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. If you think there's anything else of interest, please comment on this and get a thread going. Enjoy! In the meantime, we will be reacting to the sequels very soon!
Marty's true takeaway after returning from the past is the transformation of his family into a thriving, happy household. Whether he's fully appreciative of it or not at the time. Because one day he most certainly will be. That's better than any truck, guitar performance, campout with his girl, or anything else.
@@GenerationMediaReaction No Sir haha....you'll never get away with that from an empath like me, plus a fellow Back to the Future lover👍Your analysis was fabulous too, your Son is a lucky boy I think👍
@@Dd8505 There are some films i look forward to covering on the channel that i know will bring the waterworks. The truth it, when a film is just so good, just the admiration of the work can get me going!
I have watched this film countless times and watched so many reactors on TH-cam, but your son said something I have never heard or thought about before- will the actions of harnessing the lightning to power the time machine keep the lightning from stopping the clock in the clocktower. Wow! Mind blown. Kudos to him for such an astute question. Love your reactions.
I’m pretty sure the initial strike would have done enough damage to the clock, even with it being harnessed from that point and directed into the flux capacitor.
I think harnessing all the power just stopped the clock from being more damaged than it is. I’ve seen a lightning bolt split a large tree down the middle.
This brings back happy memories for me. You remind me a lot of me and my dad when I was a kid. We watched this one together on VHS, then saw part’s 2 and 3 at the cinema when I was 12 and 13. Part 2 (my personal favourite) came out in November 1989 here in England, and I remember it being so popular that the queue ran right out of the building, down the street and round a corner. Thankfully we were closer to the front so managed to get seats. For part 3 we had to buy tickets a week in advance to make sure we got in. I’m looking forward to rewatching with you two. 😃
17:35 When Doc showed Marty the car at the beginning of the movie, he said it had three time settings: one for the current time, one for the time that you're starting from, and one for the time that you're going to. So it had a record of the exact second that he left.
15:50 It's easy to overlook the fact that Marty's guitar solo is not only a brilliant joke about the supposed construction of a '50s rock 'n' roll classic, but that his over-the-top playing also provides a perfect introduction to his farewell to the '50s when both sides realize they don't really fit together. This is actually one of the best scripts ever written, with an incredible amount of allusions and ambiguity on every level.
Most enjoyable reaction ! Thank you ! Your insights and expressed emotions places another layer of unique perspective upon on a movie that I feel as one of the best !
According to co-creator Bob Gale, the original idea he and Robert Zemeckis had for the start of Marty and Doc's friendship is that everyone in Hill Valley kept saying Doc was dangerous. Marty was told the same thing by his peers, so he snuck into Doc's lab at age 14 to find out the truth. When Doc found him, he offered Marty a job as his assistant instead of calling the cops...and everything progressed from there.
I'm so happy that you are going to finish the trilogy. Marty will definitely have a great character ark and learn valuable life lessons before the finallee .love the channel.
I finished both parts of the review, and it's another fun one. I do enjoy hearing your analysis and interpretation, as well as both perspectives from you and your son. He seemed to really enjoy it, too. I haven't read all the other comments, so maybe these things have been addressed, but... At the beginning, not only is Albery Einstein's picture on the wall at Doc's house, but Benjamin Franklin and other well-known inventors. And the photo Doc is looking at when he says "Tom" is that of Thomas Edison. As for the skateboard, it was invented just a bit earlier, but wasn't really something the general public would know about so much until, I believe, the later 1960s. Without going back entirely, I am paraphrasing here, but with the older couple that is in the car when Marty first arrives in the past says something like, "Wilbur, drive." 😊 I don't know if I picked up on it before, but it's also one of many cool details that the distinction of the Lone Pine Mall and the Two Pines Mall is referencing the plants that Marty drove through when escaping the farmer and his shotgun. It was Marty that took out one of the pines. 😂 I also think it was brilliant that the clock tower was used to pinpoint the exact time something happened, in this case, the lightning bolt. The hands of the clock naturally stopped on the exact moment. I remember originally planning to see "Red Sonja" (1985) with a friend and he didn't make it to the theater, and since it was too late for me to make the screening of that film, I went and saw "Back To The Future," instead. By far, the better choice! Looking forward to the next review from you two!
Thank you. Ah yes couldn't recognise all the scientists Doc had, but realised they had to be famous after Einstein was pointed out. Caught the 'Tom', but didn't recognise him. Glad you enjoyed it
Yeah, in 1955, skateboarding would still be something among some surfers on the coast, and Hill Valley is fairly close to the California-Nevada border, not near the coast.
My comment in 1/2 about Back to the Future ride at Universal Studios, I forgot to mention when you get into the DeLorean and take off into the future at high speed, Biff is chasing 😀 you! Just a little teaser before you start 2&3. Peace✌️ and Love❤️ Gary😊 great reaction👍
25:30 It's now Lone Pine Mall because Marty ran over one of farmer Peabody's two pine trees. Remember when you thought he said "You killed my parents?" What he really said was "You killed my pine." 26:50 I'm not sure what you mean by "How did he know exactly where each bullet would go?" It was a vest. As long as none of the bullets hit his head, arms, or legs, the rest of his body was protected. Are you thinking that those metal discs are what stopped the bullets? No, those discs are the bullets, which got flattened when they hit the vest.
Yeah we realised what he said in the edit "you killed my pine", it was all happening so fast. I think the comment on the bullets was in the understanding that none were to hit him in the head.
37:55 Très bonne remarque. Le script explique qu'en revenant de 2015, Doc a amélioré la voiture en remplaçant le réacteur au plutonium par un réacteur à fusion nucléaire en vente libre dans tous les commerces car la fusion est maîtrisée avec tous les éléments en 2015. Du coup, un formidable moyen de se débarrasser des déchets et d'en tirer en plus de l'énergie. Dans la réalité, on en est toujours au stade expérimental avec la fusion. Merci pour cette réaction, c'est un vrai plaisir de vous regarder tous les deux.
My favourite part of the original as an adult is the 3 young actors that played the older versions and younger versions of themselves. Absolutely flawless acting. As a kid I didn't understand how they did the make up. It was also flawless. They look old and act old. I used to love marty and Michael j fox but as an adult it's Crispin Glover that steals the whole show. And it's weird to think that he thought George was the actual main character but it makes sense. Its kind of his story. It's such a shame he wasn't in the sequels.
Absolutely, George has the largest emotional 'arc' because he changes the most. This is what's interesting about the story - as I dont' think it's intended. Marty plays a character that affects change on others more than change himself.
Need to also remember that back then there were only pay phones. If you didn't know where 1 was - you had to drive all over to find one. Another Christopher lloyd movie you might enjoy - angels in the outfield.
I think Marty does grow, although it isn’t shown explicitly. He starts off like his father, lacking in self-confidence. However, confronted by his father’s lack of self-confidence in the past, Marty realizes and addresses his father’s problem. The fact that he could do this and succeed implies that he has changed himself in the process.
When Marty wakes up after his adventure, and finds his family changed for the better, you may notice him carrying an envelope. There's a missing couple of scenes. First, there was meant to be a scene BEFORE he meets Doc at the mall where he puts his audition tape in an envelope, ready to send it to a studio, but he chickens out and throws it in the bin. AFTER his adventure he wakes up, takes it out of the bin, and has the confidence to submit it. (You see it in his hand, and then on the counter-top.) Unfortunately, without those scenes (which I read back in 1985 in the novelisation) we miss Marty's arc.
@@tanisdevelopment This is really interesting, thank you fort sharing, Agreed this would have completed his arc. Doesn't seem it would have added much screen time. Strange choice to cut it out.
If I may, three parent-child recommendations: "Gremlins" (1984 - Joe Dante, under the Spielberg realm) "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids" (1989 - Disney spectacle, with all the pyrotechnics and bells & whistles) "Matinee" (1993 - Again, Joe Dante / A take on the William Castle/1950s gimmicky horror-sci-flick, set against the anxiety of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Florida, October, 1962. I love this little movie.) Thank you. I have been enjoying your videos. Do you have a Patreon page?
Thanks - we have seen Gremlins already, otherwise i agree it's perfect. Maybe we revisit it sometime in the future. Honey I shrunk the kids is interesting as i dont know it very well ... is it decent quality? We don't have a Patreon page
@@GenerationMediaReaction I too would love to see you watch Honey I shrunk the kids. It's one of my favouriters from that time period. And still holds up really well in my opinion (I rewatched it a few years ago). The sequels are of lesser quality (especially the third one), but the original is a classic in my eyes.
You like the concept of a son going back in time to help his father? Then you need to watch "Frequency" (2000) starring Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel. Great film for Father's Day.
Most movies about time travel don't take into account that the earth is moving around the sun, the sun is flying thru space around the milky way, and the milky way is moving thru the universe. Traveling thru time would mean the earth is in a different spot in space than when you started, so you'd end up floating in space, or deep inside the planet.
Absolutely! In stories and linear narrative, time travel is a plot device to serve a different purpose, usually to do with revisiting past decisions and outcomes of decisions in the present
Doc would certainly realize that as well, so compensating for that is something I just took as being inherent to how the flux capacitor interacts with space-time. With Doc’s admiration of Einstein, I think it would be funny if that ended up being connected to some property of quantum entanglement that Einstein considered absurd.
0:57 One major plot hole here is that there's a whole 60 seconds worth of 10:04 pm in which the lightning COULD strike, so there's no way for them to know "precisely" when the lightning strike happens.
@@chrisfofficial I think the idea is that you can see what time the clock currently reads, which is the time it was struck and stopped working, and they can see that in the picture of the clock on the flyer, so they know what time it was struck
Once the minute hand moves to 10:04, there might be a mechanism that counts the seconds and if this mechanism stopped at zero (movement) seconds..... (?)
Back to the future part 4, Marty becomes a Raging alcoholic because he didn't get professional therapy, the memory of his mum kissing him in the car was just too much lol.
You will love the other two movies. IMO, this is the greatest movie trilogy of all time. Please note the original actress that played Jennifer could not be in the sequels so the actress, Elisabeth Shue, took that role.
"Parking" was a euphemism for "necking," kissing ("going to second base.") In a car, of course. A fascinating chapter in American moviegoing was the advent of the teen-themed horror film of the late-1950s. With the advent and rise of television in the early-'50s, fewer people attended their neighborhood movie house on a weekly, or more frequent, basis. Hollywood studios combatted this in-home trend by introducing Cinemascope, Panavision, Vista-Vision, of course 3-D (It's comin' right at ya' - in THREE dimensions), among other gimmicks to put asses back into theater seats. Interestingly, one area of film where early-television could NOT compete was horror films. With the post-WW2 Baby-Boomers reaching their teenaged years, they became a fertile market for theater and especially drive-in fright flicks of all kinds; from William Castle, with his "Macabre," :House On Haunted Hill" and "The Tingler," and more, utilizing all manner of gimmicks from glow-in-the-dark flying plastic skeletons to wiring seats so patrons could be buzZzZed at key moments, to teen-angst-horror maestro Herman Cohen and his work for American-International Pictures, with iconic titles such as "I Was A Teenage Werewolf," "I Was A Teenage Frankenstein," "How To Make A Monster," to name of few. Flush with disposable cash and their own steel-&-chrome hotrods with tail-fins, teenagers crowded drive-in theaters by the millions, watching a young Michael "Little House on the Prairie" Landon, steeped in his adolescent torment, transform into a werewolf before their eyes - this kinda' stuff was not being marketed at home by Lucille Ball or Jackie Gleason or Milton Berle on TV. No, no. Imagine yourself a young dude lookin' to score with his girl. Take her to the drive-in, and put your arm around her as she winces in fright from the hokum on the screen. Then, make your move . . . Picture all of the steamed windows.
@@GenerationMediaReaction, as having been born in 1969, I missed the parking-generation - by a generation. (Darn.) My exposure to these wonderfully schlocky little classics derived from syndicated television throughout the late-'70s and early-'80s. My family moved from Queens, New York City to Putnam, Connecticut (about two hours away), where we would receive the signal for many independent TV channels, such as WLVI-Channel 56, Boston, Massachusetts. Every Saturday, from 1 - 3:00 P.M., the Creature Double Feature would air. Ah, those were the days . . . Link, intro: th-cam.com/video/_DRYnK6b9sc/w-d-xo.html If you are interested, below is a link to the feature "I Was A Teenage Werewolf" (1957). It is now in the public domain. It is actually a pretty nifty chiller. It's all there - teenagers being manipulated by adults, so much drama/trauma. Good make-up effects and some interesting camera-work during the "attacks," notably in a high school gymnasium. Bankrolled for $100,000, the film went on to gross over $2-million . . . and spawned a sub-genre cottage industry. The most important part of a teen-horror flick? The pop song, performed in the film. This one has a doozy. I love it. th-cam.com/video/DmdasKbpsdk/w-d-xo.html
So as to this theory that Marty doesn’t really gain anything at the end of the movie: Look at what kind of person Marty is. He doesn’t really seem like a self involved individual. His dreams and hobbies are pretty basic and simple. But they take a backseat to helping others. I think the reward is the deed of saving his parents marriage. He indirectly benefits from improving their lives. He’s almost grown and raised at this point. I think Marty always just wants to do whatever is right. Getting what you want won’t make you happy. It’s the chase that humans love, not the kill. A wise man once said, The key is not to measure your life by what you've attained in terms of your desires, but by those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice. Because in the end, the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives is by valuing the lives of others.
Love these words you write here! So true. I think the writers were not happy with Marty not ‘growing’ in character at the end or learning something to better himself. This this why they introduced the chicken story thread for the sequels. But I think Marty having his family life improved and getting to play guitar at the dance is a good reward for him
Your are not watching reviews with your son. I've always seen this channel as a man watching movies with himself as a child! You must have your own Delorean Time Machine in the garage😅
Something from the future has ended up in 1955, and it’s not something Marty brought with him. Marvin Berry somehow has a Gibson ES-345 guitar (the one Marty plays at the dance), which weren’t produced until 1958. I’m pretty sure even Chuck Berry didn’t have one until the 1960s. Could the flux capacitor unintentionally be causing things to slip through? 😄
Have you seen family guy parody? There is one I think you like where dad says their son looks like same one who got them together, I won't spoil anymore
Love your stuff but you got me yelling at my screen. Lol If the young-one doesn’t remember something and asks you what’s going to happen, I suggest you remain noncommittal and just let him see what unfolds instead of just telling him what’s going to happen. For example, the chuck berry phone call. I like your channel, introducing todays youth to the golden age of film. Keep going 👍
Please stick the Ryan Reynolds film, The Adam Project, on your watch list. It’s heavily influenced by Back to the Future, and Stand by Me. Its great family adventure film.
A few tidbits for you: 1. The reason the mall's name changed to Lone Pine is because Marty killed one of the two, escaping from the barn family. You thought he said "you killed my parents," but he said, "you killed my pine." 2. The reason they knew the precise time that Marty had left 1985 was because neither of them had changed the time machine's settings, and so when they turned the dashboard on, the original settings came back up. 3. One thing I noticed several views later was that at the end of the film when Marty sees his parents' new life and he falls to the floor, the father asks, "Did you hit your head?" That was a throwback to Marty hitting his head on the pavement when he was hit by the car. 4. Another one I noticed several years ago is in the earlier scene when Biff is berating George over crashing his car while drinking and driving, Biff exits the scene by saying to Marty, "Say hi to your mom for me," a foreshadowing of the other important car scene, where Biff is trying to take advantage of Lorraine. Finally, another thing I'd noticed on this very viewing was that Doc comes back to warn Marty and Jennifer about their kids. Therefore, that's a throwback to Marty visiting his own parents before THEY had kids. The update is that Marty and Jennifer currently don't have kids. Always something to spot with subsequent viewings.
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. If you think there's anything else of interest, please comment on this and get a thread going. Enjoy! In the meantime, we will be reacting to the sequels very soon!
Marty's true takeaway after returning from the past is the transformation of his family into a thriving, happy household. Whether he's fully appreciative of it or not at the time. Because one day he most certainly will be. That's better than any truck, guitar performance, campout with his girl, or anything else.
Well said!
I love how the Father starts to get emotional towards the end, love it, plus his Son is so dam smart!!
sheeesh, i thought i got away with that being unnoticed :-)
@@GenerationMediaReaction No Sir haha....you'll never get away with that from an empath like me, plus a fellow Back to the Future lover👍Your analysis was fabulous too, your Son is a lucky boy I think👍
@@Dd8505 There are some films i look forward to covering on the channel that i know will bring the waterworks. The truth it, when a film is just so good, just the admiration of the work can get me going!
I have watched this film countless times and watched so many reactors on TH-cam, but your son said something I have never heard or thought about before- will the actions of harnessing the lightning to power the time machine keep the lightning from stopping the clock in the clocktower. Wow! Mind blown. Kudos to him for such an astute question. Love your reactions.
Yeah... what if... the clock had not stopped and this was one thing more they had changed!?
I’m pretty sure the initial strike would have done enough damage to the clock, even with it being harnessed from that point and directed into the flux capacitor.
I think harnessing all the power just stopped the clock from being more damaged than it is. I’ve seen a lightning bolt split a large tree down the middle.
This brings back happy memories for me. You remind me a lot of me and my dad when I was a kid. We watched this one together on VHS, then saw part’s 2 and 3 at the cinema when I was 12 and 13.
Part 2 (my personal favourite) came out in November 1989 here in England, and I remember it being so popular that the queue ran right out of the building, down the street and round a corner. Thankfully we were closer to the front so managed to get seats. For part 3 we had to buy tickets a week in advance to make sure we got in. I’m looking forward to rewatching with you two. 😃
looking forward to the sequels now!
17:35 When Doc showed Marty the car at the beginning of the movie, he said it had three time settings: one for the current time, one for the time that you're starting from, and one for the time that you're going to. So it had a record of the exact second that he left.
Doc is what we call, "Third wheelin'" 😂
15:50 It's easy to overlook the fact that Marty's guitar solo is not only a brilliant joke about the supposed construction of a '50s rock 'n' roll classic, but that his over-the-top playing also provides a perfect introduction to his farewell to the '50s when both sides realize they don't really fit together.
This is actually one of the best scripts ever written, with an incredible amount of allusions and ambiguity on every level.
Thank you for watching. We will upload the first sequel tomorrow
24:50 Marty calls the old man on the bench "Red." Remember the sound truck in 1955 saying "Re-elect Red Thomas as Mayor."
Oh wow, didn't spot this. Another little detail!
@@GenerationMediaReaction I only found out about it a month ago.
Most enjoyable reaction ! Thank you ! Your insights and expressed emotions places another layer of unique perspective upon on a movie that I feel as one of the best !
Thank you! We are looking forward to the sequels!
All 3 movies are essentially one long film.
Marty gets his growth and rewards at the end of the third movie, all three having contributed to it.
According to co-creator Bob Gale, the original idea he and Robert Zemeckis had for the start of Marty and Doc's friendship is that everyone in Hill Valley kept saying Doc was dangerous. Marty was told the same thing by his peers, so he snuck into Doc's lab at age 14 to find out the truth. When Doc found him, he offered Marty a job as his assistant instead of calling the cops...and everything progressed from there.
Thanks for sharing. This is cool.
Love your hoodie, by the way...Amity Police 😂
I'm so happy that you are going to finish the trilogy. Marty will definitely have a great character ark and learn valuable life lessons before the finallee .love the channel.
I hope so too! The first sequel will be uploaded tomorrow.
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Such an interesting post-movie discussion. 😊
I finished both parts of the review, and it's another fun one. I do enjoy hearing your analysis and interpretation, as well as both perspectives from you and your son. He seemed to really enjoy it, too.
I haven't read all the other comments, so maybe these things have been addressed, but... At the beginning, not only is Albery Einstein's picture on the wall at Doc's house, but Benjamin Franklin and other well-known inventors. And the photo Doc is looking at when he says "Tom" is that of Thomas Edison.
As for the skateboard, it was invented just a bit earlier, but wasn't really something the general public would know about so much until, I believe, the later 1960s.
Without going back entirely, I am paraphrasing here, but with the older couple that is in the car when Marty first arrives in the past says something like, "Wilbur, drive." 😊
I don't know if I picked up on it before, but it's also one of many cool details that the distinction of the Lone Pine Mall and the Two Pines Mall is referencing the plants that Marty drove through when escaping the farmer and his shotgun. It was Marty that took out one of the pines. 😂
I also think it was brilliant that the clock tower was used to pinpoint the exact time something happened, in this case, the lightning bolt. The hands of the clock naturally stopped on the exact moment.
I remember originally planning to see "Red Sonja" (1985) with a friend and he didn't make it to the theater, and since it was too late for me to make the screening of that film, I went and saw "Back To The Future," instead. By far, the better choice!
Looking forward to the next review from you two!
Thank you. Ah yes couldn't recognise all the scientists Doc had, but realised they had to be famous after Einstein was pointed out. Caught the 'Tom', but didn't recognise him. Glad you enjoyed it
Yeah, in 1955, skateboarding would still be something among some surfers on the coast, and Hill Valley is fairly close to the California-Nevada border, not near the coast.
My comment in 1/2 about Back to the Future ride at Universal Studios, I forgot to mention when you get into the DeLorean and take off into the future at high speed, Biff is chasing 😀 you! Just a little teaser before you start 2&3. Peace✌️ and Love❤️ Gary😊 great reaction👍
They can't call the police that quickly since Marty had to find a payphone to call 911. By then, preventing the incident moot.
25:30 It's now Lone Pine Mall because Marty ran over one of farmer Peabody's two pine trees. Remember when you thought he said "You killed my parents?" What he really said was "You killed my pine."
26:50 I'm not sure what you mean by "How did he know exactly where each bullet would go?" It was a vest. As long as none of the bullets hit his head, arms, or legs, the rest of his body was protected. Are you thinking that those metal discs are what stopped the bullets? No, those discs are the bullets, which got flattened when they hit the vest.
Yeah we realised what he said in the edit "you killed my pine", it was all happening so fast. I think the comment on the bullets was in the understanding that none were to hit him in the head.
Have you seen “Blast from the Past”?
Some great father/son scenes, as well as just being a super enjoyable wholesome movie.
thank you, we will look into it
37:55 Très bonne remarque. Le script explique qu'en revenant de 2015, Doc a amélioré la voiture en remplaçant le réacteur au plutonium par un réacteur à fusion nucléaire en vente libre dans tous les commerces car la fusion est maîtrisée avec tous les éléments en 2015. Du coup, un formidable moyen de se débarrasser des déchets et d'en tirer en plus de l'énergie. Dans la réalité, on en est toujours au stade expérimental avec la fusion.
Merci pour cette réaction, c'est un vrai plaisir de vous regarder tous les deux.
Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed it
My favourite part of the original as an adult is the 3 young actors that played the older versions and younger versions of themselves. Absolutely flawless acting. As a kid I didn't understand how they did the make up. It was also flawless. They look old and act old. I used to love marty and Michael j fox but as an adult it's Crispin Glover that steals the whole show. And it's weird to think that he thought George was the actual main character but it makes sense. Its kind of his story. It's such a shame he wasn't in the sequels.
Absolutely, George has the largest emotional 'arc' because he changes the most. This is what's interesting about the story - as I dont' think it's intended. Marty plays a character that affects change on others more than change himself.
How can anyone say that Marty doesn't get anything he wants at the end of the movie? He gets the truck he wanted.
In Australia a mint condition late 80's Toyota Hilux would be worth a pretty prenny.
Need to also remember that back then there were only pay phones. If you didn't know where 1 was - you had to drive all over to find one.
Another Christopher lloyd movie you might enjoy - angels in the outfield.
30 years ahead this trip - and martys first trip back
This is a perfect movie! They are very rare...
I think Marty does grow, although it isn’t shown explicitly. He starts off like his father, lacking in self-confidence. However, confronted by his father’s lack of self-confidence in the past, Marty realizes and addresses his father’s problem. The fact that he could do this and succeed implies that he has changed himself in the process.
I think him playing guitar at the dance is a form of growth for him also
When Marty wakes up after his adventure, and finds his family changed for the better, you may notice him carrying an envelope. There's a missing couple of scenes. First, there was meant to be a scene BEFORE he meets Doc at the mall where he puts his audition tape in an envelope, ready to send it to a studio, but he chickens out and throws it in the bin. AFTER his adventure he wakes up, takes it out of the bin, and has the confidence to submit it. (You see it in his hand, and then on the counter-top.) Unfortunately, without those scenes (which I read back in 1985 in the novelisation) we miss Marty's arc.
@@tanisdevelopment This is really interesting, thank you fort sharing, Agreed this would have completed his arc. Doesn't seem it would have added much screen time. Strange choice to cut it out.
If I may, three parent-child recommendations:
"Gremlins" (1984 - Joe Dante, under the Spielberg realm)
"Honey, I Shrunk The Kids" (1989 - Disney spectacle, with all the pyrotechnics and bells & whistles)
"Matinee" (1993 - Again, Joe Dante / A take on the William Castle/1950s gimmicky horror-sci-flick, set against the anxiety
of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Florida, October, 1962. I love this little movie.)
Thank you. I have been enjoying your videos. Do you have a Patreon page?
Thanks - we have seen Gremlins already, otherwise i agree it's perfect. Maybe we revisit it sometime in the future. Honey I shrunk the kids is interesting as i dont know it very well ... is it decent quality? We don't have a Patreon page
@@GenerationMediaReaction I too would love to see you watch Honey I shrunk the kids. It's one of my favouriters from that time period. And still holds up really well in my opinion (I rewatched it a few years ago). The sequels are of lesser quality (especially the third one), but the original is a classic in my eyes.
when doc dropped marty off he said he was gon about 30 years, a nice round number
31:54 This is definitely one of those movies that you have to watch more than once, you notice so many things on subsequent viewings :)
Absolutely
You like the concept of a son going back in time to help his father? Then you need to watch "Frequency" (2000) starring Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel. Great film for Father's Day.
After you adjust for inflation the $300.00 in damage to Biff’s car in 1955 would be about $3,500.00 today.
And $3,500 (about $41,000 now) is more than most new cars would cost in 1955.
Most movies about time travel don't take into account that the earth is moving around the sun, the sun is flying thru space around the milky way, and the milky way is moving thru the universe. Traveling thru time would mean the earth is in a different spot in space than when you started, so you'd end up floating in space, or deep inside the planet.
Absolutely! In stories and linear narrative, time travel is a plot device to serve a different purpose, usually to do with revisiting past decisions and outcomes of decisions in the present
Doc would certainly realize that as well, so compensating for that is something I just took as being inherent to how the flux capacitor interacts with space-time. With Doc’s admiration of Einstein, I think it would be funny if that ended up being connected to some property of quantum entanglement that Einstein considered absurd.
0:57 One major plot hole here is that there's a whole 60 seconds worth of 10:04 pm in which the lightning COULD strike, so there's no way for them to know "precisely" when the lightning strike happens.
@@chrisfofficial I think the idea is that you can see what time the clock currently reads, which is the time it was struck and stopped working, and they can see that in the picture of the clock on the flyer, so they know what time it was struck
Once the minute hand moves to 10:04, there might be a mechanism that counts the seconds and if this mechanism stopped at zero (movement) seconds..... (?)
Back to the future part 4, Marty becomes a Raging alcoholic because he didn't get professional therapy, the memory of his mum kissing him in the car was just too much lol.
But she’s so h… she’s so h… thin!
You will love the other two movies. IMO, this is the greatest movie trilogy of all time. Please note the original actress that played Jennifer could not be in the sequels so the actress, Elisabeth Shue, took that role.
thank you! we look forward to it!
"Parking" was a euphemism for "necking," kissing ("going to second base.") In a car, of course.
A fascinating chapter in American moviegoing was the advent of the teen-themed
horror film of the late-1950s. With the advent and rise of television in the early-'50s,
fewer people attended their neighborhood movie house on a weekly, or more frequent, basis.
Hollywood studios combatted this in-home trend by introducing Cinemascope, Panavision,
Vista-Vision, of course 3-D (It's comin' right at ya' - in THREE dimensions), among other gimmicks
to put asses back into theater seats. Interestingly, one area of film where early-television could
NOT compete was horror films. With the post-WW2 Baby-Boomers reaching their teenaged years,
they became a fertile market for theater and especially drive-in fright flicks of all kinds; from William Castle, with
his "Macabre," :House On Haunted Hill" and "The Tingler," and more, utilizing all manner of gimmicks from
glow-in-the-dark flying plastic skeletons to wiring seats so patrons could be buzZzZed at key moments,
to teen-angst-horror maestro Herman Cohen and his work for American-International Pictures, with iconic
titles such as "I Was A Teenage Werewolf," "I Was A Teenage Frankenstein," "How To Make A Monster,"
to name of few. Flush with disposable cash and their own steel-&-chrome hotrods with tail-fins, teenagers
crowded drive-in theaters by the millions, watching a young Michael "Little House on the Prairie" Landon, steeped
in his adolescent torment, transform into a werewolf before their eyes - this kinda' stuff was not being marketed
at home by Lucille Ball or Jackie Gleason or Milton Berle on TV. No, no. Imagine yourself a young dude lookin' to score
with his girl. Take her to the drive-in, and put your arm around her as she winces in fright from the hokum on the screen.
Then, make your move . . . Picture all of the steamed windows.
Is this the voice of experience?!
@@GenerationMediaReaction, as having been born in 1969, I missed the parking-generation - by a generation. (Darn.)
My exposure to these wonderfully schlocky little classics derived from syndicated television throughout the late-'70s and early-'80s.
My family moved from Queens, New York City to Putnam, Connecticut (about two hours away), where we would receive
the signal for many independent TV channels, such as WLVI-Channel 56, Boston, Massachusetts. Every Saturday, from 1 - 3:00 P.M.,
the Creature Double Feature would air. Ah, those were the days . . . Link, intro:
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If you are interested, below is a link to the feature "I Was A Teenage Werewolf" (1957). It is now in the public domain.
It is actually a pretty nifty chiller. It's all there - teenagers being manipulated by adults, so much drama/trauma.
Good make-up effects and some interesting camera-work during the "attacks," notably in a high school gymnasium.
Bankrolled for $100,000, the film went on to gross over $2-million . . . and spawned a sub-genre cottage industry.
The most important part of a teen-horror flick? The pop song, performed in the film. This one has a doozy. I love it.
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I always couldn’t understand why they ( the Mc Flys) would have Biff around after all he did try to assault Lorraine in high school 😮
Good point!
So as to this theory that Marty doesn’t really gain anything at the end of the movie:
Look at what kind of person Marty is. He doesn’t really seem like a self involved individual.
His dreams and hobbies are pretty basic and simple. But they take a backseat to helping others.
I think the reward is the deed of saving his parents marriage. He indirectly benefits from improving their lives.
He’s almost grown and raised at this point. I think Marty always just wants to do whatever is right.
Getting what you want won’t make you happy. It’s the chase that humans love, not the kill.
A wise man once said, The key is not to measure your life by what you've attained in terms of your desires, but by those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice. Because in the end, the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives is by valuing the lives of others.
Love these words you write here! So true. I think the writers were not happy with Marty not ‘growing’ in character at the end or learning something to better himself. This this why they introduced the chicken story thread for the sequels. But I think Marty having his family life improved and getting to play guitar at the dance is a good reward for him
You must continue on with the PART 2 and Part three. this movie has 2 more films in the series
Our next uploads will be Psrt 2 and Part 3
Plot hole - How did the keys get in the trunk?
Your are not watching reviews with your son. I've always seen this channel as a man watching movies with himself as a child! You must have your own Delorean Time Machine in the garage😅
Every week, I ask him if he wants to stop doing it. He always says 'no'.
Something from the future has ended up in 1955, and it’s not something Marty brought with him. Marvin Berry somehow has a Gibson ES-345 guitar (the one Marty plays at the dance), which weren’t produced until 1958. I’m pretty sure even Chuck Berry didn’t have one until the 1960s. Could the flux capacitor unintentionally be causing things to slip through? 😄
Makes you wonder if the filmmakers knew this and chose to make a nod to Chuck Berry rather than being to cautious on the anachronisms
Have you seen family guy parody? There is one I think you like where dad says their son looks like same one who got them together, I won't spoil anymore
Love your stuff but you got me yelling at my screen. Lol
If the young-one doesn’t remember something and asks you what’s going to happen, I suggest you remain noncommittal and just let him see what unfolds instead of just telling him what’s going to happen. For example, the chuck berry phone call.
I like your channel, introducing todays youth to the golden age of film. Keep going 👍
Thanks, you're right, but it's difficult sometimes !
Please stick the Ryan Reynolds film, The Adam Project, on your watch list. It’s heavily influenced by Back to the Future, and Stand by Me. Its great family adventure film.
good shout - we have seen it though!
A few tidbits for you: 1. The reason the mall's name changed to Lone Pine is because Marty killed one of the two, escaping from the barn family. You thought he said "you killed my parents," but he said, "you killed my pine." 2. The reason they knew the precise time that Marty had left 1985 was because neither of them had changed the time machine's settings, and so when they turned the dashboard on, the original settings came back up. 3. One thing I noticed several views later was that at the end of the film when Marty sees his parents' new life and he falls to the floor, the father asks, "Did you hit your head?" That was a throwback to Marty hitting his head on the pavement when he was hit by the car. 4. Another one I noticed several years ago is in the earlier scene when Biff is berating George over crashing his car while drinking and driving, Biff exits the scene by saying to Marty, "Say hi to your mom for me," a foreshadowing of the other important car scene, where Biff is trying to take advantage of Lorraine. Finally, another thing I'd noticed on this very viewing was that Doc comes back to warn Marty and Jennifer about their kids. Therefore, that's a throwback to Marty visiting his own parents before THEY had kids. The update is that Marty and Jennifer currently don't have kids. Always something to spot with subsequent viewings.
Have you guys seen the 1986 movie Short Circuit?
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That Brokeback Mountain comment was wild lol what on earth made you think of that?
Meant to say Brokeback To The Future … the funny edit a few years ago!
Hello, would you like to react to the movie Tarzan The Fearless?