I know, right? I was completely speechless! I knew people in the US don´t drive manuals a lot, but for me as a german in her 20s, it was an absolute shock to see that people don´t even know what a clutch is! 😅
The actor for Biff is actually a really nice guy in real life and when they did the r@*^ scene he kept stopping filming to make sure the actress for Lorraine was still comfortable with everything.
Met him in passing at an independent film festival and can confirm he treated all the staff and volunteers very nicely! Very polite and down to earth guy
Indeed he is, I don’t know if he still does stand up, but he used to… he has a song that he used to sing for BttF and for fans… here’s a link, it’s hilarious. th-cam.com/video/iwY5o2fsG7Y/w-d-xo.html
Biff's messed up sayings were the brainchild of his actor, Tom Wilson, who based Biff's personality on the bullies he had to deal with growing up. The actual saying is "Make like a tree and LEAVE", punning on the fact that trees have leaves. The idea is that Biff is too stupid to get the point of the saying, and clumsily messes it up by saying it as "Make like a tree and get out of here", which lacks the point of the original.
The fact that someone in the comments also had to point out and explain one of the most obvious jokes in the movie already bodes poorly for this reaction before I even watch it. Sigh.
@@the-NightStar Uhh it's not an obvious joke unless you've heard the original saying. If watching different reactors has taught me anything it's that people have huge differences in what cultural things, events, or sayings they've encountered. Doesn't mean the rest of the reaction is going to be bad.
@@jb888888888 I see how one could come to that conclusion, but in Part 2, Old Biff actually rabbit punches his younger self for saying it wrong and tells him he "sounds like a damn fool" for saying it that way. While it's possible that Old Biff may just not think it's funny anymore, it implies to me that it was due to Young Biff not getting the point of the original saying, finding out later in life what the point was, and feeling really stupid about it afterwards!
This movie is taught in screenwriting classes as the perfect script. Every line is there for a reason, every plot point has a set up and a payoff. Themes are introduced (like all the clocks at the beginning with how important time is) and repeated for a paid off as well. Just perfection. Deloreans were cool in the 80's but as time went on they were shown to be notoriously unreliable. The "too darn loud" guy at the audition was the singer Huey Lewis. The Twin Pine Mall at the beginning became the Lone Pine Mall when Marty returned to 1985. Oh and they put real alcohol in the flask when Marty takes it from Lorraine to prank Michael j Fox. in the car scene.
DeLoreans are widely considered to be unique and stylish, but a product that under-performed relative to its cost. The DeLorean came out in early 1981... and DMC (The DeLorean Motor Company) declared bankruptcy in late 1982... so the DeLorean automobile was not a success. It would likely be forgotten by the general public if it were not for its use in Back to the Future. I didn't know all these details off the top of my head, but I looked them up and they confirmed my beliefs about DMC and the DeLorean. My neighbor had one, by the way, years after BTTF.
I don't know who told you that the third installment is lower quality - this is pretty much the perfect trilogy, and if anything 3 is better than 2. It's a deeply satisfying finale.
Exactly The original is the best but most people I know believe 2 is the least of the 3 but the younger generation seems to like part 2 better. Overall the general consensus is this is one of the greatest Trilogies ever made
@@UTU49 The 3rd film came out 6mo after the 2nd -- the two sequels were filmed concurrently and the general reception at the time was that the final installment was a bit underwhelming. Westerns weren't especially popular in 1990 and the summer before was infamously dubbed the "Summer of Sequels"... so Hollywood was in a bit in a transition period (new decade, new possibilities, Pulp Fiction etc.). And we just saw Back to The Future 2! Interestingly, over the years BTTF3 has aged better than the zany second movie... it has more heart and is closer to the spirit of the original. As a trilogy it's pretty seamless (especially seen from today) and the franchise's only true deficiency is the absence of George McFly from the sequels.
Many people like 3 the best so yes. See this is why reactors should NEVER listen to what comments say, becuase they'll always get conflicting or just flat out wrong perceptions from it.
Fun fact: in the "Darth vader" scene, the original plan was to have actual Van Halen music playing, but Eddie was the only one who signed off on it, so they improvised. What you're hearing is just Eddie by himself playing a few solo riffs.
With that "you got a permit for that?" scene- if you watch while Marty is putting the letter in Doc's pocket, in the background Doc's going into his wallet for money. The "permit" is a bribe 🤣
The fans of this film are legendary because they found the mall parking lot where the iconic scene of the first time travel took place, put tape down on the tarmac for the fire trails and foot stamps for where the Doc and Marty were standing. Just so people could recreate the shot perfectly themselves.
The attention for the details in this movie is phenomenal. Example : The parking lot where Doc & Marty meet up is called the Twin Pine Mall. Then Marty gets to 1955 and, as he is leaving the barn, he smashing into some little tree and you can hear the owner yelling "My Pine !" then when Marty gets back to 1985, the parking lot is now called "Lone Pine Mall". Genius ! Also, not exactly a detail but, The song Marty plays is Johnny B. Good,e by Chuck Berry and it's funny 'cause you can see the guy with his broken hand calling a friend of his and talking to him about a certain "Chuck" who's looking fro a new sound. Chuck Berry got the inspiration for Johnny B. Goode from Marty Mc Fly (aka Calvin Klein)
Hate to nitpick but: It's Twin Pine Mall, not Two Pined, the song is Johnny B. Goode, not Good, and it was Marvin Berry with a stabbed hand, not broken, calling his cousin Chuck, not friend. I just saw that you were already editing this post so you might want to fix those things as well, but it probably doesn't matter.
Most people miss the subtle continuity. At the start of the movie, the parking lot is of the Twin Pine Mall...at the end, because Marty drove over one of those pines in the field, it is now called Lone Pine Mall.
There was never meant to be a sequel but once they decided on one they did the third film too as a back-to-back shoot. The third is well worth watching as it completes the full story
Correct, they have even said if they knew there would be more they would've had a different ending or at the very least the girlfriend would not have been in the car with them.
The sequel they had intended included everything from bttf3, and was called paradox. It would have been one of the longest non epic movies in history and the studio decided to split it up.
They didn't really decide on one, fan demand and studio demand basically forced their hand, studio was ready to replace the Bobs if needed. Also when they wrote the sequel they wrote so much that they ended up decided to make it 2 films and shooting it back to back was way cheaper then doing them separately.
Also on a side note, the story used in the BTTF video game was actually a concept for the movie sequels but they obviously didn't go with it. Would have been cool though, it's a fun story.
"Make like a tree and leaf" (leave) was what the expression was supposed to be, but Biff wasn't smart enough to get it right. :) Great reaction -- I'm so glad you got to see the full movie! It's such a treat.
As someone who grew up in the '50's and watching the movie when it first came out, they really REALLY nailed all the nuances of the differences between 1955 and '85. History buffs (like me) could watch and rewatch this for all the things they got right. In 1955, an average tv cost $250 which would be 11 times that in today's dollars (roughly $2,750). A tv was the same price approx. of a new car back then. Yes, certainly if you rich, you could have a second tv but at the time, it was just unthinkable. (When I've made this comment before, others have questioned this, but hearing the conversation made me think back and it was just unconceivable. Also not a lot of programming so why would you want a second one.) Yes, I would love to visit the past but no, wouldn't want to live there. So many things about society back then that would I would find suffocating.
@@deirdrestatham5730 Here's hoping that trend continues, so in 50 years you'll be saying the same thing about today rather than reminiscing about "the good ol' days."
Even rich people wouldn't have had two TVs. They would've thought: The same shows are shown on both, so what would be the point of having two? It would be like having two copies of the same book. No one in the 50's would've thought of having a TV in each room. Everyone knew that you kept your TV in the living room where the whole family could watch it. No one had a TV in their bedroom.
@@deirdrestatham5730 Oh, man, can I understand that even from an outsider's viewpoint. All those old movies with the racial stereotypes so painful. The maids, the eye-rolling, the men afraid of things like ghosts, the idea a black person couldn't perform a dance/song solo. (Luckily, the Nicholas Brothers performing duos was okay to preserve their talent on film.) Shirley Temple dancing on the stairs with Bill Bo Jangles in The Little Rebel seeming so innocent today, but breaking the taboo of a black man dancing with a white women (and the scene had to be cut from the movie for theaters in the South). As LGBT, I could have been arrested for merely being found in a gay bar, and that would have been the least of it. ALL the offensive nonsense for so many marginalized groups in "the good old days." By the way, I think it is so ironic to think what a REAL Marty and Doc would see in travelling to 2015, in terms of breaking barriers for even the highest office! (Something that in 1985 would be still be thought to be off-limits.) Hopefully time-travelers to 2045 will also be further shocked - in a good way that is.
@@TonyMontanaDS Did you not hear Marty telling him about it? Marty: Hey c'mon, I had to change, you think I'm going back in that zoot suit? The old man really came through. It worked. Doc: What? Marty: He laid out Biff in one punch. I never knew he had it in him. He never stood up to Biff in his life. Doc: Never?
He knew he was going to die, because he'd been watching the videotape over and over. He just didn't know what to prepare for. I'm sure as the years went by, he had plenty of time to think about the contents of the letter and to reassemble the pieces. It's one thing to set an example to Marty, and another to throw your life away.
After you've finished this trilogy, i HIGHLY RECOMMEND another time travel movie that also transports the protagonist to the 1950's (in the US), called PLEASANTVILLE (Tobey Macguire, Reese Witherspoon, WIlliam H Macy, Joan Allen, Jeff Daniels, Don Knotts). It's very funny, very very clever, a social commentary and with a lot of heart. It's actually genius.
I don't think that you noticed. At the beginning, the mall was Twin Pines Mall. But, when Marty went back and was escaping from the killer farm family, he ran down one of the little twin pines. When he gets BACK TO THE FUTURE, it is now Lone Pine Mall.
"Would anyone be willing to live in 1955 instead of 2022?" *thinks of racial segregation, lack of women's rights, and lack of gay rights* Nope. But they had great music.
I looked over a few comments and didn't see that anyone mentioned the audition scene. When this movie came out we all died laughing. The band auditioned playing "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News. The teacher that tells them "...I'm afraid you're just too darn loud" *_is_* Huey Lewis. A great subtle Easter Egg in Hollywood history.
Fun fact: Ronald Reagan himself got a kick out of the "Ronald Reagan, the actor?!" line. He asked the White House projectionist to replay it several times lol
I don't know why I'm seeing a whole bunch of movie reactions to this trilogy in my recommended lately, but I'm very much here for it. One thing to keep in mind moving forward is that these movies do not operate strictly on the butterfly effect (where the tiniest of changes have a massive impact) but rather the ripple effect (where significant timeline disturbances change the future). Also, the changes they make to the timeline are not predetermined, but they do occur in the order we see them on screen (which is why we see events from earlier in the movie/series play out later, but not the other way around). Goldie Wilson was always going to be mayor, and having the idea earlier did not change when he was actually voted into office. As Doc will come to say: "The future isn't written. It can be changed."
The actor who plays Biff is the unsung hero of the trilogy on account of just how good he plays these horrible iterations of this character so well and makes them feel so different despite it basically being the same character
Marty doesn’t go back to save his family nor Doc. He is just driving to escape the Libyans. The machine was set to travel 30 years prior and he hit 88mph trying to outrun them. Oh, and life wasn’t too bad in 1955.
Jackie Gleason had a tv show called The Jackie Gleason Show up till 1955. Then in '55 he starred in the show The Honeymooners where his character Ralph Kramden was a bus driver. The saying Biff mangled is "make like a tree and leave." LOL When Marty played the song Johnny B Goode the one guy had gis cousin Chuck Berry on the Phone. Chuck Berry is the original singer of the song irl.
The complete saying is, "Why don't you make like a tree and LEAVE 🍃". They had Biff's character recite it incorrectly to highlight his dimwittedness 😹😹
Thor on "Who came up with the design" for the Delorean. Answer: John DeLorean of DeLorean Motor Cars, LTD. Yes, it was a real car in production in the 80s. But it ultimately failed, in part because of the car's design flaws and partly because it the company's owner being arrested for drug trafficking. Of course, all the "Time Machine" additions to the car (flux capacitor, time circuits, external wires/cables, etc) were came out of the minds the production designers for the film.
Makes me sad that younger folks don’t know Michael J Fox or other actors that had their fame in the past. He was known in virtually every home back in the day. Great guy too!!
The moment Michael J. Douglas was announced as an actor in this movie, i was positive there were going to be true nuggets of wisdom spewing from your well.
@@vibingwithvinyl Oh, I don't really think that about Back to the Future Part II. It has three acts: problem, quest, resolution, it's just that the movie ends with a set up for Part III. It's pretty similar to how the first one ended, even if they didn't intend to make sequels when they did that.
When Marty slams on two pedals to break, it's just to stop the car from stalling. A pressed clutch stops the car from conking out when the revs are too low after slamming on the breaks. which actually ,after the car stops anyway, creates a microscopic plot contrivance.
I'm also glad someone commented on the two pedals Marty slams, although the left one should have gone to the floor. The left one is the clutch, and disengages the transmission from the engine on a standard transmission car. The right pedal is called a brake (not break), and, as in an automatic transmission car, is used to bring the car to a halt.
A word of caution: At the end of the 2nd movie is a trailer for the 3rd movie (they filmed back-to-back). If you want to avoid spoilers, remember to stop playback when "To Be Concluded" appears on screen. Very glad you enjoyed this movie! The trilogy is amazing as a whole, don't let anyone try to downplay the third installment. The whole thing is just great fun. Every actor in the film really sells their role. And so many little time travel Easter eggs, like the Twin Pine Mall becoming the Lone Pine Mall due to Marty running over one of old man Peabody's trees as he fled the farm.
@@CruelestChris Some folks regard a trailer to be a spoiler. The fact that a trailer is included at the end of the movie doesn't necessarily mean that the trailer is a part of the movie.
Given you could buy a house in the 50's for around 7k... yes, TVs were bloody expensive and the idea even in the early 80's of owning two TV's was rare for most people (my own family had the one color TV and an old black and white we still used in the early 80's and sometimes visitors would go 'you have 2 TVs!?', granted this was in NZ). Hell I remember when the first LCD TVs came out, they were in the 2-3k$ range while the good old CRT TV's were 200-400 or so lol. The price values of an old 21inch TV (the standard) vs a 30inch or larger back in the late 90's was almost 3-4 times in difference also, was always envious of one of my friends with his 32inch TV lol... but with all tech, the more its adopted the cheaper it quickly becomes. Unfortunately house prices do the opposite...
I was born in 1971 and as a young kid we had a black and white tv - a 13 inch if I recall correctly. It was the early 80s before we could afford a color tv and one slightly bigger. So yeah having even one tv in 1955 would probably have been a big treat. I remember when I was growing up and VCRs first came out they were so expensive that "normal" folks couldn't afford to buy them so video stores came about where you actually could rent a VCR for a night or two and rent a movie to watch. They gave you a bag with the VCR in it and the cables you needed to hook it up. And when you returned it you got charged a fee if you didn't rewind the tape before bringing it back. When the prices finally came down and we bought one it was very cool. So in the 50s, 60s, and 70s if there was a tv show you wanted to see you had to be home at that day and time to watch it as George stated in the movie that if he went to the dance he would miss his favorite show - there was no way to watch it at a later time. If you missed it you were SOL. Growing up in the 70s and 80s the tv season for new episodes was strictly September through April/May. Over the summer they would re-air episodes from the prior season sometimes but there wasn't new content much during the summer months. Didn't matter anyway, at least to us kids, because as kids of that time we spent all day out of the house exploring/playing during the summer. So glad you watched Back To The Future and found it enjoyable and refreshing. I saw it in the theater when it first came out and many many times since and haven't ever gotten bored of seeing it. Doc Brown is one of my favorite movie characters. Oh and, yes, the DeLorean was real. My neighbor (who was a psychiatrist but dressed more like a lumberjack) had one and it looked hysterically funny sitting in the driveway on his farm next to his red Toyota pickup truck in front of his classic red with white trim painted barn and his chickens running around everywhere. Interestingly enough, he destroyed the car by running it into a tree when he lost control while speeding. I don't know what kind of tree it was but there's a fair chance it was a pine tree because we live in Maine and we have lots of those here. If he had managed not to destroy it then it would have been worth a fair penny later on. There is an episode of the show Expedition Unknown (Discover Channel) with Josh Gates where the host, Josh, and Christopher Lloyd team up in search of a Delorean and it's a fun little episode and it gives a little bit on what happened to the DeLorean car company. Worth a watch it you can find it online. I can't recall but there might be spoilers for the next two movies so might want to wait to watch until you are done with those.
I've yet to see a reactor notice that the mall is now called the Lone Pine Mall instead of the Twin Pines Mall because Marty ran over one of the pine trees.
It's been speculated the fire when they simulate the lightning is supposed to be the same one that burns down the estate, which severely reduced the Brown fortune. Now that he puts it out here, that never happens.
@@jowbloe3673 the original one he did himself to collect insurance money, because it cost him everything to build the time machine. My guess is now that he knew it would become a reality, he felt no need to do so, and became bolder in his pursuits.
The expression was 'make like a tree and leave' Biff is so dumb he doesn't get the (not very good) pun, so just says something that means the same. The way his parents are with each other in the new future, I'm almost surprised he doesn't have some more little siblings running around. They do use the final scene here as the beginning of the next movie, but the actor who played Jennifer was unable or unwilling, so they had to re-shoot it with the new actor.
when Marty and his band were auditioning for the talent show, they were playing Hip To Be Square by Huey Lewis and the news. Huey Lewis played the judge who told him they were just too darn loud. and you were correct, Huey Lewis never judged on America's Got Talent.
I was 14 years old when this came out in 1985 and I absolutely love it. The Back To The Future trilogy is one of my all-time favorite trilogies. My absolute favorite scene, though, is when George finally stands up to Biff. That was a great moment, and the way Lorraine looks at George after he knocks Biff out made everything worth it. And I also love Alan Silvestri's score for this film and the two subsequent films. Some of the best music I have ever heard from a movie.
Marty McFly was probably my first movie crush. I just thought he was the coolest and I loved his skateboarding. I wished I could go to school like that instead of in my mum’s car. This was one of the many films we recorded off the tv and was one of the most rewatched along with Indiana Jones.
I remember being 15 years old in 1985 and watching this movie at the theaters and I will never forget when it ended when Doc says, "Roads, where we are going we don't need roads." As I walked down the aisle I remember everyone looking up at the screen still sitting through the credits with great big smiles on their faces. That is a great sign of a great time at the movies. Christopher Lloyd was magnificent in this movie, I already liked him from the TV show "Taxi" in another iconic role of Reverend Jim and of course Michael J. Fox was already a star as the legendary Michael P. Keaton on the classic 80s "Family Ties" sitcom. Also I had the biggest screen crush on Lea Thompson back in the 80s. a lot of guys did I'd wager!
Michael J. Fox was on a pretty popular TV show called Family Ties while this was being filmed. He would work on the TV show during the day and do most of the filming for the movie at night. He basically got no sleep for a few months
Foreshadowing is key to this trilogy. Like how Twin Pines Mall becomes Lone Pine Mall, or Loraine 's explains how she met George. And that Biff crashes George's car to start the movie. At the end, he runs an Autobody shop.
Twin Pines Mall becoming Lone Pine Mall isn't foreshadowing, it's continuity. Foreshadowing is when Marty gets the flier for the clock tower which is later used to actually send Marty back to the future
@@sky4break729 You are correct, but your reasoning isn't. The act of the name changing is not foreshadowing. The actual change of the name is continuity. However, your example of the Doc talking about the pine trees is foreshadowing.
The man who told Marty they're just to damn loud was Huey Lewis himself. Televisions were very expensive in the 50's. They were $110-per-square-inch in the 1950s. And the hour wage then was only 75 cents an hour. And most Tv's came in black and white. Colour Tv's came out about 1950. So of course they were even more expensive. Glad you like this movie. I hope to see you react to part 2 and 3..take care..xx
Michael J Fox was basically the 80's version of Tom Holland. He actually married the girl who played his girlfriend on Family Ties and they are still together to this day. He had to quit acting because he has Parkinson's disease but he did a lot of voice acting for kid's movies like the dog in Homeward Bound.
I like your commentary. It's interesting to see someone watch this for the first time trying to figure out what's going on how they were gonna fix everything. I had the same reaction when I first watched it all those years ago.
The expression is "Make like a tree and leave" Biff messes it up. in the 70's & 80's it was a popular word play phrase. those of us who saw it in the theatre got a good laugh when we heard it
Have to remember - this was the 80s. Computers weren't a house hold device, tvs were usually a cabinet looking thing that still needed rabbit ears - if you had a big screen it took about 4 grown men to move it (not kidding) - and just about every one carried a couple of quarters in case you needed a ride home or learned how to do the speedy come get me collect message!
They were serious, but in a sort of tongue in cheek sort of way. They didn't take themselves so seriously that they wouldn't crack a joke or play something up ridiculously. And it worked. Things like Last Action Hero, Back to the Future, Goonies, etc.. 80s and 90s are absolutely a genre of film that is deeply missed.
To answer your question about the car, "Who came up with the design?" John DeLorean did. Also, the expression you asked about is "Make like a tree and leave," but Biff is getting it wrong. Finally, the fast song that Marty plays at the dance is "Johnny B. Goode," by Chuck Berry, one of the inventors of rock music and the first person to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The other musician who phones him is apparently his cousin. By the way, a time travel movie I liked that has been overlooked by TH-cam is "Deja Vu" starring Denzel Washington as an ATF agent investigating a terrorist bombing who discovers that the US government has invented time travel and is keeping it a secret.
Marty shredding guitar is one of my favourite parts of this movie. He was playing 'Go, Johnny Go!'(Johnny B. Goode) by Chuck Berry. Old songs are the best! And yes, playing an instrument is always a plus but I think what made Marty a "dream" was his natural confidence. He was always so naturally cool. Oh and by the way, I forgot to mention that Doc (Christopher Lloyd) is the voice of Rasputin (aka Mr Potato Head) in 'Anastasia' :)
The left pedal is the clutch for the manual shifting of the drive gears. The pedal next to it is the brake. Gas pedal is the same as an automatic drive transmission.
So my life has been changing in major ways lately and I haven't been able to watch everything I've wanted to. That being said, I am SO glad that this is the one I am coming back for. The Back to the Future series is one of my all-time favorites and has a huge nostalgia factor for me. Excited for your reactions again!!
The Delorean was a real car that was sold. The car and the company that made it was named after the company's CEO John Delorean. Unfortunately, even though it was a very cool looking car, it didn't sell well and the company went bankrupt. It wasn't created for this movie. Public phone booths used to be a regular thing because the telephone was a public utility run by AT&T and Bell Telephone until Reagan broke it up and privatized it all. Even though it was public, you did have to pay to use public telephones and you had a monthly phone bill that had to be paid. Jackie Gleason was a famous comedian who had his own live variety show in the 1950s. Part of his show was a recurring skit called the Honeymooners which eventually spun off into its own sitcom. They still show reruns of that show (and you can probably find episodes on TH-cam). The Flintstones was inspired by the Honeymooners (the 4 lead characters of both shows were very similar; the main difference being the time period the shows were set in). I think the expression Biff flubbed should have been "Make like a tree and leave". I work for a satellite TV company, and I was processing some paperwork dealing with repairs one of our technicians did at a customer's house, but it had a typo; it said the equipment was originally installed in 1907! Way before satellite TV, way before satellites, and way before TV!! So I emailed corporate and asked them if the technician drove a Delorean to that job!
In the beginning of the movie, it was Twin Pine Mall, and at the end its Lone Pine Mall because marty ran over one of the pine trees from Mr. Peabody's land when he was driving away.
Might have already been mentioned, but at 14:55, the one on the left is the clutch for a manual transmission, when hard braking like that you would do the clutch pedal also so the tranny goes into neutral. Good driving skills from A "17" year old..
"Are those two brakes there?" mad me laugh WHILE I cried. People don't even know what a clutch is anymore... 🤣😭
I don't know how to drive manual but even I laughed when he said that lol
I know, right? I was completely speechless! I knew people in the US don´t drive manuals a lot, but for me as a german in her 20s, it was an absolute shock to see that people don´t even know what a clutch is! 😅
IKR?! I actually still have a vehicle that has a clutch! 😄😄
Two brakes 😂😂
Best part of the reaction right there folks!----I am still laughing!
The actor for Biff is actually a really nice guy in real life and when they did the r@*^ scene he kept stopping filming to make sure the actress for Lorraine was still comfortable with everything.
Thats very reassuring when I watch that scene again ty 😅
Ok.
Met him in passing at an independent film festival and can confirm he treated all the staff and volunteers very nicely! Very polite and down to earth guy
Indeed he is, I don’t know if he still does stand up, but he used to… he has a song that he used to sing for BttF and for fans… here’s a link, it’s hilarious.
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He stopped it to repeat his aggressive actions many times)
Biff's messed up sayings were the brainchild of his actor, Tom Wilson, who based Biff's personality on the bullies he had to deal with growing up. The actual saying is "Make like a tree and LEAVE", punning on the fact that trees have leaves. The idea is that Biff is too stupid to get the point of the saying, and clumsily messes it up by saying it as "Make like a tree and get out of here", which lacks the point of the original.
The fact that someone in the comments also had to point out and explain one of the most obvious jokes in the movie already bodes poorly for this reaction before I even watch it. Sigh.
and a certain ex president who shall go nameless at least for the second movie
@@the-NightStar Uhh it's not an obvious joke unless you've heard the original saying. If watching different reactors has taught me anything it's that people have huge differences in what cultural things, events, or sayings they've encountered. Doesn't mean the rest of the reaction is going to be bad.
I always thought that Biff was intentionally messing it up as a joke, which only he found funny. Maybe I'm giving Biff too much credit.
@@jb888888888 I see how one could come to that conclusion, but in Part 2, Old Biff actually rabbit punches his younger self for saying it wrong and tells him he "sounds like a damn fool" for saying it that way. While it's possible that Old Biff may just not think it's funny anymore, it implies to me that it was due to Young Biff not getting the point of the original saying, finding out later in life what the point was, and feeling really stupid about it afterwards!
This movie is taught in screenwriting classes as the perfect script. Every line is there for a reason, every plot point has a set up and a payoff. Themes are introduced (like all the clocks at the beginning with how important time is) and repeated for a paid off as well. Just perfection.
Deloreans were cool in the 80's but as time went on they were shown to be notoriously unreliable.
The "too darn loud" guy at the audition was the singer Huey Lewis.
The Twin Pine Mall at the beginning became the Lone Pine Mall when Marty returned to 1985.
Oh and they put real alcohol in the flask when Marty takes it from Lorraine to prank Michael j Fox. in the car scene.
For the actual alcohol in the drink in the car scene, that’s an outtake, not the one that made it to the movie.
@BattleAngelFan time travel isn’t real, so it doesn’t have to be logical, you can make it anyway you want it to be.
DeLoreans are widely considered to be unique and stylish, but a product that under-performed relative to its cost.
The DeLorean came out in early 1981... and DMC (The DeLorean Motor Company) declared bankruptcy in late 1982... so the DeLorean automobile was not a success. It would likely be forgotten by the general public if it were not for its use in Back to the Future.
I didn't know all these details off the top of my head, but I looked them up and they confirmed my beliefs about DMC and the DeLorean.
My neighbor had one, by the way, years after BTTF.
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My demands of a time travel story are simply that they be interesting and have some internal consistency.
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Wasn't DeLorean's bankruptcy related to using the car chassis to smuggle drugs to the US?
I don't know who told you that the third installment is lower quality - this is pretty much the perfect trilogy, and if anything 3 is better than 2. It's a deeply satisfying finale.
Yeah 3 was my favorite.
Yeah. Obviously everyone's opinions will be a little different, but I have sensed no consensus that the 3rd film is low quality.
Exactly The original is the best but most people I know believe 2 is the least of the 3 but the younger generation seems to like part 2 better. Overall the general consensus is this is one of the greatest Trilogies ever made
@@UTU49 The 3rd film came out 6mo after the 2nd -- the two sequels were filmed concurrently and the general reception at the time was that the final installment was a bit underwhelming.
Westerns weren't especially popular in 1990 and the summer before was infamously dubbed the "Summer of Sequels"... so Hollywood was in a bit in a transition period (new decade, new possibilities, Pulp Fiction etc.). And we just saw Back to The Future 2!
Interestingly, over the years BTTF3 has aged better than the zany second movie... it has more heart and is closer to the spirit of the original. As a trilogy it's pretty seamless (especially seen from today) and the franchise's only true deficiency is the absence of George McFly from the sequels.
Many people like 3 the best so yes. See this is why reactors should NEVER listen to what comments say, becuase they'll always get conflicting or just flat out wrong perceptions from it.
Fun fact: in the "Darth vader" scene, the original plan was to have actual Van Halen music playing, but Eddie was the only one who signed off on it, so they improvised.
What you're hearing is just Eddie by himself playing a few solo riffs.
Lol, never new that. I love that I can still find out these little nuggets about some of my favorite movies
@@matthewpopow6647 I never knew that either! Eddie Van Halen, what a legend...
With that "you got a permit for that?" scene- if you watch while Marty is putting the letter in Doc's pocket, in the background Doc's going into his wallet for money. The "permit" is a bribe 🤣
great catch. 40 years later and i'm still noticing things that i never noticed on my first 257 viewings. 😉
"Better get used to these bars, kid" no matter how many times i watch this, this line always make me laugh
Who else thinks that when George knocks out Biff it's one of the most satisfying punches in movies history
Definitely. You know Biff is a well written character when you hate him as much as you do.
The fans of this film are legendary because they found the mall parking lot where the iconic scene of the first time travel took place, put tape down on the tarmac for the fire trails and foot stamps for where the Doc and Marty were standing. Just so people could recreate the shot perfectly themselves.
The old expression is "make like a tree and leave," so Biff getting it wrong always makes me laugh
That, or "split".
Make like a banana and split.
The attention for the details in this movie is phenomenal. Example : The parking lot where Doc & Marty meet up is called the Twin Pine Mall. Then Marty gets to 1955 and, as he is leaving the barn, he smashing into some little tree and you can hear the owner yelling "My Pine !" then when Marty gets back to 1985, the parking lot is now called "Lone Pine Mall". Genius !
Also, not exactly a detail but, The song Marty plays is Johnny B. Good,e by Chuck Berry and it's funny 'cause you can see the guy with his broken hand calling a friend of his and talking to him about a certain "Chuck" who's looking fro a new sound. Chuck Berry got the inspiration for Johnny B. Goode from Marty Mc Fly (aka Calvin Klein)
Hate to nitpick but: It's Twin Pine Mall, not Two Pined, the song is Johnny B. Goode, not Good, and it was Marvin Berry with a stabbed hand, not broken, calling his cousin Chuck, not friend. I just saw that you were already editing this post so you might want to fix those things as well, but it probably doesn't matter.
@@MysterClark "Hate to nitpick" "but probably doesn't matter" If it don't matter why you nitpicking then? :D
@@MysterClark Hate to nitpick, but it wasn't Twin Pine Mall, it was Twin Pines Mall.
@@shallowgal462 See? That's the spirit! A simple typo of mine but a mistake all the same. Thank you! :D
Most people miss the subtle continuity. At the start of the movie, the parking lot is of the Twin Pine Mall...at the end, because Marty drove over one of those pines in the field, it is now called Lone Pine Mall.
There was never meant to be a sequel but once they decided on one they did the third film too as a back-to-back shoot. The third is well worth watching as it completes the full story
Correct, they have even said if they knew there would be more they would've had a different ending or at the very least the girlfriend would not have been in the car with them.
It also completes the TIMEline, too.
The sequel they had intended included everything from bttf3, and was called paradox. It would have been one of the longest non epic movies in history and the studio decided to split it up.
They didn't really decide on one, fan demand and studio demand basically forced their hand, studio was ready to replace the Bobs if needed. Also when they wrote the sequel they wrote so much that they ended up decided to make it 2 films and shooting it back to back was way cheaper then doing them separately.
Also on a side note, the story used in the BTTF video game was actually a concept for the movie sequels but they obviously didn't go with it. Would have been cool though, it's a fun story.
The judge that told his band was "too loud" was actually Huey Lewis......the song he's playing......😂🤘
Came to look for this comment. lol In the 80s everyone knew who he was because of music videos and we all thought the scene was hilarious.
@@deirdrestatham5730 I did the very same thing. Thanks for commenting. 🤣✌🏼😎
Huey
Yeah it's kinda cringey to watch all these reactors who watch this movie and nobody knows who Huey Lewis is . Kinda makes me sad.
@@dianedeck Just makes me feel positively ancient. 😂
It’s pretty great how they set up everything that will be used later on in the first like 15 minutes of the movie
"Make like a tree and leaf" (leave) was what the expression was supposed to be, but Biff wasn't smart enough to get it right. :) Great reaction -- I'm so glad you got to see the full movie! It's such a treat.
'Make like a tree and leave.' 'Leave' is actually a legit verb 'to put forth leaves'.
@@IsraelShekelberg Thank you for the tip! I did not know that. The public school system failed me.
As someone who grew up in the '50's and watching the movie when it first came out, they really REALLY nailed all the nuances of the differences between 1955 and '85. History buffs (like me) could watch and rewatch this for all the things they got right.
In 1955, an average tv cost $250 which would be 11 times that in today's dollars (roughly $2,750). A tv was the same price approx. of a new car back then. Yes, certainly if you rich, you could have a second tv but at the time, it was just unthinkable. (When I've made this comment before, others have questioned this, but hearing the conversation made me think back and it was just unconceivable. Also not a lot of programming so why would you want a second one.)
Yes, I would love to visit the past but no, wouldn't want to live there. So many things about society back then that would I would find suffocating.
Travelling back in time also isn't very appealing to us people of colour... just saying. **shrug**
@@deirdrestatham5730 Here's hoping that trend continues, so in 50 years you'll be saying the same thing about today rather than reminiscing about "the good ol' days."
@@bigdream_dreambig I’m a Gen-Xer so the “good ol’ days”, for me, were the 90s. Haha
Even rich people wouldn't have had two TVs. They would've thought: The same shows are shown on both, so what would be the point of having two? It would be like having two copies of the same book. No one in the 50's would've thought of having a TV in each room. Everyone knew that you kept your TV in the living room where the whole family could watch it. No one had a TV in their bedroom.
@@deirdrestatham5730 Oh, man, can I understand that even from an outsider's viewpoint. All those old movies with the racial stereotypes so painful. The maids, the eye-rolling, the men afraid of things like ghosts, the idea a black person couldn't perform a dance/song solo. (Luckily, the Nicholas Brothers performing duos was okay to preserve their talent on film.) Shirley Temple dancing on the stairs with Bill Bo Jangles in The Little Rebel seeming so innocent today, but breaking the taboo of a black man dancing with a white women (and the scene had to be cut from the movie for theaters in the South).
As LGBT, I could have been arrested for merely being found in a gay bar, and that would have been the least of it. ALL the offensive nonsense for so many marginalized groups in "the good old days."
By the way, I think it is so ironic to think what a REAL Marty and Doc would see in travelling to 2015, in terms of breaking barriers for even the highest office! (Something that in 1985 would be still be thought to be off-limits.)
Hopefully time-travelers to 2045 will also be further shocked - in a good way that is.
Doc took a chance on the letter because he knew the timeline had already been changed thanks to George standing up to Biff.
How would doc know that? He wasn't at the dance to see it.
@@TonyMontanaDS Did you not hear Marty telling him about it?
Marty: Hey c'mon, I had to change, you think I'm going back in that zoot
suit? The old man really came through. It worked.
Doc: What?
Marty: He laid out Biff in one punch. I never knew he had it in him. He
never stood up to Biff in his life.
Doc: Never?
he also had 30 years to think about it, that's a long time to be curious lol
He knew he was going to die, because he'd been watching the videotape over and over. He just didn't know what to prepare for. I'm sure as the years went by, he had plenty of time to think about the contents of the letter and to reassemble the pieces. It's one thing to set an example to Marty, and another to throw your life away.
Thor: "Place a lot of bets when you come back"
We who have seen the trilogy: ". . . "
After you've finished this trilogy, i HIGHLY RECOMMEND another time travel movie that also transports the protagonist to the 1950's (in the US), called PLEASANTVILLE (Tobey Macguire, Reese Witherspoon, WIlliam H Macy, Joan Allen, Jeff Daniels, Don Knotts). It's very funny, very very clever, a social commentary and with a lot of heart. It's actually genius.
"Michael J Douglas"...so close my friend, so close. Also, the expression Biff was trying to say was "make like a tree and leave (leaf)"
XD
Thank you!
I don't think that you noticed. At the beginning, the mall was Twin Pines Mall. But, when Marty went back and was escaping from the killer farm family, he ran down one of the little twin pines. When he gets BACK TO THE FUTURE, it is now Lone Pine Mall.
"Would anyone be willing to live in 1955 instead of 2022?"
*thinks of racial segregation, lack of women's rights, and lack of gay rights*
Nope. But they had great music.
I looked over a few comments and didn't see that anyone mentioned the audition scene. When this movie came out we all died laughing. The band auditioned playing "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News. The teacher that tells them "...I'm afraid you're just too darn loud" *_is_* Huey Lewis. A great subtle Easter Egg in Hollywood history.
05:06 Huey Lewis himself telling Marty they are too loud! 😂😂😂 Cracks me up every time!
The only reason I was scrolling this far through the comments was to see if anyone noticed it was Huey Lewis😁
“What’s he doing, birdwatching?” 😂😂😂
Fun fact: Ronald Reagan himself got a kick out of the "Ronald Reagan, the actor?!" line. He asked the White House projectionist to replay it several times lol
“Donald Trump? The hotel guy from ‘The Apprentice’?!?”
@@JuneSongstressDefinitely Biff in part II 😂
@@timroebuck3458he actually didn't like that the first lady's name mentioned was that of his ex wife. 😊
“Make like a Tree and leave” is the expression. This movie makes you remember the definition of bravery is stand up even when if you are afraid.
I don't know why I'm seeing a whole bunch of movie reactions to this trilogy in my recommended lately, but I'm very much here for it.
One thing to keep in mind moving forward is that these movies do not operate strictly on the butterfly effect (where the tiniest of changes have a massive impact) but rather the ripple effect (where significant timeline disturbances change the future). Also, the changes they make to the timeline are not predetermined, but they do occur in the order we see them on screen (which is why we see events from earlier in the movie/series play out later, but not the other way around). Goldie Wilson was always going to be mayor, and having the idea earlier did not change when he was actually voted into office. As Doc will come to say: "The future isn't written. It can be changed."
The actor who plays Biff is the unsung hero of the trilogy on account of just how good he plays these horrible iterations of this character so well and makes them feel so different despite it basically being the same character
The guy who disqualified Marty at the audition is Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the News. He sang the opening to the movie.
I never thought of looking into it, but that's a cool bit of info! 😮😮
"They found me, I don't know how but they found me"... says the guy riding around town in a huge van with his name on the side of it!
Lol @ “Michael J Douglas” 😆
Marty doesn’t go back to save his family nor Doc. He is just driving to escape the Libyans. The machine was set to travel 30 years prior and he hit 88mph trying to outrun them.
Oh, and life wasn’t too bad in 1955.
The character of Biff was supposed to be a parody of Donald Trump, who was mainly known just an obnoxious landlord in those days.
Jackie Gleason had a tv show called The Jackie Gleason Show up till 1955. Then in '55 he starred in the show The Honeymooners where his character Ralph Kramden was a bus driver.
The saying Biff mangled is "make like a tree and leave." LOL
When Marty played the song Johnny B Goode the one guy had gis cousin Chuck Berry on the Phone. Chuck Berry is the original singer of the song irl.
His unfamiliarity with Jackie Gleason also shows that he hasn't seen "Smokey and the Bandit."
@@Tr0nzoid Yup. We need to recommend that one to him.
"are those two brakes" .. no its a manual gearbox (clutch - brake - gaspedal). if you don't hit the clutch on an emergency brake you kill the engine.
I figured there would be 50 comments explaining this but yours was the first one I saw. Only saw a couple of others. . .
Apparently he's not Thor: God of Manual Transmissions. haha
The lost art of driving with a manual clutch. :(
@@cboscari Manual Transmission, a decent anti theft device for many people in America
The complete saying is, "Why don't you make like a tree and LEAVE 🍃". They had Biff's character recite it incorrectly to highlight his dimwittedness 😹😹
At 6'2", the actor who played Biff was 10 inches taller than Marty's 5'4".
Left foot on the clutch... right foot on the break :)
I like watching your reactions!!
Thor on "Who came up with the design" for the Delorean. Answer: John DeLorean of DeLorean Motor Cars, LTD. Yes, it was a real car in production in the 80s. But it ultimately failed, in part because of the car's design flaws and partly because it the company's owner being arrested for drug trafficking. Of course, all the "Time Machine" additions to the car (flux capacitor, time circuits, external wires/cables, etc) were came out of the minds the production designers for the film.
This is one of those trilogies where all three movies are equally good, in my opinion. I don't really have a favorite or a least favorite.
The guy with the glasses & megaphone who tells Marty and his band their music is too loud was actually Huey Lewis himself 😛
Makes me sad that younger folks don’t know Michael J Fox or other actors that had their fame in the past. He was known in virtually every home back in the day. Great guy too!!
In my town there is a High School auditorium named in his honour.
@@visaman and he has such good movies! Teen Wolf was fun
in 1985 he was mostly famous for being the "star" of Family Ties, a popular sitcom at the time.
The moment Michael J. Douglas was announced as an actor in this movie, i was positive there were going to be true nuggets of wisdom spewing from your well.
He wasn't trying to time travel for any reason. He was just trying to get away. He accidentally turned on the time circuits with his radiation suit
All 3 movies are worth watching. The first and third are the best but I've come to appreciate how good # 2 is as well.
That's the problem with almost every trilogy. The middle movie doesn't really have a beginning or ending, so it feels detached.
@@vibingwithvinyl Oh, I don't really think that about Back to the Future Part II. It has three acts: problem, quest, resolution, it's just that the movie ends with a set up for Part III. It's pretty similar to how the first one ended, even if they didn't intend to make sequels when they did that.
@@vibingwithvinyl Most fans consider The Empire Strikes Back as the best of the original Star Wars trilogy despite not having a beginning or ending.
When Marty slams on two pedals to break, it's just to stop the car from stalling. A pressed clutch stops the car from conking out when the revs are too low after slamming on the breaks. which actually ,after the car stops anyway, creates a microscopic plot contrivance.
Glad you explained the break/clutch, I didn't want to comment if there was an explanation already, glad you did 🤗
I'm also glad someone commented on the two pedals Marty slams, although the left one should have gone to the floor. The left one is the clutch, and disengages the transmission from the engine on a standard transmission car. The right pedal is called a brake (not break), and, as in an automatic transmission car, is used to bring the car to a halt.
A word of caution: At the end of the 2nd movie is a trailer for the 3rd movie (they filmed back-to-back). If you want to avoid spoilers, remember to stop playback when "To Be Concluded" appears on screen.
Very glad you enjoyed this movie! The trilogy is amazing as a whole, don't let anyone try to downplay the third installment. The whole thing is just great fun. Every actor in the film really sells their role. And so many little time travel Easter eggs, like the Twin Pine Mall becoming the Lone Pine Mall due to Marty running over one of old man Peabody's trees as he fled the farm.
It's not a spoiler if it's part of the movie.
@@CruelestChris Some folks regard a trailer to be a spoiler. The fact that a trailer is included at the end of the movie doesn't necessarily mean that the trailer is a part of the movie.
32:40 another fun fact: They didn't tell Michael there's real alcohol in the bottle, so that's a genuine spit take.
Since you asked, a 20" color TV in 1985 was about $500, that's about $1,376 in today's money. In 1955 about $250 or $2,762.
Given you could buy a house in the 50's for around 7k... yes, TVs were bloody expensive and the idea even in the early 80's of owning two TV's was rare for most people (my own family had the one color TV and an old black and white we still used in the early 80's and sometimes visitors would go 'you have 2 TVs!?', granted this was in NZ).
Hell I remember when the first LCD TVs came out, they were in the 2-3k$ range while the good old CRT TV's were 200-400 or so lol. The price values of an old 21inch TV (the standard) vs a 30inch or larger back in the late 90's was almost 3-4 times in difference also, was always envious of one of my friends with his 32inch TV lol... but with all tech, the more its adopted the cheaper it quickly becomes.
Unfortunately house prices do the opposite...
I was born in 1971 and as a young kid we had a black and white tv - a 13 inch if I recall correctly. It was the early 80s before we could afford a color tv and one slightly bigger. So yeah having even one tv in 1955 would probably have been a big treat. I remember when I was growing up and VCRs first came out they were so expensive that "normal" folks couldn't afford to buy them so video stores came about where you actually could rent a VCR for a night or two and rent a movie to watch. They gave you a bag with the VCR in it and the cables you needed to hook it up. And when you returned it you got charged a fee if you didn't rewind the tape before bringing it back. When the prices finally came down and we bought one it was very cool.
So in the 50s, 60s, and 70s if there was a tv show you wanted to see you had to be home at that day and time to watch it as George stated in the movie that if he went to the dance he would miss his favorite show - there was no way to watch it at a later time. If you missed it you were SOL. Growing up in the 70s and 80s the tv season for new episodes was strictly September through April/May. Over the summer they would re-air episodes from the prior season sometimes but there wasn't new content much during the summer months. Didn't matter anyway, at least to us kids, because as kids of that time we spent all day out of the house exploring/playing during the summer.
So glad you watched Back To The Future and found it enjoyable and refreshing. I saw it in the theater when it first came out and many many times since and haven't ever gotten bored of seeing it. Doc Brown is one of my favorite movie characters.
Oh and, yes, the DeLorean was real. My neighbor (who was a psychiatrist but dressed more like a lumberjack) had one and it looked hysterically funny sitting in the driveway on his farm next to his red Toyota pickup truck in front of his classic red with white trim painted barn and his chickens running around everywhere. Interestingly enough, he destroyed the car by running it into a tree when he lost control while speeding. I don't know what kind of tree it was but there's a fair chance it was a pine tree because we live in Maine and we have lots of those here. If he had managed not to destroy it then it would have been worth a fair penny later on.
There is an episode of the show Expedition Unknown (Discover Channel) with Josh Gates where the host, Josh, and Christopher Lloyd team up in search of a Delorean and it's a fun little episode and it gives a little bit on what happened to the DeLorean car company. Worth a watch it you can find it online. I can't recall but there might be spoilers for the next two movies so might want to wait to watch until you are done with those.
Haha- You’re hilarious!! The phrase is “make like a tree and leave” (leaf) and Biff screwed it up
I've yet to see a reactor notice that the mall is now called the Lone Pine Mall instead of the Twin Pines Mall because Marty ran over one of the pine trees.
The only movie that pulled off time travel convincingly
It's been speculated the fire when they simulate the lightning is supposed to be the same one that burns down the estate, which severely reduced the Brown fortune. Now that he puts it out here, that never happens.
@@jowbloe3673 the original one he did himself to collect insurance money, because it cost him everything to build the time machine.
My guess is now that he knew it would become a reality, he felt no need to do so, and became bolder in his pursuits.
4:50 The judge in the glasses, that claims they're "too darn loud" is Huey Lewis himself!
The expression was 'make like a tree and leave' Biff is so dumb he doesn't get the (not very good) pun, so just says something that means the same.
The way his parents are with each other in the new future, I'm almost surprised he doesn't have some more little siblings running around.
They do use the final scene here as the beginning of the next movie, but the actor who played Jennifer was unable or unwilling, so they had to re-shoot it with the new actor.
The Delorean has a manual transmission. The third pedal is the clutch.
when Marty and his band were auditioning for the talent show, they were playing Hip To Be Square by Huey Lewis and the news. Huey Lewis played the judge who told him they were just too darn loud. and you were correct, Huey Lewis never judged on America's Got Talent.
I was 14 years old when this came out in 1985 and I absolutely love it. The Back To The Future trilogy is one of my all-time favorite trilogies. My absolute favorite scene, though, is when George finally stands up to Biff. That was a great moment, and the way Lorraine looks at George after he knocks Biff out made everything worth it. And I also love Alan Silvestri's score for this film and the two subsequent films. Some of the best music I have ever heard from a movie.
Marty McFly was probably my first movie crush. I just thought he was the coolest and I loved his skateboarding. I wished I could go to school like that instead of in my mum’s car. This was one of the many films we recorded off the tv and was one of the most rewatched along with Indiana Jones.
Whoever said part 3 isn't good is fooling themselves. It completes the story puts a perfect bow on it. So yes watch it.
Agree
The Back to the Future movie is the same one they did Gremlins. In fact, the theater Marty crashed into is the same one Billy blew up.
I LOVE "The Gremlins"! And "The Gremlins 2: The New Batch"… to a lesser extent… 😉😉😁😁
I remember being 15 years old in 1985 and watching this movie at the theaters and I will never forget when it ended when Doc says, "Roads, where we are going we don't need roads." As I walked down the aisle I remember everyone looking up at the screen still sitting through the credits with great big smiles on their faces. That is a great sign of a great time at the movies. Christopher Lloyd was magnificent in this movie, I already liked him from the TV show "Taxi" in another iconic role of Reverend Jim and of course Michael J. Fox was already a star as the legendary Michael P. Keaton on the classic 80s "Family Ties" sitcom. Also I had the biggest screen crush on Lea Thompson back in the 80s. a lot of guys did I'd wager!
Correction...That's Alex P. Keaton 😉
@@dth2brny121 II know I think I had Michael on the brain but of course it is Alex
For your question on who the heck Jackie Gleason is, he was an actor on the sitcom "The Honeymooners", which in turn inspired "The Flintstones".
Michael J. Fox was on a pretty popular TV show called Family Ties while this was being filmed. He would work on the TV show during the day and do most of the filming for the movie at night. He basically got no sleep for a few months
"are those two brakes?"
No that's just one brake and the clutch for manual driving xD
The guy who tells Marty that "You're just too darn loud" is Huey Lewis the person who wrote "The Power of Love" the song that plays through the movie.
11:29 Technically yes he is from the past, because he's about 50 so he's from about 50 years in the past.
Another fun fact: the guy who tells Marty that their band is just darn loud is actually Huey Lewis.
As others have said, the third is a MUST. Most people rank it better than the second.
The 3th is AMAZING
Foreshadowing is key to this trilogy. Like how Twin Pines Mall becomes Lone Pine Mall, or Loraine 's explains how she met George. And that Biff crashes George's car to start the movie. At the end, he runs an Autobody shop.
Twin Pines Mall becoming Lone Pine Mall isn't foreshadowing, it's continuity. Foreshadowing is when Marty gets the flier for the clock tower which is later used to actually send Marty back to the future
@@JoshuaBloom01 Actually, Doc talked about these pines at the beginning, so there is no mistake here)
@@sky4break729 You are correct, but your reasoning isn't. The act of the name changing is not foreshadowing. The actual change of the name is continuity. However, your example of the Doc talking about the pine trees is foreshadowing.
@@JoshuaBloom01 yeah, can't argue with that)
Clutch and brake. It's a standard shift car. Best kind to drive!
With all the rights threatened to be taken away recently this is 1955.
Some people want it to be at least😠
The guy that Said "You're too Darn loud" is none other than "Huey Lewis". He had tons of hits back o the day.
The man who told Marty they're just to damn loud was Huey Lewis himself. Televisions were very expensive in the 50's. They were $110-per-square-inch in the 1950s. And the hour wage then was only 75 cents an hour. And most Tv's came in black and white. Colour Tv's came out about 1950. So of course they were even more expensive. Glad you like this movie. I hope to see you react to part 2 and 3..take care..xx
Huey made the cameo and that was funny to see
Michael J Fox was basically the 80's version of Tom Holland. He actually married the girl who played his girlfriend on Family Ties and they are still together to this day. He had to quit acting because he has Parkinson's disease but he did a lot of voice acting for kid's movies like the dog in Homeward Bound.
I like your commentary. It's interesting to see someone watch this for the first time trying to figure out what's going on how they were gonna fix everything. I had the same reaction when I first watched it all those years ago.
I just LOVE Docs scream when he pulls the plug at the bottom
The expression is "Make like a tree and leave" Biff messes it up. in the 70's & 80's it was a popular word play phrase. those of us who saw it in the theatre got a good laugh when we heard it
"He's back already?!"
I mean, it's a time machine. He could be back whenever he wanted.
Have to remember - this was the 80s. Computers weren't a house hold device, tvs were usually a cabinet looking thing that still needed rabbit ears - if you had a big screen it took about 4 grown men to move it (not kidding) - and just about every one carried a couple of quarters in case you needed a ride home or learned how to do the speedy come get me collect message!
‘80s & ‘90s movies were FUN
That is missed these days.
They were serious, but in a sort of tongue in cheek sort of way. They didn't take themselves so seriously that they wouldn't crack a joke or play something up ridiculously. And it worked. Things like Last Action Hero, Back to the Future, Goonies, etc.. 80s and 90s are absolutely a genre of film that is deeply missed.
"Are those TWO brakes there? Like a double brake for his car??" Oh, kids today. Never change 🤣🤣🤣
To answer your question about the car, "Who came up with the design?" John DeLorean did. Also, the expression you asked about is "Make like a tree and leave," but Biff is getting it wrong. Finally, the fast song that Marty plays at the dance is "Johnny B. Goode," by Chuck Berry, one of the inventors of rock music and the first person to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The other musician who phones him is apparently his cousin.
By the way, a time travel movie I liked that has been overlooked by TH-cam is "Deja Vu" starring Denzel Washington as an ATF agent investigating a terrorist bombing who discovers that the US government has invented time travel and is keeping it a secret.
Deja Vu! Thanks for reminding me of that movie. I liked that one. I'd recommend it as well.
THAT THUMBNAIL IS GOLDEN 😂 GREAT REACTION
The original guitarist who was on the phone at the dance, was calling Chucky Berry, the one came out with the song Marty was playing, Johnny Be Good
Marty shredding guitar is one of my favourite parts of this movie. He was playing 'Go, Johnny Go!'(Johnny B. Goode) by Chuck Berry. Old songs are the best! And yes, playing an instrument is always a plus but I think what made Marty a "dream" was his natural confidence. He was always so naturally cool. Oh and by the way, I forgot to mention that Doc (Christopher Lloyd) is the voice of Rasputin (aka Mr Potato Head) in 'Anastasia' :)
Note: the 'Chuck' on the other end of that phone...
This song came out in 1958/1959.
BACK TO THE FUTURE IS THE BEST TRILOGY EVER MADE!!!!
The left pedal is the clutch for the manual shifting of the drive gears. The pedal next to it is the brake. Gas pedal is the same as an automatic drive transmission.
So my life has been changing in major ways lately and I haven't been able to watch everything I've wanted to. That being said, I am SO glad that this is the one I am coming back for. The Back to the Future series is one of my all-time favorites and has a huge nostalgia factor for me. Excited for your reactions again!!
I was so lucky to have been a teenager when these blockbusters came out :-)
The Delorean was a real car that was sold. The car and the company that made it was named after the company's CEO John Delorean. Unfortunately, even though it was a very cool looking car, it didn't sell well and the company went bankrupt. It wasn't created for this movie.
Public phone booths used to be a regular thing because the telephone was a public utility run by AT&T and Bell Telephone until Reagan broke it up and privatized it all. Even though it was public, you did have to pay to use public telephones and you had a monthly phone bill that had to be paid.
Jackie Gleason was a famous comedian who had his own live variety show in the 1950s. Part of his show was a recurring skit called the Honeymooners which eventually spun off into its own sitcom. They still show reruns of that show (and you can probably find episodes on TH-cam). The Flintstones was inspired by the Honeymooners (the 4 lead characters of both shows were very similar; the main difference being the time period the shows were set in).
I think the expression Biff flubbed should have been "Make like a tree and leave".
I work for a satellite TV company, and I was processing some paperwork dealing with repairs one of our technicians did at a customer's house, but it had a typo; it said the equipment was originally installed in 1907! Way before satellite TV, way before satellites, and way before TV!! So I emailed corporate and asked them if the technician drove a Delorean to that job!
Michael J Douglass! 😄 It's Michael J Fox, Thor!
In the beginning of the movie, it was Twin Pine Mall, and at the end its Lone Pine Mall because marty ran over one of the pine trees from Mr. Peabody's land when he was driving away.
17:37 Saying "He disappears like Batman." followed by him on a bike with the bell is funny, and makes me picture Batman on a bike like that.
The expression Biff keeps messing up is "Make like a tree and *leaf* /leave" XD
Apparently it used to be a figure of speech for a while :D
The man who stops him singing at the beginning, the one with the megaphone and glasses, is actually Huey Lewis
Might have already been mentioned, but at 14:55, the one on the left is the clutch for a manual transmission, when hard braking like that you would do the clutch pedal also so the tranny goes into neutral. Good driving skills from A "17" year old..