@@LiteWeightReacting Just remember, at the end of #2, there's a trailer for #3 that really spoils the movie, so make sure you stop watching before the trailer starts.
The script is flawless. The foreshadowing, the callbacks, the character development, the humor mixed with the poignancy as well as the darkness. The way it handles the time travel without being hokey but also without being just stupid like many movies. The direction from Zemeckis is phenomenal. If you re-watch it, go look at the camera movement and watch how few cuts there are in a scene, how he covers a scene with a master and how he blocks the scene with his actors, how he uses the foreground and the background, how he frames things. The set design etc. Of course the performances are all incredible. Every single one of them is awesome. The score is stellar. The way Zemeckis handles tension, stretches moments to their breaking point (like the clock tower and Marty driving toward the cable at the end) without cheating too hard. All in all it's just a masterpiece. It's a blockbuster, but it's also film-making.
This script is taught in film school as a perfect "tight" script: virtually every single line of dialogue serves multiple purposes -- paying off a previous set-up, setting up a future payoff, foreshadowing, establishing character, and moving the plot forward, all at once -- and barely a single line is wasted.
@@CheepchipsableThat is true only after the first time watching because of the old addage 'hindsight is 20/20'. You have to take into consideration the age of this film before making that claim. The story only feels blatantly obvious after seeing it (especially if you didn't see this very early on) because the time travel plot element has become much more cliche after almost 40 years of filmmaking and playwrights using this (almost) perfect script as a portion of, if not the base, of so many stories and screenplays since BTTF's release. I would strongly argue that, while this certainly was not the first time travel centric screenplay, it was easily one of the most novel and well written as of its original premiere date.
When Marty was auditioning with his band at high school, the teacher with the megaphone who said he was just too darn loud was Huey Lewis from Huey Lewis & The News. The song Marty was playing in the audition is a Huey Lewis song as were other songs in the movie.
It was supposed to be a standalone film. They didn't plan on any sequels. The ending was meant as a fun gag/joke. It made so much money they were later asked to make more. They filmed 2 and 3 back to back.
yeah, I call total BS on that... they should have known when they were making it that it would be a classic & Universal would be making any kind of sequel
@@Gravydog316 No they really didn't know it would be such a success. They had all kinds of problems making this, including having to replace the lead actor, with extensive reshoots necessary. Also, up to this point, time travel movies were not generally big money spinners, so the producers have admitted it was a gamble.
Sorry my friend, you're wrong. I work in film and know people on this film. It was plagued with problems and no one expected it to be a hit. Before it was a DeLorean the time machine was a fridge that they would move around on a pickup - but cost-wise and time-wise it was problematic. Changing to a car came late in the process and DeLorean because all the negative publicity with John DeLorean scandal. They fired Eric Stoltz - the original actor playing Marty - when about half of his scenes had been shot . Michael J Fox was starring in a hit sitcom on TV so he shot on that Monday to Friday and worked on Back To The Future at night and weekends. People tend to assume that people knew in advance that films were going to be hits. I knew Gary Kurtz and on Star Wars (1977) the studio thought it was a turkey and expected it to bomb.
@@Gravydog316 I'm not surprised about this at all. Everyone involved and in-the-know about Star Wars during the making of it had no idea what it would turn into, the cast all thought it was some weird goofy movie passion project by George Lucas (which to be fair, it was at the time) and nobody had a clue what would come from it. There's plenty of other stories of huge success that went a similar way. Everyone is always trying to make the next big thing, or else chasing the trends too late... few succeed in predicting that thing and making it happen.
I remember watching this as a kid in the theaters back in 1985 and there was no .. to be continued at the end. It wasn't years later when they decided to do a part 2 & 3 that they put the ... To be continued at the end of BTTF.
46:25 - Marvin Berry called his cousin Chuck ..... CHUCK BERRY .... one of the pioneers of rock and roll, who, in 1958, wrote and recorded the song "Johnny B. Goode," the song that Marty was playing on stage! Also, Chuck Berry was famous for the "duck walk" that Marty does. ruclips.net/video/zr4AsGnMiO0/видео.html
I dont know if someone else commented this, but when Marty travels back to 1985 Twin Pines Mall is renamed "Lone Pine Mall" because Marty crushed the one Pine.
Back to the future is probably one of the best trilogies of all time. And you'll have to watch all three, you'll understand after you do, they all compliment each other. they are a master class in trilogy making, and it's an incredible ride.
Bob Zemeckis confirmed that Marty met Doc when he was around 14 after hearing that Brown was a dangerous lunatic. Marty wanted to go and see what it was all about for himself. He snuck into Doc's lab and was fascinated by all his inventions. When Doc caught him, he was glad to have someone interested in his work, and their friendship began.
I"M SO GLAD you didn't edit out Doc's reaction after sending Marty back. It's such a beautiful moment to see him so excited and to see how much he cared for Marty.
the fact he even had a mind to warn marty not to plug into the amplifier ...brought tears to my eyes... doc was big brother big sister hallmark lifetime channel of the week material.
***IMPORTANT NOTICE*** At the end of part 2. You need to STOP the movie when it says, "To Be Concluded". It will spoil the part 3 surprises. Thanks Thanks also for picking up on her changing in the window. So, so, many miss that.
@LiteWeightReacting Not sure we've seen you confirm awareness of this, but please please stop immediately at the end of 2. It's such a treat for you to be able to go into #3 with no knowledge at all, so please don't miss that rare opportunity!
@@LiteWeightReacting It is very important that when you finish watching BTTF II when you see the message "To be concluded" you stop the video, because then the trailer of BTTF III appears and there are a lot of spoilers.
Another fun Easter egg; the judge who tells Marty’s band “you’re too darn loud” is Huey Lewis from Huey Lewis & the News. They perform the theme song from the movie “The Power of Love” and the “Back in Time” when the end credits roll.
They actually planned on this movie being a standalone with no sequels in mind. After the success of this they decided to make part two and three (which were both filmed at the same time)
Yes and now so many tihink it was meant ot be a Trilogy series because there are so many shows and films that have sequals and stuff. Wrongo folks! it was NEVER meant to be a series, but the box office spoke loudly so they made two more. 2nd on 4 years later n 1989, and the 3rd one released in 1990.
It more just set the trend for sequels, completely unintentionally. The filmmakers have even said if they had known at the time, they would have changed this ending.
It's been used in film classes as an example of "the perfect script". Not one line of dialogue or one scene is wasted. Everything is a setup and payoff. For me, this is my all-time fav film (not what I think is the best film, just the one I could watch forever). My "fun fact" - Tom Wilson, who plays Bully Biff, is the nicest guy in real-life, a devout catholic and the exact OPPOSITTE of his character. When they were filming the "car scene", he would apologize to Lea Thompson (Lorraine) every take they did. She was so sweet and told him everything was fine, they were acting.
I cant believe it, but you pointed out something to me I never thought of before. I love this trilogy and watched it a zilion times. I never realized it, but you're right, Marty got rejected and couldn't play at his high school dance, but he got to do it at his dads dance in the past! I never thought about that, good call!
35:42 "I Feel Like We're Supposed To Know That Guy, And I Don't Know Who That Is" He's the town drunk in 1985, but he was the mayor of the town in 1955
So impressed that you noticed all of the small details! Lone Pine Mall, inventing the skateboard, etc. Most people miss these things first time watching!
The guy in the band, Marvin Berry (a fictional character), called his cousin Chuck Berry (an actual real life musician), who was the author of the song Marty was playing, Johnny B. Goode.
Chuck Berry didn't just write the song. He performed it! He was an icon from the '50's right up there with Elvis and Little Richard. His signature move was the "duck walk" that Marty did while performing the song!
This actually was a one-off movie that became a big hit. The scene at the end was not planned and they had to work around Jennifer being in the car when they made the sequels. Plus, Claudia Wells (Jennifer) was taking care of a sick family member and unable to participate when the sequels were filmed. She was replaced by Elisabeth Shue (The Karate Kid, Adventures In Babysitting). If you decide to watch part 2, you have to watch part 3. They were originally one movie, but the script grew so big they split it into two and filmed them back to back. They were released in 1989 and 1990, six months apart. Turn off part 2 right after it says "To be concluded" to avoid spoilers for part 3. This was pre-internet, so I guess they wanted to make sure we knew part 3 was only half a year away before we left the theater.
And Claudia Wells wasn't the first Jennifer cast. That was Melora Hardin who you might know as Jan from The Office( but she was considered too tall because of Fox's lack of height
As children we typically understand that our parents are watching us grow up, but very few are ever aware that as children we are also watching our parents growing up.
555 numbers were assigned to a radio telephone technology that never took off. Since no one was going to have any of those proto cell phones, TV and movies used the 555 numbers.
Technically, only the numbers between 555-0000 and 555-1999 are guaranteed to be safe to use in fiction, because the major phone companies have agreed never to use those specific numbers. In _practice,_ though, phone companies are probably never going to use a 555 number ever, because of films like this one that use numbers outside the "guaranteed safe" range.
That yellow guitar Marty plays in the beginning is called a Chiquita. It's smaller than a regular guitar which makes it easy to carry and it's very rare. Thomas F. Wilson, who plays the bully, Biff Tannen based his performance on his own experiences of being bullied himself in high school. You may have noticed the name of the farmer, Mr. Peabody and his son, Sherman. Sherman and Peabody were characters on the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons in the 1950's and 1960's. They would go back in time in their "Way Back Machine" to witness important historical events, usually to help those events happen.
@@samlung2724 Technically true. But they have this convenient plot device, called "the ripple effect". If Marty were to get killed in the future, he wouldn't be around in 1985 to grow up to be 47 in 2015... oooh the paradox :D
To me I took back to the future to be where the present is hinged to the choices being made. The only difference is the ripple effect. I feel changes are permanent if it gets to a certain point. Example of this is shown in the movie when Marty messed with his parents meeting. Unlike terminator, back to the future sticks to one timeline with what stands is what occurs by a certain point. Marty beginning to disappear at the dance was the ripple effect coming for him if his parents didn’t kiss. Personally I find back to the future to be a great film in how a movie dealing with time travel should be. Imo nothing will replicate the mastery of it
Wendy Jo Sperber…. I am so glad she is immortalized in this film. She was 27 I think at this time but played Marty’s 19 year old sister. She was in a sitcom with Tom hanks in the early 80’s called bosom buddies and even at that young age I had a crush on her. ❤ RIP Wendy. 🥹😢
She was great 7 years earlier in another Zemeckis film, the hilarious I Wanna Hold Your Hand. He used her again 2 years later in Used Cars. Both of those movies should be reacted to.
Absolutely react to the entire trilogy. First one is amazing, second one is clever, third one is awesome. 2nd and 3rd were actually filmed together and are really one double movie.
@@LiteWeightReacting To bring this to your attention, after part 2 of Back to the future, they play a spoiler filled preview of Back to the Future 3, make sure you skip that section.
After watchin alot of reaction videos of this movie your take on about how Lorain knew what she was doing in the window was a new take I never heard before and it makes sense. Kudos!
Lorraine was boy-crazy & all those boys were "bird watching" & she's changing in front of her window ...hmmmm... like when my sister or I are in the pool & the boy next door just HAS to mow his lawn. ...every day... & the rest of the time all he does is play video games
Yet why would she ask what George was doing, as parents in front of her kids. She wanted to maintain an illusion right? Why would George ignore her lying to the kids about being pure, innocent, when he KNEW the wild exhibitionist girl he dated.
This script is taught in film school as a perfect "tight" script: virtually every single line of dialogue serves multiple purposes -- paying off a previous set-up, setting up a future payoff, foreshadowing, establishing character, and moving the plot forward, all at once -- and barely a single line is wasted.
Right? I was excited by that, too. Like, not only noticing the switch to Lone Pine, but noting the connection to the name when the tree was knocked over in the first place. That's the upside of "always over-thinking" [referencing a different comment thread], I guess. ;)
This is one of those movies like “Jurassic Park” that you can just watch a billion times and never get tired of it. Fun facts: Bob Gale wrote this script after coming across his dad’s old yearbook photo and wondering if the two of them would have been friends. Bob Zemekis and Bob Gale have it in their contracts that this movie can’t be remade before they’re both dead. And lastly, much like big horror movies like Halloween, Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street, this movie wasn’t supposed to have sequels. It’s meant to be open ended for future adventures.
When you took your film studies course, did they tell you something along the lines of "from now on you will watch movies and TV differently," because I went to school for a similar program, and they said the same, and you caught WAY MORE callbacks/call(forwards?) than most reactors! I love seeing how people react to this film in particular and this was SO FUN! Thanks for posting this! +1 new subscriber
*I have honestly NEVER seen anyone pay so close attention to the details of a movie. This my first time seeing a reaction of yours. First of many!* *Have you reacted to "The Fifth Element", yet? Because that's one of those movies that you need to give 100%, undivided attention to, AND watch it, at least 5-10 times to get the full impact, and catch everything. But I have the feeling you'd catch everything on your first watch. MAYBE 1st & 2nd. But you definitely wouldn't need 5-10. lol*
fun fact, the teacher telling them at the beginning that they , Marty and his band, re playing too loud is the lead singer of the band making the main song, That's the Power of Love, of the movie and this song they are playing...he is Huey Lewis, a famous rock star at this time in the USA!
@@LiteWeightReacting And the guy sitting next to Huey is Eric Stoltz who was originally cast as Marty..... After weeks of shooting, he just didn't have the right "Screen Presence" that he wanted for Marty....... So they had to reshoot all the Marty scenes they had done up to that point........
@@LiteWeightReacting When Marty is late to school and he's skateboarding - the guy driving the Jeep he holds onto is stunt coordinator Walter Scott., the director of the movie. Originally actor Eric Stoltz was to play the Marty role, but after filming quite a few scenes, it was decided he just wasn't right for the part. You can see these if you search on RUclips
Back to the future is one of if not the best trilogy ever. Do them all ❤🎉 also doc will kinda explain timelines in the next movie and a new Jennifer because they couldn’t get the other actress back.
Love your reactions! ❤ Many RUclipsrs have reacted to Back to the Future but you seem to catch SO MUCH more of the jokes and cleverness than anyone else!
Oh wow I never thought that I’d ever see you do a Back to the Future reaction. I’m so glad that you took the opportunity to watch, definitely a timeless classic (no pun intended) aswell as the other two movies which I really do hope you react to and enjoy
As a teen in the 80s myself and other teens wanted to be teens in the rock and roll 50s. In the 80s as were nostalgic for the 50s. Make me sad the 80s is further away then the 50s was then. The 80s were awesome! I remember waiting in line the see BTTF.
It seems funny now to think of $19m ($15m + $4m for the reshoots with MJF), even inflated to around $55m today, as a big movie budget. BTTF was still on the somewhat modest side of big budgets in 1985. Of course, it blew the roof off the box office that year, pulling in $388m worldwide. Well-deserved, too.
The park bench homeless man was named Red, and was the Mayor in 1955. The actor is Buck Flower. He was a bit player in both film and television with some 150+ credits. He passed in 2004.
Without spoiling anything, Doc does a great job of describing the alternate timeline theory in BTTF 2! We've seen the idea covered so much in sci-fi over the years, but these movies were so many people's first experience with the concept, and they just nail it.
I have read that in an earlier draft of the script, Lorraine's (Marty's mom's) backstory is given more detail, but it was too dark so it was removed: The reason she claimed to have "never done those things when I was your age" was indeed to protect her kids, but also to cover up what happened to her. Remember the school lunchroom scene when she slaps Biff and says "I'm not that kind of girl" and Biff says "Well maybe you are and you just don't know it yet". Well, in that early draft, she was indeed r - worded, presumably by Biff, who spreads the rumor that she was easy and wanted it, etc. Her reputation is ruined, her father disowns her for shaming the family and she crawls into the bottle where she stays. She married George because he was seen as safe, discounting his peeping tom escapade. She might have been a bit of an exhibitionist herself, knowing he was watching. As you remembered on your outro, how her father said "Another one of these damn kids jumped in front of my car" ... Anyway, you see why such a dark backstory was cut from a mainly lighthearted and fun movie.
Fun cameo: the administrator who tells Marty during his try-out that "they're just too darn loud", that's Huey Lewis, the person who wrote the main song for the movie, The Power of Love 😁
Every time I watch this now, I'm reminded of a meme that was captioned Eating ass in the 80's and it showed Marty saying I guess you guys aren't ready for that, but your kids are going to love it!
Marty arrived in 1955 on Nov 5 at approx 1:25 AM. Nov 5 was the same day Doc invented the flux capacitor. Marty was busy ditching the car, walking into town. Stopping at the diner and meeting George and Biff. Later he got hit by the car and spent 9 hours at Lorraine's house. By then Doc had already had the epiphany. There was no alternate timeline where he told Marty about it. The same goes for adult Lorraine saying she never parked with a boy. She just being a mother. There was no looping timeline where she encountered Marty before.
Totally agree. These misconceptions happen a lot because the movie likes to get cute with "causality" with things like skateboards and Johnny B Goode. Ultimately, you have to say it was complete coincidence that Chuck Berry heard a couple measures of it, but you still have to say he would've written the song regardless of hearing Marty
@@michaeljacyna1973 I think she's overthinking it because movies and tv shows since then have made time travel more complicated with multiple timelines running simultaneously, etc. And I think Part 2 does touch on that...but there has to be a FIRST TIME and that's what this is.
@@edisont.picard4112 You're right. It is 6AM. We get a 1 second glimpse of the dashboard readout just before Marty hits 88mph in the mall parking lot. I said 1:25 because that's about what time it was in present time when he jumped.
- The clocks in intro.. there's one Doc forgot to mess in the ground you can is 8:15. - He live in the same garage of the mansion 1640, remember the papers he sold the house only the garage left. - The man who said is "too loud" is Huey Lewis the composer of the song (The Power of Love). - Clocktower square appears in lots of movies another example is "Gremilins"... - Marty meet the Doc in Twin Pines Mall but kill a pine in 1955 when he see the whole travel again is The Lone Pine Mall. -When Marty see Doc for the 1st time ask "It's a Devo suit?" because the band Devo was famous for use it see the clip of Satisfaction. - Father farmer is Sherman and his son Peabody named after a kids cartoon who included time travel. - Johnny B. Goode he jumps like Pete Townshend, in the ground acts like Angus Young, walks on the knne like Chuck Berry guitar near face like Ed Van Halen and the guitar on his back like Jimi Hendrix. - The scene from " Darth Vader" has a tape of Ed Van Halen he played a theme from Wild Life 1984. - Actor Billy Zane is one of Biff pals... - He promissed send the demo-tape of his band to someone, when he wakes up in the end of the movie he has the package in his hand. - Calvin Klein was dubbed in French "Pierre Cardin" and in Spanish "Levi Strauss".
Huey Lewis didn't just compose "The Power of Love" he did the movie's soundtrack and the music video was perfect for the MTV generation, you know back in the day when MTV actually played music videos 24-7
The actor in the beginning: "I'm afraid you're just too darn loud," is Huey Lewis from Huey Lewis and the News, the composer of the song Power of Love, the song Marty was playing for the audition.
the reason Biff;s henchman wears 3d Glasses in 1955 is because 3D movies were new so some kids thought it was cool to wear them his name in the movie is "3D" he is in part @ and wears updated version o 3D glasses in 1985
When Marti was locked in the trunk of the car and one of the guys says “Say that again.” That part was sampled in a song in the 90’s by Dutch techno group 2 Unlimited. They had several international hit songs during the mid 90’s.
The idea of time travel presented here is much more linear than what is presented in Avengers and Loki. In Back To The Future, there aren't multiple branching timelines all coexisting at once. There's just one timeline that gets altered by using time travel to change past events. When you watch the next one, you'll find out just how drastic those changes can be. Essentially, the multiverse or "multiple worlds" theory we see in Avengers and Loki was a theory created to avoid the problem of paradoxes like the one we kinda see here in BTTF. If Marty goes back in time and prevents his own birth, how could he exist to go back in time at all? The movie has a happy ending that ultimately avoids that paradox, but what if Marty didn't successfully match up George and Lorraine? What if he had killed George instead? The movie says that Marty would've faded out of existence, but the whole "fading out of existence" seems to be done more for the dramatic effect of Hollywood filmmaking than anything else. It still wouldn't answer the question, "If Marty was never born at all, how could he ever exist to travel back in time and kill his own father or otherwise definitively prevent his own existence?" That creates a paradox that would need to be explained somehow. The multiverse theory claims to solve this issue by making sure that the timeline you existed in and originated from is not altered, replaced, or erased by any changes you made during time travel, thus avoiding any resulting paradoxes. Instead, the changes you make create a separate branching yet coexisting timeline.
Lots to unpack here! Thanks for sharing all of it! I love how thought provoking this all can be. I really really cannot wait to see what they do in the next two movies!
@@LiteWeightReacting Yeah, it's a lot to think about. There are a few different theories regarding time travel, and it all can get a bit confusing. Entertainment media (like movies) have typically chosen the linear theory of time travel that we see in Back To The Future and The Terminator because it's a bit more simple and easier to understand, though the multiverse theory has previously appeared in comic books, and there was late 90's/early 00's TV show called Sliders that was based on the theory as well. But after the MCU introduced it, the multiverse theory has become all the rage in modern time travel fiction.
@@glennwelsh9784... You have to remember too that the Multiverse wasn't just a creation of modern day writers. Its history goes back over 2,000 years. I won't go into it here but safe to say it's not a new idea. There's also no reason it wouldn't work for BTTF except for the fading away into nothingness thing which wouldn't have happened regardless.
One of the little things I love is how they didn't know how to pronounce gigawatt ("jiggawatt lol") because back in the eighties it wasn't a common measurement like it is now with gigabytes
"jigga" was the way some science consultant the writers talked to pronounced it, so they kept it. It isn't common but apparently some people did say it that way.
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I ve known unorthodox view to understand the time travel from japanese time travel anime (its even kids anime, doraemon). But as expected from japanese show, it has its own creativity. Just like godzilla -1.0, now we know that godzilla is floating on the sea. Just like duck, i guess. So, in that anime, it says, even if we changed the past, the distant future would come back together in a way by itself. Just like going from florida (the past) to california (the distant future), You can go there in various ways (land, sea, or air). This anime is from 1980, and surprisingly, its still running. Its even still making the movies of it. And if you are really into time travel, i would recommend you to watch "Fringe" tv series. Its just 100 episodes. The first episodes aint really showing time travel. Yet, its actually already showing the sign of time travel later (you ll understand it later after watching bunch of episodes).
They set up the movies to be all connected and also uses the bootstrap paradox theory for time travel, Marty is essentially why he even exist in the first place. But he makes changes each time based on his present knowledge of his future basically just jump starting things. It's awesome
They had no idea there'd be sequels when they made this. Gale and Zemeckis just thought it's a fun way to end the movie. When they wrote the sequels they were mad at themselves because they put Jennifer in the situation
It is an alternate timelines story, as LiteWeight speculates. In a bootstrap paradox, Marty's parents never would have met without his help, but they did. His presence actually disturbed their meeting. The new timeline does have elements of a bootstrap paradox, but it's best not to pull on that thread.
Marty didn't notice activating the flux capacitor, and he didn't go back in time on purpose either. The setup you're asking about is called a Rube Goldberg machine. The guy that said "you're too darn loud" sang that song they played and the band playing with Marty is the actual band that did the song with the committee guy (Huey Lewis btw)
You're extremely good at picking up details. I only discovered your channel today, but watched a couple of the other videos and noticed you're really quick on the uptake and notice details most other react channels don't do. And I watch A LOT of react channels. A LOT.
A few points: The judge who interrupts Marty's band with the admonition that, "you're just too darned loud," is Huey Lewis. He's lead vocalist for the band Huey Louis and the News. He wrote "The Power of Love," the song heard several times in the film. He and his band performed it for the film. The film's score was composed by Maestro Alan Silvestri. Among many, many other films, Maestro Silvestri scored the _Avengers_ films. The mall is originally named "Twin Pines Mall." Doc Brown explicity mentions that the area occupied by the mall was once farmland. Old Man Peabody had a dream of using it to breed pine trees. That's the farm at which Marty arrives in 1955. If you look closely, you'll see that Old Man Peabody has a pair of identical pine trees at the end of his driveway -- but Marty runs over one of them. When Marty goes back to 1985, the mall is named "Lone Pine Mall." One extreme bit of subtlety is that George is left-handed. Believe it or not, this was frowned-upon socially and academically until the 1970s. Lefties were taught to suppress it and use their right hand instead. This sometimes led to a level of neurosis due to the brain being told to rebel against its natural tendencies. The key moment is when George punches Biff. He first tries to use his right hand, which Biff easily blocks and immobilizes. It's only when George becomes enraged and uses his natural left hand to punch Biff that he's successful. The whole neurosis/left suppression issue was intentional by the director and writer. George clocking Biff with his left hand is when George is finally able to overcome his self-doubts and simply "be himself." Biff saying, "Make like a tree and get out of here," is a joke based on incorrect use of slang that's now fallen out of use. The correct slang is, "Make like a tree and leave." The fact that Biff gets it wrong is a statement on Biff's intelligence (or lack thereof). "Great Scott!" is another slang term that's fallen out of use. It was an interjection of surprise, amazement, or dismay. It was popular in the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. It was frequently used by Superman in comics through the 1960s. Something I didn't notice until RUclips reactors started blurting it out: _Why did Lorraine remove Marty's pants??_ He had a concussion, not something that would necessitate the removal of his pants! I'll leave the implications of what Lorraine might have done while Marty's pants were off to the imagination. The 1955 band with whom Marty plays "Johnny B. Goode" is Marvin Berry and the Skylighters. It's now missed by modern audiences, but in-universe, Marvin is cousin to real-life rock musician Chuck Berry. At one point in the song, Marvin calls Chuck on the phone and says, "You know that new sound you've been looking for? Well listen to _this!_ " and holds the phone toward the stage. Chuck Berry was the real-life composer and performer of "Johnny B. Goode." Berry would go on to become one of the most influential musicians of all time. If Chuck Berry copied "Johnny B. Goode" from Marty, this creates what scifi fans call a "Bootstrap Paradox." Marty learned it from Berry, but Berry learned it from Marty. The song ultimately has no composer. This film creates a very strange paradox that's neither broached nor resolved: When Marty returns to 1985, he sees a version of himself go back in time. However, _it's not the same Marty_ . It's an *Alternate Marty* who grew up in the *Alternate 1985* created by Marty's 1955 actions: where his father is a successful, self-confident scifi novelist; his family is successful; and Doc isn't killed by the Libyans. The question becomes: what did Alternate Marty do when he went back to 1955? If Alternate Marty "interfered" with his parents' meeting, to him it would be the way he'd always heard his parents recount the story: that a teenager named Calvin "Marty" Klein was hit by Lorraine's father; that Lorraine was infatuated with him for a few days; and that this ultimately led to Biff's attempted SA of her and George clocking Biff. This becomes what scifi fans call a "Predestination Paradox," in which Alternate Marty must become Calvin "Marty" Klein in order for his future to exist. However, Alternate Marty might _not_ interfere, and the logical implications get very, very twisted. It ultimately results in what scifi fans call an "Infinite Loop Paradox," where multiple different Martys start showing up in 1955. Eventually, Doc's only reasonable response would be to break the loop by never building the time machine at all. The entire matter is totally glossed-over. It's best to forget about it and enjoy the films, because dramatically they're fantastic. Indeed, this script is taught in film schools as the "perfect script" because of the way it's structured. There are entire textbooks written about it. This film was the inspiration for _Rick and Morty_ . It's obviously only the inspiration, as _Back To the Future_ and _Rick and Morty_ are fundamentally different on many levels. There's an ongoing question among scifi fas as to how Original Marty got together with Doc. According to the director and writer, Original Marty had been told by Principal Strickland that Doc was a dangerous nutcase. Being the average Gen-X teenager, Original Marty pushed-back by going to Doc's lab to see for himself. Marty found himself impressed by all the weird gadgets Doc had lying around. Doc then hired Marty to work part-time at the lab doing odd jobs for him. Along the way, Marty convinced Doc to build the gigantic amplifier for his electric guitar that we see in the opening of the film. Back in the real world: In the early hours of the October 21, 2015 (the date Doc went forward to) fans gathered at the Puente Hills Mall, the shooting location of the Lone/Twin Pines Mall, to celebrate the impending arrival of the DeLorean. Sadly, no DeLorean ever appeared, but the fan celebration was well-covered in the press. On a personal note: as an early Gen-Xer, I was the same age as the "teenaged" actors. I instantly fell in love with Lea Thompson and continue to be infatuated with her today. Female reactors like to say, "Eyes up here," when Lorraine removes her sweater in the car. Guys my age have never been able to keep their eyes "up here." It's impressive that Lea was able to transition out of ingenue roles, which is rare in Hollywood. Typically, actresses simply "age out" and are discarded, but Lea continued to act for some time. She's also a successful Broadway actress and has now transitioned into directing. Lea remains beautiful and is one of the few Gen-X actress/directors who hasn't resorted to surgery nor botox nor enhancements. She's aged far better than me, and I really respect her not having chosen the enhancement route. No doubt, if I were to ever meet her, I'd be reduced to a drooling fanboy and embarrass myself. 💗
I love how you payed attention and piked up small hints like Mayor Wilson, the Lone Pine Mall, his parents' back story. etc. If you loved this movie, you'll love the entire trilogy and specially how it ends. And you're right, we love to rewatch all 3 movies from time to time, they're just THAT good. In regards to the timeline, look at it like one single timeline: whatever changes you make in the past, the "new" present is now your timeline.
yes, go for the second and third movie. they are great. just a heads up, everyone will tell you the same, right at the end of part 2 there are some previews of the 3rd. and you want to skip that because there are spoilers. so, just stop watching right when you see the "to be continued"
@@johnsaal8364this! Way too many people today are hooked up on that little teaser as a massive spoiler as if all of us back during initial release felt spoiled by it. I think people being able instantly search a tv show / movie and binge it repeatedly has created brainrot.
@@dirtyhawkstv1575 It's literally scenes from the third movie, and stuff that happens that a person who hasn't seen the trilogy hasn't seen yet.... 🤦♂
The homeless man wasn't anyone we're supposed to recognize. He was just the town drunk. There is a fan theory that because Marty calls him Red, that this _could_ be Red Thomas, the Mayor from 1955, but that's just speculation and has never been confirmed by the creators (and may have been shot down).
Real story………and it’s so much worse. So, the movie theater we saw in 1984 that the bum was sleeping near the front of….it was showing “Orgy American Style”. Red the Bum is played by George Flower, who was credited as “Buck Flower”. It turns out, “Orgy American Style” is a real X-rated film from 1973, and the main actor was George Flower, whose p*rn stage name was “Buck La Fleur”! Craziest cameo I’ve ever seen in a family movie!
Yep. A typical nuke plant only puts out 1 gigawatt per reactor, so forget time travel, I want Doc to monetize his 1.21 GW nuke plant that fits in the back seat of a DeLorean!
I love all the movies you post, your channel is filled with solid gold. Finally subscribed, though I haven’t missed one yet. Chuck Berry wrote and performed Johnny B. Goode and his cousin Marvin calls him as Marty plays it. Say this first when I was about 16, then soon after saw it in the theater again on my first date. Easily my favorite at movie the time, and still high in the top 10. I love how you feel like every detail gets addressed, making it fun for multiple viewings. Life changing for me as a teen to dream about going back and changing my home life with my parents. I still think about that, haha, except to fix my own mistakes, talk sense into past me. Great intro into the time travel genre and the best movie in its class.
Hi lovely lady, how are you? It's great you've started this iconic trilogy, I love these movies, please react to parts 2 & 3 as soon as you can :) some reactors leave months inbetween parts and I get that there's other stuff to react to, but please don't leave it too long. I like your reactions and I'm subscribed :)
@@LiteWeightReactingExcellent! Brilliant choice, that's the best sci-fi horror, an all time classic :) please react to it's incredible sequel Aliens too. And fantastic, thanks, I'll look forward to all your reactions to those & continuing your BTTF journey :) You're one of my favourite RUclips reactors :) *I liked your reply :)
This is the first time in 30 years that I've noticed Doc Brown bribing the cop when asks about permits. I've always just seen Marty's hands slipping the letter into his coat. I am blown away. This really IS, technically, the _perfect_ movie.
So fun watching your joy, enthusiasm and amusement watching this movie! Great reaction video! And your understanding of it being a new timeline would be correct according to the theory of a multiverse\timeline. 🙂
I really enjoyed watching your reaction video. It reminded me of the first time I saw the movie. I haven't read through the comments section to see what others have mentioned that you missed, but there are plenty of shoutouts, etc... I won't mention anything cause it's way more fun discovering. Again, I love the video and look forward to seeing your other videos. ❤
I first saw this movie when I was 8 years old in 1988, and I have loved it ever since. In the past 36 years, I've probably seen it 500 times, and the sequels almost as much. But the characters and narrative have remained so timeless, that every generation can appreciate it. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, and the filmmakers have all commented on that. The creators of the trilogy, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, have said the story is ultimately an example of a "causal time paradox". This basically means that if you go back in time and change something, that change sticks unless another happens later to reverse it. In the first film, the most blatant example of this is Doc surviving his would-be murder by the Libyans, thanks to Marty's note. If Marty hadn't originally fled from the Libyans and gone back in time to begin with, he never would've written that note, and Doc would've stayed dead. Also, the presence of the "two Martys" at the film's end is simply an illustration of the slightly-older one going back 14 minutes early. He can't beat the Libyans to the mall, but he arrives soon enough to see his younger self escape from them. The sequels really expanded on the nature and effects of time-travel in the overall story, and Doc mentions several times that he's become concerned about history being tampered with too much.
He call Chuck Berry, the guy who wrote the song Marty was playing. Also at the beginning the guy who told him they were just too darn loud was Huey Lewis, the guy who wrote the song that they were playing! Haha
Don't get too caught up in the details. Things like people fading from pictures... I mean, why would they gradually fade? Why would they be affected at all? They existed when & where the picture was taken. I guess they needed some sort of mechanism to show Marty (and us) that things are either on track or not. Congrats on noticing the 'Lone Pines' change - not many do. Personally, I think as soon as Marty ran down that pine tree, a new timeline branched off to a new future (with the Lone Pines mall). But that sort of thinking is explored more in the next movie (it's not a spoiler if it's so vague). I have often thought of graphically mapping out the trilogy's timeline(s), but then I lie down until the urge passes. Once you've seen the entire trilogy, you will understand. My advice would be to 'suspend disbelief' and to not overthink it - just enjoy the trilogy.
I like how you were enjoying the dog's twisting of its head and then when Biff said the make like a tree comment, you twisted your head in confusion. That was cute! :)
You’re adorable! I picked up on Lone Pine Mall too! There were so many subtle nods. A great score by Alan Silvestri (also did the fantastic score to Forrest Gump) and a great soundtrack of mainly Huey Lewis and the News!
I watched this when it first came out in the 80's and have watched it I'd say at least, at least, a hundred times. I never noticed it until this time that George, when Biff brought him the book, said "You can accomplish anything when you put your mind to it", I noticed Marty told George that when he was in his yard back in 1955 ; WOW!
MJF actually played the guitar in this movie, and the song (Johnny Be Good) is a Chuck Berry song, that's who Marvin Berry called and said "You know that sound your looking for, listen to this"
Props for picking up the subtle things most other reactors miss, like the Twin Pines Mall/Lone Pine Mall sign, and also for thinking ahead of when things happened. (You calling them beforehand) The timeline.... think of it this way.... You're on the highway, but needed to take a detour, but said detour led you back to the highway and now you're fine. Also, when you watch BTTF 2, stop it immediately after the movie is over to avoid spoilers of BTTF 3.
4:53 The song Marty and his band (The Pinheads) were performing is a hard rock version of "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News. The teacher that stands and says "I'm afraid you're just too darn loud," is Huey Lewis.
10 million points for noticing the LONE PINE MALL sign.
Meh. There's a much deeper and more layered Easter egg in the third one.
🙌 ..I never did. 🙈
Yes, most don't.
Yup, seen it a hundred time and never caught it.
@@CalciumChiefMeh on Meh-ing folks enjoyment
You cant watch the first Back to the Future without watching all three. Its a law. Its in the books.
They’re coming soon!!
@@johnsaal8364 Totally agree!
rules are rules....
@@LiteWeightReacting Just remember, at the end of #2, there's a trailer for #3 that really spoils the movie, so make sure you stop watching before the trailer starts.
Second this.
The script is flawless. The foreshadowing, the callbacks, the character development, the humor mixed with the poignancy as well as the darkness. The way it handles the time travel without being hokey but also without being just stupid like many movies.
The direction from Zemeckis is phenomenal. If you re-watch it, go look at the camera movement and watch how few cuts there are in a scene, how he covers a scene with a master and how he blocks the scene with his actors, how he uses the foreground and the background, how he frames things. The set design etc.
Of course the performances are all incredible. Every single one of them is awesome. The score is stellar. The way Zemeckis handles tension, stretches moments to their breaking point (like the clock tower and Marty driving toward the cable at the end) without cheating too hard.
All in all it's just a masterpiece. It's a blockbuster, but it's also film-making.
This script is taught in film school as a perfect "tight" script: virtually every single line of dialogue serves multiple purposes -- paying off a previous set-up, setting up a future payoff, foreshadowing, establishing character, and moving the plot forward, all at once -- and barely a single line is wasted.
Loved how you explained everything in this comment! You really nailed it. I really can’t wait to watch the next two movies!
Indeed. The climax with the thunderstorm is just chef's kiss! The cuts, the pacing, the blocking, it's just perfect.
That makes it predictable though. After the first few times instances you know whats coming - they out Chekoved Chekov.
@@CheepchipsableThat is true only after the first time watching because of the old addage 'hindsight is 20/20'. You have to take into consideration the age of this film before making that claim.
The story only feels blatantly obvious after seeing it (especially if you didn't see this very early on) because the time travel plot element has become much more cliche after almost 40 years of filmmaking and playwrights using this (almost) perfect script as a portion of, if not the base, of so many stories and screenplays since BTTF's release.
I would strongly argue that, while this certainly was not the first time travel centric screenplay, it was easily one of the most novel and well written as of its original premiere date.
When Marty was auditioning with his band at high school, the teacher with the megaphone who said he was just too darn loud was Huey Lewis from Huey Lewis & The News. The song Marty was playing in the audition is a Huey Lewis song as were other songs in the movie.
It was supposed to be a standalone film. They didn't plan on any sequels. The ending was meant as a fun gag/joke. It made so much money they were later asked to make more. They filmed 2 and 3 back to back.
yeah, I call total BS on that...
they should have known when they were making it that it would be a classic & Universal would be making any kind of sequel
@@Gravydog316 No they really didn't know it would be such a success. They had all kinds of problems making this, including having to replace the lead actor, with extensive reshoots necessary. Also, up to this point, time travel movies were not generally big money spinners, so the producers have admitted it was a gamble.
Sorry my friend, you're wrong. I work in film and know people on this film. It was plagued with problems and no one expected it to be a hit. Before it was a DeLorean the time machine was a fridge that they would move around on a pickup - but cost-wise and time-wise it was problematic. Changing to a car came late in the process and DeLorean because all the negative publicity with John DeLorean scandal. They fired Eric Stoltz - the original actor playing Marty - when about half of his scenes had been shot . Michael J Fox was starring in a hit sitcom on TV so he shot on that Monday to Friday and worked on Back To The Future at night and weekends. People tend to assume that people knew in advance that films were going to be hits. I knew Gary Kurtz and on Star Wars (1977) the studio thought it was a turkey and expected it to bomb.
@@Gravydog316 I'm not surprised about this at all. Everyone involved and in-the-know about Star Wars during the making of it had no idea what it would turn into, the cast all thought it was some weird goofy movie passion project by George Lucas (which to be fair, it was at the time) and nobody had a clue what would come from it. There's plenty of other stories of huge success that went a similar way. Everyone is always trying to make the next big thing, or else chasing the trends too late... few succeed in predicting that thing and making it happen.
I remember watching this as a kid in the theaters back in 1985 and there was no .. to be continued at the end. It wasn't years later when they decided to do a part 2 & 3 that they put the ... To be continued at the end of BTTF.
46:25 - Marvin Berry called his cousin Chuck ..... CHUCK BERRY .... one of the pioneers of rock and roll, who, in 1958, wrote and recorded the song "Johnny B. Goode," the song that Marty was playing on stage!
Also, Chuck Berry was famous for the "duck walk" that Marty does. ruclips.net/video/zr4AsGnMiO0/видео.html
Omg! Thanks for dropping that link! I love reading comments for stuff just like this cus it expands the movie and makes it even better! Thank you!!!!
@@LiteWeightReacting Glad to help! Love your reactions! Keep up the good work! 🥰
I dont know if someone else commented this, but when Marty travels back to 1985 Twin Pines Mall is renamed "Lone Pine Mall" because Marty crushed the one Pine.
@@801Guitarshredder If you remember from the reaction, she did pick up on that.
Although I don't like that the film repaints Chuck Berry as being a plagiarist rather than a pioneer.
Back to the future is probably one of the best trilogies of all time. And you'll have to watch all three, you'll understand after you do, they all compliment each other. they are a master class in trilogy making, and it's an incredible ride.
No, it is! 😉😁👍🏻✌🏼
It’s the best, every other trilogy has gradually devalued itself over time.
Oh yes! I’ll be watching all 3! Alien is next, followed by Back to the Future 2!
@@LiteWeightReacting Great!! And you have to watch the second Alien too, called Aliens, another great sequel!!
Looking forward to Alien
Bob Zemeckis confirmed that Marty met Doc when he was around 14 after hearing that Brown was a dangerous lunatic. Marty wanted to go and see what it was all about for himself. He snuck into Doc's lab and was fascinated by all his inventions. When Doc caught him, he was glad to have someone interested in his work, and their friendship began.
I have an Evil Doc theory but who knows what the deal is with them.
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing this!!!
@@LiteWeightReacting The confusion of you trying to workout time travel is hilarious... 😂😂🤣🤣
But none of that is ever disclosed in the trilogy, is it?
@@bossfan49 No.
I"M SO GLAD you didn't edit out Doc's reaction after sending Marty back. It's such a beautiful moment to see him so excited and to see how much he cared for Marty.
the fact he even had a mind to warn marty not to plug into the amplifier ...brought tears to my eyes... doc was big brother big sister hallmark lifetime channel of the week material.
The actor playing Biff is actually the nicest guy you’ll ever meet. He’s also pretty decent with a guitar
Really funny, and a talented visual artist as well.
and Crispin Glover (George McFly) is one of the creepiest mofos of all time.
@artembentsionov Thomas F Wilson!
@@justinedse8435 he payed Maniac in the Wing Commander games and Nate’s father in Legends of Tomorrow
Also a good tuba player
"Marty, what a nice name"
They loved that name so much, they waited for their third kid to use it. 😆
Head canon: George named his first son after a fellow who saved his life in the service. But that’s just me.
HAHAHA i didn’t think about that!
Family Guy nailed it: ruclips.net/video/gR0FptmZKdw/видео.htmlsi=wsN4w5pTwR2eu2nY&t=19
Maybe Dave got his name from George's father or grandfather or one of Lorraine's relatives.
It was a nice paradox, just like the flux capacitor thing
***IMPORTANT NOTICE*** At the end of part 2. You need to STOP the movie when it says, "To Be Concluded". It will spoil the part 3 surprises. Thanks
Thanks also for picking up on her changing in the window. So, so, many miss that.
@LiteWeightReacting Not sure we've seen you confirm awareness of this, but please please stop immediately at the end of 2. It's such a treat for you to be able to go into #3 with no knowledge at all, so please don't miss that rare opportunity!
Yes, to avoid spoilers, stop the movie at "To Be Concluded"
Definitely.
Lol, a bit late for that.
@@BiffMan42 shes confirmed on my comment somewhere haha
You're in for a REAL TREAT with this trilogy!!!
Yes I am!! I can’t wait to watch the next two!
@@LiteWeightReacting It is very important that when you finish watching BTTF II when you see the message "To be concluded" you stop the video, because then the trailer of BTTF III appears and there are a lot of spoilers.
"another" kid jumped in front of the car..... she's a popular show.
LOL. I've always loved that implication.
Or maybe he's a terrible driver and keeps hitting kids but blames them.
Another fun Easter egg; the judge who tells Marty’s band “you’re too darn loud” is Huey Lewis from Huey Lewis & the News. They perform the theme song from the movie “The Power of Love” and the “Back in Time” when the end credits roll.
Once you understand how Loraine behaves, you get why there are so many kids jumping in front of cars. They’re probably bird watching
yeah i never even thought of that until now haha
Lorraine has pictures of boys all around her mirror 16:13
Another one of these damn kids jumped in front of my car
They actually planned on this movie being a standalone with no sequels in mind. After the success of this they decided to make part two and three (which were both filmed at the same time)
Yes and now so many tihink it was meant ot be a Trilogy series because there are so many shows and films that have sequals and stuff. Wrongo folks! it was NEVER meant to be a series, but the box office spoke loudly so they made two more. 2nd on 4 years later n 1989, and the 3rd one released in 1990.
Came here to say exactly that! They wanted the flying DeLorean to be a kind of end gag/joke
Also Bob Z was filming Roger Rabbit at the same time as part 2.
It more just set the trend for sequels, completely unintentionally. The filmmakers have even said if they had known at the time, they would have changed this ending.
its diminishing returns after the first one for me, but your mileage my vary
It's been used in film classes as an example of "the perfect script". Not one line of dialogue or one scene is wasted. Everything is a setup and payoff. For me, this is my all-time fav film (not what I think is the best film, just the one I could watch forever). My "fun fact" - Tom Wilson, who plays Bully Biff, is the nicest guy in real-life, a devout catholic and the exact OPPOSITTE of his character. When they were filming the "car scene", he would apologize to Lea Thompson (Lorraine) every take they did. She was so sweet and told him everything was fine, they were acting.
I cant believe it, but you pointed out something to me I never thought of before. I love this trilogy and watched it a zilion times.
I never realized it, but you're right, Marty got rejected and couldn't play at his high school dance, but he got to do it at his dads dance in the past! I never thought about that, good call!
35:42
"I Feel Like We're Supposed To Know That Guy, And I Don't Know Who That Is"
He's the town drunk in 1985, but he was the mayor of the town in 1955
Not true. Writer Bob Gale has debunked this himself.
certianly not the same character just something someone came up with after the fact
So impressed that you noticed all of the small details! Lone Pine Mall, inventing the skateboard, etc. Most people miss these things first time watching!
Um yeah, I'm thinking she's seen this before.
@gunkulator1 Nope, this is the first time.
She has. No one is that observant and funny she has picked up on all details.
@@ilyasuddin2276 She seems to be and does this regularly with all the movie reactions I've seen her do. She has a very high Perception stat.
@@ilyasuddin2276 not everyone is as dumb as you homie
The guy in the band, Marvin Berry (a fictional character), called his cousin Chuck Berry (an actual real life musician), who was the author of the song Marty was playing, Johnny B. Goode.
So frickin cool! Haha
Someone tell her there's also a telltale game series. She needs to play that
Chuck Berry didn't just write the song. He performed it! He was an icon from the '50's right up there with Elvis and Little Richard. His signature move was the "duck walk" that Marty did while performing the song!
The people that tell Marty his music is to darn loud is Huey Lewis and the news
@@themoizcinema2370 Good luck with that. It's nearly impossible to find... legally.
BEST.TRILOGY.EVER!
Can’t wait to watch the next two!
It's my favorite comedy trilogy.
Frodo: "Don't worry Sam, Gandalf strayed out of all thought and time too. Maybe Sauron has cast a spell on the commenters"
This actually was a one-off movie that became a big hit. The scene at the end was not planned and they had to work around Jennifer being in the car when they made the sequels. Plus, Claudia Wells (Jennifer) was taking care of a sick family member and unable to participate when the sequels were filmed. She was replaced by Elisabeth Shue (The Karate Kid, Adventures In Babysitting). If you decide to watch part 2, you have to watch part 3. They were originally one movie, but the script grew so big they split it into two and filmed them back to back. They were released in 1989 and 1990, six months apart. Turn off part 2 right after it says "To be concluded" to avoid spoilers for part 3. This was pre-internet, so I guess they wanted to make sure we knew part 3 was only half a year away before we left the theater.
And Claudia Wells wasn't the first Jennifer cast. That was Melora Hardin who you might know as Jan from The Office( but she was considered too tall because of Fox's lack of height
As children we typically understand that our parents are watching us grow up, but very few are ever aware that as children we are also watching our parents growing up.
You are sorry.
The phone number Jennifer gave Marty was a 555- number, which was the prefix for non operative tv and movie phone numbers.
555 numbers were assigned to a radio telephone technology that never took off. Since no one was going to have any of those proto cell phones, TV and movies used the 555 numbers.
Was it the song 867-5309 that made movies & books start using (555)?
Because ppl called that # so much?
@LanceSolo72 no, 555 was long before that song.
@@LanceSolo72 I always thought that was it. Good song!
Technically, only the numbers between 555-0000 and 555-1999 are guaranteed to be safe to use in fiction, because the major phone companies have agreed never to use those specific numbers. In _practice,_ though, phone companies are probably never going to use a 555 number ever, because of films like this one that use numbers outside the "guaranteed safe" range.
That yellow guitar Marty plays in the beginning is called a Chiquita. It's smaller than a regular guitar which makes it easy to carry and it's very rare.
Thomas F. Wilson, who plays the bully, Biff Tannen based his performance on his own experiences of being bullied himself in high school.
You may have noticed the name of the farmer, Mr. Peabody and his son, Sherman. Sherman and Peabody were characters on the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons in the 1950's and 1960's. They would go back in time in their "Way Back Machine" to witness important historical events, usually to help those events happen.
The trick to time travel movies is to try not to over think it too much and just enjoy 😊
I’m the queen of overthinking though 🤣
Like how, if Marty travels to the future, technically, wouldn't he be missing in that future.
@samlung2724 Yup I always said that. Just like how Einstein was missing for one minute
@@samlung2724 Technically true. But they have this convenient plot device, called "the ripple effect". If Marty were to get killed in the future, he wouldn't be around in 1985 to grow up to be 47 in 2015... oooh the paradox :D
To me I took back to the future to be where the present is hinged to the choices being made. The only difference is the ripple effect. I feel changes are permanent if it gets to a certain point. Example of this is shown in the movie when Marty messed with his parents meeting. Unlike terminator, back to the future sticks to one timeline with what stands is what occurs by a certain point. Marty beginning to disappear at the dance was the ripple effect coming for him if his parents didn’t kiss. Personally I find back to the future to be a great film in how a movie dealing with time travel should be. Imo nothing will replicate the mastery of it
Fun fact: Hewie Lewis (the singer of "the power of love") was the judge in the glasses that told Marty, "I'm sorry, but you're just to darn loud".😏
Wendy Jo Sperber…. I am so glad she is immortalized in this film. She was 27 I think at this time but played Marty’s 19 year old sister. She was in a sitcom with Tom hanks in the early 80’s called bosom buddies and even at that young age I had a crush on her. ❤ RIP Wendy. 🥹😢
I loved her in 1941
She was great 7 years earlier in another Zemeckis film, the hilarious I Wanna Hold Your Hand. He used her again 2 years later in Used Cars. Both of those movies should be reacted to.
Absolutely react to the entire trilogy. First one is amazing, second one is clever, third one is awesome. 2nd and 3rd were actually filmed together and are really one double movie.
I have the first Alien already recorded so that will be next! After that, Back to the future 2!
@@LiteWeightReacting To bring this to your attention, after part 2 of Back to the future, they play a spoiler filled preview of Back to the Future 3, make sure you skip that section.
@@LiteWeightReacting The Thing(1982) has cute dogs and no time travel... :):)
@@kylereese4822 You are evil! lol
@@kylereese4822 yea very cute lol
I met Claudia Wells who played Jennifer Parker in 2021 when I was in California she owns a mens clothing store in studio city that's where I met her
Oh that’s really cool! I didn’t know that!
That's great. And if she's happy, that's what matters most. Has she ever thought about acting again?
Claudia still owns it I've gotten suits from her for years!
@@MrKeychange Wow no s***!.....
@@colinluckens9591 Yup! She's awesome. 😊
One of the best movies ever
It really was such a treat to watch!! Can’t wait to watch the next two movies!
5:14 a strong confident woman knows her man isn’t going to go away from all of HER!!!! The way Jennifer handles that was sheer class.
After watchin alot of reaction videos of this movie your take on about how Lorain knew what she was doing in the window was a new take I never heard before and it makes sense. Kudos!
Lorraine was boy-crazy & all those boys were "bird watching"
& she's changing in front of her window
...hmmmm...
like when my sister or I are in the pool & the boy next door just HAS to mow his lawn.
...every day...
& the rest of the time all he does is play video games
Yet why would she ask what George was doing, as parents in front of her kids. She wanted to maintain an illusion right? Why would George ignore her lying to the kids about being pure, innocent, when he KNEW the wild exhibitionist girl he dated.
This script is taught in film school as a perfect "tight" script: virtually every single line of dialogue serves multiple purposes -- paying off a previous set-up, setting up a future payoff, foreshadowing, establishing character, and moving the plot forward, all at once -- and barely a single line is wasted.
This film is taught as a tight script?! Nice
I can definitely see why! Its been used in the past and continue to be used in the future!
Teaching this script in film school is tight!
@@Osprey850 Teaching this script is super easy. Barely an inconvenience.
Full marks for picking up all the pine tree references the first time. It took a second viewing for me.
Woooo! Thank you!!!
Right? I was excited by that, too. Like, not only noticing the switch to Lone Pine, but noting the connection to the name when the tree was knocked over in the first place. That's the upside of "always over-thinking" [referencing a different comment thread], I guess. ;)
This is one of those movies like “Jurassic Park” that you can just watch a billion times and never get tired of it.
Fun facts: Bob Gale wrote this script after coming across his dad’s old yearbook photo and wondering if the two of them would have been friends.
Bob Zemekis and Bob Gale have it in their contracts that this movie can’t be remade before they’re both dead.
And lastly, much like big horror movies like Halloween, Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street, this movie wasn’t supposed to have sequels. It’s meant to be open ended for future adventures.
Just found your channel recently it's super fun, you definitely catch things most reactors miss!!! The next two are fun also, enjoy!
When you took your film studies course, did they tell you something along the lines of "from now on you will watch movies and TV differently," because I went to school for a similar program, and they said the same, and you caught WAY MORE callbacks/call(forwards?) than most reactors!
I love seeing how people react to this film in particular and this was SO FUN! Thanks for posting this!
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*I have honestly NEVER seen anyone pay so close attention to the details of a movie. This my first time seeing a reaction of yours. First of many!*
*Have you reacted to "The Fifth Element", yet? Because that's one of those movies that you need to give 100%, undivided attention to, AND watch it, at least 5-10 times to get the full impact, and catch everything. But I have the feeling you'd catch everything on your first watch. MAYBE 1st & 2nd. But you definitely wouldn't need 5-10. lol*
She picked up on almost everything. I'm thinking she's either seen this before or she's read the imdb trivia page or something.
Wassup Liteweight really enjoying all of your reactions keep up the amazing work my friend 😊😊
Hi Omari! Hope you’re doing well and enjoy the reaction!
fun fact, the teacher telling them at the beginning that they , Marty and his band, re playing too loud is the lead singer of the band making the main song, That's the Power of Love, of the movie and this song they are playing...he is Huey Lewis, a famous rock star at this time in the USA!
Omg thank you for sharing that! That’s so awesome and an amazing little nugget!
@@LiteWeightReacting And the guy sitting next to Huey is Eric Stoltz who was originally cast as Marty..... After weeks of shooting, he just didn't have the right "Screen Presence" that he wanted for Marty....... So they had to reshoot all the Marty scenes they had done up to that point........
@@LiteWeightReacting When Marty is late to school and he's skateboarding - the guy driving the Jeep he holds onto is stunt coordinator Walter Scott., the director of the movie. Originally actor Eric Stoltz was to play the Marty role, but after filming quite a few scenes, it was decided he just wasn't right for the part. You can see these if you search on RUclips
@@CoastalNomad No. Lot's of people say it was, but Stoltz was fired and the departure did not go well. He did not come back for a cameo.
Topping it off, Marty's backup band was Huey Lewis' band "The News".
Back to the future is one of if not the best trilogy ever. Do them all ❤🎉 also doc will kinda explain timelines in the next movie and a new Jennifer because they couldn’t get the other actress back.
Love your reactions! ❤ Many RUclipsrs have reacted to Back to the Future but you seem to catch SO MUCH more of the jokes and cleverness than anyone else!
Oh wow I never thought that I’d ever see you do a Back to the Future reaction. I’m so glad that you took the opportunity to watch, definitely a timeless classic (no pun intended) aswell as the other two movies which I really do hope you react to and enjoy
Why wouldn't she watch Back to the Future?! 🤷🏻♂️
Yes! I’m so happy I did too! Next up is Alien, followed by Back to the Future 2!
Ironically this film encapsulates so much of what made big budget movies in the 80’s so great yet most of it takes place in the 50’s!
So a good point!!
As a teen in the 80s myself and other teens wanted to be teens in the rock and roll 50s. In the 80s as were nostalgic for the 50s. Make me sad the 80s is further away then the 50s was then. The 80s were awesome! I remember waiting in line the see BTTF.
It seems funny now to think of $19m ($15m + $4m for the reshoots with MJF), even inflated to around $55m today, as a big movie budget. BTTF was still on the somewhat modest side of big budgets in 1985.
Of course, it blew the roof off the box office that year, pulling in $388m worldwide. Well-deserved, too.
Your timeline question will be answered in Part 2.
Awesome! Can’t wait!
@@LiteWeightReactingnot really as there are a couple time travel plot holes.
Or on The Big Bang Theory.
The park bench homeless man was named Red, and was the Mayor in 1955. The actor is Buck Flower. He was a bit player in both film and television with some 150+ credits. He passed in 2004.
Without spoiling anything, Doc does a great job of describing the alternate timeline theory in BTTF 2!
We've seen the idea covered so much in sci-fi over the years, but these movies were so many people's first experience with the concept, and they just nail it.
There's Easter eggs connecting all these movies that you'll notice. I love the way you noticed things in the background like the movie theater titles
I have read that in an earlier draft of the script, Lorraine's (Marty's mom's) backstory is given more detail, but it was too dark so it was removed: The reason she claimed to have "never done those things when I was your age" was indeed to protect her kids, but also to cover up what happened to her. Remember the school lunchroom scene when she slaps Biff and says "I'm not that kind of girl" and Biff says "Well maybe you are and you just don't know it yet". Well, in that early draft, she was indeed r - worded, presumably by Biff, who spreads the rumor that she was easy and wanted it, etc. Her reputation is ruined, her father disowns her for shaming the family and she crawls into the bottle where she stays. She married George because he was seen as safe, discounting his peeping tom escapade. She might have been a bit of an exhibitionist herself, knowing he was watching. As you remembered on your outro, how her father said "Another one of these damn kids jumped in front of my car" ... Anyway, you see why such a dark backstory was cut from a mainly lighthearted and fun movie.
Fun cameo: the administrator who tells Marty during his try-out that "they're just too darn loud", that's Huey Lewis, the person who wrote the main song for the movie, The Power of Love 😁
That is so amazing!!
He didn't just write it. He sang it too. Huey Lewis and the News were one of the biggest groups of the 80's
@@LiteWeightReactingand the guy driving the jeep downtown, with the baseball cap, that's Steven Spielberg
The stage show is equally as good, and production level is incredible! Great watch along, as usual!
Every time I watch this now, I'm reminded of a meme that was captioned Eating ass in the 80's and it showed Marty saying I guess you guys aren't ready for that, but your kids are going to love it!
🔔 LWR @ 0:01 "TIMECOP" (1994) is another excellent Time Travel movie you'd enjoy reacting to! 😉
Marty arrived in 1955 on Nov 5 at approx 1:25 AM. Nov 5 was the same day Doc invented the flux capacitor. Marty was busy ditching the car, walking into town. Stopping at the diner and meeting George and Biff. Later he got hit by the car and spent 9 hours at Lorraine's house. By then Doc had already had the epiphany. There was no alternate timeline where he told Marty about it.
The same goes for adult Lorraine saying she never parked with a boy. She just being a mother. There was no looping timeline where she encountered Marty before.
Totally agree. These misconceptions happen a lot because the movie likes to get cute with "causality" with things like skateboards and Johnny B Goode. Ultimately, you have to say it was complete coincidence that Chuck Berry heard a couple measures of it, but you still have to say he would've written the song regardless of hearing Marty
@@michaeljacyna1973 I think she's overthinking it because movies and tv shows since then have made time travel more complicated with multiple timelines running simultaneously, etc. And I think Part 2 does touch on that...but there has to be a FIRST TIME and that's what this is.
It couldn't have been 1:25 AM because the sun came up just as he was leaving the Peabody farm.
@@edisont.picard4112 You're right. It is 6AM. We get a 1 second glimpse of the dashboard readout just before Marty hits 88mph in the mall parking lot. I said 1:25 because that's about what time it was in present time when he jumped.
- The clocks in intro.. there's one Doc forgot to mess in the ground you can is 8:15.
- He live in the same garage of the mansion 1640, remember the papers he sold the house only the garage left.
- The man who said is "too loud" is Huey Lewis the composer of the song (The Power of Love).
- Clocktower square appears in lots of movies another example is "Gremilins"...
- Marty meet the Doc in Twin Pines Mall but kill a pine in 1955 when he see the whole travel again is The Lone Pine Mall.
-When Marty see Doc for the 1st time ask "It's a Devo suit?" because the band Devo was famous for use it see the clip of Satisfaction.
- Father farmer is Sherman and his son Peabody named after a kids cartoon who included time travel.
- Johnny B. Goode he jumps like Pete Townshend, in the ground acts like Angus Young, walks on the knne like Chuck Berry
guitar near face like Ed Van Halen and the guitar on his back like Jimi Hendrix.
- The scene from " Darth Vader" has a tape of Ed Van Halen he played a theme from Wild Life 1984.
- Actor Billy Zane is one of Biff pals...
- He promissed send the demo-tape of his band to someone, when he wakes up in the end of the movie he has the package in his hand.
- Calvin Klein was dubbed in French "Pierre Cardin" and in Spanish "Levi Strauss".
Omg! Thank you so much for sharing Al of this. I absolutely love hearing more about movies like this!!!
@@LiteWeightReacting Greetings from Brazil... I'll follow your reactions...
Billy Zane is randomly in everything lol
@@leeci33 🤣🤣🤣
Huey Lewis didn't just compose "The Power of Love" he did the movie's soundtrack and the music video was perfect for the MTV generation, you know back in the day when MTV actually played music videos 24-7
The actor in the beginning: "I'm afraid you're just too darn loud," is Huey Lewis from Huey Lewis and the News, the composer of the song Power of Love, the song Marty was playing for the audition.
I've seen so many reactions to this movie but I don't think anyone caught so many bits and pieces than you did. I enjoyed that so much. Thank you. 🙏🏼🍀
Chuck berry was an early pioneer of a new type of music called "Rock & Roll".
Great Scott i love bttf my. Childhood memories nostalgia
That’s awesome! Hope you enjoyed the reaction and I can’t wait to see the next two movies!
@@LiteWeightReacting same I love all 3 movies seen every movie
Great Scott! 😂
Wait... @@LiteWeightReacting have you seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show? That has some Great Scott lines in it, too. :)
the reason Biff;s henchman wears 3d Glasses in 1955 is because 3D movies were new so some kids thought it was cool to wear them his name in the movie is "3D" he is in part @ and wears updated version o 3D glasses in 1985
3D was super popular again in the early 80's so kids like me actually thought he looked cool.
Or maybe that was just me.
When Marti was locked in the trunk of the car and one of the guys says “Say that again.” That part was sampled in a song in the 90’s by Dutch techno group 2 Unlimited. They had several international hit songs during the mid 90’s.
Watching the entire Trilogy is a MUST!! BEST TRILOGY EVER!!!! Really is 1 huge story... You will LOVE THEM!!!! :)
The idea of time travel presented here is much more linear than what is presented in Avengers and Loki. In Back To The Future, there aren't multiple branching timelines all coexisting at once. There's just one timeline that gets altered by using time travel to change past events. When you watch the next one, you'll find out just how drastic those changes can be.
Essentially, the multiverse or "multiple worlds" theory we see in Avengers and Loki was a theory created to avoid the problem of paradoxes like the one we kinda see here in BTTF. If Marty goes back in time and prevents his own birth, how could he exist to go back in time at all?
The movie has a happy ending that ultimately avoids that paradox, but what if Marty didn't successfully match up George and Lorraine? What if he had killed George instead? The movie says that Marty would've faded out of existence, but the whole "fading out of existence" seems to be done more for the dramatic effect of Hollywood filmmaking than anything else. It still wouldn't answer the question, "If Marty was never born at all, how could he ever exist to travel back in time and kill his own father or otherwise definitively prevent his own existence?" That creates a paradox that would need to be explained somehow.
The multiverse theory claims to solve this issue by making sure that the timeline you existed in and originated from is not altered, replaced, or erased by any changes you made during time travel, thus avoiding any resulting paradoxes. Instead, the changes you make create a separate branching yet coexisting timeline.
Lots to unpack here! Thanks for sharing all of it! I love how thought provoking this all can be. I really really cannot wait to see what they do in the next two movies!
@@LiteWeightReacting Yeah, it's a lot to think about. There are a few different theories regarding time travel, and it all can get a bit confusing. Entertainment media (like movies) have typically chosen the linear theory of time travel that we see in Back To The Future and The Terminator because it's a bit more simple and easier to understand, though the multiverse theory has previously appeared in comic books, and there was late 90's/early 00's TV show called Sliders that was based on the theory as well. But after the MCU introduced it, the multiverse theory has become all the rage in modern time travel fiction.
@@glennwelsh9784... You have to remember too that the Multiverse wasn't just a creation of modern day writers. Its history goes back over 2,000 years. I won't go into it here but safe to say it's not a new idea. There's also no reason it wouldn't work for BTTF except for the fading away into nothingness thing which wouldn't have happened regardless.
It was supposed to be “make like a tree and leave” but Biff is an idiot lol
Amazing 🤣
One of the little things I love is how they didn't know how to pronounce gigawatt ("jiggawatt lol") because back in the eighties it wasn't a common measurement like it is now with gigabytes
Giga, my nigga.
But then we have GIF, so are we really any better?
*jiggabytes
"jigga" was the way some science consultant the writers talked to pronounced it, so they kept it. It isn't common but apparently some people did say it that way.
@@edisont.picard4112 interesting. tbf I still pronounce GIF with a soft g which is apparently wrong now too
Hi, I just want to say thank you. I’ve had some really bad emotional experiences and watching your channel has really helped me. Watching you watch these classic movies for the first time is a great experience as it reminds me of when I first watched them all with my dad, you’re great
I ve known unorthodox view to understand the time travel from japanese time travel anime (its even kids anime, doraemon).
But as expected from japanese show, it has its own creativity.
Just like godzilla -1.0, now we know that godzilla is floating on the sea. Just like duck, i guess.
So, in that anime, it says, even if we changed the past, the distant future would come back together in a way by itself.
Just like going from florida (the past) to california (the distant future), You can go there in various ways (land, sea, or air).
This anime is from 1980, and surprisingly, its still running. Its even still making the movies of it.
And if you are really into time travel, i would recommend you to watch "Fringe" tv series. Its just 100 episodes.
The first episodes aint really showing time travel. Yet, its actually already showing the sign of time travel later (you ll understand it later after watching bunch of episodes).
They set up the movies to be all connected and also uses the bootstrap paradox theory for time travel, Marty is essentially why he even exist in the first place. But he makes changes each time based on his present knowledge of his future basically just jump starting things. It's awesome
They had no idea there'd be sequels when they made this. Gale and Zemeckis just thought it's a fun way to end the movie. When they wrote the sequels they were mad at themselves because they put Jennifer in the situation
That so super cool!
It is an alternate timelines story, as LiteWeight speculates. In a bootstrap paradox, Marty's parents never would have met without his help, but they did. His presence actually disturbed their meeting. The new timeline does have elements of a bootstrap paradox, but it's best not to pull on that thread.
My favourite movie
Are you looking back to the future? I'm in love 😚
Love love love this movie!
Marty didn't notice activating the flux capacitor, and he didn't go back in time on purpose either.
The setup you're asking about is called a Rube Goldberg machine.
The guy that said "you're too darn loud" sang that song they played and the band playing with Marty is the actual band that did the song with the committee guy (Huey Lewis btw)
You're extremely good at picking up details. I only discovered your channel today, but watched a couple of the other videos and noticed you're really quick on the uptake and notice details most other react channels don't do. And I watch A LOT of react channels. A LOT.
Thanks Atlas! Glad you’re enjoying the channel. Would love to hear some recommendations that you have!
@@LiteWeightReacting I'm sure your community got it covered as is. And you're one of the few that already has seen Eureka, so :P
A few points:
The judge who interrupts Marty's band with the admonition that, "you're just too darned loud," is Huey Lewis. He's lead vocalist for the band Huey Louis and the News. He wrote "The Power of Love," the song heard several times in the film. He and his band performed it for the film.
The film's score was composed by Maestro Alan Silvestri. Among many, many other films, Maestro Silvestri scored the _Avengers_ films.
The mall is originally named "Twin Pines Mall." Doc Brown explicity mentions that the area occupied by the mall was once farmland. Old Man Peabody had a dream of using it to breed pine trees.
That's the farm at which Marty arrives in 1955.
If you look closely, you'll see that Old Man Peabody has a pair of identical pine trees at the end of his driveway -- but Marty runs over one of them. When Marty goes back to 1985, the mall is named "Lone Pine Mall."
One extreme bit of subtlety is that George is left-handed. Believe it or not, this was frowned-upon socially and academically until the 1970s. Lefties were taught to suppress it and use their right hand instead.
This sometimes led to a level of neurosis due to the brain being told to rebel against its natural tendencies.
The key moment is when George punches Biff. He first tries to use his right hand, which Biff easily blocks and immobilizes. It's only when George becomes enraged and uses his natural left hand to punch Biff that he's successful.
The whole neurosis/left suppression issue was intentional by the director and writer. George clocking Biff with his left hand is when George is finally able to overcome his self-doubts and simply "be himself."
Biff saying, "Make like a tree and get out of here," is a joke based on incorrect use of slang that's now fallen out of use. The correct slang is, "Make like a tree and leave." The fact that Biff gets it wrong is a statement on Biff's intelligence (or lack thereof).
"Great Scott!" is another slang term that's fallen out of use. It was an interjection of surprise, amazement, or dismay. It was popular in the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. It was frequently used by Superman in comics through the 1960s.
Something I didn't notice until RUclips reactors started blurting it out:
_Why did Lorraine remove Marty's pants??_ He had a concussion, not something that would necessitate the removal of his pants!
I'll leave the implications of what Lorraine might have done while Marty's pants were off to the imagination.
The 1955 band with whom Marty plays "Johnny B. Goode" is Marvin Berry and the Skylighters. It's now missed by modern audiences, but in-universe, Marvin is cousin to real-life rock musician Chuck Berry.
At one point in the song, Marvin calls Chuck on the phone and says, "You know that new sound you've been looking for? Well listen to _this!_ " and holds the phone toward the stage.
Chuck Berry was the real-life composer and performer of "Johnny B. Goode." Berry would go on to become one of the most influential musicians of all time.
If Chuck Berry copied "Johnny B. Goode" from Marty, this creates what scifi fans call a "Bootstrap Paradox." Marty learned it from Berry, but Berry learned it from Marty. The song ultimately has no composer.
This film creates a very strange paradox that's neither broached nor resolved:
When Marty returns to 1985, he sees a version of himself go back in time. However, _it's not the same Marty_ . It's an *Alternate Marty* who grew up in the *Alternate 1985* created by Marty's 1955 actions: where his father is a successful, self-confident scifi novelist; his family is successful; and Doc isn't killed by the Libyans.
The question becomes: what did Alternate Marty do when he went back to 1955?
If Alternate Marty "interfered" with his parents' meeting, to him it would be the way he'd always heard his parents recount the story: that a teenager named Calvin "Marty" Klein was hit by Lorraine's father; that Lorraine was infatuated with him for a few days; and that this ultimately led to Biff's attempted SA of her and George clocking Biff.
This becomes what scifi fans call a "Predestination Paradox," in which Alternate Marty must become Calvin "Marty" Klein in order for his future to exist.
However, Alternate Marty might _not_ interfere, and the logical implications get very, very twisted. It ultimately results in what scifi fans call an "Infinite Loop Paradox," where multiple different Martys start showing up in 1955.
Eventually, Doc's only reasonable response would be to break the loop by never building the time machine at all.
The entire matter is totally glossed-over. It's best to forget about it and enjoy the films, because dramatically they're fantastic.
Indeed, this script is taught in film schools as the "perfect script" because of the way it's structured. There are entire textbooks written about it.
This film was the inspiration for _Rick and Morty_ . It's obviously only the inspiration, as _Back To the Future_ and _Rick and Morty_ are fundamentally different on many levels.
There's an ongoing question among scifi fas as to how Original Marty got together with Doc.
According to the director and writer, Original Marty had been told by Principal Strickland that Doc was a dangerous nutcase. Being the average Gen-X teenager, Original Marty pushed-back by going to Doc's lab to see for himself.
Marty found himself impressed by all the weird gadgets Doc had lying around. Doc then hired Marty to work part-time at the lab doing odd jobs for him. Along the way, Marty convinced Doc to build the gigantic amplifier for his electric guitar that we see in the opening of the film.
Back in the real world:
In the early hours of the October 21, 2015 (the date Doc went forward to) fans gathered at the Puente Hills Mall, the shooting location of the Lone/Twin Pines Mall, to celebrate the impending arrival of the DeLorean. Sadly, no DeLorean ever appeared, but the fan celebration was well-covered in the press.
On a personal note: as an early Gen-Xer, I was the same age as the "teenaged" actors. I instantly fell in love with Lea Thompson and continue to be infatuated with her today.
Female reactors like to say, "Eyes up here," when Lorraine removes her sweater in the car. Guys my age have never been able to keep their eyes "up here."
It's impressive that Lea was able to transition out of ingenue roles, which is rare in Hollywood. Typically, actresses simply "age out" and are discarded, but Lea continued to act for some time. She's also a successful Broadway actress and has now transitioned into directing.
Lea remains beautiful and is one of the few Gen-X actress/directors who hasn't resorted to surgery nor botox nor enhancements. She's aged far better than me, and I really respect her not having chosen the enhancement route.
No doubt, if I were to ever meet her, I'd be reduced to a drooling fanboy and embarrass myself. 💗
"a few points" they said 🙂
@Dhairyasheel192 well, I taught at the college level for a few years. Pontificating sort of rubbed-off on me. 😁
Thanks
One of the best films ever!
Seriously so dang good!
@@LiteWeightReacting Fun fact they still make DeLorean's...
@LiteWeightReacting All 3 movies are good so watch them all!🎉
Rube Goldberg machine. You're welcome.
Haha I always wanna say Rebus. But it’s the R in “Rube” that triggers in my head
and Mousetrap game
THANK YOU!
Always reminds me of the breakfast machine from Pee-wee's Big Adventure, another 1985 movie.
I love how you payed attention and piked up small hints like Mayor Wilson, the Lone Pine Mall, his parents' back story. etc. If you loved this movie, you'll love the entire trilogy and specially how it ends. And you're right, we love to rewatch all 3 movies from time to time, they're just THAT good.
In regards to the timeline, look at it like one single timeline: whatever changes you make in the past, the "new" present is now your timeline.
Just wanted to comment, because I loved your reaction.
Lovely to see someone that picks up on details, and you scored really high there.
the homeless that said drunk drivers, was the mayor in 1955
yes, go for the second and third movie. they are great.
just a heads up, everyone will tell you the same, right at the end of part 2 there are some previews of the 3rd. and you want to skip that because there are spoilers. so, just stop watching right when you see the "to be continued"
@@johnsaal8364this! Way too many people today are hooked up on that little teaser as a massive spoiler as if all of us back during initial release felt spoiled by it.
I think people being able instantly search a tv show / movie and binge it repeatedly has created brainrot.
@@norberto450he wasn’t the mayor. I looked it up.
I've always wondered why people say there are spoilers in the preview for pt. 3. I wouldn't consider anything in there a spoiler.
@@dirtyhawkstv1575 It's literally scenes from the third movie, and stuff that happens that a person who hasn't seen the trilogy hasn't seen yet.... 🤦♂
The homeless man wasn't anyone we're supposed to recognize. He was just the town drunk. There is a fan theory that because Marty calls him Red, that this _could_ be Red Thomas, the Mayor from 1955, but that's just speculation and has never been confirmed by the creators (and may have been shot down).
It was shot down by Bob Gale on the dvd commentary.
Real story………and it’s so much worse. So, the movie theater we saw in 1984 that the bum was sleeping near the front of….it was showing “Orgy American Style”. Red the Bum is played by George Flower, who was credited as “Buck Flower”.
It turns out, “Orgy American Style” is a real X-rated film from 1973, and the main actor was George Flower, whose p*rn stage name was “Buck La Fleur”!
Craziest cameo I’ve ever seen in a family movie!
a gigawatt is the type of power usage you see from about half a million people.
That makes sense! 🤣
Yep. A typical nuke plant only puts out 1 gigawatt per reactor, so forget time travel, I want Doc to monetize his 1.21 GW nuke plant that fits in the back seat of a DeLorean!
"I think a man should be strong and protect the woman he loves"
Wouldn't hear that in a movie today
I love all the movies you post, your channel is filled with solid gold. Finally subscribed, though I haven’t missed one yet. Chuck Berry wrote and performed Johnny B. Goode and his cousin Marvin calls him as Marty plays it. Say this first when I was about 16, then soon after saw it in the theater again on my first date. Easily my favorite at movie the time, and still high in the top 10. I love how you feel like every detail gets addressed, making it fun for multiple viewings. Life changing for me as a teen to dream about going back and changing my home life with my parents. I still think about that, haha, except to fix my own mistakes, talk sense into past me. Great intro into the time travel genre and the best movie in its class.
Hi lovely lady, how are you? It's great you've started this iconic trilogy, I love these movies, please react to parts 2 & 3 as soon as you can :) some reactors leave months inbetween parts and I get that there's other stuff to react to, but please don't leave it too long. I like your reactions and I'm subscribed :)
I plan on doing Alien next, and then Back to the future 2 after that!
@@LiteWeightReactingExcellent! Brilliant choice, that's the best sci-fi horror, an all time classic :) please react to it's incredible sequel Aliens too. And fantastic, thanks, I'll look forward to all your reactions to those & continuing your BTTF journey :) You're one of my favourite RUclips reactors :)
*I liked your reply :)
This is the first time in 30 years that I've noticed Doc Brown bribing the cop when asks about permits. I've always just seen Marty's hands slipping the letter into his coat. I am blown away. This really IS, technically, the _perfect_ movie.
So fun watching your joy, enthusiasm and amusement watching this movie! Great reaction video! And your understanding of it being a new timeline would be correct according to the theory of a multiverse\timeline. 🙂
I really enjoyed watching your reaction video. It reminded me of the first time I saw the movie. I haven't read through the comments section to see what others have mentioned that you missed, but there are plenty of shoutouts, etc... I won't mention anything cause it's way more fun discovering. Again, I love the video and look forward to seeing your other videos. ❤
"Great Scott" That's my favorite line from Doc in this movie 😂😂 btw I came here from the gaming channel Teegan ! ❤️
I first saw this movie when I was 8 years old in 1988, and I have loved it ever since. In the past 36 years, I've probably seen it 500 times, and the sequels almost as much. But the characters and narrative have remained so timeless, that every generation can appreciate it. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, and the filmmakers have all commented on that.
The creators of the trilogy, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, have said the story is ultimately an example of a "causal time paradox". This basically means that if you go back in time and change something, that change sticks unless another happens later to reverse it. In the first film, the most blatant example of this is Doc surviving his would-be murder by the Libyans, thanks to Marty's note. If Marty hadn't originally fled from the Libyans and gone back in time to begin with, he never would've written that note, and Doc would've stayed dead. Also, the presence of the "two Martys" at the film's end is simply an illustration of the slightly-older one going back 14 minutes early. He can't beat the Libyans to the mall, but he arrives soon enough to see his younger self escape from them.
The sequels really expanded on the nature and effects of time-travel in the overall story, and Doc mentions several times that he's become concerned about history being tampered with too much.
He call Chuck Berry, the guy who wrote the song Marty was playing. Also at the beginning the guy who told him they were just too darn loud was Huey Lewis, the guy who wrote the song that they were playing! Haha
What a nice reaction. Very good forecast what happens in the next 10 seconds... and Lone Pine Mall was perfect :)
Don't get too caught up in the details.
Things like people fading from pictures... I mean, why would they gradually fade? Why would they be affected at all? They existed when & where the picture was taken.
I guess they needed some sort of mechanism to show Marty (and us) that things are either on track or not.
Congrats on noticing the 'Lone Pines' change - not many do.
Personally, I think as soon as Marty ran down that pine tree, a new timeline branched off to a new future (with the Lone Pines mall).
But that sort of thinking is explored more in the next movie (it's not a spoiler if it's so vague).
I have often thought of graphically mapping out the trilogy's timeline(s), but then I lie down until the urge passes.
Once you've seen the entire trilogy, you will understand.
My advice would be to 'suspend disbelief' and to not overthink it - just enjoy the trilogy.
I like how you were enjoying the dog's twisting of its head and then when Biff said the make like a tree comment, you twisted your head in confusion. That was cute! :)
You’re adorable! I picked up on Lone Pine Mall too! There were so many subtle nods. A great score by Alan Silvestri (also did the fantastic score to Forrest Gump) and a great soundtrack of mainly Huey Lewis and the News!
I watched this when it first came out in the 80's and have watched it I'd say at least, at least, a hundred times. I never noticed it until this time that George, when Biff brought him the book, said "You can accomplish anything when you put your mind to it", I noticed Marty told George that when he was in his yard back in 1955 ; WOW!
MJF actually played the guitar in this movie, and the song (Johnny Be Good) is a Chuck Berry song, that's who Marvin Berry called and said "You know that sound your looking for, listen to this"
Props for picking up the subtle things most other reactors miss, like the Twin Pines Mall/Lone Pine Mall sign, and also for thinking ahead of when things happened. (You calling them beforehand)
The timeline.... think of it this way.... You're on the highway, but needed to take a detour, but said detour led you back to the highway and now you're fine.
Also, when you watch BTTF 2, stop it immediately after the movie is over to avoid spoilers of BTTF 3.
4:53 The song Marty and his band (The Pinheads) were performing is a hard rock version of "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News. The teacher that stands and says "I'm afraid you're just too darn loud," is Huey Lewis.