By the way, the joke about Calvin Klein: it used to be a thing for moms to sew nametags into their kids' clothes in case something got lost. Since "designer" labels were still only for the very rich (and the idea of flaunting a designer the way we do now was unthinkable), Lorraine naturally assumed that the name on Marty's underwear must be his own. :D
BttF is taught in film school as an example of concise scriptwriting, if you go through bit by bit, every line, every background detail, either sets up a future event or pays off something it set up previously. My favorite is Doc's line: "Pretty mediocre fake, they cut off your brother's hair." when Marty's trying to prove who he is with his family photo. You probably only notice it after several watches but this actually sets up how his brother will start to disappear from the photo later. It's really an example of a script where not a single throwaway line is wasted.
Now that you make me think about it, I'd say it shows that his brother's hair has already started to vanish without any of them noticing it at this moment. Doc is pointing that out only because he's assuming the photo is fake.
Thats so interesting. I love this movie series but have never been able to find the trilogy at a good price. So I havent had a chance to watch and listen to the commentaries.
This movie is a perfect lesson about setup and payoff. The clocktower, the truck, Lorraine's "not chasing boys" line, Marty's uncle in jail, Marty's band playing too loud, all the setups were perfectly paid off. This is something a lot of movies and shows today forget like Disney Star Wars and Game of Thrones. They're either missing the setup or missing the payoff, like Finn trying to reveal something to Rey and the writers completely forgot to pay that off.
I first saw Lloyd, on TV, as another eccentric character, Jim "Iggy" Ignatowski, on the 1980s sitcom "Taxi." (Have you seen it?) It featured several taxi drivers with different personalities (a jock, a nutty foreigner from some unnamed country, an attractive young part-time actress, a sensible intellectual uncle type, and a glamor dude, also a part-time actor.) Danny Devito played the dispatcher. Doc is a lot like Iggy. So Lloyd's 83 and still going strong, eh? Impressive. Michael J. Fox as you may know was in the sitcom "Family Ties." in which he played the conservative Reaganite youth Alex P. Keaton, living with his ex-1960s-hippie parents, his two sisters and later also a preschool-kid brother (whom he was educating in Republican and capitalist concepts.) I miss the 1980s, when I was in my 30s. I saw "BTF" in a movie theater the year it was released and in my opinion it needed no sequels. It is a true classic.
@@davewhitmore1958 well maybe in your neck of the woods the word leaf means go away, but where I’m from to go away is to “leave” it doesn’t have to be perfect to be a pun.
@ 2:10. Oh the irony. The song Marty's band was playing is the soundtrack of the movie called 'The Power of Love' by Huey Lewis in the News. The song shot up to No.1 on the billboard charts in 1985. Ironically, the man with the glasses and bullhorn informing Marty the music was too loud is Huey Lewis himself. Enjoy the rest of the TRILOGY! =)
We old guys understand that the saying is “ make like a tree and leave”. Biff isn’t the brightest bulb… Great reaction. I skimmed the comments, so I apologize for any duplication. But the Twin Pines Mall becomes the Lone Pine Mall in the end, because Marty ran over the other pine tree!
Yes it was such an overused line, which is why the directors had Biff hesitate in the middle, time for the audience to think they knew what he would say, and so funny because he didn't.
"It was then that I realized that I was going to spend the rest of my life with him." Dam, that is such a devastating moment. In the midst of all the hilarity Lea Thompson is suddenly heartbreaking. I wonder how many people see what's in Lorraine's eyes at that moment. And then it's passed as if it hadn't been, but later on those early moments take on significance. In that one look, you can see the weight of all the years with this man, a man she never really wanted. Put that together with Biff's insinuating "Say hi to your mom for me" and you've got hints of a history that's hidden and sordid and sad. It still impresses me that with just a turn of voice and expression, she changed that moment completely. Good acting is almost always subtle.
I agree, that look so perfectly conveys an internal sigh of sad resignation. Poor oblivious George is just trying to enjoy some _Honeymooners_ to get through life.
@@0okamino Contrast that moment with the moment near the end where the "new" George and Lorraine talk about how they fell in love. The contrast is overwhelming, which is, of course, the point. :)
And yet at the same time... while clearly showing that life with George has turned out to be a disappointment, she also conveys to me that, she still does remember the past fondly. There IS a genuine spark of... _something..._ there, for the "little lost puppy" she married.
Did you catch that the Twin Pine Mall became the Lone Pine Mall after Marthy ran the tree over in 1955. I always liked that Marty was trying to unscrew the pop bottle and George took it and opened it with the cap remover on the pop machine, something we old timers remember. And just an idea I always had about the news paper cut out on the wall at the beginning that covered the Brown's mansion burned down. Makes me wounder if when Doc put out the fire started by the toy car, did he forget to have the fire extinguisher refilled. Later when he need it to stop the fire in the house, it was still empty. Also, loved your reaction!
In our timeline, Marty had not yet traveled back when Doc’s mansion burned down, so there wouldn’t have been a reason for him to have used up his extinguisher. On the other hand, it’s implied that events like Goldie Wilson running for Mayor or Chuck Berry’s pioneering of rock and roll would never have happened without Marty. The movie does seem to take different approaches to the predestination paradox.
@@stephenkehl7158 There can be more than one reason that something happens. I would like to think Chuck Berry didn't just steal someone's song entirely. And Goldie could have been inspired by his boss complaining about the current mayor, then saying "Nice job cleaning up the floor, maybe you can do the town next."
@@godmagnus Chuck Berry didn't need to have stolen the song in order to have published it. People publish versions of each other's music a lot. But any attempt by Chuck to track down the original author of the tune would have started by getting back in touch with his cousin Marvin, who would have tried to refer him to that kid who played a couple tunes at the dance. Any attempt by Chuck to track that kid down to buy rights or give credit would certainly have met with a dead end, in which case there'd be nothing wrong with Chuck publishing the song as his own - particularly if he also set aside a fraction of the proceeds in case the real author ever became known.
1. The cranky principal also played the Squadron leader in "Top Gun". 2. The guy that say's "You're just 's too damn loud" is Huey Lewis himself. (Heart of Rock-n-roll). 3. Welcome to the 80s when Hollywood still hade ideas. 4. Eric Stoltz was supposed to play Marty. Thankfully, we got much better for the gig. 5. If you want a first time/share of an OUTSTANDING movie where Christopher Lloyd plays the heavy you must do "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". 6. The next one is the best of the hat-trick.
The script for this movie is SO good, it is often taught in film schools as the perfect screernplay. Every detail fits in, there are no loose ends or bits left over...
It’s funny to me watching the younger generation watch movies from our childhood. Normally they show no interest in anything from the parents past and then when they start to look-into stuff It’s amazing how much they enjoy.
When the guy at the band tryouts says, "You're just too darn loud", the joke is that, that guy is being played by Huey Lewis and the song they were playing, is one of his songs.
Apparently the actor who played Biff based his portrayal on his own bullies from when he was a kid (he was sickly back then, when he started to get bigger they started to leave him alone), not just their tactics (I'm guessing) but the way they make you feel weak and insignificant (I think that's what he said).
I'm really glad I found your channel. I'm 17mins in and I freakin' love you already! You're funny, smart, charming, and beautiful. I've seen this ~20+ times but you made it feel new again somehow. Subbed and hit the bell. I hope you have an awesome day!
The ending was done as a joke but when the success of the first one demanded more, they wrote the second and third and filmed them at the same time. It is a Billiant trilogy
13:52 YES!!! Great pickup on that! There's a theory that Doc was actually at the point of suicide because of his failures. That's why he was standing directly in the DeLorean's way when testing it...if he failed, he would be dead. Thank goodness it was successful ;)
"Are they wearing prosthetics?" The "adults" of the time period probably wore them to simulate their older age as most of their performance was as teenagers and IRL were barely older than Michael J. Fox; Crispin Glover was actually younger than Fox.
There really were no plans to make a sequel (let alone a trilogy) when they made this film. It was just a way to have everything resolved in the movie, yet ending with a bang at the same time. This was back in the day when Hollywood still made original titles. You couldn't PAY me to go see the regurgitated schlock they make these days.
correct me if I am wrong, but I heard the original idea was that the time machine would be built into a phone booth, but was scrapped, since it felt too much like Doctor Who's Tarids. ironic, since a few years later we'd see a time traveling phone booth in Bill and Ted.
Christopher Lloyd is a great asset to this movie. He is a great villain in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He is still going strong too, several movies a year.
As someone who grew up in the 1950's and saw the movie when it first came out, for me, it was a real (but pleasant) shock to realize how much things had changed over the three decades. Just about every line or detail in the 1955 section was so nuanced, so tied to how things had changed. (Hollywood did many a period movie, set in an earlier era than it was being filmed, and they get so many things wrong, thinking the features of their contemporary world was how everything ALWAYS had been, so it was refreshing to see how lovingly they recreated the world and its mindset of 1955.) For instance, I remember having a tv in the '50's, the same time everyone suddenly got one. There was so few programs compared to today. If someone had said to me back then they had two televisions, my reaction would have been the same - "no one has two televisions" (not even in my mind someone extraordinarily wealthy). I love how Lorraine actually didn't ask Marty to the dance, she asked him to ask her. Living in any era, we become so used to the social constraints (even any rebels know their behavior is outside the norms), and things like how guys and girls were supposed to date and what they could each do, within their own gender boundaries, were so restrictive. (Not so much the rules themselves were restrictive, although they were, but they had to be followed - if this makes any sense.)
The BTTF trilogy is ICONIC. What I particurlaly love is the attention to the details : For example, at the beginning of the movie, Marty joins doc at "Two Pines Mall", then in 1955 Marty hit a tree with the car and you can hear the guy scream "My Pine !", then, when he goes back to 1985, the place is now called "Lone Pine Mall". Brilliant !
Wow, literally one of the best reactions to this movie i've seen! Straight away you recognised famous scientists, picked up on important details throughout and you even dressed for the occasion! haha. Definitely got yourself a new subscriber here!
Gigawatts. It's the whole gif/jif thing, but with gigawatts. Basically, the writers didn't know how to pronounce it, so they went to a lecture, and they heard a German scientist say it, and they assumed it was pronounced *that* way, so they went with it.
Love the outfit and hair, on point 👌🏽 And they actually filmed the first mo…..they definitely had the second one planed. Can’t wait for you to get around to it. Keep up the hustle, ya killin it 👏🏽
Funny you said the scene when Marty watches himself travel back in time was "meta", I'm really curious what you will say to the events in the sequel 😉BTW, did you realise the name of the mall has changed? 😜 A little fun fact: the guy at the band contest who said that they are too loud is Huey Lewis, who perfoms the songs "Power of Love" and "Back in Time" in he movie soundtrack 😄
Great reaction!!! I loved it. The ending was done as a joke, never thinking there would be a sequel. So once the sequel was made, they had to deal with the situation they had created at the end of the original movie. BEWARE!!! At the end of Part II, STOP the video as soon as you see "To Be Concluded" because there's a trailer for Part III with a bunch of spoilers. Parts II and III were filmed back to back and originally came out in theatres six months apart. That's why there's a trailer for Part III at the end of Part II.
Yeah I remember watching the end of Part II. Everyone was shocked that Part III movie was already done. That blew everyone away. The shock to know that III was already completed was worth the spoilers back then. But today, yeah she should cut it short and not watch the trailer for III.
That was an awesome reaction, thank you! You MUST watch part 2 and 3 as well. This trilogy wraps up in a complete perfect circle like in no other movie I’ve ever seen. I am sure you’re gonna love it. After you watch part 2, I’ll show you something cute … I don’t want to spoil anything right now. Looking forward to see your reaction on the next one. Salutations from Romania …
I am always excited when someone gets to watch Back to the Future for the first time. You seem to have a very keen eye for details, and I thoroughly enjoyed your reaction. At the end you seemed very eager to get to the sequels, so I hope this comment finds you before you've watched them, but the end of Back to the Future II contains a trailer for the third movie, since they were filmed back to back. If you're averse to spoilers, you'll want to stop playback in II when 'To Be Concluded...' appears on screen. When they set up the sequel at the end of this one, it was a bit of a gag, as they weren't sure how big the movie would be, or how much demand there'd be for another. Thankfully it all worked out. When you mentioned that Doc didn't move his mouth a whole lot early on in the movie, I think it's because he was wearing some aging makeup, so he had to keep his face relatively still. They really did a fantastic job with the makeup on everyone, and I love how they used the same actors to play their younger/older selves. Doc's 1955 self doesn't look entirely different from his '85 self, aside from fewer wrinkles, and his hair was more blond than white. One fun little detail was a newspaper article in his lab in 1985 that depicts 'Brown Mansion Destroyed'. Some folks infer that he burned down his mansion to collect on the insurance to fund his research into developing the time machine, which he stated cost him his family fortune and took 30 years to get working. Anyways, absolutely loved the reaction! Liked and subscribed!
I was 11 when this movie came out and it blew people away at the time. It was also one of the first soundtracks I ever bought (probably the 1st, Top Gun the 2nd). This soundtrack was how I got into Huey Lewis but more importantly Chuck Berry. I bought much more Chuck over the years and he influenced my own guitar playing. Hail hail Rock N Roll!!!
It was always obvious to me but I've watched two reactors in a row who wondered which one was Marty's dad between George and Biff during the kitchen scene. I find that interesting. Now I wonder if it was actually written that way.
3:53 I've watched this film like half a dozen times over the years, and it never occurred to me, much less did I notice, that the 1985 McFly parents are younger actors wearing prosthetics to look older. That's a really good catch on the 1st viewing.
One of the most universally loved movies ever made. And you look gorgeous too and always love how your intros and super quick and to the point and straight onto the reaction. :)
I found watching you reacting to seeing this the first time an absolute joy; to see someone experience this movie for the first time and enjoy it. I've watched this movie since I was a very small child and since it's my favorite movie to this day nothing about it is new. I loved seeing the reaction of someone who was new to it.
The actors playing Marty's parents were selected for their look as 1955 teenagers. That's why they seem a bit odd-looking as 1985 adults. When I was a kid in the later 70s, everybody would send their kids to summer camp, and one of the rituals of getting packed to go was writing your name on your clothes, so things didn't get mixed up after laundry - some camps lasted a month or more, so clothes were washed industrial style. I went to camp once. For a week. After that, I found stuff to do outdoors all day the enture summer so I didn't annoy my parents enough they would make me go back.
I remember having only 1 TV back in the 80's, it was like a 20" TV too. When we finally got a 27" TV, oof, we thought we had made it! LOL Now we have 5 TV's in the house, the smallest is 42", the rest are 55"-65". I don't even use my TV because I use my 34" ultra wide computer monitor instead.
I like you being into this movie. And your take on the alternate title being Future Boy. Watching this again, but through your eyes feels like seeing it for the first time again. Thank you, Future Girl. 🤙
10 minutes into your reactions and I'd really love to see the complete vid! You rock! I'm glad you seem to appreciate the story, and get the same vibes I'm getting from watching this amazing movie, time and again! 🤩
In case it hasn't been mentioned, the audition scene is super funny when you know that the guy who told him he was too loud was actually a very famous musician who did the main songs in the movie, Huey Lewis from Huey Lewis and the News. Lots of hits in the eighties.
Not only is the script and plot hyper interesting - you will reconsider the film from the point of view of camera work - how exceptionally harmonious and exceptionally correct the camera highlights individual important elements for understanding the process. I caught myself thinking about the amazing work of the operator and the precise timing of different scenes - they are not long and not short - everything is harmoniously intertwined in the right sequence and accurate timing. I take my hat off to the operator especially.
As old as Christopher Loyd looks here in 1985, it's almost amazing to think that he's still alive with us 37 years later. **knocks on wood** Though, he is 84 years old.. And I just discovered that his birthday is a day before mine. Oct 22... In the second movie, they go to the future on Oct 20.
This movie is absolutely beloved, and has come to be regarded as one of the best movies ever made, along with one of the all-time best sci-fi movies. Remarkably enough, almost no Hollywood studio wanted to make it. It took Steven Spielberg stepping in to produce it. He initially loved the script, but director Robert Zemeckis and scriptwriter Bob Gale wanted to shop it around to other studios because Spielberg had produced their previous films, and they didn't want to be known as "the guys who could only get work in Hollywood because they were Spielberg's friends". Every other studio rejected it. They even tried Disney, but the squeaky-clean Mouse House totally freaked out at the whole "mom in love with her future son" plotline. Zemeckis and Gale ultimately caved and went back to Spielberg, and Back To The Future would become the biggest movie of 1985. I bet every studio executive that rejected it has forever kicked themselves afterwards. Also, the ending was not meant to set up a sequel. The DeLorean taking off and flying was only meant to be a joke. It was a struggle just getting this movie made, so they had no plans for a sequel, but the film's massive success led to a sequel being greenlit. Bob Gale is on record saying that if he had planned for a sequel, he wouldn't have Jennifer get in the car with Marty and Doc at the end, because her presence was a big narrative problem that he had to work around when he began writing the script for Back To The Future 2.
16:00 - Hey, I always drank milk with meals. In fact, I still do, unless I'm eating at a fast food place, in which case, soda is WAY cheaper than milk. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but I'm 55 years old and have never broken a single bone despite numerous falls and mishaps. 16:44 - It's supposed to be "Make like a tree and leave." It's a demonstration of Biff's lack of intelligence.
You don't know.. The guy that said "you guys are too darn loud" was Huey Lewis.....that guy that sang the theme song to the movie The town of Hill Valley was the same set of the first episode of the Twylite Zone
This is one of the best trilogies ever and the second and third (which were filmed back to back) are as amazing as the first. There are some differences you will see...namely that this film was never intended to have sequels. It was a one-off as originally scripted and planned...so there will be a couple of casting differences, namely Jennifer (Marty's girlfriend) was recast with Elizabeth Shue (The Karate Kid, Adventures in Babysitting, and Leaving Las Vegas). Huey Lewis, whose band Huey Lewis and the News contributed the songs "The Power of Love" and "Back In Time" to the soundtrack, was the teacher who told Marty and his band that they were too loud. Christopher Lloyd worked with Robert Zemeckis on 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' as well as the BttF Trilogy. One of my favorite Lloyd performances is actually as the villain in 'Star Trek III' where he played a Klingon. In 2020, co-writer Bob Gale adapted the screenplay for a stage musical of 'Back To The Future' with music and lyrics by the film's composer Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard (a songwriter-producer best known for his work on Alanis Morrisette's album 'Jagged Little Pill' in the 1990s). The show won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical and starred Roger Bart as Doc Brown. Roger is a Tony-winning actor who has done film and TV as well as musical adaptations of Mel Brooks's 'The Producers' (as Carmen Ghia which he reprised for the film of the musical) and 'Young Frankenstein' (as Frederick Frankenstein). The show kept a few songs from the film: "The Power of Love", "Back In Time", "Earth Angel" and "Johnny B. Goode". There are all sorts of promo videos on UA-cam including a cast rendition of "The Power Of Love" recorded during the lockdown. I loved your reaction! Looking forward to the next two!!!
That speaker part always got me if you crank up a large amplifier, speaker, especially one that size you should expect to be sent flying across the room might have been a good idea to cushion that wall to prevent being possibly knocked out on impact.
Biff's botched saying is supposed to be, "Make like a tree, and *_leave."_* Yeah, no, the last line was just meant as a final joke. Bob Zemeckis has said, if he had been thinking of sequels, he would never have complicated things by having Jennifer along for the ride in the car, and have to figure out what to do with her character next. Fun fact: Michael J Fox was doing the tv show Family Ties, at the same time as filming this movie. In order to be in BTTF, he was running on something like 2-5 hours sleep a night, for the duration of production.
Even in the 1950's, clothing dyes were not very stable and bled out into the rest of the wash if you mixed whites and colored fabrics. (Having everything turn a shade of pink befell any novice doing laundry and didn't know to separate the clothing.) On the other hand, cold-water detergents had yet to be invented so in order to get any fabric that was uncolored to remove all the stains, one had to use hot water. Underwear at the time were pretty much all white briefs and mothers would write their boy's names on them to keep them from getting mixed up if the boys were going off to camp or something similar. Colored underwear, particularly purple, would shocked people in the 1950's.
15:26 Harley Quin's hooked up with Poison Ivy, if I remember right. 15:57 In She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Entrapta called a prom a 'social experiment'.
My favorite part is, when he plays Johnny B. Goode, the band leader turns out to be Chuck Berry's cousin Marvin, who calls him up and tells him, "You know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this!" Also, in the deleted version of the "Darth Vader" scene, Marty uses chloroform on George after their conversation, which is why he oversleeps and misses school.
12:53 if you watch the very beginning, Doc's apartment in '85 showed a news paper clipping about the Brown mansion...selling it or something. Probably Doc needed a LOT more funding than his family fortune had to make the time machine.
I never knew that according to Einsteins theory of relativity one can only go forward in time not back. But it still was a great idea to make a movie about it. Time travel would be so cool but would be very burdensome to know what the future holds
so many "ewws". rightfully so haha. I know you are a filmmaker. One thing to note is how they constructed the character introductions, we don't see Marty until the speaker blows. It's one of my favorites.
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MATTHEW 6:33
33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Amen.
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Amen!!
One of my favorite movies
By the way, the joke about Calvin Klein: it used to be a thing for moms to sew nametags into their kids' clothes in case something got lost. Since "designer" labels were still only for the very rich (and the idea of flaunting a designer the way we do now was unthinkable), Lorraine naturally assumed that the name on Marty's underwear must be his own. :D
BttF is taught in film school as an example of concise scriptwriting, if you go through bit by bit, every line, every background detail, either sets up a future event or pays off something it set up previously. My favorite is Doc's line: "Pretty mediocre fake, they cut off your brother's hair." when Marty's trying to prove who he is with his family photo. You probably only notice it after several watches but this actually sets up how his brother will start to disappear from the photo later. It's really an example of a script where not a single throwaway line is wasted.
Now that you make me think about it, I'd say it shows that his brother's hair has already started to vanish without any of them noticing it at this moment. Doc is pointing that out only because he's assuming the photo is fake.
That's what I loved about the movie. All the lines fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.
If only those students learned anything, lol
Thats so interesting.
I love this movie series but have never been able to find the trilogy at a good price.
So I havent had a chance to watch and listen to the commentaries.
This movie is a perfect lesson about setup and payoff. The clocktower, the truck, Lorraine's "not chasing boys" line, Marty's uncle in jail, Marty's band playing too loud, all the setups were perfectly paid off. This is something a lot of movies and shows today forget like Disney Star Wars and Game of Thrones. They're either missing the setup or missing the payoff, like Finn trying to reveal something to Rey and the writers completely forgot to pay that off.
Doc may be old in 1955 and 1985 but he is still alive and kicking in 2022! Christopher Lloyd is 83.
I first saw Lloyd, on TV, as another eccentric character, Jim "Iggy" Ignatowski, on the 1980s sitcom "Taxi." (Have you seen it?) It featured several taxi drivers with different personalities (a jock, a nutty foreigner from some unnamed country, an attractive young part-time actress, a sensible intellectual uncle type, and a glamor dude, also a part-time actor.) Danny Devito played the dispatcher. Doc is a lot like Iggy. So Lloyd's 83 and still going strong, eh? Impressive. Michael J. Fox as you may know was in the sitcom "Family Ties." in which he played the conservative Reaganite youth Alex P. Keaton, living with his ex-1960s-hippie parents, his two sisters and later also a preschool-kid brother (whom he was educating in Republican and capitalist concepts.) I miss the 1980s, when I was in my 30s. I saw "BTF" in a movie theater the year it was released and in my opinion it needed no sequels. It is a true classic.
The expression that Biff does not remember correctly is “Why don’t you make like a tree and LEAVE!”
leaf
@@davewhitmore1958 well maybe in your neck of the woods the word leaf means go away, but where I’m from to go away is to “leave” it doesn’t have to be perfect to be a pun.
Yea.. Told exactly that way to show Biff wasn't the brightest.
The one saying "It's just too darn loud" is Huey Lewis, the one who wrote the song. Kind of an easter egg. :)
uhhh that's the bad guy from die hard. 😜
@@truewilliams7118 Huey Lewis is the bad guy from Die Hard? That's news to me.
@@truewilliams7118 Oh, THAT GUY. I thought you were referring to Alan Rickman and I was like, "...I don't see it."
And Marty's band is played by Huey Lewis' band, The News.
I figured the the principal told the audition committee to come up with any excuse possible to reject Marty’s band, so they used, “Too loud.”
15:13 "how is he a slacker?! i feel he's putting in double the work, for him and Bif!" 😂 such a good point! one of my fav comedies! great reaction! 👍
@ 2:10. Oh the irony. The song Marty's band was playing is the soundtrack of the movie called 'The Power of Love' by Huey Lewis in the News. The song shot up to No.1 on the billboard charts in 1985. Ironically, the man with the glasses and bullhorn informing Marty the music was too loud is Huey Lewis himself. Enjoy the rest of the TRILOGY! =)
Nice to see someone who notices all the little details for a change.
This has my favorite line of any movie. "When this baby hits 88 miles an hour, you're going to see some serious sh*t". Christopher Lloyd is a legend.
As scientific terminology goes, that certainly works for me. 😉
Trivia: Eddie Van Halen was born in the same year (1955) that McFly traveled to.
Honestly the way they ended it left it wide open for a sequel but also served a a satisfactory ending. It was in fact four years between them.
We old guys understand that the saying is “ make like a tree and leave”. Biff isn’t the brightest bulb…
Great reaction.
I skimmed the comments, so I apologize for any duplication. But the Twin Pines Mall becomes the Lone Pine Mall in the end, because Marty ran over the other pine tree!
Yes it was such an overused line, which is why the directors had Biff hesitate in the middle, time for the audience to think they knew what he would say, and so funny because he didn't.
"It was then that I realized that I was going to spend the rest of my life with him." Dam, that is such a devastating moment. In the midst of all the hilarity Lea Thompson is suddenly heartbreaking. I wonder how many people see what's in Lorraine's eyes at that moment. And then it's passed as if it hadn't been, but later on those early moments take on significance. In that one look, you can see the weight of all the years with this man, a man she never really wanted. Put that together with Biff's insinuating "Say hi to your mom for me" and you've got hints of a history that's hidden and sordid and sad. It still impresses me that with just a turn of voice and expression, she changed that moment completely. Good acting is almost always subtle.
I agree, that look so perfectly conveys an internal sigh of sad resignation. Poor oblivious George is just trying to enjoy some _Honeymooners_ to get through life.
@@0okamino Contrast that moment with the moment near the end where the "new" George and Lorraine talk about how they fell in love. The contrast is overwhelming, which is, of course, the point. :)
And yet at the same time... while clearly showing that life with George has turned out to be a disappointment, she also conveys to me that, she still does remember the past fondly. There IS a genuine spark of... _something..._ there, for the "little lost puppy" she married.
When you watch number 2, dont watch the extra scene at the end. It gives away the plot for 3. 👍
Did you catch that the Twin Pine Mall became the Lone Pine Mall after Marthy ran the tree over in 1955. I always liked that Marty was trying to unscrew the pop bottle and George took it and opened it with the cap remover on the pop machine, something we old timers remember. And just an idea I always had about the news paper cut out on the wall at the beginning that covered the Brown's mansion burned down. Makes me wounder if when Doc put out the fire started by the toy car, did he forget to have the fire extinguisher refilled. Later when he need it to stop the fire in the house, it was still empty. Also, loved your reaction!
In our timeline, Marty had not yet traveled back when Doc’s mansion burned down, so there wouldn’t have been a reason for him to have used up his extinguisher. On the other hand, it’s implied that events like Goldie Wilson running for Mayor or Chuck Berry’s pioneering of rock and roll would never have happened without Marty. The movie does seem to take different approaches to the predestination paradox.
@@stephenkehl7158 There can be more than one reason that something happens. I would like to think Chuck Berry didn't just steal someone's song entirely. And Goldie could have been inspired by his boss complaining about the current mayor, then saying "Nice job cleaning up the floor, maybe you can do the town next."
@@godmagnus Chuck Berry didn't need to have stolen the song in order to have published it. People publish versions of each other's music a lot. But any attempt by Chuck to track down the original author of the tune would have started by getting back in touch with his cousin Marvin, who would have tried to refer him to that kid who played a couple tunes at the dance.
Any attempt by Chuck to track that kid down to buy rights or give credit would certainly have met with a dead end, in which case there'd be nothing wrong with Chuck publishing the song as his own - particularly if he also set aside a fraction of the proceeds in case the real author ever became known.
Unless Doc burned the house down on purpose for the insurance money so he could finance his big experiment...?
@@stephenkehl7158 I always made the assumption that docs mansion got burned down on purpose for the insurance money to fund his inventions.
1. The cranky principal also played the Squadron leader in "Top Gun".
2. The guy that say's "You're just 's too damn loud" is Huey Lewis himself. (Heart of Rock-n-roll).
3. Welcome to the 80s when Hollywood still hade ideas.
4. Eric Stoltz was supposed to play Marty. Thankfully, we got much better for the gig.
5. If you want a first time/share of an OUTSTANDING movie where Christopher Lloyd plays the heavy you must do "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
6. The next one is the best of the hat-trick.
You’re gonna LOVE this trilogy. The whole thing is genius.
Fun fact: the actor who played Marty's brother was Marc McClure, who also played Jimmy Olsen in the Christopher Reeve Superman movies.
The script for this movie is SO good, it is often taught in film schools as the perfect screernplay. Every detail fits in, there are no loose ends or bits left over...
It’s funny to me watching the younger generation watch movies from our childhood. Normally they show no interest in anything from the parents past and then when they start to look-into stuff It’s amazing how much they enjoy.
Rah you are a diamond, I’m actually pissed off that you don’t have more subscribers, big up your damn self
Lorraine’s mom, Marty’s grandma is the mom from Gremlins. And the set for the clocktower in Hill Valley is the same set from Gremlins.
When the guy at the band tryouts says, "You're just too darn loud", the joke is that, that guy is being played by Huey Lewis and the song they were playing, is one of his songs.
Apparently the actor who played Biff based his portrayal on his own bullies from when he was a kid (he was sickly back then, when he started to get bigger they started to leave him alone), not just their tactics (I'm guessing) but the way they make you feel weak and insignificant (I think that's what he said).
The homeless guy who said, _"Crazy drunk driver",_ was the mayor in 1955 who was running for re-election.
I love that they just roast him for his down vest the first half of the movie "you want me to make a donation to to the Coast Guard youth auxiliary"
Its because puffer jackets hadn't been invented yet, so everyone would have thought he really was wearing a life jacket.
Twin Pines Mall becomes Lone Pine Mall; Marty ran over one of the young Pine trees back in 1955.
Was fun watching this with you.
Comedian John Mulaney does an amazing bit about how insane this movie is. It's really hilarious.
I'm really glad I found your channel. I'm 17mins in and I freakin' love you already! You're funny, smart, charming, and beautiful.
I've seen this ~20+ times but you made it feel new again somehow. Subbed and hit the bell. I hope you have an awesome day!
watch the Rocky reactions and welcome :D
Watch her Spider-Man reaction.
Thank you so much! Welcome to the channel!
0:46 - "That's what she said!" 🤣👍
Great movie and great reaction: Looking forward to your reaction to parts 2 & 3!
The ending was done as a joke but when the success of the first one demanded more, they wrote the second and third and filmed them at the same time. It is a Billiant trilogy
13:52 YES!!! Great pickup on that! There's a theory that Doc was actually at the point of suicide because of his failures. That's why he was standing directly in the DeLorean's way when testing it...if he failed, he would be dead. Thank goodness it was successful ;)
"Are they wearing prosthetics?" The "adults" of the time period probably wore them to simulate their older age as most of their performance was as teenagers and IRL were barely older than Michael J. Fox; Crispin Glover was actually younger than Fox.
"is that... manure?" now I'm subrscribed, vocabulary is indeed hot.
There really were no plans to make a sequel (let alone a trilogy) when they made this film. It was just a way to have everything resolved in the movie, yet ending with a bang at the same time.
This was back in the day when Hollywood still made original titles. You couldn't PAY me to go see the regurgitated schlock they make these days.
wow I love how she did her hair for the reaction!
looking good future girl
correct me if I am wrong, but I heard the original idea was that the time machine would be built into a phone booth, but was scrapped, since it felt too much like Doctor Who's Tarids. ironic, since a few years later we'd see a time traveling phone booth in Bill and Ted.
Christopher Lloyd is a great asset to this movie. He is a great villain in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He is still going strong too, several movies a year.
As someone who grew up in the 1950's and saw the movie when it first came out, for me, it was a real (but pleasant) shock to realize how much things had changed over the three decades. Just about every line or detail in the 1955 section was so nuanced, so tied to how things had changed. (Hollywood did many a period movie, set in an earlier era than it was being filmed, and they get so many things wrong, thinking the features of their contemporary world was how everything ALWAYS had been, so it was refreshing to see how lovingly they recreated the world and its mindset of 1955.)
For instance, I remember having a tv in the '50's, the same time everyone suddenly got one. There was so few programs compared to today. If someone had said to me back then they had two televisions, my reaction would have been the same - "no one has two televisions" (not even in my mind someone extraordinarily wealthy).
I love how Lorraine actually didn't ask Marty to the dance, she asked him to ask her. Living in any era, we become so used to the social constraints (even any rebels know their behavior is outside the norms), and things like how guys and girls were supposed to date and what they could each do, within their own gender boundaries, were so restrictive. (Not so much the rules themselves were restrictive, although they were, but they had to be followed - if this makes any sense.)
When Marty says “that’s right he’s gonna be mayor”! Marty’s dad gives him that (Look)! 😂🤣🤣🤣
The BTTF trilogy is ICONIC. What I particurlaly love is the attention to the details : For example, at the beginning of the movie, Marty joins doc at "Two Pines Mall", then in 1955 Marty hit a tree with the car and you can hear the guy scream "My Pine !", then, when he goes back to 1985, the place is now called "Lone Pine Mall". Brilliant !
Wow, literally one of the best reactions to this movie i've seen! Straight away you recognised famous scientists, picked up on important details throughout and you even dressed for the occasion! haha.
Definitely got yourself a new subscriber here!
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Gigawatts. It's the whole gif/jif thing, but with gigawatts. Basically, the writers didn't know how to pronounce it, so they went to a lecture, and they heard a German scientist say it, and they assumed it was pronounced *that* way, so they went with it.
Love the outfit and hair, on point 👌🏽
And they actually filmed the first mo…..they definitely had the second one planed. Can’t wait for you to get around to it. Keep up the hustle, ya killin it 👏🏽
Thank you!
"roads where were going we don't need roads" one of the best movies ever i still remember seeing each one when they first came out.
Funny you said the scene when Marty watches himself travel back in time was "meta", I'm really curious what you will say to the events in the sequel 😉BTW, did you realise the name of the mall has changed? 😜 A little fun fact: the guy at the band contest who said that they are too loud is Huey Lewis, who perfoms the songs "Power of Love" and "Back in Time" in he movie soundtrack 😄
All while he was still suing Ray Parker jr for that song he did in Spielbergs last movie. Ghostbusters.
Great reaction!!! I loved it.
The ending was done as a joke, never thinking there would be a sequel. So once the sequel was made, they had to deal with the situation they had created at the end of the original movie.
BEWARE!!! At the end of Part II, STOP the video as soon as you see "To Be Concluded" because there's a trailer for Part III with a bunch of spoilers. Parts II and III were filmed back to back and originally came out in theatres six months apart. That's why there's a trailer for Part III at the end of Part II.
Yeah I remember watching the end of Part II. Everyone was shocked that Part III movie was already done. That blew everyone away. The shock to know that III was already completed was worth the spoilers back then. But today, yeah she should cut it short and not watch the trailer for III.
That was an awesome reaction, thank you! You MUST watch part 2 and 3 as well. This trilogy wraps up in a complete perfect circle like in no other movie I’ve ever seen. I am sure you’re gonna love it. After you watch part 2, I’ll show you something cute … I don’t want to spoil anything right now. Looking forward to see your reaction on the next one. Salutations from Romania …
Thanks for watching! Just uploaded Part II
I am always excited when someone gets to watch Back to the Future for the first time. You seem to have a very keen eye for details, and I thoroughly enjoyed your reaction. At the end you seemed very eager to get to the sequels, so I hope this comment finds you before you've watched them, but the end of Back to the Future II contains a trailer for the third movie, since they were filmed back to back. If you're averse to spoilers, you'll want to stop playback in II when 'To Be Concluded...' appears on screen.
When they set up the sequel at the end of this one, it was a bit of a gag, as they weren't sure how big the movie would be, or how much demand there'd be for another. Thankfully it all worked out. When you mentioned that Doc didn't move his mouth a whole lot early on in the movie, I think it's because he was wearing some aging makeup, so he had to keep his face relatively still. They really did a fantastic job with the makeup on everyone, and I love how they used the same actors to play their younger/older selves. Doc's 1955 self doesn't look entirely different from his '85 self, aside from fewer wrinkles, and his hair was more blond than white.
One fun little detail was a newspaper article in his lab in 1985 that depicts 'Brown Mansion Destroyed'. Some folks infer that he burned down his mansion to collect on the insurance to fund his research into developing the time machine, which he stated cost him his family fortune and took 30 years to get working.
Anyways, absolutely loved the reaction! Liked and subscribed!
You're performing a valuable civic duty
Thanks for watching! Welcome to the channel! I took your advice on the end credits for Part II, just uploaded it
I was 11 when this movie came out and it blew people away at the time. It was also one of the first soundtracks I ever bought (probably the 1st, Top Gun the 2nd). This soundtrack was how I got into Huey Lewis but more importantly Chuck Berry. I bought much more Chuck over the years and he influenced my own guitar playing. Hail hail Rock N Roll!!!
The foreshadowing in this series is amazing. I love this one, Part 2 is my favorite, and part 3 is criminally underrated
It was always obvious to me but I've watched two reactors in a row who wondered which one was Marty's dad between George and Biff during the kitchen scene. I find that interesting. Now I wonder if it was actually written that way.
3:53 I've watched this film like half a dozen times over the years, and it never occurred to me, much less did I notice, that the 1985 McFly parents are younger actors wearing prosthetics to look older. That's a really good catch on the 1st viewing.
One of the most universally loved movies ever made. And you look gorgeous too and always love how your intros and super quick and to the point and straight onto the reaction. :)
Thank you!
I love watching you watch these classic movies. 😄
I found watching you reacting to seeing this the first time an absolute joy; to see someone experience this movie for the first time and enjoy it. I've watched this movie since I was a very small child and since it's my favorite movie to this day nothing about it is new. I loved seeing the reaction of someone who was new to it.
The actors playing Marty's parents were selected for their look as 1955 teenagers. That's why they seem a bit odd-looking as 1985 adults.
When I was a kid in the later 70s, everybody would send their kids to summer camp, and one of the rituals of getting packed to go was writing your name on your clothes, so things didn't get mixed up after laundry - some camps lasted a month or more, so clothes were washed industrial style. I went to camp once. For a week. After that, I found stuff to do outdoors all day the enture summer so I didn't annoy my parents enough they would make me go back.
I remember having only 1 TV back in the 80's, it was like a 20" TV too. When we finally got a 27" TV, oof, we thought we had made it! LOL
Now we have 5 TV's in the house, the smallest is 42", the rest are 55"-65". I don't even use my TV because I use my 34" ultra wide computer monitor instead.
15:50 I love that you picked up on this and by your smile, you loved it.
You are really pulling off the retro fashion! 😎👌
I like you being into this movie. And your take on the alternate title being Future Boy. Watching this again, but through your eyes feels like seeing it for the first time again. Thank you, Future Girl. 🤙
Thanks for watching 😁
GREAT SCOTT!!!
Make like a Tree and be Rooted??lol🤣
Its Make like a Tree and LEAVE hahaha
But he said get outa here...classic
Really loved your reaction to this one. Your expression at 24:49 was everything! :D And you are rocking that look.
Thanks!
That was a blast from the past. I loved this movie
One of Biff's cronies (Match) in the 1955 diner is the first screen appearance of Billy Zane.
10 minutes into your reactions and I'd really love to see the complete vid! You rock! I'm glad you seem to appreciate the story, and get the same vibes I'm getting from watching this amazing movie, time and again! 🤩
In case it hasn't been mentioned, the audition scene is super funny when you know that the guy who told him he was too loud was actually a very famous musician who did the main songs in the movie, Huey Lewis from Huey Lewis and the News. Lots of hits in the eighties.
Not only is the script and plot hyper interesting - you will reconsider the film from the point of view of camera work - how exceptionally harmonious and exceptionally correct the camera highlights individual important elements for understanding the process. I caught myself thinking about the amazing work of the operator and the precise timing of different scenes - they are not long and not short - everything is harmoniously intertwined in the right sequence and accurate timing. I take my hat off to the operator especially.
As old as Christopher Loyd looks here in 1985, it's almost amazing to think that he's still alive with us 37 years later. **knocks on wood**
Though, he is 84 years old.. And I just discovered that his birthday is a day before mine. Oct 22... In the second movie, they go to the future on Oct 20.
My top favorite time travel movie ever!!
If you liked Doc. You should check out the 1970s show Taxi.
He played Jim. One of the funniest characters in TV history.
16:41 The saying is, "Make like a tree and leaf." Leaf sounds like leave.
I am utter amazed that someone your age recognized Ben Franklin and Tom Edison! Thanks for lifting my spirits!!!
I enjoyed that reaction just as I was expecting. Looking forward to 2 and 3!
This movie is absolutely beloved, and has come to be regarded as one of the best movies ever made, along with one of the all-time best sci-fi movies. Remarkably enough, almost no Hollywood studio wanted to make it. It took Steven Spielberg stepping in to produce it. He initially loved the script, but director Robert Zemeckis and scriptwriter Bob Gale wanted to shop it around to other studios because Spielberg had produced their previous films, and they didn't want to be known as "the guys who could only get work in Hollywood because they were Spielberg's friends". Every other studio rejected it. They even tried Disney, but the squeaky-clean Mouse House totally freaked out at the whole "mom in love with her future son" plotline. Zemeckis and Gale ultimately caved and went back to Spielberg, and Back To The Future would become the biggest movie of 1985. I bet every studio executive that rejected it has forever kicked themselves afterwards.
Also, the ending was not meant to set up a sequel. The DeLorean taking off and flying was only meant to be a joke. It was a struggle just getting this movie made, so they had no plans for a sequel, but the film's massive success led to a sequel being greenlit. Bob Gale is on record saying that if he had planned for a sequel, he wouldn't have Jennifer get in the car with Marty and Doc at the end, because her presence was a big narrative problem that he had to work around when he began writing the script for Back To The Future 2.
One of my favorite movies 🔥
Funny fact: the guy that said your to darn loud is the frontman to the song Marty started to play. Lol. It was Huey Lewis.
*Love your reactions love that you're paying so it's close attention to details because there are so many (Easter Eggs) in the sequels*
1.21 Gigawatts! One of the most iconic and referenced lines in the history of movie pop culture.
At the end of the second one DON'T watch the previews for the third film, it gives away spoilers and you want to be fresh for the 3rd one
16:00 - Hey, I always drank milk with meals. In fact, I still do, unless I'm eating at a fast food place, in which case, soda is WAY cheaper than milk. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but I'm 55 years old and have never broken a single bone despite numerous falls and mishaps.
16:44 - It's supposed to be "Make like a tree and leave." It's a demonstration of Biff's lack of intelligence.
You don't know.. The guy that said "you guys are too darn loud" was Huey Lewis.....that guy that sang the theme song to the movie
The town of Hill Valley was the same set of the first episode of the Twylite Zone
This is one of the best trilogies ever and the second and third (which were filmed back to back) are as amazing as the first.
There are some differences you will see...namely that this film was never intended to have sequels. It was a one-off as originally scripted and planned...so there will be a couple of casting differences, namely Jennifer (Marty's girlfriend) was recast with Elizabeth Shue (The Karate Kid, Adventures in Babysitting, and Leaving Las Vegas).
Huey Lewis, whose band Huey Lewis and the News contributed the songs "The Power of Love" and "Back In Time" to the soundtrack, was the teacher who told Marty and his band that they were too loud.
Christopher Lloyd worked with Robert Zemeckis on 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' as well as the BttF Trilogy. One of my favorite Lloyd performances is actually as the villain in 'Star Trek III' where he played a Klingon.
In 2020, co-writer Bob Gale adapted the screenplay for a stage musical of 'Back To The Future' with music and lyrics by the film's composer Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard (a songwriter-producer best known for his work on Alanis Morrisette's album 'Jagged Little Pill' in the 1990s). The show won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical and starred Roger Bart as Doc Brown. Roger is a Tony-winning actor who has done film and TV as well as musical adaptations of Mel Brooks's 'The Producers' (as Carmen Ghia which he reprised for the film of the musical) and 'Young Frankenstein' (as Frederick Frankenstein). The show kept a few songs from the film: "The Power of Love", "Back In Time", "Earth Angel" and "Johnny B. Goode". There are all sorts of promo videos on UA-cam including a cast rendition of "The Power Of Love" recorded during the lockdown.
I loved your reaction! Looking forward to the next two!!!
That speaker part always got me if you crank up a large amplifier, speaker, especially one that size you should expect to be sent flying across the room might have been a good idea to cushion that wall to prevent being possibly knocked out on impact.
Biff's botched saying is supposed to be, "Make like a tree, and *_leave."_*
Yeah, no, the last line was just meant as a final joke. Bob Zemeckis has said, if he had been thinking of sequels, he would never have complicated things by having Jennifer along for the ride in the car, and have to figure out what to do with her character next.
Fun fact: Michael J Fox was doing the tv show Family Ties, at the same time as filming this movie. In order to be in BTTF, he was running on something like 2-5 hours sleep a night, for the duration of production.
The actor playing Biff would have made a good Flint Marko (Sandman) if they made a Spider-Man movie back then
Even in the 1950's, clothing dyes were not very stable and bled out into the rest of the wash if you mixed whites and colored fabrics. (Having everything turn a shade of pink befell any novice doing laundry and didn't know to separate the clothing.) On the other hand, cold-water detergents had yet to be invented so in order to get any fabric that was uncolored to remove all the stains, one had to use hot water.
Underwear at the time were pretty much all white briefs and mothers would write their boy's names on them to keep them from getting mixed up if the boys were going off to camp or something similar.
Colored underwear, particularly purple, would shocked people in the 1950's.
15:26 Harley Quin's hooked up with Poison Ivy, if I remember right.
15:57 In She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Entrapta called a prom a 'social experiment'.
My favorite part is, when he plays Johnny B. Goode, the band leader turns out to be Chuck Berry's cousin Marvin, who calls him up and tells him, "You know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this!"
Also, in the deleted version of the "Darth Vader" scene, Marty uses chloroform on George after their conversation, which is why he oversleeps and misses school.
12:53 if you watch the very beginning, Doc's apartment in '85 showed a news paper clipping about the Brown mansion...selling it or something. Probably Doc needed a LOT more funding than his family fortune had to make the time machine.
"Like, Harley and the Joker" get outta my head, lol. Awesome reaction!! On to part 2.
Another fun fact: Michael J Fox wanted Dick Vandike to play Doc Brown. Christopher Loyd was born for the part. He did so great.
Great reaction to a classic movie. Love your sense of humour and descriptions. LOL
Thank you!
I never knew that according to Einsteins theory of relativity one can only go forward in time not back. But it still was a great idea to make a movie about it. Time travel would be so cool but would be very burdensome to know what the future holds
I love that a lot of channels are watching these films now! they are my fav movies! enjoy the rest!
so many "ewws". rightfully so haha.
I know you are a filmmaker. One thing to note is how they constructed the character introductions, we don't see Marty until the speaker blows. It's one of my favorites.
Doc was 47 in real life, making his younger self 17.
I read that he was 35 in 1955. His hair was grey. But different ages in the animation and in the video game.
Loved your reaction. Had me laughing out loud many times!
1.21 GIGAWATTS!??!