My rating for the Back to the Future trilogy: Part 1: 9/10 Part 2: 7/10 Part 3: 9.5/10 Part one is a great introduction, and sets a lot of things up. Part 2 is fun, but has some plot holes and a lot of silly moments that don't really make sense. Part 3 pays off all the setups from the first two parts and is an incredibly satisfying conclusion to the trilogy. Series as a whole: 9/10. Definitely one of my favorites, topped only by Lord of the Rings, for me.
@@jasonwinterboer5232 Yeah 2 is definitely the weakest of the 3, still a great movie by any other standards, and worth watching just to get to the third.
@@jamesleblanc7437 my childhood in a nutshell and the OG Star Wars...I'm a Gen X-er (48 now) and all those films were pretty much required watching as a kid
Marty bumped into the controls. He was not trying to time travel at all. The last date the doc entered was November 5, 1955 so that popped up. He was just trying to speed away from the terrorists and forgot about 88mph powering the time machine.
Back to the Future isn't a cult classic, it's just a classic. It has been cited numerous times as an example of a perfect script. It's also filled with some great details. In the beginning he goes to twin pines mall where he goes back in time in the parking lot. As he goes back the delorean smashes into a pine tree. Then, when he returns to the future he goes to the mall which is now called lone pine mall.
Even though they never intended a sequel (the "To Be Continued" was meant as a joke), when it became clear the studio was going to do a sequel with or without them, they signed on and wrote a clever sequel - which really sets up #3, which they knew they were doing, so they wrote (& filmed) 2 & 3 together. Both movies hold up better than any sequel should, and while they can't be the happy surprise the first one was, they are a lot of fun... each building upon the previous film. Definitely worth watching 2 & 3.
Actually, the film originally never ended with a "To Be Continued". The success of the film led to the sequels, which Zemeckis and Gale agreed to if they could film 2 and 3 back to back. When the film was released in 1986 on VHS the studio added the "To Be Continued" to the end of the film in order to promote the upcoming sequels. In 2002 when the trilogy was released as a box set on DVD the "To Be Continued" was removed once again and it's been gone from every DVD and Blu-Ray version since.
I love how Doc mentions seeing who wins the World Series 30 years in the future anyway... accidental Chekhov's gun by Bob Gale right there!!! (principle of planting elements that will spring into play later)
@@luketimewalker Yes, I've often wondered if they took what really was a throw away line and wrote the second movie around it or if they wrote the second movie without that in mind and it just happens to remain a happy little coincidence.
@@john-ericcervini3179 This is exactly my memory of it. First time I saw the movie was on VHS at my uncles house and it blew my 8 year old mind that a video tape said to be continued since that was only something you saw on TV. Saw parts 2 and 3 in theaters.
@Joe Plett = Also: The script was re-written a lot. And there were almost 40 version of it. But personally, I think it wasn't that extreme. There were a lot of revisions along the way. I know Bob Gale said it, but there is probably a slight exaggeration there too on his part - especially when he was talking about it on 25th anniversary of the movie. In fact, some of them can be nicely downloaded from the net now (written in 1984). But yeah, the final version of the movie, based on the final scripts was different, than planned. I recommend reading a hardcover version of "Back to the Future: The Ultimate Visual History", by Michael Klastorin, with foreword by Michael J. Fox, preface by Christopher Lloyd, and also afterword by Robert Zemeckis. You can buy the one from 2015 (I have that one), or a bit updated version from 2020+. All in all, a great movie. Of course there were other issues, such as replacement of Eric Stoltz with Michael J. Fox (yeah, I like Eric but this was a good call, as he is a method actor - and also considering his arguments with the Zemeckis due to that), issue that the actor Crispin Glover had with other parts (hence why he was not really there in part 2 and 3), and personal issues that Claudia Wells had in her life (and that is the reason why she was replaced by Elizabeth Shue in later parts as Jennifer Parker). All in all, some interesting stories there too, just behind the scenes. And I'm glad that some of that kind of footage is available on youtube now (especially with Eric Stoltz so we can have a comparison).
I saw this movie with my grandmother. She had a Saturday afternoon date with her grandson and though she wanted to see Yentil, 🙄, her 13 year old grandchild saw BTTF was playing and kind of made it known that He’d rather see that. So she acquiesced and wouldn’t you know, getting a 61 year old to watch a movie set in 1955 when she was 31 was fun and nostalgic. She told my mom that the last thing she would ever want to see is sci-fi but for her grandson, she sucked it up and what do you know? She loved the movie. My grandmother passed in 1992 so it’s nice to have fond memories of her.
Fun fact: The guy with the megaphone saying "I'm afraid you're just too darn loud" is actually Huey Lewis who wrote and performed the two songs "Power of Love" and "Back in Time" together with his group The News.
Huey also improved the line "I'm afraid you're just too darn loud" because he himself (and his band) were actually rejected once from a gig with that line.
Never have to scroll too far on Back to the Future reactions for the Huey Lewis comments. 😁 Huey Lewis and the News low key smashed the 80's and early 90's with 19 top ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary, and Mainstream Rock charts. 12 top ten songs, and 3 number #1's. They are also Jimmy Kimmel's favorite band.
She talked over the best line in the whole movie. When young Lorraine’s father (Marty’s grandfather) said “Lorraine, you ever have a kid like that I’ll disown you!”
I always wish Back to the Future 2 would have happened in real life we never got the hoverboards we never got the flying cars and we never got and the wearing your clothes inside out style I wish the Inside Out style would have happened I was disappointed by that. It's 2022
I think the canonical backstory of Doc and Marty's relationship was that Marty broke into Doc's garage to steal an electrical component for his sound system, then Doc caught him and instead offered him a job as a dog walker and lab assistant. There was a comic series in 2015 by IDW that featured that story, written by BttF's co-writer Bob Gale.
"Why is this film so stressful?!?" Oh, don't worry. There aren't any stressful scenes in the other two movies. No, really, there aren't. None at all. Trust me.
The whole trilogy is loads of fun, but honestly this first film is completely unmatched. The cast are perfect, it's incredibly well-made, the script is incredibly tight and focussed (literally every detail established in the opening comes back to mean something by the end), and that soundtrack absolutely slaps. I'm not sure I'd call this a perfect film as such, but it's pretty damn close, and it's always a joy to see others discover a masterpiece like this
It's a perfect film. I saw this in the theaters when It came out.. I was 13. part 2 had flaws and part 3 was almost as fun as the first. Saw them all the day they came out.
I really couldn’t agree with you any more. The first film is that perfect blend of adult humor, silly comedy, adventure, even slips into horror at times and a beautifully crafted soundtrack. It’s that type of movie that defines a generation. And it did.
Glad you are watching Back to the future, 1 of the best trilogy of any movie franchise ever! The sequence of Marty (Played by the legendary Micheal J Fox) getting back to 1985 still gives me goosebumps
most of us can't see anyone other than MJF recklessly riding Marty's skateboard thru hill valley but fun fact, Eric Stoltz shot weeks worth of footage as the character becuz 'Family Ties' wouldn't give Fox the time off to work on the film right away. Also future movie stars Ralph Macchio, Johnny Depp and Charlie Sheen were in consideration, Imagine!
Marty wasn’t trying to time travel he was trying to escape. Can hear everyone watching shouting THE PAST every time you mentioned going to the future 🤣
The contraption montage at the beginning is supposed to establish Doc Brown as a brilliant crackpot obsessed with time, leading up to the plutonium. We kind of know who he is before we even meet him.
I believe that in general people DON'T remember someone's face 30 years later. Especially not someone they met and frequented for only a week when they were 17 years old. When I was George and Lorraine's (1985) age, I couldn't remember the face of the girlfriend I had when I was 18! So memory DOESN'T necessarily last! So it is VERY believable that the 1985 George and Lorraine DON'T remember 1955 Marty's face.
I think that they can definately be ranked, but that is kind of unfair as they are all fantastic and each is part of a greater whole (even if that wasn't necessarily the intention when making the first one).
16:11 It's a "Coon Skin Hat" which was popular with boys because it was featured in the TV Show Davey Crocket: King of the Wild Frontier. (August 17, 1786 - March 6, 1836) was an American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the Texas Revolution.
You will enjoy the whole Back to the Future Trilogy. The second film is really good but a little different than you might expect, and the third is good also but you have to understand they are all a little different from one another ( without giving too much away. )
The one major laugh-out-loud moment in this film for me was, "Better get used to these bars, kid." I have no clue why. But yeah, the whole movie is fantastic. It gives me joy to see youngsters loving the stuff I watched when I was your age. :-)
Seen this movie many many times. Only recently has it come to my attention that Marty's mom was changing in front of the window on purpose. She knew boys were up in the tree watching. Notice how her dad says "ANOTHER one of these kids jumped in front of my car again" so others have been up there before. Plus she's obviously quite promiscuous.
Did you notice that since He destroyed the pine tree, that mall became Lone Pine Mall, no longer called Twin Pines Mall? Or that the alien modeled on his Dad's book, looks like Marty dressed as "Darth Vader" even with the walkman on his belt.
16:23 Marty's young uncle is wearing a coonskin hat, made popular in that era by the 1955 series "The Ballad Of Davey Crockett". Crockett was a real-life frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He famously died at The Alamo and would achieve folk hero status, having numerous songs and television shows made about him. Crockett was often depicted wearing a coonskin hat to emphasize his persona as a frontiersman. Part 2 is great and worth watching (some of the theories you had about this movie actually come into play in Part 2). Part 3 is probably the weakest of the trilogy but still worth watching.
Love this movie. Loraine's behavior was shocking for much of Marty's time back in 1955, which was the opposite of what she told her kids in 1985. She seemed very much in heat, undressing in front of an open window hoping boys would see her, stripping Marty's pants off while he was out and all over Marty from the time she met him. All of which would have been pretty cool for Marty, if she wasn't his mom.
Interestingly, if the gender's were reversed and she was a man taking off a female Marty's pants while she was out, touching her thigh and face and hair, invading her personal space despite REPEATEDLY seeing how uncomfortable she is.... the male version of Loraine would be labeled - in today's world-- ...a sexual predator.
16:48 It's a racoon skin hat, it's a bit of a trope that American kids in the 50s wore them all the time, Davy Crockett (a famous frontiersman who died during the Texas Revolution at the Alamo) wore one and there was lots of popular media about him from that era. Just FYI as I realize a lot of non-Americans, especially younger ones might be confused by something like that.
If i were Marty trying to warn Doc about the future I'd write the letter and then instead of putting it in Doc's coat where he might find it ahead of time (as he did), I'd write his 1985 address on it, give it to George or Lorraine and ask him/her to put it in the mailbox sometime in the next few years, that way Doc would simply receive it with the morning mail, and open it like an ordinary letter, once he starts reading he'd likely find it hard not to read through completely.
Wow. I’m glad you’re finally getting around to watching this. The trilogy is one of my favorites outside of Star Wars. Very good movies and definitely a classic trilogy.
Seriously. Outside of the o.g Star Wars trilogy, LOTR, BTTF and the new Planet of the apes trilogy, I am sure that there ARE other almost perfect and exceptional trilogies... But I just can't think of them offhand. 🤔 Maybe Indiana Jones and the o.g Bourne tril. But the Godfather is out because of the shortcomings of its third installment. The o.g Matrix films are out because there really never should have been more than the first masterpiece (and maybe The Animatrix). There are simply very few film trilogies that are each a banger, flow together so smoothly and consistently. and make up such a deeply engaging, moving and entertaining tale as a whole. 🤷🏼♂️ I'd love to hear suggestions (I'm sure that I've missed some obvious ones. Or at least am curious to see what others consider top-teir film trilogies).
16:12 It's a Davey Crockett Coonskin cap. Very popular person from American history in the early 1800s that had a larger than life persona and mythology around him. At the time in the mid 50's Disney made a number of movies that reintroduced him to audiences, was very popular.
3:23 - The guy who tells them "You're just too darn loud" is actually a cameo by the singer Huey Lewis. He's the musician who wrote all the music for this movie. It was a funny cameo given that he's a rock star telling the band they're too loud.
Well, not _all_ the music. Two original songs for the movie. The score was by the great Alan Silvestri, as well as a famous John Philip Sousa composition (playing from the mayoral campaign van), and there were a lot of older songs to fit 1955 (though a couple of those were from after that year). The tape Marty puts in his Walkman really was recorded by Eddie Van Halen for this movie. When Doc calls and wakes up Marty to come to the mall, the song playing is by Lindsey Buckingham, and there’s an Eric Clapton song playing when Marty first gets back to 1985. I guess these days Huey Lewis would, unfortunately, not find that music to be loud due to hearing loss. He has a very successful career to look proudly back on, though, that’s for sure. :)
From what I've heard, Huey improvised that line because he and his band were once rejected from a gig for being "just too darn loud". He thought that was such a ridiculous reason to be rejected from a gig that he used it for the movie.
the best things about these reactions is sometimes with it's legendary status, you forget how absolutely bananas this movie is, libyan terrorists, time travel, incest. And that's just the first act! lol
Lorraine's brother is wearing a "coonskin cap," a racoon-skin hat that hunters and trappers wore in the 1800s in America. There was a Disney TV show about such a trapper, Davy Crockett, that made the hat very popular in the 1950's.
Fun Fact: At the beginning when Marty goes to the Mall the first Time, it says it's the Twin Pine Mall, but when he first goes back in time to 1955 he runs over that family's Pine Tree. Later, when he goes back 10 mins before it says he visits the Lone Pine Mall. It's very minute but a very nice touch to detail. 😁🤙🏻
Here's something ironic, given the storyline of this movie. In 1985, I was living a couple of thousand miles away from my parents at the time this movie was released, and they had not seen me for a few years, so they came to spend a few weeks visiting. We did many things together, but I remember one evening we decided that my mom and I would go for a bite to eat somewhere, and then go to the theatre to see this new movie that just came out called "Back To The Future". Little did I realize that, while my mom and I were essentially out on a so-called "date", we would be watching a movie about the awkward one-sided romantic 1955 relationship between Marty and his mom. LOL. Oh well. It was all in good fun. She passed away in 2011, and I still miss her.
1985 audience when Delorean first time travels - ‘whoooh cool , it actually worked, how’d they do that?!’ Modern audiences - ‘Nooooo, what about the dog?!’ Every reactor I’ve seen does exactly the same thing! 😂 Marty going back to 1955 wasn’t intentional, he was trying to out run the terrorists and forgot the Delorean activated at 88 mph until it was too late.
Please finish this trilogy👍I sincerely enjoy watching young people react to 80’s movies. It’s so interesting what things stand out to different people about movies from a completely different time. I have no doubt these reactions will help your channel grow. ⭐️
I've never seen a reaction of yours before, mainly because this is the first thing I knew. lol You are an AMAZING reactor and I'd definitely watch all three of these and any other throwbacks you feel like doing.
It's stated that this movie back to the Future is if not the most perfect movie made in the list of 20th century movies.. The production, the writing, the acting are all fantastic. You have action, drama, a love story. Syfy and comedy.. there's a moral to the theme of the movie about you can achieve anything if you put your mind to it..
This whole series is amazing. I agree with you that changing the timeline of when Marty's parents got together would affect if Marty and his siblings were ever born. I also agree with the fact that George should have recognized that Marty looked like the kid from high school and should have accused Lorraine of cheating on him but as you say that is over thinking things. However a lot a people don't realize that Biff made out better in the altered timeline. In the old timeline he was working for someone else with George as his subordinate but now Biff has his own business with his name on the truck.
True, '85 Biff put his name on one truck but the timeline change left him otherwise subservient to the Mcfly's in every way. Tbh, I've always questioned how George and Lorraine could even stand letting this dude anywhere near their family considering that attempted sexual assault George heroically interrupted back in '55. Many ppl would've never forgotten or forgiven him for that. And cheat on George how, with a teenager they knew only a few days, 30 years back, who noone ever saw or heard from again?
I have to add that the kid's funny hairdo that really was a hat was one of the biggest fads of the 1950s, after the hula hoop. It was called a coonskin cap and was made out of a raccoon pelt. The hat was popularized by the massively popular kids' TV show Davy Crockett where actor Fess Parker played the historical figure. When Marty first gets to 1955, we hear the tune Ballad of Davy Crockett (the theme song from the show) which also was a hit.
This is one of my favorite movie, even the end is a little disturbing, because at the end it’s an alternative version of the real parents of Marty, they are richer more fulfilled so it's a happy ending for the audience, but for Marty they are strangers, and those childhood memories must be different.
I've thought about how 1985 must look to younger people. You weren't even born yet but are seeing '85 presented as the present. I mean, at the time, going back to 1955 would've been 30 years. If we were to imagine it happening now, then 30 years would be 1992. Crazy how the perception of time changes.
I think of "cult classics" as films that weren't mainstream yet managed to amass a sizable audience over time. Back the the Future was absolutely mainstream....AND hugely popular right out of the gate.
The fact that Lorrayne did't find strange that Marty looks exactly like Calvin bothered me for years until I grew older and realize that I don't remember my best friend from high school face anymore and we spend a whole year on a daily basis meeting until I moved from another city >
People place a lot of emphasis on their high school years, when in fact it's only a short 4 years of your life. It's no surprise that Marty's parents didn't recognize him from 30 years ago, when they only knew him for 1 week.
On Marty's parent not recognizing him from 1955, memories do normally fade after thirty years, depending on the person's ability and time spent with the person in question. Add to that, their baby Marty (born circa 1969) would have slowly grown into the 1985 Marty so they wouldn't notice. Any resemblance would be dismissed as coincidental and their own imperfect memory.
Yeah, as a 54 year old, I can say there’s no way I’d remember a guy I met a few times in high school, 30 years later. It wouldn’t even occur to me. We meet so many people over the years & many of them bear a passing resemblance to each other. Even if they remembered, they’d just chock it up to Marty looking vaguely like someone they knew very briefly.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 yeah, I agree. The only funny thing is that Lorraine says "Marty...such a nice name," and then proceeds to name her _third_ child Marty, so....not _that_ nice a name, apparently.
Lol, "Where's he been for the past minute?" Einstein didn't go anywhere for that minute. He was there the whole time. Marty and Doc, however, kept traveling for that minute trying to catch up with Einstein and the DeLorean.
11:04 Actually, No, you were right the first time.. He was just trying to ESCAPE not time travel.. He activated the time circuits by Accident when he changed gears. Incidentally It was set for November 5, 1955 because it was the last thing that the Doc. Punched in when he was recalling his days of HOW he invented time travel with the flux capacitor. You missed the Goldie reference XD
In the end, Back to the Future is just a sweet film about a young man who must somehow get his parents to fall in love... Without first being molested by his mom.
@@CikosDarkPassenger they rebuilt it. I went to Universal in 2010 & a big section of the backlot tour had been closed off due to the extent of the fire. The downtown section, which includes the Clock Tower; & which was also in Gremlins & featured as the courthouse in To Kill A Mockingbird, was badly damaged.
Notice how many people and events of Marty’s 1985 were actually influenced by Marty himself traveling back in time? Twin Pines Mall becomes Lone Pine Mall, Goldie Wilson becomes mayor because of a suggestion from Marty in 1955, Marty is the influence for Chuck Berry … the list goes on. It is one of the few perfect movies imo.
Christopher Lloyd is a great actor. His ability to say so much with just facial expressions is amazing. He does this in Taxi, great sitcom from the seventies, and in Search for Spock under makeup as a Klingon is stellar.
Definitely watch 2 and 3 Background hints are also important. For example,.1985 Lorraine says that George didn't kiss her at the dance , the kids would never been born. That's why Marty's brother and sister only reappear in the picture when they do
God I love this movie, it is, in my opinion, the best time travel movie ever, and honestly, my absolute favorite scene is the Earth Angel scene, where Marty began to disappear, and George finally stands up for himself and pushes that bully and kisses Loraine, saving their son Marty and their family from being erased from existence, my other favorite scene is the Marty, skateboard chase scene.
yeah, it was great how the writers used the 'George K.O.'d Biff' scene to foreshadow the evil Biff was truly capable of when it came to his obsession with Lorraine
I remember kids in Brooklyn around 1960 having those kinds of skateboards with metal roller-skate wheels and the box attached with handlebars. They jazzed them up with bottle caps nailed on them like blinkers.
I am glad the director and producer of the trilogy has the rights to any sequels/re-makes and have stated that as long as they live, that won't happen.
The entre trilogy is pretty good. Also, I always wondered how did Marty and Doc became friends as well, even though we don't know how and the age different the movie does manage to convince us that they're best friends.
I highly recommend watching parts 2 and 3. Back to the future is my favorite trilogy of all time. That's saying a lot because i'm as Star Wars fan as well. Loved your reactions they were genuine.
Hearing you talk about going ahead in time and picking lottery numbers and then later calling Doc the conductor is blind foreshadowing on your part. Gotta finish the trilogy.
The goofy hat Lorraine's little brother was wearing was a coonskin cap. I hear it was a huge trend when a series of TV movies about the historic American hero, Davy Crockett ran on the Wonderful World of Disney anthology series. Apparently, every little boy wanted a coonskin cap just like Davy Crockett. The theme song of the show was a big hit on the pop charts, too.
Yes!!!! The best movie/trilogy ever made! You really should watch 2 and 3, you have to see them all to truly appreciate the brilliance of it. You're reactions are so good, so genuine. Love to see people get introduced to these films. They've held up quite well for almost 40 years now
The band’s singer at the dance was Marvin Berry, cousin to Chuck Berry - the man who sang Johnny B. Goode, which Marty sang. He’s considered one of the founders of Rock N Roll. 🎸
Actually the origins of Rock & Roll are far more complex, and go back further in the past. Other influences were the original swing & hip-hop forms, as well as blues & rockabilly. Back then the races were kept apart in a very public way. Record producers liked the "black" sound they heard, but a large part of the country still had "black only" water fountains & hospitals. That's why Elvis was such a big hit. To be blunt, he was a white boy who sang in a black manner. Other artists of that era would be Little Richard and James Brown, George Jones, and Conway Twitty, who was big in the rockabilly circuit before he moved to straight country.
Back to the Future is a classic, period. Definitely not cult You want another classic, I recommend the original Planet of the Apes from 1968, if you haven’t seen it. And the sequels, which aren’t as good, but they should still get attention
Well... when you spend your time trying to crack jokes, you tend to miss things during the movie, like important plot points that he goes back in time and not forward in time.
The Back to the Future trilogy is arguably one of the very best trilogies of all time so definitely worth watching the other two.
My rating for the Back to the Future trilogy:
Part 1: 9/10
Part 2: 7/10
Part 3: 9.5/10
Part one is a great introduction, and sets a lot of things up.
Part 2 is fun, but has some plot holes and a lot of silly moments that don't really make sense.
Part 3 pays off all the setups from the first two parts and is an incredibly satisfying conclusion to the trilogy.
Series as a whole: 9/10. Definitely one of my favorites, topped only by Lord of the Rings, for me.
@@jasonwinterboer5232 I'd agree with that.
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It's a package deal, to truly appreciate the whole story
@@jasonwinterboer5232 Yeah 2 is definitely the weakest of the 3, still a great movie by any other standards, and worth watching just to get to the third.
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My rating for the Back to the Future trilogy:
Part 1: 9.5/10
Part 2: 9/10
Part 3: 8.5/10
No freakin way, feel like every kid should watch this before the age of ten to get that imagination flowing : D
I saw it in the theater at age 11, and my imagination hasn't stopped escalating!
Watched it when I was 13. What an experience.
I was 5. This, with Explorers, Flight of the Navigator, Goonies and Neverending Story, pretty much set up my imagination perfectly.
@@jamesleblanc7437 my childhood in a nutshell and the OG Star Wars...I'm a Gen X-er (48 now) and all those films were pretty much required watching as a kid
@@jamesleblanc7437 Get out of my memory palace!
😂 Me too. 👍
I still don't understand why everyone thinks Biff got a raw deal at the end. He owns his own auto detailing business. That's pretty good.
Marty bumped into the controls. He was not trying to time travel at all. The last date the doc entered was November 5, 1955 so that popped up. He was just trying to speed away from the terrorists and forgot about 88mph powering the time machine.
Yeah, having someone point an RPG-7 at you tends to do that.
Back to the Future isn't a cult classic, it's just a classic. It has been cited numerous times as an example of a perfect script. It's also filled with some great details. In the beginning he goes to twin pines mall where he goes back in time in the parking lot. As he goes back the delorean smashes into a pine tree. Then, when he returns to the future he goes to the mall which is now called lone pine mall.
It also made a ton of money in theaters.. cult classics are either outright bombs or never were meant to be theater films.
Even though they never intended a sequel (the "To Be Continued" was meant as a joke), when it became clear the studio was going to do a sequel with or without them, they signed on and wrote a clever sequel - which really sets up #3, which they knew they were doing, so they wrote (& filmed) 2 & 3 together. Both movies hold up better than any sequel should, and while they can't be the happy surprise the first one was, they are a lot of fun... each building upon the previous film. Definitely worth watching 2 & 3.
Actually, the film originally never ended with a "To Be Continued". The success of the film led to the sequels, which Zemeckis and Gale agreed to if they could film 2 and 3 back to back. When the film was released in 1986 on VHS the studio added the "To Be Continued" to the end of the film in order to promote the upcoming sequels. In 2002 when the trilogy was released as a box set on DVD the "To Be Continued" was removed once again and it's been gone from every DVD and Blu-Ray version since.
I love how Doc mentions seeing who wins the World Series 30 years in the future anyway... accidental Chekhov's gun by Bob Gale right there!!!
(principle of planting elements that will spring into play later)
@@luketimewalker Yes, I've often wondered if they took what really was a throw away line and wrote the second movie around it or if they wrote the second movie without that in mind and it just happens to remain a happy little coincidence.
@@john-ericcervini3179 This is exactly my memory of it. First time I saw the movie was on VHS at my uncles house and it blew my 8 year old mind that a video tape said to be continued since that was only something you saw on TV. Saw parts 2 and 3 in theaters.
@Joe Plett = Also:
The script was re-written a lot. And there were almost 40 version of it. But personally, I think it wasn't that extreme. There were a lot of revisions along the way. I know Bob Gale said it, but there is probably a slight exaggeration there too on his part - especially when he was talking about it on 25th anniversary of the movie.
In fact, some of them can be nicely downloaded from the net now (written in 1984). But yeah, the final version of the movie, based on the final scripts was different, than planned.
I recommend reading a hardcover version of "Back to the Future: The Ultimate Visual History", by Michael Klastorin, with foreword by Michael J. Fox, preface by Christopher Lloyd, and also afterword by Robert Zemeckis. You can buy the one from 2015 (I have that one), or a bit updated version from 2020+.
All in all, a great movie. Of course there were other issues, such as replacement of Eric Stoltz with Michael J. Fox (yeah, I like Eric but this was a good call, as he is a method actor - and also considering his arguments with the Zemeckis due to that), issue that the actor Crispin Glover had with other parts (hence why he was not really there in part 2 and 3), and personal issues that Claudia Wells had in her life (and that is the reason why she was replaced by Elizabeth Shue in later parts as Jennifer Parker).
All in all, some interesting stories there too, just behind the scenes. And I'm glad that some of that kind of footage is available on youtube now (especially with Eric Stoltz so we can have a comparison).
I saw this movie with my grandmother. She had a Saturday afternoon date with her grandson and though she wanted to see Yentil, 🙄, her 13 year old grandchild saw BTTF was playing and kind of made it known that He’d rather see that.
So she acquiesced and wouldn’t you know, getting a 61 year old to watch a movie set in 1955 when she was 31 was fun and nostalgic. She told my mom that the last thing she would ever want to see is sci-fi but for her grandson, she sucked it up and what do you know? She loved the movie.
My grandmother passed in 1992 so it’s nice to have fond memories of her.
Great story, Daniel.....Grandma sounds like an awesome and kind human being.
Good on her! That's really sweet. And best of all you didn't have to see Yentil.
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Mine passed 6 months ago and reading your comment just made me cry like a baby.
Great story, Daniel. Thanks for sharing.
Hey that's awesome 🤗
Fun fact: The guy with the megaphone saying "I'm afraid you're just too darn loud" is actually Huey Lewis who wrote and performed the two songs "Power of Love" and "Back in Time" together with his group The News.
Huey also improved the line "I'm afraid you're just too darn loud" because he himself (and his band) were actually rejected once from a gig with that line.
Oh that's cool.
Both songs were on the movie's soundtrack
Never have to scroll too far on Back to the Future reactions for the Huey Lewis comments. 😁 Huey Lewis and the News low key smashed the 80's and early 90's with 19 top ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary, and Mainstream Rock charts. 12 top ten songs, and 3 number #1's. They are also Jimmy Kimmel's favorite band.
Also apparently Biff "the bully" is inspired by Donald Trump
Its a joy to see someone watch this classic with fresh eyes.
She talked over the best line in the whole movie. When young Lorraine’s father (Marty’s grandfather) said “Lorraine, you ever have a kid like that I’ll disown you!”
Oh yes, definitely watch the second and third films in the trilogy! They’re both imaginative and tons of fun. :)
The train is awesome. It's a shame it's only in one scene.
I always wish Back to the Future 2 would have happened in real life we never got the hoverboards we never got the flying cars and we never got and the wearing your clothes inside out style I wish the Inside Out style would have happened I was disappointed by that. It's 2022
I dont agree she shouldn't. because she didn't understand anything of first movie so no need to waste her times
I think the canonical backstory of Doc and Marty's relationship was that Marty broke into Doc's garage to steal an electrical component for his sound system, then Doc caught him and instead offered him a job as a dog walker and lab assistant. There was a comic series in 2015 by IDW that featured that story, written by BttF's co-writer Bob Gale.
"Why is this film so stressful?!?"
Oh, don't worry. There aren't any stressful scenes in the other two movies. No, really, there aren't. None at all. Trust me.
Yes, it’s completely… the eeeaasy way. 😉
Read this in the voice of the Narrator from The Stanley Parable 😉🤣
Yes, yes, yes, you can completely skip your blood pressure meds for the other two movies.
.....LIAAAAAAAR!
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Now... when it comes to being complicated though...
The whole trilogy is loads of fun, but honestly this first film is completely unmatched. The cast are perfect, it's incredibly well-made, the script is incredibly tight and focussed (literally every detail established in the opening comes back to mean something by the end), and that soundtrack absolutely slaps. I'm not sure I'd call this a perfect film as such, but it's pretty damn close, and it's always a joy to see others discover a masterpiece like this
It's a perfect film. I saw this in the theaters when It came out.. I was 13. part 2 had flaws and part 3 was almost as fun as the first. Saw them all the day they came out.
It's pretty damn close to perfect.
And the other two are absolute bangers, making for one of the very best film trilogies out there.
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I really couldn’t agree with you any more. The first film is that perfect blend of adult humor, silly comedy, adventure, even slips into horror at times and a beautifully crafted soundtrack. It’s that type of movie that defines a generation. And it did.
One of the best trilogies ever
Glad you are watching Back to the future, 1 of the best trilogy of any movie franchise ever! The sequence of Marty (Played by the legendary Micheal J Fox) getting back to 1985 still gives me goosebumps
most of us can't see anyone other than MJF recklessly riding Marty's skateboard thru hill valley but fun fact, Eric Stoltz shot weeks worth of footage as the character becuz 'Family Ties' wouldn't give Fox the time off to work on the film right away. Also future movie stars Ralph Macchio, Johnny Depp and Charlie Sheen were in consideration, Imagine!
Marty wasn’t trying to time travel he was trying to escape. Can hear everyone watching shouting THE PAST every time you mentioned going to the future 🤣
Yeah she wasn't quite picking up on some key details.
Possibly one of the best trilogies! Never gets old.
It certainly sits pretty comfortably in my top five.
It's the best in my opinion
The contraption montage at the beginning is supposed to establish Doc Brown as a brilliant crackpot obsessed with time, leading up to the plutonium. We kind of know who he is before we even meet him.
The back to the future trilogy is amazing. Each film is great and unique. You should react to the 2 sequels. It’s definitely worth it
I believe that in general people DON'T remember someone's face 30 years later. Especially not someone they met and frequented for only a week when they were 17 years old.
When I was George and Lorraine's (1985) age, I couldn't remember the face of the girlfriend I had when I was 18! So memory DOESN'T necessarily last! So it is VERY believable that the 1985 George and Lorraine DON'T remember 1955 Marty's face.
The whole Back To The Future saga is awesome, all 3 movies are equally great and deserve you react to them.
I think that they can definately be ranked, but that is kind of unfair as they are all fantastic and each is part of a greater whole (even if that wasn't necessarily the intention when making the first one).
Yes, the remaining 2 films are definitely a must watch!
ICONIC film... so glad you finally had the opportunity to see it and glad you enjoyed, Alyce!
16:11 It's a "Coon Skin Hat" which was popular with boys because it was featured in the TV Show Davey Crocket: King of the Wild Frontier. (August 17, 1786 - March 6, 1836) was an American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the Texas Revolution.
You will enjoy the whole Back to the Future Trilogy. The second film is really good but a little different than you might expect, and the third is good also but you have to understand they are all a little different from one another ( without giving too much away. )
The one major laugh-out-loud moment in this film for me was, "Better get used to these bars, kid." I have no clue why.
But yeah, the whole movie is fantastic. It gives me joy to see youngsters loving the stuff I watched when I was your age. :-)
Seen this movie many many times. Only recently has it come to my attention that Marty's mom was changing in front of the window on purpose. She knew boys were up in the tree watching. Notice how her dad says "ANOTHER one of these kids jumped in front of my car again" so others have been up there before. Plus she's obviously quite promiscuous.
Did you notice that since He destroyed the pine tree, that mall became Lone Pine Mall, no longer called Twin Pines Mall? Or that the alien modeled on his Dad's book, looks like Marty dressed as "Darth Vader" even with the walkman on his belt.
16:23 Marty's young uncle is wearing a coonskin hat, made popular in that era by the 1955 series "The Ballad Of Davey Crockett". Crockett was a real-life frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He famously died at The Alamo and would achieve folk hero status, having numerous songs and television shows made about him. Crockett was often depicted wearing a coonskin hat to emphasize his persona as a frontiersman.
Part 2 is great and worth watching (some of the theories you had about this movie actually come into play in Part 2). Part 3 is probably the weakest of the trilogy but still worth watching.
Famously portrayed by Fess Parker
I love back to the future, one of the few movies that give me a strong feeling of childhood nostalgia
Love this movie. Loraine's behavior was shocking for much of Marty's time back in 1955, which was the opposite of what she told her kids in 1985. She seemed very much in heat, undressing in front of an open window hoping boys would see her, stripping Marty's pants off while he was out and all over Marty from the time she met him. All of which would have been pretty cool for Marty, if she wasn't his mom.
Interestingly, if the gender's were reversed and she was a man taking off a female Marty's pants while she was out, touching her thigh and face and hair, invading her personal space despite REPEATEDLY seeing how uncomfortable she is....
the male version of Loraine would be labeled - in today's world--
...a sexual predator.
Her being assaulted by Biff probably changed all that
I love this Alyska! A combination of video gaming and movies, such an incredible experience! Love the channel!
16:48 It's a racoon skin hat, it's a bit of a trope that American kids in the 50s wore them all the time, Davy Crockett (a famous frontiersman who died during the Texas Revolution at the Alamo) wore one and there was lots of popular media about him from that era. Just FYI as I realize a lot of non-Americans, especially younger ones might be confused by something like that.
If i were Marty trying to warn Doc about the future I'd write the letter and then instead of putting it in Doc's coat where he might find it ahead of time (as he did), I'd write his 1985 address on it, give it to George or Lorraine and ask him/her to put it in the mailbox sometime in the next few years, that way Doc would simply receive it with the morning mail, and open it like an ordinary letter, once he starts reading he'd likely find it hard not to read through completely.
Wow. I’m glad you’re finally getting around to watching this. The trilogy is one of my favorites outside of Star Wars. Very good movies and definitely a classic trilogy.
Seriously.
Outside of the o.g Star Wars trilogy, LOTR, BTTF and the new Planet of the apes trilogy, I am sure that there ARE other almost perfect and exceptional trilogies... But I just can't think of them offhand.
🤔 Maybe Indiana Jones and the o.g Bourne tril.
But the Godfather is out because of the shortcomings of its third installment. The o.g Matrix films are out because there really never should have been more than the first masterpiece (and maybe The Animatrix).
There are simply very few film trilogies that are each a banger, flow together so smoothly and consistently. and make up such a deeply engaging, moving and entertaining tale as a whole.
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I'd love to hear suggestions (I'm sure that I've missed some obvious ones. Or at least am curious to see what others consider top-teir film trilogies).
16:12 It's a Davey Crockett Coonskin cap. Very popular person from American history in the early 1800s that had a larger than life persona and mythology around him. At the time in the mid 50's Disney made a number of movies that reintroduced him to audiences, was very popular.
3:23 - The guy who tells them "You're just too darn loud" is actually a cameo by the singer Huey Lewis. He's the musician who wrote all the music for this movie. It was a funny cameo given that he's a rock star telling the band they're too loud.
Well, not _all_ the music. Two original songs for the movie. The score was by the great Alan Silvestri, as well as a famous John Philip Sousa composition (playing from the mayoral campaign van), and there were a lot of older songs to fit 1955 (though a couple of those were from after that year). The tape Marty puts in his Walkman really was recorded by Eddie Van Halen for this movie. When Doc calls and wakes up Marty to come to the mall, the song playing is by Lindsey Buckingham, and there’s an Eric Clapton song playing when Marty first gets back to 1985.
I guess these days Huey Lewis would, unfortunately, not find that music to be loud due to hearing loss. He has a very successful career to look proudly back on, though, that’s for sure. :)
From what I've heard, Huey improvised that line because he and his band were once rejected from a gig for being "just too darn loud". He thought that was such a ridiculous reason to be rejected from a gig that he used it for the movie.
the best things about these reactions is sometimes with it's legendary status, you forget how absolutely bananas this movie is, libyan terrorists, time travel, incest. And that's just the first act! lol
It happens more often than you'd think.
Seriously??? We're at the stage where it takes less than 3 mins into a film before someone says "I'm SO CONFUSED!!!". Fuck me... JUST FUCKING WAIT.
Lorraine's brother is wearing a "coonskin cap," a racoon-skin hat that hunters and trappers wore in the 1800s in America. There was a Disney TV show about such a trapper, Davy Crockett, that made the hat very popular in the 1950's.
You couldn't tell from the cars that he had traveled back in time. The date was right there on the instrument panel.
yeah.. she just wasnt paying attention for like 20 minutes.
"where has the dog been all this time?"
um....it was.... instantaneous.
Fun Fact: At the beginning when Marty goes to the Mall the first Time, it says it's the Twin Pine Mall, but when he first goes back in time to 1955 he runs over that family's Pine Tree. Later, when he goes back 10 mins before it says he visits the Lone Pine Mall. It's very minute but a very nice touch to detail. 😁🤙🏻
36:27 - the name of the mall changed from "Twin pine mall" to "Lone Pine Mall" because he ran over one of the pines in the past
Here's something ironic, given the storyline of this movie. In 1985, I was living a couple of thousand miles away from my parents at the time this movie was released, and they had not seen me for a few years, so they came to spend a few weeks visiting. We did many things together, but I remember one evening we decided that my mom and I would go for a bite to eat somewhere, and then go to the theatre to see this new movie that just came out called "Back To The Future".
Little did I realize that, while my mom and I were essentially out on a so-called "date", we would be watching a movie about the awkward one-sided romantic 1955 relationship between Marty and his mom. LOL. Oh well. It was all in good fun.
She passed away in 2011, and I still miss her.
1985 audience when Delorean first time travels - ‘whoooh cool , it actually worked, how’d they do that?!’
Modern audiences - ‘Nooooo, what about the dog?!’
Every reactor I’ve seen does exactly the same thing! 😂
Marty going back to 1955 wasn’t intentional, he was trying to out run the terrorists and forgot the Delorean activated at 88 mph until it was too late.
Please finish this trilogy👍I sincerely enjoy watching young people react to 80’s movies. It’s so interesting what things stand out to different people about movies from a completely different time. I have no doubt these reactions will help your channel grow. ⭐️
I've never seen a reaction of yours before, mainly because this is the first thing I knew. lol You are an AMAZING reactor and I'd definitely watch all three of these and any other throwbacks you feel like doing.
It's stated that this movie back to the Future is if not the most perfect movie made in the list of 20th century movies.. The production, the writing, the acting are all fantastic. You have action, drama, a love story. Syfy and comedy.. there's a moral to the theme of the movie about you can achieve anything if you put your mind to it..
I write fanfiction stories myself. The stories I write are mostly Ben Ten or Rilaya or Elsanna stories.
She thought the Davy Crockett raccoon fur hat was the Milton's hair 😂😂 This is the most unhinged reaction yet
My favorite easter egg at the beginning the name of the mall is twin pines mall at the end its lone pine mall because of marty hit pine back in 1955
This whole series is amazing. I agree with you that changing the timeline of when Marty's parents got together would affect if Marty and his siblings were ever born. I also agree with the fact that George should have recognized that Marty looked like the kid from high school and should have accused Lorraine of cheating on him but as you say that is over thinking things. However a lot a people don't realize that Biff made out better in the altered timeline. In the old timeline he was working for someone else with George as his subordinate but now Biff has his own business with his name on the truck.
I never thought about biff in that sense. Wow.
True, '85 Biff put his name on one truck but the timeline change left him otherwise subservient to the Mcfly's in every way. Tbh, I've always questioned how George and Lorraine could even stand letting this dude anywhere near their family considering that attempted sexual assault George heroically interrupted back in '55. Many ppl would've never forgotten or forgiven him for that. And cheat on George how, with a teenager they knew only a few days, 30 years back, who noone ever saw or heard from again?
16:13. Not a hairstyle. That's a racoon skin cap, popularized by the tv show of 1955 DAVY CROCKETT.
"Eyes up here Marty, Eyes up here!" that was hilarious. I love your reactions.
I have to add that the kid's funny hairdo that really was a hat was one of the biggest fads of the 1950s, after the hula hoop. It was called a coonskin cap and was made out of a raccoon pelt. The hat was popularized by the massively popular kids' TV show Davy Crockett where actor Fess Parker played the historical figure. When Marty first gets to 1955, we hear the tune Ballad of Davy Crockett (the theme song from the show) which also was a hit.
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Animated series: Rick and Morty, the main characters are based on Doc and Marty and they do some wild sh*t! 🍻😝
This is one of my favorite movie, even the end is a little disturbing, because at the end it’s an alternative version of the real parents of Marty, they are richer more fulfilled so it's a happy ending for the audience, but for Marty they are strangers, and those childhood memories must be different.
This is the only perfect trilogy among all in which every single episode is a standalone success. Brilliant script writing and plot lines.
I've thought about how 1985 must look to younger people. You weren't even born yet but are seeing '85 presented as the present. I mean, at the time, going back to 1955 would've been 30 years.
If we were to imagine it happening now, then 30 years would be 1992. Crazy how the perception of time changes.
I think of "cult classics" as films that weren't mainstream yet managed to amass a sizable audience over time. Back the the Future was absolutely mainstream....AND hugely popular right out of the gate.
The fact that Lorrayne did't find strange that Marty looks exactly like Calvin bothered me for years until I grew older and realize that I don't remember my best friend from high school face anymore and we spend a whole year on a daily basis meeting until I moved from another city >
plus they only knew Marty bka "Calvin" for less than a week and never saw him again
People place a lot of emphasis on their high school years, when in fact it's only a short 4 years of your life. It's no surprise that Marty's parents didn't recognize him from 30 years ago, when they only knew him for 1 week.
On Marty's parent not recognizing him from 1955, memories do normally fade after thirty years, depending on the person's ability and time spent with the person in question. Add to that, their baby Marty (born circa 1969) would have slowly grown into the 1985 Marty so they wouldn't notice. Any resemblance would be dismissed as coincidental and their own imperfect memory.
Yeah, as a 54 year old, I can say there’s no way I’d remember a guy I met a few times in high school, 30 years later. It wouldn’t even occur to me. We meet so many people over the years & many of them bear a passing resemblance to each other. Even if they remembered, they’d just chock it up to Marty looking vaguely like someone they knew very briefly.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 yeah, I agree. The only funny thing is that Lorraine says "Marty...such a nice name," and then proceeds to name her _third_ child Marty, so....not _that_ nice a name, apparently.
Exactly!
@@brentage5000 Maybe George chose the first name
Lol, "Where's he been for the past minute?" Einstein didn't go anywhere for that minute. He was there the whole time. Marty and Doc, however, kept traveling for that minute trying to catch up with Einstein and the DeLorean.
“Why is this film stressing me out?” Because you’ve become emotionally invested in the characters and the plot.
11:04 Actually, No, you were right the first time.. He was just trying to ESCAPE not time travel.. He activated the time circuits by Accident when he changed gears. Incidentally It was set for November 5, 1955 because it was the last thing that the Doc. Punched in when he was recalling his days of HOW he invented time travel with the flux capacitor. You missed the Goldie reference XD
George knocking out Biff and turning him into a chump is still one of the most satisfying moments for me in a film.
9:49 "You can see the lottery winners then come back and "guess" the numbers."
You just foreshadowed the plot of the sequel. :D
In the end, Back to the Future is just a sweet film about a young man who must somehow get his parents to fall in love... Without first being molested by his mom.
Or better yet, his dad starts the realize that his son looks an awful lot like that guy they knew for a week in high school
You are the first reactor I’ve seen that predicted Marry filling in on guitar or how George standing up to Biff would change the future!
There was no blind spot. Biff said he spilled beer which means he was drinking and driving. That caused the crash.
Fun fact: the clock tower still stands on the Universal Studios Hollywood area today. And legend says it’s still on 10:04 pm
i thought it may have been destroyed from the 2008 backlot fire.
@@CikosDarkPassenger no it’s still there
@@CikosDarkPassenger they rebuilt it. I went to Universal in 2010 & a big section of the backlot tour had been closed off due to the extent of the fire. The downtown section, which includes the Clock Tower; & which was also in Gremlins & featured as the courthouse in To Kill A Mockingbird, was badly damaged.
Notice how many people and events of Marty’s 1985 were actually influenced by Marty himself traveling back in time? Twin Pines Mall becomes Lone Pine Mall, Goldie Wilson becomes mayor because of a suggestion from Marty in 1955, Marty is the influence for Chuck Berry … the list goes on. It is one of the few perfect movies imo.
I don't think Goldie Wilson becomes mayor because of him. He's already a mayor in the unchanged 1985, when the mall was still the Twin Pines Mall.
Christopher Lloyd is a great actor. His ability to say so much with just facial expressions is amazing.
He does this in Taxi, great sitcom from the seventies, and in Search for Spock under makeup as a Klingon is stellar.
Yes definitely watch parts 2 and 3 the Back to the Future Trilogy is truly one of the best Trilogies
Definitely watch 2 and 3
Background hints are also important. For example,.1985 Lorraine says that George didn't kiss her at the dance , the kids would never been born. That's why Marty's brother and sister only reappear in the picture when they do
God I love this movie, it is, in my opinion, the best time travel movie ever, and honestly, my absolute favorite scene is the Earth Angel scene, where Marty began to disappear, and George finally stands up for himself and pushes that bully and kisses Loraine, saving their son Marty and their family from being erased from existence, my other favorite scene is the Marty, skateboard chase scene.
yeah, it was great how the writers used the 'George K.O.'d Biff' scene to foreshadow the evil Biff was truly capable of when it came to his obsession with Lorraine
I remember kids in Brooklyn around 1960 having those kinds of skateboards with metal roller-skate wheels and the box attached with handlebars. They jazzed them up with bottle caps nailed on them like blinkers.
these movies actually predicted and got somethings about the future right these movies are why people want to study and create time travel! :)
I am glad the director and producer of the trilogy has the rights to any sequels/re-makes and have stated that as long as they live, that won't happen.
It's even a happy ending for Biff, because in the new timeline, he owns his own auto detailing business.
The entre trilogy is pretty good. Also, I always wondered how did Marty and Doc became friends as well, even though we don't know how and the age different the movie does manage to convince us that they're best friends.
I highly recommend watching parts 2 and 3. Back to the future is my favorite trilogy of all time. That's saying a lot because i'm as Star Wars fan as well. Loved your reactions they were genuine.
Hearing you talk about going ahead in time and picking lottery numbers and then later calling Doc the conductor is blind foreshadowing on your part. Gotta finish the trilogy.
Wouldn't it be funny, if when Marty went back to 1985, he finds out his name is Calvin. 🤣
I love this film because Micheal J Fox is amazing.
This is a perfect film. I never get tired of it. And the next two sequels make the three of them one of the greatest motion picture trilogies ever.
16:25 “Oh it’s a hat!” I nearly cried laughing.
Originally it was a refrigerator, and nuclear explosion to send him through time, they ended up using that concept in Indiana Jones.
03:25 The teacher with the bull horn is actually the lead singer for the group "Huey Lewis and the News" who sang the theme song for the movie
They became friends because Marty used to deliver doc's newspapers, according to the comics
The goofy hat Lorraine's little brother was wearing was a coonskin cap. I hear it was a huge trend when a series of TV movies about the historic American hero, Davy Crockett ran on the Wonderful World of Disney anthology series. Apparently, every little boy wanted a coonskin cap just like Davy Crockett. The theme song of the show was a big hit on the pop charts, too.
Yes!!!! The best movie/trilogy ever made! You really should watch 2 and 3, you have to see them all to truly appreciate the brilliance of it. You're reactions are so good, so genuine. Love to see people get introduced to these films. They've held up quite well for almost 40 years now
The band’s singer at the dance was Marvin Berry, cousin to Chuck Berry - the man who sang Johnny B. Goode, which Marty sang. He’s considered one of the founders of Rock N Roll. 🎸
Actually the origins of Rock & Roll are far more complex, and go back further in the past. Other influences were the original swing & hip-hop forms, as well as blues & rockabilly.
Back then the races were kept apart in a very public way. Record producers liked the "black" sound they heard, but a large part of the country still had "black only" water fountains & hospitals. That's why Elvis was such a big hit. To be blunt, he was a white boy who sang in a black manner. Other artists of that era would be Little Richard and James Brown, George Jones, and Conway Twitty, who was big in the rockabilly circuit before he moved to straight country.
akkkchually......
Back to the Future is a classic, period. Definitely not cult
You want another classic, I recommend the original Planet of the Apes from 1968, if you haven’t seen it. And the sequels, which aren’t as good, but they should still get attention
Well... when you spend your time trying to crack jokes, you tend to miss things during the movie, like important plot points that he goes back in time and not forward in time.
She was spending so much time playing up to the camera that she completely missed half the jokes in this movie,
so wild how you kept saying the future when he was in the past but at the same time getting all the solutions to all the problems instantaneously
In an early version of the script, George starts to recognize Marty as being the guy from 1955.
This whole trilogy is great. Just watch em all! Loved your reaction. :)