‘Back to the Future’ Is One of the Most Rewatchable Movies Ever | The Rewatchables | The Ringer
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan fire up the flux capacitor and hop in Doc Brown’s DeLorean to revisit Robert Zemeckis’s 1985 classic ‘Back to the Future,’ starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd.
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Bill's take on Who Framed Roger Rabbit not holding up might be his worst take of all time.
100%! Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a masterpiece, visually and as a film in general.
Back to the Future is the type of movie The Rewatchables was made for.
"Makes 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' -- which is a movie that has not aged well just cause the animation isn't that good". What narcotic are you high on, cause it sounds like some wild stuff and I want some.
Atrocious take.
Apex Mountain for the Delorean? Arguably one of the most iconic movie cars that ever was?
That and Max’s V8 Interceptor.
I WILL NOT allow any George McFly slander!!!!!! One of the BEST performances of the movie! Bill, you so wrong lol
Relax. He played himself and he’s a weirdo. Wasn’t really acting 😂
Agree. He was great, weird or not.
Chris doing Pacino never gets old.
Any Chris Ryan impression especially Waingro
Haha. Simmons' "DANNNNY! DANNY BOY!" is up there for me too
@@GymAndSun Jame Gumb is top 3 at least.
Yea hes good at it.
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The Matrix definitely deserves to be on top 10 non comic or cartoon movies list.
Agreed
Was about to say, the Matrix popularized certain cinematographic techniques which were used frequently from then on. Also huge cultural impact.
Mad_Intalect not only techniques, the cgi was amazing for its time, but most importantly it opened the eyes of ppl to the way we live our lives. Most ppl are just sheep, living in a world where they let big government control them and just do what they are told, same ol’ same ol’ repetitve life.
The Matrix spawned all a whole culture of “red-pilling” as well as simulation theories.
Matrix is purely original too. To me, The Matrix and T2 are the two best action sci fi films ever.
I wondered if he omitted it because it had some basis in the novel The Neuromancer but Forrest Gump was directly sourced from a novel so that wouldn’t be consistent.
I just watched all 3 back to back to back. Great day for a 42 year old version of me.
I wrote it on Twitter and I'll write it again: the animation in Who Framed Roger Rabbit is still phenomenal and more impressive than cg. People drew that!
Ohhh, well if you already wrote it on Twitter it must be a monumental opinion
Agreed. It’s also based on a book.
Yeah, Simmons fumbled that take.
I'll die on that hill too. I can't believe he thinks the animation is bad.
@@LandonLovettehe didn’t say it was bad, he said it aged poorly because CGI has surpassed it.
Missed point: the only reason to do a BTTF remake now is that the joke of the Doc asking "who's president in 2020?" would land perfectly with a person from 1990. "THE CASINO GUY???"
Bill Simmons has a crazy boring imagination if he can't imagine the possibilities of how awesome a going back to the 90s BTTF movie would be.
Back to the Future is top 3 for me. I actually enjoyed watching II and III.
Three is so good!! I always watch all three in a marathon. That’s the only way to do it.
@@steelberg23 nah that's too much of the same storyline in a row
@@nocomment1469 I agree. The sequels aren't half as good as the first.
I really like the different aesthetics of the sequels. Also, witnessing the worst timeline to show to consequences of time travel in 2 was pretty cool.
Did this guy just say the animation in Who Framed Roger Rabbit wasn't that good?! It's was a complete revival of Golden Age animation and started the Disney Renaissance.
I absolutely love the shoehorned Al Pacino impression at 59:00
Funny
C. Thomas Howell would've killed it as Marty
Fennessey always has just a little bit of “what am I doing with my life” when he’s talking to Simmons
It’s a Toyota, not a “Jeep.” Also how does the DeLorean not win the movie.
How do they not correct eachother on this? It was clearly said to be a truck and seen to be a truck!
We need a Scarface Rewatchables. To some people that is the movie Pacino is known for
Bill is really trying to say Who Framed Rogger Rabbit hasn't aged well?! And lose all credibility with one single sentence!
Can't stand people who don't get Crispin Glover.
Teens befriending older people was definitely an 80's trope. I'd like to add Annie Potts and Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink. I think it's supposed to imply the teen character isn't your typical teen, i.e. they're smarter, more sophisticated or somehow just doesn't fit in with their peers. Usually the older character is a role model, not a perv but Bill's take on it still made me laugh out loud.
harold and maude
Tony Hawk has said on multiple occasions that the skateboarding boom is directly tied to Back to the Future.
On the DVD commentary, Zemeckis and Gale insist that never intended to make a sequel and only agreed when the studio said they would make the sequels with or without their involvement.
They said the end of Back to the Future was merely intended to be a joke. “Something has to be done about your kids.”
They note that the proof is that Jennifer is there when Doc shows up from the future. They said they NEVER would have had Jennifer there in the scene if they had actually intended to make a sequel.
And, of course, innBack to the Future 2, the first thing they do is put Jennifer to sleep and she is in the movie as little as possible thereafter.
Yes. Not only is it known a sequel was never intended, it’s also well known the “To Be Continued” piece was added for VHS release which in those days was much later than just after it finished its theater run. BTTF ended its theater run in the fall of 85. It wasn’t until May 22nd, 1986 that the VHS hit shelves. By then a sequel had been approved conceptually only, no outline for what the sequel would be was on paper.
These fools dogging on Krispin Glover.
This movie would not be the same without him. Whether or not he is a weirdo creep in real life and was difficult to work with (facts that we later found out thru the documentary and oddball appearances on late night shows),he was the perfect person for the role.
He nailed the dorky awkwardness of George, both in his dialogue and physical acting.
Lorraine u are my density...I mean destiny. Beating up Biff, peeping tomming, walking around school with a kick me sign on his back, the casting was perfect and these schmucks want to act like they didnt like it, yrs after it was revealed how much of a weirdo Krispin was is just them trying to act like they knew it all along.
Bill breaking down Michael J Fox like he’s a basketball prospect
In Seinfeld, George becomes super intelligent from not having sex. Doc Brown has no apparent sexual interest for thirty years and invents time travel. I certainly see the correlation.
Whew! It makes so much sense…
58:40 Oh my goodness Chris Ryan.. I'm in tears.
"A white guy singing the blues...." was a 50s echo. Part of the whole Reagan effect/era. Nostalgia fest for suburbia. And along comes a movie about a white kid *literally* going back to the 50s.... a great movie for being perfectly on the nose.
Avatar isn’t in the top 50. I’ve never heard anyone talk about a specific character, scene, or quote from the movie. Ever. Other than being an advancement in CGI, it has had zero cultural impact.
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None of them clearly play guitar!! Fox guitar is solid. Go watch Cooper in a star is born or Phoenix in walk the line for some bad acting guitar
Fun list at the beginning. I would make it a list of 15 and add Avatar, Independence Day, The Matrix, Top Gun, and Pulp Fiction.
Didn't Marty get a Toyota pick-up at the end of the movie? Bill keeps calling it a Jeep.
Definitely a Toyota hilux loaded up not a Jeep.
This movie rocks. The Marvin Barry line and whole band / and biff in general both work so well for me.
FACTS. MY FAVORITE MOVIE EVER! JUST WATCHED THE TRILOGY THE OTHER NIGHT
Great Job doing the Rewatchables of Back to the Future. This one of my favorite movies ever. I agree the Clock Tower Scene is so dope & intense Marty & Doc are so LOCKED IN to accomplish the Mission. I was fortunate to meet Christopher Lloyd in 06 @ a Store on Melrose Ave in L.A. he was very nice, humble & gracious with his time. I will always cherish that moment. That question that Sean brought up about Marty who is an 80s Teenager VIBIN with Doc an older Scientist Inventor was not the Move during that Era usually teens of the MTV generation were @ the house parties, hooking up with hotties or getting zooted.I always wondered how did they meet? Wow 35 yrs ago this iconic film came out, seems like yesterday Damn TIME flies to Fast. I wish they made 2 more I believe it can be done. Can't wait for the Rewatchables of Part 2.
it wasn't a piece of shit jeep Bill, get it straight it was a badass Toyota 4x4 truck.
Lord of the rings
I don’t like bills assessment of who framed Roger rabbit
Love this. Love BTTF. Love Rewatchables. Love these guys. Another great pod, boys!
For fks sake it’s not a Jeep!!!! (Every Jeep owner at once)
Did you miss mentioning John Lithgow as the trinity killer in Dexter? The best I have ever seen him. By a longshot. If he didn't win Emmys for that, he should have!
Marty’s truck was a Toyota, not a Jeep! 🙄
They had beer pong in the 80's?! Guess I'm just an ignorant millenial
I always thought that Michael J Fox was really good in Mars Attacks!
Timecop had a good theory. The same matter cannot occupy the same space. Meaning, you cannot touch your past or future self.
Bill mentioned Avatar on his list but that is based on Pocahontas... just like Lion King is Hamlet
I've read that the Lion King:Hamlet stuff is very coincidental. Kimba the Lion was more inspiration than Hamlet.
Marty’s guitar playing is actually very convincing. As a guitar player it drives me up the wall when I see someone who obviously is pantomiming and his playing is pretty spot on. Michael J Fox has even jammed that song on stage with Coldplay
BS calling Marty's dream vehicle a Jeep when it's iconic Toyota hilux is nuts, it's like missing on the DeLorean
Love you guys! Disagree completely about Crispin Glover. He was EPIC in this role! McFly remains up there for me in all time fave eccentric characters! 🤗
T2 better than everything on bills list
What Bill forgot to say was ... “at the inarguable #1 position, Star Wars .... (and then the rest.”) Seriously, there has been no bigger cultural icon in cinematic history. He had to of misspoke.
Um yeah Star Wars, can't understand why that wasn't there and in recentish decades the Matrix, how many bullet time rip offs happened and the way it changed special effects and Hollywood actors doing their own fight/ stunt scenes
That's the first thing that crossed my mind after he mentioned his list. How TF do you forget Star Wars? Star Wars was easily the most profitable movie franchise in film history before the Marvel Cinematic Universe existed. It's so huge that it spawned two separate trilogies in two different decades from the original trilogy.
Spot on about the backlot tour. We did the Universal tour in 1992 and were so excited to see Hill Valley.
Btw, 'Rhodes? Where we're going, we don't need Rhodes' was the bane of my teen years for a short time.
Crispin is phenomenal in BTTF. Funny as hell. I can't believe all these 3 of these guys didn't get him. Amazing. Worst take of this podcast, by far.
i was shocked
I'm ALL about Crispin in this role! I love these guys but disagree on their take on George McFly!
Could you guys please let us know at the beginning of the podcast if a youtube version is coming up. Much rather see this than just listen to it. These are awesome btw. Thanks!!
The Hard Way is a very good movie. James Woods might be a controversial figure because of his Twitter posting but he is a fucking great actor.
I think at times y'all(or Bill) misread the room .. to say Who Framed Roger Rabbit didn't age well because of the animation is crazy to say... I think the number of first time reaction videos and the commentary from many aged 30 and under proves the younger gen still loves that movie...not only groundbreaking and a good story but no other mixed animation movie since has quite hit the same
I'd already heard the whole Eric Stoltz hire/fire story a couple different times thru the years, I looked at one more mini-doc a couple weeks ago when suddenly it dawned on me one of the bigger details about how the Michael J Fox splitting time between the film and show doesn't make a lot of sense. Because it's supposed to be that he was doing a full day on Family Ties (like 8a-6p) every weekday, immediately went to the BTTF set every weeknight to shoot all night to then be rushed back over to FT in time to get 2-3hrs of sleep before repeating it, then he shot just BTTF on the weekends.
What I bumped on out of nowhere, Family Ties was of course a network sitcom (NBC) virtually all sitcoms at that time were the multi-cam, filmed in front of a live studio audience type. By now thankfully sitcoms that are even still from the traditional networks rather than basic cable channels are by large majority the single camera, no live audience variety (Community, Better Things, Parks & Rec, etc). And while both are half hour comedies, those two types of shows are produced & filmed RADICALLY different. like there's been a long running sort of joke that the best possible job you could ever land as an actor in Hollywood is on a multi-cam sitcom, because the ratio of hours you actually wind up working in a given week for an episode compared to the money you'll be paid is like practically shameful lol.. The cast is easily the least worked department of all the many for a TV series week by week, and that goes for everyone. Even if you're the lead character of the show. They produce one new episode per week, traditionally the live audience shows would have either Thursday or Friday be their shoot night. The whole thing gets filmed in one night-into-early morning by a span of 8-10 hours, and that is the ONLY day of that whole work week the cast is there for a "full day" much as any else of its crew. Most series did and still do have an organized table read on Monday for the next episode they'll shoot Friday. Any of the cast members (again, even if you're lead) wouldn't have to be there for anymore than 3-4hrs, tops. For those other days inbetween, you could have some rehearsal, some camera blocking preparations (plenty shows use only the actor's stand-ins for them), but that's pretty much it. Sure, the writers on the show, they're slogging thru like 80hr weeks, and most crew members will have at least regular full time days all week, but all things considered for a multi-cam comedy, ironically it's the actors that need to be there when looking at a whole week by itself the least of anyone.
So what I'd just suddenly realized is there was no normal, usual reason for Fox to have to keep going back to Family Ties' soundstages every single day punching the same repeated hours. Even with considering the Meredith Baxter Berney pregnancy thing.
(and yes, I can't believe I wrote a post this fucking long either lol... insomnia's a real motherfucker)
Doc Brown, from 1955 onward, knew he had to become friends with a teenage Marty McFly... he had 30 years to figure out how to make it happen and not be a weirdo creep...?
Back to the Future is so impressive for being an original story and modern day Hollywood hasn't ruined it yet. One of the all time best trilogies. I disagree with Bill's list which did include movies based off books, Lord of the Rings blows Titanic and even E.T. away in pop culture.
Chris is wrong about Back to the Future being a franchise from the start and Sean doesn't correct him enough. This movie was a stand alone. The tease about going to the future was just how they chose to end it. In fact the "To Be Continued..." was added later on. Here is writer Bob Gale: "BG: No, we had no idea (about sequels). If you saw the first film in theaters, we never had that “To Be Continued...” on there at the end. We added that to the VHS tape once we knew we were going to make a sequel. We didn’t know if anyone
was even going to go see the first one."
The 1st one, no, but when they did the 2nd one they had already planned the 3rd
@@Herbalizer28 They filmed the 2nd and the 3rd pretty much back to back
Ghostbusters yuck.
more of this please
The Hard Way is a fun movie. Same goes for Doc Hollywood.
ROGER RABBIT HAS AGED QUITE WELL AND THERE SHOULD BE A REWATCHABLES ON IT KTHNX.
Yes,absolutely. Early in lockdown I ordered a pizza and it arrived right when I was starting up Back To The Future. God damn,I was happy right at that moment. Even though I'd seen it 10+ times before,it's just such a fun movie to watch...
Toyota SR5 4WD pickup
Can they just do a table read of Al Pacina as Doc Brown lmao
We recently did a Feel-Good Movie bracket challenge at work and Back to the Future won.
As a young boy, thought ET was a sequel to Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind.
It was meant to be something darker wasn’t it until Spielberg decided to change it to an inspiring and nostalgic family film.
Back to the Future, Ghostbusters and Beverly Hills Cop are the only 3 from that list that I remotely like. Romancing the Stone is one of the most underrated entertaining 80s movies of all time. Nolan is OK, but overrated. Batman Begins and The Prestige are probably his 2 best films. There's only one BTTF. The sequels don't count. And Elisabeth Shue was great in Karate Kid, should have won Best Actress for Leaving Las Vegas, but Claudia Wells is the ONLY Jennifer. EDIT: That Ebert quote is brilliant. He nailed the Star Wars fandom and even the BTTF fandom, too. And the comic superhero show/movie fandom, good grief! lol
i wonder if Bill will remember his Doc Brown must’ve been a weird old gay man forever take when he remembers doc has a whole wife and family by the end of III
Back To The Future, Gremlins, Ghostbusters, The Goonies, Weird Science, Indiana Jones, Return Of The Jedi, Superman 2, Honey I Shrunk The Kids, Splash, Mannequin, Robocop, Terminator, Field Of Dreams, Explorers, The Last Starfighter, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, etc... it seems like the 80s had a thing for Fantasy...
I watched Back to the Future in the theatre, probably the last movie I've watched with my dad, and that movie is still in my top ten movies of all time, I just love it, the story, the concept, a timeline movie, good actors, I could watch it anytime, it's just that good of a movie
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣So thirsty for content they just say fuck it were going to do rewatchables for movies now.😂😭 Bill. You. Are. A. Sports. Writer. Wtf.
This whole video is ruined at the hour mark when they start criticizing Crispin Glover who was PERFECT and ICONIC as George McFly. And Thomas F, Wilson was FANTASTIC as Biff..and was also PERFECT in the sequels - especially Part 3. The movie was PERFECTLY cast.
Beetlejuice is another one of those rare gems.
Do weekend at Bernie's
The casting of Eric was not a “miss by Zemeckis” Zemeckis never wanted Eric Stoltz. Sid Sheinberg had the final say about that;..Everybody else wanted C, Thomas Howell bc he was funnier than Eric. But, Sid was all about Stoltz because Sid had seen an early cut of “Mask”. Sid didn’t get what the movie actually needed.
I'd MUCH rather listen to post-Zeppelin John Bonham than EVER hear post-Commodores Lionel Richie.
Sean said, the exact same thing I think every time I watch this movie! Why is Marty hanging out with this weird, creepy scientist?! LOL! You'd think that he would be one of the most popular kids at school. He's in a band, he has a cool girlfriend. But no car. His parents couldn't afford to buy him a car. Plus, it's late Friday night/early Saturday morning when Doc called him. He wasn't even at a party. He was at home, sleeping.
I believe the truck Marty gets is a Toyota 4x4 (indestructible) not a Jeep. Also my picky nit is Marty’s brother is going to the office on a Saturday? It’s Friday night when he heads to Twin Pines Mall. Also if it’s a school day why doesn’t his parents ask him why he’s not at school.
22:45 The sequels weren't on the backburner. The end scene of BttF was only supposed to be a gag. The "Bobs" have admitted in commentary, that if the sequels were somewhat planned, that Jennifer would have never been in the DeLorean. But the original was so successful, that they were like, "Okay," and came up with the sequels.
And, while, not as good as the original, Back to the Future is in the top 5 movie trilogies of all time.
In no particular order: Back to the Future, Star Wars, Die Hard, Indiana Jones, The Lord of the Rings.
Dave McFly for Dion Waiters if only for his "When the hell did this happen!?" quote at the end of the movie.
Haha yes. Whenever sometime requires that kind or a response in my life I always say it that way
I just watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The animation is fantastic. It just isn’t 3D..
Revisiting old episodes like this and hearing Bill say Contact is hilariously bad makes me question why I follow The Rewatchables. Sean knows what the fuck is up though, Contact is fucking fantastic.
With Marty looking exactly like Calvin Klein, the assumption would be that Lea Thompson's character reconnected with him as an adult and cheated on George McFly. George would know that his two older children were his, but the youngest son who looks EXACTLY like a person that him and his wife both knew well in high school, was not.
Parts of Back to the Future were later echoed in Forrest Gump, with Marty "inventing" various things such as skateboarding and rock 'n roll! Of course, the director made both movies.
BTTF recast wasn't really Eric Stoltz's fault --- this was a casting issue. They should have done chemistry reads.
Back to The Future is still one of the tightest films I’ve ever seen. Plot works like a Swiss watch. Even Part 2 and 3 couldn’t come close. All time classic.
As a professional guitar player, Fox rips. Don’t know what Simmons is talking about there.
Ummmm, Michael J Fox’s guitar playing is atrocious? Not believable? MJF actually played the song. He’s since been seen performing it live in various instances including a live performance with Coldplay.
Fact check. Mayor Red Thomas 1955 is not the homeless guy in 1985. Take a look at the re-election poster on the car in 1955. The guy is old. Probably in his 60s or 70s at that point, making him 90 or 100 in 1985. Even if he was in his 40s in 1955, that puts him in his 70s in 1985. This is one of the sloppiest takes a lot of people make on Back to the Future.
My god he didnt invent Rock n Roll he was playing Jimi Hendrix version...Johnny B Good was new in ‘55
Shame!
Soltz tried to go the Robert De Niro route with his Marty interpretation, unfortunately doesn’t work with that type of comedy. Nonetheless Soltz proved he is funny in Pulp Fiction.
You forgot The Matrix in your top 10 list. No way it gets left off over Beverly Hills Cop.
TOP TEN REWATCHABLE in the last 40 years has to include Road House. Shame on you Bill.
15:54 I’m sorry, but what?! Who Framed Roger Rabbit has aged beautifully!
They did this during lockdown so I can only imagine what Chris’s wife was doing/thinking when she heard him bust out the Pacino impression (59:00)
Romancing the Stone would be a good rewatchable if they haven't done it. Douglas and Turner is great in the movie and she's a bombshell at this point, DeVito kills it too.
You list off all the Michael J. Fox movies and you can't mention Light Of Day? C'mon man!