Back to the Future: Still The Greatest Time Travel Story of All Time
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- Опубліковано 14 кві 2024
- The year was 1985 when Super Mario Bros. took the Nintendo Entertainment System by storm; Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes debuted in newspapers, and two unlikely friends named Marty McFly and Emmett Lathrop Brown piloted cinema's most iconic time machine to a year when Panama hats and kitten heels were all the rage, 1955.
Fiercely protected at a level akin to Ghostbusters and Star Wars by millennials worldwide, Robert Zemeckis's Back to the Future sits enthroned at Nostalgia Mountain's top. The original film has spawned two sequels, a cartoon series, video game adaptations, a Broadway musical, and more. But how does it hold up by today's standards?
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Good thing Robert Zemeckis won’t allow any sequels, remakes, reboots, or anything like that
Imagine black transgender Marty lol
I hope him and Bob Gale live forever
@@jr2904 you wish
They're doing a re make
@@renesrelics you wish
My favorite movie of all time. The only trilogy I've bought multiple times over the years, going from VHS to DVD and then Blu-ray
In my opinion, Back To The Future is the most consistent movie trilogy, at least in terms of quality, which is ironic because it breaks the key rule of a trilogy of essentially doing the same story 3 times, yet it works given the motif of history repeating itself. Look at all of the elements that appeared in all 3 films: Marty saying "This is heavy" and Doc Brown saying "Great Scott," Marty hitting his head and waking up with a version of his mother taking care of him, Marty walking into a diner and encountering a Tannen as well as a Strickland, a chase scene in the town square and Marty almost crashing into a vehicle, a Tannen crashing into manure, a scene where a character wears a bullet proof vest, pictures/documents changing, Marty being called "chicken," and of course the entire clock tower scene all appear in each film.
There's no scene of Marty being called chicken or bulletproof vest scene in the first film.
@@edwardsmyth5733 he meant not all elements, just some recurring bits. In essense, Marty apperaring to get shot was a way to.get out of history repeating and get Marty to avoid the issues he will have in the future.
@@shaider1982 he literally said they all appear in each film, I was just pointing out that the chicken thing and the bulletproof vest thing were only 2 and 3. When they made the first one there was actually no plans for a second and third.
@@edwardsmyth5733 Bulletproof vest was in the first one. Doc is wearing it when Marty returns to 1985 and sees Doc has not been killed by Achmed, the soon to be dead terrorist.
In the third film Marty and Doc say each other's catch phrases at one point as well.
I always heard zemeckis wondered if his father and he would be friends, not the president of zemeckis’ class
I COMPLETELY BELIEVE YOU! I was four years old when I saw Star Wars. *Not* Episode 3: A New Hope. It was Star Wars back then. And I saw it at a drive in! I remember it as clear as day, as the original series has a huge impact on my childhood. Great video! 🙂👍
Episode 4 😝😝
@@esem7195 I was stoned when I wrote that! 😂😂😂
@@TulsaTaurus🤪🤪
The movie is still a blast to watch almost 40 years later. The cast is having fun, the visual effects are amazing for what 1985 could do, the Alan Silvestri score upbeat & of course Zemeckis’ direction is sharp along with the quotable dialogue from his and Bob Gale’s script
I remember seeing Poltergeist in the theater when I was 5 years old, and Back to the Future when I was 8. Don’t remember much else from back then, so this just shows the power of cinema!
Best movie ever for me.
10:40 Agreeeeeeed... She's still my Hollywood crush. She even made Howard the Duck watchable. Many times at that haha
Howard was considered her disappointment in her career while this was one of her big successes.
Zemeckis has seen what Disney did to Star Wars and won't allow the same to happen to this franchise. Respect!
You can’t redo this trilogy ever. No one can replace Michael J. Fox or Christopher Lloyd as Marty and Doc; it was lightning in a bottle
Respectfully, I submit that the top trio of time machines include the iconic Victorian Era design from the George Pal film The Time Machine.
Holds up awesome. Just watched it last month again. Watched with my kids that are in their early 20s, they all loved it
"Are telling me you build a time machine...... out of a DeLorean?!"
Way cooler than "are you telling me you built a time machine... Out of a refrigerator?"
@@jr2904...or out of a phone booth! Lol
Zemeckis has made some of the most entertaining movies over the last forty+ years, even Used Cars was funny for those that haven't seen it before. I was around fifteen when this movie released, it was a sleeper hit and Michael J. Fox was really only known for his Family Ties role, that all changed after this movie.
As far as you remembering seeing this movie as mentioned around the 5:52 mark, yeah, it's entirely possible. I saw Jaws at the theater in '75 and still remember sitting in the theater and being scared shtless, lol. I was five not four, but it's not too far of a stretch to not remember this movie at the age of four.
I remember getting my super Nintendo and first bicycle at 4, so I believe you haha
Not just the greatest time travel story, It's the greatest 3 movies of all time. I literally live a life where i can watch one of the 3, sometimes 2 of 3 movies every single day, I watched BTTF 2 & 3 3 times last week alone, they are my comfort jam.
I’ve loved these movies ever since my dad showed them to me
There is a fan theory that Doc was actually suicidal and he was gonna take Marty with him. Long story short, prior to the time machine Doc Brown had been down on his luck as his house had burned down, many of his previous inventions weren't successful, and he was living in a garage (these and other subtle details were shown in the opening). So, the Time Machine was Doc's last attempt to create something successful, but he was worried it wouldn't, so he figured he'd kill himself should it fail, but he didn't want to die alone which is why he and Marry stood infront of the thing when they tested it in the mall parking lot. If it worked, Doc, Marty, and Einstein would have lived, if it didn't, then the car would have crashed into them at 88 miles per hour and killed them. Its a very depressing yet possible fan theory.
here is another one to melt your brain. In back to the future 2 marty died on the roof of the casino and when he was getting chased by Biff through the tunnel in1955. The Doc kept going back in time off screen until he could be there to save the day at the last minute
In order for this theory to be true, we have to throw out everything about Doc's character and about the series' tone. He's an optimist, and he never gives up. He's worked for 30 years on this, showing he's persistent and will keep going back any setback, even bankruptcy. He wants to go to the future to see the progress of mankind. He believes in the best things. He is not in despair; such an optimistic person is not suicidal. If he fails, he finds a way to keep going. He has made several inventions that work before we see the DeLorean travel: the Rube Goldberg machine at the start (it starts up, showing that it has the ability to power down. Sure, the toast is burned and the dog food dish is overrun, but it's not the machine's fault the human hasn't maintained it all week), the giant amplifier which Marty has obviously used safely before, and the remote control that guides a stick-shift car (he deserves a grant for that). So, the time machine isn't his first successful invention.
Doc would never, ever, ever harm Marty. When the Libyans show up, Doc immediately thinks of saving Marty: "Run for it, Marty! I'll draw their fire!" And later, against Buford, he shouts "Forget about me, Marty and save yourself!" It doesn't match the above theory. Wanting to kill Marty makes him an attempted murderer (and of a minor, as Marty is 17), meaning he doesn't care about Marty at all and could not be anything resembling a friend, thus casting a horrible pallor over their interactions over the entire series. It's also not possible given Doc's character. He is a kind, gentle soul. This isn't "I don't want to die alone." This theory suggests, "If I die, I'm taking you with me," which doesn't fit Doc. Doc knew his machine would work, and simply wanted the best camera angle for Marty to record it. Nothing more.
Back to the Future is an optimistic, light-hearted, life-affirming comedy, and this dark theory tonally has no place in it. Thanks for reading.
@@robvegas9354 I've heard that theory too, and don't think it can be right for a few reasons. First, Doc would quickly run into his other self in the other DeLorean, which he wouldn't risk. The creators even confirmed you can't keep going back in time like that because you'd run into your other self; you can only go back to try to change something once. Doc wouldn't be able to hide from his other self/selves or Marty if he keeps doing this. The timelines would quickly get crowded with Docs and DeLoreans. It would decrease the movie's stakes if characters could just keep redoing things until they got it right; having only one chance is more suspenseful.
Second, suggesting Marty keeps dying is really selling Marty short, as we see he is quite capable of accomplishing his "missions" throughout the trilogy, including besting Biff in the skateboard chase, Griff in the hoverboard chase, and Buford in the duel. There's no reason for him to suddenly fail constantly here. They are not impossible accomplishments.
Thirdly, there's really no reason why Marty would "need" to die and why he wouldn't survive these events. He goes up to the roof because that's where the dropoff/pickup is: Biff's line "How'd you get past my security downstairs?" tells us Marty got in through the roof and intends to leave that way. He's upset because Doc isn't there when he expected him (maybe because Doc was nearly spotted and had to take off to hide before extracting Marty) and just needs to stall for time: he constantly looks down when talking to Biff until he finally sees Doc and jumps off the roof onto the car's waiting roof, looking awesome when he floats back up. As for the tunnel, there's also no reason for him to die. Doc waits on the other side of the tunnel, but when he sees Biff's car turn around outside it, knows Marty isn't getting out that way, so hightails it back to get his friend. The novelization says as much. Doc gets back in the nick of time, as is a running them in this series, and saves Marty. No need for death.
Lastly, if Marty really did die multiple times, the audience and Marty would find out about it, as we and Doc know about the times Doc died before Marty saved him (having only one chance to change the timeline). If Marty told Doc about his deaths, Doc would definitely tell Marty about his, and he never does. Whoa, that was a lot of writing. Thanks for reading if you made it this far. I love talking about these movies!
@@AvatarYoda Hellyeah. i could talk 'back to the future' all day. Amazing movies. They don't make them like that anymore.
@@robvegas9354 Cool! I actually have talked about it all day before, in a sense. One night, I made dinner for a friend, poured wine, and proceeded to talk about the writing in the films for about four hours.
GREAT SCOTT!
I saw BTTF when I was 11 years old in 1985 in a normal theater, but I saw Grease when I was 4 years old at a drive in theater and yes I remember it VIVIDLY ! I was in my pjs on top of our car with my blanket and popcorn 😊 I’ll NEVER FORGET that experience !!! It was AMAZING 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Great video about a great movie! ❤
This will always be my favorite movie of all time and trilogy , simply perfect and untouchable
You most definitely can remember seeing a movie at 4 years old
I saw Paint Your Wagon w Lee Marvin in 1969 at four years old and STILL remember seeing it at the drive in
Seeing Back to the Future on opening day in 1985 changed my life. I even wrote a book about it!
Top tier stuff! One of the first movies i saw at the theatre back in '85 when i was a young lad and i still rewatch the 3 films to this day. it is captured clock tower lightning in bottle. great cast, perfect script, fun action and stunts, amazing special effects and the music score is phenomenal. Absolutely wonderful movies.
One of the (if not THE) greatest thing about any cinema franchise I have ever experienced is sitting in a movie theater and watching Doc Brown explain they were descending to Hill Valley, CA on October 21st 2015 at 4:29 PM, looking at my phone that told me it was October 21st 2015 at 7:29 PM (EDT), and realizing that in that for a moment, this fictitious world created over 25 years ago was in perfect synch with our own.
I remember seeing La Bamba in theater. I was only 5, but still have a clear memory of going to see it.
I believe you clearly remember Back to the Future in the theater at 4. I'm just a few years older. My first memory of being at a movie was the movie Annie (1982). I was 4: and I do remember my mom bringing me and me getting out of the seat to dance. Next movie I remember seeing as a kid was Return of the Jedi (my mom brought me to that). I would have been 7 for Back to the Future, and I remember my dad bringing me to that. We both had a great time.
I 100% remember seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark as a 5 year old so I believe you. BTTF is still my GOAT after seeing it aged 9 at the cinema.
A timeless movie hehe
Every new generation of young kids should watch this masterpiece.
Still got the Hot Wheels DeLorean and the Taxi and Police car to this day. Purchased at Universal Studios park back in '97. Of course I took the ride. Good times.
My five-year old nephew's favourite movie (the one with the disappearing car! -he says.) He'll be watching Star Wars soon, so that may change.
I must one day own a DeLorean.
My local theater is playing it soon! Will be the first time I am able to see it on the big screen!
Mega hit block buster movie
Yup. These movies were awesome!!
Can watch all three movies in a row just as one long feature, and all just flows thru as the epic story that it all is..❤❤❤
My all time favorite movie.
Cinema memories are my first memories. Going tonsee Beauty and the Beast with my Mum. It made a huge impact
Used Cars is a great classic!
Great Scott!
The moment of Doc hiding the Delorean from that person must be a deleted scene from Part 3.
Hey ,I frequented the Rocky Point drive-in. Grew up in Sound Beach ,Long Island.
I grew up in Miller Place!
BRAVO !
6:04 I remember going with my parents to see National Lampoon's Vacation at the drive in. I was 2.
It literally is a perfect movie
A perfect movie.
Is it? Where's the flying cars? Hoverboards? Max Spielberg directing? 🤔
Love this movie! It is perfect. The characters are wonderful and fun to watch, have great relationships and dynamics with each other, and everyone is giving a great performance. You're right about Lorraine: Lea Thompson deserves a lot of credit for handling the whole incest thing in a tasteful way and making it funny when it could have gotten really uncomfortable. Every piece is exactly where it needs to be in the screenplay; nothing could be omitted. It is economical in ways few movies are. All the deleted scenes, while interesting to see, were deleted for good reason. The dialogue is so sharp, and many lines serve multiple functions ("They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in turn gave them a shiny bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts!" is the best line in the movie. It's funny, character-building, payoff, and setup all at once, while seeming silly and almost inconsequential. I want to write a line that good.) It's a rare time when every piece: writing, acting, effects, cinematography, themes, editing, etc, all come together and produce an excellent work that resonates on many levels. Plus, it's really funny; there are parts I laugh at each time.
The sequels are great too, though I think Part III's writing is better that II, and II has almost no heart to it. I like that the trilogy primarily (especially for I and III) uses time travel as a tool to tell the story of the people. That's more interesting to me than a story about time travel, though I do appreciate II for being a little different in that it's the "time travel shenanigans" movie. But, I watch the movies for the emotions and heart, and that's where II falls a little short, and where the first and third excel. Yet, if you want all three in a row (which you should at least once if your life if you're a fan), that problem vanishes, as they play out like one movie, and Part II comes off better then. Part III has the best cinematography, I think.
Really, this is a very thematically-consistent trilogy and so tightly-written. I love the characters, humor, themes, and tone. I've watched them for over thirty years and don't think I'll ever get tired of them. There are so many details to notice after dozens of viewings; they are some of the most rewatchable movies ever. The themes of friendship, family, and courage (not having too little, like George, or too much, like Marty) are universal and deep. It is so character-driven and heartfelt. These films are good for your soul. I'm glad there are only three; the story came to its natural conclusion with the characters, and it is so important to me when writers know when to start and end the story. Artistic integrity won out over profits. Well done, Zemeckis and Gale! No reason for a remake. Remakes should be for films that didn't execute their premises well. Back to the Future has already achieved perfection.
The orsen whales timemachine is doper then a phone booth its gd gold
TBH - I prefer #2 over #1 🤷
We called it the "back back" also...and also snuck into the drive in that way.
i’m a simple person, i see back to the future, i like
It would be interesting to see if this movie was made today if it would still have the same cultural impact? The time this movie was made was a special time for films. Because of the invention of the home computer, the practical effects and storylines of the time made this movie what it is. Also the fact you could go to ANY cinema or ANY VHS movie rental place and watch this compared to 1/3 population being blocked behind paywalls or only subscribed to one service.
I have plenty of memories from when I was 3 and 4 etc,
BTTF with it's no Ep IV policy turned out to be a wise move when you consider what has happened to the other two big trilogies from the 80s
(Although I am a fan of the SW Prequel trilogy)
I would say it’s a 3 way tie between this, Terminator 1 and 2 as the best time travel story
Maybe one day Max Spielberg can direct a reboot or remake. 😅😅
Did you say BTTF is fiercely protected by Millenials?? Or did I hear wrong? It would've been more appropriate to say that about Gen Xers, as we were old enough to go to the theater and actually appreciate what we were watching as opposed to a Millennial who wouldn't have been any older than 5 watching this in theater. But BTTF is so brilliant , ALL generations can watch it and appreciate it today. It's timeless.
I was 17 in the summer of 1985 when I saw Back To The Future in the theater, and what most people don’t realize is the ending was a joke, a silly gag to end the movie. At the time Back To The Future came out, there were NO intended sequels to this movie. This was during a time in cinema when most movies were originally ideas and not remakes or sequels. The “To Be Continued . . .” was added to the end of the movie when it was sold on commercial VHS tapes, and not in the theatrical release.
Of course, Hollywood is greedy and they couldn’t resist making sequels that would continue to cash in on the success of the first film, and so Back To The Future Part II came out almost 4 and a half years later, followed by Part III six months after that. One giant plot hole at the beginning of the second film occurred when Doc Brown took Marty and Jennifer in the DeLorean to see themselves in the future, they wouldn’t BE there because they would have been gone for 30 years, so history would have been altered. And, as with most sequels, those films have the same plot points and the same dialogue repeated again and again. While I agree Back To The Future was a film that launched Bob Zemeckis’s career after a few bad movies, the sequels are pale in comparison to the original film.
Love BTTF!
Do you think they chose 88 mph bc most '70s and '80s cars were pretty slow and 88 mph was pretty quick for the day?
They chose it because it would be easier to remember for the audience. The delorean was notorious for being underpowered though
All the running Deloreans in the movie used Porsche engines, instead of the stock PRV V6.
Not the Terminator?
Delorian Barely 88mph! 😊
Is sloblow narration AI now? I really can't watch/listen to these videos anymore. It's a few iv skipped on watching now. Pitty I really enjoyed this channel.
yea as soon as the video started i was annoyed, is this a permanent thing? cause those voices are soooo generic with no emotion or even pauses, like it's one big sentence... almost can't watch the whole thing
This is NOT AI. This is our writer Steve Seigh!
Your folks are pretty cool!
One great trilogy that was consistently good with not a dud in the bunch. Varying levels of quality, but all were great.
🦊 Best:11:14!
😊 2 is so dark 🚗
They need to leave BTTF alone it's one of the only true trilogies left out there.
👍👍👍 🎥
Gen X gets ignored enough as it is. Don’t take BTTF from us, too.
Spot on. Millennials were barely born in 1985. They have no claim to it as their movie
Despite what the Avengers said & did yes Back to the future is cool not a bunch of BS 😆😎👍
NVR 👀
Still the best BTTF movie ever made
dont remake , its time for back to the futur 4 to be make
Hey, this movie reminds me of a cartoon called Rick and Morty😂😂😂😂
bjerk. rhymes with jerk. the umlaut over the O changes the pronunciation.
All facts. Its the greatest movie all time, period
Millennials? Fuck that. They have no claim on this. They can protect their Twilights and Dawson's Creeks or whatever shit was popular in the late 90s and early 2000s. BTTF belongs to Gen X
Greatest time travel story? I like Back to the Future, but I much prefer the Doctor Who TV shows and most of the Terminator franchise.
Isn’t it a little weird that his original plan was to sa his own mom
I would say the franchise is protected by "Gen Xers" not "Millennials"
LOL “car salespeople”? Really?
Are you kidding me? It's not millennials who "firecely protect" movies like Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, and Star Wars. It's Gen-Xers! You know, the kids who had already seen these movies in the theater during the 70s and 80s before millennial kids saw them on TV in the 90s! Get your facts straight! SMFH
whatchu talking about??? a kid can go to an r rated movie with an adult. no need to sneak in
Depends on where - in canada wasn't always the case
Normally I agree with much of this channel, but as time travel films go back to the future is as bad as it gets, it's down there with endgame. 12 Monkeys is the best time travel film
You are clearly delusional and out of your mind!
Hard disagree!
@@JoBloOriginals but at least we are disagreeing in a nice way lol. No name calling etc 👍
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