Interesting info. This is sort of similar: I read one time that in the year 1900, an ounce of gold would buy you either a really nice man’s suit or a horse and that it basically still will today. Pretty cool
True, $80 was worth a lot more back then. But even without inflation, it's totally on brand for a Tannen family member to be such a petty asshole that he'd kill someone over a relatively small amount of cash. This was also the Old West, an era where lawlessness and guns were ubiquitous. It was the kind of timeframe when a Tannen can literally get away with murder with ease.
@@richardfarris2227I've seen it go as far back as Ancient Rome. An ounce of gold would buy a Roman soldier his uniform. Really shows why gold has been the standard for about five thousand years.
This trilogy is evidence that it is never a bad thing to end a franchise strong, with people wanting more rather than milking it and releasing disappointing sequels. A good filmmaker should know when to end the story
@@theshamurai32 As long as Zemeckis is alive, there won't be anything he doesn't approve of. He approved of the TellTale game and the LEGO Dimensions Collab if I remember correctly.
Marty using the boiler door as an improvised bulletproof vest was foreshadowed in Part 2 when Alternate 1985 Biff is watching the Clint Eastwood western A Fistful Of Dollars. Clint's character does a very similar thing, so Marty using the fake name "Clint Eastwood" in Part 3 further sets up this reference.
@@thefallenfaith1986 That was Pat Buttram, he's unmistakable. Bullet one in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", voiced many characters for Disney, most notably the Sheriff of Nottingham in Disney's animated "Robin Hood".
While there wasn't a 4th Back To The Future film, there was a short lived cartoon series that takes place after the 3rd film. The premise was Doc Brown & his family settle in the present, Marty is now in college, & they still have adventures time travelling. Each episode started & ended with a live action segment of Doc Brown talking into a camera held by Clara, & the series gave Bill Nye his acting debut then he got his own show after the cartoon was cancelled.
Michael J Fox was apparently left unconscious while filming Marty's hanging scene. Fortunately, he was rescued just in time by Robert Zemeckis, who realised that Fox's acting looked TOO realistic.
@@Lupinemancer87 i meant in that dcene that Michael j fox was actually coking when being hung the director of the film noticed that he wasn't acting so he saved Michael j fox so i m glad the director aaved him and im glad Michael j fox survived and is still with us this what i was trying to say so u have got me all wrong
That's part of the beauty of this series since it was not originally planned as a trilogy. The second and third movies do such a great job of setting up Marty's "Chicken" arc, you don't even realize it wasn't in the first movie at all. And another note, this movie speaks to the difference between child and adult me. When I was a child, I was sad that Doc's gift at the end wasn't the Hoverboard. As an adult, the picture is the perfect gift. haha
I've seen a lot of people take issue with the "chicken" stuff saying that it comes out of nowhere, but the 1st movie does show Marty as being a bit of an impulsive hothead. Like tripping Biff and punching him in the cafe or at the school, him walking up to Biff and getting physical with him. So while the "Chicken" aspect wasn't there in the first movie, that characteristic did exist already in Marty.
@@EScoglio Super agree. That is exactly why it works so well. While it wasn't set up it still is completely in line with what we know from Marty in the first film. That's just great writing.
In my opinion, Back To The Future is the most consistent movie trilogy, at least in terms of quality, which is ironic because it breaks the key rule of a trilogy of essentially doing the same story 3 times, yet it works given the motif of history repeating itself. Look at all of the elements that appeared in all 3 films: Marty saying "This is heavy" & Doc Brown saying "Great Scott," Marty hitting his head & waking up with a version of his mother taking care of him, Marty walking into a diner & encountering a Tannen as well as a Strickland, a chase scene in the town square & Marty almost crashing into a vehicle, a Tannen crashing into manure, a scene where a character wears a bullet proof vest, pictures/documents changing, Marty being called "chicken," & of course the entire clock tower scene all appear in each film.
People using an expression multiple times doesn't have anything to do with history repeating itself. Even Superman used to say "Great Scott" on a regular basis. I'm sure Bill and Ted said "excellent!" long before they started time traveling.
They all have the same bad guy with a gang. They all have Marty play a shooting game. The 3rd slightly changes it up since Marty didn't use the "What's that!?" trick or get on a skateboard and actually got caught this time.
@@SonicPlayer2004 Oh yeah... That is strange though i almost feel like the one in BTT2 was a callback to doing it in the first movie. But i'm obviously wrong. Damn i'm having a Mandela Effect moment. lol
11:30 actually, it’s a two-movie learning curve… Marty’s reaction to being called “chicken,” like Doc’s love of the Old West, is introduced in the second film.
Exactly! I made an edit of the 3 movies so it plays as one continuous ~5:20 movie. Since scenes overlap between the end/beginning of all the movies it only takes a few well placed cuts/trimming out the intro credits of 2 and 3
The editor/train bit was really great. I love how you can have a conversation through time via the editing process lol. And the animations are fun. 3 has always been my favorite. But I'm not really a western fan, so I'm not sure why. I think it's just because it ties the story up so nicely.
Yes. In Part 2, Marty saw that scene on TV because Alt-1985 Biff had it onscreen while he was in the hot tub with the bimbos. Eastwood explicitly gave permission for his name etc to be used in these films. When Marty comes out of the bathroom at the Drive-In in the red Howdy Doody cowboy outfit, the posters on the wall are for two early Clint Eastwood bit part movies.
The absolute best trilogy storytelling ever. First movie was about Marty. Second movie about Biff. Third movie about the Doc. This way of storytelling gives you three linked movies in the same universe with the same characters but each one feels new because tbe focus of character develpment changes. It gives the audience avfresh perspective while learning more about a different character. Just awesome. Great reaction, Ange, really enjoyed it.
0:30 Been going thru a rough time in my life atm and I've been neglecting myself so I didn't notice that my mood and mental state was slowly getting worse. Once I started regularly sleeping, eating, taking long hot showers, and doing all nice stuff for myself, I definitely felt better. Don't underestimate the importance of self-care.
1 of the creators of the trilogy said in an interview several years ago that because Marty wasn't in the car crash at the end of the 3rd film, it caused a chain reaction/butterfly effect of events that resulted in a new 2015 different from the 1 Doc Brown took him & Jennifer to in the 2nd film. Additionally, he stated the reason why Doc Brown didn't just tell Marty about what his future would be like/the events that lead to his kids getting arrested was that he wanted Marty to learn to not be so easily intimidated by others & learn to stand up for himself, which is what he did to Needles by refusing to race him & thus not getting in that car accident. So, the way I see it is that over the course of these 3 films (which from Marty's point of view was less then 3 weeks) not only did he help his parent's improve their lives in the past, but he matured as a person in the present to become successful in the future.
In the Part 2 we learn that Marty injured his head and was left unable to play the guitar. Which lead him to the office job with Needles that eventually lead to Marty being fired. Which was all caused by him crashing into the Rolls at the end of Part 3. So by not crashing into the Rolls he never sustained his life changing injuries that leads him to the office job, which leads to the firing. All that because he decided not to race Needles. Now that is genius writing and closes the chicken arc beautifully. It is subtle and does require some thinking but I think it makes it better. The writing in all three parts have been outstanding along with the attention to details like renaming locations. One of the greatest trilogies hands down.
@@Imabassplayer2 I love in BTTF how twin pine mall becomes lone pine mall because Marty ran over one of the two pines in his escape from the barn in 1955. There are so many such small details in the whole trilogy. The only flaw in the story I ever ponder is why it would have been so hard for doc to refine some gasoline in 1885. By 1885 oil was already a commodity along with distilling kerosene from coal so the chemistry needed to make a few gallons of gasoline in 1885 should have been within Doc's skillset.
Technically, isn't the driver of the Rolls Royce at fault? When you enter a lane from a sideroad, you are the one who has to make room for the cars driving on that lane. Sure Racing is not ok, but you can't just enter a road with oncoming cars without making sure they pass first.
@@Lupinemancer87 That is an interesting question, but since Marty would probably be speeding and definitely be committing the crime of street racing they might both be considered at fault but possibly be looked at quite differently for legal punishments (particularly considering the Rolls Royce driver likely has more money for legal representation) and physics doesn't care who is at fault when it smacks objects into fragile bodies at high speeds.
So, the thing I noticed for the first time watching your reaction to the first movie (and I saw the trilogy when it was first in theaters, so it's taken a while) is that the "matter of eighty dollars" in this film parallels the original version of Biff crashing George's car and spilling his beer in the first movie.
Rees's love for trains was amazing lmao, and also I gotta say that the little kid wanting to go to the bathroom at 22:30 still makes me laugh, poor kid tho
The Saturday morning cartoon came after this was released, along with a comic published by Archie Comics. The show had a new DeLorean as well as the train, marty still had the hoverboard, the DeLorean could also set destination location as well as date, and the sons Jules and Verne had adventures. The episodes were bookended by live action doc brown skits with Homer Simpson voice actor Dan Castellaneta as Doc. Christopher Lloyd himself voiced the animated doc brown, and if i recall correctly, i think billy west did marty.
Oh, Reese! I live near enough that I have been to the place called Promontory Point, Utah, where the transcontinental railroad was joined. They have a museum there, and they even have fully rebuilt running replicas of the two trains that first met there!! They are still powered by wood and coal for their steam power, just like the original ones, and they run them up and down a section of track there every day. It's really cool! I highly recommend it if you are ever traveling through the West someday.
I’m here from the future to let you know these 3 films are one of the greatest of all times but by the time you see this message you would of seen them already i will see you again in the future, have fun 🙏🏽
Using the stove door as a bullet deflector is not a call back to the first movie but the second movie when Biff is in the jacuzzi watching the Clint Eastwood movie
All the inside jokes in the third are great. Did you notice the manure cart was owned by A. Jones? The Jones family has lived off manure for generations. Funny too how Doc and Marty switched at times say, "Great Scott!" and "Heavy!"
16:59 I don't know if it was on purpose but Reese's "I like trains" made me think of Tomska's asdf movies's one, so I was fully expecting a train to come on the screen and crush him and Ange 😂
this is my favorite of the trilogy, because it focus on my favorite character, the doc ❤ the first movie is about george, the second about marty, and the third about doc
The prelude to the moment before Doc and Clara dance was borrowed from a scene from the Western movie “My Darling Clemtine” (1946) where Wyatt Earp nervously asks Clementine to dance with the latter, prior, encouraging him to do so. About around the 3 minute mark: ruclips.net/video/4TCbWu1PhLU/видео.htmlsi=4UDjUDo5wUmcJJod
I entirely agree with your cold-opening health advice, Ange. Seems like a lot of the secret to happiness is training your mind to recognize and interpret those bodily signals.
Just watched all 3 of your BTTF commentaries. So happy experiencing these scenes and your first time experiences. Had me crying on avg about 5x per review! Gah, so good. Thank you. So uplifting. Fave Trilogy ever.
Christopher Lloyd (Doc) was well known before Back to the Future. He, along with Danny Devito, was on the TV series Taxi for 5 years. Doc was a taxi driver. He also played a Klingon Commander in the Star Trek movie "The Search for Spock".
7:28 Michael J Fox almost died filming that scene. He has stated, "No matter how I shifted my weight, the swinging effect [of hanging] was not realistic, so I offered to try it without the support of the box". Since the scene only required a close-up of Michael J. Fox’s face, the actor stood on a safety box hidden below the frame for the first couple of takes of the stunt. However, Fox was unable to realistically mimic the swinging of a hanged man while standing on the box, so for the sake of getting a good shot, the actor offered to film the stunt again without the safety box beneath him. Although the stunt was flawlessly choreographed for the actor’s safety, a miscalculation almost killed the actor on the third take. During rehearsals, Michael J. Fox practiced sticking his hand between the rope and his neck, so he didn’t become asphyxiated during the stunt. While this technique worked well for the first couple of takes, on the third take, Fox didn’t calculate the position of his hand properly, and the rope cinched tight against the actor’s throat. Unaware of the issue, the film crew kept filming while Fox dangled helplessly until he lost consciousness. As it turns out, Michael J. Fox only lost consciousness for a few seconds during the stunt before writer and director of the feature Robert Zemeckis realized something was wrong. The rope had blocked Fox’s carotid artery, which had caused the actor to pass out, but the film crew was able to cut him down from the gallows and revive the actor, with everyone thinking no harm, no foul. Or so they thought. Almost a full year after Michael J. Fox performed the dangerous stunt, he was filming another movie in Gainesville, Florida, when he woke up to find his pinkie twitching ferociously. The neurosurgeon that Fox consulted on the matter suspected that the twitching finger had something to do with the stunt gone wrong nearly 10 months prior. As Fox continued to consult with doctors, the twitching finger symptom expanded to include weakness in the actor’s left hand, achy muscles in his chest, and stiffness in his shoulder. While the actor believed these symptoms were related to the botched stunt, Fox would later learn that they were caused by the Parkinson’s he would soon be diagnosed with.
Mary Steenbergen (Clara) also fell in love with a time traveler in the underrated 1979 film "Time After Time." For real, too. She later married her co-star, Malcolm McDowell.
(16:10) This is also a callback from the second movie where Marty confronts 1985 Biff in the hot tub. Before Marty shows up Biff is watching A Fistful of Dollars (with Clint Eastwood) where in the movie he does the same trick with a stove door.
The train going over the ravine was entirely practical. The props deparment built the ravine, train, and backgrounds in miniature and filmed it all in one take. They only had one shot because they literally blew it up.
I’ve been putting part 3 on to go to bed too on vhs. I haven’t searched back to the future at all. But my phone listening to the room has heard the movie. And had been recommending “10 things you didn’t know about” and other commentaries of these movies. But yours has been honest and refreshing. Subbed. Just watched all 3 commentaries.
The showdown with Mad Dog Tannen is a reference to A Fistful of Dollars, the first big Clint Eastwood western and progenitor of the Italian Spaghetti Westerns as well as one of my favorite movies of all time. It's worth a view!
Little fact about the locomotive in this film. Sierra Railway No. 3 (dressed up as Central Pacific 131) is one of the most iconic movie star steam locomotives of all time and it’s still in service today. That crash was done with a scale model. The most memorable sound to me is its iconic Lima 5 Chime whistle.
The train scene and the race scene with needles were all filmed in my hometown. Race scene was on Doris Ave in Oxnard, and the train scene was at Shoreview Drive in Port Hueneme. That area in Oxnard also appears in Bridesmaids.
ZZ Top playing the wertern version of their song "Doubleback" which was the movie theme, actually in the stage is just another of the cherry's on top on a pile of cherry this movies have... and Noodles is Flea, bass player in Red Hot Chili Peppers
I was born the same year the first movie released and this is my favorite trilogy by far, when I was a kid I would watch all three (on VHS, no less!) on the days I was home sick from school. It became a running joke that my mom shared with every girl I ever dated (may she RIP)--you know he's really sick when he watches Back to the Future! I've very much enjoyed seeing your reactions to all three. :)
Don't forget the animated series! Where Doc, Clara, Marty and all the gang live in (then present) 1991 and go on time travel adventures! And at the end of each episode some really obscure paying his dues fella by the name of Bill Nye demonstrates science experiments after each episode!
I watched this many times and it just occured to me in 1885 there are two DeLorean. The one Marty hid in the cave and the one Doc hid in the abandoned mines. They could've repair the leak and get the gas from the Doc's DeLorean to Marty's DeLorean. That is if doc did not drain his DeLorean before hidding it in the mine
You'd think Doc Brown would remember that he dressed Marty in that ridiculous cowboy outfit, since it was him in the past that did it. Mary Steenburgen(Clara Clayton) was in another time travel movie in 1979 called, _"Time After Time."_ You should do a reaction to that movie.
Also, I don't think time travelers have their memories of events changed. So the Doc in 1885 would only remember the version of events in 1955 where he successfully sends Marty back to the future and then doesn't see Marty again for 20+ years. Otherwise, they could have literally solved the problem by telling 1955 Doc to not piss off Bufford Tannen way down the line. Or, heck, to just keep extra spare parts in the Delorean.
Marty has no memories of growing up with a confident dad and an affluent family. But there obviously was a Marty in that timeline. So what happened to him and his memories? Was he erased from existence?
@@bobbuethe1477 yeah pretty much, so did all his 'original' family, Biff, and original Doc. and probably half of their school. as far as we can tell biff only killed George mcfly, but Doc and marty wiped out a BUNCH of people from existense
@bobbuethe1477 Good question. Unless that Marty went to occupy the original Marty's life because he did nothing to help his father, and just let things happen like it did in the original timeline.
I had actually kinda forgotten how good this series of films is! Glad to have visited them again this way! Honestly, I don't know which one is my favorite. I think they all have good scenes, lines and expressions in them! A small part of me wanted, many years ago, to see a fourth movie but I now realize that this third one was indeed a good way to end it all. Onto the next reactions it is, then!!
It's very rare that someone says part 3 is their favorite! My personal favorite is 2 but as a whole this is one of my all time favorite trilogies!! It's so well done and so well written!! Also you referenced across the Spider-Verse I salute YOU
The first film might be my favorite, but that is no slight on the last two... This trilogy is a full, rousing, and exhilarating adventure from start to finish. I saw all three in one afternoon, and I am still impressed with how seamless the whole affair works as a complete experience. By some miracle, they made what was once only one film and one story into a sprawling and twisty ride across the roads of time. One part cannot exist without the other, and it connects flawlessly. Alongside The Lord of the Rings, this deserves to be recognized as one of the greatest film trilogies ever made...
Great video, Angelina! It's interesting to see how these movies are viewed today by someone like yourself, with people born after the 80s knowing in advance that it's a three-part odyssey and a beloved part of the popular culture and having the ability to sit down and watch all three back to back to back. As someone who saw all three in the theater when they came out and was all in on the mania back in the day, I'd like to talk about my experience, and the experience of the original fans. It's important to note that in terms of marketing, production and release times, these movies were quite different than, say, the original Star Wars trilogy or The Lord of the Rings films. Star Wars came out once every three years, building into a pop culture juggernaut. The Lord of the Rings, already a beloved book series, was filmed as one and came out one film a year for three years and marketed as a blockbuster from the get-go. The Back to the Future trilogy, however, was a whole different thing and almost an accident. The first film came out the summer of 1985 and wasn't anticipated as a big movie. It had a modest budget ($19 million, compared to 1984's Ghostbusters' $25 million or 1983's Return of the Jedi's $32 million) and featured a couple of television stars. (Yes, Christopher Lloyd had been in films before, including 1984's Star Trek III, but he was more recognizable as Jim from Taxi.) Director Bob Zemeckis and composer Alan Silvestri had a hit the previous summer with Romancing the Stone, but that was a smallscale, personal film with big stars (Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito) and wasn't a big happening in terms of story or music. So along comes Back to the Future, which was basically a comedy, and the last thing most of us expected was to be swept away with its big feel and John Williams-like score - and yet that's exactly what happened. Zemeckis caught lightning in a bottle (pardon the pun) with the perfect script, the perfect actors, and the perfect timing. It was loved by the people who were around in the 1950s, like my parents, because suddenly they were back there. It was loved by kids of the 1980s (like myself) because it was fun to imagine ourselves back in the time of our parents' youth (which we were always hearing about) while inventing skateboarding and rock 'n roll to show the kids from the past - especially the bullies - what fun really was! It became THE summer blockbuster of 1985, Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd became big-time movie stars before our eyes, and this was all just as video cassettes were becoming affordable and Cable television (deregulated in 1984) was exploding, so in the following years, we were able to watch and rewatch it many times. (Keep in mind, this was a period where our viewing choices were limited, with no DVRs, Blu-ray collections, or streaming services, and far less platforms for content creation. Thus a beloved video cassette would be watched over and over again.) By the late 1980s, we had all gone on to assume Back to the Future was a standalone film (as originally intended) and would remain a beloved icon by itself. Then it was announced there would be not just one, but two sequels, and they would be filmed and released back to back. Part II would come out in late 1989, and Part III would come out in early 1990. That meant several things that are important to understand. First, whereas Part 1 was written and filmed as one thing (with all the sets destroyed afterward), Part 2 and Part 3 were written and filmed together, sharing some of the same sets, featuring the same actors (with a couple of new actors taking over parts from people who wouldn't return after Part 1) - and, most importantly, telling one big-picture story, more or less - with exposition in Part 2 that wouldn't be paid off until Part 3. (In other words, Part 1 is like the original Star Wars film in terms of being its own thing from a production and story standpoint, with all the sets struck down after filming, whereas Parts 2 and 3 follow The Lord of the Rings model, filmed as one thing, with even one of the scenes in Back to the Future Part 3 filmed during the production of Part 2.) So anyway, back to the fans' standpoint here: when we went to see Back to the Future Part 2, it was the complete opposite of going to see Part 1. This time we were going to see a blockbuster (with a $40 million budget) with big-time movie stars, and stepping into an area of turf which was a beloved part of pop culture, with everyone knowing all the jokes from the first film (most notably the manure) by heart. Then.... JUST a short time later... we went to see Part 3, and that was a unique experience in a way because Part 3 largely plays off of Part 2, but keep in mind, we didn't know Part 2 that well! We had just seen it, but we hadn't seen it over and over like Part 1. (In fact, there were some people in the theater who had seen Part 1 but hadn't seen Part 2.) So in a way, it wasn't until the films came out on video as a threepack that we were able to watch them over and over and appreciate the grand tapestry. And THAT's my story about what it was like being an original fan - though I also have to add I was one of the first on the Universal Back to the Future ride in Florida, and it was awesome! And I loved the BTTF cartoon. But I think I'll stop there. Thanks for indulging me!
I love your editing style. There's LOTS of reactor channels on RUclips but the way you quickly intercut self-deprecating humour bits raises YOUR reaction videos to the next level. That, and you don't run these vids to 50 or 60 minutes - you keep the length reasonable. Kudos!
If you are curious about the steam engine of the tressel scene at the end. It looks real because it is...partly. They used a scale model of the steam engine and ran it off a tressel to create the affect seen. I love watching people experience this trilogy for the first time. Now I will consider the 1st one as my favorite of the three; but 3 is next in line for sure.
Since she wasn't even supposed to be alive anymore past September 1885, taking Clara with them to 1985 made perfect sense. Actually, callback to the second movie, to the Clint Eastwood film Biff was watching in the hot tub. "Great flick, great frigging flick!" Maybe someday you'll watch the Back to the Future (1991-92) 2-season animated series?
Easter egg. The Statler family. In 1885 Joe Statler is selling/renting horses, Clara Clayton got her horse and carriage from him, Doc Brown tells her he will speak to "Mr. Statler" about the incident. When Marty first walks into 1885 Hill Valley you can see the sign for Statler Horses. In 1955, the Statler family is of course no longer selling horses, but now cars, when Marty is going around town, you can see "STATLER STUDEBAKER" (Studebaker was a car company back then), then finally in 1985, the Statler family is selling Toyotas, which is where Marty get's his Toyota truck from.
16:05 Not to the first movie - to the 1964 Clint Eastwood film, Fistfull of Dollars, which Biff happened to be watching in the hot tub in his luxury suite in the second movie - they show the scene where Clint Eastwood's character does the same thing, using a steel plate as a bulletproof vest, if you go back for a second look.
I'd watch this channel just for the Editing. I love that RUclips Editors are creating an entire new genre of comedy that transcends the content with which they are tasked merely to assemble and take advantage of the immense power that one has in re-shaping that content in the Edit. I think I’d like to call it the Editolution. And this guy is well Trained in it. * sniff * It's Beautiful 😥
@@ri1eous Most welcome. I understand what it's like to add little things to an edit that probably only you will ever notice - the joy and fulfilment is very much for yourself, but it's also really nice when someone else does notice. So I truly do appreciate it. Keep it coming!
The band playing at the dance was ZZ Top, they are mentioned in the credits but I overlooked them the first few times watching this film because the music is unrecognisable as their own.
The thing with Marty and chicken was added for 2 and 3 but is logical as something that would have changed without marty knowing because his dad became assertive and probably told marty to stand up to bullies.
Thanks for sharing these reactions with us Angelina! :-) BTTF are my favorite films. Enjoyed all 3 commentaries, and what a beautiful girl :-) Best wishes from England :-)
In case anyone is curious, $80 in 1885 would be the equivalent of about $880 in 1985 & about $2,460 in 2023.
Interesting info. This is sort of similar: I read one time that in the year 1900, an ounce of gold would buy you either a really nice man’s suit or a horse and that it basically still will today. Pretty cool
sort of. the economic infrastructure wasn't there yet so most of your equity would have been in trade items like crops etc.
True, $80 was worth a lot more back then. But even without inflation, it's totally on brand for a Tannen family member to be such a petty asshole that he'd kill someone over a relatively small amount of cash. This was also the Old West, an era where lawlessness and guns were ubiquitous. It was the kind of timeframe when a Tannen can literally get away with murder with ease.
@@richardfarris2227I've seen it go as far back as Ancient Rome. An ounce of gold would buy a Roman soldier his uniform. Really shows why gold has been the standard for about five thousand years.
As they say. Only gold and silver are money. Everything else is just credit.
This trilogy is evidence that it is never a bad thing to end a franchise strong, with people wanting more rather than milking it and releasing disappointing sequels. A good filmmaker should know when to end the story
I remembered hearing rumors that they had a reboot in the works a few years ago. So glad that was either fake or didn't come together.
@@theshamurai32 As long as Zemeckis is alive, there won't be anything he doesn't approve of.
He approved of the TellTale game and the LEGO Dimensions Collab if I remember correctly.
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@@theshamurai32 and I hope they never do
@@thelazygamer1639 also the animated series
Marty using the boiler door as an improvised bulletproof vest was foreshadowed in Part 2 when Alternate 1985 Biff is watching the Clint Eastwood western A Fistful Of Dollars. Clint's character does a very similar thing, so Marty using the fake name "Clint Eastwood" in Part 3 further sets up this reference.
And Doc shooting the noose is a reference to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
It's also a callback to Doc's bulletproof vest in Part I.
@@johnkelly90 Or is The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly referencing the past when a blacksmith shot the noose xD
@@FatLittleButterfly well…TGTBATB isn’t shown on screen beforehand… so perhaps you’re right… that Doc altered history and it was born.
@@FatLittleButterfly I salute you, Sir!
The three old timers in the saloon are legendary western actors Dub Taylor, Harry Carey, Jr., and Pat Buttram.
They also do the voices of the cartoon bullets in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
One of them was on the show Green Acres. I watched that show as a kid in the eighties and nineties. It was s very strange sitcom.
@@thefallenfaith1986 Strange, but funny as hell.
@@thefallenfaith1986 That was Pat Buttram, he's unmistakable. Bullet one in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", voiced many characters for Disney, most notably the Sheriff of Nottingham in Disney's animated "Robin Hood".
While there wasn't a 4th Back To The Future film, there was a short lived cartoon series that takes place after the 3rd film. The premise was Doc Brown & his family settle in the present, Marty is now in college, & they still have adventures time travelling. Each episode started & ended with a live action segment of Doc Brown talking into a camera held by Clara, & the series gave Bill Nye his acting debut then he got his own show after the cartoon was cancelled.
there was also a game made by bob gale (writer of this movie) and someone literally went through. took out all the extra stuff and made btf 4 and 5 :)
I imagine "Doc" Brown would approve of the arc of Mr. Nye's career.
I feel that the ride was part 4, and the series was part 5.
I remember the Cartoon and the McDonald’s toys.
Channel awesome did a "what if..." Episode of a BTTF4
Michael J Fox was apparently left unconscious while filming Marty's hanging scene. Fortunately, he was rescued just in time by Robert Zemeckis, who realised that Fox's acting looked TOO realistic.
I remember hearing about that so glad Robert zemeckis realised thatv godbless them both
He thinks that's related to his Parkinson's disease.
Wasn’t it the horse dragging him ? Either way ya shame what happen to the guy over the years couldn’t of happened to a nicer person 😩
@@anthonygibbs-gv7qp Why would you taint such a kind gesture by asking the evil and horrible "god" to "bless" it? That's so mean of you.
@@Lupinemancer87 i meant in that dcene that Michael j fox was actually coking when being hung the director of the film noticed that he wasn't acting so he saved Michael j fox so i m glad the director aaved him and im glad Michael j fox survived and is still with us this what i was trying to say so u have got me all wrong
the way they did the train is they built a 1/4 scale model of a full train, flung it off a cliff and had cameras everywhere to not miss it
And the full size is at Universal Studios in Orlando.
lol what is more adorable than Ange shouting “TOOT TOOOOOT!” 😻
That's part of the beauty of this series since it was not originally planned as a trilogy. The second and third movies do such a great job of setting up Marty's "Chicken" arc, you don't even realize it wasn't in the first movie at all.
And another note, this movie speaks to the difference between child and adult me. When I was a child, I was sad that Doc's gift at the end wasn't the Hoverboard. As an adult, the picture is the perfect gift. haha
"The friends we made along the way."
I presume Doc had to scavenge the hoverboard for parts
I've seen a lot of people take issue with the "chicken" stuff saying that it comes out of nowhere, but the 1st movie does show Marty as being a bit of an impulsive hothead. Like tripping Biff and punching him in the cafe or at the school, him walking up to Biff and getting physical with him. So while the "Chicken" aspect wasn't there in the first movie, that characteristic did exist already in Marty.
@EternalDensity Exactly, he reverse engineered the hover tech for the train
@@EScoglio Super agree. That is exactly why it works so well. While it wasn't set up it still is completely in line with what we know from Marty in the first film. That's just great writing.
In my opinion, Back To The Future is the most consistent movie trilogy, at least in terms of quality, which is ironic because it breaks the key rule of a trilogy of essentially doing the same story 3 times, yet it works given the motif of history repeating itself. Look at all of the elements that appeared in all 3 films: Marty saying "This is heavy" & Doc Brown saying "Great Scott," Marty hitting his head & waking up with a version of his mother taking care of him, Marty walking into a diner & encountering a Tannen as well as a Strickland, a chase scene in the town square & Marty almost crashing into a vehicle, a Tannen crashing into manure, a scene where a character wears a bullet proof vest, pictures/documents changing, Marty being called "chicken," & of course the entire clock tower scene all appear in each film.
People using an expression multiple times doesn't have anything to do with history repeating itself. Even Superman used to say "Great Scott" on a regular basis. I'm sure Bill and Ted said "excellent!" long before they started time traveling.
They all have the same bad guy with a gang.
They all have Marty play a shooting game.
The 3rd slightly changes it up since Marty didn't use the "What's that!?" trick or get on a skateboard and actually got caught this time.
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I don’t remember Marty playing a shooting game in the first movie.
@@SonicPlayer2004 Oh yeah... That is strange though i almost feel like the one in BTT2 was a callback to doing it in the first movie. But i'm obviously wrong. Damn i'm having a Mandela Effect moment. lol
Doc and Clara are SO adorable in this movie
11:30 actually, it’s a two-movie learning curve… Marty’s reaction to being called “chicken,” like Doc’s love of the Old West, is introduced in the second film.
I like how well all the movies interconnected with each other. To where it feels like 1 big story, rather than 3 separate movies
Exactly! I made an edit of the 3 movies so it plays as one continuous ~5:20 movie. Since scenes overlap between the end/beginning of all the movies it only takes a few well placed cuts/trimming out the intro credits of 2 and 3
The clocktower scene was so well done they put it in all three movies.
Plus downtown Hill Valley was also used as the town square in "Gremlins".
Keepin it real with the George McFly laugh.
The editor/train bit was really great. I love how you can have a conversation through time via the editing process lol. And the animations are fun.
3 has always been my favorite. But I'm not really a western fan, so I'm not sure why. I think it's just because it ties the story up so nicely.
editing is like time travel 🙂
Marty using the door to the stove is a nod to A Fistful of Dollar starring Clint Eastwood, the pseudonym he was using.
Yes. In Part 2, Marty saw that scene on TV because Alt-1985 Biff had it onscreen while he was in the hot tub with the bimbos.
Eastwood explicitly gave permission for his name etc to be used in these films. When Marty comes out of the bathroom at the Drive-In in the red Howdy Doody cowboy outfit, the posters on the wall are for two early Clint Eastwood bit part movies.
The absolute best trilogy storytelling ever. First movie was about Marty. Second movie about Biff. Third movie about the Doc. This way of storytelling gives you three linked movies in the same universe with the same characters but each one feels new because tbe focus of character develpment changes. It gives the audience avfresh perspective while learning more about a different character. Just awesome. Great reaction, Ange, really enjoyed it.
0:30 Been going thru a rough time in my life atm and I've been neglecting myself so I didn't notice that my mood and mental state was slowly getting worse. Once I started regularly sleeping, eating, taking long hot showers, and doing all nice stuff for myself, I definitely felt better. Don't underestimate the importance of self-care.
1 of the creators of the trilogy said in an interview several years ago that because Marty wasn't in the car crash at the end of the 3rd film, it caused a chain reaction/butterfly effect of events that resulted in a new 2015 different from the 1 Doc Brown took him & Jennifer to in the 2nd film. Additionally, he stated the reason why Doc Brown didn't just tell Marty about what his future would be like/the events that lead to his kids getting arrested was that he wanted Marty to learn to not be so easily intimidated by others & learn to stand up for himself, which is what he did to Needles by refusing to race him & thus not getting in that car accident. So, the way I see it is that over the course of these 3 films (which from Marty's point of view was less then 3 weeks) not only did he help his parent's improve their lives in the past, but he matured as a person in the present to become successful in the future.
In the Part 2 we learn that Marty injured his head and was left unable to play the guitar. Which lead him to the office job with Needles that eventually lead to Marty being fired. Which was all caused by him crashing into the Rolls at the end of Part 3. So by not crashing into the Rolls he never sustained his life changing injuries that leads him to the office job, which leads to the firing. All that because he decided not to race Needles. Now that is genius writing and closes the chicken arc beautifully. It is subtle and does require some thinking but I think it makes it better. The writing in all three parts have been outstanding along with the attention to details like renaming locations. One of the greatest trilogies hands down.
Tbh it was all over a Friday and Saturday but yes to Marty about 3 weeks.
@@Imabassplayer2 I love in BTTF how twin pine mall becomes lone pine mall because Marty ran over one of the two pines in his escape from the barn in 1955. There are so many such small details in the whole trilogy. The only flaw in the story I ever ponder is why it would have been so hard for doc to refine some gasoline in 1885. By 1885 oil was already a commodity along with distilling kerosene from coal so the chemistry needed to make a few gallons of gasoline in 1885 should have been within Doc's skillset.
Technically, isn't the driver of the Rolls Royce at fault? When you enter a lane from a sideroad, you are the one who has to make room for the cars driving on that lane. Sure Racing is not ok, but you can't just enter a road with oncoming cars without making sure they pass first.
@@Lupinemancer87 That is an interesting question, but since Marty would probably be speeding and definitely be committing the crime of street racing they might both be considered at fault but possibly be looked at quite differently for legal punishments (particularly considering the Rolls Royce driver likely has more money for legal representation) and physics doesn't care who is at fault when it smacks objects into fragile bodies at high speeds.
So, the thing I noticed for the first time watching your reaction to the first movie (and I saw the trilogy when it was first in theaters, so it's taken a while) is that the "matter of eighty dollars" in this film parallels the original version of Biff crashing George's car and spilling his beer in the first movie.
The third one is also my favorite. I love how it wraps everything up and ties it with a pretty little bow with Doc getting a family.
Rees's love for trains was amazing lmao, and also I gotta say that the little kid wanting to go to the bathroom at 22:30 still makes me laugh, poor kid tho
this final movie actually got somewhat continued into a cartoon series about doc and his family in the train. Also this third one was also my fave
And basically gave birth to Bill Nye the science guy 😅
Where can I find that cartoon series?
@@stevenmacknight9960Peacock or fuboTV.
@@stevenmacknight9960 saturday morning 1991
The Saturday morning cartoon came after this was released, along with a comic published by Archie Comics. The show had a new DeLorean as well as the train, marty still had the hoverboard, the DeLorean could also set destination location as well as date, and the sons Jules and Verne had adventures. The episodes were bookended by live action doc brown skits with Homer Simpson voice actor Dan Castellaneta as Doc. Christopher Lloyd himself voiced the animated doc brown, and if i recall correctly, i think billy west did marty.
Oh, Reese! I live near enough that I have been to the place called Promontory Point, Utah, where the transcontinental railroad was joined. They have a museum there, and they even have fully rebuilt running replicas of the two trains that first met there!! They are still powered by wood and coal for their steam power, just like the original ones, and they run them up and down a section of track there every day. It's really cool! I highly recommend it if you are ever traveling through the West someday.
I’m here from the future to let you know these 3 films are one of the greatest of all times but by the time you see this message you would of seen them already i will see you again in the future, have fun 🙏🏽
Using the stove door as a bullet deflector is not a call back to the first movie but the second movie when Biff is in the jacuzzi watching the Clint Eastwood movie
Well its layered. I would say it reflects both and ties all 3 together, Eastwood movie and Dr getting shot.
I still use "Better run, squirrel" when the opportunity presents itself
All the inside jokes in the third are great. Did you notice the manure cart was owned by A. Jones? The Jones family has lived off manure for generations. Funny too how Doc and Marty switched at times say, "Great Scott!" and "Heavy!"
Also the Statler family has been in transportation since then too
Also a reference to Dr. Jones aka Indiana Jones
16:59 I don't know if it was on purpose but Reese's "I like trains" made me think of Tomska's asdf movies's one, so I was fully expecting a train to come on the screen and crush him and Ange 😂
this is my favorite of the trilogy, because it focus on my favorite character, the doc ❤ the first movie is about george, the second about marty, and the third about doc
Gratz on 200k subs Angelina! Third Back to the Future is also my favorite one!
Thank you! 😄
What a perfect ending to a great trilogy! Glad you loved it Ange and congrats on the 200k!
The editor's train subplot killed me 😂
The prelude to the moment before Doc and Clara dance was borrowed from a scene from the Western movie “My Darling Clemtine” (1946) where Wyatt Earp nervously asks Clementine to dance with the latter, prior, encouraging him to do so. About around the 3 minute mark: ruclips.net/video/4TCbWu1PhLU/видео.htmlsi=4UDjUDo5wUmcJJod
I entirely agree with your cold-opening health advice, Ange. Seems like a lot of the secret to happiness is training your mind to recognize and interpret those bodily signals.
Trains are cool and especially old steam locomotives, can't argue with the reasoning why BttF 3 is their favourite movie. :D
One of the best trilogies every...the story, comedy, good feelings, characters.. just perfect!
Just watched all 3 of your BTTF commentaries. So happy experiencing these scenes and your first time experiences. Had me crying on avg about 5x per review! Gah, so good. Thank you. So uplifting. Fave Trilogy ever.
Christopher Lloyd (Doc) was well known before Back to the Future. He, along with Danny Devito, was on the TV series Taxi for 5 years. Doc was a taxi driver. He also played a Klingon Commander in the Star Trek movie "The Search for Spock".
The 3rd one is my favorite too. Great reaction Squirrel
7:28 Michael J Fox almost died filming that scene. He has stated, "No matter how I shifted my weight, the swinging effect [of hanging] was not realistic, so I offered to try it without the support of the box". Since the scene only required a close-up of Michael J. Fox’s face, the actor stood on a safety box hidden below the frame for the first couple of takes of the stunt. However, Fox was unable to realistically mimic the swinging of a hanged man while standing on the box, so for the sake of getting a good shot, the actor offered to film the stunt again without the safety box beneath him. Although the stunt was flawlessly choreographed for the actor’s safety, a miscalculation almost killed the actor on the third take.
During rehearsals, Michael J. Fox practiced sticking his hand between the rope and his neck, so he didn’t become asphyxiated during the stunt. While this technique worked well for the first couple of takes, on the third take, Fox didn’t calculate the position of his hand properly, and the rope cinched tight against the actor’s throat. Unaware of the issue, the film crew kept filming while Fox dangled helplessly until he lost consciousness.
As it turns out, Michael J. Fox only lost consciousness for a few seconds during the stunt before writer and director of the feature Robert Zemeckis realized something was wrong. The rope had blocked Fox’s carotid artery, which had caused the actor to pass out, but the film crew was able to cut him down from the gallows and revive the actor, with everyone thinking no harm, no foul. Or so they thought.
Almost a full year after Michael J. Fox performed the dangerous stunt, he was filming another movie in Gainesville, Florida, when he woke up to find his pinkie twitching ferociously. The neurosurgeon that Fox consulted on the matter suspected that the twitching finger had something to do with the stunt gone wrong nearly 10 months prior. As Fox continued to consult with doctors, the twitching finger symptom expanded to include weakness in the actor’s left hand, achy muscles in his chest, and stiffness in his shoulder. While the actor believed these symptoms were related to the botched stunt, Fox would later learn that they were caused by the Parkinson’s he would soon be diagnosed with.
Mary Steenbergen (Clara) also fell in love with a time traveler in the underrated 1979 film "Time After Time." For real, too. She later married her co-star, Malcolm McDowell.
and she already did a Western with Cristopher Lloyd before that (in 1978) called "Goin' South", directed by and starring Jack Nicholson
Shout-out to Rees, i loved your commentary and editing in this it was hilarious in the best ways 🤣
Good reaction Angelina
(16:10) This is also a callback from the second movie where Marty confronts 1985 Biff in the hot tub. Before Marty shows up Biff is watching A Fistful of Dollars (with Clint Eastwood) where in the movie he does the same trick with a stove door.
Part III might just be my favorite too. What did I tell you, Ange? You were in for a real treat with this trilogy!
16:07 I love the way the music stops and starts with each punch Marty gives Tannen.
The train going over the ravine was entirely practical. The props deparment built the ravine, train, and backgrounds in miniature and filmed it all in one take. They only had one shot because they literally blew it up.
The beginning was very much a mood
6:12 Spiderman: Across the spiderverse
That was a very large functional steam train replica that they filmed being destroyed in the ravine, which is why it looked so great!
Actually, the vest was a callback to the second movie where Biff is watching Clint Eastwood's " A Fistful of Dollars"
She was talking about Doc Brown wearing the vest with the Libyans
I’ve been putting part 3 on to go to bed too on vhs.
I haven’t searched back to the future at all. But my phone listening to the room has heard the movie. And had been recommending “10 things you didn’t know about” and other commentaries of these movies. But yours has been honest and refreshing.
Subbed.
Just watched all 3 commentaries.
I love all 3 of the Back to the Future movies when I watch them I often binge all 3 back to back amd it treat them like one long movie
Back to the Future 4 was made into an episodic telltale game you can play on all systems.
You might recognize the actress playing Clara as the mother from your review of Stepbrothers. Mary Steemburgen.
Grats on 200k subs Squirrel ! Also never let go of Rees, he's a real treasure !
The showdown with Mad Dog Tannen is a reference to A Fistful of Dollars, the first big Clint Eastwood western and progenitor of the Italian Spaghetti Westerns as well as one of my favorite movies of all time. It's worth a view!
Little fact about the locomotive in this film. Sierra Railway No. 3 (dressed up as Central Pacific 131) is one of the most iconic movie star steam locomotives of all time and it’s still in service today. That crash was done with a scale model. The most memorable sound to me is its iconic Lima 5 Chime whistle.
The train scene and the race scene with needles were all filmed in my hometown. Race scene was on Doris Ave in Oxnard, and the train scene was at Shoreview Drive in Port Hueneme.
That area in Oxnard also appears in Bridesmaids.
I love how emotional you got for these movies.🥰
ZZ Top playing the wertern version of their song "Doubleback" which was the movie theme, actually in the stage is just another of the cherry's on top on a pile of cherry this movies have... and Noodles is Flea, bass player in Red Hot Chili Peppers
Yeah, I've got a soft spot for this one, too, it's pretty fun :) I'm glad you enjoyed it! Also lol I also like trains, the Reese banter was great XD
I was born the same year the first movie released and this is my favorite trilogy by far, when I was a kid I would watch all three (on VHS, no less!) on the days I was home sick from school. It became a running joke that my mom shared with every girl I ever dated (may she RIP)--you know he's really sick when he watches Back to the Future! I've very much enjoyed seeing your reactions to all three. :)
Don't forget the animated series! Where Doc, Clara, Marty and all the gang live in (then present) 1991 and go on time travel adventures! And at the end of each episode some really obscure paying his dues fella by the name of Bill Nye demonstrates science experiments after each episode!
I love the third one sm too! It’s a CLOSE second to me, just behind the first film
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Clint Eastwood was in the film “Revenge of the Creature” the poster on the wall!
As a person who loves train, I connect to Reese on multiple levels.
I watched this many times and it just occured to me in 1885 there are two DeLorean. The one Marty hid in the cave and the one Doc hid in the abandoned mines. They could've repair the leak and get the gas from the Doc's DeLorean to Marty's DeLorean. That is if doc did not drain his DeLorean before hidding it in the mine
You'd think Doc Brown would remember that he dressed Marty in that ridiculous cowboy outfit, since it was him in the past that did it.
Mary Steenburgen(Clara Clayton) was in another time travel movie in 1979 called, _"Time After Time."_ You should do a reaction to that movie.
In his defense it was 30 years ago for him.
Also, I don't think time travelers have their memories of events changed. So the Doc in 1885 would only remember the version of events in 1955 where he successfully sends Marty back to the future and then doesn't see Marty again for 20+ years.
Otherwise, they could have literally solved the problem by telling 1955 Doc to not piss off Bufford Tannen way down the line. Or, heck, to just keep extra spare parts in the Delorean.
Marty has no memories of growing up with a confident dad and an affluent family. But there obviously was a Marty in that timeline. So what happened to him and his memories? Was he erased from existence?
@@bobbuethe1477 yeah pretty much, so did all his 'original' family, Biff, and original Doc. and probably half of their school. as far as we can tell biff only killed George mcfly, but Doc and marty wiped out a BUNCH of people from existense
@bobbuethe1477 Good question. Unless that Marty went to occupy the original Marty's life because he did nothing to help his father, and just let things happen like it did in the original timeline.
The "Back To The Future" trilogy is a timeless masterpiece, no pun intended. 🤠
I had actually kinda forgotten how good this series of films is! Glad to have visited them again this way! Honestly, I don't know which one is my favorite. I think they all have good scenes, lines and expressions in them! A small part of me wanted, many years ago, to see a fourth movie but I now realize that this third one was indeed a good way to end it all.
Onto the next reactions it is, then!!
21:13 It's Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
oh and the locomotive and delorean that went into the ravine were scale models (they even had time to paint them!)
It's very rare that someone says part 3 is their favorite! My personal favorite is 2 but as a whole this is one of my all time favorite trilogies!! It's so well done and so well written!!
Also you referenced across the Spider-Verse I salute YOU
First is the best for me because of the originality and because, of course, Crispin Glover.
The first film might be my favorite, but that is no slight on the last two...
This trilogy is a full, rousing, and exhilarating adventure from start to finish. I saw all three in one afternoon, and I am still impressed with how seamless the whole affair works as a complete experience. By some miracle, they made what was once only one film and one story into a sprawling and twisty ride across the roads of time. One part cannot exist without the other, and it connects flawlessly.
Alongside The Lord of the Rings, this deserves to be recognized as one of the greatest film trilogies ever made...
The first one biff calls George an Irish bug
cause Mc-fly
Great video, Angelina! It's interesting to see how these movies are viewed today by someone like yourself, with people born after the 80s knowing in advance that it's a three-part odyssey and a beloved part of the popular culture and having the ability to sit down and watch all three back to back to back. As someone who saw all three in the theater when they came out and was all in on the mania back in the day, I'd like to talk about my experience, and the experience of the original fans. It's important to note that in terms of marketing, production and release times, these movies were quite different than, say, the original Star Wars trilogy or The Lord of the Rings films. Star Wars came out once every three years, building into a pop culture juggernaut. The Lord of the Rings, already a beloved book series, was filmed as one and came out one film a year for three years and marketed as a blockbuster from the get-go. The Back to the Future trilogy, however, was a whole different thing and almost an accident. The first film came out the summer of 1985 and wasn't anticipated as a big movie. It had a modest budget ($19 million, compared to 1984's Ghostbusters' $25 million or 1983's Return of the Jedi's $32 million) and featured a couple of television stars. (Yes, Christopher Lloyd had been in films before, including 1984's Star Trek III, but he was more recognizable as Jim from Taxi.) Director Bob Zemeckis and composer Alan Silvestri had a hit the previous summer with Romancing the Stone, but that was a smallscale, personal film with big stars (Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito) and wasn't a big happening in terms of story or music. So along comes Back to the Future, which was basically a comedy, and the last thing most of us expected was to be swept away with its big feel and John Williams-like score - and yet that's exactly what happened. Zemeckis caught lightning in a bottle (pardon the pun) with the perfect script, the perfect actors, and the perfect timing. It was loved by the people who were around in the 1950s, like my parents, because suddenly they were back there. It was loved by kids of the 1980s (like myself) because it was fun to imagine ourselves back in the time of our parents' youth (which we were always hearing about) while inventing skateboarding and rock 'n roll to show the kids from the past - especially the bullies - what fun really was! It became THE summer blockbuster of 1985, Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd became big-time movie stars before our eyes, and this was all just as video cassettes were becoming affordable and Cable television (deregulated in 1984) was exploding, so in the following years, we were able to watch and rewatch it many times. (Keep in mind, this was a period where our viewing choices were limited, with no DVRs, Blu-ray collections, or streaming services, and far less platforms for content creation. Thus a beloved video cassette would be watched over and over again.) By the late 1980s, we had all gone on to assume Back to the Future was a standalone film (as originally intended) and would remain a beloved icon by itself. Then it was announced there would be not just one, but two sequels, and they would be filmed and released back to back. Part II would come out in late 1989, and Part III would come out in early 1990. That meant several things that are important to understand. First, whereas Part 1 was written and filmed as one thing (with all the sets destroyed afterward), Part 2 and Part 3 were written and filmed together, sharing some of the same sets, featuring the same actors (with a couple of new actors taking over parts from people who wouldn't return after Part 1) - and, most importantly, telling one big-picture story, more or less - with exposition in Part 2 that wouldn't be paid off until Part 3. (In other words, Part 1 is like the original Star Wars film in terms of being its own thing from a production and story standpoint, with all the sets struck down after filming, whereas Parts 2 and 3 follow The Lord of the Rings model, filmed as one thing, with even one of the scenes in Back to the Future Part 3 filmed during the production of Part 2.) So anyway, back to the fans' standpoint here: when we went to see Back to the Future Part 2, it was the complete opposite of going to see Part 1. This time we were going to see a blockbuster (with a $40 million budget) with big-time movie stars, and stepping into an area of turf which was a beloved part of pop culture, with everyone knowing all the jokes from the first film (most notably the manure) by heart. Then.... JUST a short time later... we went to see Part 3, and that was a unique experience in a way because Part 3 largely plays off of Part 2, but keep in mind, we didn't know Part 2 that well! We had just seen it, but we hadn't seen it over and over like Part 1. (In fact, there were some people in the theater who had seen Part 1 but hadn't seen Part 2.) So in a way, it wasn't until the films came out on video as a threepack that we were able to watch them over and over and appreciate the grand tapestry. And THAT's my story about what it was like being an original fan - though I also have to add I was one of the first on the Universal Back to the Future ride in Florida, and it was awesome! And I loved the BTTF cartoon. But I think I'll stop there. Thanks for indulging me!
I love your editing style. There's LOTS of reactor channels on RUclips but the way you quickly intercut self-deprecating humour bits raises YOUR reaction videos to the next level. That, and you don't run these vids to 50 or 60 minutes - you keep the length reasonable.
Kudos!
Congrats on 200,000 subs, and what an amazing movie to coincide with such a HUGE milestone, all the best for two hundred thousand more.
If you are curious about the steam engine of the tressel scene at the end. It looks real because it is...partly. They used a scale model of the steam engine and ran it off a tressel to create the affect seen. I love watching people experience this trilogy for the first time. Now I will consider the 1st one as my favorite of the three; but 3 is next in line for sure.
Since she wasn't even supposed to be alive anymore past September 1885, taking Clara with them to 1985 made perfect sense.
Actually, callback to the second movie, to the Clint Eastwood film Biff was watching in the hot tub. "Great flick, great frigging flick!"
Maybe someday you'll watch the Back to the Future (1991-92) 2-season animated series?
Easter egg. The Statler family. In 1885 Joe Statler is selling/renting horses, Clara Clayton got her horse and carriage from him, Doc Brown tells her he will speak to "Mr. Statler" about the incident. When Marty first walks into 1885 Hill Valley you can see the sign for Statler Horses. In 1955, the Statler family is of course no longer selling horses, but now cars, when Marty is going around town, you can see "STATLER STUDEBAKER" (Studebaker was a car company back then), then finally in 1985, the Statler family is selling Toyotas, which is where Marty get's his Toyota truck from.
16:05 Not to the first movie - to the 1964 Clint Eastwood film, Fistfull of Dollars, which Biff happened to be watching in the hot tub in his luxury suite in the second movie - they show the scene where Clint Eastwood's character does the same thing, using a steel plate as a bulletproof vest, if you go back for a second look.
Marty's outfit is so colourful because Doc's references to the wild west were black and white movies
Good advice - the number of times I've found d the world getting on top of me - then I realise I'm overdue sleep. Go to bed - it's good for you!
There's a more recent video game that is basically Part IV. There was also a cartoon that continued the adventures.
16:14 Nope , Marty once watched the movie 'A Fistful of Dollars' and imitated Clint Eastwood.
Clara is played by Mary Steenburgen, she also played the wife of James Caan in Elf
I'd watch this channel just for the Editing. I love that RUclips Editors are creating an entire new genre of comedy that transcends the content with which they are tasked merely to assemble and take advantage of the immense power that one has in re-shaping that content in the Edit.
I think I’d like to call it the Editolution. And this guy is well Trained in it. * sniff * It's Beautiful 😥
well TRAINED in it. love that
@@ANGELINAA Glad you caught that. And the last three words plus emoji are a callback to the final moments of the edit too.
LMAO 'Trained'
thank u much
@@ri1eous Most welcome. I understand what it's like to add little things to an edit that probably only you will ever notice - the joy and fulfilment is very much for yourself, but it's also really nice when someone else does notice. So I truly do appreciate it. Keep it coming!
200k! Let's goooo!
Well McFly is an Irish name so it's fair to assume their accent is Irish.
The band playing at the dance was ZZ Top, they are mentioned in the credits but I overlooked them the first few times watching this film because the music is unrecognisable as their own.
The thing with Marty and chicken was added for 2 and 3 but is logical as something that would have changed without marty knowing because his dad became assertive and probably told marty to stand up to bullies.
Yep. Marty McFly is of Irish descent. There’s a comment of it by young Biff to George in the first scene where calls him, “An Irish Bug”.
Love this trilogy! I will never get tired of watching this work of art.
Thanks for sharing these reactions with us Angelina! :-) BTTF are my favorite films. Enjoyed all 3 commentaries, and what a beautiful girl :-) Best wishes from England :-)
Honestly, the flying time machine train at the end absolutely terrified me when I first saw it as a kid. I had never been so scared in my life.
Each film...AlwYs left you breathless❤ and it was Such a Close to the Trilogy..