@@alexhefnerstvmovievault right? And to a lesser extent, they also got the other part of that right, as Marty is initially not surprised by the Cubs winning, but it being against Miami. At the time, the Florida Marlins hadn't been really been established, but in between the movie release and the real 2015 they managed to win a couple titles, and then after some time they became the Miami Marlins.
Comment was made more than a year ago, but I remember people talking about it in reference to Back to the Future when the Cubs won in 2016. Pretty cooool
The reason that the 2015 in this movie is different from the one we got is because of Marty's interference in 1955. Before Marty went back, when his family was lame, that was our timeline. When he changed things in the past, it created a new timeline in which his family is cool, and he made skateboarding cool decades before it would have normally. In that timeline, Tony Hawk is their Bill Gates, so hoverboards were developed before good mobile devices, and the hoverboard tech was eventually adapted to other vehicles.
@Latest Obssesion I belive it was a college professor and studens accutally did make a hover board that could hold the weight of a person but it's made of expensive superconductors crystal which have to be frozen in liquid nitrogen to "freeze" themselves in the magnetic field of very strong magnets (exact name of the magnets is slipping my mind at the momemnt) but they made a track with the magnets and could ride the board back and forth
Doc: "Great Scott! Marty! We've got to go back and make your parents losers again, the future depends on it!" Marty: "How bad could it be?" Doc: "In the future they elect a senile 80 year old Joe Biden as President, the government won't stop printing money so the value of the dollar collapses, and everything becomes completely unaffordable! People live in crime infested squalor, the major cities become dystopian tent cities, and an organization called the World Economic Forum openly advocates for the suffering plebs to live in pods and eat bugs!" Marty: "That's heavy."
Biff is portrayed by Thomas F. Wilson. A comedian, voice actor, etc; Also he's actually one of the nicest people you could ever meet in person. So I've read about and heard.
Spielberg had no creative input in this franchise whatsoever, much less did he direct any of them :P The story is written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale and they are all directed by Zemeckis.
Spielberg…Schindler’s List, Jaws, Saving Private Ryan, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E. T., Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Goonies, A. I. Artificial Intelligence, Jurassic Park, Poltergeist, Hook, Gremlins, Men in Black. I’m sure I’m missing some but those are all great.
17:52 Here’s something dark to consider: Marty could have jumped to his death originally and Doc then traveled back in time to save him. Otherwise how would he have known where/when to find him?
Well Doc knew Marty would look for George Mcfly’s grave at the cemetery, and they talked at the cemetery beforehand. They literally could’ve had that planned a
This is actually hinted at a bit. There is the Deja vu expression moment with Doc on the start of the second movie kind of acknowledging and shaking off the differences from the end of the first film. Then when he drops off Marty in 2015 he says he is late…he has not only gone to the future to see Marty jailed, but he has worked out the precise timing he needs to make everything work out. He is then a little flustered when the plan doesn’t work exactly as he wants, but then when the newspaper changes he does another dismissal as if it’s close enough. Bob Gayle (writer) also indicated that in his mind at the start of the first film Doc already remembers Marty from his past and thus how this mad inventor would seek out Marty to become friends with him by getting him to walk Einstein or something (otherwise it would probably be pretty strange for a teenager to be hanging around in an old man’s home all the time).
What Doc removes (and you said he looked the same) was pretty much the makeup he was wearing in the 85 scenes in the first to age him up. They wrote a way in so he could do it without the rougher wrinkled skin having to be put on daily.
Yes, exactly. And the joke was that Marty probably thought the same thing by the way he looked at Doc: "You look great, Doc", without really seeing a difference.
Seeing you see these movies for the first time puts a smile on my face that I just can't describe. It makes me feel like a kid again seeing this for the first time in the theater. I can't wait for part 3.
This is why I have spent SO MUCH time during the pandemic watching UA-cam reactors. Everything sucks but I can almost watch stuff for the first time again through other people reacting to my favourite stuff for the first time. The closest I'll ever get to doing it myself.
Fun fact, that first scene is actually a completely separately filmed scene, partly because of the Jennifer switch. They did it so well tho, that it was hardly noticeable, especially if you saw it when it was released a few years after the first. Watch the side by side comparison, it's mind blowing.
The one thing I always noticed, besides different Jennifers, is that Christopher Lloyd gives two veeeeeery different reads on "it's your kids Marty, somethings gotta be done about your kids!" Otherwise it's pretty amazing how close they got.
They did such a good job that the multiple reactors I've seen watch this movie NEVER notice the switch. Not a single one. And all of them didn't have to wait years between movies.
The reason Old Biff looks hurt, or "gang banged," as you put it, is after he comes back from the past to the future, he's fading from existence. Since Biff changed the past, his current self is disappearing. This is confirmed in a deleted scene, where he fades away completely right before Doc and Marty return to the Delorian with the unconscious Jennifer.
They never intended to have sequels. The writers said that if they would have even considered it, Jennifer wouldn’t have been in the car at the end of the first film.
"There's only one man that can help me" -- cut to Doc Brown at the clocktower. Chills every time. I think the first movie is the best of the trilogy, but man, when the sequels get things right, damn do they get things right.
What I love about the sequel is that the first movie showed how time travel can be used to “fix” things and it’s just fun. But Back to the Future Part 2 shows how time travel can be misused. And I just feel that Back to the Future Part 2 did everything you can with time travel. They go to the future, show alternate reality, going to the past AGAIN but avoiding your past self
I think the only thing that bothers me is that they gave Marty that quirk of not liking being called a chicken, something that wasn't ever shown to be a character trait in the first film. But I guess they had to give him a very obvious flaw that keeps getting him into trouble even far into the future, but something he as a character needs to overcome.
1:59: On October 21, 2015 my local Odeon cinema did a BTTF marathon, showing all 3 movies back to back, with small breaks between for bathroom breaks and time to buy more snacks. When this moment happened and Doc announced the date it got a huge cheer from the audiance XD
20:57 ALL THESE YEARS (in the Past) I always thought 'Doc' didn't realize he was talking to his Future-Self...but now I realize he did know because he OVER-HEARD the phone conversation. This scene was showing how intelligent he is (as a character) to act like his Future-Self was a total stranger to signal to his Future-Self that they should just pretend nothing out of the ordinary is happening...and the Future-Self understood immediately the whole plan and went along with the charade. This is all shown by their little OBVIOUS (yet subtle) comments to each other. BTW it's 'LEAVE'...not "LEAF"...ya Butt-Head...you sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong LOL
One thing I failed to notice until very recently, is that immediately after the DeLorean is struck by lightning, and Marty receives the letter from Doc, in the first few sentences of the letter, Doc says, "I've been living these past eight months in the year 1885". So Doc got sent back in time 70 years, and after hiding the DeLorean and assuming his new identity as the town blacksmith, almost 3/4 of a year goes by before it dawns on him to maybe let his best friend, in the world, who is hopelessly lost in the past, with no clear way home, know that he's ok and help him get home.
"Marty, why you wearing two ties like that?" There are other characters wearing double ties, and Doc is wearing a clear plastic tie. Someone asked one of the directors about the tie gags, and said "why wear a clear tie if you can't see it" and the response was essentially "why wear a tie at all? Wearing ties is dumb, they serve no purpose, so why not have dumb styles of ties?"
Clothes aren't just about purpose. They're about style. I'd much rather live in a future with clear ties that one where everyone wears the same perfectly functional silver unitard.
I read once that the purpose of a tie, specifically the pointed bit at the bottom, is to draw attention to...well... the area just below the pointed bit. Like in business subliminally saying "look at the size of that" gives you some sort of upper hand.
I was lucky enough to be there in 89 watching this opening day ! I was obsessed with the first and was so pumped for 2 , it was such a wild ride and the whole cinema gave the movie a standing ovation. One of those awesome childhood memories.
Concerning what was wrong with “Old Biff” when he came back to 2015. It’s answered in a deleted scene, but he fades from existence (like Marty almost did in part one). The filmmakers wanted to imply that in the new timeline biff died before 2015. But since the scene was cut the most likely explanation is that Old Biff was just having a heart attack or something from the stress of trying to fly a car and time travel.
It's because in the timeline of the deleted scene, Lorraine had found out that Biff murdered George McFly and she shot alternate Biff and killed him, erasing old Biff from existence.
@@Retailman100 which makes no sense since then Old Biff could never go back to give his younger self the Almanac so yeah chaning to a heart attack does at least make more sense
@Latest Obssesion It's pretty clearly explained by Doc that in the "Back to the Future" theory of time travel alternate/divergent timelines don't actually exist. There is only ever one future and one past. If you go back and change the past, the future gets rewritten. It doesn't branch off like in some other time travel stories like "Loki". That's why Marty and Doc could safely leave Jennifer in the changed 1985 and they knew that if they fixed things in the past, she'd still be there when they got back ('cause 1985 would just change around her, she wouldn't be stuck in some divergent timeline). That's, also, why the filmmakers were very careful to get Doc and Marty out of 2015 as soon as Biff brought the time machine back. 'Cause things would already be changing around them in 2015 as a result of what Biff did so, they had to leave before they see evidence of that. In other words, anything Old Biff did in the past would inevitably affect him 'cause it's always his past. The death of "Hell Valley" Biff would absolutely erase Old Biff from existence. I actually think it's fair to assume Old Biff still disappears even if we don't actually see it fully happen onscreen and I think I remember an interview with the writers saying as much. The filmmakers only took out the footage 'cause they thought audiences would be too confused about what was happening so, they wanted to keep what Biff did vague until Doc and Marty actually arrive in the changed 1985.
The little boy in the future sequence where Marty finds the arcade machine was a young Elijah Wood. Also one of the stunt doubles in the hoverboard scene was seriously injured after she hit the pillar and got covered in broken glass. You can see the impact on camera for just a few frames before the cutaway
16:29 They said in the movie, They can't go to the future because that would be the future to this timeline where Biff if rich and powerful so they can't just go to 2015 to stop Marty from getting the book.
16:25 If you weren't talking, you'd have heard Doc explain that traveling to the future from alternate 1985 would take them into the future of alternate 1985. They'd need to go back to before Biff gave the book to himself in the past, while still letting older Biff think he was successful at his mission, so that he'd return the time machine to Lyons Estates like he did before, so Doc and Marty could use it.
Great reaction buddy, this movie is awesome, and you'll love part 3 as well. I was 11 when this came out and I remember seeing it in the theatre with my parents. I felt really old when we got 2015 for real. We didn't get flying cars, but we got internet and smartphones which nobody saw coming, not sure if that's better or worse, lol. The Back to the Future series also had a huge influence on time travel stories in general, and after seeing this, you probably notice how Avengers: Endgame paid homage to it with the time heist going back to New York, and Captain America fighting himself and stuff like that. Their in-story explanations of how it works are different, but the storytelling aspects of even Tony meeting his dad are similar. Back to the Future also inspired Rick and Morty, with Rick looking a lot like Doc Brown, and Morty sounds a lot like Marty. XD Can't wait for part 3, Cheers
@colonelb7825 I was 9 when this came out in Portugal (My mom took me to the Cinema), and at the end scene, where Doc Brown says Marty's kids needed help in the future. I imagined the Terminator (I) future, after the nuclear war, with fields full of skeletons, with ruined cities and a dark nuclear winter sky. The films I was watching in the 1980's as a kid were Mad Max, Logan's Run, and those italian low budget sci-fi flics. In the early 1990's I dreamt about the possibility of around the year 2100 AD, streaming films from home, from a world film bank, at no cost by analog means (a direct electrical cable). I did not expect to be alive to witness You Tube and streaming services. However no one expected cute cat videos to be the norm. This "You Tube" thingie is better than flying cars. What would you do with a commercial flying car in the future? The car will be a personal capsule computer-controlled, it will not be an F-15 fighter jet, and you won't be able to drive the flying car like you do a regular car. Maybe it's best to have You Tube than flying cars, don't you think? ;)
This year’s Totally Killer was a really fun cross between Back to the Future and Scream, where a teen goes back in time 30 years to save the life of her mom. It has a lot of nice nods to the trilogy.
Doc Brown in 1885: "I need you guys to hold onto this letter for 70 years, 2 months and 12 days, and deliver it to a very specific place at a very specific time. The guy it's addressed to will be standing in the middle of a road that probably isn't even planned right now next to a sign for a suburb that won't be built yet at the time. Please trust me on this." Post office worker: "Ok"
21:05 I just want to point out the fact that the track from the soundtrack/score that's playing during this scene is titled _"Pair o' Docs."_ Paradox. That is absolutely _brilliant._
The crazy thing about the Cubs winning the world series in 2015 in this movie is that they actually did in 2016 (which was their first in nearly 100 years). A year off of course, but it's a hell of a prediction.
This one will always be my favorite of the trilogy! The creative direction that it took!.. The way the two plots of both films intertwined and connected perfectly.... And the way the ending to this one sets up for the third is just classic! This sequel might not be better than the first to some people.. but to me it doesn't even have to compete with the first! Both films stand out and are completely memorable in their own way! This trilogy continues to live on and will always have a special place in my heart! It never gets old! I can't wait for your reaction to the finale next week Alex! Love you man! Love your reactions! Stay safe 😎
To me it's the worst: screechy silly characters like villains out of a Spy Kids movie, a future contained almost entirely in an "80s Café", ridiculous character motivations ( Doc wanting to change the future at all, dumping Jennifer's unconscious body in the garbage in an alley, arriving in the future in oncoming flying traffic ), terrible remake of the chase scene, etc. I was 7 years old when I saw the first one, and waited patiently to see the sequel. Even at age 11, I was extremely disappointed in BttF 2. Part 3 was great though.
Fun trivia, they re-shot the ending from the last movie with a new Jennifer. The original actress decided not to come back so she could take care of her sick mom. She played Jennifer again in some video games that came out a few years back, doing the voiceover work. Also, it's a different person playing Marty's dad. They covered him in prosthetic makeup to make him look like the original actor, and the new actor wasn't allowed to speak about his role in the movie. The original actor sued the studio, settled out of court, and there's now new legal protections in Screen Actor's Guild contracts to prevent it from happening again.
The irony is that they didn't want to cast him again, because he was unmanageable and unreliable on set. You'll notice his red eyes in the cafeteria because he was off on a bender.
Actually, they'd reshot part 2 and part 3 with a different actress playing Jennifer, for the reasons previously stated In addition, Crispin Glover didn't reprise his role of George Mcfly in part 2 because he'd felt the ending of part 1 sent the message of Marty getting his truck was misleading
“Did he make himself president” - You have no idea how close you were lol. This version of Biff is CLEARLY a trump-ish character…. Imagine biff runs for president in 2016 if Doc & Marty don’t change the timeline. 🤔
Crispen Glover apparently was a real dick head and still is. Hard to work with and causing issues off screen. I didn’t know about the actress’s sick mom, that’s sad. I thought she was changed because of the popularity of the new actress.
Most people think the first one is the best but part two is nostalgia for me as a Young boy seeing the hoverboard & stuff which I thought would be so cool in the future that never came to be
Back to the Future 2 has always been my favorite. As a kid, I liked 3 the least, but nowadays, I love it just as much and feel it has the most heart. 2 has the most time travel, and I love how wacky it gets with all the layers of characters. I like to imagine an alternate timeline where Doc & Marty meet up with Bill & Ted.
Just a quick note, Spielberg is a producer for the trilogy, not the director (though of course he helped in many aspects and made this trilogy possible). The director for the trilogy is Robert Zemeckis, so I'd give him more credit for this trilogy as this was his vision. He also directed Forrest Gump. :) Also, they can't go back to the future when Marty bought the Almanac, because that future doesn't exist anymore (as explained by doc on the chalkboard where they already live on an alternate tangent timeline). If they'll travel to the future, it will be the desolate future where Biff once "ruled" in.
Also, "Back to the Future," along with "Jewel of the Nile," were make-or-break movies for Zemeckis. Before those two movies, the films he directed weren't successful, so this was a do-or-die moment. If BTTF failed, it's very possible that his career as a filmmaker would have been over.
That’s Romancing the Stone you’re thinking about. Zemeckis was not involved with its sequel, Jewel of the Nile. Nile was directed by Lewis Teague, the guy who made Cujo.
16:28 "Or just go back to when Marty bought it and don't buy it. Right?" Wrong. As Doc just explained with the chalkboard, if they went forward in time from the dark alternate 1985 they're in, they'd end up in a dark alternate 2015. It would be a different 2015 than the one they had just visited, so they wouldn't be able to stop that Marty from buying the sports almanac because in that timeline, it never happened. Effectively, this dark Biff-controlled timeline replaced the original timeline, so the bright neon 2015 was erased and has been replaced with a 2015 where Biff likely still rules the town from atop his Pleasure Palace. The antiques shop where the almanac was sold likely wouldn't even exist either. So the only option is to go further back in time to steal back the book before Biff can use it to make himself rich and before he can create the dark 1985 timeline.
Fun fact: One of the main reasons why George is upside down in 2015 is because its a different actor playing George so him being upside down makes it less obvious.
Everyone has their own favorite movie of the BTTF trilogy. I can't say I have a favorite. I like watching the whole trilogy on a binge. "What did he do, make himself president?" Tom Wilson based his characterization of 1985 Biff on 1985 Donald Trump. There are so many Easter eggs, and cues to the audience. It took incredible detail. I can't wait until I see your reaction to the third movie. Another fan theory is that we don't actually know how many times Doc rewound time to get things right, like the DeLorean being in the right place to catch Marty from the top of the casino, or how many times it took to be at the right place to lower the flag-rope at the end of the tunnel. Marty might have died many times while Doc just kept trying over and over to get the timing right.
Time travel can be so fun in films lol. I'd love to see Alex react to some other great films involving time travel, i.e.: - Mr Peadbody & Sherman - Free Birds - Meet The Robinsons - Jumanji - Zathura
When it comes to people questioning “how can they travel to the future if the future hasn’t happened yet?”. Isnt that the point of time travel to see something that hasn’t happened or already happens. My theory (at least about the Back to the future “universe”) is that time operates on a “most likely” structure. The future is not “set in stone” but it will line up with what is happening in the present. When Marty, Doc, and Jennifer arrive in 2015, that future is what’s most likely going to happen once they return to the 80’s.
Alternate theory about time travel from the Dean Koontz book "Lightning" :: Spoilers :: You can only go forward from your point of origin, because the past has happened and cannot be changed. Also, you return (IIRC) 12 minutes after your departure time, which turns out to be important. If you see someone jump, and they don't return in 12 minutes, they're never coming back.
The Different Jennifer is a thing. Fun for me to consider it's The Butterfly Effect of Marty's actions at the high-school dance or something. Maybe Jennifer's mom married someone different because of Marty in 1955? Also, Elisabeth Shue is one of those "catalyst for disaster" girls throughout film; her and Jennifer Connelly. When either of them are around, it spells chaos for the male protagonist each and every time.
I don't know if they just got a really impressive stunt double or what but 26:01 is really impressive. Marty 1 opens a door that hits Marty 2 and runs past Biff, who holds open the door, that just hit Marty 2 so it doesn't appear to be split screen. Everyone in the shot is interacting with the same objects. Of course, now that I think about it, I don't know how they did all the stuff with Old Biff and Young Biff either.
I can tell you the trick they used in Biffs car,when he talks with 2015 Biff. The middle part of the 2 windshields was the hiding spot for a split screen 🤓
Hell yeah man, I did not think we would be doing these so consistently! I was prepared for months of waiting, good shit! Jurassic Park should definitely be next if you want to go on a spielberg binge, all of his movies tbh are timeless classics.
11:40 The reason Old Biff is in pain after taking the DeLorean is actually shown in a deleted scene and talked about in the DVD commentary: The deleted scene shows Old Biff collapsing and fading away just like Marty was starting to at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance in the first movie - he was erased from existence. The DVD commentary says that happened because in the "hell" timeline Biff created with the sports almanac, Lorraine ended up shooting and killing him sometime in the '90s... so the 2015 Biff ceased to exist. I wish they wouldn't have deleted that scene of him fading away because those shots of him in pain really don't make sense without it! Edited to add: without that context I always assumed he had hurt himself when his cane snapped when I was a kid, just like some of you have said. I just didn't see the point of showing him in that much pain when I was a kid since it didn't seem important to the plot for him to be hurt since we don't see him again after that. 🤷♀️
@@OpenMawProductions same. I thought when he was getting out of the Delorean and broke his cane he had gotten it caught, went to yank it out, broke it and basically hit himself with the rest of the cane as he pulled it towards him. Then staggered off in pain from hitting himself in the nuts.
@@inarar5334 I thought it was because he had hurt himself in the DeLorean, too, when I was a kid. Finding out there was a lot more to it once I listened to the commentary as an adult was really cool, though.
@@inarar5334 It's been a while since I've seen it, but that's exactly how I remember it going. Not saying it actually did, but apparently that's a very easy read of that scene 🙂
The girlfriend (Jennifer) Is a different actress in this movie then it was in the first one. In the first one it was Claudia Wells and in the second it was Elisabeth Shue, So they had to rerecord the opening of Back to the Future 2/Ending of Back to the Future 1.
In 2015 on the date that they arrive in the future the showed all three movies in the theaters. I went with my girlfriend at the time and it was the most fun thing. When Doc gave the 2015 date everyone in the theater cheered.
Seeing Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd reunite this year was amazing, but my heart still hurts whenever I see the heavy effect Parkinson has had on Fox, and to be diagnosed with it so damn early in life... It's truly inspiring to see how much good he still does, especially through the Michael J. Fox Foundation (A foundation trying to cure Parkinsom).
@Latest Obssesion From what I've heard he got diagnosed with it shortly after, or during the filming of Back to the Future 3. They made a little Back to the Future skit in 2015 with both Christopher Lloyd and Michael J Fox reprising their respective roles on some talk show, extremely good watch, I'd recommend checking it out, but you could really tell there that he was struggling. It's definitely worsened now though, if you've seen the more recent videos, but I guess it comes and goes in intensity. He's 100% and icon and it's such a shame he got it at all.
You’re thinking “how can they go to the future when it has happened yet?”, but to people in 1885 1985 hadn’t happened yet and yet it already had. Think of it this way, our past, present and future have already happened and are simultaneously happening as we speak, but every time version of ourselves can only experience the “present”. Time doesn’t actually exist, it’s a mental block we have that stops us from seeing our entire lives at once so we can learn from the consequences of our actions by going through them.
The biggest thing that BTTF 2 got wrong were the flying cars. They actually got right: 1: 3-D making a come back 2: Flat-screen TVs in the home so thin you can hang them. 3: The use of your thumbprint to make transactions 4: The use of drones to walk the dog and take pictures 5: FaceTime!! 6: Google glasses 7: Florida having a baseball team (no team in FL in 1989) 8: One year off in having the Cubs win the WS I think there may be more, but that's all off the top of my head.
17:57 there is a dark theory that the doc had to use the time machine to go back in time to save Marty after he jumped off to his death the first time, because think about it... he never told doc where to pick him up from
"Or Just Go Back To When Marty Bought The Almanac And Don't Buy It" That wouldn't work because as Doc Brown had explained, If they'd gone Back To The Future from that particular 1985, it'd be the future of that particular reality where Biff is Rich, Powerful, Married to Marty's mom and where Doc had been committed to an insane asylum
@@michaeljacyna1973 True, but there could've also been a delay between his returning the delorean and when his 1955 counterpart actually utilized the information in the almanac
@@karlsmith2570 I mean.... I don't think that applies, because when you talk about delay, you mean he waited an "amount of time" to utilize the book. However, by the time he arrives in 2015, that time was 60 years ago
@@michaeljacyna1973 Well, youtuber KrisCynical posted an explanation to could also be a reasonable explanation too, some DVD commentary of deleted scenes in the movie
I read an interview with a Japanese billionaire who in the 90s was running a massively profitable chain of Video Rental Stores. Then he went out and watched Back To The Future 2 and saw the scene where movies were streamed into your living room and had the realization that "My business' would not continue to stay profitable for the next twenty or even ten years" so he began selling off his entire franchise. IIRC he used the founding to start his own Adult Video Company because he wanted to make his own works and didn't have enough to make an actual movie. I believe in modern day that company has a monopoly in the Japanese market and is expending into numerous other businesses from solar to English courses
I literally just finished watching the first back to the Future reaction I had no idea he's already done the second movie I am so hyped to watch this back to back so here we go...
30:46 I just heard an interview with a Native American who said "we really don't care if you call us Indian because both names are not really correct".
My favorite of the 3 films is part 3. A large reason is I love western movies. I loved the setting and scenery, and how they use what is available in 1885 with modern science to come up with some pretty cool inventions. Loved this reaction I knew you would like the film. Looking forward to the 3rd. Also definitely check out every film Nicole M mentioned! 😎👍
Fun Fact: Crispin Glover (George McFly) sued the producers of Back to the Future 2 for using his likeness without his permission and won. It had to do with them using a mold of his face to create a mask that another actor wore as George McFly.
There's a theory that Marty actually died a few times in this movie but doc came back and saved him 1st getting shot and falling off the hotel the 2nd time getting run over at The tunnel.
Anyone else notice that 1955 Doc Brown is like that crazy uncle with the big crazy ideas, while the older 1985 Doc is more level headed and more of a slight father figure?
You are my favorite, Alex! You're so super hyped with all the reactions. I was wondering: is it easier for you to edit these because you're a lawyer and you know the best way to edit them in accordance with the law? That's dope!
The reason Griff has weird twitchy facial expressions and stuff is explained really quickly with something Doc says. He says something like he has a cybernetic brain implant that’s on the fritz or something.
What many reactors don't hear or don't get, is that Doc tells Marty that Biffs grandchild Griff has a brain implant that doesn't work right. That's why Griff acts and talks so strange.
As a kid, I would have rated 2 or 3 roughly the same, but as an adult, I appreciate this darker sequel a lot more and that they decided to take some risks. As always, Burnaby Boy Michael J. Fox is great, as are the other cast members. Claudia Wells doesn't return as Marty's girlfriend Jennifer. Her mom had cancer and she decided to stay with her rather than return for the sequels. Elizabeth Shue of the first Karate Kid movie replaces her and does a good enough job, but when you think of Jennifer, you probably see Claudia. Obviously, they had to reshoot the final scene from the first movie for continuity, with Elizabeth Shue in the Jennifer role. I still enjoy it, as sequels around this time were getting darker. See: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I don't think audiences in the 80s were ready for this kind of thing, though. That's why Timothy Dalton gets such a bad wrap as James Bond. The Living Daylights is a great James Bond movie, but I don't think audiences really enjoyed it because they were used to nice guy James Bond, Roger Moore, and it was the 80s, where movies tended to be much lighter in tone and you didn't see too many PG or PG-13 movies that went this dark. Those were usually reserved for Stallone movies.
It's amazing how many people, in the comments, keep just referring to Elizabeth Shue as "a different actress that plays Jennifer." She was up and coming at the time.
Omg watching your reactions to these movies literally makes my day! “F#ck off Bill, Bick, Bim, Biff..” Freaking hilarious!! You crack me all the way up! Priceless reactions all the way through!
Glad you can now see why so many people love these movies! (and have probably recommended them over the years.) There are so many great films that came out that decade and the Back To The Future trilogy are some of the best ever made; they're such a good example of how fun movies can be. That look on your face after watching is the same I had when I first saw them.
1.It's not often sequels hold up to the original, but this does. Thank you 1980s. 2.This one is the best of the bunch. The next one is inventive but I'm not really into the story. It is the perfect wrap. 3. Michael J Fox was affected with 09/11/2001 because it happened right after he announced his Parkinson's disease issue, and it downplayed his efforts to spread information to help fight the disease. 4. Michael J. Fox also played Marty's daughter. 5. Sammy Hagar, "I can't drive 55"😎 6. Good thing Biff shoots like a Star Wars Stormtrooper🤣 7. The tunnel at the end is the same one they used for "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
2:19 Technically, the future is comprised of several possibilities. Like a lot of different timelines. The timeline you end up in depends on your choices and decisions.
This series is amazing. They don't make films like this anymore. I'm gonna request again that you react to "Frequency" starring Dennis Quaid. It is an unbelievably good film.
when biff tells marty he took his stuff, actaully he is wrong. Marty paid for the book, biff took it from him. he was just getting back what was rightfully his own property
I think it's best to think of Back To The Future as one whole film rather than a trilogy of three separate movies. Anyway, cool stuff that's maybe pointed out to you already: Marty's daughter is also played by Michael J. Fox. Flea has always been part of Biff's gang, just so happens he became Marty's boss in the future, and also *-REDACTED-* Also, you are getting better at recognizing plot hooks! To most people the flashing 1885 would have meant nothing at first viewing, well done!
"A movie that's called Back to the Future, I expect to see a little bit of the future..." Yea, the title is confusing like that. The present is the future to the past, so when Marty was stuck in the past, he had to get back to the future, which was his present. See? Simple.
Pocahontas and John Smith flicking each other's beans? That is my distant aunt and uncle.. so that comment offends me!!..... well.. not really... that was FUNNY AF!! Actually Aunt and Uncle for me!! LMAO
You kinda missed the explanation, but the reason they can’t go back to when Marty bought the book is because they would have to travel to the future, which since they are in the alternate timeline would be the future for that alternate timeline. That’s why they have to go back and get it right after biff got the book.
I don't care what they got wrong, getting the Cubs winning the Series off by ONE year will always be awesome.
so cool!
@@alexhefnerstvmovievault right? And to a lesser extent, they also got the other part of that right, as Marty is initially not surprised by the Cubs winning, but it being against Miami. At the time, the Florida Marlins hadn't been really been established, but in between the movie release and the real 2015 they managed to win a couple titles, and then after some time they became the Miami Marlins.
@@alexhefnerstvmovievault only problem is that both the Cubs and Marlins are NL teams.
Technically, they weren't off by a year if you remove the year baseball went on strike...
Comment was made more than a year ago, but I remember people talking about it in reference to Back to the Future when the Cubs won in 2016. Pretty cooool
The reason that the 2015 in this movie is different from the one we got is because of Marty's interference in 1955. Before Marty went back, when his family was lame, that was our timeline. When he changed things in the past, it created a new timeline in which his family is cool, and he made skateboarding cool decades before it would have normally. In that timeline, Tony Hawk is their Bill Gates, so hoverboards were developed before good mobile devices, and the hoverboard tech was eventually adapted to other vehicles.
@Latest Obssesion I belive it was a college professor and studens accutally did make a hover board that could hold the weight of a person but it's made of expensive superconductors crystal which have to be frozen in liquid nitrogen to "freeze" themselves in the magnetic field of very strong magnets (exact name of the magnets is slipping my mind at the momemnt) but they made a track with the magnets and could ride the board back and forth
@Latest Obssesion practical? No, but would u own one if I could afford it... you bet your a$$ lol
The thing is, time doesn't work like that in this series. Timelines don't change, there is only one timeline that changes around the travellers.
@@STNeish Yeah but the theory still works.
Doc: "Great Scott! Marty! We've got to go back and make your parents losers again, the future depends on it!"
Marty: "How bad could it be?"
Doc: "In the future they elect a senile 80 year old Joe Biden as President, the government won't stop printing money so the value of the dollar collapses, and everything becomes completely unaffordable! People live in crime infested squalor, the major cities become dystopian tent cities, and an organization called the World Economic Forum openly advocates for the suffering plebs to live in pods and eat bugs!"
Marty: "That's heavy."
The actor for Biff has so many fun characters to play in the trilogy.
He must've had a blast.
BTTF 3 is Biff's best character acting!
@@MaxWindshear Agreed. Western Biff is best Biff
Biff is portrayed by Thomas F. Wilson. A comedian, voice actor, etc; Also he's actually one of the nicest people you could ever meet in person. So I've read about and heard.
@@jindas4217 He is the voice of the coach in Troll Hunters on Netflix.
@@jindas4217 I was going to say I've heard the same thing!
It can’t be better than the first one… because… if you think about it… it’s just one long movie, split in three chapters! Best trilogy ever!
thats good to know!
Also, the first one is _just_ better. So is the 3rd one.
@@alexhefnerstvmovievault lol at 18:16 you straight up unknowingly said what happens in back to the future 3.
@@garretthorsch8143 I noticed that too I was like how did he know?
@@alexhefnerstvmovievault Are you going to react to the third one ?
I absolutely love the “Shark still looks fake” comment, Spielberg also directed Jaws so it’s him making fun of his own movie
Spielberg had no creative input in this franchise whatsoever, much less did he direct any of them :P
The story is written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale and they are all directed by Zemeckis.
@@joachimlarsen2k He was the executive producer though… pretty huge role
Spielberg didn't direct this film. So the use of the word "also" is mute.
@@michaelmacias8 Not necessarily, no. He worked on Back to the Future, and he ALSO directed Jaws.
@@TrickyDicky2006 It’s not an implication. If you say it like “Spielberg also DIRECTED Jaws so it’s him making fun of his own movie”, it makes sense.
Spielberg…Schindler’s List, Jaws, Saving Private Ryan, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E. T., Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Goonies, A. I. Artificial Intelligence, Jurassic Park, Poltergeist, Hook, Gremlins, Men in Black. I’m sure I’m missing some but those are all great.
The Color Purple
Men in black is not directed by Spielberg. Barry Sonnenfeld or something like that. Maybe produced by Spielberg.
Minority Report, Bridge of Spies I've heard is good, Catch Me If You Can, also he didn't direct Goonies or MiB
@@rubenromero7964 oops! I know he’s affiliated with it. Sorry about that!
@@nicolem376 don't worry. Spielberg has touched so many movies in the last 50 years that he could be part of all in anyway.
Nice to meet you ;)
17:52 Here’s something dark to consider: Marty could have jumped to his death originally and Doc then traveled back in time to save him. Otherwise how would he have known where/when to find him?
😮😮😮 oh my god, that’s so true! What a horrifying concept!
Well Doc knew Marty would look for George Mcfly’s grave at the cemetery, and they talked at the cemetery beforehand. They literally could’ve had that planned a
I don’t think Marty would have jumped if he hadn’t seen Doc waiting for him below.
Also the kite at the end of the tunnel. Doc saved Marty several times.
This is actually hinted at a bit. There is the Deja vu expression moment with Doc on the start of the second movie kind of acknowledging and shaking off the differences from the end of the first film. Then when he drops off Marty in 2015 he says he is late…he has not only gone to the future to see Marty jailed, but he has worked out the precise timing he needs to make everything work out. He is then a little flustered when the plan doesn’t work exactly as he wants, but then when the newspaper changes he does another dismissal as if it’s close enough.
Bob Gayle (writer) also indicated that in his mind at the start of the first film Doc already remembers Marty from his past and thus how this mad inventor would seek out Marty to become friends with him by getting him to walk Einstein or something (otherwise it would probably be pretty strange for a teenager to be hanging around in an old man’s home all the time).
What Doc removes (and you said he looked the same) was pretty much the makeup he was wearing in the 85 scenes in the first to age him up. They wrote a way in so he could do it without the rougher wrinkled skin having to be put on daily.
Yes, exactly. And the joke was that Marty probably thought the same thing by the way he looked at Doc: "You look great, Doc", without really seeing a difference.
I just love the little details they thought about. They didn't have to explain that, but they did.
Seeing you see these movies for the first time puts a smile on my face that I just can't describe. It makes me feel like a kid again seeing this for the first time in the theater. I can't wait for part 3.
AGREED 100%
When Biff said to Marty "You want to take a poke at me" I think you misunderstood what he meant. "Poke" = punch 👊. Not 🍆💥
This is why I have spent SO MUCH time during the pandemic watching UA-cam reactors. Everything sucks but I can almost watch stuff for the first time again through other people reacting to my favourite stuff for the first time. The closest I'll ever get to doing it myself.
Ha! I am also here to relive that excitement vicariously.
"seeing you these movies" what
Fun fact, that first scene is actually a completely separately filmed scene, partly because of the Jennifer switch. They did it so well tho, that it was hardly noticeable, especially if you saw it when it was released a few years after the first.
Watch the side by side comparison, it's mind blowing.
The one thing I always noticed, besides different Jennifers, is that Christopher Lloyd gives two veeeeeery different reads on "it's your kids Marty, somethings gotta be done about your kids!" Otherwise it's pretty amazing how close they got.
Back to the Future part I ending VS Back To The Future part II intro (mashup) ua-cam.com/video/PxKeXTlg8VY/v-deo.html
They did such a good job that the multiple reactors I've seen watch this movie NEVER notice the switch. Not a single one. And all of them didn't have to wait years between movies.
The original actress passed on the movie to take care of her sick mother.
Doc explains Griff's erratic behavior before we see him.
The reason Old Biff looks hurt, or "gang banged," as you put it, is after he comes back from the past to the future, he's fading from existence. Since Biff changed the past, his current self is disappearing. This is confirmed in a deleted scene, where he fades away completely right before Doc and Marty return to the Delorian with the unconscious Jennifer.
They never intended to have sequels. The writers said that if they would have even considered it, Jennifer wouldn’t have been in the car at the end of the first film.
"There's only one man that can help me" -- cut to Doc Brown at the clocktower. Chills every time. I think the first movie is the best of the trilogy, but man, when the sequels get things right, damn do they get things right.
What I love about the sequel is that the first movie showed how time travel can be used to “fix” things and it’s just fun. But Back to the Future Part 2 shows how time travel can be misused.
And I just feel that Back to the Future Part 2 did everything you can with time travel. They go to the future, show alternate reality, going to the past AGAIN but avoiding your past self
I think the only thing that bothers me is that they gave Marty that quirk of not liking being called a chicken, something that wasn't ever shown to be a character trait in the first film. But I guess they had to give him a very obvious flaw that keeps getting him into trouble even far into the future, but something he as a character needs to overcome.
1:59: On October 21, 2015 my local Odeon cinema did a BTTF marathon, showing all 3 movies back to back, with small breaks between for bathroom breaks and time to buy more snacks. When this moment happened and Doc announced the date it got a huge cheer from the audiance XD
20:57 ALL THESE YEARS (in the Past) I always thought 'Doc' didn't realize he was talking to his Future-Self...but now I realize he did know because he OVER-HEARD the phone conversation. This scene was showing how intelligent he is (as a character) to act like his Future-Self was a total stranger to signal to his Future-Self that they should just pretend nothing out of the ordinary is happening...and the Future-Self understood immediately the whole plan and went along with the charade. This is all shown by their little OBVIOUS (yet subtle) comments to each other. BTW it's 'LEAVE'...not "LEAF"...ya Butt-Head...you sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong LOL
One thing I failed to notice until very recently, is that immediately after the DeLorean is struck by lightning, and Marty receives the letter from Doc, in the first few sentences of the letter, Doc says, "I've been living these past eight months in the year 1885". So Doc got sent back in time 70 years, and after hiding the DeLorean and assuming his new identity as the town blacksmith, almost 3/4 of a year goes by before it dawns on him to maybe let his best friend, in the world, who is hopelessly lost in the past, with no clear way home, know that he's ok and help him get home.
It's not like he had to hurry. 🙃
"Marty, why you wearing two ties like that?"
There are other characters wearing double ties, and Doc is wearing a clear plastic tie. Someone asked one of the directors about the tie gags, and said "why wear a clear tie if you can't see it" and the response was essentially "why wear a tie at all? Wearing ties is dumb, they serve no purpose, so why not have dumb styles of ties?"
Clothes aren't just about purpose. They're about style. I'd much rather live in a future with clear ties that one where everyone wears the same perfectly functional silver unitard.
I read once that the purpose of a tie, specifically the pointed bit at the bottom, is to draw attention to...well... the area just below the pointed bit. Like in business subliminally saying "look at the size of that" gives you some sort of upper hand.
@@ToniMcGinty I always thought it was just to cover up the buttons of your shirt.
@@chaosmastermind Nah, it's to draw attention to the other buttons!
@@ToniMcGinty I will never be able to look at a woman wearing a tie the same way ever again. 😘
I was lucky enough to be there in 89 watching this opening day !
I was obsessed with the first and was so pumped for 2 , it was such a wild ride and the whole cinema gave the movie a standing ovation.
One of those awesome childhood memories.
Concerning what was wrong with “Old Biff” when he came back to 2015. It’s answered in a deleted scene, but he fades from existence (like Marty almost did in part one). The filmmakers wanted to imply that in the new timeline biff died before 2015. But since the scene was cut the most likely explanation is that Old Biff was just having a heart attack or something from the stress of trying to fly a car and time travel.
I always thought he just smacked himself with his cane when it got stuck and he was in pain from that
It's because in the timeline of the deleted scene, Lorraine had found out that Biff murdered George McFly and she shot alternate Biff and killed him, erasing old Biff from existence.
@@Retailman100 which makes no sense since then Old Biff could never go back to give his younger self the Almanac so yeah chaning to a heart attack does at least make more sense
@@digitaladventurer2142 I just remembered hearing it on a cast or director commentary on I think the DVD box set
@Latest Obssesion It's pretty clearly explained by Doc that in the "Back to the Future" theory of time travel alternate/divergent timelines don't actually exist. There is only ever one future and one past. If you go back and change the past, the future gets rewritten. It doesn't branch off like in some other time travel stories like "Loki". That's why Marty and Doc could safely leave Jennifer in the changed 1985 and they knew that if they fixed things in the past, she'd still be there when they got back ('cause 1985 would just change around her, she wouldn't be stuck in some divergent timeline). That's, also, why the filmmakers were very careful to get Doc and Marty out of 2015 as soon as Biff brought the time machine back. 'Cause things would already be changing around them in 2015 as a result of what Biff did so, they had to leave before they see evidence of that.
In other words, anything Old Biff did in the past would inevitably affect him 'cause it's always his past. The death of "Hell Valley" Biff would absolutely erase Old Biff from existence. I actually think it's fair to assume Old Biff still disappears even if we don't actually see it fully happen onscreen and I think I remember an interview with the writers saying as much. The filmmakers only took out the footage 'cause they thought audiences would be too confused about what was happening so, they wanted to keep what Biff did vague until Doc and Marty actually arrive in the changed 1985.
The little boy in the future sequence where Marty finds the arcade machine was a young Elijah Wood. Also one of the stunt doubles in the hoverboard scene was seriously injured after she hit the pillar and got covered in broken glass. You can see the impact on camera for just a few frames before the cutaway
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@@georux6783 Unfortunately, he didnt include the scene in the youtube cut
16:29 They said in the movie, They can't go to the future because that would be the future to this timeline where Biff if rich and powerful so they can't just go to 2015 to stop Marty from getting the book.
In the ''Cafe 80s'' where Marty shows the kids how to play the video game? The one that speaks? Is Elijah Wood himself - Frodo Baggins!
16:25 If you weren't talking, you'd have heard Doc explain that traveling to the future from alternate 1985 would take them into the future of alternate 1985. They'd need to go back to before Biff gave the book to himself in the past, while still letting older Biff think he was successful at his mission, so that he'd return the time machine to Lyons Estates like he did before, so Doc and Marty could use it.
Great reaction buddy, this movie is awesome, and you'll love part 3 as well.
I was 11 when this came out and I remember seeing it in the theatre with my parents. I felt really old when we got 2015 for real. We didn't get flying cars, but we got internet and smartphones which nobody saw coming, not sure if that's better or worse, lol.
The Back to the Future series also had a huge influence on time travel stories in general, and after seeing this, you probably notice how Avengers: Endgame paid homage to it with the time heist going back to New York, and Captain America fighting himself and stuff like that. Their in-story explanations of how it works are different, but the storytelling aspects of even Tony meeting his dad are similar. Back to the Future also inspired Rick and Morty, with Rick looking a lot like Doc Brown, and Morty sounds a lot like Marty. XD
Can't wait for part 3,
Cheers
I love KFC
Can't wait!
@colonelb7825 I was 9 when this came out in Portugal (My mom took me to the Cinema), and at the end scene, where Doc Brown says Marty's kids needed help in the future. I imagined the Terminator (I) future, after the nuclear war, with fields full of skeletons, with ruined cities and a dark nuclear winter sky.
The films I was watching in the 1980's as a kid were Mad Max, Logan's Run, and those italian low budget sci-fi flics.
In the early 1990's I dreamt about the possibility of around the year 2100 AD, streaming films from home, from a world film bank, at no cost by analog means (a direct electrical cable).
I did not expect to be alive to witness You Tube and streaming services. However no one expected cute cat videos to be the norm.
This "You Tube" thingie is better than flying cars. What would you do with a commercial flying car in the future? The car will be a personal capsule computer-controlled, it will not be an F-15 fighter jet, and you won't be able to drive the flying car like you do a regular car.
Maybe it's best to have You Tube than flying cars, don't you think? ;)
This year’s Totally Killer was a really fun cross between Back to the Future and Scream, where a teen goes back in time 30 years to save the life of her mom. It has a lot of nice nods to the trilogy.
Doc Brown in 1885: "I need you guys to hold onto this letter for 70 years, 2 months and 12 days, and deliver it to a very specific place at a very specific time. The guy it's addressed to will be standing in the middle of a road that probably isn't even planned right now next to a sign for a suburb that won't be built yet at the time. Please trust me on this."
Post office worker: "Ok"
21:05 I just want to point out the fact that the track from the soundtrack/score that's playing during this scene is titled _"Pair o' Docs."_
Paradox.
That is absolutely _brilliant._
The crazy thing about the Cubs winning the world series in 2015 in this movie is that they actually did in 2016 (which was their first in nearly 100 years). A year off of course, but it's a hell of a prediction.
ya thats so close
@@alexhefnerstvmovievault your awesome i love your videos ❤❤❤ hearts for you
Also, Zemeckis made the movie, Spielberg was involved but at the producer level. Zemeckis made a lot of good movies with special effect tricks.
It was awesome that they filmed part 2 and 3 simultaneously so they could immediately add the teasers for part 3 at the end of 2.
This one will always be my favorite of the trilogy! The creative direction that it took!.. The way the two plots of both films intertwined and connected perfectly.... And the way the ending to this one sets up for the third is just classic! This sequel might not be better than the first to some people.. but to me it doesn't even have to compete with the first! Both films stand out and are completely memorable in their own way! This trilogy continues to live on and will always have a special place in my heart! It never gets old! I can't wait for your reaction to the finale next week Alex! Love you man! Love your reactions! Stay safe 😎
To me it's the worst: screechy silly characters like villains out of a Spy Kids movie, a future contained almost entirely in an "80s Café", ridiculous character motivations ( Doc wanting to change the future at all, dumping Jennifer's unconscious body in the garbage in an alley, arriving in the future in oncoming flying traffic ), terrible remake of the chase scene, etc.
I was 7 years old when I saw the first one, and waited patiently to see the sequel. Even at age 11, I was extremely disappointed in BttF 2. Part 3 was great though.
Fun trivia, they re-shot the ending from the last movie with a new Jennifer. The original actress decided not to come back so she could take care of her sick mom. She played Jennifer again in some video games that came out a few years back, doing the voiceover work.
Also, it's a different person playing Marty's dad. They covered him in prosthetic makeup to make him look like the original actor, and the new actor wasn't allowed to speak about his role in the movie. The original actor sued the studio, settled out of court, and there's now new legal protections in Screen Actor's Guild contracts to prevent it from happening again.
The irony is that they didn't want to cast him again, because he was unmanageable and unreliable on set.
You'll notice his red eyes in the cafeteria because he was off on a bender.
Actually, they'd reshot part 2 and part 3 with a different actress playing Jennifer, for the reasons previously stated
In addition, Crispin Glover didn't reprise his role of George Mcfly in part 2 because he'd felt the ending of part 1 sent the message of Marty getting his truck was misleading
“Did he make himself president” -
You have no idea how close you were lol.
This version of Biff is CLEARLY a trump-ish character….
Imagine biff runs for president in 2016 if Doc & Marty don’t change the timeline. 🤔
@@karlsmith2570 I've also read he didn't want to do a sequel because he thought it was just a cash grab and he's an artsy type who hates sequels.
Crispen Glover apparently was a real dick head and still is. Hard to work with and causing issues off screen.
I didn’t know about the actress’s sick mom, that’s sad. I thought she was changed because of the popularity of the new actress.
Most people think the first one is the best but part two is nostalgia for me as a Young boy seeing the hoverboard & stuff which I thought would be so cool in the future that never came to be
so cool to think about!
Back to the Future 2 has always been my favorite. As a kid, I liked 3 the least, but nowadays, I love it just as much and feel it has the most heart. 2 has the most time travel, and I love how wacky it gets with all the layers of characters. I like to imagine an alternate timeline where Doc & Marty meet up with Bill & Ted.
Just a quick note, Spielberg is a producer for the trilogy, not the director (though of course he helped in many aspects and made this trilogy possible). The director for the trilogy is Robert Zemeckis, so I'd give him more credit for this trilogy as this was his vision. He also directed Forrest Gump. :)
Also, they can't go back to the future when Marty bought the Almanac, because that future doesn't exist anymore (as explained by doc on the chalkboard where they already live on an alternate tangent timeline). If they'll travel to the future, it will be the desolate future where Biff once "ruled" in.
some good movies!
Also, "Back to the Future," along with "Jewel of the Nile," were make-or-break movies for Zemeckis.
Before those two movies, the films he directed weren't successful, so this was a do-or-die moment. If BTTF failed, it's very possible that his career as a filmmaker would have been over.
That’s Romancing the Stone you’re thinking about. Zemeckis was not involved with its sequel, Jewel of the Nile. Nile was directed by Lewis Teague, the guy who made Cujo.
16:28 "Or just go back to when Marty bought it and don't buy it. Right?"
Wrong. As Doc just explained with the chalkboard, if they went forward in time from the dark alternate 1985 they're in, they'd end up in a dark alternate 2015. It would be a different 2015 than the one they had just visited, so they wouldn't be able to stop that Marty from buying the sports almanac because in that timeline, it never happened.
Effectively, this dark Biff-controlled timeline replaced the original timeline, so the bright neon 2015 was erased and has been replaced with a 2015 where Biff likely still rules the town from atop his Pleasure Palace. The antiques shop where the almanac was sold likely wouldn't even exist either. So the only option is to go further back in time to steal back the book before Biff can use it to make himself rich and before he can create the dark 1985 timeline.
Fun fact: One of the main reasons why George is upside down in 2015 is because its a different actor playing George so him being upside down makes it less obvious.
I love the first one, but this is the one for me out of the whole Trilogy! And I got my nike air mags in a case in my living room 🔥
I was a kid when BTTF 2 came out. Pizza Hut ran this awesome promotional where you’d get futuristic shades with your order. The 80s were wild, man.
Everyone has their own favorite movie of the BTTF trilogy. I can't say I have a favorite. I like watching the whole trilogy on a binge.
"What did he do, make himself president?" Tom Wilson based his characterization of 1985 Biff on 1985 Donald Trump.
There are so many Easter eggs, and cues to the audience. It took incredible detail. I can't wait until I see your reaction to the third movie.
Another fan theory is that we don't actually know how many times Doc rewound time to get things right, like the DeLorean being in the right place to catch Marty from the top of the casino, or how many times it took to be at the right place to lower the flag-rope at the end of the tunnel. Marty might have died many times while Doc just kept trying over and over to get the timing right.
Fun fact. Crispin Glover, who played Marty's dad in BTtF 1, was not in this movie. They hired someone else and used his likeness. He sued over it.
Time travel can be so fun in films lol. I'd love to see Alex react to some other great films involving time travel, i.e.:
- Mr Peadbody & Sherman
- Free Birds
- Meet The Robinsons
- Jumanji
- Zathura
When it comes to people questioning “how can they travel to the future if the future hasn’t happened yet?”. Isnt that the point of time travel to see something that hasn’t happened or already happens.
My theory (at least about the Back to the future “universe”) is that time operates on a “most likely” structure. The future is not “set in stone” but it will line up with what is happening in the present. When Marty, Doc, and Jennifer arrive in 2015, that future is what’s most likely going to happen once they return to the 80’s.
@@TrickyDicky2006 thought provoking 🤔.
Alternate theory about time travel from the Dean Koontz book "Lightning" :: Spoilers ::
You can only go forward from your point of origin, because the past has happened and cannot be changed.
Also, you return (IIRC) 12 minutes after your departure time, which turns out to be important. If you see someone jump, and they don't return in 12 minutes, they're never coming back.
The Different Jennifer is a thing. Fun for me to consider it's The Butterfly Effect of Marty's actions at the high-school dance or something. Maybe Jennifer's mom married someone different because of Marty in 1955? Also, Elisabeth Shue is one of those "catalyst for disaster" girls throughout film; her and Jennifer Connelly. When either of them are around, it spells chaos for the male protagonist each and every time.
Bob Zemeckis has said that they weren't really going for an "accurate" representation of the future, but something that would be wild, goofy, and fun.
I don't know if they just got a really impressive stunt double or what but 26:01 is really impressive. Marty 1 opens a door that hits Marty 2 and runs past Biff, who holds open the door, that just hit Marty 2 so it doesn't appear to be split screen. Everyone in the shot is interacting with the same objects. Of course, now that I think about it, I don't know how they did all the stuff with Old Biff and Young Biff either.
I can tell you the trick they used in Biffs car,when he talks with 2015 Biff. The middle part of the 2 windshields was the hiding spot for a split screen 🤓
Hell yeah man, I did not think we would be doing these so consistently! I was prepared for months of waiting, good shit! Jurassic Park should definitely be next if you want to go on a spielberg binge, all of his movies tbh are timeless classics.
A big +1 for Jurassic Park, such a great movie!
lots to watch!
"Biff, your aim sucks, dude!"
He was trained by a Star Wars stormtrooper!
11:40 The reason Old Biff is in pain after taking the DeLorean is actually shown in a deleted scene and talked about in the DVD commentary:
The deleted scene shows Old Biff collapsing and fading away just like Marty was starting to at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance in the first movie - he was erased from existence.
The DVD commentary says that happened because in the "hell" timeline Biff created with the sports almanac, Lorraine ended up shooting and killing him sometime in the '90s... so the 2015 Biff ceased to exist. I wish they wouldn't have deleted that scene of him fading away because those shots of him in pain really don't make sense without it!
Edited to add: without that context I always assumed he had hurt himself when his cane snapped when I was a kid, just like some of you have said. I just didn't see the point of showing him in that much pain when I was a kid since it didn't seem important to the plot for him to be hurt since we don't see him again after that. 🤷♀️
I had always assumed growing up it was just because he was old and having trouble.
I never knew any of this. That is definitely cool.
@@OpenMawProductions same. I thought when he was getting out of the Delorean and broke his cane he had gotten it caught, went to yank it out, broke it and basically hit himself with the rest of the cane as he pulled it towards him. Then staggered off in pain from hitting himself in the nuts.
@@inarar5334 I thought it was because he had hurt himself in the DeLorean, too, when I was a kid. Finding out there was a lot more to it once I listened to the commentary as an adult was really cool, though.
@@inarar5334 It's been a while since I've seen it, but that's exactly how I remember it going. Not saying it actually did, but apparently that's a very easy read of that scene 🙂
The girlfriend (Jennifer) Is a different actress in this movie then it was in the first one. In the first one it was Claudia Wells and in the second it was Elisabeth Shue, So they had to rerecord the opening of Back to the Future 2/Ending of Back to the Future 1.
In 2015 on the date that they arrive in the future the showed all three movies in the theaters. I went with my girlfriend at the time and it was the most fun thing. When Doc gave the 2015 date everyone in the theater cheered.
This man said he's never seen Jurassic Park. We know what we have to do
gotta watch at some time!
Seeing Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd reunite this year was amazing, but my heart still hurts whenever I see the heavy effect Parkinson has had on Fox, and to be diagnosed with it so damn early in life... It's truly inspiring to see how much good he still does, especially through the Michael J. Fox Foundation (A foundation trying to cure Parkinsom).
@Latest Obssesion From what I've heard he got diagnosed with it shortly after, or during the filming of Back to the Future 3. They made a little Back to the Future skit in 2015 with both Christopher Lloyd and Michael J Fox reprising their respective roles on some talk show, extremely good watch, I'd recommend checking it out, but you could really tell there that he was struggling. It's definitely worsened now though, if you've seen the more recent videos, but I guess it comes and goes in intensity. He's 100% and icon and it's such a shame he got it at all.
This is my favorite of the three. It’s the glue that brings them all together!
hopefully so!
You’re thinking “how can they go to the future when it has happened yet?”, but to people in 1885 1985 hadn’t happened yet and yet it already had. Think of it this way, our past, present and future have already happened and are simultaneously happening as we speak, but every time version of ourselves can only experience the “present”. Time doesn’t actually exist, it’s a mental block we have that stops us from seeing our entire lives at once so we can learn from the consequences of our actions by going through them.
The biggest thing that BTTF 2 got wrong were the flying cars. They actually got right:
1: 3-D making a come back
2: Flat-screen TVs in the home so thin you can hang them.
3: The use of your thumbprint to make transactions
4: The use of drones to walk the dog and take pictures
5: FaceTime!!
6: Google glasses
7: Florida having a baseball team (no team in FL in 1989)
8: One year off in having the Cubs win the WS
I think there may be more, but that's all off the top of my head.
04:51 Those digital waiters on the TVs, are a reference to Max Headroom, a futuristic TV show of the 80's. Check it out!
17:57 there is a dark theory that the doc had to use the time machine to go back in time to save Marty after he jumped off to his death the first time, because think about it... he never told doc where to pick him up from
So stoked to see you react to these movies, they're one in a million type of movies.
they are!
Trivia: The expression "Great Scott" is likely an evolution of "Grüß Gott" a German phrase meaning Great God, or Good God.
"Or Just Go Back To When Marty Bought The Almanac And Don't Buy It"
That wouldn't work because as Doc Brown had explained, If they'd gone Back To The Future from that particular 1985, it'd be the future of that particular reality where Biff is Rich, Powerful, Married to Marty's mom and where Doc had been committed to an insane asylum
I do have a nitpick with that, because if that's true, then Old Biff shouldn't have been able to return the Delorean to his 2015. 🤷♂️
@@michaeljacyna1973 True, but there could've also been a delay between his returning the delorean and when his 1955 counterpart actually utilized the information in the almanac
@@karlsmith2570 I mean.... I don't think that applies, because when you talk about delay, you mean he waited an "amount of time" to utilize the book. However, by the time he arrives in 2015, that time was 60 years ago
@@michaeljacyna1973 Well, youtuber KrisCynical posted an explanation to could also be a reasonable explanation too, some DVD commentary of deleted scenes in the movie
I read an interview with a Japanese billionaire who in the 90s was running a massively profitable chain of Video Rental Stores.
Then he went out and watched Back To The Future 2 and saw the scene where movies were streamed into your living room and had the realization that "My business' would not continue to stay profitable for the next twenty or even ten years" so he began selling off his entire franchise.
IIRC he used the founding to start his own Adult Video Company because he wanted to make his own works and didn't have enough to make an actual movie. I believe in modern day that company has a monopoly in the Japanese market and is expending into numerous other businesses from solar to English courses
I literally just finished watching the first back to the Future reaction I had no idea he's already done the second movie I am so hyped to watch this back to back so here we go...
30:46 I just heard an interview with a Native American who said "we really don't care if you call us Indian because both names are not really correct".
My favorite of the 3 films is part 3. A large reason is I love western movies. I loved the setting and scenery, and how they use what is available in 1885 with modern science to come up with some pretty cool inventions. Loved this reaction I knew you would like the film. Looking forward to the 3rd. Also definitely check out every film Nicole M mentioned! 😎👍
I love western also and hoping he will react to young guns eventually.
@@aprilnewsome1932 OH yea, that's a great film.
The actor who plays biff/griff used to be bullied in school and was remembering the harsh times while being in character
Fun Fact: Crispin Glover (George McFly) sued the producers of Back to the Future 2 for using his likeness without his permission and won. It had to do with them using a mold of his face to create a mask that another actor wore as George McFly.
There's a theory that Marty actually died a few times in this movie but doc came back and saved him 1st getting shot and falling off the hotel the 2nd time getting run over at The tunnel.
I love your reactions! Thank you for watching my absolutely FAV Trilogy!!! You Rock Alex!
and I love you! no problem
Anyone else notice that 1955 Doc Brown is like that crazy uncle with the big crazy ideas, while the older 1985 Doc is more level headed and more of a slight father figure?
You are my favorite, Alex! You're so super hyped with all the reactions. I was wondering: is it easier for you to edit these because you're a lawyer and you know the best way to edit them in accordance with the law? That's dope!
nope doesn't make a difference haha maybe a little love you!
@@alexhefnerstvmovievault okay! You fuckin Rock!!!! Thanks, man. Love you!
“See Pocahontas and John Smith flickin each other’s beans” 😂😂😂😂
The reason Griff has weird twitchy facial expressions and stuff is explained really quickly with something Doc says. He says something like he has a cybernetic brain implant that’s on the fritz or something.
What many reactors don't hear or don't get, is that Doc tells Marty that Biffs grandchild Griff has a brain implant that doesn't work right. That's why Griff acts and talks so strange.
As a kid, I would have rated 2 or 3 roughly the same, but as an adult, I appreciate this darker sequel a lot more and that they decided to take some risks. As always, Burnaby Boy Michael J. Fox is great, as are the other cast members. Claudia Wells doesn't return as Marty's girlfriend Jennifer. Her mom had cancer and she decided to stay with her rather than return for the sequels. Elizabeth Shue of the first Karate Kid movie replaces her and does a good enough job, but when you think of Jennifer, you probably see Claudia. Obviously, they had to reshoot the final scene from the first movie for continuity, with Elizabeth Shue in the Jennifer role. I still enjoy it, as sequels around this time were getting darker. See: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I don't think audiences in the 80s were ready for this kind of thing, though. That's why Timothy Dalton gets such a bad wrap as James Bond. The Living Daylights is a great James Bond movie, but I don't think audiences really enjoyed it because they were used to nice guy James Bond, Roger Moore, and it was the 80s, where movies tended to be much lighter in tone and you didn't see too many PG or PG-13 movies that went this dark. Those were usually reserved for Stallone movies.
The creators of the movie actually said they didn't expect 2015 to look like it does in the movie, they said they wanted to have fun with it.
It's amazing how many people, in the comments, keep just referring to Elizabeth Shue as "a different actress that plays Jennifer." She was up and coming at the time.
She was already Ali in Karate Kid and Chris Parker in Adventures in Babysitting. 😊
Another tidbit. One of Biff's henchmen is Billy Zane. Who also played Rose's husband in Titanic.
Omg watching your reactions to these movies literally makes my day! “F#ck off Bill, Bick, Bim, Biff..” Freaking hilarious!! You crack me all the way up! Priceless reactions all the way through!
love you Anita!
Jaws is an Easter egg because it was a Spielberg movie as well. So the "the shark still looks fake" line was a dig on himself.
Glad you can now see why so many people love these movies! (and have probably recommended them over the years.) There are so many great films that came out that decade and the Back To The Future trilogy are some of the best ever made; they're such a good example of how fun movies can be. That look on your face after watching is the same I had when I first saw them.
they are so good!
Love this movie ! Also, I cannot believe you eletected Biff Tanen president for real.
love this movie and you!
This is my favorite BTTF movie. It doesn’t have the organization of the first and the third but it’s such a fun ride
Grif is erratic and yelling because he has (as doc put it) “short circuits in his bionic implants”.
There's a theory that Biff actually runs down Marty in the tunnel and Doc travels back to save him
1.It's not often sequels hold up to the original, but this does. Thank you 1980s.
2.This one is the best of the bunch. The next one is inventive but I'm not really into the story. It is the perfect wrap.
3. Michael J Fox was affected with 09/11/2001 because it happened right after he announced his Parkinson's disease issue, and it downplayed his efforts to spread information to help fight the disease.
4. Michael J. Fox also played Marty's daughter.
5. Sammy Hagar, "I can't drive 55"😎
6. Good thing Biff shoots like a Star Wars Stormtrooper🤣
7. The tunnel at the end is the same one they used for "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
I told you you'd like it if you liked the first one, part 3 completes the trilogy. IT's in the same vein as the other two.
2:19 Technically, the future is comprised of several possibilities. Like a lot of different timelines. The timeline you end up in depends on your choices and decisions.
This series is amazing. They don't make films like this anymore. I'm gonna request again that you react to "Frequency" starring Dennis Quaid. It is an unbelievably good film.
@@AlexHefnersTV. Don't be so stupid. Take your scams and shove them up your clacker.
Oh, yes! Please react to “Frequency”!
when biff tells marty he took his stuff, actaully he is wrong. Marty paid for the book, biff took it from him. he was just getting back what was rightfully his own property
I think it's best to think of Back To The Future as one whole film rather than a trilogy of three separate movies.
Anyway, cool stuff that's maybe pointed out to you already: Marty's daughter is also played by Michael J. Fox.
Flea has always been part of Biff's gang, just so happens he became Marty's boss in the future, and also *-REDACTED-*
Also, you are getting better at recognizing plot hooks! To most people the flashing 1885 would have meant nothing at first viewing, well done!
Kids in '89/'90 must looked at the hoverboard scene like-->👁️👄👁️.😂
fr!
This trilogy is actually really gonna help you with Loki. Good timing.
maybe
We seen Biff and Griff, BUT...we never saw Biff's kid/Griff's dad.
This reaction was like watching the movie with George McFly himself. Hehehehe...
lol
"A movie that's called Back to the Future, I expect to see a little bit of the future..."
Yea, the title is confusing like that. The present is the future to the past, so when Marty was stuck in the past, he had to get back to the future, which was his present.
See? Simple.
Pocahontas and John Smith flicking each other's beans? That is my distant aunt and uncle.. so that comment offends me!!..... well.. not really... that was FUNNY AF!! Actually Aunt and Uncle for me!! LMAO
🤣
You kinda missed the explanation, but the reason they can’t go back to when Marty bought the book is because they would have to travel to the future, which since they are in the alternate timeline would be the future for that alternate timeline. That’s why they have to go back and get it right after biff got the book.
Exactly. They have to travel back to a time before the timeline skewed.
By far my favorite back to the future film.
its so good!
29:08 Bruhh imagine he did actually pull out the sports almanac.. 😂 omg I would be so done