We hope you enjoy this Reaction Video. We loved it, and it doesn't feel dated considering how long ago it was made. The script is super tight, and we loved seeing the foreshadows and pay-offs in what is a complex and well crafted script. But I bet we missed some things. It wasn't until the edit that we realised that Peabody shouts 'pine tree' for example. If you think there's anything else of interest, please comment on this and get a thread going. Enjoy!
@@arifeannor9573 I'll be honest I'm surprised it hasn't been removed. On top of the home version there's also streaming and pirated copies and I can't believe that literally nobody thought to just chop that off the end of 2.
Peanut brittle is what is being poured into the bowl. It's a confection made of peanuts, sugar, butter and vanilla. The sugar is heated in a pan until it liquifies then turns into a brittle toffee-like texture. The peanuts and butter are added before pouring the hot sugar onto waxed paper until it cools. It is broken into pieces for serving. It was popular in the 70's and 80's as a party confection.
I've heard that there was a scene that was cut out, where a neighbor's kid is selling peanut brittle for a scout fundraiser, and George has no sales resistance, so he buys a couple of cartons. He's eating it for breakfast just to get rid of it.
Good point! Unless he got in the car one minute earlier, told Einstein to watch guard, drove it up the ramp, waited for Marty to arrive at prescribed time (precisely) then made the dramatic entrance, just for science kicks !
Very cool documentary on the making of this, originally they were going to use a refrigerator for the time machine but worried kids would try to get in them and get stuck lol Definitely my favorite trilogy of all time. MJF had an insane schedule he turned this role down because he was filming Family Ties sitcom and the hours were long he simply couldn't do it, they casted Eric Stoltz and filmed majority of it and didn't like his performance , he was super serious in the role no comedic timing and chemistry to Doc, they knew they had to do whatever it takes to get MJF do he agreed amd filmed at night, he definitely got no sleep! You should watch Teen Wolf and The Frighteners very good movies!
You know, there are some shots, you can really see MJF's wrinkles around his eyes. It could have been early onset of his disease, but it did indeed look tired
When you spoke about looking up numbers in phone books, it reminded me of having to read through all the pizza locations to find one nearby in the '80s
"my pines!" before he goes back it was twin pines mall because he had 2 pine trees, and he was a weird breeder about them, but when he goes back in time, he destroys one of the pines and its not twin pines anymore, forget the actual name but its like pine mall or something singular pine. And by that logic, the Doc wasn't wearing the armor in the beginning, but only after he came back. He most likely went created a parallel universe, the one he's from doc is still dead and Marty just disappears. He didn't fix that universe, he just made a new one where the outcome was better for them.
Watching this film (when Stickland shows up at the start) always makes me think of Top Gun. You should do those films too, would love to see your, and your lads, take on the original and then the modern sequel.
@@GenerationMediaReaction You should; it fits with the vibe of your channel perfectly- an older 80s movie to educate your son with, and a modern film he can educate you with 😉 seriously though, imo, the original is great and its sequel is one of the very few, made way too long after the original, is actually just as good as the original.
The other two films are also Fantastic. Back to the Future 3 might be my favorite of the series. Its just a perfect trilogy in my opinion. Im looking forward to watching your reactions to the other 2. I like seeing your sons reactions. Its cool seeing what someone his age thinks of the movies I grew up with ❤.
I always thought the woman in the car said "Dont stop or we'll DIE!!!" Meaning she saw what Marty was wearing...the yellow radiation suit. Makes more sense to me than "Don't stop, Wilbur DRIVE!!"
The Prime Timeline is the timeline our Marty (where the mall is named Twin Pines, and his dad is still bullied by Biff) is from. However, when Marty travels back to 1955 he inadvertently creates an all-new timeline that still exists somewhere in the multi-dimensional/multi plane space time continuum where Doc is probably still dead. The interesting thing is the Martys from the various timelines that travels back to 1955 will create an alternate timeline of their own making. It would be quite interesting to see what kind of different timelines are created by the various Marty's that travel back to 1955 from the year 1985 in their respective timelines.
A classic comedy, hugely rewatchable. I loved your explanation of character arc---well done! Yes, Marty invented skateboarding. It really began in the mid-1960s. I saw my first one (bought by a friend) and tried it out around 1966. Even when I was young, in the early 1960s, most gas stations had two attendants. One to fill you up and clean your windows and another to check your oil and tire pressure. This was “full service” at no extra cost. Some stations advertised as a “full service” station as the practice started dying off. The movie comedically exaggerates this true folkway. A couple corrections: At the beginning of the movie, they are not yet in the altered timeline, so Doc knows nothing of Marty and has no bullet-proof vest. I think the woman in the car says, “Don’t stop, Wilber, don’t….”
Thank you! Yes it wasn't until the end that we realised that Doc is not aware of the adventure at the beginning. The filmmakers seem to use Lone Pine example as setting the 'lore' on this. But they save that until the end, so you keep wondering. Ah, she says 'Wilber'! ... that's funny, it's not a common name in UK
12:15 Jennifer writing her grandmother's number on the flier is the only reason that Marty doesn't just throw it in the trash, and still has it when it becomes important later.
"My pine! Why you!" When Marty runs over one of the "twin pines" to now make "lone pine." "Don't stop, Wilber! Don't....." as the old couple see Marty in the middle of the road. This movie is nearly perfection. I was thrilled to be able to have a photo with the cast last summer at a comic convention. Very excited to see your reaction to part 2 &3.
Previously had seen the Pine knocked down, but it wasn't until the edit that we heard him say 'pine!' and of course the Peabody estate was mentioned previously. It's very subtle. Feel like there is more in there and we missed some things.
Back in the 90's when ever friends and family would come to visit us in San Diego,California, we would drive up to Los Angeles to Universal Studios, the tram tour started out going through old movie sets the 1st was Hill Valley, California just like it was in the movie, since then they had a fire at Universal that destroyed it. They also had the Back to the Future ride, 4 people would get in a mock DeLorean with surround screen and shoot off into the future it was thrilling😂, the ride shut down in 2007😢. I worked at a Shell gas station and a friend of mine owned a business Super Chargers across the street, one of his customers had a Hollywood car collection the bat mobile and ohers, one day my friend drove into the gas station with one of three Back to the Future DeLorean's it had the flux capacitor and all the guages, he gave me a ride around the block a thrill of a lifetime! The 2 of you do great reactions thanks for bringing back my memories. Peace✌️ and Love❤ Gary😊
Not sure if you realise, but the guy who tells Marty that his band is too loud at the audition is Huey Lewis (from Huey Lewis and the News), who wrote and performed ‘The Power of Love’ and ‘Back In Time’ both used in the film. Also, it was the actor who played George who was unhappy with the fact that Marty and his family are seen to have an improved life due to the, being better off etc, which led to him eventually not being officially part of the 2nd film. A different actor plays him, but with prosthetics to make him look like the original (mixed in with some shots from the 1st film). This led to rules being changed to stop filmmakers using the likeness of a previous actor in future films without their consent.
oh wow! didn't know that was Huey Lewis! Makes sense 'too loud!' I thought that Crispin Glover had a pay dispute for the second film, but may have been wrong
@@GenerationMediaReactionYes, he also wanted more pay to match the other actors, but he’s always been very vocal about not being happy with the the message of the first one.
@@videoeditorbloke interesting, I didn't see the ending as being materialistic of the McFlys but more that they were in a better place emotionally and the world around them was improved because of it
I think the first scenes already reveal the incredible quality of the script. The way Doc's facility is shown and Marty destroys the speaker reveals a lot about the characters of the two protagonists while also driving the plot forward. There are also a lot of details sprinkled in here that become very important later (like the plutonium). One of the best scripts ever written.
I'm the first one here!? Wow. I love Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown, but he's been in SO many great movies, plays and TV shows! Before BTTF, he was on a great show called TAXI. He played a burned out hippy named Jim Ignotowski. The show had a cast of actors who went on to great success including Tony Danza, Andy Kauffman, Rhea Pearlman, Marilu Henner and others. The most successfull would be Danny DeVito. I encourage you to check out tje show, especially the episode where Lloyd makes his debute. People are still talking about how funny the (mostly improvised) scene is of his charactor taking his driving exam. I'll leave it to someone else to explain why the "It's too darnef loud" line was funny at the time. 😂
The 4 photographs/portraits on Doc. E Brown's mantle in 1955 (in the Brown mansion) are of his inventor heros, I believe they are Sir. Isaac Newton. Ben Franklin, Albert Einstein and Thomas A Edison (Tom, when Doc Brown asks the portrait about the near impossibility of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity), you seemed puzzled when Doc said Thomas A Edison's name when he said Tom.. They are the same portraits that we saw at the beginning of the movie just before Marty arrives at Doc's garage where he lives since the Brown Mansion was destroyed by a major fire. The garage was all that survived.
Yeah missed that in the viewing, but pieced it together in the edit. There's a lot of detail that we saw for new in the edit. It's got loads of details
@@GenerationMediaReaction It's hard to absorb everything even if a person has seen a piece more than two or three times. It's been many years since I first saw it probably back in the late 80s early 90s and I probably didn't pick up on everything right away either. You're doing fine with your reactions.
If ever I was to teach recent American history, I'd show the class three films which give a good idea about the changes in the 20th century - It's a Wonderful Life, Roger Rabbit, and this first movie in the Back to the Future trilogy. I was born in 1950 and saw this movie when it came out in 1985. Their recreation of a 1955 and how the people would see glimpses of 1985 via Marty's viewpoint is just stunning. "Nobody has two televisions" is exactly the feeling of the time. The idea of B-movie actor Ronald Reagan would have been considered a joke. The first televised presidential debate was in 1960 between JFK and Nixon as it took a decade for the widespread acceptance of televisions for someone to even think about this.
To answer your question about skateboarding, I looked it up on Google. Apparently it actually did start in California, during the late 1940s into the early '50s. Surfers came up with it as a way to practice their crafts when the waves weren't high enough, and they called the sport "sidewalk surfing". The first skateboards were made from wooden boxes and planks, with roller skate wheels attached. But the first modern board wasn't invented until 1959, four years after this film's past events.
@@0okamino never thought of it that way before... Tho by virtue of "Future Biff" admonishing "Past Biff" in BTTF 2 about how he used the phrase, it's safe to assume Past Biff was saying it wrong in the world of the movie. 👌👍
there are great touches all over this. strictland saying "no mcfly ever amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley" is such a loaded thing to say when a McFly achieves amazing things through Doc Brown but almost wipes out his entire families existence... making them literally amount to nothing
12:02 Another casual example of the brilliant script: Marty would never have put the flyer in his pocket and kept it, which later proved to be crucial, if Jennifer hadn't written the phone number (and "I love you") on the back. In this way, little details constantly intertwine throughout the movie, making it one of the most rewatchable movies ever. The magic lies above all in the fact that all these allusions and details are constructed, but woven in with such dreamlike ease that you hardly notice all of them the first time you watch it. That's one of the reasons why you appreciate the movie all the more the more you watch it.
Totally agree, the whole first 30 mins is all about setting up the story. It’s so clever. There’s a lot of exposition but it’s done largely with the enthusiasm of Doc and they soooo get away with it
Not sure you know but the guy who tells them that they are just too darn loud is Huey Lewis. That is, Huey Lewis and the News the band performing the theme song “Power of Love”
1440, there is a deleted scene they cut out where a neighbor with a girlscout or cubscout sells george the entire thing of some sort of peanut britle to raise money and told the dkid, see we only had to go to one house. becasue he knew george would just cave in and buy it all. so it is peanut brittle. i always thought it was cereal prior to that though
@@GenerationMediaReaction well many years ago betwee 2 x i got both teh entire trilogy on VHS, then the entire triology on DVD when those came out as a set. i watched all the extras.
One bit of trivia is that (you probably know) the main theme (The Power of Love) is written and sung by Huey Lewis & the News. But Huey Lewis actually plays the teacher who tells them with the megaphone that their music "is too darn loud."
Even though I was growing up in the 80s, and saw this movie in the 80s, as a kid, I actually had no idea that Nancy was Reagan’s second wife until I saw this movie, and my dad explained to me who Jane Wyman was. I did already know who Jerry Lewis and Jack Benny were, though, so I wasn’t completely clueless. 😄
Requests: Peewee’s Big Adventure. Dennis the Menace. Walter Matthau, Christopher Lloyd. The Princess Bride. Hook. Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman. Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Steve Martin, John Candy. It’s a family movie except for one scene where Steve Martin is so mad he says the F word 18 times. Has your son seen all the Harry potters (8) and lord of the rings trilogy and The Hobbit (3 movies)? Has he seen all the early Disney animation movies? I still love them and I’m a grandmother! A lot of older men reactors watch them because they didn’t get to see them as kids. Bambi, Snow White, Peter Pan, Dumbo, Pinocchio. Western TV shows. Roy Rogers. Bonanza. John Wayne movies. Fawlty Towers. Two seasons. Are you being Served? All the James Bond’s starting from the 1st. My favorite Bond is Timothy Dalton. Laurel and Hardy The Marx Brothers movies. Groucho, Harpo, Zeppo. Shirley Temple movies. My favorite book is still “The Wind in the Willows.” Unabridged. The movies are not so good.
Thank you for the suggestions. We have seen Lord of the rings, but not the Hobbit ones. We will be doing The Princess Bride soon. Hope you're enjoying the channel
It’s not how it works in this, but it’s a version of time travel if the traveler isn’t isolated from the temporal effects. That would definitely limit the range one could travel, though.
@@GenerationMediaReaction oh and it was Glover that said he disagreed with the director about the ending saying that material things shouldn't be marty's reward. That it should be the happiness of his family and love. Something like that. They got more stuff, better jobs, new cars. Very 80s stuff. That was the beginning of the end for Glover being in the sequels.
7:05 A couple viewings ago, I finally saw the clock that displays the right time. It's at 7:10 here, and it's on the floor on its side. Marty stands next to it. I think it's a blink-and-you-miss-it scene. 7:45 I can imagine a hacker surreptitiously changing it so that Marty falls back and has his eardrums blown out. 10:35 I imagine having to wear earplugs at the dance, if they provided the music. Also, the teacher who spoke was Huey Lewis, who composed and sang the song. 15:50 "Naughty Birdwatching" 20:00 Here's where I suggest that Mr. Strickland may have had a point. If Doc's calculations were *incorrect* they would have *been* in deep doo-doo, with a car riding down on them! 22:20 In this timeline or reality, Marty was never in 1955. So Marty never showed up at Doc's mansion.
Sadly ironic how you keep mentioning how briliant Crispin Glover was because the studio recast him (using moulds of his face) for the sequels. "It had to do with money, and what the characters were doing with money," Glover explained. "I said to [director] Robert Zemeckis I thought it was not a good idea for our characters to have a monetary reward, because it basically makes the moral of the movie that money equals happiness." In the same interview, the actor said he was being paid less than co-stars Lea Thompson and Tom Wilson, both of whom had comparably sized roles. He asked for more money for the sequel and the studio ditched him. Lea Thompson had grown close to Glover during the filming of the original BTTF. To now share scenes with an imposter was not something she relished. "I was kind of annoyed that Jeffrey Weissman was doing those scenes with me, to be perfectly honest," Thompson said. "That was a little hard for me, just because Crispin was so fantastic. He was a genius in Back to the Future, so it was hard that he wasn't there." Weissman said Thompson essentially gave him the cold shoulder during filming as a result of her discomfort: "Lea never called me by name. When we were in the makeup chair in the morning, she rarely addressed me. After the shoot, she brought her mother up to Universal to see the tour. I went to speak to her and she introduced me as "the actor who played Crispin." She didn't remember my name." Other cast members called him Crispin, as did Steven Spielberg by accident. Glover sued the studio for use of his likeness and won! So meek George McFly ended up beating the big guy! And it changed movie law (and lore).
It's interesting. Really love his performance, but didn't feel that the reward that the McFly family has is a monetary one. It felt more like they were in a happier place emotionally and therefore more content and self assured. The slight increase in money on screen seeemd to come from the parents being happier in general (not coward, not alcoholic)
It wouldnt surprise me. They didn’t just replace him-they covered another actor in prosthetics and make-up and tasked him with replicating Glover’s distinctive look, voice, and mannerisms. It was as though someone was playing Crispin Glover playing George McFly. Glover sued for unauthorised use of his likeness and was paid $760,000. If they'd just paid him comparable to the others it would have been less. Lea was paid $650k, Biff was $350k. They offered him only $150k! @GenerationMediaReaction
@@GenerationMediaReaction From The Hollywood Reporter: "The 1990 lawsuit that Glover filed against Universal Pictures for violating his right of publicity predated other famous cases including Vanna White’s lawsuit over a Wheel of Fortune robot hostess in a blond wig and Gwen Stefani’s legal action over a digital avatar in the Band Hero video game. Glover’s case never got far enough in the court to set legal precedent, but it is often invoked when actors like Fast & Furious star Paul Walker become indisposed and filmmakers contemplate tricky ways to resurrect performances. The advance of technologies like holograms, with the potential of reviving dead stars and allowing living ones to be in multiple places, tends to invite discussion of wonderful possibilities and legal limits. Enter Glover and his unwitting participation in a film for the ages - and a lawsuit that Philip K. Dick would have loved."
26:46 There were 2 pines right next to each other (twin pines) and Marty just hit one of them, hence in the future it would no longer be called "twin pines mall" instead its "lone pine mall" when he gets back to the future.
10:34 Du coup, comme vous avez déjà vu le film tous les deux, et que vous le regardez pour, je cite, "y découvrir de nouveaux détails qu'on aurait pas encore vu", je vais me permettre deux ou trois interventions qui, je l'espère, auront quelque intérêt pour vous ou les internautes curieux. Voici la première : L'homme à l'image n'est autre que Huey Lewis lui-même, le chanteur et auteur de la chanson "phare" du film, "The Power Of Love", dont le groupe de Marty (The Pinheads) en joue ici une version "métal", avec Paul Hanson au solo de guitare (solo mimé par Michael J. Fox sur les images).
41:19 Dans le premier script du film, Zemeckis et Gale prévoyaient que Marty et Doc se rendraient sur une base d'essais nucléaires et profiteraient de l'énergie de la déflagration d'une bombe atomique pour projeter Marty enfermé dans un réfrigérateur dans le futur. Les studios refusèrent l'idée car beaucoup trop chère à réaliser à l'époque. Plus tard, à l'idée de faire une machine à voyager dans le temps mobile plutôt, ils se rabattirent sur une voiture, et la DeLorean entra en scène. De cette idée "nucléaire", il ne reste dans le film que plusieurs allusions aux retombées radioactives, sujet d'inquiétude important de la population américaine dans les années 50.
29:42 un éclair produit une puissance de 20 gigawatts pendant 25 millisecondes (c'est 20 fois une centrale nucléaire), pour une température de 30 000°C (soit près de 6 fois la température de surface du Soleil).
49:52 "Les premiers skateboards apparaissent aux États-Unis comme un jeu d'enfant, probablement dans les années 1950. Le skateboard est ensuite médiatisé en Californie à la fin des années 1950 par la communauté des surfeurs. La pratique encore marginale se popularise au milieu des années 1970, où il devient un phénomène de mode éphémère tant aux États-Unis qu'en Europe. À partir des années 1990, la pratique se confond avec la discipline du Street devenue dominante. Le skateboard devient également un phénomène culturel mondial, avec notamment une forte influence sur la mode vestimentaire des jeunes" (Source : Wikipedia) Découvrant aujourd'hui moi aussi que la date de naissance officielle du skateboard n'existe pas vraiment, ça me conforte dans l'idée que Zemeckis et Gale ont sciemment voulu qu'on considère Marty comme l'inventeur du Skate, tout comme le compositeur de "Johnny Be Goode" et plusieurs autres œuvres pionnières dans les trois volets de la saga. Brillante écriture là aussi.
There is way too much podcast-style talking during a first time reaction. Especially to a major classic such as this. Just watch, react, enjoy. Like any person watching a movie.
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We hope you enjoy this Reaction Video. We loved it, and it doesn't feel dated considering how long ago it was made. The script is super tight, and we loved seeing the foreshadows and pay-offs in what is a complex and well crafted script. But I bet we missed some things. It wasn't until the edit that we realised that Peabody shouts 'pine tree' for example. If you think there's anything else of interest, please comment on this and get a thread going. Enjoy!
Yeah, it better be tight, considering that they practically made it twice. 😄
FYI-when you watch 2; stop watching when it says To Be Concluded, if you keep watching you’ll see spoilers for #3
Thank you!
ty, I didn't think of that, that really was stupid of them, I could see maybe the theatre, but not on the home copy.
@@arifeannor9573 I'll be honest I'm surprised it hasn't been removed. On top of the home version there's also streaming and pirated copies and I can't believe that literally nobody thought to just chop that off the end of 2.
i hate every time i watch BTTF 2 reaction they get 3 immediately spoiled 🥴
@@arifeannor9573 Spoilers weren't a concern back then.
Peanut brittle is what is being poured into the bowl. It's a confection made of peanuts, sugar, butter and vanilla. The sugar is heated in a pan until it liquifies then turns into a brittle toffee-like texture. The peanuts and butter are added before pouring the hot sugar onto waxed paper until it cools. It is broken into pieces for serving. It was popular in the 70's and 80's as a party confection.
I've heard that there was a scene that was cut out, where a neighbor's kid is selling peanut brittle for a scout fundraiser, and George has no sales resistance, so he buys a couple of cartons. He's eating it for breakfast just to get rid of it.
18:08 The biggest unresolved mystery in the film: how did Doc get into the car when it was inside the truck?
Good point! Unless he got in the car one minute earlier, told Einstein to watch guard, drove it up the ramp, waited for Marty to arrive at prescribed time (precisely) then made the dramatic entrance, just for science kicks !
Very cool documentary on the making of this, originally they were going to use a refrigerator for the time machine but worried kids would try to get in them and get stuck lol
Definitely my favorite trilogy of all time. MJF had an insane schedule he turned this role down because he was filming Family Ties sitcom and the hours were long he simply couldn't do it, they casted Eric Stoltz and filmed majority of it and didn't like his performance , he was super serious in the role no comedic timing and chemistry to Doc, they knew they had to do whatever it takes to get MJF do he agreed amd filmed at night, he definitely got no sleep!
You should watch Teen Wolf and The Frighteners very good movies!
You know, there are some shots, you can really see MJF's wrinkles around his eyes. It could have been early onset of his disease, but it did indeed look tired
When you spoke about looking up numbers in phone books, it reminded me of having to read through all the pizza locations to find one nearby in the '80s
Michael J. Fox was so young in this film ! ( kool 🎸)
"I'm afraid you're just too darned loud." Mr. Megaphone was actually the front-man for Huey Lewis & The News, Huey himself. Cute and ironic cameo.
this is awesome, didn't know this before publishing this video!
@@GenerationMediaReaction Yes indeed and the irony is Huey Lewis and the News was always criticized for being too loud.
@@GenerationMediaReactionhis group was the one that sang "The Power of Love" in the movie.
At the beginning Doc has not been visited by Marty from the past, it's only when Marty goes back in time that he then knows
"my pines!" before he goes back it was twin pines mall because he had 2 pine trees, and he was a weird breeder about them, but when he goes back in time, he destroys one of the pines and its not twin pines anymore, forget the actual name but its like pine mall or something singular pine. And by that logic, the Doc wasn't wearing the armor in the beginning, but only after he came back. He most likely went created a parallel universe, the one he's from doc is still dead and Marty just disappears. He didn't fix that universe, he just made a new one where the outcome was better for them.
Lone pine mall I believe
Watching this film (when Stickland shows up at the start) always makes me think of Top Gun. You should do those films too, would love to see your, and your lads, take on the original and then the modern sequel.
We have been considering it actually
@@GenerationMediaReaction You should; it fits with the vibe of your channel perfectly- an older 80s movie to educate your son with, and a modern film he can educate you with 😉 seriously though, imo, the original is great and its sequel is one of the very few, made way too long after the original, is actually just as good as the original.
The other two films are also Fantastic. Back to the Future 3 might be my favorite of the series. Its just a perfect trilogy in my opinion. Im looking forward to watching your reactions to the other 2. I like seeing your sons reactions. Its cool seeing what someone his age thinks of the movies I grew up with ❤.
Couldn't agree more!
I always thought the woman in the car said "Dont stop or we'll DIE!!!" Meaning she saw what Marty was wearing...the yellow radiation suit. Makes more sense to me than "Don't stop, Wilbur DRIVE!!"
The Prime Timeline is the timeline our Marty (where the mall is named Twin Pines, and his dad is still bullied by Biff) is from. However, when Marty travels back to 1955 he inadvertently creates an all-new timeline that still exists somewhere in the multi-dimensional/multi plane space time continuum where Doc is probably still dead. The interesting thing is the Martys from the various timelines that travels back to 1955 will create an alternate timeline of their own making. It would be quite interesting to see what kind of different timelines are created by the various Marty's that travel back to 1955 from the year 1985 in their respective timelines.
I love this movie. I watched a reaction to it yesterday and now I'm watching yours because it's like experiencing it again for the first time.
It's so good!
A classic comedy, hugely rewatchable. I loved your explanation of character arc---well done!
Yes, Marty invented skateboarding. It really began in the mid-1960s. I saw my first one (bought by a friend) and tried it out around 1966.
Even when I was young, in the early 1960s, most gas stations had two attendants. One to fill you up and clean your windows and another to check your oil and tire pressure. This was “full service” at no extra cost. Some stations advertised as a “full service” station as the practice started dying off. The movie comedically exaggerates this true folkway.
A couple corrections: At the beginning of the movie, they are not yet in the altered timeline, so Doc knows nothing of Marty and has no bullet-proof vest.
I think the woman in the car says, “Don’t stop, Wilber, don’t….”
Thank you! Yes it wasn't until the end that we realised that Doc is not aware of the adventure at the beginning. The filmmakers seem to use Lone Pine example as setting the 'lore' on this. But they save that until the end, so you keep wondering. Ah, she says 'Wilber'! ... that's funny, it's not a common name in UK
I saw the original King Kong when I was 5 or 6 on TV and had a screaming nightmare that night. 😱😱😱
12:15 Jennifer writing her grandmother's number on the flier is the only reason that Marty doesn't just throw it in the trash, and still has it when it becomes important later.
Yes its not really about the phone number at all, its about the flyer
"My pine! Why you!" When Marty runs over one of the "twin pines" to now make "lone pine."
"Don't stop, Wilber! Don't....." as the old couple see Marty in the middle of the road.
This movie is nearly perfection. I was thrilled to be able to have a photo with the cast last summer at a comic convention. Very excited to see your reaction to part 2 &3.
Previously had seen the Pine knocked down, but it wasn't until the edit that we heard him say 'pine!' and of course the Peabody estate was mentioned previously. It's very subtle. Feel like there is more in there and we missed some things.
Back in the 90's when ever friends and family would come to visit us in San Diego,California, we would drive up to Los Angeles to Universal Studios, the tram tour started out going through old movie sets the 1st was Hill Valley, California just like it was in the movie, since then they had a fire at Universal that destroyed it. They also had the Back to the Future ride, 4 people would get in a mock DeLorean with surround screen and shoot off into the future it was thrilling😂, the ride shut down in 2007😢. I worked at a Shell gas station and a friend of mine owned a business Super Chargers across the street, one of his customers had a Hollywood car collection the bat mobile and ohers, one day my friend drove into the gas station with one of three Back to the Future DeLorean's it had the flux capacitor and all the guages, he gave me a ride around the block a thrill of a lifetime! The 2 of you do great reactions thanks for bringing back my memories. Peace✌️ and Love❤ Gary😊
Not sure if you realise, but the guy who tells Marty that his band is too loud at the audition is Huey Lewis (from Huey Lewis and the News), who wrote and performed ‘The Power of Love’ and ‘Back In Time’ both used in the film. Also, it was the actor who played George who was unhappy with the fact that Marty and his family are seen to have an improved life due to the, being better off etc, which led to him eventually not being officially part of the 2nd film. A different actor plays him, but with prosthetics to make him look like the original (mixed in with some shots from the 1st film). This led to rules being changed to stop filmmakers using the likeness of a previous actor in future films without their consent.
oh wow! didn't know that was Huey Lewis! Makes sense 'too loud!' I thought that Crispin Glover had a pay dispute for the second film, but may have been wrong
@@GenerationMediaReactionYes, he also wanted more pay to match the other actors, but he’s always been very vocal about not being happy with the the message of the first one.
@@videoeditorbloke interesting, I didn't see the ending as being materialistic of the McFlys but more that they were in a better place emotionally and the world around them was improved because of it
Huey Lewis co-wrote it. Let’s give the News members Chris Hayes and Johnny Colla their due credit as well. 😉
I think the first scenes already reveal the incredible quality of the script.
The way Doc's facility is shown and Marty destroys the speaker reveals a lot about the characters of the two protagonists while also driving the plot forward. There are also a lot of details sprinkled in here that become very important later (like the plutonium).
One of the best scripts ever written.
Totally agree. The balance of exposition and set-up with the entertainment is perfect
So glad you got to these quickly!!!
I'm the first one here!? Wow.
I love Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown, but he's been in SO many great movies, plays and TV shows! Before BTTF, he was on a great show called TAXI. He played a burned out hippy named Jim Ignotowski.
The show had a cast of actors who went on to great success including Tony Danza, Andy Kauffman, Rhea Pearlman, Marilu Henner and others. The most successfull would be Danny DeVito.
I encourage you to check out tje show, especially the episode where Lloyd makes his debute. People are still talking about how funny the (mostly improvised) scene is of his charactor taking his driving exam.
I'll leave it to someone else to explain why the "It's too darnef loud" line was funny at the time. 😂
Is 'too darn loud' funny because it was Huey Lewis?
The 4 photographs/portraits on Doc. E Brown's mantle in 1955 (in the Brown mansion) are of his inventor heros, I believe they are Sir. Isaac Newton. Ben Franklin, Albert Einstein and Thomas A Edison (Tom, when Doc Brown asks the portrait about the near impossibility of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity), you seemed puzzled when Doc said Thomas A Edison's name when he said Tom.. They are the same portraits that we saw at the beginning of the movie just before Marty arrives at Doc's garage where he lives since the Brown Mansion was destroyed by a major fire. The garage was all that survived.
Yeah missed that in the viewing, but pieced it together in the edit. There's a lot of detail that we saw for new in the edit. It's got loads of details
@@GenerationMediaReaction It's hard to absorb everything even if a person has seen a piece more than two or three times. It's been many years since I first saw it probably back in the late 80s early 90s and I probably didn't pick up on everything right away either. You're doing fine with your reactions.
If ever I was to teach recent American history, I'd show the class three films which give a good idea about the changes in the 20th century - It's a Wonderful Life, Roger Rabbit, and this first movie in the Back to the Future trilogy. I was born in 1950 and saw this movie when it came out in 1985. Their recreation of a 1955 and how the people would see glimpses of 1985 via Marty's viewpoint is just stunning. "Nobody has two televisions" is exactly the feeling of the time. The idea of B-movie actor Ronald Reagan would have been considered a joke. The first televised presidential debate was in 1960 between JFK and Nixon as it took a decade for the widespread acceptance of televisions for someone to even think about this.
Yeah it's a great snapshot of these eras!
10:25 Marty's band is actually playing "The Power of Love" and its Huey Lewis himself who uses the bullhorn to tell them their just too darn loud.
those jokers !
To answer your question about skateboarding, I looked it up on Google. Apparently it actually did start in California, during the late 1940s into the early '50s. Surfers came up with it as a way to practice their crafts when the waves weren't high enough, and they called the sport "sidewalk surfing". The first skateboards were made from wooden boxes and planks, with roller skate wheels attached. But the first modern board wasn't invented until 1959, four years after this film's past events.
14:33 It's Peanut Brittle, a hard toffee-like candy with peanuts mixed in.
40:39 Thom is Thomas Edison
"Why don't you make like a tree, and get outta here?" I love that line. I use that myself sometimes... Just to be funny 😛
While Biff is pretty dim, it even makes a sort of roundabout sense if you’re indoors, since trees commonly are not.
@@0okamino never thought of it that way before... Tho by virtue of "Future Biff" admonishing "Past Biff" in BTTF 2 about how he used the phrase, it's safe to assume Past Biff was saying it wrong in the world of the movie. 👌👍
Thx for the great reaction
Love the dmc delorean 🏎️
Song the power of love ,😎
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Have a friend who loves classic cars from 70s, spoke to him immediately after watching this and Delorean is on his list!
The framed portraits in Doc's collection are Isaac Newton, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein.
thanks, didnt have time to catch them
At 40:39 - The "TOM" he's referring to is Thomas Edison, you may not know who he is but he is considered the "father of invention" in American history
ah, thanks, saw Einstein, but couldn't see recognise the others
there are great touches all over this. strictland saying "no mcfly ever amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley" is such a loaded thing to say when a McFly achieves amazing things through Doc Brown but almost wipes out his entire families existence... making them literally amount to nothing
Thank you for watching. We upload our first time reactions to the sequel tomorrow
12:02 Another casual example of the brilliant script: Marty would never have put the flyer in his pocket and kept it, which later proved to be crucial, if Jennifer hadn't written the phone number (and "I love you") on the back.
In this way, little details constantly intertwine throughout the movie, making it one of the most rewatchable movies ever.
The magic lies above all in the fact that all these allusions and details are constructed, but woven in with such dreamlike ease that you hardly notice all of them the first time you watch it.
That's one of the reasons why you appreciate the movie all the more the more you watch it.
Totally agree, the whole first 30 mins is all about setting up the story. It’s so clever. There’s a lot of exposition but it’s done largely with the enthusiasm of Doc and they soooo get away with it
Not sure you know but the guy who tells them that they are just too darn loud is Huey Lewis. That is, Huey Lewis and the News the band performing the theme song “Power of Love”
wow, and awesome song!
lol, When they crash into the Peabody's barn, that's clearly an adult playing the little girl, only hunched over to look more like a child.
I know they say that girls often mature faster than boys, but not quite like that. 😄
40:38 "Tom" is Thomas Edison 😉
1440, there is a deleted scene they cut out where a neighbor with a girlscout or cubscout sells george the entire thing of some sort of peanut britle to raise money and told the dkid, see we only had to go to one house. becasue he knew george would just cave in and buy it all. so it is peanut brittle. i always thought it was cereal prior to that though
wow, impressed that you know that!
@@GenerationMediaReaction well many years ago betwee 2 x i got both teh entire trilogy on VHS, then the entire triology on DVD when those came out as a set. i watched all the extras.
What experiment could Doc be doing that would make the clocks be 25 minutes slow?
Something to do with the bus time-table maybe ?
One bit of trivia is that (you probably know) the main theme (The Power of Love) is written and sung by Huey Lewis & the News. But Huey Lewis actually plays the teacher who tells them with the megaphone that their music "is too darn loud."
This is one of the only movies my family can watch together and not end in arguments
"Don't stop, Wilbur! DRIVE!!"
I thought it was..."Don't stop or we'll DIE!!" Cos of the radiation outfit he was wearing. Its what it sounded like to me.
I love that scene!!!
@@StaffyMum85naaah!
Jane Wyman was Ronald Reagan's first wife before he married Nancy Davis.
Even though I was growing up in the 80s, and saw this movie in the 80s, as a kid, I actually had no idea that Nancy was Reagan’s second wife until I saw this movie, and my dad explained to me who Jane Wyman was. I did already know who Jerry Lewis and Jack Benny were, though, so I wasn’t completely clueless. 😄
Requests:
Peewee’s Big Adventure.
Dennis the Menace. Walter Matthau, Christopher Lloyd.
The Princess Bride.
Hook. Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Steve Martin, John Candy. It’s a family movie except for one scene where Steve Martin is so mad he says the F word 18 times.
Has your son seen all the Harry potters (8) and lord of the rings trilogy and The Hobbit (3 movies)?
Has he seen all the early Disney animation movies? I still love them and I’m a grandmother! A lot of older men reactors watch them because they didn’t get to see them as kids. Bambi, Snow White, Peter Pan, Dumbo, Pinocchio.
Western TV shows. Roy Rogers. Bonanza. John Wayne movies.
Fawlty Towers. Two seasons.
Are you being Served?
All the James Bond’s starting from the 1st. My favorite Bond is Timothy Dalton.
Laurel and Hardy
The Marx Brothers movies. Groucho, Harpo, Zeppo.
Shirley Temple movies.
My favorite book is still “The Wind in the Willows.” Unabridged. The movies are not so good.
Thank you for the suggestions. We have seen Lord of the rings, but not the Hobbit ones. We will be doing The Princess Bride soon. Hope you're enjoying the channel
The photographs are of Thomas Alva Edison(Inventor), Benjamin Franklin(statement, ambassador,and scientist during the Revolutionary War)
thank you, didn't have time to recognise them
Also when Doc was asking Tom how he was going to come up with 1.21 gigawatts of power, he was talking to Thomas Edison.
12:45 You can't always gettt what you wannnt.. but you get what you neeed
-The Rolling Stones
😁
Yes! this has been said in many a writing room!
19:29 why would a dog turn into a puppy if it went back in time does this kid understand how time travel works
It’s not how it works in this, but it’s a version of time travel if the traveler isn’t isolated from the temporal effects. That would definitely limit the range one could travel, though.
The twin pines mall become the lone pine mall because he runs over Peabody's pines! Not his parents!
haha, we realised this in the edit - it's just not very audible !
@@GenerationMediaReaction oh and it was Glover that said he disagreed with the director about the ending saying that material things shouldn't be marty's reward. That it should be the happiness of his family and love. Something like that. They got more stuff, better jobs, new cars. Very 80s stuff. That was the beginning of the end for Glover being in the sequels.
If you saw this in the theaters, then you should be slightly older than me. I was 4 years old when this was released.
age-math is banned in our household!
‘Hold up fellas, I’m afraid you’re just too loud.’ - Huey Lewis (and the News)
GenX: If it’s too loud, you’re too old.
so glad he makes these reactions with you instead of his mum. could make for very awkward viewing.
Hi guys. I haven't watched one of your reactions in awhile, and I'm so excited to see your reactions as you both go "Back To The Future." 🐧🍏🍎💙
Thank you! we just published Part 3 as well!
22:14 no he doesn't know at the moment because he hasn't traveled anywhere yet
In the intro we explain this is not our first viewing
@@GenerationMediaReaction Then why did you say that
My father took me to see this 9 times
that's impressive!
This car was made in Belfast, N.Ireland!
like the Titanic! hehe
7:05 A couple viewings ago, I finally saw the clock that displays the right time. It's at 7:10 here, and it's on the floor on its side. Marty stands next to it. I think it's a blink-and-you-miss-it scene.
7:45 I can imagine a hacker surreptitiously changing it so that Marty falls back and has his eardrums blown out.
10:35 I imagine having to wear earplugs at the dance, if they provided the music. Also, the teacher who spoke was Huey Lewis, who composed and sang the song.
15:50 "Naughty Birdwatching"
20:00 Here's where I suggest that Mr. Strickland may have had a point. If Doc's calculations were *incorrect* they would have *been* in deep doo-doo, with a car riding down on them!
22:20 In this timeline or reality, Marty was never in 1955. So Marty never showed up at Doc's mansion.
wow, must have taken a few viewings to have spotted that! welldone!
Sadly ironic how you keep mentioning how briliant Crispin Glover was because the studio recast him (using moulds of his face) for the sequels. "It had to do with money, and what the characters were doing with money," Glover explained. "I said to [director] Robert Zemeckis I thought it was not a good idea for our characters to have a monetary reward, because it basically makes the moral of the movie that money equals happiness." In the same interview, the actor said he was being paid less than co-stars Lea Thompson and Tom Wilson, both of whom had comparably sized roles. He asked for more money for the sequel and the studio ditched him. Lea Thompson had grown close to Glover during the filming of the original BTTF. To now share scenes with an imposter was not something she relished.
"I was kind of annoyed that Jeffrey Weissman was doing those scenes with me, to be perfectly honest," Thompson said. "That was a little hard for me, just because Crispin was so fantastic. He was a genius in Back to the Future, so it was hard that he wasn't there."
Weissman said Thompson essentially gave him the cold shoulder during filming as a result of her discomfort: "Lea never called me by name. When we were in the makeup chair in the morning, she rarely addressed me. After the shoot, she brought her mother up to Universal to see the tour. I went to speak to her and she introduced me as "the actor who played Crispin." She didn't remember my name." Other cast members called him Crispin, as did Steven Spielberg by accident. Glover sued the studio for use of his likeness and won! So meek George McFly ended up beating the big guy! And it changed movie law (and lore).
It's interesting. Really love his performance, but didn't feel that the reward that the McFly family has is a monetary one. It felt more like they were in a happier place emotionally and therefore more content and self assured. The slight increase in money on screen seeemd to come from the parents being happier in general (not coward, not alcoholic)
@GenerationMediaReaction I agree. I'm not sure if it was in relation to part 1 or part 2. Actors are in his debt though for pioneering this lawsuit.
@@zanyzander I bet it's referred to these days as well with Digital recreations of actors being very prominent
It wouldnt surprise me. They didn’t just replace him-they covered another actor in prosthetics and make-up and tasked him with replicating Glover’s distinctive look, voice, and mannerisms. It was as though someone was playing Crispin Glover playing George McFly. Glover sued for unauthorised use of his likeness and was paid $760,000. If they'd just paid him comparable to the others it would have been less. Lea was paid $650k, Biff was $350k. They offered him only $150k! @GenerationMediaReaction
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From The Hollywood Reporter: "The 1990 lawsuit that Glover filed against Universal Pictures for violating his right of publicity predated other famous cases including Vanna White’s lawsuit over a Wheel of Fortune robot hostess in a blond wig and Gwen Stefani’s legal action over a digital avatar in the Band Hero video game. Glover’s case never got far enough in the court to set legal precedent, but it is often invoked when actors like Fast & Furious star Paul Walker become indisposed and filmmakers contemplate tricky ways to resurrect performances. The advance of technologies like holograms, with the potential of reviving dead stars and allowing living ones to be in multiple places, tends to invite discussion of wonderful possibilities and legal limits. Enter Glover and his unwitting participation in a film for the ages - and a lawsuit that Philip K. Dick would have loved."
said "you killed my PINE"
haha, yes in the edit we listened to it more clearly - makes sense for the 'lone pine' visual as well
@@GenerationMediaReaction oh btw. i did all caps (hopefully you didn't see it that way. not to stress teh word, but to mimick the guy's voice :)
@@Johnadams20760 the way you wrote it, put the guy's voice suitably in our heads!
26:46 There were 2 pines right next to each other (twin pines) and Marty just hit one of them, hence in the future it would no longer be called "twin pines mall" instead its "lone pine mall" when he gets back to the future.
we realised this later, but at the time didn't take it in what he says !
Don't stop, Wilbur...driiiive!!
17:31 Autre détail amusant à voir... Regardez attentivement le skate board sur les quelques plans qui suivent. ;)
I think you both would enjoy The Iron Giant (1999). It’s a classic that will always remain in my top 10 as a 1997 new born 🥳 a beginner of the 2000s
Thank you for this, just asked the little bud, and it turns out they watched it at school recently!
10:34 Du coup, comme vous avez déjà vu le film tous les deux, et que vous le regardez pour, je cite, "y découvrir de nouveaux détails qu'on aurait pas encore vu", je vais me permettre deux ou trois interventions qui, je l'espère, auront quelque intérêt pour vous ou les internautes curieux. Voici la première : L'homme à l'image n'est autre que Huey Lewis lui-même, le chanteur et auteur de la chanson "phare" du film, "The Power Of Love", dont le groupe de Marty (The Pinheads) en joue ici une version "métal", avec Paul Hanson au solo de guitare (solo mimé par Michael J. Fox sur les images).
40:42 tomas edison perhaps
The only thing that would have made this better would have been if you'd dressed as Doc and Marty! 😂
That would have been fun!
You said it best: Doc is about time but never timely.
The "TOM" he's referring to is Thomas Edison
41:19 Dans le premier script du film, Zemeckis et Gale prévoyaient que Marty et Doc se rendraient sur une base d'essais nucléaires et profiteraient de l'énergie de la déflagration d'une bombe atomique pour projeter Marty enfermé dans un réfrigérateur dans le futur. Les studios refusèrent l'idée car beaucoup trop chère à réaliser à l'époque. Plus tard, à l'idée de faire une machine à voyager dans le temps mobile plutôt, ils se rabattirent sur une voiture, et la DeLorean entra en scène. De cette idée "nucléaire", il ne reste dans le film que plusieurs allusions aux retombées radioactives, sujet d'inquiétude important de la population américaine dans les années 50.
This is my favorite trilogy, but Marty getting the 4x4 always felt off-message.
yeah, maybe it didn't actually need this at that point. His family being in a happier place was already enough.
29:42 un éclair produit une puissance de 20 gigawatts pendant 25 millisecondes (c'est 20 fois une centrale nucléaire), pour une température de 30 000°C (soit près de 6 fois la température de surface du Soleil).
Watch Jurassic Park next. It's a classic.
49:52 "Les premiers skateboards apparaissent aux États-Unis comme un jeu d'enfant, probablement dans les années 1950. Le skateboard est ensuite médiatisé en Californie à la fin des années 1950 par la communauté des surfeurs. La pratique encore marginale se popularise au milieu des années 1970, où il devient un phénomène de mode éphémère tant aux États-Unis qu'en Europe. À partir des années 1990, la pratique se confond avec la discipline du Street devenue dominante. Le skateboard devient également un phénomène culturel mondial, avec notamment une forte influence sur la mode vestimentaire des jeunes" (Source : Wikipedia)
Découvrant aujourd'hui moi aussi que la date de naissance officielle du skateboard n'existe pas vraiment, ça me conforte dans l'idée que Zemeckis et Gale ont sciemment voulu qu'on considère Marty comme l'inventeur du Skate, tout comme le compositeur de "Johnny Be Goode" et plusieurs autres œuvres pionnières dans les trois volets de la saga. Brillante écriture là aussi.
Is that amity island from "Jaws"?
they siad gigowatt wrong. should be a hard G instead of a soft. but tha tis 1.21 billion watss or 1.21 Million Kilowatts. so quite a bit
There is way too much podcast-style talking during a first time reaction.
Especially to a major classic such as this.
Just watch, react, enjoy. Like any person watching a movie.
Hiya, it wasn’t our first time watching, we were watching it in preparation for the sequels which will be first time
Doc Is His Stand in Dad
Have yall seen the Harry Potter series?
We have - what a great series it would be to do a reaction to
enfin quelqu'un qui parle de la performance de glover...😀