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Fun Fact: At the Beginning when Marty was auditioning with his band they were playing "Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News. The Teacher with the Loud speaker that told them that they were just too Darn Loud was actually Huey Lewis.
Yeah he did a cameo cuz he got told the same thing during an audition once, love this movie
That's... news to me. ;)
@@stevetennispro 😉
@@stevetennispro I see what you did there
Also behind the scenes, Huey Lewis himself in reality liked how Michael J Fox played The Power of Love.
LOL... "It was a simpler time in 1985."
and in 1985 while watching this, that's exactly what we thought about 1955!
@@yt45204 Yes! It was a great point they made in that movie. I agree :)
And I like the imagination of 2015 in 1985. The car is driven by a home fusion reactor.
Facts
as a kid of the 80s it was a simpler time....it was the decade of alot of movies breaking box office records .....back to the future had several records ..one being the first movie to get to number one and stay there for weeks (i believe at the time the record was 5 weeks it stayed 10 weeks), it held the record for the biggest box office hit of any summer, michael j fox was the first actor to have two movies at the one and two at the box office (back to the future and teen wolf in 1985) the tv show he starred in (family ties) was also number one...no other actor has this feat...
michael j fox , also was a trailblazer for what later happened in the early 2010s, was the only actor who after becoming a mega worldwide star after this film became a blockbuster to stay on his hit tv show until its cancellation in 1989...before and after him tv actors after they made it big in hollywood didnt stay on their show and the show would either get canceled or they would continue without said star and it would lose its audience and get canceled soon after
another actor was will smith only fresh prince wasnt number one on tv it was 4th but he did have two films at the number one and two slots at the box office bad boys and independance day
So true. And I'd like to "thank" AB for cheering me up lol.
They couldn't afford the standard rates for licensing music, so they contacted Van Halen to get permission to use one of their songs for free in the scene when Marty wakes George up in the middle of the night. The band declined, but after reading the script Eddie Van Halen decided to record some licks for them to use. So that bit, it's not a song, it's an original solo recorded special for the film because Eddie wanted to help out. That's why it says "Edward Van Halen" on the tape.
I always liked that story.
and Eddie Van Halen was born in 1955
Re: your question at the end. I'm almost 70 & recently found some old photos that my late parents had. One of my best friends when I was 23 was in a couple of the pics. My memory of what he looked like was not even close to the person in the photos. My point is - if say 25-30 years passed from when his parents knew "Calvin" for a few DAYS until Marty was of that age....there's no way they would realize the resemblance. You guys are still too young to realize how much memories of faces fade (especially faces we knew for only a short time).
Sad but true facts.
Also, when you've watched children grow up, you can look at them when they're in their thirties or forties and still see them as children. Sometimes, your brain just won't acknowledge them as adults.
This is so interesting, thanks for sharing! Another note on why they wouldn't likely recognize Marty as Calvin Klein: no one would humor the idea of time travel etc and would find ways to dismiss and explain away the similarities. Fun thought experiment tho.
Not to mention they aren't suddenly seeing their son for the first time at age 17, which is likely the only way they might recognize him. They watched him change and grow for 17 years.
Good grief, they would have recognized him. Lorraine was madly in love with him. Marty did amazing things with the skateboard, and that is how Lorraine and George got together. All that is pretty memorable in a person's life. Lorraine also would have remembered Calvin Klein, the story about their son setting fire to the living room rug, Marty playing that unusual music, etc. So many things would have reminded her of Marty.
The initial concept for Rick and Morty was based on an animated short called Doc and Marty featuring a frantic Doc Brown trying to convince/coerce Marty into doing something awful that he doesn't want to do. Being vague on purpose.
I hope they react to that video 🤣🤣
When my brother pointed me towards Rick and Morty he described it as Doc and Marty if Doc was a dick
Well put. I was trying to figure out how to explain it, glad you took the plunge first.
Created by Dan Harmon best known for the Community, along with Justin Rolin. The original video was a parody created solely to piss off Universal and see he could get a sees and desist from them. But instead he ended up with a hit show 😆
@@ceeball my nephew and niece who are huge fans of rick and morty , ended up asking me to watch all three back to the future films and they went "wow uncle they are similar" not only did they become a fan of back to the future i became a fan of rick and morty :D
Did you notice that the first time Marty goes to the mall it is called “Twin Pines Mall” and at the end, because he knocked over the tree when he arrived in 1955, it becomes “Lone Pine Mall”?
Wow, I've never noticed that!
Whoa 🤯
Yeah that's one of the clues that the future has changed, so if you're paying attention enough you can expect other changes for the better. This movie is pretty much flawless.
The "Complicated, do-nothing machine" Simone was thinking of was a Rube Goldberg machine. Basically it's a chain reaction machine that does something simple in a very complicated way.
25:57 Biff was saying "no, no".
34:09 Remembering a person's face w/o a photo is difficult for most, especially if you've only spent a few days w/ them a couple of decades ago.
Time travel rules in fiction greatly varies. In this franchise, there's no predetermined timeline. Meaning before the scene at the mall's parking lot where we're introduced to the time machine, there was no Marty yet in 1955. Hence, Goldie Wilson was always gonna run for mayor regardless of whether he interacted w/ Marty or not. Otherwise, George & Lorraine would've stayed as the same miserable couple at the end of the film.
Thank you for saying time travel rules in fiction very.
We can guess it what the rules might be but since time travel is fictional we don't know.
I'm a strong believer in the butterfly effect meaning Marty would be a different person. Not just different mentally but physically. A different sperm would fertilize the egg possibly a different egg entirely and he would have a different birthday. But hey maybe not. It makes for a better movie The way they did it.
Finally caught that at first, it was "Twin Pines Mall." Marty takes out a tree when he "arrives" at the 1955 farm property. When he returns to 1985 it was the "Lone Pine Mall."
It's one of the many 9/11 references in BTTF that fuel conspiracy theories about Robert Zemeckis actually knowing the future. He even directed the movie The Walk about crossing a wire between the twin towers, which came out in fricken OCTOBER 2015!!! Just coincidence?
Also, the movie theater was a Porno theater in the original 1985, originally a regular theater in 1955, and when Marty comes back, it's now a Church... Then the ledge on City Hall was normal in the original 1985, then when Doc broke a hunk out, it was still broken in the "new" 1985...
@@MorliHolect Or Marty ran over one of the pines? Think.
@@MorliHolect On the poster for Twins, Danny DeVito is leaning against Arnold Schwarzenegger, a clear reference to the way that the collapse of the South Tower further damaged the taller North Tower.
This is Spinal Tap is even more clear. "These ones go to eleven" and the attack occurred on September eleventh. And an 11 looks a lot like the Twin Towers. And it made a lot of noise, just like an over-cranked amplifier.
If you look hard enough, you can spot any shape you want in the clouds.
It took me like 20 years to get that and only because a friend pointed it out to me
"I want to see what they got right and wrong about 2015"... I want you to come back to this comment after watching #2 ;-)
Minds will be blown 🤯
@@JohnnyXoz except that fashion
@@JohnnyXoz Idk, I came of age in the 80’s, and the movie 2015 in some ways is simto a basically over the top Space 80’s vibe…
@@manicirishwriter BttF2 is exactly what it is.. an 80s vision of the future.
Yes, they are going to 2015. October 21, 2015, to be exact. People my age, who saw this when it first came out, thought of this as being impossibly futuristic, and then, as 2015 rolled around, got to enjoy the fact that a date we'd thought of as being "the future" our entire lives, actually arrived and then became the past. I'm 43, and spent most of my life with Marty, Doc, and Jennifer tearing off to the future. Now it's the past, and will be for the rest of my life.
When 10/21/15 arrived, it was heralded as Back to the Future Day.
And On that day I asked where are my flying cars!?
@@Sowde38 unfortunately we didn't:( but the movie predicted the chicago cubs win for the world series I'll say in 2016 correct me if I'm wrong.
I've kind of become fascinated by science fiction stories that were written about the future, but the future they wrote about has already passed. The crossover point from futuristic to alternate history.
@@StevenIngram you mean like Blade Runner being set in 2019?
I wore young Marty's reflective hat for the day... No one got the reference at work.
It's been 30 years. It's easy to forget the image of someone you met 30 years ago as a teenager. And seeing their son grow helped to disentangle his image from the person they met in the past.
But Lorraine was madly in love with Marty. Even after thirty years, you don't easily forget how someone looks. I recently came across someone who was in my 5th grade class about 40 years ago. We instantly recognized each other, even though we didn't remember each other's names until we said them.
Also, their adventure was pretty amazing and Marty told them about the time he would set fire to the living room rug. Stuff like that you would remember. Lots of other things, too, like Marty playing in a rock and roll band and playing that radical solo in 1955 would have been something Lorraine and George would remember when their son would grow up and play similar music. But I am not complaining, it's just a fun movie.
@@omgbygollywow Some people have better long-term memory for faces than others. Mine is terrible. You may be able to have recognized someone from your 5th grade class 40 years later, but when I saw someone from my 6th grade class only about 6 or 7 years later, his face was like a complete stranger's to me, even though I clearly remembered everything else about him.
@@omgbygollywow Yes, you went to school with someone for a full school year. I wouldn't say that Lorraine was "madly in love" with him. She had a crush that lasted a few days only.
@@tipigi3570 But she had a huge crush on him and stalked him. How do you forget someone like that? She even parked with him and it was that event that led to her and George falling in love. I would think that whole event would be etched in her memory forever. There are lots of things about the movie that don't make sense. But it is a very enjoyable movie, anyway. It's just for entertainment, not meant to be realistic.
@@omgbygollywow Maybe your memory is better than mine lol. When I think back to 30 years ago, and remember girls that I liked and only saw a few times, I can't really remember their faces. Maybe if I saw a picture of them, I might be able to identify them, maybe not. Also, yes of course it's just meant for fun, and I've seen it probably 20 times over the years!
In the scene where the woman yells "save the clock tower" and gives Marty the flyer you can see in the background that the Clock tower ledge that Doc breaks in 1955 is not broken, yet when Marty comes back to 1985 it is.
In the initial timeline, Doc didn't have to stand up there to send Marty back to the future, that all happened in an alternate timeline which is the end of the movie.
@@jowbloe3673 It also hints at darker timelines where Marty did go back to 1955 but never returned.
@@uncommon_niagara1581 likely a paradox.
Marty hadn't travelled back in time by this point
The first time I saw this, I thought "Doc's gonna set the clock back a few minutes to give them extra time!"
Hard to believe but true - there was originally no plan for a sequel. Robert Zemeckis said the fans demanded it. This is why it took 4 years for the second installment, they didn't begin writing the sequel until Fall of 1987.
@@rickardroach9075 So true ;)
Lea Thompson's young Lorraine is freaking amazing! She really nails it.
she sure is trying to..
@@eolsunder HA!.... incest....
There was a scene, apparently, in an early draft of the script where the new 1985 George sees a picture of "Calvin" (like in a 1955 yearbook or something. I forget the exact details) and almost puts it together that it's his son, before shrugging it off with a, "Naaah." This would've addressed whether him and Lorraine remember "Calvin Klein" from high school. But yeah, as others have said, to them "Calvin" was some kid who showed up one week, was almost killed by Lorraine's dad and hung around for a bit doing crazy stuff. After 30 years, that's probably all they remember of him. They actually credit Biff with them getting together, not "Calvin."
Others have made a big deal about how dark it is that this isn't Marty's actual family anymore, not the same people he grew up with, that they'll all have different memories. Yet I'd argue that since Marty's original photo didn't change, most of their lives and memories are probably the same or very similar. And really, we all remember our lives differently from our family, even for things where we were all there together. Marty just has to adjust to them all being better off in life, but inside they're still the same people with the same personalties, just with a lot more confidence.
“Where are you going, Dave?
What do you mean Marty?, I always wear a suit to the office.”
The "Too Darn Loud" teacher is Huey Lewis who sang some of the modern songs.
Including the main song for the movie itself
@@Smokie_666 AND the one Marty was playing in his audition!!
He was the one who actually sing and I think co-wrote the main song for the movie "power of love"
Not that it matters but Marty's bass player is Billy Sheehan.
"Pepsi Free" was a caffeine-free version of Pepsi back in the 80's. You can see a Pepsi Free can in Marty's bedroom by the clock
Tab was the name of Coca-Cola's diet soft drink before the invention of Diet Coke. It is still available today but is not really marketed any longer.
@@dennydowling2169 Coca-Cola recently announced that they are discontinuing Tab altogether.
Lol I love this channel but I keep forgetting these people are so young
They still sell Pepsi Free, they just call it caffeine-free Pepsi now. The name was changed in 1987.
oooohhh .. now i get it why he told him that he needs to pay for it, i never noticed this as english is not my native language nor i did not know about Pepsi in 80´s .. thanks man !
I can't remember how many times I've watched this movie over the years... It makes me cry every single time, it's THAT close to my heart.
The guy at the beginning who said Marty was too loud was Huey Lewis who was singing the song The Power of Love. 😂
Movie co-writer Bob Gale got the idea for "back to the Future" while looking through his father’s old yearbook. He began to wonder if he would have been friends with his dad had they known each other as kids back then. This sparked the idea of time traveling to the past and meeting your parents, and thus the adventure begins.
As long as he also didn't fantasise about his mother falling in love with him...
@@7rollface His mother's high school photo got the ball rolling, so to speak.
Please watch "Who framed Roger Rabbit" ! Also from Robert Zemeckis and with Christopher Lloyd!
You meant p-p-p-please, right?
I was going to request this myself. You two will enjoy it! It won a lot of awards back in the day for the special effects.
There's a quote in it that is one of the best ever!
@@odeddiner5513 It's not bad, it's just written that way.
PATTA-CAKE????
I've seen this many times, but watching this now I just realized that one of Biff's 1955 cronies is Billy Zane in his first credited film appearance.
Trivia: This film was never intended to have a sequel. The ending was written to be open-ended. It was only 4 years after making this film that the demand for a sequel was so high that they began writing one. Zemeckis admitted that if he knew there would be a sequel, he never would have written it so that Jennifer sees the time-machine. But her being in that scene at the end with Marty and Doc made it difficult to figure out how to explain her not being part of the adventure that supposed to be about Marty and Doc. But they figured out a cheap work around in the sequels.
"Back to the Future", is generally considered one of the best screenplays ever written and is usually taught in screenwriting classes as an example of a “perfect” script. All this despite the fact that the movie was rejected over 40 times by various movie studios in Hollywood including multiple rejections by Universal, the same studio to make the film.
I agree. Also, one day I was watching a different movie, a really low quality movie overall, but I noticed that the storyline to this bad movie was actually pretty good. So I checked who wrote the movie, and it was one of the guys who wrote Back to the Future. That moment of discovery felt so surreal. Do you remember the moment in BTTF when Doc was holding up a newspaper to the camera and saying "Where are we going to get a gigawatt of power?" and the newspaper was showing the viewer the answer to the camera? There was a similar moment in the bad film, and that was probably why I looked up who wrote it.
The movie was also rejected by Disney. Everyone told the writers that this was a “Disney movie”. But Disney said NO because according to them it was “about incest”.
It's kinda funny it's considered so perfect when Marty doesn't even have a real character arc in the movie. He's just strung along by the plot mechanics the entire time.
@@TomVCunningham that’s because the character arc belongs to his father.
and even though the movie has a lot of problems with it storywise. especially related to the time travelling, mixing up linear and parallel timelines.
The sequels are really great and the plot of the second film is really clever with its use of events.
Clever but complex! As per the gang on Big Bang Theory:
BACK TO THE FUTURE 2 SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER:
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@@Buskieboy yeah they are totally wrong about it too. not has not hasn't.
@@lionhead123 Haha! If you followed all of that then you're a genius! 😁 🤪 🤔 🤯
One of my most favorite Easter eggs is in this movie.
In the beginning Doc Brown wants Marty to meet him at the „Twin Pines Mall“, Doc Brown tells the story of the farmer who used to live on the land when he was young.
After Marty arrives in the 50s and the farmer comes with his shotgun, Marty fleas and knocks one pine over with the DeLorean. After returning to 85 it is no longer the Twin Pines Mall but the Lone Pine Mall
I saw this in a theater in 1986. It came out in 1985 and was so popular it was still playing in January 1986. I always went to the movies during the super bowl back then. At the end of the movie the audience applauded. That used to happen in my little home town in the 60's, but certainly not in the 80's. It was the last time I experienced applause in a movie theater.
"Wrong audience." Ironically, right audience. The guy with the bullhorn was actually Huey Lewis, whose song they were covering.
That's at 4:44. Good point. I don't blame them for not noticing.
You beat me to it. Huey Lewis & The News.
I didn't know that. How funny!!!
@@steriopticon2687 I didn't know until relatively recently, myself. Just didn't have a handle on what Huey Lewis actually looks like.
According to Huey Lewis, the reason he dismissed the music as "Too darn loud" was that it was the dumbest reason he could think of. Also, the other guitarist on stage with Marty was a cameo by the guy who taught Michael J. Fox to play the guitar.
"Time travel stuff is so tricky."
Back to the Future II: "Hold my beer."
Well, it was complicated a bit more since they didn't actually intend to make a second movie. They even mentioned in an interview later on they wouldn't have had Jennifer come along if they knew it was actually getting a sequel, however, by the time the home video release was made they changed the ending title card to "To Be Continued" since they had been green lite for a sequel by that point.
Not sure if it's been mentioned already but the reason they pronounce it Jigawatt instead of Gigawatt is that back when this film was made the concept of Giga wasn't mainstream so they guessed how to say it (and got it wrong obviously). Loved the reaction. This is truly one of the greatest movie series ever made. :)
@Musu no, the reason they pronounce it that way is because that's how it was written in the script (with a J) so the actors would *correctly* pronounce it. It is this generation that's incorrectly pronouncing it.
I heard that too
@@staceyward777 Are you saying that Jiga is the correct term for Giga?
@@RaduRadonys I'm saying "jigga" is the correct pronunciation for "giga". Always has been.
@@staceyward777 Ok, might be in English, it's not my native language. In my language sounds like "JE-GA"
Good reaction. One interesting aspect of Millennials watching older movies is them beginning to realize how much of references, inspiration and puns in the animation they watched growing up absolutely flew over their heads as kids!
So true! I'm a millennial born in 1991. So many historical references that I didn't realize at the time. This is those movies the reason why I have a big interest in 20th century pop culture.
@@yellowRose806 That's pretty awesome Rosemary!
This wasn't planned to be a trilogy according to Robert Zemeckis. Some years later he would say that if he knew how successful it would be he wouldn't have ended this movie the way he did. Why? I can't tell you because it would be a spoiler for the 2nd movie.
That's not a spoiler: he would not have had Jennifer (the girlfriend) get in the car and go with them to the future because it made things more complicated to include her.
They did an amazing job of making the trilogy hold together since it wasn't planned. Making a franchise from a standalone film doesn't always work. Highlander< cough>
@@ThreadBomb
Doc said that they don’t *_need_* roads where they’re headed- not that there ARE none...
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 "There Can Only Be One... and another... and another... and just one more.."
"If there's ever an ending set up for a sequel"
The funny thing is that when they made this they actually weren't planning to make a sequel or a trilogy. That was just supposed to be a clever funny ending. But the movie did so well that they pretty much had to make a sequel, with no idea what the problem Doc mentioned was supposed to be.
Oh that's easy. It was their kids, something had to be done about their kids!
They said, if they knew they would making a sequel -- they never would have put Jennifer in the car. They didn't know what to do with her character. That's why she's unconscious through most of the sequel.
What I laugh at is that Michael J Fox just assumed it would bomb because he was half asleep shooting the entire god damn movie lol
I have always thought it would've been hilarious if not just his brother and sister reappeared in the picture, but 4 or 5 other siblings.
Too hard to avoid the dark interpretation that he really doesn't know his family at all in that case, but that is a hilarious idea!
Lea Thomson became the stealth MVP of this movie. Every character she played felt completely realized and unique. It's unfortunate she never really broke out in a big way deserving of her talent. It was all OK film roles (although Howard The Duck was somewhat unfortunate) and average sitcoms.
Love how the mall's name changed to Lone Pine Mall because Marty ran over one of the trees in 1955.
In regards to the parents remembering Marty. Think of it this way. They knew him for a week, 30 years ago. Raising him from a new born until an adult, they’re probably not going to correlate that he is the same person. Maybe times of deja vu.
I personally think it's reasonable that George McFly might've figured it out. Considering how much influence Marty had on his life, Marty kept calling him 'Dad', as well as the Darth Vader and Planet Vulkan references with George clearly being a huge sci-fi fan, it's entirely reasonable that he pieced it together. BUT, the flip side of that is he may not ever talk about it because the whole thing sounds SO crazy and he doesn't know when Marty came from, so he would have no one to safely talk to about it.
There is that one family guy skit based around George remembering what Marty looks like.
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@@fromdarknesscomeslight6894 till Marty starts asking too many questions about a life he should know about, The Car been wrecked for exampe
There were people I knew well in high school, had classes with, and spoke with (at least a little) on a near daily basis but now, a couple of decades later, couldn't tell you for sure what their names were or accurately describe what they looked like beyond some generalities. That's obviously different with close friends - especially the ones you stay in touch with - but others fade into the murky past. When you're not that far out of high school, those memories are strong but there's a lot of life that happens between high school and middle age, a lot of it feels equally or more important to you, and a lot of it has as an even bigger, more obvious effect on your own personal timeline.
The thing to consider with a movie like this is that we, the audience, know how big an effect Marty had on George and Lorraine's lives because we know the alternate timeline and what changed. George and Lorraine don't. To them, things just happened the way they did and they don't actually know what was at stake if Marty had failed (or never time-traveled at all). He was just a kid who showed up at their school for a week, gave George some advice about dating, and got into a fight with the school bully. From their point of view, it would've been George standing up to Biff and saving Lorraine that brought them together, not that kid "Calvin" giving George dating advice a few days before that didn't work out and going on one failed date with boy-crazy Lorraine.
If anything, tbh, "Darth Vader" was probably more memorable to George and George and Lorraine were probably each other's focus once they started dating and falling in love. To us, Marty's the protagonist of the story. To them, he was a background character and they wouldn't have realized how many strings he was actually pulling.
@@johnplaysgames3120 Well said! Exactly what I was trying to say, but better.
There is a name for the "do nothing" machines, though they usually do something.
Called a Rube Goldberg machine, they are deliberately designed to perform a simple task in an overly complex way.
It's the opposite of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) a concept in construction and engineering that has a machine design that is as simple as possible.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine
When you converted the speed from miles per hour to km per hour it took me a second to remember that you're Canadian and use the metric system. I'm Australian and also use the metric system. It's a very good system. Very easy to understand. Imperial, not so much.
Imperial system is only hard to understand if you haven't grown up with it. As an American when I hear things measured in metric units it means absolutely nothing to me. If you told me something was 100 km away or weighed 8 kg, I would have no frame of reference to understand. But if you tell me you weigh 110 pounds I know you are fairly slight and if you tell me you have 2 hogsheads of alcohol I know there are going to be a lot of very drunk people.
@@Kiernan5 It's like when you relay the temperature as 38°C versus 100°F. It always takes me a second to remember that we're talking "hot" not "just above freezing."
If Back to the Future was made today, Marty would go back to the 90s.
and Michael J. Fox who turned 60 this year would play Marty's grandfather...
damn i'm old.
@@lionhead123 I'm ancient!!
@Stef Pugsley Right?!
@@MorliHolect truth!
As far as the parents remembering Marty 30 years later: With a movie like this, you have to consider that we, the audience, know what changed in George and Lorraine's lives and what was at stake if Marty had failed (or never time-traveled at all). George and Lorraine don't. They only know one way things happened and don't realize how many strings Marty was actually pulling or why. From our point of view, Marty's the protagonist of the story. From their point of view, "Calvin" was - at best - an interesting background character who showed up at their school for a week, gave George some dating advice that didn't work out, went on one failed date with Lorraine where she immediately lost interest in him, and got into a fight with the school bully. We know how important he was to their "densities" because we have all the information and knowledge of the alternate timelines. They don't.
If anything, to George and Lorraine, the most important event that brought them together would be George standing up to Biff and saving Lorraine from assault, not anything "Calvin" did. And they don't even know about the alternate future George being bullied by Biff for 30 years so, while Lorraine might've seen him in a different light after he punched Biff (and he also began seeing himself in a different light, thus becoming the man that she could stay in love with), it's not the big, cathartic, "Finally!" moment that it was for us.
Also, I can tell you from experience: A lot of things happen in life between high school and middle-age. Every bit of it is equally important to (or subjectively more important than) anything else that happens in your life. Every butterfly you step on changes the course of your future and existence is a long string of butterfly-steppings. People and events that seemed super important in high school fade into the murky past as life provides a never-ending parade of new "super important" people and events. George and Lorraine went on to have multiple children, careers, hobbies, friends, and triumphs and tragedies like any other people on the planet. For them, their very brief time with "Calvin" is just a tiny part of their life stories, the significance of which they wouldn't realize.
I can tell you I wouldn’t remember someone from my high school years that I knew all of a week, some 30 years later. Almost no one would. At the most, they may think their son reminds them of somebody they met once.
Not to mention that parents don't see their kids the same way as they see their contemporaries. They have maybe have fleeting memories of Calvin for that one week, but they've watched Marty grow up slowly for 17 years. There's no world where you notice your kid grew up to look like someone you knew once 13 years before he was born.
One thing to remember is that George wrote Sci-fi, the "dream" that referenced Vulcan and Darth Vader prefaced Star Trek and Star Wars, iconic shows that defined Sci-fi in the 60's and 70's. The radiation suit, uncommon in the 50's but common later. I think Marty's parents particularly George would remember him if only for the frantic attempts to hook them up. Remember the book he wrote. Also, "Doc Brown" has now known Marty since before he was born.
I can suspend my disbelief and enjoy the movie, but come on, how do you forget the guy who hooked you up with your wife?
@@viviandarkbloom1 They wouldn't have to forget him completely; they named their kid Marty after all. But if they don't know about time travel, there is no reason to suspect that the Calvin/Marty that grandpa hit with a car is the same Marty that was their son.
Even if I thought my kid looked identical at 17 as the guy I knew at 17, I would just chalk it up to me misremembering what that guy looked liked by just projecting Marty onto him.
This is definitely my favorite first time reaction to this movie so far - you guys made a lot more connections in your first viewing than most other reactors. One bit that especially stands out to me is noticing Doc's reaction to the fact that George had "never stood up to Biff in his life".
I saw this in the theater in high school. Such a fun movie. The two sequels were filmed at the same time, but released about a year apart.
I love all the little details in the movie, like how the mall is Two Pines Mall, but then Marty runs over one pine, and later it is Lone Pine Mall.
Yes, Rick and Morty is inspired by this
4:44 Wrong audience ? Oh no, the guy with the megaphone is Huey Lewis - of Huey Lewis and the News, the rock band who play 'The Power of Love' the theme music to the film that Marty is performing an instrumental of. 🙂 #Cameo
Fun Fact: in the Film's script, the unit of measurement for the electric power required for time travel is actually written down as 'jigowatt', a bit of a fantasy unit, so Doc didn't technically mispronounce it, it's just something no one would ever know.
Read somewhere that at some point people did pronounced it like "Jiga" instead of the other way, it was just a rare word at the time. It's actually the way it's supposed to be pronounced as it's greek, not english.
A fantasy unit, or just an illiterate script writer? Compare the pronunciation of Giraffe vs Girl
The Delorean used in this movie was on display recently - back in September I think - on the national mall in DC in a glass/plexiglass cage of sorts. I was able to visit the display on it's last day but unfortunately I did not have a camera with me. They had the doors open so you could look inside and there was lots of trivia and historical information about the car and its design - both the real life design and as it pertained to the movie in particular - at the base. I think I saw a real one once, oddly enough parked outside a Giant grocery store in northern Virginia.
BEST TRILOGY EVER!!!
lol, it's always fun watching people's first introduction to the wonderfully weird Crispin Glover.
@CYB3R2K30 Best dancing scene in Cinema
This was the only one of the 3 he acted in
I can't wait til you guys watch the 2nd the 3rd one. The storyline that ties all 3 together is incredible!
By the way, the excellent theme music for BTTF was composed by Alan Silvestri, also known for the MCU Avengers theme. One of the few who approaches John Williams in talent!
4:52 The joke is that the guy who told him he's too loud is the lead singer from the band that actually performs that song on the soundtrack for this movie.
I was just looking to see if anyone had mentioned this. I only learned this a few years ago, it makes that scene all the better lol.
@@AoRArchAngel Yeah. I just knew it because I'm old. I saw the Back to the Future movies in the theater when each of them came out. Mind you, I was only 5 when first one was out. But I was more aware of music and non-kids movies of the time than most people my age back then. So, I think I may have even gotten the joke when I first saw it in 1985. Can't remember for sure.
Huey Lewis and the News was pretty much hitting the peak of their fame at that moment and the songs they did for Back to the Future ("The Power of Love" and "Back in Time") were a big part of that, since the movie was such a hit. They got tons of radio play for weeks and sold tons of albums off of those two songs. They even got an Academy Award nomination for "The Power of Love."
"80's was a simpler time" Haha. I was just starting my family back then and I can say it wasn't anymore simpler than today. Perspective is interesting isn't it.
@@carlhartwell7978 I agree. Like I said, it's all in the perception. I thought the 5o's and 60's were simpler times but others disagree
The pronunciation of GW as Jigowatts was inspired by a German college physics professor of Bob Gale's (the screenwriter). There was a time when German students picked up wrong pronunciation rules when learning English in school. I once met a guy who pronounce the last name Gibson like Jibson. My generation never got this.
When you were wondering if Marty's parents "recognized" him later as their son: I've done kind of the same thing with actors. When William Shatner starred on the TV series "T.J. Hooker", I wondered, "Does this universe not have 'Star Trek'? Why don't these people recognize Captain Kirk?"
We're getting way off track here, but what you said reminded me of an episode of Scrubs where J.D. and Turk watch The Fugitive and notice that the cop who confronts Harrison Ford on the El toward the end of the movie looked just like the hospital's janitor. When they ask him about it, he confirms that he used to be an actor before becoming the hospital's janitor. Both the cop and the janitor were played by the same actor.
4:27 - It was a different time. We still had spanking in school at that time in my school. Even in high school. With a big wooden paddle.
I also had my principal grab me by the jacket and slam me against a wall and yell at me , a chair kicked out from under me by a teacher in 5th grade , etc.
Yeah, it can be kind of frustrating to see a reaction when the reactors can’t even comprehend that it was a different time.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 Kids are going to deny his has ever happened or could have happened to them
Because it does no support the self-pitying "boomers had everything better" narrative
@@whade62000 I don't deny that boomers had to contend with many strange and terrible things in childhood that most modern children don't have to. But things like spanking in schools, normalized parental abuse and the cold war don't change the fact that boomers inherited the best economy in history, and ultimately replaced it with one of the worst, if not _the_ worst.
@@whade62000 My dad was a boomer, and said this kind of shit happened to kids on the regular.
Before you start Part II you should watch, and maybe do a react video of, the famous Clint Eastwood western "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964) as it plays a very important part in Parts II and III of BTTF. You won't understand much of the humor in II and III if not. Marty would know that movie, its main star very well and it will come up later. One more warning about BTTF Part II. There are a LOT of spoiler-previews at the end of Part II for Part III. If you want to avoid seeing those stop your player at the end of Part II when you see the words "To Be Concluded --->" come up on the screen as the spoilers will begin right after that. ✌️😎
I absolutely agree with both these points!
Familiarity with Fistful will greatly enhance their enjoyment of Parts II & III, and the preview at the end of Part II is hugely spoilerful of Part III. Especially so now that you can move straight on to Part III.
Good point!
I've never seen A fistfull of Dollars, but i got all the humor from those 2 movies.
This is one of my favorite movies. I watched it with my parents multiple times. They were born in the fifties and I was born in the eighties so we both had an emotional connection to the times the movie is set in.
"Tab" was one of the first popular diet soft drinks. "Pepsi Free" was also an early diet soft drink
The only answer I have for your end question is thirty years have passed. I remember a couple neighbor kids from the 80s that moved away...gun to my head I couldn't describe what they look like, and at the time I considered them good friends who I spent way more time with than a week.
People often don’t understand how bad memory really is or how amazing the brain is at compensating for it (for example, by filling holes in our memory without us even noticing).
Also, Marty may have been named after the boy his parents met that brought them together, but before Marty went back in time and changed things, Marty was named after his one ancestor.
I remember my high school classmates' faces as clearly as if I'd seen them yesterday. Granted, if I randomly met one or more of them now, I would need a moment or two to recognize them, but that's because they'd look about 20-odd years older than they did in high school. Plus, I attended school with them for a whole school year, as opposed to a mere 8 days.
@@DamonNomad82 Yeah, right, I think the key is that he was only there a week. I remember everyone from high school, but would I remember a guy who was there a week? Other than that remarkable guitar performance, I don't know that I would LOL
Saving Private Ryan helped me with this, you can't just imagine their faces, you have to imagine it in context to a memory you have of them
In the initial timeline, Marty's parents don't remember the conversation with Marty about their future son setting fire to the rug because that conversation never happened in that timeline.
That whole interaction happened in an alternate timeline that Marty comes back to.
Yea they think Marty was always destined to go back just because they think he’s the reason that guy is the mayor lol
When Docs says "the florence nightingale effect, happens when nurses fall in love with their patients". That happened for real, well used too during war time. Highly doubt and probably not allowed to happen now (despite covid problems)
I love watching you two figuring things out between you. There’s another really cool time travel movie called Butterfly Effect with Ashton Kutcher. A person who repeatedly goes back in time to fix the present, with horrific side effects every time.
I would love to see Butterfly Effect on here
That was a great (albeit disturbing) movie! It actually redefined my opinion or Ashton as someone who 'could' act - he was pretty good in it! The premise & story and how it unfolded made for a very good movie!
You guys should check out, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." Another Zemekis Classic. It will blow your mind.
This is such a great film and the start of a fantastic trilogy
The best! 😉✌🏼
19:36 - The reason it isn't instantaneous in the trilogy is because back then, they were still going by the theory of the 'Temporal Ripple Effect', where changes don't take effect right away. It takes time for them to kick in, and it happens gradually (assuming that it's physically possible to repair the damage).
You guys are a good team and channel. Found you in my feed yesterday and watched probably 10 reactions. I'm a little older (hit that dreaded 40) and I'm a movie lover. Love seeing your reactions to 90s and early 2000s movies. Real reactions, not faked like a lot of reactors, and I love seeing you putting plots together like Fight Club. Hope you keep growing!
"Do nothing machines" - Rube Goldberg machines, in case you were curious :)
To answer your question, do you really think you would remember somebody you met, for one week 30 years ago.
Perhaps it's why they called their kid Marty
@@datcha72 Probably not, he was named Marty before he ever did his time travel, so he couldn't have influenced his name, and if he did, it probably would have been their first child not their third.
18:42 oh you young people. They actually got that pronunciation from an physics expert, who spelled it that way, and that's why they pronounced it that way. It's why regional dialects exist. As more people started using the term (helped ironically by this movie), it standardized into the hard g we pronounce it as now.
This is my favourite movie, I have watched it countless times, and the clock tower scene still makes me tense up like the first time. It's masterfully crafted
It was a very pleasant experience to "re-watch" one of my most favorite movies with two kind people who were able to follow the story genuinely enjoyed it. Thanks for the delightful goosebumps S&G. 🤗
Glad you enjoyed it!
Huey Lewis was the guy that told Marty that he was, “Too Darn Loud” 😂
I'm going to start performing a "rythmic ceremonial ritual" whenever music comes on. 🤣🤣🤣
I find that 80s vibe is part of what makes this movie iconic. Probably one of the best comedies of that decade. In the 80s teachers often said what they wanted to students. I was there.
Your dynamic is so fun! I love rediscovering movies through you. You and Preview’d are my favourite UA-cam duos. (EDIT: ok, let’s add Just SUMM Reactions to that list)
Try 'Popcorn In Bed' channel for some more fun! Usually solo, occasionally a duo.
@@themoviedealers agreed, on both posts.
When you do watch the sequels, remember that they want to portray "The Future," not realistic predictions of what the future would be like. Imagine how dull it would be if the future just turned out to be something that looked basically the same, except everyone had their heads buried in the thin bricks in their hands.
The "future" in the sequels was predicted before the massive explosion at Cyberdyne Systems wiped out their research and altered the timeline again.
@@ThreadBomb I've seen enough reactions of it where people laugh at how poor the predictions are.
WOW! These guys have just given the BEST alt PARADOX narrative for this film EVER !! 😂😂 10:52
16:05 I think the reason she's prude in the beginning is because she's in an somewhat unhappy marriage. George is a pushover and seems fairly aloof to her. So I think the idea is she's supposed to be sexually frustrated and has become prudish as a way of compensating for her lack of fulfillment. She's basically convinced herself that those kind of feelings are wrong because she knows she can't satisfy them and stay committed to the marriage. (Its actually kind of surprising they have as many kids as they do, come to think of it lol)
But after Marty has an influence on his father and we see a far more confident George, who's coming back from tennis or whatever with Lorraine, we don't see that personality from her anymore. So I think the idea is that now that George has a bit of confidence and swag, he's probably more forward and active with his wife in all respects. So now that she feels satisfied in the marriage, she has no need to develop a prudish attitude towards sex.
I had the same thought - here's what the writer says.
"The question of why Marty’s parents don’t recognize him has plagued Back to the Future fans for literal decades. But Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt knows. He chimed in with his own theory that ended up being pretty close. “Maybe they do remember him tho, not as Marty, as Calvin,” the nerd-off began. “When Marty returns to present day 1985, it could have been years since his parents would have perhaps originally noted the uncanny resemblance between their son and that kid from high school 20 years previous.” To ease James Gunn’s mind, Back to the Future’s screenwriter Bob Gale was able to fill the plot hole, some 35 years after its release, to The Hollywood Reporter. “Bear in mind that George and Lorraine only knew Marty/Calvin for eight days when they were 17, and they did not even see him every one of those eight days,” he explained. “So, many years later, they still might remember that interesting kid who got them together on their first date.”
He continued, “So Lorraine and George might think it funny that they once actually met someone named Calvin Klein, and even if they thought their son at age 16 or 17 had some resemblance to him, it wouldn’t be a big deal. I’d bet most of us could look thru our high school yearbooks and find photos of our teen-aged classmates that bear some resemblance to our children.” Congratulations to Chris Pratt! So, with no plot hole, does this mean Back to the Future just went from a perfect movie to an even more perfect movie? At least someone’s having a good week."
www.vulture.com/2020/04/back-to-the-future-why-martys-parents-dont-recognize-him.html
OK... the 25:30 joke was insanely funny! Hahahaha... I was laughing out loud for 10 seconds straight! Nicely done!
I just made a comment about that and then I searched (most) of the comments for related terms, either by words or the "25" that is the time that happened..
And NOBODY?! Nobody caught that??
I mean, I know the sound by heart only from memes (not that I don't watch it, I watch it all the time) but only for how popular it became in memes/reddit/twitter/youtube/tiktok/instagram/chatroulette and all those people baiting or making funny videos about it..
How do people didn't notice?
You are the only comment I found mentioning it.
I checked if I had a tab opened or something 🤣
That was Huey Lewis with the megaphone of which he wrote and performed the power of love.
Marty was my first movie crush - ugh - I'm old LOL At 8:44 - On re-watch you notice that Doc is looking at Marty because he can't believe he finally caught up chronologically to the night everything changed. It's a small moment, but it's so meaningful once you have a love for the franchise.
No shame in admitting Marty was your first crush - I had massive hots for Lorraine. Thirsty Lea Thompson was gorgeous and hilarious.
@ 14:33 Of course that is George's future wife (Marty's mother) stripping down in front of her open and lit window. Recall her dad shouting "Stella! Another one of these damn kids jumped in front of the car". Apparently Lorraine liked doing that a lot and attracting the neighborhood boys, though in 1985 she played a different tune in that regard too. @ 28:51 You caught the Chuck Berry-Marty McFly time paradox there. Awesome! You are going to enjoy the sequels! BTW, the Clint Eastwood western I advised you below to watch next, and before doing the rest of BTTF, is also part of a trilogy loving referred to as the 'Spaghetti Westerns', Italian made movies all staring Eastwood. Eastwood was already popular actor on the hit TV series at the time "Rawhide" (1959 to 1965), and A Fistful Of Dollars made him famous. Doc Brown of 1955 would not know of Clint Eastwood. One last thing about Part I here. Doc Brown's clocks all going off at the same time in the beginning was a nod to the first really cool time-travel movie made years before, George Pal's "The Time Machine" (1960). ✌️😎
@@themoviedealers He also killed the giant tarantula with napalm in "Tarantula" (1955). And they didn't even give him a film credit for saving the day! 🥸
I would like to point out that not all Canadian high school food looks like dog food slopped from a height into a bowl. Some of it looks like carefully scooped dog food.
Y'all are some high class folks up north.
Here in the US, our high school food doesnt have form. It's too liquid
@@thomasvlaskampiii6850 The way I figure it, if it looks the same way out as in, that's less work my body has to do.
@@andrewforbes1433 I mean... You're not wrong. But, a little flavor goes a long way
"It's so 80s" Basically sums up this whole movie... and I love it!
Was a big Huey Lewis fan when this came out. Him actually being a cameo made my day. You didn't see than very often yet.
LOVE George's reference @ 12:32, when he says he's gotta play some more "Fallout" after this... I'm a huge FO 4 fan (about 8 or 9 playthroughs and working on another one,. Level 55, ATM). Love your reactions!
Awesome y'all! Can't wait for Part II! If you haven't watched already, you should watch True Lies!!!
Fun Fact~ In the 50's when Marty was playing Johnny B. Good. All those high school students are actually professional dancers...
34:33 Well, Marty's parents have no picture of him back in 1955, and 30 years later, they would have forgotten what he actually looked back.
Great reaction. *Marty* looking like their kid has been a long-standing joke after the fact.
Now, I'm 36 years out of high school, and have had this discussion with friends of my generation. Without a photograph to consistently and repeatedly remind you, it's quite difficult to remember the face of somebody you spent only a week with in high school.¹
I was at my 10-year High School reunion when a friend came up to me quite excited. It turns out we spent half of the school year goofing off in the library, and I didn't remember him _at all._ After about a half an hour I eventually remembered everything. But the reason I had forgotten, was because I hadn't referenced it in those ten years. There was no reason to recall the memory.
Even today, I haven't seen him since, and I only have a vague image in my head of what he looks like because he's not in the yearbook.
Granted some people have an extraordinary memory, but those are the outliers. Also, one can say this is just a commentary on _my own memory._ But that is why I went out of my way to discuss this with others. One of the conclusions we came to was that _having a photograph_ to repeatedly reference over the years seemed to be a pivotal factor for those with a vivid memory of what someone looked like in high school.
Naturally, this isn't the end-all-be-all explanation. It's just my experience.
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¹ ─ We often times hear anecdotes of people who have lost loved ones (parents and the like) who have difficulty remembering their face after decades. And they certainly spent more than one week with them.
To be fair, every generation of them in these films looks like a clone of the next, which is part of the joke.
I can't believe George would forget the guy who wanted to hang around with him and helped him land his wife at a crucial part of his life. A lot like your first partner, few people forget that. And is Lorraine going to forget the time she was almost raped by Biff?
It's not like he was a background person in their lives.
One thing that I've always thought is, when Marty comes back to the altered timeline and sees himself go back to 1955, what does that Marty do? I mean, does he have to then get hit by a car etc and organise for George to punch Biff at the dance? Because that would be the new history of how his parents got together right? So he would have to repeat all the changes he made in order for that timeline to still exist. I'm not sure he would be able to convince George to take on Biff! Also, the fact that he punched Biff was triggered by the surprise of seeing Biff in the car, I'm not sure he would be able to if he already knew it was Biff! So does that alter the timeline again? Back to the original timeline where Biff is bullying George? But without George being hit by the car, so George and Lorraine never get together, therefore preventing Marty existing, therefore he couldn't have gone back in time, resulting in the original timeline reasserting itself?
He has to go back and put wrong what once went right. 😁
As Marty's original timeline has been overwritten by the altered one, the Marty native to the altered timeline will become temporally fused to the original Marty. That's why in BttF II and III Marty has a trigger for being called "chicken" that he didn't have before. It was a product of the second Marty that he "inherited".
@@captmurdock How do you know he didn't have the trigger before? No one called him chicken in the first movie for us to gauge his reaction.
Watching this one now, and I'll keep on right away with Part 2 and 3.
It's so much fun!
It's so heartwarming getting to see people fall in love with this movie for the first time.
I really like watching your reactions. So fun and ... pure? But this one... oh man, I absolutely adore your reaction to this movie. LOVED IT! LOVED IT! LOVED IT! Please react to part 2 and 3!
I remember the first time I saw this movie was in September 1985 just after it’s release in Australia and at the time I loved the fact that I was watching the movie before October 1985 actually happened in reality. 😝
"I'm afraid you're just too darn loud" That's Huey Lewis the singer to song in the movie "That's the Power of Love"
The world building and continuity between the movies is so good in this trilogy.