clause' was born. They did the same thing with Superman and most of Superman II. But then Richard Donner was fired and Richard Lester made a different movie. Brando didn't come back, and Gene Hackman refused to shoot new footage.
As a kid, who grew up in the 80's... we kinda did think we'd have flying cars in 2015 lol... oddly enough there have been some advances movies like this thought we'd have that have come around and some are even MORE advanced than what the movie or show thought we'd have (things like our ipads and laptops are far smaller and thinner and stronger than the data pads in Star Trek is one such example).
I guess i can see that from a kid's point of view. I grew up in the 70's, and was an 80's teen (18 the summer BTTF 1 came out). I don't think I could honestly say that I'd ever see a flying car in my life, let alone 30 years away.
In Doctor Who terminology returning to your proper time in the future by living through the years is taking the long way back. See also the movie Final Countdown. Jennifer from Part 1 was recast for Parts 2 and 3 because the original actresses had real life to deal with instead of reprising. The difference between movie 2015 and our 2015 is due to skipping the events at Yoyodyne Propulsion (The Future Begins Tomorrow) on an alternate timeline.
18:50 Where is the Marty of this timeline? My theory is that Marty routinely runs away from his Switzerland boarding school and sneaks to Doc's hideaway. Doc Brown has escaped from the insane asylum, or maybe has had his committal order overturned as he's not a danger to himself or others. So this is Marty, and the time ripple hasn't caught up with him. 30:00 "Burn it!" Notice that the newspapers don't change until he burns the almanac. As long as it exists, *someone* is going to devastate the world.
In 1955 there were no artificial satellites, no astronauts, no supersonic passenger planes, hardly any computers, no household microwave ovens, no color TV. By 1989 when Part II came out all those things existed. For flying cars, inventors were still raising investment funds or taking down-payments from people eager to buy one. It seemed like flying cars would be achieved and 2015 seemed a plausible year for it.
I remember reading something some 10-20 years ago about some car-sized / car-shaped VTOL craft that was being developed. (I forget who was making it.) There would've been some pretty big obstacles blocking it from widespread use like BttF2 depicted, though. Would've needed a specialized license for it similar to what's needed for helicopter or airplane pilots. Would've needed new laws on the books that addressed that type of vehicle since it wouldn't quite fall under existing laws. Never saw any mention of the project again after I first read about it. * VTOL = "vertical takeoff and landing". Some small fighter jet type planes already had this (plus it's what helicopters do as well, obviously) but the "flying car" design was trying to make the tech quieter and more compact.
You're right there was no CGI in the 80s when they made part 1 and part 2 and part 3 they had to use mechanical effects. Which is what movies used before CGI before computers they use mechanical effects to create the delusion of certain impossible things. The hoverboards for example it was actors hanging on wires and they were able to photo crop the wires out to make it look like they were flying versus now you could just use CGI. Also we do have self-lacing shoes they came out in 2015 actually and the Cubs did win the World series in 2016 so they were just one year off on that some of the stuff they did get right.
the faces n the tv's a lot of people miss it , it was a reference to a tv series called max headroom, with virtual personalities, they just changed it to servers in shops. the eye glasses we had something like google glasses it was part AR,
So the reason to .ake the time machine a delorian was they could use the gull wing door one time in the sequel to knock out old biff, the original idea for the time machine was a refrigerator but they didn't want anyone getting trapped in a refrigerator trying to replicate this
Watching a reaction video that was filmed recently, to a time travel movie, where they travel to the future that is our past, after having watched a different reaction video about the same time travel story, that was released two years ago but was filmed earlier for Twitch viewers, is intensely confusing in terms of all the different points in time I've been keeping in my head and I now regret watching the reactions on two times speed because my brain is so confused!!!
Parts 2 and 3 were filmed back-to-back, so Part 3 was already being made when Part 2 as released in theaters. I wish someone had told you to turn off this movie when the "TO BE CONCLUDED" text appears, because the teaser for Part 3 spoils a little too much about the movie.
32:38 "You Mean That By The Time They'd Done The 2nd Part, They Already Did The 3rd One?" Actually Amanda, they'd did like Peter Jackson did with "The Lord Of The Rings" trilogy and filmed parts 2 and 3 simultaneously
They did the 3rd one at the same time of the 2nd one because since they were going through time they needed to ensure Marty still looked young enough to be believable to certain time lines.
" lets.. ROLL IT!! " you are so cute and so fun!! Lets doooo this again 👊🏻🫠 also, Beef was indeed a Drumpf knockoff, yet somehow not cartoonishly evil enough, with that alternate reality still alive and kicking for millions of his cult in America still, TODAY!! 😢
Jennifer was recast because Claudia Wells was caring for her dying mother.
A lot of us couldn't tell the difference back then because part 1 and 2 were so many years apart..
Elizabeth Shue was better in the original Karate Kid and Adventures In Babysitting
Damn that sucks! 😢
That's so sad, not just that she couldn't return, but more so that she lost her mom so young 😢😢
Poor Claudia Wells!😢 That hysterically comical fainting scene, which Elizabeth Shue did I still love though!❤
4:15 "This is sad. Instead of flying cars we have tiktok." 🤣
i'm crying haha 🤣
24:35 Oooh, that explains a lot.😂
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I notice when reactors watch the sequel so quickly after the original they understandably get quite distracted by Jennifer being recast with a different actress. When the movies came out they were four years apart, plus people saw the trailer and may have read about it in a newspaper or magazine. It was originally much less distracting.
It certainly slapped me in the face lol but they did a great job at making them look very similar :O
@@amandamiquilenaagreed their was a third sequel as well as a cartoon series and a ride as well of back to the future 😊
It's a shame Claudia W. wasn't able to do the sequel . It's surprising they went with Elisabeth Shue , as imo she doesn't resemble Claudia . But they made it work with the hair style and clothes . I think Elisabeth is great in the Karate Kid , and many other's after she did . But still think Claudia was the better Jennifer .
@@SJ-ty5rw And before Claudia Wells Melora Hardin was cast first as Jennifer Parker with Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly. She was recast because Melora was much taller then Fox and that's when Claudia Wells was cast as Jennifer. This is heavy!🤔🙄🤨🙆
@@amandamiquilenaif you think this was crazy, wait til you hear about George McFly. Crispin didn't want to return for whatever reason, so they hired someone else and made them up in Crispin's likeness.
Crispin actually sued the studio and because of that, actors now have protections against such things. Studios can't use your likeness without permission.
But nowadays with the advent of AI and such, this is starting to become an issue again and I believe was part of one of the recent strikes Hollywood had. With AI people can now duplicate voices and all kinds of things.
3:18 We actually have these exact shoes. They’re called Air Mags. You can get the auto-adjusting laces if you have an extra $20k
one pair sold for $75,000 i remember
4:20 - 4:23 The skip-talking heads on TV are a reference to an 80's scifi show called "Max Headroom". It was a big thing for awhile back then.
This movie had the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series in 2015. They actually won in 2016. It’s a significant mention because the Cubs were always a bad luck team and was known as a losing team every season and some believed a curse was put on the team.
All the 2015 "future" stuff is cute. But I really like the 1955 part of this movie, especially the playing around with the scenes from the first movie. It's really fun.
I love the Shakespeare version.
i wanted to see the 2015 7-11 store haha
I always loved how righteous Doc was about using time travel for financial gains. But he carries around an entire briefcase full of money from various different time periods. Can't help but think there's a story there..
14:55-14:59 is pure gold in clocked utter confusion. I feel this is you in most vids and me in most of life. Gold, Jerry. Gold!
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Great reaction Amanda
The reason we didn't get everything predicted in 2015 is because most of the technology was lost in the big explosion at Cyberdyne Systems, setting us back decades.
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You could say that Sarah Connor gave us a dark fate.
Surprisingly, grabbing something by the balls also has negative consequences. Who would have guessed?
Zemeckis and his team had no intention of portraying the future accurately. In the first place, the ending of the first film had just been a joke - there were no plans for a second film but then the incredible success of the first one had the studio all but demanding a second film so now their little ending joke dictated where the sequel would have to start. And secondly, Zemeckis recognized that the future they'd be portraying was so near that we'd be reaching it in reality very soon. Having already "predicted" flying cars, they decided to have fun with it and just go for cartoonishly unrealistic predictions instead of accuracy.
Scriptwriter Bob Gale acknowledged that it was a big problem to have Jennifer come with Marty and Doc to 2015. But he actually didn't plan for a sequel when he wrote the first movie. The ending with the DeLorean taking off and flying was only meant to be a funny gag. But after the movie became the biggest hit of the year, the studio pushed for a sequel.
Gale said that if he had known from the beginning that he was going to make a sequel, he would not have put Jennifer in the DeLorean because her presence created big problems for him when he started writing the script for Part 2. It's why she spends most of the movie either asleep or passed out off-screen. He had to find a way to write her out of the plot so the focus could be on Marty and Doc.
This is awesome! I just watched your reaction to part one earlier today and now you’ve already got part two ready to go! 👍🏻
12:50 "Last Time Departed: Nov 12, 1955" -- Had they paid attention and noticed this, they would know that someone 'borrowed' the time machine.
Well you caught on quick, they actually modeled Biff's character in this one after Trump in the 80s lol
1. It's not often sequels hold up to the original, but this does. Thank you 1980s.
2.This one is the best of the bunch. The next one is inventive but I'm not really into the story. That said, it is the perfect wrap.
3. The stunt woman that flew into the glass window partially missed and injured her arm.
4. Michael J. Fox also played Marty's daughter.
5. Sammy Hagar, "I can't drive 55"😎
6. Good thing Biff shoots like a Star Wars Stormtrooper🤣
7. The tunnel at the end is the same one they used for Tune Town in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit
There wasn’t a baseball team in Miami when this movie came out so Marty was surprised to hear about them. But one came a few years after this!
Part 2 and 3 were filmed at the same time they just put a trailer for part 3 at the end of part too it was over a year before part 3 came out
I've watched a couple of your reactions, and you are extremely observant.
I'm really glad you're enjoying the Back to the Future series! I was too young to watch them when they came out, so I only saw them a few years later when they were on TV, but I loved them and watched them every chance I got! Part 3 is a little different, but I'm sure you'll enjoy it just as much despite (or possibly because of) those differences.
Happy New Year Amanda! You have a great sense of humor, and it's always fun to watch your reactions.
2:16 They didn't think we'd be that advanced; not really. For starters, the writers didn't actually plan on making a sequel, until the studio pressed for one. They've even said if they had known there would be more movies, they never would have put Jennifer in the car; which is why they ditched her so quickly. Second, when going into writing part II they knew that they had established that Doc had gone forward to 2015, which would be the most likely point in time they'd go to in the sequel. But the writers also knew that most other shows and movies that tried to depict the future always got it wrong; and something would end up looking dated almost immediately. So they decided to intentionally depict the most far out, waky parody of the future they could think of; extrapolating the most ridiculous historical trends and things that were becoming popular at the time. So everyone has a fax in every room. Kids have ridiculous fashions. Adults have stupid fashions, like the two ties. Inflation is over the top, where Marty need $50 to buy a Pepsi; and instead of the person asking to donate 50 cents or a dollar towards the clocktower preservation it's, "thumb a hundred bucks"
A great sight gag is all the laser discs being tossed out, because in the 80s everyone thought laser disc would be the next big media fad for video; and it never caught on, before ultimately being replaced with CDs and DVD. The stuff with biometrics and thumb scans being used for ID and financial transactions.
They got the video conferencing right, if albeit a few years early than it really caught fire. It had a little bit of popularity prior to lockdown, but video teleconferencing has been right around the corner for decades; but we're talking about going back to a time of CRT displays and, at best, telephone/dial-up connections, with low-resolution video as the standard. Even 8+ years ago, the technology was there and better than it ever was, but still not quite so far as it needed to be to really be practical for widespread use.
I was about to comment about there wasn't planned a sequel, but you did it a lot better job than I could have as you added Info I didn't know. Good job. 👍👍
To be fair to Laserdiscs, they really were better quality video than DVDs and even some early BluRays, while the audio was outstanding. The problem was they were too expensive, non-anamorphic (meaning you couldn't rescale the video), and were basically aimed at the high-end market who could afford everything else needed for a home theatre (speaker system, etc.). Too bad LED TVs didn't become commercially viable for another two decades.
They were not entirely that wrong on biometrics.
See:
iPhones, tablets, laptops, etc that use thumb scans and retina scans to unlock them.
.....or smart guns (which unfortunately have not caught on as much as they should have)
@@Cbricklyne I mean, biometrics has been "right around the corner" for literally decades. But even now, I'd argue that the needle hasn't moved that much compared to the 80s or 90s. Yes, it's there, and arguably a little better than it was, but still mostly on the periphery. Sort of what video conferencing was prior to the pandemic.
You are so like-able, loved watching your expressions as the movies unfolded, this is my favorite of the three since I just happened to stumble upon the filming of the Mr. Strickland shotgun porch when I was coming home from my nightshift job and noticed really bright lights 3 blocks from my apartment. I walked over to see what happening and was thrilled when I found out they were filming the sequel , now when I see that scene, I can imagine my younger self there watching in awe and getting a sneak peek of things to come. Keep it up you're doing great.
Wow, that was fast. They brought Jen because the ending was already made and they didn't plan on a sequel. This makes the recreations of the first films scenes even more impressive.
I actually forgot that she was in the car right at the end. That's true! That's why they needed to bring her along. One question though: Why did they change the actress?
@@amandamiquilena Sad reason. Claudia Wells had to turn down the offer to return as Jennifer because her mother (who was also her manager) was dying of breast cancer.
@@amandamiquilena The original actress wasn't available, it appears for personal reasons. Part 2 and 3 were shot 5 years after Part 1.
Yeah, they never intended to have sequels so they didn’t know what to do with her character. The original version of the movie ended with “to be continued” on the screen as a joke. That was removed in later versions.
I've never seen a version of the first movie that didn't have to be continued at the end.
Happy new year Amanda🎉 your doing a great job. Keep it up.
OMG CANT WAIT FOR U TO WATCH PT 3
Someone changed the future, that's why there are no flying cars from 2015! 😆
I remember being a kid and being really excited about part III coming out in the theater. Also, remember being a little disappointed. BUT the Back2theFuture ride at MGM studios was fantastic.
Happy New Year to you too Amanda 🥂
Great reaction Amanda like always, this one is amazing this might be my favorite trilogy of all time so I love seeing how much you love it! I can't WAIT for you to see Part III. There are some fun facts about this one. This movie was filmed back-to-back with Part III. If you notice they replaced the actress who played Jennifer Parker, Claudia Wells in the original Back to the future, but had to pull out of appearing in Part II after her mother was diagnosed with cancer. Elizabeth Shue was cast in the role instead and even re-shot the final scene of the first film, so it could be ‘replayed’ at the beginning of the second. This was Elijah Wood in his very first film role, Wood’s role, as an awed child by the arcade cabinet playing that game with pistols, Crispin Glover who portrais Mcfly Sr in the first one did not apper on this one. According to Glover, he discovered that he was offered far less to reprise his role in any given sequel than Lea Thompson for a similarly sized role, Glover’s agents demanded a higher fee and script approval, and Bob Gale responded by offering even less money than before. As a result, Glover pulled out of the sequel as was replaced by Jeffrey Weissman in heavy prosthetics. This is partly why George McFly is almost always shot in the dark, from behind, or upside-down. One of the more memorable gags about the future occurs when Marty is assailed by a holographic shark outside the cinema (or ‘Holomax’). The Jaws films, in spite of the critically panned Jaws 3-D and Jaws 4, are still going strong in the fictional 2015, marking the nineteenth entry in the franchise. Jaws 19 is directed by Max Spielberg, son of the legendary director. Max was born in June 1985, the ‘present’ era of the trilogy. Actors playing themselves is nothing new - and it wasn’t new in 1989, either. However, this was mostly achieved with clever camerawork and body doubles. Back to the Future Part II broke the mould by using a VFX trick that allowed the same actor to feature twice in the same frame: the ‘Vista Glide.’ As usual, necessity is the mother of invention. Given the number of times characters interact with their past selves, or alternate future selves, or narrowly avoid continuum-obliterating paradoxes, exactly this technique was needed. There are a genuine stunt injury in this film in the hoverboard chase. Due to a technical difficulty with the wires suspending the actors, Cheryl Wheeler-Duncan - the stunt double for Darlene Vogel’s Spike veers off-course and slams into the concrete pillar next to the glass. Ouch! She then falls 30 feet on to the concrete below. Evidently Zemeckis saw a silver lining in this on-set mishap, as that take is the one we see in the film. Keep up the good work.
Actor Billy Zane has an expanded role in this sequel. He portrays Match from Biffs gang in the 50's as well as in the 1985 alternate universe aka timeline he's wearing a cowboy hat and is apart of Biffs gang once again! Most people don't know he appears in two time lines in the sequel. Michael J. Fox portrays Marlene McFly in the 2015 timeline. The daughter of Marty and Jennifer McFly. 🤠👍🍕🙋
*George McFly* was also replaced not just *Jennifer.* It comes to the flying cars try to imagine 30 years from now the *2050's.*
The actor that played Biff was told to act like he is Donald Trump in this. :)
I can tell lol
@@amandamiquilena Urban Myth LOL!🤗🤔🙄🙆
Hahaha my girl, i'd steal the almaniac too.
Just realized you seem more confident in your English.
Good job as usual, your my fav reactor.
The actress that played Jennifer in part one had a conflict with scheduling because of another film she was working on. That is why she was replaced for parts two and three. Parts two and three were filmed at the same time.
Actress that played Jennifer was caring for a very sick mother when the 2nd started being filmed so she was unavailable.
They filmed parts 2 & 3 back to back, and released them 6 months apart.
It was a smart move. That way they could avoid actors being tied up doing other productions when they got ready to film.
@@timmooney7528 Yeah they also did the same thing with Childs Play 2 and 3 which proved to be less successful LOL!🤔🤨🙄🙆
You're doing a great job! I really enjoy your videos!! Happy New Year 🎉
0:59
"Is That The Same Girl?"
No, that's not Claudia Wells, who played Jennifer in the first "Back To The Future" movie.
That's actually Elizabeth Shue in the role of Jennifer, because Claudia Wells' mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and Claudia opted to take of her, thus the reason why Elizabeth Shue was cast as Jennifer
The 2015 in this film was not meant to predict anything. It was meant to be funny. I think it succeeds in that. 😉
Also, "We don't have flying cars; we have TikTok," is the funniest thing I've heard today.
Flying cars for TikTok? If that's the trade, we got scammed big time.
I recall the Cubs actually won the World Series around 2015, (update: actually, it was 2016)
After 108 years of not winning. For baseball fans in 1989 it was already infamous that the Cubs hadn't won in such a long time.
Watched those movies a million times and never realized it's the same girl. 😅
This trilogy is pure joy. So glad you're watching it.
Nice reaction....youll love the finale cant wait for you to watch that
There was originally no plan for a sequel, so the ending was just in fun. Had the success of the first movie been predicted, Jennifer would have been left in 1985. As it was, they had to create a small storyline for her, in order to make her coming along make sense.
I remember as a kid watching this when it first came out. I thought the ending, when Marty comes sprinting behind doc, was the coolest thing.
The Back to the Future trilogy is so well-connected it really could be one long movie.
It's always funny to see someone's vision of the future from the past. Flying cars seemed to be a common idea. It's quite far from reality, but if you look back at a certain point, they went from having a relatively primitive lifestyle, to having cars, and planes, and nuclear energy, and computers, and lasers, and television all in the time of an average lifespan. I'm sure when they envisioned the future, they thought the momentum wouldn't stop. Why wouldn't there be flying cars and hoverboards?
I think the flying cars thing in Back to the Future 2 was more just the fact that they’d already established it at the end of the first movie (and it was only supposed to be a goofy joke to end the movie on anyway, since they never intended to make sequels).
Some engineers, scientists and futurists claim that it would have been possible to have at least some level of hover vehicles built now but technology is much more controlled than people realize. If you look at the rate of advancement from WWII to the 80's and them to now it seems like technology was intentionally bottlenecked and hampered. We certainly have technology for comfort and convenience but not so much for personal/individual liberty. If you know about how mega corporations lobby government to control markets it starts to make sense than things would shift towards making everyone consumers. As well as the Invention Secrecy Act gives government the authority to "lock away" innovations that they consider threats to government power. An example of this is with 3D printing, in the 80's we had it at the level he had just a few years ago but a 30 year restriction was put on the patient so people couldn't innovate on that until just a few years ago.
This one of those rare trilogies where all 3 movies are good. Thanks.
I've seen a lot of predictions of how it will be around 30 years in the future, and there are two things that are almost always there. As far back as the 1920s or 1930s the predictions usually are that we have flying cars and cities on the moon. Crazy, right? And the saddest part is that we have had the technology to make it work since the 60s. Sure, the flying cars would be a nightmare to manage if everyone has one but the fuel costs would probably make it quite exclusive, and the moon colony would take an insane amount of work and resources.
AMANDA: "What if they just...kill him?!..."
ME: " HA HA HAAAAA!!!! ...ooohhh, poor little girl!...ha haaa!!
1 - I LOVE this movie because I just love how they subvert expectations. You think they're going to the future, and "fixing" Marty's future is going to be the point of the movie, but like 15 mins in it's fixed. Instead they go back to '55 and weave the story of 2 in and around 1. Brilliant.
2 - It's amazing how many people remark on how BttF 2 failed to predict the future. It's a movie, they weren't trying to predict the future, they were making a fun movie.
3 - Biff was based on donald trump. Because in the '80s and '90s, everybody knew he was a villain - the most obvious, stereotypical villain - and many movies actually made their villains thinly-veiled references to him (Time Cop, Super Mario Bros, BttF). Not to get political...
the 2015 bit always makes me nostalgic from89 onwards i wanted 2015 to be like that, but when it happened and we went past it
yes they filmed the second and third back to back so the third was done when the second came out
Awesome reaction of my favorite Back To The Future movie!!!!!😊😊😊😊
Hope you are still having fun watching and then editing these for us! I appreciate it at least...
It's a fun movie State surface level if you try to dig you miss the jokes about the weather service & lawyers. You'll be focusing on little inconsistencies
But is it so strange that they have that picture of 2015... just think how much technology has advanced since 1900 to 2000. In just one hundred years
Blade Runner also predicted flying cars in 2019, sadly we only have prototypes of those and not mass produced yet.
You are so amazing thank you for watching
I was about to type in 'Notice Frodo in the 'like a baby's toy.' scene...
Ohhh, a weekend double whammy!
Yes, that was Elijah Wood a/k/a Frodo.
You should watch and review the Mel Gibson movie "Forever Young" (1992), which was kind of a breakout role for Wood. He was about 10 at the time. After that movie, he started appearing in everything, including Super Bowl ads.
You don't have to be a millennial to feel this film has more heart ❤️ then some other new movies. Almost every reactor says the same thing.
It has been voted the best trilogy ever made!
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A good trilogy, but not in the same league as SW Episodes VII, VIII and IX! 😉😉
@@Stogie2112 South West? Soft Ware? Sub Woofer? ??
@@D-ragon-S …. Let’s go with Sub Woofers. They do it deeper. 😉
"I'm gonna stop you right there, Scott. Are you seriously telling me that your plan to save the universe is based on Back To The Future?"
-- Tony Stark
The second and third movies were filmed back to back.
Elizabeth shoe was huge in the 80s then she became a nurse then she went and saw a play and started acting again she's the executive woman in the boys
This is by far the bestest in trilogy. Lots more entertaining than bookending films.
Doc went back to January 1st 1885 as a result of the time circuits malfunctioning and the lightning strike was only the final blow.
The first movie originally had a "To Be Continued..." title card at the end, even though they didn't mean it. Then, after they made the decision to actually continue it, they took that title card off. But they put a "To Be Concluded" title card at the end of Part 2. Weird.
Re-creating all those 1955 scenes was a lot of work, but they did a great job.
Parts 2 and 3 were shot as one production. That's why you could have the preview at the end of Part 2, even in theatrical release. And they released Part 2 on VHS the same week that Part 3 came out in theaters. Yup, they did understand marketing.
Why would they remove the "To Be Continued" card once they decided to actually continue it? That doesn't make any sense at all. What version of the movie was it removed from? I saw the first movie in theater, I had it on vhs, saw it on tv back in the day, had the dvd and bluray. All versions had To Be Continued at the end.
You are right about the To Be Concluded part though.
@@mattschliemann9683 It makes no sense, but that's the deal. I remember the "To Be Continued" in theatrical release. Everyone does. I think it was on early VHS releases, too. I no longer have my VHS copies of the series. But I do have a DVD three-pack that I bought in 2008 or so. I just now rechecked the end of Part 1, and the title card is not there. It goes straight from the flying DeLorean shot to the rollups.
The 'To be continued' was not at the end of the theatrical release of Part 1. Part 2 had a 'To be concluded ' and Part 3 had 'The End'
Part of the joke with all the super futuristic stuff is that it's a callback to 1950s science fiction. Early SF was basically fantasy in space. Kids in robot suits defending the moon base from aliens in the 1980s. Flying cars, universal digital money & ID, instant food, all this was common in old SF. With the BTTF series so invested in the year 1955, they're just showing a 1950s/60s idea of the future. It highlights one of the fundamental themes of the films that life is cyclical.
@15:25 "I stiff can't believe he's named Biff." -- Biff was originally a nickname; it's an old English word for "a fast punch". It started becoming more common as a given name around 1900. Pretty uncommon today.
They didn't originally plan any sequels. I was actually pretty surprised when they first announced the sequels 5 years later and that they were filming them back to back.
Back to back was a pretty cool concept to me at the time and thirst time I had ever heard of two movies being filmed on purpose so quickly like that. Didn't hurt they also said they'd be released like 6 months apart.
Since then there's been a few movies filmed this way. The two matrix sequels for example. It's a good way to avoid any schedule conflicts with the actors or even deaths, tho the matrix did have one real life actor death to deal with while making their two sequels.
The Salkinds are famous for this. They made The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers at the same time ( 1973 and 1974 ). The actors sued and 'The Salkind Clause' was born. They did the same thing with Superman and most of Superman II. But then Richard Donner was fired and Richard Lester made a different movie. Brando didn't come back, and Gene Hackman refused to shoot new footage.
As a kid, who grew up in the 80's... we kinda did think we'd have flying cars in 2015 lol... oddly enough there have been some advances movies like this thought we'd have that have come around and some are even MORE advanced than what the movie or show thought we'd have (things like our ipads and laptops are far smaller and thinner and stronger than the data pads in Star Trek is one such example).
I guess i can see that from a kid's point of view. I grew up in the 70's, and was an 80's teen (18 the summer BTTF 1 came out). I don't think I could honestly say that I'd ever see a flying car in my life, let alone 30 years away.
In Doctor Who terminology returning to your proper time in the future by living through the years is taking the long way back. See also the movie Final Countdown.
Jennifer from Part 1 was recast for Parts 2 and 3 because the original actresses had real life to deal with instead of reprising.
The difference between movie 2015 and our 2015 is due to skipping the events at Yoyodyne Propulsion (The Future Begins Tomorrow) on an alternate timeline.
@27:41...when you accidentally hit your own head and near knock yourself out
speaking to a trilogy connecting, Star wars 4-5-6 is another great one
18:50 Where is the Marty of this timeline? My theory is that Marty routinely runs away from his Switzerland boarding school and sneaks to Doc's hideaway. Doc Brown has escaped from the insane asylum, or maybe has had his committal order overturned as he's not a danger to himself or others. So this is Marty, and the time ripple hasn't caught up with him.
30:00 "Burn it!" Notice that the newspapers don't change until he burns the almanac. As long as it exists, *someone* is going to devastate the world.
In 1955 there were no artificial satellites, no astronauts, no supersonic passenger planes, hardly any computers, no household microwave ovens, no color TV. By 1989 when Part II came out all those things existed. For flying cars, inventors were still raising investment funds or taking down-payments from people eager to buy one. It seemed like flying cars would be achieved and 2015 seemed a plausible year for it.
I remember reading something some 10-20 years ago about some car-sized / car-shaped VTOL craft that was being developed. (I forget who was making it.) There would've been some pretty big obstacles blocking it from widespread use like BttF2 depicted, though. Would've needed a specialized license for it similar to what's needed for helicopter or airplane pilots. Would've needed new laws on the books that addressed that type of vehicle since it wouldn't quite fall under existing laws. Never saw any mention of the project again after I first read about it.
* VTOL = "vertical takeoff and landing". Some small fighter jet type planes already had this (plus it's what helicopters do as well, obviously) but the "flying car" design was trying to make the tech quieter and more compact.
You're right there was no CGI in the 80s when they made part 1 and part 2 and part 3 they had to use mechanical effects. Which is what movies used before CGI before computers they use mechanical effects to create the delusion of certain impossible things. The hoverboards for example it was actors hanging on wires and they were able to photo crop the wires out to make it look like they were flying versus now you could just use CGI. Also we do have self-lacing shoes they came out in 2015 actually and the Cubs did win the World series in 2016 so they were just one year off on that some of the stuff they did get right.
You might also recognize Marty McFly's antagonist, Douglas J. Needles, as Flea, the bassist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers.
We love you Amanda
Power Laces exists, create in "2015" from Nike. Air MAG Power Laces.
the faces n the tv's a lot of people miss it , it was a reference to a tv series called max headroom, with virtual personalities, they just changed it to servers in shops. the eye glasses we had something like google glasses it was part AR,
Amanda is hooked! She has time travel in her blood now! 👍👍
I didn't get my first flying car until 2018. :(
The weird robotic celebrity images on TV were an homage to Max Headroom (1985).
Wait! Those are a thing now?!
So the reason to .ake the time machine a delorian was they could use the gull wing door one time in the sequel to knock out old biff, the original idea for the time machine was a refrigerator but they didn't want anyone getting trapped in a refrigerator trying to replicate this
Absolutely no idea that a sequel was even going to occur even at the end of the filming of part 1, so not a reason to select the DeLorean.
Great Reaction
I like the way you say "Biff". It's like you're really pronouncing the double-F.
Great reaction. Merci
2015 owes by brother a real hoverboard.
Watching a reaction video that was filmed recently, to a time travel movie, where they travel to the future that is our past, after having watched a different reaction video about the same time travel story, that was released two years ago but was filmed earlier for Twitch viewers, is intensely confusing in terms of all the different points in time I've been keeping in my head and I now regret watching the reactions on two times speed because my brain is so confused!!!
Back to the future 2 best sequel ever made ❤
Parts 2 and 3 were filmed back-to-back, so Part 3 was already being made when Part 2 as released in theaters. I wish someone had told you to turn off this movie when the "TO BE CONCLUDED" text appears, because the teaser for Part 3 spoils a little too much about the movie.
I didn't care for those in the theater. But i also didn't care for finding out that they were making me pay twice to see a whole movie. 😂
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"You Mean That By The Time They'd Done The 2nd Part, They Already Did The 3rd One?"
Actually Amanda, they'd did like Peter Jackson did with "The Lord Of The Rings" trilogy and filmed parts 2 and 3 simultaneously
They did the 3rd one at the same time of the 2nd one because since they were going through time they needed to ensure Marty still looked young enough to be believable to certain time lines.
You call them connections but other people call them Easter eggs are littered throughout these movies connecting one another
We are more advanced but the technology has been supressed, it comes out in trickles rather than revolutionary..
" lets.. ROLL IT!! " you are so cute and so fun!! Lets doooo this again 👊🏻🫠 also, Beef was indeed a Drumpf knockoff, yet somehow not cartoonishly evil enough, with that alternate reality still alive and kicking for millions of his cult in America still, TODAY!! 😢