‘Back to the Future’ Is One of the Most Rewatchable Movies Ever | The Rewatchables | The Ringer
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- Опубликовано: 23 май 2020
- The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan fire up the flux capacitor and hop in Doc Brown’s DeLorean to revisit Robert Zemeckis’s 1985 classic ‘Back to the Future,’ starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd.
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Back to the Future is the type of movie The Rewatchables was made for.
Bill's take on Who Framed Roger Rabbit not holding up might be his worst take of all time.
100%! Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a masterpiece, visually and as a film in general.
Chris doing Pacino never gets old.
Any Chris Ryan impression especially Waingro
Haha. Simmons' "DANNNNY! DANNY BOY!" is up there for me too
@@GymAndSun Jame Gumb is top 3 at least.
Yea hes good at it.
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Apex Mountain for the Delorean? Arguably one of the most iconic movie cars that ever was?
I wrote it on Twitter and I'll write it again: the animation in Who Framed Roger Rabbit is still phenomenal and more impressive than cg. People drew that!
Ohhh, well if you already wrote it on Twitter it must be a monumental opinion
Agreed. It’s also based on a book.
Yeah, Simmons fumbled that take.
I'll die on that hill too. I can't believe he thinks the animation is bad.
@@LandonLovettehe didn’t say it was bad, he said it aged poorly because CGI has surpassed it.
I just watched all 3 back to back to back. Great day for a 42 year old version of me.
Missed point: the only reason to do a BTTF remake now is that the joke of the Doc asking "who's president in 2020?" would land perfectly with a person from 1990. "THE CASINO GUY???"
Fennessey always has just a little bit of “what am I doing with my life” when he’s talking to Simmons
The Matrix definitely deserves to be on top 10 non comic or cartoon movies list.
Agreed
Was about to say, the Matrix popularized certain cinematographic techniques which were used frequently from then on. Also huge cultural impact.
Mad_Intalect not only techniques, the cgi was amazing for its time, but most importantly it opened the eyes of ppl to the way we live our lives. Most ppl are just sheep, living in a world where they let big government control them and just do what they are told, same ol’ same ol’ repetitve life.
The Matrix spawned all a whole culture of “red-pilling” as well as simulation theories.
Matrix is purely original too. To me, The Matrix and T2 are the two best action sci fi films ever.
I wondered if he omitted it because it had some basis in the novel The Neuromancer but Forrest Gump was directly sourced from a novel so that wouldn’t be consistent.
I absolutely love the shoehorned Al Pacino impression at 59:00
Funny
I WILL NOT allow any George McFly slander!!!!!! One of the BEST performances of the movie! Bill, you so wrong lol
Relax. He played himself and he’s a weirdo. Wasn’t really acting 😂
Tony Hawk has said on multiple occasions that the skateboarding boom is directly tied to Back to the Future.
On the DVD commentary, Zemeckis and Gale insist that never intended to make a sequel and only agreed when the studio said they would make the sequels with or without their involvement.
They said the end of Back to the Future was merely intended to be a joke. “Something has to be done about your kids.”
They note that the proof is that Jennifer is there when Doc shows up from the future. They said they NEVER would have had Jennifer there in the scene if they had actually intended to make a sequel.
And, of course, innBack to the Future 2, the first thing they do is put Jennifer to sleep and she is in the movie as little as possible thereafter.
Yes. Not only is it known a sequel was never intended, it’s also well known the “To Be Continued” piece was added for VHS release which in those days was much later than just after it finished its theater run. BTTF ended its theater run in the fall of 85. It wasn’t until May 22nd, 1986 that the VHS hit shelves. By then a sequel had been approved conceptually only, no outline for what the sequel would be was on paper.
58:40 Oh my goodness Chris Ryan.. I'm in tears.
Teens befriending older people was definitely an 80's trope. I'd like to add Annie Potts and Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink. I think it's supposed to imply the teen character isn't your typical teen, i.e. they're smarter, more sophisticated or somehow just doesn't fit in with their peers. Usually the older character is a role model, not a perv but Bill's take on it still made me laugh out loud.
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Back to the Future is top 3 for me. I actually enjoyed watching II and III.
Three is so good!! I always watch all three in a marathon. That’s the only way to do it.
@@steelberg23 nah that's too much of the same storyline in a row
@@nocomment1469 I agree. The sequels aren't half as good as the first.
I really like the different aesthetics of the sequels. Also, witnessing the worst timeline to show to consequences of time travel in 2 was pretty cool.
C. Thomas Howell would've killed it as Marty
Bill breaking down Michael J Fox like he’s a basketball prospect
"Makes 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' -- which is a movie that has not aged well just cause the animation isn't that good". What narcotic are you high on, cause it sounds like some wild stuff and I want some.
Atrocious take.
We need a Scarface Rewatchables. To some people that is the movie Pacino is known for
Bill Simmons has a crazy boring imagination if he can't imagine the possibilities of how awesome a going back to the 90s BTTF movie would be.
Marty’s guitar playing is actually very convincing. As a guitar player it drives me up the wall when I see someone who obviously is pantomiming and his playing is pretty spot on. Michael J Fox has even jammed that song on stage with Coldplay
It’s a Toyota, not a “Jeep.” Also how does the DeLorean not win the movie.
How do they not correct eachother on this? It was clearly said to be a truck and seen to be a truck!
Spot on about the backlot tour. We did the Universal tour in 1992 and were so excited to see Hill Valley.
Btw, 'Rhodes? Where we're going, we don't need Rhodes' was the bane of my teen years for a short time.
Great Job doing the Rewatchables of Back to the Future. This one of my favorite movies ever. I agree the Clock Tower Scene is so dope & intense Marty & Doc are so LOCKED IN to accomplish the Mission. I was fortunate to meet Christopher Lloyd in 06 @ a Store on Melrose Ave in L.A. he was very nice, humble & gracious with his time. I will always cherish that moment. That question that Sean brought up about Marty who is an 80s Teenager VIBIN with Doc an older Scientist Inventor was not the Move during that Era usually teens of the MTV generation were @ the house parties, hooking up with hotties or getting zooted.I always wondered how did they meet? Wow 35 yrs ago this iconic film came out, seems like yesterday Damn TIME flies to Fast. I wish they made 2 more I believe it can be done. Can't wait for the Rewatchables of Part 2.
Timecop had a good theory. The same matter cannot occupy the same space. Meaning, you cannot touch your past or future self.
Did you miss mentioning John Lithgow as the trinity killer in Dexter? The best I have ever seen him. By a longshot. If he didn't win Emmys for that, he should have!
You forgot The Matrix in your top 10 list. No way it gets left off over Beverly Hills Cop.
FACTS. MY FAVORITE MOVIE EVER! JUST WATCHED THE TRILOGY THE OTHER NIGHT
I watched Back to the Future in the theatre, probably the last movie I've watched with my dad, and that movie is still in my top ten movies of all time, I just love it, the story, the concept, a timeline movie, good actors, I could watch it anytime, it's just that good of a movie
The 3 of you have the best chemistry I have ever seen.
Did this guy just say the animation in Who Framed Roger Rabbit wasn't that good?! It's was a complete revival of Golden Age animation and started the Disney Renaissance.
Yes,absolutely. Early in lockdown I ordered a pizza and it arrived right when I was starting up Back To The Future. God damn,I was happy right at that moment. Even though I'd seen it 10+ times before,it's just such a fun movie to watch...
Love this. Love BTTF. Love Rewatchables. Love these guys. Another great pod, boys!
We recently did a Feel-Good Movie bracket challenge at work and Back to the Future won.
Beetlejuice is another one of those rare gems.
In Seinfeld, George becomes super intelligent from not having sex. Doc Brown has no apparent sexual interest for thirty years and invents time travel. I certainly see the correlation.
Whew! It makes so much sense…
Fun fact: Fox's house in Teen Wolf was the same house used for Lorraine's house in BTTF 🙂
These movie had such a unique tonal mix of comedy/adventure/sci fi that was light but not too light and had heart which lead to its universality..The closest I can think of this tone today is the marvel movies
"A white guy singing the blues...." was a 50s echo. Part of the whole Reagan effect/era. Nostalgia fest for suburbia. And along comes a movie about a white kid *literally* going back to the 50s.... a great movie for being perfectly on the nose.
I'd already heard the whole Eric Stoltz hire/fire story a couple different times thru the years, I looked at one more mini-doc a couple weeks ago when suddenly it dawned on me one of the bigger details about how the Michael J Fox splitting time between the film and show doesn't make a lot of sense. Because it's supposed to be that he was doing a full day on Family Ties (like 8a-6p) every weekday, immediately went to the BTTF set every weeknight to shoot all night to then be rushed back over to FT in time to get 2-3hrs of sleep before repeating it, then he shot just BTTF on the weekends.
What I bumped on out of nowhere, Family Ties was of course a network sitcom (NBC) virtually all sitcoms at that time were the multi-cam, filmed in front of a live studio audience type. By now thankfully sitcoms that are even still from the traditional networks rather than basic cable channels are by large majority the single camera, no live audience variety (Community, Better Things, Parks & Rec, etc). And while both are half hour comedies, those two types of shows are produced & filmed RADICALLY different. like there's been a long running sort of joke that the best possible job you could ever land as an actor in Hollywood is on a multi-cam sitcom, because the ratio of hours you actually wind up working in a given week for an episode compared to the money you'll be paid is like practically shameful lol.. The cast is easily the least worked department of all the many for a TV series week by week, and that goes for everyone. Even if you're the lead character of the show. They produce one new episode per week, traditionally the live audience shows would have either Thursday or Friday be their shoot night. The whole thing gets filmed in one night-into-early morning by a span of 8-10 hours, and that is the ONLY day of that whole work week the cast is there for a "full day" much as any else of its crew. Most series did and still do have an organized table read on Monday for the next episode they'll shoot Friday. Any of the cast members (again, even if you're lead) wouldn't have to be there for anymore than 3-4hrs, tops. For those other days inbetween, you could have some rehearsal, some camera blocking preparations (plenty shows use only the actor's stand-ins for them), but that's pretty much it. Sure, the writers on the show, they're slogging thru like 80hr weeks, and most crew members will have at least regular full time days all week, but all things considered for a multi-cam comedy, ironically it's the actors that need to be there when looking at a whole week by itself the least of anyone.
So what I'd just suddenly realized is there was no normal, usual reason for Fox to have to keep going back to Family Ties' soundstages every single day punching the same repeated hours. Even with considering the Meredith Baxter Berney pregnancy thing.
(and yes, I can't believe I wrote a post this fucking long either lol... insomnia's a real motherfucker)
As a young boy, thought ET was a sequel to Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind.
It was meant to be something darker wasn’t it until Spielberg decided to change it to an inspiring and nostalgic family film.
Love you guys! Disagree completely about Crispin Glover. He was EPIC in this role! McFly remains up there for me in all time fave eccentric characters! 🤗
40:30 Shout out to Powell Peralta’s Per Welinder for the skateboarding in this movie.
Dave McFly for Dion Waiters if only for his "When the hell did this happen!?" quote at the end of the movie.
Haha yes. Whenever sometime requires that kind or a response in my life I always say it that way
Sean said, the exact same thing I think every time I watch this movie! Why is Marty hanging out with this weird, creepy scientist?! LOL! You'd think that he would be one of the most popular kids at school. He's in a band, he has a cool girlfriend. But no car. His parents couldn't afford to buy him a car. Plus, it's late Friday night/early Saturday morning when Doc called him. He wasn't even at a party. He was at home, sleeping.
Super content guys....love your podcasts!! 👍👍❤❤❤❤
Can they just do a table read of Al Pacina as Doc Brown lmao
I always thought that Michael J Fox was really good in Mars Attacks!
Could you guys please let us know at the beginning of the podcast if a youtube version is coming up. Much rather see this than just listen to it. These are awesome btw. Thanks!!
This is Bill Simmons greatest creation (not including his writing). My God this is entertaining.
Didn't Marty get a Toyota pick-up at the end of the movie? Bill keeps calling it a Jeep.
This is so crazy! I just watched all 3 to educate my younger siblings last night and I wake up to this!
These fools dogging on Krispin Glover.
This movie would not be the same without him. Whether or not he is a weirdo creep in real life and was difficult to work with (facts that we later found out thru the documentary and oddball appearances on late night shows),he was the perfect person for the role.
He nailed the dorky awkwardness of George, both in his dialogue and physical acting.
Lorraine u are my density...I mean destiny. Beating up Biff, peeping tomming, walking around school with a kick me sign on his back, the casting was perfect and these schmucks want to act like they didnt like it, yrs after it was revealed how much of a weirdo Krispin was is just them trying to act like they knew it all along.
Chris is wrong about Back to the Future being a franchise from the start and Sean doesn't correct him enough. This movie was a stand alone. The tease about going to the future was just how they chose to end it. In fact the "To Be Continued..." was added later on. Here is writer Bob Gale: "BG: No, we had no idea (about sequels). If you saw the first film in theaters, we never had that “To Be Continued...” on there at the end. We added that to the VHS tape once we knew we were going to make a sequel. We didn’t know if anyone
was even going to go see the first one."
The 1st one, no, but when they did the 2nd one they had already planned the 3rd
@@Herbalizer28 They filmed the 2nd and the 3rd pretty much back to back
CORRECTIONS, if I may :
Around 1:08:00 - Yes it was. “To Be Continued” was in the theatrical release. I saw this movie in the theater in 1985. I definitely remember that.
Around 1:13:00 - It wasn’t a Jeep. Marty’s vehicle was a shiny black Toyota pickup truck.
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3:20 "The amusement park stuff" closed down in 2006 (Florida) and 2007 (California) in the USA. It closed down in Japan in 2016. Way to stay current there Bill.
Petition for Chris to get an interior decorator, come on man you can do better than all barren white walls
22:45 The sequels weren't on the backburner. The end scene of BttF was only supposed to be a gag. The "Bobs" have admitted in commentary, that if the sequels were somewhat planned, that Jennifer would have never been in the DeLorean. But the original was so successful, that they were like, "Okay," and came up with the sequels.
And, while, not as good as the original, Back to the Future is in the top 5 movie trilogies of all time.
In no particular order: Back to the Future, Star Wars, Die Hard, Indiana Jones, The Lord of the Rings.
Bill is really trying to say Who Framed Rogger Rabbit hasn't aged well?! And lose all credibility with one single sentence!
Back to the Future is so impressive for being an original story and modern day Hollywood hasn't ruined it yet. One of the all time best trilogies. I disagree with Bill's list which did include movies based off books, Lord of the Rings blows Titanic and even E.T. away in pop culture.
Rewatchables suggestions: JFK, Donnie Brasco, Casino, Trainspotting, Tropic Thunder, L.A. Confidential, The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, 1994 Jim Carrey triumvirate, anything Coens (except The Hudsucker Proxy or The Ladykillers), Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, Being John Malkovich, Sam Mendes triple feature of American Beauty/Road to Perdition/Jarhead, and, obviously, Boogie Nights eventually
Flawed Rewatchable suggestions: Airheads, Private Parts, PCU, Cruel Intentions, The Saint
Donnie Darko would fit either category, depending on your taste, and that movie deserves an incredibly deep dive.
Good list but Bill will never do Trainspotting, he's very anti drug - you can tell he's never done any hard drugs and really doesn't like them. As a heroin user, it's one of my favorite books and it's a great film too.
@@chrischancellor7372 He intimates that he at least had friends who were coke guys. He clearly smoked a lot of weed, but is a booze lightweight and not a hard drugs guy now, though. I've never shot anything, but I had an opiates phase a long time ago. Real opium is the best of them.
@@puremercury Yeah I can recall hearing him imply that a few times in various podcasts - but he seems to have a relatively anti-drug stance. I'm not knocking him for it but I've noticed that he seems to shy away from movies about / heavily involving drugs and I would be shocked to see a Trainspotting rewatchables. I could see maybe a Scarface or Blow - movies that deal with the subject with almost cartoonish excess - but not something grittier like Trainspotting, Half Nelson, or others. Personally, I would love a PCU episode as that is one of my favorite comedies of the era and has some Simmons favorites (Favreau).
@@chrischancellor7372 I can't help but think they will argue that the entire concept of being anti-PC aged the worst, and that will be infuriating.
@@puremercury Haha a reasonable prediction. Overall, good list of suggestions man. Sometimes I wish they would expand a bit beyond principally American movies but I don't know if Bill has much interest in doing that.
With Marty looking exactly like Calvin Klein, the assumption would be that Lea Thompson's character reconnected with him as an adult and cheated on George McFly. George would know that his two older children were his, but the youngest son who looks EXACTLY like a person that him and his wife both knew well in high school, was not.
one of my all time favorite movies
Einstein being like "F#@#$ck that guy" LOLOL classic Bill Simmons.
A sequel actually wasn't planned. They've said if it was, they wouldn't have ended it with that nor would it have taken place in the future.
Luckily, it all worked out because the sequels are good and much like the studio denying then a million dollars for the ending of the first one, it forced them to figure out ways to write it creatively.
Was going to write this aswell. I don’t know how they missed that the sequels weren’t planed
Some of the B roll seens where it doesn't show Marty's face r still Stoltz...he'd technically still in the movie lol
more of this please
Back To The Future, Gremlins, Ghostbusters, The Goonies, Weird Science, Indiana Jones, Return Of The Jedi, Superman 2, Honey I Shrunk The Kids, Splash, Mannequin, Robocop, Terminator, Field Of Dreams, Explorers, The Last Starfighter, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, etc... it seems like the 80s had a thing for Fantasy...
The Hard Way is a very good movie. James Woods might be a controversial figure because of his Twitter posting but he is a fucking great actor.
I wish if they were going to post it as a video they would tell us. I already listened to the audio, I would have waited.
Can't stand people who don't get Crispin Glover.
Bill mentioned Avatar on his list but that is based on Pocahontas... just like Lion King is Hamlet
I've read that the Lion King:Hamlet stuff is very coincidental. Kimba the Lion was more inspiration than Hamlet.
Best piece of 80s nostalgia for me, is that awesome Toyota 4×4. It's still me dream car over the Delorean.
Love it! I'd love if you did 2 and 3!
59:20
Exactly how many Oscars did Pacino have in 1985?
I think at times y'all(or Bill) misread the room .. to say Who Framed Roger Rabbit didn't age well because of the animation is crazy to say... I think the number of first time reaction videos and the commentary from many aged 30 and under proves the younger gen still loves that movie...not only groundbreaking and a good story but no other mixed animation movie since has quite hit the same
15:54 I’m sorry, but what?! Who Framed Roger Rabbit has aged beautifully!
Been saying for years that BTTF is the most rewatchable movie.
Anyone else seen Interstate 60? It is also from Robert Gale and Robert Zemechis. Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd are in the film.
Michael actually had a very very small part on tales from the crypt. you hear his voice long before they show his face and it totally pays off
The Frightners was underrated
The Apex Mountain for Time Travel in Movies occurs from 2004-2014, often in smaller-budget independent films.
Apex Mountain for time travel movies is ... Hot Tub Time Machine !!!!
What Bill forgot to say was ... “at the inarguable #1 position, Star Wars .... (and then the rest.”) Seriously, there has been no bigger cultural icon in cinematic history. He had to of misspoke.
Um yeah Star Wars, can't understand why that wasn't there and in recentish decades the Matrix, how many bullet time rip offs happened and the way it changed special effects and Hollywood actors doing their own fight/ stunt scenes
That's the first thing that crossed my mind after he mentioned his list. How TF do you forget Star Wars? Star Wars was easily the most profitable movie franchise in film history before the Marvel Cinematic Universe existed. It's so huge that it spawned two separate trilogies in two different decades from the original trilogy.
Most rewatchable scene for me is definitely George punching Biff. The anger that comes over his face when Biff pushes Loraine to the ground, he balls his fist, and just lays him out cold. So inspiring
This is correct. I can’t believe it wasn’t listed as a rewatchable scene. “No, Biff, you leave her alone” is one of the most bad-ass lines of all time.
Revisiting old episodes like this and hearing Bill say Contact is hilariously bad makes me question why I follow The Rewatchables. Sean knows what the fuck is up though, Contact is fucking fantastic.
Love to see a Rush Hour rewatch
@ME Rivera uhh no.. all time comedy and one of the highest grossing buddy cop movies. Chris Tucker at his best. Jackie Chan became movie star
Referring to the argument of why Marty hangs out with Doc:
Doc has a buuuunch of kick-ass science experiments. I know it sounds creepy but imagine being into rock & roll and this teacher you were cool with in highschool happens to slip into a casual conversation you had encountering at some park or some store that he has colossal ultra sounding speakers in his freaking house! Or that maybe Marty challenges him to create the best speakers he can.
I wouldn't imagine NOT wanting to jam out on them and not creating a cool albeit strange relationship with Doc. And Doc reaching out for Marty since he's the only cool enough kid to trust with his experiments is a no brainer.
Definitely a Toyota hilux loaded up not a Jeep.
This movie rocks. The Marvin Barry line and whole band / and biff in general both work so well for me.
I believe the truck Marty gets is a Toyota 4x4 (indestructible) not a Jeep. Also my picky nit is Marty’s brother is going to the office on a Saturday? It’s Friday night when he heads to Twin Pines Mall. Also if it’s a school day why doesn’t his parents ask him why he’s not at school.
ROGER RABBIT HAS AGED QUITE WELL AND THERE SHOULD BE A REWATCHABLES ON IT KTHNX.
Stoltz got Derozan'd, lol
My dad recemend this podcast and it's great
Did they talk about George McFly getting recast for Part 2? Thought they would have mentioned that.
.... And all you’ve got for me is Lite Beer?
Also please do Necessary Roughness and side out
The Hard Way is a fun movie. Same goes for Doc Hollywood.
Just watched it on Netflix a week or so ago and it really does hold. Very re-watchable and I think with most issues e.g. Crispin Glover, you just let them go because the film is so good.
If Fox is not in the film, I think it just does not work. Great example of a part and an actor being made for one another.
Crispin Glover in Birdy. He's good at people who are off.
I just got the blu ray set and have been watching the special features. I just wanna touch on one thing sean said because i agree with it 100 percent eric stoltz was very talented but also lucky because he still has a really nice career. Do you know how many actors and actresses from the 80s especially were promising up and coming stars but never really made it to many too name is the answer..
I saw BTTF 14 times in theatre ;)