Notice at the beginning of the movie it says the "Twin Pines Mall" but at the end it says the "Lone Pine Mall" because Marty accidently took out one of the pine trees at that guy's farm with the DeLorean in 1955
Here's one that took my FOREVER to get: Remember, there are no throwaway lines in the movie, everything pays off later. Remember when Doc said he was allergic to all synthetics? Synthetic fabrics were popular in the 50s, but Doc couldn't wead them. When he drops the plug on the clock tower, it snags on his wool pants, it wouldn't have done that on nylon or polyester. 😂
Yeah. One fun thing on rewatch is seeing subtle changes. Like the ledge under the clock tower becomes damaged. It wasn't before. The theater was showing a... racy 70s film. On return, its a church. (Fun side fact: the actor playing the bum had a long career doing character actor work... and had appeared in that racy film.)
Here is a FUN FACT: At the beginning of the movie, when Marty and his band are auditioning for the music committee in charge of choosing a band for the high school dance, the guy with the bullhorn who stops them and says “Sorry guys, but you’re just too darn loud” - that guy is HUEY LEWIS from the band HUEY LEWIS and THE NEWS. He sang the movie’s title song “Power of Love” which became a huge hit and was written by Huey Lewis himself, specifically for this movie. Huey Lewis and The News was a HUGELY popular band back in the 80s and had a lot of hit songs. Huey Lewis was a very familiar face from his own music videos seen on MTV. He was also in the famous “U.S.A. for Africa - We Are the World” music video with Michael Jackson and other legendary singers (he is the #17 singer in the video and comes in at 2: 48, right between Michael Jackson and Cyndi Lauper). Back when the movie opened in theatres in 1985, he was immediately recognized by movie goers - there was a collective laugh in the audience when he was seen as a character dressed up in that geeky plaid coat and tie, and with an unusual hairstyle, listening to Marty McFly and his band “The Pinheads” do a cover of his own song 😂 😂 😂
Yep also his song "I wanna new drug" was ripped off and the melody used for the hit theme for another HUGE 80s film: Ghostbusters. He sued the studio and later settled out of court with them for a reportedly HUGE but undisclosed amount.
@@dtnetlurker You now got me humming to myself "Ghostbusters!" & I wanna new drug in my head LOL Never knew there was a case regarding the theme song for Ghostbusters.
And today Huey Lewis suffers from hearing loss, and has to record on "good days" when he can hear himself. Sort of a sad bit of foreshadowing for him in this movie.
Thomas Wilson, the actor who played Biff is a standup comedian with a reputation for being an exceptionally nice, kind guy. He based his performance off of things he experienced being bullied himself when he was younger.
This film is held by many film colleges to be a model screenplay. There are no unintentional loose ends, it's engaging and fun, the acting is without flaw, and the sets, SFX and score are exceptional for the time and hold up well today. I saw this in the theater in 1985 as a 5yr old and it sparked an incredible amount of imagination. It seemed like an eternity to a young me for the sequels even though it was only four years. Fantastic film.
The movie was screened at the White House for President Reagan. When Marty tells Doc that Reagan is POTUS in 1985, and Doc asks if Jerry Lewis is VP, and Jack Benny is Treasury Secretary, Reagan burst out laughing and made the projectionist wind it back. He later used the line "where we're going we don't need roads" in the State of the Union.
“Can you imagine going back in time and meeting your dad?” That’s pretty much the thought that inspired the movie. Writer Bob Gale came across his father’s high school yearbook and wondered if they’d have been friends had they been the same age.
So the funny bit is that Marty's Band "The Pinheads" is playing the Power of Love by Huey Lewis and The News which is on the Soundtrack and the judge is none other than Huey Lewis himself. "I'm sorry...your just too darn loud!". Lol 😂 This movie is a masterclass on writing a really great screenplay. Movie writing 101
flightmile9809 I’m willing to bet that Vkunia didn’t know it, and she asked for fun facts about the movie. Strangely, nobody considers whether “flightmile9809” knows something before they post a comment about it. I wonder why?
SPOILER ALERT >>>>> As complex and detailed as every element of this trilogy is its astonishing that there are so few elements that had to be protected by plot armor. Every element of the trilogy could have played out exactly as presented (although the millisecond timing of Marty hitting the wire exactly with the lightning strike is pretty unlikely). The only true holes I have ever found are that Doc had some viable alternatives for no fuel in 1885 but time was not on their side so the plot as told in the film works. The most common online question I see that is the hardest to explain is how Doc made a new time machine out of a locomotive sometime in the late 1880's to 1890s where he would have had to build a new Mr. Fusion along with a new time control system and flux capacitor. The assumption is he made it using the parts from the hoverboard along with available Victorian era technology including one Baldwin Sierra 4-6-0 locomotive.
I have a very personal connection with this movie, which also happens to be a very fond & funny memory. Back in 1985, I was living in Hawaii, and about 4,800 miles from my parents. We only saw each other about once every few years, so in 1985, my mom came to visit, so we decided to re-connect by going out on the town . . . yes, I suppose you would say it was like a date - LOL. We stopped and ate at a 50s-style burger joint(malt shoppe), then walked to the movie theatre nearby to see Back To The Future . . . and yes, we watched the scenes with Marty's Mom putting the moves on Marty, but neither one of us was creeped-out in the least, even despite the added fact that Mom & I were sitting there next to each other, on what some might perceive as being a date. Actually, since losing my Mom in 2011, after having taken care of her in her declining years; the night out we had together, and this movie, will forever be in my fondest memories.
Fun Fact; The band leaders name was Marvin Berry. When Marty was playing 'Johnny B Goode' at the dance, Marvin is seen backstage calling his cousin Chuck (Berry) about 'the new sound you were looking for' and he holds the phone out, the joke is that the song was actually written and recorded by the real Chuck Berry, the song was a huge hit. Still is.
And was sent to the stars on the Voyager 1& 2 golden records as a "sound of Earth". Supposedly when the Hubble Space Telescope took its first clear look into deep space they saw a sign that said "Send more Chuck Berry". :D
Historical fun fact: When President Reagan heard that they were jokes about him in the movie, he insisted upon seeing it. He loved the film, and reportedly laughed so hard at the jokes that he actually had the projector operator back up the film, because he missed some of the dialogue. The final line, “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads,” was actually quoted by President Reagan in a speech to Congress, discussing the drive towards future technology.
Biff ( Thomas wilson) was actually a nerd in school and played in the band. He didn't get his height until late in his high-school years. I couldn't find the exact year he said in an interview I heard years ago. The other fact is that Thomas kept apologizing to Lea Thompson during the car scene. She had to tell him it's fine we are actors acting out a scene. It just showed that he is a true gentleman.
@@Uriahjw I have a copy of his comedy special. The guy's a riot. He also paints on a professional level, usually of bits of Americana, like Rockem-sockem robots, spinning tops, etc. One of the people I'd love to meet, if only to have him sign an autograph as 'Maniac' from Wing Commander.
I saw this movie with a girlfriend in 1985. She worked at the theater and we arrived late - getting to seats as Marty arrived in 1955 on the farm. We watched the rest of the movie and then sat through the beginning of the next showing up to where we came in... the movie still made sense LOL This movie is taught as a "perfect" movie script - there is nothing wasted. Every line, everything you see has a payoff later in the movie. It also is unique in movies as it attempts - and succeeds in having three satisfying climaxes - the build-up to George decking Biff, the connection between his parents at the dance, and getting Marty back to 1985 and saving Doc.
Excellent reaction. You picked up on so much foreshadowing. A couple of my favorite Easter eggs; The Rocky & Bullwinkle show featured a character named Mr. Peabody, who was a time traveling dog (like Einstein) with a pet boy named Sherman. Here, Old man Peabody's son was named Sherman, which was revealed only in the closing credits. My favorite is that the first switch Marty threw on Doc Brown's guitar amp was labeled CRM 114. That was the designation of the radio discriminator on the B-52 in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film, "Dr. Strangelove." CRM 114 made appearances in other Kubrick films, as well as other films and TV shows.
I like to think about Doc's point of view in this movie - he slips, hits his head, comes up with the Flux capacitor, then a few hours later a kid shows up saying he's from the future with the time machine Doc invented.
@@kiillabytez *"That's not only dumb, it's kinda dark, not your typical Steven Spielberg plot device"* This is the same movie where Lorraine gets hit and almost raped by Biff. The same movie where Doc steals Plutonium from Libyan terrorists and gets assassinated on-screen for it. Part of the same series where Biff murders George and forces Lorraine into marriage with him, before almost killing Marty. The same series where Mad Dog Tannen almost hangs Marty publicly.
@@kiillabytez In the original timeline, George was in the car with Lorraine and Biff pulled him out. Without Marty's help, George didn't have the courage to stop Biff. Dark would be if Marty had a second older brother that stopped existing after he returned from 1955.
RE: Doc's house burning down. Using that fire extinguisher on the flaming rags after the demonstration exhausted it. He never recharged it. So when his time experiments ("mysterious circumstances") caused a fire, he had no way of putting it out quickly. This led to him selling everything but the garage to fund his further experiments. Also, I can't believe I haven't seen anyone else mention it, but Doc and Marty are the direct inspirations for Rick and Morty.
I’ve always had a similar theory that the reason Doc’s gun had no ammo when he tried to shoot the Libyans is because he fired all the ammo into the air in Part 3 when sending Marty back to 1885, and he never bothered to reload it.
@@doughall2932 I'd say that theory is a bit of a stretch simply because it's generally a bad idea to leave a gun loaded for an extended period if it's not being used.
Huey Lewis was asked by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale to write a song for the film. However, the two Bobs were not thrilled with the first song Huey brought back to them. After explaining what they were hoping for, Huey came back with "The Power of Love". He was then told they needed one more song, and so, upon viewing a cut of the film, Huey got the inspiration for "Back in Time". Huey Lewis got a cameo as he was the guy with the megaphone at the start saying "Too darn loud".
"Another one of these damn kids fell outta the tree" implies that Marty's mom has a habit of changing clothes in front of the window, probably intentionally because she is a lot freakier than she lets on in the beginning of the movie.
She said she's no stranger to "parking" with boys nor drinking and smoking as well. Changing in front of her window may just well be her seeing who's interested. Although it's implied that Biff did push himself on her in the orginal timeline and she realized that she didn't want that to ever happen again so that's why she's so against such promiscuous behavior as an adult.
One other thing most people don't notice is that the clock tower has a lightning rod which should have protected it. The clock is damaged because Doc needs to slide down the cable, so he loops it over the hand of the clock, stopping the clock when the rod is struck by lightning. And another little one is that after the cop asks Doc about a permit, you see Doc in the background looking in his wallet for a bill to give the cop.
I also think that we see Doc just about to plug in the connection as the lightening strikes. He would be fried if he was anywhere NEAR that cable, much less about to connect it, because the path of least restriction is through him, not into the flux capacitor.
One of my favorite parts of this movie is the line "If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything." It was originally Doc's mantra which he instilled in Marty and Marty passes it along to his teenage father to boost his confidence and change the course of his parents' lives.
There's a reason this movie is studied in film schools across the world. This is universally hailed as one of the TIGHTEST scripts of all time--there is almost NOTHING in it that doesn't have purpose, whether it be for plot, characterization, or a simple visual gag.
There's a sub-plot that they never make explicit: George is left-handed. There was a time when left-handed kids were forced to use their right hands, and that lasted into the 70s and 80s for some schools and homes (probably still happens today in isolated communities). Part of the reason George is so awkward is that he's one of those kids. His big moment, the key event that changed his future and the timeline overall, was when is right arm was being twisted, forcing him to deck Biff with his left. The way he looked at his hand, it wasn't just coz he flattened a bully, it was coz he was deciding to stop pretending to be something he's not.
Oh man I never considered that but i always did think that it was pretty crazy he hit biff so hard that he spun around. I always thought “man I couldn’t do that with my left arm” but this explains a whole lot.
I love this! I remember at school when I was about 9 or 10, we spent a day experiencing life as Victorian schoolchildren. Those of us who were lefties were forced to write with our right hands, and were told that left-handedness was a sign of the devil. One of the girls couldn’t do it, no matter how hard she tried. Whenever you try to curb someone’s nature, it never ends well.
When you said, "can you imagine meeting your parents," that was the literal Genesis of the movie. Bob Gale saw his dad's yearbook and wondered if he would like his father as a teenager.
The two key people, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, have both reiterated that there will never ever be a remake or retelling of the three films for as long as they're alive as they will block any attempts or proposals of such a thing. Which is great on them as the trilogy is pretty much perfect. Fun fact, the sequels were actually never planned, this first film was meant to be a one and done standalone film, and the ending was meant to be a joke, not a tie in to a sequel which is how it ended up being!
Yep, and the Bobs have discussed how they wouldn't have had Jennifer in the car at the end had they known they'd have to account for her in future stories.
My first film taking a girl to the cinema on a date. Late 1985 at 13 years old. She was a beauty. Plucked up the courage to ask her. 'If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything. '
The people who made this film were, many of them, young in the 50s, and there are many jokes that almost no one gets now, because the many details of the 50s have been forgotten. The song that you hear when Marty arrives in town is "Mr. Sandman, Bring Me A Dream," by the Andrews Sisters. 1955 was the last year of "pre-rock and roll" popular music, which really arrived in 1956, with Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, etc. When Marty arrives in town, we see a Texaco station. A car pulls up and half a dozen attendants rush out and start working on the car. In 1955, you did not pump your own gas. An attendant would come out, start pumping gas, clean your windshield and ask you if you wanted him to check the oil and tires. This scene got a huge laugh when the film first came out, but of course no one gets it now. TVs were enormously expensive in 1955, and most people did not have them. There were no reruns. Many programs were broadcast live and no copies were made. People did not wear the sort of vests that Marty is wearing when goes into the soda shop. The guy behind the counter assumes that it's a life preserver of some sort.
Best rwaction ever 😊 MJF came to the restaurant where I worked. It was a lush place called the Inn at Shelburne Farms with a rustic dining room looking out over Lake Champlain. He and his wife sat at Table 5 next to the window doors that overlooked the lake. I remember they had a rosë with dinner that his wife Tracy ordered. They were both very relaxed, very cool, very amiable. It was a sweet summer evening. They watched the sun set behind the Adirondacks. 3 years later I was working at Universal Studios in Florida and our restaurant was the location of the Back to the Future III premiere party and in walks MJF, catches me behind a small mobile bar and goes, "Hey, uh..." snapping his fingers trying to remember my name then just went, "Shelburne!" I just let out one of those happy hahahas with a big grin on my face. He had a great memory that exuded real warmth. I shook his hand and said, "Robert " He said, "That's it!"
I had a similar experience with my favorite guitar player ever, Jimmy Herring. Though not nearly as famous as many musicians, he is nonetheless as genuine and down to earth as one could possibly be. He recognized me sitting at one of his shows 12 YEARS after we had had a ten minute conversation at a music convention. Sometimes people are just people, and are not spoiled by their fame or accolades. It’s refreshing.
Fun fact: when this movie was made, Zemeckis had no intention of doing any sequels. The ending, with the car flying off into the future, was meant to be one final joke with no foreshadowing. But because of the unexpected success of the film, a sequel was put into production. The material got too lengthy for one movie, so it was broken into two parts, which were filmed back to back. Spoiler: the actress who played Jennifer was not available for the sequels, so she had to be recast. George McFly as well. Anyway, you should just jump right into parts 2 and 3. You won’t be disappointed.
Warning, if you plan to watch the other two movies and don't want spoilers, make sure to stop the second movie right after the "to be concluded" at the end, as right after the screen goes black it goes into a preview of the third movie. If you're not bothered about spoilers then it's cool to let it run, but just warning in case you prefer to go into part 3 with only the knowledge from part 2, they kind of spring it on you unexpectedly.
It isn't a spoiler of any kind, it just a standard movie preview and it was part of the movie when it was in theaters. The only thing it kind of gives away i when the movie takes place which you already know from things in the second movie (you literally see the date on the readout in the car twice)
Exactly. The way everybody watching the movie for the first time have always seen it for the first time. I can appreciate the logic that just maybe a reaction video recorder might consider refraining from watching it, but it's like not seeing the complete movie. That is a part of the actual movie.
@@anderspemer358 True it's not a major spoiler, it's just I know at least one reactor that did the same. Not a big deal, just notifying people of the option. Personally I never saw it as a kid cause the versions I watched were VHS home recordings.
Looking back in it now I glad that Disney rejected it and I think many of you can agree with me. If they had the rights to the Back to Future franchise they would probably make endless films and Disney Plus shows that would go woke and ruin the legacy of trilogy like they did with Star Wars.
I remember when my Dad rented this masterpiece nearly 40 years ago. This film blew me away and every time I watch it, which is pretty much annually, I fall in love all over again.
There are lots of fun facts about this one, I'm writing some that I didn't read on the comments yet: - When this movie was shot there was no intention to make continuations, but it was so successful that the studio executives asked for more. That created some problems for the writers, as that ending was intended just as a joke, but they were able to solve that brilliantly on the sequences; - Speaking about the sequences, parts 2 and 3 were shot at the same time, so you will have to keep a close eye on some clues that happen on film 2 that will only payoff on film 3; - Claudia Wells, the actress that played Jennifer Parker on this movie, declined to return to the role on the sequences due to her mother's illness at the time. She was replaced by Elisabeth Shue, the very same from Karate Kid and The Boys; - And speaking about actor's changes, Robert Zemeckis originally wanted Michael J. Fox for the role, but Michael had a very busy schedule due to the sitcom he was part at the time, Family Ties, so they hired Eric Stoltz to play Marty. However, Eric saw the movie as a tragedy (and if you read his reasoning it kinda makes sense) and played the role that way. It didn't worked so he was fired and Michael J. Fox ended up in the role as originally intended. However, due to his TV schedule for a period of time he only had the night time available for shootings, which explains why there are so many night scenes on the movie. It was so tight that he literally had to sleep while traveling to the locations, at some points his staff had to carry him while he was sleeping; - At the end of part 2 there will be a screen legend saying "To be concluded". STOP WATCHING THE MOVIE AT THAT POINT, or you'll be spoiled with scenes from part 3. You have been warned.
Thanks. You beat me to most of these. For me, this movie is one of the few "complete" movies, where it's hard to "add" anything to it, to make it "better"
@@vinnycordeiro very true minion novel has actually been penned and many ream of paper has been printed about the making of this movie. Like I said in my opinion it should be considered one of those rare perfect movies
And because Eric Stoltz is considerably taller than Michael J Fox, they had to recast Claudia Wells as Jennifer Parker because the original actress was much taller than Michael J Fox.
There was a saying in the 80s, "If it's too loud, you're too old". (Many of the older generation thought rock was just loud noise.) When I saw this in theaters, that's what I assumed the judges were referencing by telling Marty he was too darn loud.
The teacher with the megaphone is Huey Lewis who wrote and sang the title song "Back in Time" and "Power of Love" with his band Huey Lewis and the News.
I would normally agree until I went to a concert last year with a friend and it really messed up our hearing. It took a good 24 hours to sound normal again.
@@jasonondik6003 Plus it's a double reference - the version Marty plays in that audition has guitar soloing very much in the style of Marty's hero Eddie Van Halen which is NOT in the original. So not only is Lewis' role a meta reference to the fact that he's the original artist, "you're just too darn loud" is also a tongue-in-cheek critique of this version of the song. Layers upon layers. Such a brilliant script.
This is by far one of my favorite BTTF reactions ever. And I've seen over a hundred of them. Back to the Future being my favorite movie of all time, you spotter SO many hints and plot points. Not many do. You questioning how it would be to meet your parents when they were your age: that's EXACTLY what the writer motivated after looking through some old family albums. I'm definitely watching your reaction to the next two 😅
I think that might be a case of naming their first son George David McFly, Jr. but the older son not wanting to be called Junior goes by his middle name instead. I'm just guessing here.
@@anderspemer358 That wouldn't work without recasting the actor playing Dave. Since they'll want to keep Marty in high school and the actor who played Dave way too old looking to be plausible as a high school underclassman if not younger.
Okay, my fun fact… V, you mentioned Doc Brown’s house burning down? Well, he says at one point that it took his entire family fortune to realise his vision… and it took a little extra too! The clues are all given in the opening shot in the newspaper cuttings, with the story being that his house burned down in “mysterious circumstances,” and the implication is that he did it himself to get the insurance money. He then sold off the Brown estate to real estate developers and just kept his garage to live in. This is why his garage is surrounded by a strip mall in 1985! The amount of though that Zemeckis and Gale put into this movie and how it all tied together is astounding! And V is right - they simply don’t make ‘em like this anymore. Nowadays big movies cost so much to make that studios can’t take a risk on them unless they’re pre sold, but BttF was never written with a built-in audience in mind. It wasn’t the result of market research or based on an recognisable IP - it was simply a story that they wanted to tell, and the were given the freedom to tell it. I think that is why so many movies from the 80s are so loved: sure, they’re made to make money, but they also have voices of their own. Ghostbuster, Goonies, Bill & Ted, BTTF, Robocop, Germlins, ET - they’re popular because they’re good, and they respect their audiences, and they often put fun ahead of logic! Don’t waste time on endless exposition or worry about connecting every dot, just have fun!
fun fact: if you pay attention to the mall's name at the beginning it's named "Twin Pine Mall" but when Marty goes back to the future, it's now named "Lone Pine Mall" since Marty ran over one in the past
Yeah, there's a pretty funny video that tries to argue that BTTF was predictive programming they actually do a pretty good job on finding things that aren't really there and then acting like omg totally there. But if you dig at all you see they intended it as a satire.
It took me many viewings to put it together, but the reason Marty's grandfather says "ANOTHER one of these damn kids jumped in front of my car" is an allusion to Lorraine being somewhat locally notorious for undressing in front of her open window. So George is a peeping Tom and she's an exhibitionist. Complementary kinks - they really were made for each other! Great reaction!
Please can we forget that part. If you ever saw "The Adventures of Doc and Mharti" than evolved into Rick and Morty... ew. Plus Roiland has messaged minors and said weird stuff about how in some realities Rick & Morty are in a relationship with each other. He's a weirdo.
the song he played at the dance, was called jonny b good by check berry. the guitar player from the band in the movie is named marvin berry. so the scene hes calling his cousin. hes calling chuck berry to let him hear this new sound. jonny b good came out in 1958 and definitely ahead of its time and an instant classic, which is why you hear it in alot of movies.
No matter how many times you watch this (these) movies, you will always catch something new that you didn't see before. The "Twin Pines Mall" was one I didn't see for years and one day it just clicked. I love these moves and cannot wait for you to watch number 2.
Perhaps already mentioned: The Twin Pines Mall was renamed after one tree was destroyed on the pineyard. At the end of the movie, when Marty returned, it was called the Lone Pine Mall.
Fun Fact: The drunk man on the bench (Red the Bum) that says "Crazy drunk drivers" after Marty crashes into the movie theatre is played by George Buck Flowers. He was in many classic movies and often ended up cast as the drunk or homeless man because of his rough appearance giving him somewhat of a reputation as the stereotypical movie bum. His movie credits are extensive however, ranging from comedies to westerns to action movies to adult films. In the shot of the movie theatre you can see the title of the movie playing is "Orgy American Style" which is a movie in which George Flowers played a character named Buck La Fleur. He also reprises his role in Back to the Future 2 where he calls Marty a "Crazy drunk pedestrian."
It's awesome that you finally watched this! And yes, it's STILL epic after all this time! So, fun facts. The guy that tells Marty and his band that he's too loud, is Huey Lewis, leader of the band Huey Lewis and the News, the band that did the songs for the sound track. And as far as what happened to Doc's family mansion, in addition to the newspaper clipping of the mansion burning down, there was a clipping next to it about how the property was sold to developers. In an interview Robert Zemeckis, one of the writers and also the director, said that basically Doc needed some serious cash to fund building his time machine, so he burned down the house, collected the insurance, then sold everything but the garage, which was his lab. Disney was originally interested in this, but when they read about the incest between Marty and his mom, they were like, nope, I don't think so! There is also a big group of car people that do their best to build perfect replicas of the DeLorean Time Machine. The best of them rebuilt the one that is currently on display at Universal Studios. This was originally a stand alone movie, but it was such a success, and they left an opening for further developments, that they decided to make it a trilogy. The next two were filmed back to back, to maintain continuity.
Fun Fact: If you visit Universal Studios Hollywood (their LA studio), you can do a studio tour and see the Courthouse Square film set from the Back to the Future films. That studio set displays the town square and includes both the iconic clock tower and its surroundings. You can also see the signs for Lyon Estates (the neighborhood where Marty and his family lives in the films). (I just so happened to have visited Universal Studios Hollywood and got to see those sets in person, which was quite nice as a fan of the Back to the Future films).
Michael J. Fox was already a tv star on Family Ties and when he got this role he had to do both jobs at the same time. Someone would drive him between sets and he would have to sleep in the car in order to film them both.
I was 7 when this movie came out. I can't underestimate what a cultural phenomenon it was. For Christmas that year, I got a Back to the Future skateboard. It had the most 80s graphics you could imagine. Wish I still had that thing (and many other things), I was tough on my toys.
You're going to love the second and third movies. Its pretty incredibly how tightly woven the three are, despite the fact that there were never really plans to make any sequels, though they did film the second and third movies concurrently.
So tightly woven that, even after many watches over many years, I had no idea that the intro to Part 2 was an almost complete reshoot of the outro of Part 1. It's basically a shot-for-shot remake with the new actress.
This is one of the greatest films of all time. I don't really know how many times I've seen it (a film in three parts🙂) but at least 15 times. Every time you find something new, a little thing you didn't notice. This film is a masterclass in filmmaking and scriptwriting. If I remember correctly, they started filming with a different actor, because Michael J.Fox was bound up with Family Ties. So he worked in the day at the series and in the night on Back to the Future. Talk about dedication.
Fun fact: one of the producers didn’t want to call it Back To The Future and instead thought it should be called The Man From Pluto. His mind was changed when Zemeckis asked Steven Spielberg to help change his mind and Spielberg called him and said “BACK TO THE FUTURE! What a great title you came up with!” 😂
Not quite. Producer Sid Sheinberg sent Zameckis a note telling him to change the title to "Spaceman from Pluto". Spielberg shut down the idea by responding to Sheinberg that it was a great joke, and the whole crew got a big laugh out of it. Sheinberg never brought it up again.
I think this is quite probably the most rewatchable movie series in my lifetime. In high school, I was in JROTC, which meant weekly uniform maintenance, including ironing the shirt after it came out of the laundry, and you would not suspect just how time consuming that can be. So I would put on a movie to get me through it, and in that fashion, I rewatched my way through this trilogy over and over again. It _doesn't_ get old.
Fun Facts: - the DeLorean became a ccult classic because of this movie, it had a bad reputation as a car specially with realiability, which is used for comedic relief with the car engine stalling a couple times - in the final performance in the dance, Marty plays a song by Chuck Berry and the vocalist character named Marvin Berry calls his cousin Chuck to tell him to listen to the song for inspiration - the Twin Pine mall from the beginning was renamed to reflect there was only one pine tree, because Marty ran over it while escaping the farm - Marty scares George by saying his name is Darth Vader in 1955, before star wars was released, otherwise George would suspect as a SciFi nerd - the date in the future of 2015 was awaited and celebrated in scifi conferences in many countries, growing up i had friends remembering to get in touch around that time and check what the movie got right or wrong - Back to the Future had a cartoon adaptation placed after the third movie which may be fun to watch depending on occasion - Doc being in a hurry at the end of the movie is pointless, since he has a freaking time machine and about 30 years to prevent whatever made him worried hahaha
Vkunia - so, Docs time machine runs on conventional GAS but the Time Circuits need high voltage Power. the car still would have to reach 88 mph before the Time Circuits even work.
LOL! The judge who said their band was too darn loud was Huey Lewis, the lead singer for the band who wrote and recorded the song Marty's band was playing and who did all of the rock songs on the soundtrack.
The actors playing George, Lorraine and Biff were all young, so their 1955 look was their own and they had ageing-up makeup to make them look older for the 1985 scenes. So did Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown; I was horrified a few weeks back when I realised I'm now older than Lloyd was when this was filmed!
Back to the Future might be one of, if not my favourite, film trilogies. Each film is like a new adventure. But this original film really felt perfect. Like, even almost four decades later, everything about it feels fresh and exciting, and the plot keeps moving along at a good pace. Doc and Marty are such a fun pairing! It's always one of those films that I keep coming back to.
These were the kind of films that made the 80’s such a fun decade for movies. I’m so glad to have watched this back in 85 at the ripe age of 16, also that a younger generation is now enjoying these fun classic films. Glad you liked it, two more to go.
*_It was never explained in the movies, but in a prequel comic book it was confirmed that Marty met Doc Brown when he was around 14 after hearing that Brown was a dangerous lunatic. Marty was curious, so he snuck into Doc's lab and was fascinated by his inventions._*
There was also a game released more recently which a “long play” playthrough can be found on TH-cam, which the player and uploaded edited into two videos - dubbing them “part 4” and “part 5” Quite well done and worth a look
V! The guy who said the band was too darn loud was Huey Lewis, who with his band, The News, played that exact song in their worldwide concerts, playing too darn loud. The music on the radio that woke up Marty was also from him, as was the music playing in the background while Marty was hitching rides on the backs of cars. :) Inside joke from the director! By the way, people always key in on Spielberg's name at the opening credits, but this was a Robert Zemekis film. He also directed "Contact" and "Forest Gump."
The Hill Valley "town" with the clock tower is the same "town" from Gremlins, they built the set and reused it, but with a winter theme and decorations.
That town square set can be seen at Universal Studios, and has been used in probably hundreds of movies and tv shows. They change a few details here and there, but it's the same location.
16:56 something I recently realized about this scene, his helmet did work. When he got was "donations" he guessed coast guard because of what Marty's wearing, but it was actually the donations for the clock tower
This is the most nostalgic movie of the 80s and one of the best trilogies of all time. Rick and Morty was originally named Doc and Marty. The guy who tells Marty his band is too loud is Huey Lewis from Huey Lewis and the news. The song deemed to loud is The Power of Love written by Huey Lewis. His biggest hit song and the theme song to the first movie. Just love how they threw that in. Younger people normally miss this reference. Just wait till you get to the future. They did not predict everything in 2015, but there are many things that they got right or very close.
Please can we forget that part about Rick & Morty? If you ever saw "The Adventures of Doc and Mharti" that evolved into Rick and Morty... ew. Plus Roiland has messaged minors and said weird stuff about how in some realities Rick & Morty are in a relationship with each other. He's a weirdo.
Fun fact: Eric Stoltz was originally cast as Marty. The way he played Marty, all serious and all, didn’t please the director, so he was fired and recast with Michael J. Fox, requiring them to reshoot damn near the entire movie.
I read Stoltz is still in some scenes, in longshot so you can't tell. Don't know if it's true but it would make sense, why reshoot a scene that's usable?
There's lots of little tidbits all through the movie. Someone may have posted this, but Marty meets Doc at the Twin Pines Mall. When Marty is escaping the guy with the shot gun, he drives over a young pine tree (which is part of a pair). At the end of the movie when Marty comes back to the mall it is now called "The Lone Pine Mall"
Most reactors don't get chills on the dance kiss scene, but the music, and the brother and sister reappearing on the photograph, chills everytime...great cinema
Foreshadowing tidbits:(most of the others have been mentioned) At the start of the film, we see a representation of actor Harold Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock, from the film Safety Last. This foreshadows Dr. Emmett Brown hanging from the clock tower on November 12, 1955. The McFly family is watching the episode of The Honeymooners where "Ralph dresses up as a man from space". This foreshadows Marty being mistaken for a "man from space" in 1955 (by the Peabody family and by George McFly). Can’t wait for Part II & III 💫❤️💫✌🏻🇦🇺
This movie had a production history almost as fascinating as the movie itself. Writer Bob Gale came up with the idea for the story when he found his dad's old high school yearbook while helping clean out his parents' basement. He looked through it and found that his dad had been the class president, something his dad had never told him about. That got Gale to wondering if he and his dad would have been friends if they had been the same age and gone to school together. Gale was friends with director Robert Zemeckis, who liked the story idea and approached several studios with the pitch for making a movie of it. Several studios turned them down, most because the story wasn't racy enough for the era, which was known for raunchy, R-rated teen comedies like "Animal House", "Porky's", and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High". The exception was Disney, which turned them down because they thought the idea of a mom unwittingly falling in love with her time-traveling son was too racy! Eventually, Universal Studios agreed to make the movie. The filmmakers created the character of Marty McFly specifically with the idea of Michael J. Fox playing the role, but he was initially unavailable due to being in the middle of starring in the sitcom "Family Ties". As a result, they cast another actor named Eric Stoltz as Marty. Many of the actors were in the film due to Stoltz playing the role: Crispin Glover was cast as George McFly partially because he resembled Stoltz and partially because his quirky, eccentric style appealed to Gale and Zemeckis. Lea Thompson was cast as Lorraine because she had worked with Stoltz before and they had excellent on-screen chemistry. The actor J. J. Cohen, who was initially cast as Biff Tannen, was replaced because he was about the same size as Stoltz (who was much taller than Fox) and the filmmakers wanted Biff to be big and intimidating compared to Marty. Thus they demoted Cohen to being one of Biff's goons and cast Thomas F. Wilson Jr. as Biff. They had filmed most of the scenes and were going over some of the footage when they suddenly realized that Stoltz wasn't working out as Marty. Marty needed to be funny at times, and Stoltz was a method actor who played the character very seriously, giving what Gale called "a great dramatic performance". Gale and Zemeckis abruptly fired Stoltz and made a deal with the studio producing "Family Ties" that allowed Fox to play Marty in "Back to the Future". This required Fox to work about 20 hours a day, filming "Family Ties" during normal working hours and "Back to the Future" overnights (for the night and indoor scenes) and on weekends (for the outdoor daytime scenes). The cast and crew had to re-shoot most of the film footage due to the recasting of the leading role. Stoltz was still in at least one scene, specifically the scene with Marty punching Biff while Biff's back was turned. There were a couple of notable cameos in the film. Singer Huey Lewis, who performed the songs "Power of Love" and "Back in Time" for the movie also appeared on-screen as the judge who dismissed Marty and his band as being "too darn loud". Lewis ad-libbed the line, saying afterward that he chose that as "the dumbest reason I could think of for turning down a band". The other guitarist in Marty's band was played by Michael J. Fox's guitar instructor for the movie.
I went to an art show across the street from my house in the park and for no reason some guy brought his DeLorean for people to see. You better believe I have a picture in that thing! Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd are national treasures. They will go down in history...
I never get bored of watching this trilogy. It's an absolute masterpiece. The acting, the plot, the costumes and sets design, the directing, the cinematography, the sounds, the MUSIC, no wonder that almost 40 years later, It still holds up and that its themes (Power of Love and the main theme) are still so recognisable.
Which is even more amazing considering there were drastic rewrites before shooting began. Famously, the Delorean time machine was going to be a refrigerator instead. Doc was going to have a pet chimpanzee or orangutan (can't remember which) instead of his dog Einstein because primate sidekicks were appearing in other movies and shows. There so many more changes that were made and that's not even factoring in the recasting of Marty when they were well into production. Absolutely incredible they ended up with an essentially perfect film.
Back to the Future achieved critical acclaim and commercial success, grossing $381.1 million and securing its position as the highest-grossing film of 1985 globally. I was one year old in 1985.
Another fun fact: the original actor that they were going to use for Marty McFly name Eric stoltz they actually filmed a lot of scenes using him you can find them on TH-cam. They had to reshoot a lot of the scenes with Michael j Fox.
The Delorean was NOT a cool car in the 80's, it was considered a joke. BttF MADE it cool retroactively. Doc saying "If you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style!" is supposed to be a joke about how Doc has bad taste in cars.
umm.. not entirely true. it wasn't cool in the US.. it WAS very cool in Canada ( where it was built ) also very cool in the UK. where almost 50% of the production run was exported to
@@user-dv6gt5iw4b It was built in Belfast (Northern Ireland) and all but a handful exported to the US ... the company collapsed after John DeLorean was prosecuted for a drug deal in a FBI set-up, and his reputation ruined; before that, they weren't "considered a joke"
My favorite movie still to this day. Few things I noticed this time watching your reaction. 1. The clock tower in 1985 before time travel had a different place chipped off. 2. Doc said, "the one I was WAITING for all my life," suggesting he already knew about this moment.
The bit at the end with the flying DeLorean was meant as a complete joke. When this movie first came out there was no thought about making sequels. In the DVD there is an interview with the director where he said they would have done something different for the final scene had the been considering sequels.
The thing is, while the others have their headscratchers (BttF 2 especially, which is the most contrived time-travel wise), it still holds overall surprisingly well for something 2/3rds of which was not planned beforehand.
The intro song, 'Power of Love,' is sung by Huey Lewis. He has a cameo as the teacher who tells Marty his band is too loud. The name of the band, the Pinheads, is probably named after the Headpins, a Canadian Rock band popular at the time. The lead singer, Darby Mills, was called the queen of scream, due to her high-pitched vocals.
Notice at the beginning of the movie it says the "Twin Pines Mall" but at the end it says the "Lone Pine Mall" because Marty accidently took out one of the pine trees at that guy's farm with the DeLorean in 1955
I never caught that!
Here's one that took my FOREVER to get:
Remember, there are no throwaway lines in the movie, everything pays off later.
Remember when Doc said he was allergic to all synthetics? Synthetic fabrics were popular in the 50s, but Doc couldn't wead them. When he drops the plug on the clock tower, it snags on his wool pants, it wouldn't have done that on nylon or polyester. 😂
"How does this not drive someone crazy?" You'll meet Doc in a few. Crazy is a relative term, lol
Yeah. One fun thing on rewatch is seeing subtle changes. Like the ledge under the clock tower becomes damaged. It wasn't before.
The theater was showing a... racy 70s film. On return, its a church.
(Fun side fact: the actor playing the bum had a long career doing character actor work... and had appeared in that racy film.)
@@arandomnamegoeshere And Marty calls the bum "Red." In 1955, the sound van was announcing "Reelect Mayor Red Thomas."
Here is a FUN FACT: At the beginning of the movie, when Marty and his band are auditioning for the music committee in charge of choosing a band for the high school dance, the guy with the bullhorn who stops them and says “Sorry guys, but you’re just too darn loud” - that guy is HUEY LEWIS from the band HUEY LEWIS and THE NEWS. He sang the movie’s title song “Power of Love” which became a huge hit and was written by Huey Lewis himself, specifically for this movie. Huey Lewis and The News was a HUGELY popular band back in the 80s and had a lot of hit songs. Huey Lewis was a very familiar face from his own music videos seen on MTV. He was also in the famous “U.S.A. for Africa - We Are the World” music video with Michael Jackson and other legendary singers (he is the #17 singer in the video and comes in at 2: 48, right between Michael Jackson and Cyndi Lauper). Back when the movie opened in theatres in 1985, he was immediately recognized by movie goers - there was a collective laugh in the audience when he was seen as a character dressed up in that geeky plaid coat and tie, and with an unusual hairstyle, listening to Marty McFly and his band “The Pinheads” do a cover of his own song 😂 😂 😂
Yep also his song "I wanna new drug" was ripped off and the melody used for the hit theme for another HUGE 80s film: Ghostbusters. He sued the studio and later settled out of court with them for a reportedly HUGE but undisclosed amount.
@@dtnetlurker You now got me humming to myself "Ghostbusters!" & I wanna new drug in my head LOL Never knew there was a case regarding the theme song for Ghostbusters.
And today Huey Lewis suffers from hearing loss, and has to record on "good days" when he can hear himself. Sort of a sad bit of foreshadowing for him in this movie.
@@Tijuanabill oh no
@@dtnetlurker I didn't know that!!!
Thomas Wilson, the actor who played Biff is a standup comedian with a reputation for being an exceptionally nice, kind guy. He based his performance off of things he experienced being bullied himself when he was younger.
Google "Thomas Wilson" the question song
He was in one of the later seasons of Legends of Tomorrow. He ended up playing a very different character.
@@alexthorpe6583 He also was the gym teacher on Freaks and Geeks TV show.
@@alexthorpe6583 man, i loved Legends of Tomorrow and yeah he was good on it too
Ironically Crispin Glover is the aggressive nut in real life.
This film is held by many film colleges to be a model screenplay. There are no unintentional loose ends, it's engaging and fun, the acting is without flaw, and the sets, SFX and score are exceptional for the time and hold up well today.
I saw this in the theater in 1985 as a 5yr old and it sparked an incredible amount of imagination. It seemed like an eternity to a young me for the sequels even though it was only four years. Fantastic film.
The movie was screened at the White House for President Reagan. When Marty tells Doc that Reagan is POTUS in 1985, and Doc asks if Jerry Lewis is VP, and Jack Benny is Treasury Secretary, Reagan burst out laughing and made the projectionist wind it back. He later used the line "where we're going we don't need roads" in the State of the Union.
Jack Benny as the Treasury Secretary was ironic because Jack Benny often portrayed a stingy and cheap character in his comedic skits.
TRUE STORY! 1986 State of the Union! Epic!
That's because Reagan had and excelent humor sense.
They switched it up in the German translation a bit, suggesting that John Wayne was the secretary of defense.
@@angelrogo *That's because Reagan had an excellent sense of humor.
“Can you imagine going back in time and meeting your dad?” That’s pretty much the thought that inspired the movie.
Writer Bob Gale came across his father’s high school yearbook and wondered if they’d have been friends had they been the same age.
So the funny bit is that Marty's Band "The Pinheads" is playing the Power of Love by Huey Lewis and The News which is on the Soundtrack and the judge is none other than Huey Lewis himself. "I'm sorry...your just too darn loud!". Lol 😂
This movie is a masterclass on writing a really great screenplay. Movie writing 101
"You're."
I'm glad you're the person who called it out. I'm pretty sure no one has heard of this fact. *Sarcasm
" *Barely Human* " a youtuber, has made a very interesting video on this movie.
flightmile9809 I’m willing to bet that Vkunia didn’t know it, and she asked for fun facts about the movie. Strangely, nobody considers whether “flightmile9809” knows something before they post a comment about it. I wonder why?
SPOILER ALERT >>>>> As complex and detailed as every element of this trilogy is its astonishing that there are so few elements that had to be protected by plot armor. Every element of the trilogy could have played out exactly as presented (although the millisecond timing of Marty hitting the wire exactly with the lightning strike is pretty unlikely). The only true holes I have ever found are that Doc had some viable alternatives for no fuel in 1885 but time was not on their side so the plot as told in the film works. The most common online question I see that is the hardest to explain is how Doc made a new time machine out of a locomotive sometime in the late 1880's to 1890s where he would have had to build a new Mr. Fusion along with a new time control system and flux capacitor. The assumption is he made it using the parts from the hoverboard along with available Victorian era technology including one Baldwin Sierra 4-6-0 locomotive.
Can’t wait for part 2,this is the best trilogy ever made in my opinion.
the fact that Vkunia was saying "This is heavy" and "Great Scott!" so early on in the reaction is pure gold
I wonder if there is something wrong with the gravitational pull in her studio
Scripted
I have a very personal connection with this movie, which also happens to be a very fond & funny memory.
Back in 1985, I was living in Hawaii, and about 4,800 miles from my parents. We only saw each other about once every few years, so in 1985, my mom came to visit, so we decided to re-connect by going out on the town . . . yes, I suppose you would say it was like a date - LOL.
We stopped and ate at a 50s-style burger joint(malt shoppe), then walked to the movie theatre nearby to see Back To The Future . . . and yes, we watched the scenes with Marty's Mom putting the moves on Marty, but neither one of us was creeped-out in the least, even despite the added fact that Mom & I were sitting there next to each other, on what some might perceive as being a date.
Actually, since losing my Mom in 2011, after having taken care of her in her declining years; the night out we had together, and this movie, will forever be in my fondest memories.
Fun Fact; The band leaders name was Marvin Berry. When Marty was playing 'Johnny B Goode' at the dance, Marvin is seen backstage calling his cousin Chuck (Berry) about 'the new sound you were looking for' and he holds the phone out, the joke is that the song was actually written and recorded by the real Chuck Berry, the song was a huge hit. Still is.
And also one of the first songs to be considered rock n roll
And was sent to the stars on the Voyager 1& 2 golden records as a "sound of Earth".
Supposedly when the Hubble Space Telescope took its first clear look into deep space they saw a sign that said "Send more Chuck Berry". :D
It always disappoints me when the reactors seem to miss this.
If you pay close attention to the End Credits, one them reads ""Johnny B. Goode" performed by Marty McFly with the Starlighters".
@@fionnmaccumhaill3257bit hard to expect younger people to recognise song and artist from 60-odd years ago.
Historical fun fact: When President Reagan heard that they were jokes about him in the movie, he insisted upon seeing it. He loved the film, and reportedly laughed so hard at the jokes that he actually had the projector operator back up the film, because he missed some of the dialogue. The final line, “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads,” was actually quoted by President Reagan in a speech to Congress, discussing the drive towards future technology.
What I want is some acid flasks
Biff ( Thomas wilson) was actually a nerd in school and played in the band. He didn't get his height until late in his high-school years. I couldn't find the exact year he said in an interview I heard years ago. The other fact is that Thomas kept apologizing to Lea Thompson during the car scene. She had to tell him it's fine we are actors acting out a scene. It just showed that he is a true gentleman.
He was an asthmatic Tuba player, and was in the debate club. Perfect guy to play a thug, right? :D
@@chrismaverick9828 thanks, I thought it was the Tuba but I couldn't find the exact video where he said what he played.
@@Uriahjw I have a copy of his comedy special. The guy's a riot. He also paints on a professional level, usually of bits of Americana, like Rockem-sockem robots, spinning tops, etc. One of the people I'd love to meet, if only to have him sign an autograph as 'Maniac' from Wing Commander.
@@chrismaverick9828he is pretty great in Freaks and Geeks as the PE teacher.
I saw this movie with a girlfriend in 1985. She worked at the theater and we arrived late - getting to seats as Marty arrived in 1955 on the farm. We watched the rest of the movie and then sat through the beginning of the next showing up to where we came in... the movie still made sense LOL
This movie is taught as a "perfect" movie script - there is nothing wasted. Every line, everything you see has a payoff later in the movie. It also is unique in movies as it attempts - and succeeds in having three satisfying climaxes - the build-up to George decking Biff, the connection between his parents at the dance, and getting Marty back to 1985 and saving Doc.
When this reaction hits 88 likes, you're gonna see some serious shit! 🔥🔥😂
😂😂😂😂
Proud to say I was no.100.
The likes are rising about as fast as a Delorean accelerating to 88mph :P
@@darthken815 100 doesn't matter, 88 does.
It's always been a special movie for me because it was my very first at the cinema...I became a film maniac after that...🤪
Excellent reaction. You picked up on so much foreshadowing. A couple of my favorite Easter eggs; The Rocky & Bullwinkle show featured a character named Mr. Peabody, who was a time traveling dog (like Einstein) with a pet boy named Sherman. Here, Old man Peabody's son was named Sherman, which was revealed only in the closing credits. My favorite is that the first switch Marty threw on Doc Brown's guitar amp was labeled CRM 114. That was the designation of the radio discriminator on the B-52 in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film, "Dr. Strangelove." CRM 114 made appearances in other Kubrick films, as well as other films and TV shows.
I like to think about Doc's point of view in this movie - he slips, hits his head, comes up with the Flux capacitor, then a few hours later a kid shows up saying he's from the future with the time machine Doc invented.
@@Dangersuit done
Fan theory was he was trying to hang a rope to hang himself with and it broke and that's how he hit his head.
@@Liwet. That's not only dumb, it's kinda dark, not your typical Steven Spielberg plot device, so I think you should keep your theories.
@@kiillabytez
*"That's not only dumb, it's kinda dark, not your typical Steven Spielberg plot device"*
This is the same movie where Lorraine gets hit and almost raped by Biff.
The same movie where Doc steals Plutonium from Libyan terrorists and gets assassinated on-screen for it.
Part of the same series where Biff murders George and forces Lorraine into marriage with him, before almost killing Marty.
The same series where Mad Dog Tannen almost hangs Marty publicly.
@@kiillabytez In the original timeline, George was in the car with Lorraine and Biff pulled him out. Without Marty's help, George didn't have the courage to stop Biff.
Dark would be if Marty had a second older brother that stopped existing after he returned from 1955.
RE: Doc's house burning down. Using that fire extinguisher on the flaming rags after the demonstration exhausted it. He never recharged it. So when his time experiments ("mysterious circumstances") caused a fire, he had no way of putting it out quickly. This led to him selling everything but the garage to fund his further experiments.
Also, I can't believe I haven't seen anyone else mention it, but Doc and Marty are the direct inspirations for Rick and Morty.
I've heard people say that doc burned it on purpose for the insurance money
@@erikawilliams9558He absolutely did it on purpose
I’ve always had a similar theory that the reason Doc’s gun had no ammo when he tried to shoot the Libyans is because he fired all the ammo into the air in Part 3 when sending Marty back to 1885, and he never bothered to reload it.
@@doughall2932 I'd say that theory is a bit of a stretch simply because it's generally a bad idea to leave a gun loaded for an extended period if it's not being used.
BTTF is literally the most rewatchable movie ever. I've literally seen this movie a 100 times or more over the years and I still love watching it.
Huey Lewis was asked by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale to write a song for the film. However, the two Bobs were not thrilled with the first song Huey brought back to them. After explaining what they were hoping for, Huey came back with "The Power of Love". He was then told they needed one more song, and so, upon viewing a cut of the film, Huey got the inspiration for "Back in Time". Huey Lewis got a cameo as he was the guy with the megaphone at the start saying "Too darn loud".
"Another one of these damn kids fell outta the tree" implies that Marty's mom has a habit of changing clothes in front of the window, probably intentionally because she is a lot freakier than she lets on in the beginning of the movie.
To Lorraine's dad, I'd like to quote Martin Lawrence's character in Black Knight: "Your daughter's a freeeaaak."
I've said this so many times, she probably knows they watch her.
“Another one of these damn kids jumped in front of my car” not fell out of the tree.
She said she's no stranger to "parking" with boys nor drinking and smoking as well.
Changing in front of her window may just well be her seeing who's interested.
Although it's implied that Biff did push himself on her in the orginal timeline and she realized that she didn't want that to ever happen again so that's why she's so against such promiscuous behavior as an adult.
50s version of camgirls, open curtain girls
One other thing most people don't notice is that the clock tower has a lightning rod which should have protected it. The clock is damaged because Doc needs to slide down the cable, so he loops it over the hand of the clock, stopping the clock when the rod is struck by lightning.
And another little one is that after the cop asks Doc about a permit, you see Doc in the background looking in his wallet for a bill to give the cop.
It was pretty clear the 'permit' Doc had for the weather experiment had green backs.
I also think that we see Doc just about to plug in the connection as the lightening strikes. He would be fried if he was anywhere NEAR that cable, much less about to connect it, because the path of least restriction is through him, not into the flux capacitor.
Yeah I believe there's a deleted scene actually showing this lol
Yeah, Doc’s permits are issued by the Treasury.
One of my favorite parts of this movie is the line "If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything." It was originally Doc's mantra which he instilled in Marty and Marty passes it along to his teenage father to boost his confidence and change the course of his parents' lives.
There's a reason this movie is studied in film schools across the world. This is universally hailed as one of the TIGHTEST scripts of all time--there is almost NOTHING in it that doesn't have purpose, whether it be for plot, characterization, or a simple visual gag.
There's a sub-plot that they never make explicit: George is left-handed. There was a time when left-handed kids were forced to use their right hands, and that lasted into the 70s and 80s for some schools and homes (probably still happens today in isolated communities). Part of the reason George is so awkward is that he's one of those kids. His big moment, the key event that changed his future and the timeline overall, was when is right arm was being twisted, forcing him to deck Biff with his left. The way he looked at his hand, it wasn't just coz he flattened a bully, it was coz he was deciding to stop pretending to be something he's not.
Oh. That's amazing!
I don't even care if you made that up 😂.(not that you did)
Oh man I never considered that but i always did think that it was pretty crazy he hit biff so hard that he spun around. I always thought “man I couldn’t do that with my left arm” but this explains a whole lot.
I love this! I remember at school when I was about 9 or 10, we spent a day experiencing life as Victorian schoolchildren. Those of us who were lefties were forced to write with our right hands, and were told that left-handedness was a sign of the devil. One of the girls couldn’t do it, no matter how hard she tried. Whenever you try to curb someone’s nature, it never ends well.
@@Daveyboy100880 I'm copying and pasting that comment to the pope.. Maybe he'll get the picture ;)
George is wearing his watch on his right wrist.
There is a DeLorean factory in Houston. They still build new ones from the surplus of parts left when the original company shut down.
When you said, "can you imagine meeting your parents," that was the literal Genesis of the movie. Bob Gale saw his dad's yearbook and wondered if he would like his father as a teenager.
The two key people, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, have both reiterated that there will never ever be a remake or retelling of the three films for as long as they're alive as they will block any attempts or proposals of such a thing. Which is great on them as the trilogy is pretty much perfect.
Fun fact, the sequels were actually never planned, this first film was meant to be a one and done standalone film, and the ending was meant to be a joke, not a tie in to a sequel which is how it ended up being!
Yep, and the Bobs have discussed how they wouldn't have had Jennifer in the car at the end had they known they'd have to account for her in future stories.
@@the_corsair Ever sense I saw 2 as a kid, how they handle Jennifer was the film series only real flaw.
My first film taking a girl to the cinema on a date. Late 1985 at 13 years old. She was a beauty. Plucked up the courage to ask her. 'If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything. '
The people who made this film were, many of them, young in the 50s, and there are many jokes that almost no one gets now, because the many details of the 50s have been forgotten. The song that you hear when Marty arrives in town is "Mr. Sandman, Bring Me A Dream," by the Andrews Sisters. 1955 was the last year of "pre-rock and roll" popular music, which really arrived in 1956, with Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, etc. When Marty arrives in town, we see a Texaco station. A car pulls up and half a dozen attendants rush out and start working on the car. In 1955, you did not pump your own gas. An attendant would come out, start pumping gas, clean your windshield and ask you if you wanted him to check the oil and tires. This scene got a huge laugh when the film first came out, but of course no one gets it now. TVs were enormously expensive in 1955, and most people did not have them. There were no reruns. Many programs were broadcast live and no copies were made. People did not wear the sort of vests that Marty is wearing when goes into the soda shop. The guy behind the counter assumes that it's a life preserver of some sort.
Mr. Sandman was by The Chordettes
@@RandomNonsense1985 Good catch!
Best rwaction ever 😊
MJF came to the restaurant where I worked. It was a lush place called the Inn at Shelburne Farms with a rustic dining room looking out over Lake Champlain. He and his wife sat at Table 5 next to the window doors that overlooked the lake. I remember they had a rosë with dinner that his wife Tracy ordered. They were both very relaxed, very cool, very amiable. It was a sweet summer evening. They watched the sun set behind the Adirondacks.
3 years later I was working at Universal Studios in Florida and our restaurant was the location of the Back to the Future III premiere party and in walks MJF, catches me behind a small mobile bar and goes, "Hey, uh..." snapping his fingers trying to remember my name then just went, "Shelburne!" I just let out one of those happy hahahas with a big grin on my face. He had a great memory that exuded real warmth. I shook his hand and said, "Robert " He said, "That's it!"
I had a similar experience with my favorite guitar player ever, Jimmy Herring. Though not nearly as famous as many musicians, he is nonetheless as genuine and down to earth as one could possibly be. He recognized me sitting at one of his shows 12 YEARS after we had had a ten minute conversation at a music convention.
Sometimes people are just people, and are not spoiled by their fame or accolades. It’s refreshing.
Just goes to show that Thomas Wilson is telling the truth in his song.
Random people: “What’s Michael J Fox like?”
Tom: “He’s nice.”
Fun fact: when this movie was made, Zemeckis had no intention of doing any sequels. The ending, with the car flying off into the future, was meant to be one final joke with no foreshadowing. But because of the unexpected success of the film, a sequel was put into production. The material got too lengthy for one movie, so it was broken into two parts, which were filmed back to back.
Spoiler: the actress who played Jennifer was not available for the sequels, so she had to be recast. George McFly as well. Anyway, you should just jump right into parts 2 and 3. You won’t be disappointed.
And Crispin Glover quitting lead to a whole host of changes in the ways that film studios can use actors’ likenesses
The face Doc makes when he screams after the toy car falls off the table starting the fire is now a famous reaction meme.
Warning, if you plan to watch the other two movies and don't want spoilers, make sure to stop the second movie right after the "to be concluded" at the end, as right after the screen goes black it goes into a preview of the third movie.
If you're not bothered about spoilers then it's cool to let it run, but just warning in case you prefer to go into part 3 with only the knowledge from part 2, they kind of spring it on you unexpectedly.
It isn't a spoiler of any kind, it just a standard movie preview and it was part of the movie when it was in theaters. The only thing it kind of gives away i when the movie takes place which you already know from things in the second movie (you literally see the date on the readout in the car twice)
True...Not a spoiler. It's how part 2 was shown in the theater. I was there
Exactly. The way everybody watching the movie for the first time have always seen it for the first time. I can appreciate the logic that just maybe a reaction video recorder might consider refraining from watching it, but it's like not seeing the complete movie. That is a part of the actual movie.
You technically spoiled it yourself
@@anderspemer358 True it's not a major spoiler, it's just I know at least one reactor that did the same. Not a big deal, just notifying people of the option.
Personally I never saw it as a kid cause the versions I watched were VHS home recordings.
Fun fact robert zemeckis pitched this to disney but they said no. When it became a success they hired him to direct roger rabbit
The incest aspect was just too much for Disney.
Looking back in it now I glad that Disney rejected it and I think many of you can agree with me. If they had the rights to the Back to Future franchise they would probably make endless films and Disney Plus shows that would go woke and ruin the legacy of trilogy like they did with Star Wars.
Very true! @@jacksonconley5117
@@JohnRandomness105rewatch the little mermaid. Triton is just a little TOO protective 😂
@@jacksonconley5117 Star Wars was always "woke"
You're just more conscious of it now that you're older
This first one was such a great hit that It's sometimes hard to realise what a rare gem it actually is.
I remember when my Dad rented this masterpiece nearly 40 years ago. This film blew me away and every time I watch it, which is pretty much annually, I fall in love all over again.
4:52 I cant believe Marty did this before that meme 🤣 they were on the correct position too just with different angle
There are lots of fun facts about this one, I'm writing some that I didn't read on the comments yet:
- When this movie was shot there was no intention to make continuations, but it was so successful that the studio executives asked for more. That created some problems for the writers, as that ending was intended just as a joke, but they were able to solve that brilliantly on the sequences;
- Speaking about the sequences, parts 2 and 3 were shot at the same time, so you will have to keep a close eye on some clues that happen on film 2 that will only payoff on film 3;
- Claudia Wells, the actress that played Jennifer Parker on this movie, declined to return to the role on the sequences due to her mother's illness at the time. She was replaced by Elisabeth Shue, the very same from Karate Kid and The Boys;
- And speaking about actor's changes, Robert Zemeckis originally wanted Michael J. Fox for the role, but Michael had a very busy schedule due to the sitcom he was part at the time, Family Ties, so they hired Eric Stoltz to play Marty. However, Eric saw the movie as a tragedy (and if you read his reasoning it kinda makes sense) and played the role that way. It didn't worked so he was fired and Michael J. Fox ended up in the role as originally intended. However, due to his TV schedule for a period of time he only had the night time available for shootings, which explains why there are so many night scenes on the movie. It was so tight that he literally had to sleep while traveling to the locations, at some points his staff had to carry him while he was sleeping;
- At the end of part 2 there will be a screen legend saying "To be concluded". STOP WATCHING THE MOVIE AT THAT POINT, or you'll be spoiled with scenes from part 3. You have been warned.
Thanks. You beat me to most of these.
For me, this movie is one of the few "complete" movies, where it's hard to "add" anything to it, to make it "better"
You also forgot the part where Billy Zane is actually one of Biff Tannons thugs
@@alaneskew2664 If I were to write everything that has to be spoken about this movie it would take some hours to write. XD
@@vinnycordeiro very true minion novel has actually been penned and many ream of paper has been printed about the making of this movie. Like I said in my opinion it should be considered one of those rare perfect movies
And because Eric Stoltz is considerably taller than Michael J Fox, they had to recast Claudia Wells as Jennifer Parker because the original actress was much taller than Michael J Fox.
When doc inserted the plutonium, She and Marty flinched😂😂😂
There was a saying in the 80s, "If it's too loud, you're too old". (Many of the older generation thought rock was just loud noise.) When I saw this in theaters, that's what I assumed the judges were referencing by telling Marty he was too darn loud.
The teacher with the megaphone is Huey Lewis who wrote and sang the title song "Back in Time" and "Power of Love" with his band Huey Lewis and the News.
The man saying, "I'm afraid you're just too darn loud." Is Huey Lewis who sings Back in Time :)
I would normally agree until I went to a concert last year with a friend and it really messed up our hearing. It took a good 24 hours to sound normal again.
I would have expected Lorraine to say "that was very interesting....music...Marty - but you're just too darn loud!".
@@jasonondik6003 Plus it's a double reference - the version Marty plays in that audition has guitar soloing very much in the style of Marty's hero Eddie Van Halen which is NOT in the original. So not only is Lewis' role a meta reference to the fact that he's the original artist, "you're just too darn loud" is also a tongue-in-cheek critique of this version of the song. Layers upon layers. Such a brilliant script.
This is by far one of my favorite BTTF reactions ever. And I've seen over a hundred of them. Back to the Future being my favorite movie of all time, you spotter SO many hints and plot points. Not many do. You questioning how it would be to meet your parents when they were your age: that's EXACTLY what the writer motivated after looking through some old family albums. I'm definitely watching your reaction to the next two 😅
29:06 "Marty. It's such a nice name."...and YET they name their FIRST son, Dave. LOL
I think that might be a case of naming their first son George David McFly, Jr. but the older son not wanting to be called Junior goes by his middle name instead. I'm just guessing here.
I've always used to think exactly the same. That when he gets home he should now be Dave McFly and his big brother is Marty. :D
@@joemckim1183 Good one!
@@anderspemer358 That wouldn't work without recasting the actor playing Dave. Since they'll want to keep Marty in high school and the actor who played Dave way too old looking to be plausible as a high school underclassman if not younger.
@@joemckim1183 I should apparenly rephrase that. When he gets home he will find that his name is Dave, and his big brother's name is Marty. ;)
From Australia,loved your comments and energy u you brought to this awsome movie.Great work and funny😊
Okay, my fun fact… V, you mentioned Doc Brown’s house burning down? Well, he says at one point that it took his entire family fortune to realise his vision… and it took a little extra too! The clues are all given in the opening shot in the newspaper cuttings, with the story being that his house burned down in “mysterious circumstances,” and the implication is that he did it himself to get the insurance money. He then sold off the Brown estate to real estate developers and just kept his garage to live in. This is why his garage is surrounded by a strip mall in 1985!
The amount of though that Zemeckis and Gale put into this movie and how it all tied together is astounding! And V is right - they simply don’t make ‘em like this anymore. Nowadays big movies cost so much to make that studios can’t take a risk on them unless they’re pre sold, but BttF was never written with a built-in audience in mind. It wasn’t the result of market research or based on an recognisable IP - it was simply a story that they wanted to tell, and the were given the freedom to tell it. I think that is why so many movies from the 80s are so loved: sure, they’re made to make money, but they also have voices of their own. Ghostbuster, Goonies, Bill & Ted, BTTF, Robocop, Germlins, ET - they’re popular because they’re good, and they respect their audiences, and they often put fun ahead of logic! Don’t waste time on endless exposition or worry about connecting every dot, just have fun!
I wanna see Germlins! Sounds infectious! 🤣
@@deepermind4884 You should see the sequel, Germlins 2: The New Outbreak! It’s crazy
@@deepermind4884 LOL Germlins.
This was my childhood! I'm so happy you finally watched it!
fun fact: if you pay attention to the mall's name at the beginning it's named "Twin Pine Mall" but when Marty goes back to the future, it's now named "Lone Pine Mall" since Marty ran over one in the past
Shonash Ravine becomes Clayton Ravine, which becomes Eastwood Ravine......
yep, which is a first clue he's not in the same timeline he originated from. So when he sees his family. :O
Yeah, there's a pretty funny video that tries to argue that BTTF was predictive programming they actually do a pretty good job on finding things that aren't really there and then acting like omg totally there. But if you dig at all you see they intended it as a satire.
It took me many viewings to put it together, but the reason Marty's grandfather says "ANOTHER one of these damn kids jumped in front of my car" is an allusion to Lorraine being somewhat locally notorious for undressing in front of her open window. So George is a peeping Tom and she's an exhibitionist. Complementary kinks - they really were made for each other! Great reaction!
Such an iconic film that has shaped pop culture. It was the inspiration to Rick and Morty.
Please can we forget that part. If you ever saw "The Adventures of Doc and Mharti" than evolved into Rick and Morty... ew. Plus Roiland has messaged minors and said weird stuff about how in some realities Rick & Morty are in a relationship with each other. He's a weirdo.
I have never found anything remotely entertaining about Rick and Morty at all, a load of absolute rubbish!
@@MorbidCrow666 created by a creepy man who is into minors too.
the song he played at the dance, was called jonny b good by check berry. the guitar player from the band in the movie is named marvin berry. so the scene hes calling his cousin. hes calling chuck berry to let him hear this new sound. jonny b good came out in 1958 and definitely ahead of its time and an instant classic, which is why you hear it in alot of movies.
This is not only a great movie, but is also regarded as the perfect trilogy. Watch the other two movies and you will know why.
No matter how many times you watch this (these) movies, you will always catch something new that you didn't see before. The "Twin Pines Mall" was one I didn't see for years and one day it just clicked. I love these moves and cannot wait for you to watch number 2.
That synopsis at the beginning was simultaneously gibberish and strikingly accurate. Good job.
Perhaps already mentioned: The Twin Pines Mall was renamed after one tree was destroyed on the pineyard. At the end of the movie, when Marty returned, it was called the Lone Pine Mall.
Fun Fact: The drunk man on the bench (Red the Bum) that says "Crazy drunk drivers" after Marty crashes into the movie theatre is played by George Buck Flowers. He was in many classic movies and often ended up cast as the drunk or homeless man because of his rough appearance giving him somewhat of a reputation as the stereotypical movie bum. His movie credits are extensive however, ranging from comedies to westerns to action movies to adult films. In the shot of the movie theatre you can see the title of the movie playing is "Orgy American Style" which is a movie in which George Flowers played a character named Buck La Fleur. He also reprises his role in Back to the Future 2 where he calls Marty a "Crazy drunk pedestrian."
Red the Bum was also Mayor Red Thomas in 1955.
It's awesome that you finally watched this! And yes, it's STILL epic after all this time! So, fun facts. The guy that tells Marty and his band that he's too loud, is Huey Lewis, leader of the band Huey Lewis and the News, the band that did the songs for the sound track. And as far as what happened to Doc's family mansion, in addition to the newspaper clipping of the mansion burning down, there was a clipping next to it about how the property was sold to developers. In an interview Robert Zemeckis, one of the writers and also the director, said that basically Doc needed some serious cash to fund building his time machine, so he burned down the house, collected the insurance, then sold everything but the garage, which was his lab. Disney was originally interested in this, but when they read about the incest between Marty and his mom, they were like, nope, I don't think so! There is also a big group of car people that do their best to build perfect replicas of the DeLorean Time Machine. The best of them rebuilt the one that is currently on display at Universal Studios. This was originally a stand alone movie, but it was such a success, and they left an opening for further developments, that they decided to make it a trilogy. The next two were filmed back to back, to maintain continuity.
Best movie trilogy ever. Don't even try to change my mind.
It’s a very strong trilogy that’s never had a bad movie and I hope it stays like that.
Fact.
was about to comment the same thing.
glad someone already did.
THE best ever made!
Personal opinion - tied with the Godfather trilogy at the top spot
@@jacksonconley5117 Gale and Zemeckis will not allow any sequels or remakes, and I don't think fans will either
That jacket Marty is wearing, you absolutely had to have it to be the coolest! Man, I miss the 80's!
If Back to the Future was done today, he would be going back to 1994.. The look on Docs face when Marty asks, Do we become A-Holes.
Don't remind me. - An Old Fart
Yeah, keep that bullshit comment too yourself!!! LOL just kiddin
The look on Doc's face is actually only at the beginning of the second movie, not in here - or at least not as explicit.
Tom Holland and RDJ for the remake !
@@fakereality96 Hey I saw it at the movies too when I was 15, so yeah I agree with you. One old fart to another..
Fun Fact: If you visit Universal Studios Hollywood (their LA studio), you can do a studio tour and see the Courthouse Square film set from the Back to the Future films. That studio set displays the town square and includes both the iconic clock tower and its surroundings. You can also see the signs for Lyon Estates (the neighborhood where Marty and his family lives in the films).
(I just so happened to have visited Universal Studios Hollywood and got to see those sets in person, which was quite nice as a fan of the Back to the Future films).
Michael J. Fox was already a tv star on Family Ties and when he got this role he had to do both jobs at the same time. Someone would drive him between sets and he would have to sleep in the car in order to film them both.
And somehow he also found time to do reshoots for "Teenwolf" at the same time.
he was VERY popular back then so much so that even i noticed and i basically ignore most media.
I was 7 when this movie came out. I can't underestimate what a cultural phenomenon it was. For Christmas that year, I got a Back to the Future skateboard. It had the most 80s graphics you could imagine. Wish I still had that thing (and many other things), I was tough on my toys.
You're going to love the second and third movies. Its pretty incredibly how tightly woven the three are, despite the fact that there were never really plans to make any sequels, though they did film the second and third movies concurrently.
@V Don't forget to stop the Part 2 watch at the "To be continued" card, because if you don't there's spoilers for Part 3!
So tightly woven that, even after many watches over many years, I had no idea that the intro to Part 2 was an almost complete reshoot of the outro of Part 1. It's basically a shot-for-shot remake with the new actress.
This is one of the greatest films of all time. I don't really know how many times I've seen it (a film in three parts🙂) but at least 15 times. Every time you find something new, a little thing you didn't notice. This film is a masterclass in filmmaking and scriptwriting.
If I remember correctly, they started filming with a different actor, because Michael J.Fox was bound up with Family Ties. So he worked in the day at the series and in the night on Back to the Future. Talk about dedication.
Fun fact: one of the producers didn’t want to call it Back To The Future and instead thought it should be called The Man From Pluto. His mind was changed when Zemeckis asked Steven Spielberg to help change his mind and Spielberg called him and said “BACK TO THE FUTURE! What a great title you came up with!” 😂
Not quite. Producer Sid Sheinberg sent Zameckis a note telling him to change the title to "Spaceman from Pluto". Spielberg shut down the idea by responding to Sheinberg that it was a great joke, and the whole crew got a big laugh out of it. Sheinberg never brought it up again.
I think this is quite probably the most rewatchable movie series in my lifetime. In high school, I was in JROTC, which meant weekly uniform maintenance, including ironing the shirt after it came out of the laundry, and you would not suspect just how time consuming that can be. So I would put on a movie to get me through it, and in that fashion, I rewatched my way through this trilogy over and over again. It _doesn't_ get old.
Fun Fact: One of the judges was Huey Lewis the very singer of “The Power of Love.”
I'm afraid you're just too darn loud.
Fun Facts:
- the DeLorean became a ccult classic because of this movie, it had a bad reputation as a car specially with realiability, which is used for comedic relief with the car engine stalling a couple times
- in the final performance in the dance, Marty plays a song by Chuck Berry and the vocalist character named Marvin Berry calls his cousin Chuck to tell him to listen to the song for inspiration
- the Twin Pine mall from the beginning was renamed to reflect there was only one pine tree, because Marty ran over it while escaping the farm
- Marty scares George by saying his name is Darth Vader in 1955, before star wars was released, otherwise George would suspect as a SciFi nerd
- the date in the future of 2015 was awaited and celebrated in scifi conferences in many countries, growing up i had friends remembering to get in touch around that time and check what the movie got right or wrong
- Back to the Future had a cartoon adaptation placed after the third movie which may be fun to watch depending on occasion
- Doc being in a hurry at the end of the movie is pointless, since he has a freaking time machine and about 30 years to prevent whatever made him worried hahaha
Vkunia - so, Docs time machine runs on conventional GAS but the Time Circuits need high voltage Power.
the car still would have to reach 88 mph before the Time Circuits even work.
LOL! The judge who said their band was too darn loud was Huey Lewis, the lead singer for the band who wrote and recorded the song Marty's band was playing and who did all of the rock songs on the soundtrack.
The actors playing George, Lorraine and Biff were all young, so their 1955 look was their own and they had ageing-up makeup to make them look older for the 1985 scenes. So did Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown; I was horrified a few weeks back when I realised I'm now older than Lloyd was when this was filmed!
OMG, I am, too!
@@electronics-girl Christopher Llloyd is just a guy that always looked prematurely old. So when he actually became old he continued to look the same.
Back to the Future might be one of, if not my favourite, film trilogies. Each film is like a new adventure. But this original film really felt perfect. Like, even almost four decades later, everything about it feels fresh and exciting, and the plot keeps moving along at a good pace. Doc and Marty are such a fun pairing! It's always one of those films that I keep coming back to.
Already saw this on V's Patreon, but I can't resist watching again.
The set used as the town square was originally built in 1948 and was part of a ton of movies and tv. It was used as the town in Gremlins.
lol no worries, it’s a time travel move. You can start it anytime and still finish it yesterday 😜
These were the kind of films that made the 80’s such a fun decade for movies. I’m so glad to have watched this back in 85 at the ripe age of 16, also that a younger generation is now enjoying these fun classic films. Glad you liked it, two more to go.
*_It was never explained in the movies, but in a prequel comic book it was confirmed that Marty met Doc Brown when he was around 14 after hearing that Brown was a dangerous lunatic. Marty was curious, so he snuck into Doc's lab and was fascinated by his inventions._*
Yes, then when Doc caught him and saw his interest he hired him as an assistant.
@@3DJapan An assistant to help make bootleg cassette tapes, at least according to one early script
I was JUST wondering if they ever explained it, and I started thinking if there were any spinoff comics or anything. I'm glad to see there are.
@@iansrife5107 there was a cartoon show set after the 3rd movie with doc, Lisa and the kids as well
There was also a game released more recently which a “long play” playthrough can be found on TH-cam, which the player and uploaded edited into two videos - dubbing them “part 4” and “part 5”
Quite well done and worth a look
V! The guy who said the band was too darn loud was Huey Lewis, who with his band, The News, played that exact song in their worldwide concerts, playing too darn loud. The music on the radio that woke up Marty was also from him, as was the music playing in the background while Marty was hitching rides on the backs of cars. :) Inside joke from the director! By the way, people always key in on Spielberg's name at the opening credits, but this was a Robert Zemekis film. He also directed "Contact" and "Forest Gump."
The Hill Valley "town" with the clock tower is the same "town" from Gremlins, they built the set and reused it, but with a winter theme and decorations.
That town square set can be seen at Universal Studios, and has been used in probably hundreds of movies and tv shows. They change a few details here and there, but it's the same location.
Lorraine's mom is played by the same woman who played Billy's mom in Gremlins.
16:56 something I recently realized about this scene, his helmet did work. When he got was "donations" he guessed coast guard because of what Marty's wearing, but it was actually the donations for the clock tower
10:29 That's just Christopher Lloyd, he always has a crazy look in his face no matter what movie he's in
Apart from when he's playing a Klingon, then it's Mr serious face.
@@MorbidCrow666Ehhhh, kinda crazy there too. But all makes sense, all the way back to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
This is the most nostalgic movie of the 80s and one of the best trilogies of all time. Rick and Morty was originally named Doc and Marty. The guy who tells Marty his band is too loud is Huey Lewis from Huey Lewis and the news. The song deemed to loud is The Power of Love written by Huey Lewis. His biggest hit song and the theme song to the first movie. Just love how they threw that in. Younger people normally miss this reference. Just wait till you get to the future. They did not predict everything in 2015, but there are many things that they got right or very close.
Please can we forget that part about Rick & Morty? If you ever saw "The Adventures of Doc and Mharti" that evolved into Rick and Morty... ew. Plus Roiland has messaged minors and said weird stuff about how in some realities Rick & Morty are in a relationship with each other. He's a weirdo.
Fun fact: Eric Stoltz was originally cast as Marty. The way he played Marty, all serious and all, didn’t please the director, so he was fired and recast with Michael J. Fox, requiring them to reshoot damn near the entire movie.
I read Stoltz is still in some scenes, in longshot so you can't tell. Don't know if it's true but it would make sense, why reshoot a scene that's usable?
In "The Flash" movie Eric Stoltz still portrayed Marty in an alternate reality.
There's lots of little tidbits all through the movie. Someone may have posted this, but Marty meets Doc at the Twin Pines Mall. When Marty is escaping the guy with the shot gun, he drives over a young pine tree (which is part of a pair). At the end of the movie when Marty comes back to the mall it is now called "The Lone Pine Mall"
Fun Fact. The guy who said,The bands too loud., is Huey Louis. The guy that sings that song.
One of my favorite fun facts from this movie!
Most reactors don't get chills on the dance kiss scene, but the music, and the brother and sister reappearing on the photograph, chills everytime...great cinema
Foreshadowing tidbits:(most of the others have been mentioned)
At the start of the film, we see a representation of actor Harold Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock, from the film Safety Last. This foreshadows Dr. Emmett Brown hanging from the clock tower on November 12, 1955.
The McFly family is watching the episode of The Honeymooners where "Ralph dresses up as a man from space". This foreshadows Marty being mistaken for a "man from space" in 1955 (by the Peabody family and by George McFly).
Can’t wait for Part II & III 💫❤️💫✌🏻🇦🇺
Interestingly that episode of The Honeymooners didn’t actually air until December 1955.
This movie had a production history almost as fascinating as the movie itself. Writer Bob Gale came up with the idea for the story when he found his dad's old high school yearbook while helping clean out his parents' basement. He looked through it and found that his dad had been the class president, something his dad had never told him about. That got Gale to wondering if he and his dad would have been friends if they had been the same age and gone to school together. Gale was friends with director Robert Zemeckis, who liked the story idea and approached several studios with the pitch for making a movie of it. Several studios turned them down, most because the story wasn't racy enough for the era, which was known for raunchy, R-rated teen comedies like "Animal House", "Porky's", and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High". The exception was Disney, which turned them down because they thought the idea of a mom unwittingly falling in love with her time-traveling son was too racy! Eventually, Universal Studios agreed to make the movie.
The filmmakers created the character of Marty McFly specifically with the idea of Michael J. Fox playing the role, but he was initially unavailable due to being in the middle of starring in the sitcom "Family Ties". As a result, they cast another actor named Eric Stoltz as Marty. Many of the actors were in the film due to Stoltz playing the role: Crispin Glover was cast as George McFly partially because he resembled Stoltz and partially because his quirky, eccentric style appealed to Gale and Zemeckis. Lea Thompson was cast as Lorraine because she had worked with Stoltz before and they had excellent on-screen chemistry. The actor J. J. Cohen, who was initially cast as Biff Tannen, was replaced because he was about the same size as Stoltz (who was much taller than Fox) and the filmmakers wanted Biff to be big and intimidating compared to Marty. Thus they demoted Cohen to being one of Biff's goons and cast Thomas F. Wilson Jr. as Biff. They had filmed most of the scenes and were going over some of the footage when they suddenly realized that Stoltz wasn't working out as Marty. Marty needed to be funny at times, and Stoltz was a method actor who played the character very seriously, giving what Gale called "a great dramatic performance". Gale and Zemeckis abruptly fired Stoltz and made a deal with the studio producing "Family Ties" that allowed Fox to play Marty in "Back to the Future". This required Fox to work about 20 hours a day, filming "Family Ties" during normal working hours and "Back to the Future" overnights (for the night and indoor scenes) and on weekends (for the outdoor daytime scenes). The cast and crew had to re-shoot most of the film footage due to the recasting of the leading role. Stoltz was still in at least one scene, specifically the scene with Marty punching Biff while Biff's back was turned.
There were a couple of notable cameos in the film. Singer Huey Lewis, who performed the songs "Power of Love" and "Back in Time" for the movie also appeared on-screen as the judge who dismissed Marty and his band as being "too darn loud". Lewis ad-libbed the line, saying afterward that he chose that as "the dumbest reason I could think of for turning down a band". The other guitarist in Marty's band was played by Michael J. Fox's guitar instructor for the movie.
I went to an art show across the street from my house in the park and for no reason some guy brought his DeLorean for people to see. You better believe I have a picture in that thing! Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd are national treasures. They will go down in history...
I never get bored of watching this trilogy. It's an absolute masterpiece. The acting, the plot, the costumes and sets design, the directing, the cinematography, the sounds, the MUSIC, no wonder that almost 40 years later, It still holds up and that its themes (Power of Love and the main theme) are still so recognisable.
This one of the most tightly written movies
Which is even more amazing considering there were drastic rewrites before shooting began.
Famously, the Delorean time machine was going to be a refrigerator instead. Doc was going to have a pet chimpanzee or orangutan (can't remember which) instead of his dog Einstein because primate sidekicks were appearing in other movies and shows.
There so many more changes that were made and that's not even factoring in the recasting of Marty when they were well into production.
Absolutely incredible they ended up with an essentially perfect film.
Huey Lewis, the artist of the title song of the movie, is the judge who rejects Marty's band
Back to the Future achieved critical acclaim and commercial success, grossing $381.1 million and securing its position as the highest-grossing film of 1985 globally. I was one year old in 1985.
Another fun fact: the original actor that they were going to use for Marty McFly name Eric stoltz they actually filmed a lot of scenes using him you can find them on TH-cam. They had to reshoot a lot of the scenes with Michael j Fox.
The Delorean was NOT a cool car in the 80's, it was considered a joke. BttF MADE it cool retroactively. Doc saying "If you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style!" is supposed to be a joke about how Doc has bad taste in cars.
I read somewhere that they even needed to swap the engine to a Porsche one, because the original was just underwhelming.
The speedometer isn't even a DeLorean one because it didn't even go that high
umm.. not entirely true. it wasn't cool in the US.. it WAS very cool in Canada ( where it was built ) also very cool in the UK. where almost 50% of the production run was exported to
@@user-dv6gt5iw4b It was built in Belfast (Northern Ireland) and all but a handful exported to the US ... the company collapsed after John DeLorean was prosecuted for a drug deal in a FBI set-up, and his reputation ruined; before that, they weren't "considered a joke"
The actual reasons they used it was the scene in the barn . The doors opened the same way it did in the magazine
My favorite movie still to this day. Few things I noticed this time watching your reaction. 1. The clock tower in 1985 before time travel had a different place chipped off. 2. Doc said, "the one I was WAITING for all my life," suggesting he already knew about this moment.
The bit at the end with the flying DeLorean was meant as a complete joke. When this movie first came out there was no thought about making sequels. In the DVD there is an interview with the director where he said they would have done something different for the final scene had the been considering sequels.
The thing is, while the others have their headscratchers (BttF 2 especially, which is the most contrived time-travel wise), it still holds overall surprisingly well for something 2/3rds of which was not planned beforehand.
The intro song, 'Power of Love,' is sung by Huey Lewis. He has a cameo as the teacher who tells Marty his band is too loud. The name of the band, the Pinheads, is probably named after the Headpins, a Canadian Rock band popular at the time. The lead singer, Darby Mills, was called the queen of scream, due to her high-pitched vocals.
It’s the summer of 2024 and this girl is JUST NOW watching Back To The Future… for the FIRST time. Only 39 years late! 😂😂
Vicky would need a time machine to have seen this movie 39 years ago. She wasn't born yet.
@@SeedFactoryProject easy, she can borrow Doc Brown’s DeLorean
I love the writing of this movie it’s so good they set up everything from the jump & it plays out so well😂. I wonder how the Doc even knows Marty