I would like to think that Doc might have gone over some memories, and put two and two together before checking the letter. One that sticks out now is, "Your life depends on it!" but there's also, "They found me" and "Run for it!"
The name of the mall is Twin Pines Mall, but after Marty goes back to 1955 and runs over the farmer's pine, the name of the mall is Lone Pine Mall when Marty returns to 1985.
@@IDyce88 We know that Marty's "chicken" complex is what leads to his kids being disasters (along with his entire life basically) right? there's a theory that because Marty went back and made George such a success that now he's way over confident and has a chip on his shoulder because he's going to be living in his dad's shadow (that he helped create). so if that theory is true then it's possible Marty's future would've been fine had he not interfered with George's past and changed things. I personally stand by the theory because the accident that ruins Marty's future in the first place happens in the new truck that he gets in the "new and improved" 1985.
I love that little scene with Hughie Lewis at the beginning auditions saying,"The music's too loud. " They were playing HIS music. 😂😂 The Power of Love!💪💓
Fun fact: in the "Darth vader" scene, the original plan was to have actual Van Halen music playing, but Eddie was the only one who signed off on it, so they improvised. What you're hearing is just Eddie by himself playing a few solo riffs.
Fun Fact: The guy with the megaphone at the band audition is Huey Lewis from Huey Lewis and the News. They wrote and performed Power of Love and Back in Time from this soundtrack. Iconic 80's band.
Fun fact: The actor who played Biff was actually a really, really kind, generous person on-set, and every time the scene cut after he and the actress who played Lorraine were in the car, he'd apologize to her and she'd reassure him it was ok as they were only acting.
the Delorian was actually not a very popular car model in real life...if Back to the Future hadn;t been made we probably would have forgotten all about that car...but now it's legendary. doc hit his head that day but it took him years to build the time machine, it required money...supplies...time...the flux capacitor was merely the starting point.
For one think, I understand, is that the gull wing doors are not practical. Imagine in a parking lot with a car next to you on each side - can't open the doors. I also have heard that it was sometimes hard to start, as we see several times in this movie.
@@johnnehrich9601 the gullwing doors were actually incredibly well designed and required way less room to open than normal swing-out doors. the reason it wasn't popular is because it was very expensive and they were very poorly made (there are a few documentaries that go into it). Basically John Z DeLorean got sand-bagged when he was creating the car because he left one of the big US manufacturers. they lobbied to have all these regulations and restrictions put in place that he was forced to adhere to when making the car. production was done by people that were going through a depression in ireland and had never worked on cars before, the engine was scaled back to a cheap V6 volvo engine, and the electrical systems were inadequate all around. Johnny Carson famously had his break down as he was driving it home from the dealer.
The car was a worthless POS that was completely unreliable and that was its reputation at the time of the movie. Which is why it is funny that it keeps not wanting to start. John Delorean went to prison around this time for being in business with drug smugglers. It is a notorious car of the 80s.
@@yoman45135 I'm not sure about other versions of gull doors but the Delorian version swing far from the side of the car before they go up - you have to park half-a-car width from the curb.
It's funny how you said he would never get it ( talking about Marty's band being too loud..... That was Huey Lewis the one that sings the song Marty's band was playing ( Huey Lewis and the News)
- Three things I don't think the 80s was that concerned about... an H.R. that would help you with a bully co-worker, making terrorists the bad guys, and post-time travel aftercare for dogs. 😅 - 24:34: There are time travel movies that do have the bootstrap paradox, i.e., time travel is somehow caused by the person traveling thru time and create this insane loop. But in BTTF, that's not the case. There are clear differences to 1985 once Marty returns. Doc was always going to invent the time machine. Lucky for him, Marty's appearance didn't change that. - As someone who has a memory that goes past 30 years, I can say that I doubt I'd remember someone I kinda sorta knew just for one week. 🤣
Lol true. I’m not even that long out of high school and I couldn’t even tell you who any of my teachers were or what they looked like, nevertheless some kid I only saw for one week. Though if I was infatuated with that kid it might be a little different, still, their face would fade from my memory given enough time I think. There are faces I still remember from childhood, but I spent much longer than a week with all of those people 😂
I'm an 80s kid and this is still my favorite childhood movie. Michael J Fox was a household name and such a big deal in the 80s. He did movies while he was on a top sitcom. 6:12 that guy is the lead singer of Huey Lewis and the News. They had several huge hits in the 80s including the main few songs in this movie!
Guys you are not thinking fourth dimensionally! (Like Doc always says) 😅 When you asked how did Doc came back from the future so quickly. It’s because he has a time machine he can choose the moment he comes back. So all we know, he could have spent weeks or even months in the future, and the he just chose the exact same date to return, when he and Marty had returned from the 1955.
Fun fact, they played a prank on Michael J Fox and put real liquor in Lorraine's hipflask. That spit take was legitimately his reaction to tasting alcohol instead of whatever was supposed to be in it. Funniest thing ever. I could not believe this was a first-time reaction for you two :) I hope you see the seqwuels!
Hell yes! My favorite movie of all time, one of the greatest structured movies I’ve ever seen. Set up and payoff on so many things, it’s extremely well written.
It's been speculated the fire when they simulate the lightning is supposed to be the same one that burns down the estate, which severely reduced the Brown fortune. Now that he puts it out here, that never happens. The original fire he did himself to collect insurance money, because it cost him everything to build the time machine. My guess is now that he knew it would become a reality, he felt no need to do so, and became bolder in his pursuits.
Oh my god I am so excited for this!! This is one of my favorite trilogies of all time! The first BTtF movie is so special to me, the first time I ever watched it, I was like 9 or 10 and I remember sitting on the floor at my grandfather's place with him and my mom on the couch behind me and I loved every second of it! So good!! I really can't wait for y'all to watch the other two! It just gets better from here!! A couple fun facts, They originally wanted Michael to play Marty, but because of his filming schedule with Family Ties, he wouldn't have been able to do it, so they cast someone else, but he really didn't fit. They revisited Michael and after some discussions, Michael wanted to do the role. Some nights he would show up late after filming Family Ties and jump right into filming this! Some of the clips where all you see is the back of Marty's head might possibly be the other actor because they still weren't able to get everything filmed in time, but not even the director remembers what clips those are except for one; the scene where Marty punches Biff in the diner! Also, when in the car with his mom, when Marty takes the alcohol bottle from her, they played a prank on Michael and put real alcohol in the bottle to get his reaction . He had no idea what he was about to drink, so that spit take was real! You can find it in the bloopers. Everyone cracks up laughing, including Michael, and he then takes another swig of it lol. Fun cast, fun set, fun trilogy!!
I have no idea how Michael did all three of these movies while also doing Family Ties! And it was Eric Stoltz who filmed scenes before they brought Michael in!
In the audio commentary the writer Bob Gale said that what inspired him to write this movie was that he saw a picture of his dad when he was in high school & wondered if they were the same age, would they be friends. So the time travel is kind of just the plot device for Marty to meet his teenage parents.
What amazes me more than you never watching it is that you somehow missed it even accidentally on cable at some point. I don't think I could even count how many times I've tripped over this through the years. Legendary!
When Jennifer gave Marty the paper with her number on it, notice it’s only 7 digits. Back then we didn’t have to use the area code when dialing a phone number, only when dialing “long distance” ☎️
If you consider it... this is one of the most impactful, and still at that time unpredicted development: Mobile telecommunication. What did "the near future" hold in 1985? Flying cars, holographgic 3D movies, colonies in space. But mobile phones? They were around at that time... Motorola had released their iconic DynaTAC 8000X in 1983. Weighed more than a pound, cost (in today's money) over $10,000. Still... personal mobile communication was something out of science fiction. Something they did on Star Trek. And here we are, just a few decades later, where "phone" is automatically considered "mobile" and some young people don't even know what "landline" is anymore.
I was born in '80, and still remember growing up in my small Vermont hometown, you didn't even need seven digits to call someone in the same town. Just the last four.
The only difference is that he might have gotten involved with politics earlier than before, but with the same results. Maybe he had a bit more political savvy when he became mayor in the altered timeline, though.
The eye shimmer is fun. Love your playful spirit with the makeup touches. Well done. And if it's leftover from a night out, even better. Slay, queens. Great reaction.
14:00 heres an easier way to explain it: If youve ever read or watched A Wrinkle in time, it's the same thing. Hold a string between your hands. Hold an ant on one side. Bend the string to lead the ant to the other side seamlessly. The loop underneath is the minute skipped over.
It’s called a Bootstrap Paradox, when the person goes back in time and causes events that have already happened in their present. Like in The Terminator, (SPOILER!?) how John Connor saves them in the future, but he wouldn’t have been born unless his father, Kyle Reese, went back in time and got Sarah Pregnant.
The film begins in downtown Hill Valley, where we see Mayor Wilson campaigning for re-election. It was Marty who gave him the idea, as a young man in the diner, to become mayor in the first place. The trilogy was so good at setups and callbacks. It's been a while, but I've seen all three films a number of times since each of them came out. And, Marty McThighs was a definite crush when I was a kid.
the Back to the Future trilogy was my first introduction to Michael J. Fox, ans then after that is was Family Ties, Doc Hollywood and Bright Lights Big City.
Lost explained the time paradox thing quite well: Whatever happened happened but the person has no memory or evidential reality of it because despite the happening being in the past the person hasn't yet got to the point in their life where they time travel back and cause the changes in question. Events are/were always altered. The difficult suspension of belief is in the causality that in the current day things were always going to transpire that the McFlys simply wake up in a better existence one day. The life they had prior to this was a kind of temporary fill-in while time waited for the outstanding events of the past to transpire. So in the simplest terms possible: Marty was always in 1955 but what he did there was a waylaid continuation of his life from 1985 so the things that Marty did and had always done in 1955 didn't actually materialise in people's memory and reality until that moment in 1985 when Marty consciously lived through it. Everything that Marty changed on Nov 5th 1955 always happened, but because a different sequence of events essentially happened posthumously in 1985 everybody's reality coheres accordingly. Remember the mayor candidate, he was inspired to run for mayor because Marty told him to but he was already running for mayor in 85 before Marty went back in time. Whatever happened happened.
Marty: He just wants to spend time with Jennifer and Dr Brown and do well in music. Biff: He is a classic jerk who doesn't like the McFly Family...except marty's mum. Jennifer: she is just being the loyal and supportive girlfriend. Dr Brown: people may think he's crazy but when you spend your entire fortune building a "mystery invention" i'd be curious.
When George is up the tree, he is looking at Lorraine, who likes to show herself undressing at the window (an exhibitionist) and she knows that boys watch her .... Hence her Dad saying 'Another one of these kid's' .... And at the beginning of the film when she asks George what he was doing up the tree, 'bird watching George,' just look at her facial expressions, she definitely knew what was happening. Another part that a lot of people don't seem to notice, is when Marty is trying to open the bottle of cola he is trying to twist the bottle top off and George then takes the bottle and use's a bottle opener to do it. 🙂 In times gone by it was considered wrong to be 'Left hannded', and kid's would have there Left hand tied behind their backs and be forced to use their Right hand. This is why George tries to hit Biff with his Right hand/fist but then has to use his natural Left hand/fist to knock Biff out 😵💫 🙂
Yes, each time I rewatch this movie - and have done too many times now - I am struck by how they captured all the nuances of the clash of eras. Of course, when they were making it in '85, these were still fresh memories of the '50's.
Exhibitionists are more of a public thing, she’s in her room, he’s really just a peeping tom who’s sitting in a literal branch with binoculars across from her window
When we first see doc get shot at the beginning of the movie, did he already have on the bulletproof vest since 1955 had already happened, which would mean Marty had already been back to 1955?
I dont think so. From what I’ve read about how it works in Back to the Future when they change things in the past it sort of creates an alternate timeline and the original one is erased. Don’t quote me on that though, I could be misremembering.
Time travel to the past ALWAYS presents paradoxes. The whole story line of this movie in fact, I understand, was that someone wondered if they went back in time and met their parents when they were young, would they be friends. And would they need to fix them up or might screw things up, as here, in preventing them from meeting. In theory, the Goldie we meet in 1985 is how he would have progressed without meeting Marty, ditto for skateboards, Johnny B. Goode, and so on. But think of it this way - if in "new" '55 with Marty there, he hadn't been able to get his parents together, he would not have been born so in this new '85, would NOT be there to go back to screw up his parents' meeting, so . . . on and on. This sort of raises the question that even in a million years from now, humans figure out how to travel back in time to our era, we would have already encountered them, not in now but a thousand, two thousand years back. And all the really bad things in history like Lincoln's assassination and the sinking of the Titanic would have already been prevented. (Makes my head ache trying to resolve this.)
"I just saw skin & I gasped" LMAO omg why weren't you two born when I was, we could've been friends in school! In the 80's, when this first out, everyone thought it was one of a kind and it was but now time travel is like an every day thing. I love your reactions!
_Sports_ was quite the album. Released in September 1983, and went strong through 1984 (being almost the biggest selling album of that year, coming in second because it had to compete with _Thriller)_ into 1985, before BTTF gave the band another big boost.
I hear the intro, hey petty pumpkins (i change it to perty pumpkins cause we are all pretty here hehe)...its Chey and Wes" and i follow it with Queens, yes! I am here for this commentary! *sits back and enjoys the vid*
Back to the Future is very careful about never doing a stable time loop. The characters never cause past events to happen, they only alter the singular timeline which changes around them. We only see alterations to the timeline as they are caused by Doc and Marty. This actually makes BTTF my favourite time travel franchise because there is no lazy writing or reliance on predestination -- it also allows the very joyous and cathartic ending in which Marty doesn't have to learn a lesson and his whole family is unambiguously improved.
Y'all made my morning! First, the season finale of The Boys, and now one of the movies that defined my childhood?! Amazing. So much love to you both AND your sweet concern for Einstein's well-being. I saw this way back in the 80s and was also concerned for him being sent into time by himself! Times is hard, but here's enough for half a cup of coffee for you to split. 😘😘😘 Thank you for brightening my Saturday morning, loves. ❤
When George falls out of the tree & Marty pushes him out of the way and gets hit by the car, you hear Lorraine's father yell to his wife that " another crazy kid's fallen out of the tree again!" that shows that Lorraine is purposely leaving her shade up in the window to put on a show for any male that might want to peep. The little vixen. Personally, I'd prefer more of Marty changing in and out of his purple Calvins. 😜
If you love Robert Zemekis, you guys need to watch "Death Becomes Her." I feel like, as self-respecting gays, you're already well aware of it. If not, it's a must-see.
And Roger Rabbit, which broadly deals with the same issue of the demise of America's downtowns due to the rise of the car culture and the shift of living, working, shopping in the suburbs instead.
I just had a back to the future birthday party and I am so stoked to see other people experiencing my childhood. looking forward to seeing your reaction to the next two!!
Fun fact that is Halloween 1978 related... Dean Cundey, the cinematographer of this film also was the cinematographer for Halloween 1-3, John carpenter films, jurassic park, Schindler's list and many Steven Spielberg films
I absolutely loved your reaction to this movie! This is my favorite movie and trilogy, I also watched your reaction to Challengers and loved it as well! I don't know if you do any recomendations, and if you don't then I apologize, but there is a documentary called "Still: a Michael J Fox movie" about the life of Michael J Fox, the actor who portrays Marty McFly, and there aren't any reactions to it on youtube. I would love for someone to react to it, and i think you two would make an absolutely amazing reaction to the documentary! If you can't though I understand, but I really recommend you watch it, whether you film a reaction or not, it's a really amazing and underrated documentary that came last year (2023). Sorry if I had any mistakes, english is not my first language. Greetings form Uruguay!
WHEN YOU WATCH THE NEXT MOVIE: To avoid spoilers, please stop watching when there's the text "To Be Concluded"! (They show a trailer for the final movie and it contains lots of spoilers)
In this case, it isn't one of those movies where time is circular rather than linear. His parents got together because his father got hit with the car and Marty changed that, so the timeline actually is changed (although I'm commenting this part of the way through and you'll know that way before the end anyway). Yeah, what would George think when his son looks like this guy? Pretty fishy.
Oh I loved your reaction to this film! And Twin Pines Mall turns into Lone Pine Mall at the end because Marty demolished one of the trees with the car in 1955.
Great reaction! Yes, this is one of THE ultimate feel-good movies...and it takes the spot as my #1 movie all-time! I could honestly watch this any time and instantly feel better. First saw this when it came out (on VHS) back in 1985 - parents rented it for my 7th birthday, and I think I watched it six times over the weekend! My parents loved it as it was a nostalgia trip for them (being teens from the 50's!) The story, acting, dialogue, effects and especially the score - it's perfection!! Yes - must do the entire trilogy. Cheers!
This movie doesn’t have sequels it’s one movie in three parts. This is one of the first movies I remember ever seeing as a child (no I was not born in the 80s this is just one of my dad’s favourite movie franchises). 6:13 fun fact the guy who says “you’re just too darn loud!” is Huey Lewis from Huey Lewis and the news the band that did play songs on the soundtrack for this movie. From all accounts from the actors the actor who plays Biff (Thomas F. Wilson) is one of the nicest people and a big teddy bear in real life. 16:12 “they found me I don’t know how, but they found me.” Even as a kid that line bugged me you’re standing next to a truck with your name on it, and you are supposed to be a genius scientist but you can’t figure out how they found you.
Actually the first movie was made without any notion of doing a sequel. (At the time, sequels were very uncommon. Godfather II was one of the first to use the same title with a number. And Jaws sequels were so funny, they are spoofed in Back To The Future II.) So they had to fumble to fit a sequel to this AFTER the fact, including they wound up not wanting Marty's gf in going forward to the future. Doc is presented as the caricature of the mad scientist, including his workshop in the beginning, his wide-eyed look when he first steps out of the car in the mall, he sets the pile of rags on fire in his garage, the whole model of the town which he apologizes for being too crude, etc. On the other hand, he could be puzzled the terrorists knew he would be in the mall parking lot at that time.
Love the details to this movies a lot of easier eggs... also love how the grandma says another one of these kids jumped infront of the car (must happen alot 😂.
I've seen this movie a bajillion times and I am STILL on the edge of my seat during the lightning sequence! Find me a more perfect action suspense scene!
Oh my gosh I forgot!!! So you guys HAVE to react to Stepford Wives with Nicole Kidnam, Bette Midler, Matthew Brodrick, Glen Close......ahhhh the cast is STUDDED and if you haven't seen this already.....GASP!
"12 Monkeys" is an excellent time travel film ( Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Madeline Stowe ) in which the time travel doesn't work like that. It is impossible to change the past and anything you go back and do doesn't change anything. Things only happen once and the time traveler was already there when it happened. Highly recommend , great film, great performances.
Still waiting for my flying car that runs on garbage from 2015... I was 11 when this came out. This film blew us all away. Just amazing. This movie is an absolute core memory for me. So glad you liked it!
I just find it so weird that I keep on seeing videos popping up for back to the Future reactions. It doesn't bother me. I think it's amazing but it also makes you think how many people still haven't seen this movie and then how they just get into it immediately
There are so many classics that I would have thought were seen by everyone but that in itself being labelled a classic can turn people away from watching it. And face there are SO MANY movies made during the 120 years or so of films that I'm sure you and I have not seen, that others would say "how could you not have seen that?"
M.J.F. is iconic! As a young Gen X-er he was a worldwide heartthrob.😍😍 He is an amazing guitarist and a beautiful person. Thank you both for the fun reactions.☺️💚
MJF not only cannot play guitar at all, but he is not even close to miming what the real guitarist played. In fact there is a video here on UA-cam of a guy playing what, according to Marty's finger positions, he actually played. It's of course dreadful because he had no training whatsoever.
@@Great-Documentaries Not sure where you get your intel but MJF can play guitar. He did have an instructor help him learn for Back to the Future waaaaay back in the 80's But dude...he can riff...even with his debilitating Parkinson's disease. Have you seen him play before in any shows???? Interview that is just a few years old for you to watch below about him playing in the movie. Thanks for your non info. Not sure how long you've been walking this Earth my internet friend but MJF can play....been on this planet long enough to know and have seen him play. ua-cam.com/users/shortsFWnCLi5o8QM?si=HOdBaOJcbI_TLi92
20:50 Naughty Birdwatching. 27:20 Serious problem: there's a one-minute window of opportunity. At 88 mph, that translates to about 1.5 miles. 41:40 They remember that young man who came in, reoriented their lives, and disappeared. But they don't remember what he really looked like or sounded like. (At the end, George quotes Marty to Marty.) 45:00 I would like to think that something got through Doc's thick head, at least once he got to thinking about it. 48:20 The ending was meant as a joke. The Bobs had no notion of a sequel at the time; it simply didn't occur to them. When it came time to write the sequel, this ending caused serious problems.
Yes, the timing of the lightening of within a full minute is suspect. I also think that when we see Doc just reconnecting the two wires on the ground as the lightening passes through would have fried him, as he would have been a lower path of resistance than going into the flux capacitor.
Only 6+ minutes in. Great early reaction. I just needed to post the obligatory 6:07 that the judge is Huey Lewis ("I'm afraid you're just too darn loud"). He is the producer/singer of The Power of Love (#1 on Billboard charts at the time of release in July 1985-also featured in Stranger Things 3), and the song "The Pinheads" was playing. Huey also wrote, produced, and performed Back in Time, which was featured in the movie upon Marty's return to 1985. The flipside also climbed high on the charts due to the Power of Back to the Future.
Doc took a chance on the letter because he knew the timeline had already been changed thanks to George standing up to Biff.
I would like to think that Doc might have gone over some memories, and put two and two together before checking the letter. One that sticks out now is, "Your life depends on it!" but there's also, "They found me" and "Run for it!"
The name of the mall is Twin Pines Mall, but after Marty goes back to 1955 and runs over the farmer's pine, the name of the mall is Lone Pine Mall when Marty returns to 1985.
which also begs the question if the future of 1985 went wrong for Marty's kids...would that have happened in the original time line too?
@@IDyce88That’s an interesting question.
@@IDyce88 We know that Marty's "chicken" complex is what leads to his kids being disasters (along with his entire life basically) right? there's a theory that because Marty went back and made George such a success that now he's way over confident and has a chip on his shoulder because he's going to be living in his dad's shadow (that he helped create). so if that theory is true then it's possible Marty's future would've been fine had he not interfered with George's past and changed things.
I personally stand by the theory because the accident that ruins Marty's future in the first place happens in the new truck that he gets in the "new and improved" 1985.
@@TrippingHawk it does make a sort of sense
I love that little scene with Hughie Lewis at the beginning auditions saying,"The music's too loud. " They were playing HIS music. 😂😂 The Power of Love!💪💓
Thomas F. Wilson is a sweetheart in real life, and when they were filming the r*pe scene, he kept stopping to ask if she was okay.
Fun fact: in the "Darth vader" scene, the original plan was to have actual Van Halen music playing, but Eddie was the only one who signed off on it, so they improvised.
What you're hearing is just Eddie by himself playing a few solo riffs.
Really??? I don't know why the rest if the band wouldn't sign off on it but I'm so glad Eddie did!!
“Girl, he’s in your ovaries” omg I choked on my Pinot 😂😂😂
"Marty McThighs" was the funniest and gayest thing to say. Loved it.
Fun Fact: The guy with the megaphone at the band audition is Huey Lewis from Huey Lewis and the News. They wrote and performed Power of Love and Back in Time from this soundtrack. Iconic 80's band.
That's what makes it so hilarious. The guys say, "He doesn't get it!" LOL He literally WROTE it guys. Love this movie.
Yeah, that audition judge is being such a square, but we do know what he would have to say about that on the next album. 😉
With his disguise power glasses!
Where we’re going…there will only be Petty Pumpkins!!!
You guys HAVE to do the entire trilogy now!
Fun fact: The actor who played Biff was actually a really, really kind, generous person on-set, and every time the scene cut after he and the actress who played Lorraine were in the car, he'd apologize to her and she'd reassure him it was ok as they were only acting.
the Delorian was actually not a very popular car model in real life...if Back to the Future hadn;t been made we probably would have forgotten all about that car...but now it's legendary.
doc hit his head that day but it took him years to build the time machine, it required money...supplies...time...the flux capacitor was merely the starting point.
For one think, I understand, is that the gull wing doors are not practical. Imagine in a parking lot with a car next to you on each side - can't open the doors. I also have heard that it was sometimes hard to start, as we see several times in this movie.
@@johnnehrich9601 the gullwing doors were actually incredibly well designed and required way less room to open than normal swing-out doors. the reason it wasn't popular is because it was very expensive and they were very poorly made (there are a few documentaries that go into it). Basically John Z DeLorean got sand-bagged when he was creating the car because he left one of the big US manufacturers. they lobbied to have all these regulations and restrictions put in place that he was forced to adhere to when making the car. production was done by people that were going through a depression in ireland and had never worked on cars before, the engine was scaled back to a cheap V6 volvo engine, and the electrical systems were inadequate all around. Johnny Carson famously had his break down as he was driving it home from the dealer.
The car was a worthless POS that was completely unreliable and that was its reputation at the time of the movie. Which is why it is funny that it keeps not wanting to start. John Delorean went to prison around this time for being in business with drug smugglers. It is a notorious car of the 80s.
@@johnnehrich9601the gull wing doors actually require less clearance than conventional doors, since they pull back towards the car
@@yoman45135 I'm not sure about other versions of gull doors but the Delorian version swing far from the side of the car before they go up - you have to park half-a-car width from the curb.
It's funny how you said he would never get it ( talking about Marty's band being too loud..... That was Huey Lewis the one that sings the song Marty's band was playing ( Huey Lewis and the News)
- Three things I don't think the 80s was that concerned about... an H.R. that would help you with a bully co-worker, making terrorists the bad guys, and post-time travel aftercare for dogs. 😅
- 24:34: There are time travel movies that do have the bootstrap paradox, i.e., time travel is somehow caused by the person traveling thru time and create this insane loop. But in BTTF, that's not the case. There are clear differences to 1985 once Marty returns. Doc was always going to invent the time machine. Lucky for him, Marty's appearance didn't change that.
- As someone who has a memory that goes past 30 years, I can say that I doubt I'd remember someone I kinda sorta knew just for one week. 🤣
Lol true. I’m not even that long out of high school and I couldn’t even tell you who any of my teachers were or what they looked like, nevertheless some kid I only saw for one week. Though if I was infatuated with that kid it might be a little different, still, their face would fade from my memory given enough time I think. There are faces I still remember from childhood, but I spent much longer than a week with all of those people 😂
I'm an 80s kid and this is still my favorite childhood movie. Michael J Fox was a household name and such a big deal in the 80s. He did movies while he was on a top sitcom. 6:12 that guy is the lead singer of Huey Lewis and the News. They had several huge hits in the 80s including the main few songs in this movie!
Guys you are not thinking fourth dimensionally! (Like Doc always says) 😅 When you asked how did Doc came back from the future so quickly. It’s because he has a time machine he can choose the moment he comes back. So all we know, he could have spent weeks or even months in the future, and the he just chose the exact same date to return, when he and Marty had returned from the 1955.
Fun fact, they played a prank on Michael J Fox and put real liquor in Lorraine's hipflask. That spit take was legitimately his reaction to tasting alcohol instead of whatever was supposed to be in it. Funniest thing ever. I could not believe this was a first-time reaction for you two :) I hope you see the seqwuels!
It worked well for the scene too.
Hell yes! My favorite movie of all time, one of the greatest structured movies I’ve ever seen. Set up and payoff on so many things, it’s extremely well written.
You guys have the appropriate amount of anticipation and reverence at the beginning as it's starting, and I love you for it ❤❤❤❤❤
It's been speculated the fire when they simulate the lightning is supposed to be the same one that burns down the estate, which severely reduced the Brown fortune. Now that he puts it out here, that never happens.
The original fire he did himself to collect insurance money, because it cost him everything to build the time machine.
My guess is now that he knew it would become a reality, he felt no need to do so, and became bolder in his pursuits.
He reduced his family fortune trying to make his flux capacitor work. He said as much. He sunk everything into it.
Thoroughly convinced I'm not 100% gay 'cause of Lea Thompson in the '80s. Dang.
Oh my god I am so excited for this!! This is one of my favorite trilogies of all time! The first BTtF movie is so special to me, the first time I ever watched it, I was like 9 or 10 and I remember sitting on the floor at my grandfather's place with him and my mom on the couch behind me and I loved every second of it! So good!! I really can't wait for y'all to watch the other two! It just gets better from here!!
A couple fun facts, They originally wanted Michael to play Marty, but because of his filming schedule with Family Ties, he wouldn't have been able to do it, so they cast someone else, but he really didn't fit. They revisited Michael and after some discussions, Michael wanted to do the role. Some nights he would show up late after filming Family Ties and jump right into filming this! Some of the clips where all you see is the back of Marty's head might possibly be the other actor because they still weren't able to get everything filmed in time, but not even the director remembers what clips those are except for one; the scene where Marty punches Biff in the diner!
Also, when in the car with his mom, when Marty takes the alcohol bottle from her, they played a prank on Michael and put real alcohol in the bottle to get his reaction . He had no idea what he was about to drink, so that spit take was real! You can find it in the bloopers. Everyone cracks up laughing, including Michael, and he then takes another swig of it lol. Fun cast, fun set, fun trilogy!!
I have no idea how Michael did all three of these movies while also doing Family Ties! And it was Eric Stoltz who filmed scenes before they brought Michael in!
In the audio commentary the writer Bob Gale said that what inspired him to write this movie was that he saw a picture of his dad when he was in high school & wondered if they were the same age, would they be friends. So the time travel is kind of just the plot device for Marty to meet his teenage parents.
What amazes me more than you never watching it is that you somehow missed it even accidentally on cable at some point. I don't think I could even count how many times I've tripped over this through the years. Legendary!
When Jennifer gave Marty the paper with her number on it, notice it’s only 7 digits. Back then we didn’t have to use the area code when dialing a phone number, only when dialing “long distance” ☎️
It’s wild how times have changed. And now we don’t even use landlines 🥲
You have to use an area code even when you’re in the same area?
If you consider it... this is one of the most impactful, and still at that time unpredicted development: Mobile telecommunication.
What did "the near future" hold in 1985? Flying cars, holographgic 3D movies, colonies in space.
But mobile phones? They were around at that time... Motorola had released their iconic DynaTAC 8000X in 1983. Weighed more than a pound, cost (in today's money) over $10,000.
Still... personal mobile communication was something out of science fiction. Something they did on Star Trek.
And here we are, just a few decades later, where "phone" is automatically considered "mobile" and some young people don't even know what "landline" is anymore.
I was born in '80, and still remember growing up in my small Vermont hometown, you didn't even need seven digits to call someone in the same town. Just the last four.
Goldy already was mayor when Marty went into the past, so that didn't change the future.
The only difference is that he might have gotten involved with politics earlier than before, but with the same results. Maybe he had a bit more political savvy when he became mayor in the altered timeline, though.
Or...Marty gave him the idea back in 1955?
The eye shimmer is fun. Love your playful spirit with the makeup touches. Well done. And if it's leftover from a night out, even better. Slay, queens. Great reaction.
The entire trilogy is a perfect MASTERPIECE
"Does Marty know any show tunes?" 😊 He's got a whole musical now! I've seen it seven times so far.
14:00 heres an easier way to explain it:
If youve ever read or watched A Wrinkle in time, it's the same thing.
Hold a string between your hands. Hold an ant on one side. Bend the string to lead the ant to the other side seamlessly.
The loop underneath is the minute skipped over.
It’s called a Bootstrap Paradox, when the person goes back in time and causes events that have already happened in their present. Like in The Terminator, (SPOILER!?) how John Connor saves them in the future, but he wouldn’t have been born unless his father, Kyle Reese, went back in time and got Sarah Pregnant.
Seeing marty and the doc hug is one of my favorite moments at the clock tower
The film begins in downtown Hill Valley, where we see Mayor Wilson campaigning for re-election. It was Marty who gave him the idea, as a young man in the diner, to become mayor in the first place.
The trilogy was so good at setups and callbacks. It's been a while, but I've seen all three films a number of times since each of them came out.
And, Marty McThighs was a definite crush when I was a kid.
the Back to the Future trilogy was my first introduction to Michael J. Fox, ans then after that is was Family Ties, Doc Hollywood and Bright Lights Big City.
Such a fun reaction you two!! Can’t wait for the next one❤❤😂😂🎉🎉😮😮😅😊😊
Lost explained the time paradox thing quite well:
Whatever happened happened but the person has no memory or evidential reality of it because despite the happening being in the past the person hasn't yet got to the point in their life where they time travel back and cause the changes in question. Events are/were always altered.
The difficult suspension of belief is in the causality that in the current day things were always going to transpire that the McFlys simply wake up in a better existence one day. The life they had prior to this was a kind of temporary fill-in while time waited for the outstanding events of the past to transpire.
So in the simplest terms possible: Marty was always in 1955 but what he did there was a waylaid continuation of his life from 1985 so the things that Marty did and had always done in 1955 didn't actually materialise in people's memory and reality until that moment in 1985 when Marty consciously lived through it. Everything that Marty changed on Nov 5th 1955 always happened, but because a different sequence of events essentially happened posthumously in 1985 everybody's reality coheres accordingly.
Remember the mayor candidate, he was inspired to run for mayor because Marty told him to but he was already running for mayor in 85 before Marty went back in time. Whatever happened happened.
Marty: He just wants to spend time with Jennifer and Dr Brown and do well in music.
Biff: He is a classic jerk who doesn't like the McFly Family...except marty's mum.
Jennifer: she is just being the loyal and supportive girlfriend.
Dr Brown: people may think he's crazy but when you spend your entire fortune building a "mystery invention" i'd be curious.
1985 Biff was modeled after Trump was at the time. (Goes way back.)
@@johnnehrich9601 yeah i knew this, i'm a big BTTF fan, but thanks for the info anyway 👍
When George is up the tree, he is looking at Lorraine, who likes to show herself undressing at the window (an exhibitionist) and she knows that boys watch her .... Hence her Dad saying 'Another one of these kid's' .... And at the beginning of the film when she asks George what he was doing up the tree, 'bird watching George,' just look at her facial expressions, she definitely knew what was happening.
Another part that a lot of people don't seem to notice, is when Marty is trying to open the bottle of cola he is trying to twist the bottle top off and George then takes the bottle and use's a bottle opener to do it. 🙂
In times gone by it was considered wrong to be 'Left hannded', and kid's would have there Left hand tied behind their backs and be forced to use their Right hand. This is why George tries to hit Biff with his Right hand/fist but then has to use his natural Left hand/fist to knock Biff out 😵💫 🙂
Yes, each time I rewatch this movie - and have done too many times now - I am struck by how they captured all the nuances of the clash of eras. Of course, when they were making it in '85, these were still fresh memories of the '50's.
Exhibitionists are more of a public thing, she’s in her room, he’s really just a peeping tom who’s sitting in a literal branch with binoculars across from her window
One of my favorite movies of ALL TIME! I'm excited to see you two react to it!
When we first see doc get shot at the beginning of the movie, did he already have on the bulletproof vest since 1955 had already happened, which would mean Marty had already been back to 1955?
I dont think so. From what I’ve read about how it works in Back to the Future when they change things in the past it sort of creates an alternate timeline and the original one is erased. Don’t quote me on that though, I could be misremembering.
Time travel to the past ALWAYS presents paradoxes. The whole story line of this movie in fact, I understand, was that someone wondered if they went back in time and met their parents when they were young, would they be friends. And would they need to fix them up or might screw things up, as here, in preventing them from meeting. In theory, the Goldie we meet in 1985 is how he would have progressed without meeting Marty, ditto for skateboards, Johnny B. Goode, and so on.
But think of it this way - if in "new" '55 with Marty there, he hadn't been able to get his parents together, he would not have been born so in this new '85, would NOT be there to go back to screw up his parents' meeting, so . . . on and on. This sort of raises the question that even in a million years from now, humans figure out how to travel back in time to our era, we would have already encountered them, not in now but a thousand, two thousand years back. And all the really bad things in history like Lincoln's assassination and the sinking of the Titanic would have already been prevented. (Makes my head ache trying to resolve this.)
One of my favourite movies growing up I really hope they make a new trilogy
They won't.
They have said as much.
And they shouldn't.
It's a timeless story that has already been told perfect and has aged well.
Uuuuuummmmm no.
"I just saw skin & I gasped" LMAO omg why weren't you two born when I was, we could've been friends in school! In the 80's, when this first out, everyone thought it was one of a kind and it was but now time travel is like an every day thing. I love your reactions!
Aw this is such a comfort movie ❤
Huey Lewis is the guy who said they were too loud and is also whose song the band was playing. Huey Lewis and the News was peak 1985.
_Sports_ was quite the album. Released in September 1983, and went strong through 1984 (being almost the biggest selling album of that year, coming in second because it had to compete with _Thriller)_ into 1985, before BTTF gave the band another big boost.
I hear the intro, hey petty pumpkins (i change it to perty pumpkins cause we are all pretty here hehe)...its Chey and Wes" and i follow it with Queens, yes! I am here for this commentary! *sits back and enjoys the vid*
excited about part 2. i might like it better than the first. it's so fun.
Back to the Future is very careful about never doing a stable time loop. The characters never cause past events to happen, they only alter the singular timeline which changes around them. We only see alterations to the timeline as they are caused by Doc and Marty. This actually makes BTTF my favourite time travel franchise because there is no lazy writing or reliance on predestination -- it also allows the very joyous and cathartic ending in which Marty doesn't have to learn a lesson and his whole family is unambiguously improved.
I love Back To The Future so I'm happy for your reaction ❤
Y'all made my morning! First, the season finale of The Boys, and now one of the movies that defined my childhood?! Amazing. So much love to you both AND your sweet concern for Einstein's well-being. I saw this way back in the 80s and was also concerned for him being sent into time by himself!
Times is hard, but here's enough for half a cup of coffee for you to split. 😘😘😘 Thank you for brightening my Saturday morning, loves. ❤
Oh my god! Thank you so much 😊 we appreciate it- so sweet of you, and you made our morning too! Can’t wait to watch the next one! 💕
Just based of their reaction I would totally make the watch the declaration of independence get signed to see them cringe 😂
When George falls out of the tree & Marty pushes him out of the way and gets hit by the car, you hear Lorraine's father yell to his wife that " another crazy kid's fallen out of the tree again!" that shows that Lorraine is purposely leaving her shade up in the window to put on a show for any male that might want to peep. The little vixen. Personally, I'd prefer more of Marty changing in and out of his purple Calvins. 😜
Me too!!!
9:32 you guys should continue watching the rest of the f13 franchise it’s gets even better, love the content btw
Oh dang, I'm envious - I wish I could watch these for the first time all over again!
So glad you can live vicariously through us! There’s no many movies we wish we could watch again for the first time!
Great! Welcome into the perfect 80s trilogy
If you love Robert Zemekis, you guys need to watch "Death Becomes Her." I feel like, as self-respecting gays, you're already well aware of it. If not, it's a must-see.
And Roger Rabbit, which broadly deals with the same issue of the demise of America's downtowns due to the rise of the car culture and the shift of living, working, shopping in the suburbs instead.
I just had a back to the future birthday party and I am so stoked to see other people experiencing my childhood. looking forward to seeing your reaction to the next two!!
Fun fact that is Halloween 1978 related... Dean Cundey, the cinematographer of this film also was the cinematographer for Halloween 1-3, John carpenter films, jurassic park, Schindler's list and many Steven Spielberg films
I absolutely loved your reaction to this movie! This is my favorite movie and trilogy, I also watched your reaction to Challengers and loved it as well! I don't know if you do any recomendations, and if you don't then I apologize, but there is a documentary called "Still: a Michael J Fox movie" about the life of Michael J Fox, the actor who portrays Marty McFly, and there aren't any reactions to it on youtube. I would love for someone to react to it, and i think you two would make an absolutely amazing reaction to the documentary! If you can't though I understand, but I really recommend you watch it, whether you film a reaction or not, it's a really amazing and underrated documentary that came last year (2023). Sorry if I had any mistakes, english is not my first language. Greetings form Uruguay!
If I'm not mistaken, the actor who played Biff imitated D. Trump for the role 😅
Pffff! Biff’s actor would also be known for being a relatively famous voice actor, he was the Strangler on SpongeBob.
Yes, that is what the producers said, of 1985 Trump, but not of '55 Trump.
WHEN YOU WATCH THE NEXT MOVIE: To avoid spoilers, please stop watching when there's the text "To Be Concluded"! (They show a trailer for the final movie and it contains lots of spoilers)
Glad they’re covering this one, and nice shoutout to Crispin Glover. Glad they recognized him from The Final Friday:)
Stop part 2 when says TO BE CONTINUED as they made 2 and 3 at same time so there is a spoiled filled trailer at end.
Thank you!!!
My first time here with y'all, 6 billionth time watching back to the future. Joining your channel because of this reaction.
In this case, it isn't one of those movies where time is circular rather than linear. His parents got together because his father got hit with the car and Marty changed that, so the timeline actually is changed (although I'm commenting this part of the way through and you'll know that way before the end anyway).
Yeah, what would George think when his son looks like this guy? Pretty fishy.
Surely they had to have forgotten all about him - time travel is soooo incredibly interesting 🧐
Oh I loved your reaction to this film! And Twin Pines Mall turns into Lone Pine Mall at the end because Marty demolished one of the trees with the car in 1955.
The Frighteners...if you're wanting spooky with Michael J. Fox. Think you both may enjoy it if you haven't seen it already.☺️💚
Great reaction! Yes, this is one of THE ultimate feel-good movies...and it takes the spot as my #1 movie all-time! I could honestly watch this any time and instantly feel better. First saw this when it came out (on VHS) back in 1985 - parents rented it for my 7th birthday, and I think I watched it six times over the weekend! My parents loved it as it was a nostalgia trip for them (being teens from the 50's!) The story, acting, dialogue, effects and especially the score - it's perfection!! Yes - must do the entire trilogy. Cheers!
This movie doesn’t have sequels it’s one movie in three parts. This is one of the first movies I remember ever seeing as a child (no I was not born in the 80s this is just one of my dad’s favourite movie franchises). 6:13 fun fact the guy who says “you’re just too darn loud!” is Huey Lewis from Huey Lewis and the news the band that did play songs on the soundtrack for this movie. From all accounts from the actors the actor who plays Biff (Thomas F. Wilson) is one of the nicest people and a big teddy bear in real life. 16:12 “they found me I don’t know how, but they found me.” Even as a kid that line bugged me you’re standing next to a truck with your name on it, and you are supposed to be a genius scientist but you can’t figure out how they found you.
Actually the first movie was made without any notion of doing a sequel. (At the time, sequels were very uncommon. Godfather II was one of the first to use the same title with a number. And Jaws sequels were so funny, they are spoofed in Back To The Future II.) So they had to fumble to fit a sequel to this AFTER the fact, including they wound up not wanting Marty's gf in going forward to the future.
Doc is presented as the caricature of the mad scientist, including his workshop in the beginning, his wide-eyed look when he first steps out of the car in the mall, he sets the pile of rags on fire in his garage, the whole model of the town which he apologizes for being too crude, etc. On the other hand, he could be puzzled the terrorists knew he would be in the mall parking lot at that time.
Crispin Glover is unbelievable is 2003 adaptation of Willard. A greatly underrated classic of the horror genre
Fun fact: It's a shame Petty Pumpkins' never take the time to read the comments.*
*That's not a fun fact, but it is true.
That’s actually not true 😘
No one ever mentions that she took his pants off 😂😂
TELL ME DOCTOR!
WHERE ARE WE GOING THIS TIME?!
Is it the 50s?
Or 1999?
Love the details to this movies a lot of easier eggs... also love how the grandma says another one of these kids jumped infront of the car (must happen alot 😂.
Lots of Easter eggs. Very detailed. Gotta see Multiple watches. Also Jennifer actress changed due to family medical in 2 and 3
❤ hola ! Desde Chile, amo❤ tu reaccion, son muy simpaticos🎉
Oooh great choice! These movies are so fantastic! I hope you do all 3
Omg! Also! Romy and Michelle's Highschool Reunion!!!!
Ahhhh finally some content I wanna watch! The last day or two has been dead here! Love this journey for you babes
"Bartelby" and "River's Edge" are Crispin Glover's best films
I’m so glad you noticed the scary grandpa actor from silent night deadly night ha ha ha
These are my comfort movies. Have been for years
I've seen this movie a bajillion times and I am STILL on the edge of my seat during the lightning sequence! Find me a more perfect action suspense scene!
Ya know, a really good one for you guys to check out would be The Bodyguard. I feel like you guys would have so many hilarious things to say about it!
Oh my gosh I forgot!!! So you guys HAVE to react to Stepford Wives with Nicole Kidnam, Bette Midler, Matthew Brodrick, Glen Close......ahhhh the cast is STUDDED and if you haven't seen this already.....GASP!
"12 Monkeys" is an excellent time travel film ( Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Madeline Stowe ) in which the time travel doesn't work like that.
It is impossible to change the past and anything you go back and do doesn't change anything. Things only happen once and the time traveler was already there when it happened.
Highly recommend , great film, great performances.
2:12 only this far in and I have to say: you two are too cute!!
Awww 🥰
If you watch Part 2, turn off before the trailer for Part 3 at the end.
Thank you!! 🙏🏻 why would they spoil it!!! Lol 😂
Glad you are doing the other two movies!! Yay! 3 is sooo good😎
Can’t wait to watch them!!!
They time travel for the first time on my birthday :D
Still waiting for my flying car that runs on garbage from 2015... I was 11 when this came out. This film blew us all away. Just amazing. This movie is an absolute core memory for me. So glad you liked it!
The way we would save so much money on gas (or save the planet LmAo) if we could fuel things with trash…
@@PettyPumpkins Right?? I really want to live in that version of 2015.
@@PettyPumpkins that would be awesome to have a mr fusion
I just find it so weird that I keep on seeing videos popping up for back to the Future reactions. It doesn't bother me. I think it's amazing but it also makes you think how many people still haven't seen this movie and then how they just get into it immediately
There are so many classics that I would have thought were seen by everyone but that in itself being labelled a classic can turn people away from watching it. And face there are SO MANY movies made during the 120 years or so of films that I'm sure you and I have not seen, that others would say "how could you not have seen that?"
Did you pick up on the Twin Pines mall/Lone Pine mall thing?
Also, the bum on the park bench is the mayor when Marty first arrives in 1955.
M.J.F. is iconic! As a young Gen X-er he was a worldwide heartthrob.😍😍
He is an amazing guitarist and a beautiful person.
Thank you both for the fun reactions.☺️💚
MJF not only cannot play guitar at all, but he is not even close to miming what the real guitarist played. In fact there is a video here on UA-cam of a guy playing what, according to Marty's finger positions, he actually played. It's of course dreadful because he had no training whatsoever.
@@Great-Documentaries Not sure where you get your intel but MJF can play guitar. He did have an instructor help him learn for Back to the Future waaaaay back in the 80's But dude...he can riff...even with his debilitating Parkinson's disease. Have you seen him play before in any shows????
Interview that is just a few years old for you to watch below about him playing in the movie.
Thanks for your non info. Not sure how long you've been walking this Earth my internet friend but MJF can play....been on this planet long enough to know and have seen him play.
ua-cam.com/users/shortsFWnCLi5o8QM?si=HOdBaOJcbI_TLi92
WE LOVE YOU BROBABES!!!! KEEP DOIN' WHAT YOU DO!!!
20:50 Naughty Birdwatching.
27:20 Serious problem: there's a one-minute window of opportunity. At 88 mph, that translates to about 1.5 miles.
41:40 They remember that young man who came in, reoriented their lives, and disappeared. But they don't remember what he really looked like or sounded like. (At the end, George quotes Marty to Marty.)
45:00 I would like to think that something got through Doc's thick head, at least once he got to thinking about it.
48:20 The ending was meant as a joke. The Bobs had no notion of a sequel at the time; it simply didn't occur to them. When it came time to write the sequel, this ending caused serious problems.
Yes, the timing of the lightening of within a full minute is suspect. I also think that when we see Doc just reconnecting the two wires on the ground as the lightening passes through would have fried him, as he would have been a lower path of resistance than going into the flux capacitor.
Newbie here.. Great reaction.. You two are as cute as a button.. good vibes.. Peace luv's
Hi! Thanks so much for stopping by and spending some time with our Reaction! We appreciate you 🥰 Welcome Pumpkin! 🎃☕️
You would never have a clear picture of someone you knew for 3 or 4 days, 30 years in the past.
Can’t wait to see your reactions to the sequels
Only 6+ minutes in. Great early reaction. I just needed to post the obligatory 6:07 that the judge is Huey Lewis ("I'm afraid you're just too darn loud"). He is the producer/singer of The Power of Love (#1 on Billboard charts at the time of release in July 1985-also featured in Stranger Things 3), and the song "The Pinheads" was playing. Huey also wrote, produced, and performed Back in Time, which was featured in the movie upon Marty's return to 1985. The flipside also climbed high on the charts due to the Power of Back to the Future.
If you guys haven’t watched the second one yet please don’t watch the trailer for the third one at the end of the second one ❤❤❤❤
Enjoyed this so much! Can't wait to film our reactions to 2 & 3!