Back to the Future Movie Reaction - FIRST TIME WATCHING (probably)

Hello everybody!
Today I'm watching Back to the Future and I wish I could go back to the past like Marty does so I could watch this movie for the (probably) first time again!
Starring:
Michael J. Fox, Lea Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Thomas F. Wilson and Crispin Glover
Written by:
Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale
Directed by:
Robert Zemeckis

[@RolyPolyOllieReactions]

Hi everybody!! I hope you enjoyed my reaction to Back To The Future! It was so good! I will be releasing Back To The Future movies on Monday's so next Monday will be Back To The Future 2 and then the Monday after that will be 3. Thank you so much for watching!!

[@laurenherda2415]

After you watch part 2 stop immediately, there's a trailer for part 3 and there's spoilers, so make sure you stop right away

[@trejones2211]

As great as the 1st one is. The second one is(in my opinion like Aliens, Terminator 2)a sequel that just as good 'if not' better than the 1st which is SUPER rare! The 3rd one well...But the 2and one is great also

[@kylereese4822]

You`re gf got you the Yoda.... she must be guilty of something... she had Starbucks, MacDonald's etc without telling you lolol :)

[@adrianbradley8513]

I'm a Back To The Future geek and I'm 48 years old. I collect everything related to this movie trilogy. This was an original idea for a movie in the eighties and not based on a comic,novel or a reboot which happens TOO often nowadays. Time travel is my favourite Sci-fi genre. Glad you enjoyed the first time travel movie I ever watched. I was VERY lucky to see the Back To The Future musical, just before the UK Covid-19 lockdown, in Manchester England (I live in Northern Ireland.)and it was brilliant. I hartly recommend you go see it if it comes to your part of the world in the FUTURE. Sorry about the pun😄😄😄🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@FiLzer0]

Man, I love watching your movie reactions and how you speculate what might happen and you're usually bang on or very close. Keep up the good work.

[@joshsmithactor451]

The toy car going on fire followed by Docs gasp really is the best 😂😂😂

[@judethaddeus9856]

I love that gasp and his expression lol

[@leannerose6181]

That kills me every time 🤣

[@serinx]

Guy... George is played by Crispin Glover (the one armed bellhop in Hot Tub you just watched). He was cast most assuredly for his connections to time travel. Also Alan Silvestri scored most of the Avengers movies (and Captain America 1)... Endgame name checks a ton of movies including this and HTTM.

[@susanmaggiora4800]

The DeLorean motor company was founded in 1975, by John DeLorean & the company made the DMC12 (this model) from 1981 to 1983, until the company went out of business.

[@JustinMacri007]

Due to false police charge.

[@magic8ball1982]

@@JustinMacri007 The charges were real. He actually was dealing cocaine to fund the company

[@jameyhej3]

Well _allegedly_ he may or may not have been doing anything, and basically the police asked him to put up some capital for some drug smuggling, which he said yes to, but was acquitted because that's entrapment. It was never proved one way or the other that he had done anything wrong before that point.

[@dabe1971]

30:59 No reactors seem to pick up on the detail that Marvin BERRY is on the phone to his cousin CHUCK BERRY - The father of rock & roll. So Marty inadvertently created the genre....

[@michaelklaus]

Actually he did not. The movie is trying to sell us here that Chuck Berry only wrote Johnny B. Goode in 1955 because he heard it over the phone... but since Marty already learned to play the song ("This is an oldie... well we call it an oldie where I come from.") it has existed in the original timeline as has rock & roll. This would be an ontological paradoxon which makes no sense in the context of the causality paradoxon Marty is trying to "correct".

[@Lensmaster1]

@@michaelklaus it's a joke that we can't think too deep into.

[@michaelklaus]

@@Lensmaster1 I think I have proven that we can think too deep into this.

[@a2thenita172]

Johnny B Goode was playing on radio at work and my young coworker said it was a good song and asked who it was by and I offended that he didn't know 😆. Young people just don't know rock n roll history. They're too far removed from it

[@tempsitch5632]

" I forgot Ronald Reagan was an actor". Look at @15:48 They set you up subliminally.

[@melissaisloud7404]

Any lady who gets you a giant baby Yoda is a keeper! She’s the Lorraine to your George! 💜

[@tfpp1]

Yes, yes...she is...your density!

[@bluebear1985]

George McFly was actually played by Crispin Glover in this film. I say this film because there was some controversy about part 2 when Glover didn't return, and some chaos ensued over it. You could probably touch up on that when you do the part 2 video. It's funny you mentioned "Hot Tub Time Machine" at one point, because Crispin Glover appeared in that as the bellhop.

[@JustinMacri007]

How nice is Christopher?

[@davidr1050]

The "fix" was to hang the actor playing George (Jeffrey Weissman) upside down in PT2 along with heavy makeup .. He did the voice so perfectly, no one noticed..

[@blowba]

Skateboards had just come out in the 1950s, but they weren't very popular yet. The chances that people in a small Northern California town would know about them are next to none. At the time skateboarding was mostly done by surfers in beach towns when the waves sucked. Hill Valley is at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains,nowhere near the coast and even if it was the water would be far too cold most of the year.

[@jaityrone6306]

Christopher Lloyd also played in Star Trek III as the enemy Klingon captain. Kruge

[@altaclipper]

The DeLorean was, in fact, an actual manufactured car. I have a friend who owned one. Regretted it. Now he regrets getting rid of it.

[@heavenlydreams123]

I love this trilogy! It's always so much fun to watch all 3 movies again and notice new details, I never mind having the soundtrack stuck in my head for days either. Not reading the reviews is a smart move, I've been fooled by those so many times I don't trust them at all anymore. Popular hyped movies can disappoint you and you might miss underrated gems. It's always best to watch a movie without knowing anything about it! =)

[@blowba]

Chuck Berry, Marvin's cousin was a huge rockstar and the guitar god of the 1950s. One of his biggest hits was Johnny B. Good.

[@charlesborden8111]

Written in 1955, also several of the moves Marty is doing during his performance were moves that Chuck Berry did.

[@blowba]

There was definitely a lot of Chuck Berry in there as well as some Pete Townsend, Jimmi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen and probably a few others I missed.

[@tylerhellums8774]

About Marty's audition, I hate to say it, but I can understand why he didn't make it. It was supposed to music to dance to, not a concert; with Marty's playing, it wouldn't be easy to pay attention to a dance partner, and not Marty's band. Yes, there was a guy dressed like a dog in the test scene.

[@foljs5858]

The pun is "make like a tree and leave" (as in trees having leafs), but he fumbles it into "make like a tree and get out of here".

[@dawnstone610]

You missed Hewy Lewis sitting on the chair and told him his music was loud in the school gym. Hewy was the best rock guy at that time.

[@SBaby]

11:55 - Yes, the DeLorean was a manufactured car that you could buy.

[@blowba]

50 cents in 1955 would be $4.86 in 2021.

[@michaelklaus]

Well you might have been right in the beginning of the movie or you might have been wrong... what we can be sure of that the events did not happen the same way again. Other have pointed out the funniest change you missed: Because Marty killed one of the pine trees at the Peabody Ranch in 1955-B the mall in 1985-B is now called Lone Pine Mall instead of the Twin Pine Mall in 1985-A. We are led to assume that Doc Brown died in 1985-A because he did not have a 30 year old letter warning him. But then again who could say if 1985-A was the original timeline? Maybe Doc Brown (1985-A) was warned by another Marty in 1955-A who had travelled back from 1985-0. What is also pretty certain is that there are no ontological paradoxes in this movie. We learn pretty early on that Marty has altered the timeline and creates a very nice causality paradox. He went back in time, averted his own existence which would mean he does not exist in the future. But then he could not go back in time, exists (again) and can go back in time to avert his own existence. But the movie immediately tells us how to resolve the causality paradox... the universe does not give a damn about Marty not existing in 1985 and simply moves on without him. (Bascially causality is out the window at that point.) Otherwise the picture would not be overriden with an empty picture... well actually the picture itself should seize to exist because nobody would take a picture of their front lawn like that. This also takes us to the most arbitrary plot device in the movie. The "ripple effect". There is indeed a scientifical concept of that name but the temporal delay in the result is rather fictional. But then again the movie would be rather short if it ended when Marty is shoving George off the street. If you watched a lot of Doctor Who you might notice that ontological paradoxes are usually part of fixed points in Doctor Who ergo deterministic events in an otherwise non-deterministic timeline... that and the Doctor crossing his own time stream. Oddly enough the ontological paradox(es) in Listen (8x04) are never adressed, but well Moffat could not care less about continuity at that point. Causality paradoxes on the other hand happen in baiscally every episode.

[@japython]

The Delorean DMC 12 became a pop culture icon after this film.

[@robertdurant7934]

When I was a kid around the time these movies came out I didn’t realize the Delorean was a real car. I thought it was just something Doc built from scratch.

[@michellelamar8965]

“Let’s see if you ba___rds can do 90!” Ironically the delirium car could only reach 85. Not even 88 loll And the guy who says “I’m afraid you’re just too darn loud.” Is Huey Lewis, the 80’s rock legend who wrote both “Power of Love” (which Marty was just playing) and “Back in Time” (end credits). Both written specifically for the movie

[@michellelamar8965]

I meant Delorian car of course.. autocorrect:(

[@luketimewalker]

@@michellelamar8965 that was incredible!!! ^^'

[@charlesborden8111]

Maybe Doc suped-up the anemic 2.85L V-6 or like a lot of cars in the US during 80's the speedometer only went up to 85 mph (remember at that time in the US the speed limit was 55, since it is left hand drive it has a American speedo), the cars could actually go faster.

[@DavidRomigJr]

This movie doesn’t operate on immutable time rules, more of branching timelines with sort of a delayed “catch up”. So, for example, Doc initially never met Marty in 1955, but now that time has changed, he has.

[@Yugioh420]

You didn't show it on here but did you notice that the black bus boy was Goldy Wilson the future Mayor. Indicating Marty was the reason he ran for Mayor.

[@barefootanimist]

It's very possible that the "electrocution" you're remembering came from cover-art or poster of "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation," which sometimes features an electrocuted Clark Griswold. The BttF and NLCV posters were painted in a similar style, and BttF2 came out the same year that Christmas Vacation did... Did you notice the name of the mall, and other slight changes between the start of the film, and the end. The same thing occurs in each of the trilogy films.

[@Pellevinen]

I 100% agree with you Twin Peaks is the the best show i ever seen especially 1 & 3 season and the movie fire walk with me David Lynch is so awesome!

[@Yugioh420]

Technically they names him after his great grandfather's brother from the third movie,

[@leesmith9299]

Crispin Glover played George Mcfly in this movie, not Jeffrey Weissman.

[@CaddyJim]

Your commentary talks about Michael J fox being the perfect cast for Marty McFly the first three weeks they used a different actor cuz because Michael J fox was busy with his TV show Family ties

[@namelessjedi2242]

Actually the other guy didn’t work out despite filming a lot of scenes and he had to be fired. That’s when they got Fox (thankfully).

[@JustinMacri007]

@@namelessjedi2242 they say he was to serious

[@MrParkerman6]

@Nameless Jedi Completely wrong, dumbass. The wanted Fox all along, but The Producer of Family Ties Gary wouldn't let him do it. So they made a deal with The Studio that if they shot for x amount of weeks with Eric Stoltz and it didn't work out, they could recast. So after shooting with Eric, they told the studio that it wasn't working and begged Gary to let Michael read the script. Gary handed it to fox on Christmas Day and said as long as it didn't interfer with Family Ties and it always came first- he could do it. Michael J. Fox read it and said it was the best thing he ever read. Rest is history.

[@Yugioh420]

He thinks Marty is an Alien, oh and that lady says dont stop, Will Drive.

[@nikk8647]

Great job!

[@hayleyferguson3346]

"How did this girl fall in love with Marty so quickly?" You're clearly not a girl! 😄💜

[@saschaD02]

43:30...skinny and sensitive can be graceful..just some confidence

[@rockubtzer]

If you liked this movie try 1986... Peggy Sue Got Married with Jim Carrey, Nicolas Cage, and Kathlene Turner.

[@Yugioh420]

So according to the movie he influenced chuck Barry

[@bartondonnelly5293]

The teacher with the glasses that tells Marty his music is “Just too darn loud” is Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the News. They did the song, ‘The Power of Love’.

[@alphamorion4314]

There's a rather dark theory as to why "original timeline" Lorraine is so different to her past (1955) self. It involves her being sexually assaulted, at some point by Biff and of course never telling George, him being such a pushover. So she was clearly chasing boys, "parking" etc in her young age, but after the trauma she made a complete 180°, went depressed and alcoholic. The theory is "backed up" by the car scene at the dance (we all saw that Biff was definitely going there, had George not intervened... in the 'original timeline' the fact would not have happened at the dance but probably some time later), or how "original timeline" Biff says stuff like "Say Hi to your mom for me" to Marty, and lots of other tiny details. I though it was worth mentioning, because after I heard that theory and rewatched the movie, there's a lot of details throughout the movie that made this theory make just too much sense. Especially considering that the "fixed" 1985 we saw at the end, older Lorraine seems to be much more similar to her teenage self, much more carefree and generally speaking happy: that would be because by that point supposedly she never experienced that trauma.

[@nicks.5552]

Wow! I never heard that before, but it makes sense. That’s disturbing, but it means that Marty didn’t just reform his father and jail bird uncle, but also his mother. That’s beautiful.

[@ChrissaTodd]

i always assumed she was just unhappily married to george because the only spark she had was him being hit by a car and pitying him, where as the timeline where george standsup to biff gives her more of a spark with them.

[@sean-ew2qv]

"too loud" was from the actual artist of the song. 😂

[@melissaisloud7404]

Huey Lewis always seemed to have a great sense of humor with his videos. This cameo is right up his alley.

[@NeuroticNomadic]

17:12 Pepsi Free was like Coke Zero. (and Tab was Diet Coke before there was Diet Coke) 23:38 Biff said the joke wrong. It's supposed to be "Make like a tree.. and leaf! (leave)" 24:41 Skateboards were invented in 1958 - 3 years after that scene. 35:02. Doc is wearing heavy rubber gloves. 35:42 Notice the name of the mall?

[@SimoExMachina2]

"On tab" can mean either on a bill that is charged later or from a tab (a faucet attached to a barrel) to a glass.

[@NeuroticNomadic]

@@SimoExMachina2 Wow. I didn’t even consider the idea that “put it on my tab” or “I want to start a tab” may be outdated sayings!! #old

[@BigNickWpg]

Did you notice at the end when Marty got to Twin Pines Mall and saw himself & Doc that it now read "Lone" Pine Mall? When Marty first got back to 1955 and was escaping the barn, he drove over one of the pines on Old Man Peabody's farm. You could hear him shouting "You killed my pine!" 🌲 Thanks for sharing your great reaction! 😊

[@justmeeagainn]

Wow! You must be the first person to ever notice this! You’re pretty sharp.

[@BigNickWpg]

@@justmeeagainn The person reacting to and posting a video about it didn't notice so I was helping him out. Guess you didn't notice that, Mr. Sharpie? 🙄 Go troll elsewhere.

[@YuukiiHON]

Omg I’ve watched it a million times and didn’t notice it and that’s very rare of me. Nice hahaha

[@judethaddeus9856]

That was very clever!!! Very observant of you!!

[@TinyVio-Lynn]

I never noticed that before.

[@Pixelologist]

"I'll bet she chased at least one boy." Oh, yes. Indeed she did.

[@ivanholguin164]

The joke from 16:58 to 17:12 made me laugh when I first saw this movie back in the day, but it unfortunately seems that this particular joke has become outdated and usually falls flat with younger audiences discovering this movie today, which makes me kind of sad to see. But to put the joke in context, for those who may not get it: At 16:58, the coffee shopkeeper asks Marty if he’s going to order anything, marty then says “Yeah, give me a TaB (which was a diet soda brand back in the 80’s)”. Since the TaB diet soda has not been invented yet, the shopkeeper misunderstands and says “Tab? I can’t give you a tab unless you order something” as in “Bill you? I can’t bill you for anything if you haven’t placed an order for anything.” Marty then says “Alright, then give me a ‘Pepsi Free’ (which was a “Caffeine Free” version of Pepsi, hence why it was called “Pepsi Free”, which BTW can be seen in Marty’s bedroom near his alarm clock at 8:45 and at 36:40)” and since that “Caffeine Free” version of Pepsi has yet to be invented, the shopkeeper again misunderstands him and responds with “If you want a pepsi pal, you’re going to pay it” as in “I’m not giving you a Pepsi for free.” Marty then realizing he can’t order his preferred choices of drinks from the 80’s in the 50’s, resigns and says “Look, just give me something without any sugar in it, ok?” I know that explaining why the joke is funny doesn’t magically make it funny for some folks, but I just wanted to share that because it was a joke that I always liked from the movie. One more thing I will say is that I’m very glad to see is that you at least found it funny, most youtubers reacting this movie immediately gloss over that scene because I guess the joke fell flat with them.

[@RolyPolyOllieReactions]

haha thank you! I had heard of a Pepsi Free but i didn't know what a TaB was so thank you!!

[@philpaine3068]

@@RolyPolyOllieReactions Both of these brands were absolutely awful tasting, since the artificial sweetener they used was saccharin. They were popular with adult dieters, but definitely not with teenagers --- it's out of character for somebody like Marty to like either one of them. But I guess Pepsico paid well to get the plug in for Pepsi Free.

[@Vertigotheatre1]

In the 50s when young adults said 'parked' they were talking about parking up and making out :-)

[@DR-mq1vn]

We said "parking" in the 80s too.

[@Atlas_Redux]

"Probably one of the best movie-gasps I've ever seen" I can not not smile at that gasp every time I see it, it's glorious.

[@KT926]

Michael J Fox was the first choice to play Marty but he was too busy with the TV show Family Ties. Eric Stoltz was cast, worked on the film for about 2 weeks and did around 5 scenes. He is the one who punched Biff in the cafe scene and if you pause the movie at that very moment, you can see Eric's face. The director felt that Eric was not funny enough and too serious. This was because he was a dramatic actor and not had a lot of experience in comedy so he was let go. The producers spoke to the people on Family Ties and asked if there was a way for Michael to play Marty in the film. They said yes as long as it didn't interfere with his work schedule for the show. Michael ended up working on Family Ties all day and this film all night with only 3 or 4 hours of sleep a night. Someone had to help him get home and carry him to bed after finishing the BTTF shifts.

[@josealmeida2842]

I absolutely love your critiques of how well these films are made. Back to the Future is frequently used in film classes how to deliver information about the plot and characters in a natural sounding way.

[@SiniyLazutchik]

Yes, a great film, perhaps even a genius. I am from Ukraine and grew up in the USSR and in post-Soviet space. I watched this movie as a teenager in the early 90's and it was cool, sometimes I watch it now. We love this film in the post-Soviet space too. The following parts are no worse, the whole trilogy is great.

[@poeleabois]

I hope you are doing OK right now.

[@crownprincesebastianjohano7069]

The script for this film has often been referred to as the "perfect" script in terms of screenwriting. It does everything a script should do.

[@MrParkerman6]

Fun Fact: Most Studios turned the script down, cuz they didn't think it was sexual enough. DISNEY turned it down cuz they thought it was TOO Sexual with The Mom Incest stuff.

[@robertdurant7934]

Imagine all the regret those studio heads have had all these years later.

[@Tigermania]

If you like the way events are mirrored in the past and present, your gonna love the events in Back to the Future 2

[@nickel392]

If you don´t want to get spoiled, stop Part 2 immediately after the last scene, cuz there´s a trailer for part 3 right after it. Part 2 and 3 were shot at the same time.

[@RolyPolyOllieReactions]

Thank you for the heads up!

[@susanmaggiora4800]

RolyPolyOllie Reactions Yeah, you need to do it really quick, cause they pretty much go into the trailer right away.

[@namelessjedi2242]

Good call. I remember seeing it in the theater and seeing the trailer, which was exciting at the time. But for a reaction video, yeah... may want to go into part three “pure”.

[@michaelklaus]

@@RolyPolyOllieReactions Sorry but this is a toxic misinterpretation of getting something spoiled. There is nothing in the trailer actually ruining the experience of the movie. There are a few movie trailers out there that actually reveal plot relevant elements ahead of the movie but not in this trailer. If you ask me the trailer is part of the experience, hyping you up for the third movie, setting the mood, and exactly doing what it should do. And people, who do not understand what a spoiler is, are ruining it for new audience for no reason whatsoever. If we go these strange ways we should also not know movie titles because they "spoil" the movie.

[@michaelklaus]

Actually that is basically saying that the ending of this movie is spoiling the next movie, come to think of it. You knew from this that the next movie saw Doc, Marty, and Jennifer travel to 2015 to take care of some problems their kids have. And that hte DeLorean could fly in the next one. And that time travel was still a thing. Oooohhooohhh spoilers.

[@lordmortarius538]

When Marty drinks the whisky that Lorraine stole from "The old Lady's liquor cabinet" his reaction was real because he was expecting just whisky-colored water but turns out it was actual whisky LUL

[@MrParkerman6]

No! They switched it for the outtake as a prank that can be seen on youtube. They then gave him the prop drink. No way he could drink the booze in the actually used scene. Watch The Out take, Michael can barely drink it even after he knows!

[@tempsitch5632]

@19:57 The "what's a rerun?" kid became more famous a few years later in a similar role and time period - as the brother in The Wonder Years.

[@JustinMacri007]

Wonder Years was not till 1989

[@tempsitch5632]

@@JustinMacri007 And ?

[@JustinMacri007]

@@tempsitch5632 in just saying

[@tempsitch5632]

@@JustinMacri007 Wait for a reason, to say.

[@FallenHellscape]

Dude, did you see this movie before? Edit: As I watch this, I re-ask the question. I’ll just assume you’re intuitive. Unless BTTF is really predictable. I can tell. I saw it in 1985 and no longer have the context.

[@RolyPolyOllieReactions]

I said at the start of the video I think but I might have seen this movie when I was younger which is why I was able to guess some of the things that were happening. I also watched Hot Tub Time Machine right before this and I realized that the plot in that movie was basically the same plot as in Back To The Future

[@dangerousdavescott]

So Marvin Berry, the bandleader in this movie, calls his cousin Chuck and holds the phone up so he can hear Marty play the song Johnny B Goode. Presumably, the cousin is Chuck Berry, the 1950s rock star who recorded and released Johnny B Goode in 1958.

[@carlhartwell7978]

The Florence Nightingale effect is real, I don't want to have to make this too political, but it's possible you find it 'creepy' because of the cancer I call feminism. Yes women are different to men. They are more compassionate and caring and can form an attachment to men they feel the need to care for... There's also another plot point which you 'unsuprisingly' balked at, Biff's r**ey behaviour. Now this is not to say that r**e and sexual assault were seen as correct in 1985, far from it, but I think the fact that a film made in that year deemed it such throwaway subject matter says something about how the western world is not the r**e culture feminists say it is. Just saying. The fact that it made you (and every Millenial/Gen Zer that I've seen watch it) visibly uncomfortable is testament to the fact that (if it were possible) s**ual assault is so so much more intolerable. Because, up until fairly recently, shall we just say the 2000's, I don't remember anyone, thinking anything other than, _what a scumbag, I hope George knocks him on his ass real good..._ It was seen a s terrible behaviour and added to his character as the antagonist, but I don't remember ever seeing people so visibly uncomfortable during those scenes. I had to censor the comment, it's your choice if you want to manually censor it.

[@KBH27]

Crispin Glover played George

[@Cubs-Den-Reactions]

I AM jealous of the giant baby Yoda... but I’m also jealous of the girlfriend; I’ll stop being a creep now 😂😅. Annnnyway, always love watching people react to this trilogy because of just how well done the trilogy is/was. Looking forward to your reactions!

[@ylette]

Watched this with my mom in 1986 when I was 11. Cringed so hard when Marty's mom started coming on to him.

[@dwaneanderson8039]

"Those 1950's coffee bars." It's a soda shop.

[@klb9142]

If Covid didn’t put it out of business, there is a soda shop In Milwaukee, Wisconsin where the waitresses are on skates.

[@David-eo8if]

after knocking over a tree in the past the Twin Pines mall becomes the Lone Tree Mall!

[@captainbryce1]

The Florence Nightingale effect is a trope where a caregiver falls in love with their patient, even if very little communication or contact takes place outside of basic care.

[@StarkRG]

"This movie was also sponsored by Pepsi." And rasins!

[@nowthatisawesome5431]

George originally says “I’m your DENsity” before he corrects his mispronunciation and then says “destiny”. That line is often quoted in pop culture to this day, so if you ever hear anyone say “DENsity”; they are quoting this movie! 🤗❤️

[@judethaddeus9856]

Or they’re just mispronouncing « destiny »

[@GrouchyMarx]

There's another time paradox you might have missed. Recall @ 31:00 when Marvin Berry called his cousin Chuck to hear the song Marty was playing, turns out to be the biggest song the real Chuck Berry is famous for, "Johnny B. Goode" released in 1958!

[@richardhoehn9922]

Originally Eric Stolz was cast as "Marty McFly" but dropped out--or was let go?--and Michael J. Fox was cast in the role. There's an ongoing joke in 2023's The Flash where "Barry Allen" is in a parallel timeline and Eric Stolz stayed on as "Marty McFly." And Twin Pines Mall becomes Lone Pine Mall. Christopher Lloyd would end up as the Klingon Captain "Kruge" (spelling?) in Star Trek 3:Search For Spock. The coffee "bars" you mention were actually just diners, with counter service and the booths you see along the wall.

[@travelchic908]

Probably my fave movie of all time. Love your reaction and enthusiasm for this classic 😁

[@philpaine3068]

1955 is generally considered to be the year when Rock'n'Roll music took the world by storm, and Chuck Berry was the first real Rock'n'Roll star. The joke is that the high school dance band is led by Chuck Berry's brother Marvin. Marty is playing a Chuck Berry tune ("Johnny B. Goode"), even imitating Berry's moves on the stage ---- and Marvin phones up his brother to tell about this "new sound". Super time travel joke. There are a lot of jokes in the film about the cultural differences between 1955 and 1985 (differences that were huge). Not all of them are understandable to an audience now in 2023. I saw this film when it first appeared ---- in the newfangled "Cineplex" multiple theatre in the Eaton Centre in Toronto [it was the first such theatre in the world].

[@Elnuwanda]

The song is "Johhny B. Goode" from Chuck BERRY.... the guitar man of the band is Malvin BERRY....

[@44excalibur]

Steven Spielberg co-founded his production company, Amblin Entertainment, with Kathleen Kennedy and her husband, Frank Marshall. Marshall co-produced Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[@EnsignAhkinum]

Coffee Bars? 😆 I think you mean Diner. Fun watching young people watch these shows I grew up on. Reminds me of when my Nephew was telling me about a movie he saw that had a big gorilla climbing a building. And I was like, do you mean King Kong? 🤔😁 My forgetting that people his age have never seen movies from the '80s.

[@mrtim5363]

# 1 Movie 1985 Back to the future lead actor Michael J. Fox - Well deserved! um... there's more # 2 Movie 1985 Teen Wolf, lead actor Michael J. Fox - Well deserved! um... there's more #1 TV show 1985 Family Ties, lead actor Michael J. Fox - Well deserved! Ya, we really like him, we really liked him.

[@IggyStardust1967]

Heh... something no one else in the comment section is talking about is the "Libyan" angle. When this movie came out, the US had a major beef with Libya, which is why they were used as the "terrorist" element of the movie. I mean, it wasn't really "off base", as many hijacked planes back then were flown to Libya where the passengers were held hostage for a ransom. As I'm going on in this video, you are laughing at the "Pepsi Free" lines... there actually WAS a product called "Pepsi Free". It was basically the precursor to Pepsi's diet cola, or possibly a companion to it. It was a long time ago, and honestly, the whole "NEW Coke" debacle really overshadowed "Pepsi Free". Yeah, google that mess. It was both funny and sad at the same time.

[@spiderfingers86]

Written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Stars Michael J. Fox as Morty and Christopher Lloyd as Doctor Emmett Brown

[@GNo03]

26:37 school dances don’t have bands anymore because the music people danced to back then was all live instruments and could easily be covered. Now people dance to music like trap or electronic pop music which can’t be covered with a live band

[@MCscarfacematt]

yes DeLorean was a production car, from 1981 to 1983 the car had a reputation for poor build quality and an unsatisfactory driving experience, john DeLorean the founder/owner was charged in 1982 with cocaine traffking which led him to bankrupting the DMC DeLorean moto company to cover legal fees which resulted in a not guilty verdict in 1984

[@mariotovar2173]

Hello, first time viewer. -Look up a KZbin video of filming locations for Back to The Future and you’ll see many landmarks near the 10 and 60 freeways in Southern California. Hey, beef was purposely scripted to say the make like a tree line incorrect. People in the past used to say, “Make like a tree and leave”. -Now I’m taking you back to the past. - The Disneyland Neighbor

[@f.n.schlub2269]

RolyPolyOllie Reactions --- My dear boy, there were no "coffee bars" in the '50s. There were little restaurants with simple light breakfast menus called "coffee shops", a few booths and counter seating, usually open until noon. Next step up was a "Luncheonette". Guess what they served ... simple lunch items. Open from about 9-3. Next up are the Dinette and Diner, differentiated by seating, menu sophistication and hours. Dinettes' hours usually 3-9, and a Diner until midnight. Truckstop Diners were a 24hr affair, with menus that impinged a bit upon full Restaurant offerings. Off to one side of these were Drive-in Diners serving mostly teens with cars, with more of a Luncheonette menu, heavy on burgers and fries, AND (which brings us to what you just saw) sodas milkshakes and ice creams; i.e. a Soda Fountain or ice cream parlor frequently with hours open until after the last show at the movie theater. Dating from the late 1800, they got their start in Pharmacies back when CocaCola still had cocaine in it, and sarsaparilla was a favorite carbonated drink. In fact, carbonating drinks was just one of the apothecary chemistry skills of what is now the specialty, Formulating Pharmacy, the only kind there was at the time. People actually MADE stuff because they were not yet infected with the "they"s ... there's always a "they" who do stuff. The past section of this movie is just post WWII, only a little more than years after a time when all but city dwellers had the motto, "If we can't make it, we don't need it", and the real use of the Sears catalog was in the outhouse ... until they started printing them with glossy pages. Marty's skate board was ripping the fruit crate off the front of a kid-made push scooter. The wheels were the front and back half of roller skate, which at the time were adjustable for length and clamped onto the soles of your shoes using a "Skate Key". The wheels were metal, grating to the ear, and would jam at the tiniest pebble. One pair of these moved one kid, but smart inner city kids found you could make two push scooters out of one pair of skates. Now your friend could play, too; you didn't fall as much, and a good time could be had with scooter gangs and racing. Marty's Mom could have sung this song from 20 yrs later, no? kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmGVdZp-mqyXr6s

[@mjanie2276]

Do a movie review of "the freshman"...Matthew Broderick....cute movie and his wannabe friend Rick Ashley...lol

[@nessaarandur7740]

George McFly in this first movie was played by Crispin Glover (you may know him from American Gods and as the Creepy Thin Man from Charlie's Angels). Wiseman only played George in Back to the Future II and III.

[@txdomino]

Michael j Fox was a spokesman for Pepsi around this time. This was the height of the Cola Wars. Other spokesmen for Pepsi were Michael Jackson, Ray charles, Britney spears, and of course Beyonce. Another fact, remember when he is in the diner and asking a Tab or Pepsi Free? In the early to mid 80s, the soda companies were coming up with diet sodas. Tab was the Coca-Cola company's first attempt at a diet soda. Eventually they replaced Tab with Diet Coke. Pepsi free was the precursor to Diet Pepsi.

[@benl8908]

Christin Glover as George and Christopher Lord as Emmitt Brown. you didn't find him on the cast list because you didn't know his real name from just the first one. His name is more said in the sequels.

[@Cubs-Den-Reactions]

Ok FutureBoy! Who’s President of the United States in 2020... Awww man can’t you ask me an easier question?!

[@StoryMing]

Umm... if Marty had gone back and rammed the Libyans' van... they would have blasted him. They have serious weaponry on board. (not to mention if he *DID* live he would most likely be arrested and charged with-- well, I'm not sure what the exact charges would be, but ramming into someone else's vehicle is definitely not legal... not even if they are terrorists).

[@carlhartwell7978]

You were right about the bullet proof vest...but Doc didn't have it on at the beginning, he definitely was shot to death before Marty traveled back, there's no way around it. 1) We know he wore the vest because Marty went back. 2) We know Marty's family changed because he went back. 3) Marty's family were unchanged before he went back 4) So Doc must have been unaware of having to wear the vest before Marty went back. I guess it's _conceivable_ that Doc could have independently had the idea of wearing a vest...for that's stretching it though and way overboard in unnecessary conjecture.

[@scottirvine121]

The irony of biff calling him butthead is you laugh just like him....look up beavis and butthead. You miss much of the period jokes and cleverness but that’s perhaps because of your age....did he write that song....no it’s a real song much later than 1955 Great reaction though

[@hawkmaster381]

Ronald Reagan once mentioned this movie in a speech. He said, "Where we're going, we don't need roads."

[@jmhaces]

All the actors are playing both the young and old versions of the characters. Biff, Lorraine and George are the same actors but with make-up and prosthetics to make them look older in 1985. Doc also has make-up to make him look older in 1985 but since he has white hair in both time periods people tend to overlook the added wrinkles of 1985 Doc.

[@mathfridge]

I am not sure if anybody mentioned this yet but Jeffery Wiessman was NOT in the first movie. The actor playing George McFly was Crispin Glover. However he had contract disputes with the directors and was not in movies 2 and 3. So Wiessman was George in those two movies.

[@SimoExMachina2]

One of the few KZbinr's who actually recognize inflation when dealing with movies that feature "cheap prices". Of course 50 c in the 60's is going to have different value than 50 cents today. I mean it is probably more like $5 now. I mean 50 cents could be someone's day worth of wages in the past.

[@garconerproduction3046]

you know what`s really creepy about the fingers disappearing scene? it inadvertently foreshadowed the actor`s parkinson disorder- earliest sign is one finger trembling, but people actually have it a few years before the symptoms appear. he was diagnosed 6 years later in 1991.

[@krazycatz]

The first time I ever saw this movie was with my husband at the Preview House in Hollywood California. My husband and I used to get tickets to the Preview House about every five to six weeks. Usually when we went there the only thing that they would show would be commercials they were planning to air on television in the future. Everyone would be given a clipboard and pencil along with a questionnaire that they wanted you to fill out concerning each commercial and how likely or unlikely you would be to purchase that product. Occasionally we would see a pilot for an upcoming television show. This was one of those rare occasions where we actually got to see a movie. What we saw was “a work in progress” movie. That meant that some scenes such as the time traveling scenes were not filmed yet and shown as pencil drawings. I do not remember any comments either my husband or I made about how they could improve the movie. Of course when it was released to the general public we had to go see it again with our family and friends.

[@blowba]

Doc was wearing rubber gloves. That's why he didn't get electricuted.

[@tempsitch5632]

Or he's just adapted to it from all the times he's gotten electrocuted in the past.

[@mjanie2276]

Actors with great EPIC EXPRESSIONS ARE THE BEST!....AKA DOC.

[@emmamcintyre6997]

Christopher Lloyd is an absolute legend, you should watch The Pagemaster (Live action/animated mix) as he is brilliant in it

[@SimoExMachina2]

At the beginning the Doc did not have a vest. He was killed for real. But Marty after going to the past, gave him a letter that would warn him of the future, and while Doc Brown was hesitant (worried about breaking the fabric of time), we would eventually read the letter, and made preparations, which included the kewlar vest.

[@aaronstone8147]

You might want to move your ring light a bit. Left Right or something? Just so it won't reflect in those doors! I just care and love this channel.

[@MarCuseus]

Twin Pine / Lone Pine

[@heyzooz]

If Marty went back to 1955 with money from 1985 and paid for his coffee, imagine the bar tenders reaction if he noticed the dates of the coins. Just a minor thought that's stuck with me for 30 years.

[@RolyPolyOllieReactions]

That is an interesting thought that never even crossed my mind. I bet the bar tender would just pass them off as fake

[@MrParkerman6]

He didn't necessarily have current coins though. Coins circulate for a long ass time. People frequently carry around old coins decades old.

[@charlesborden8111]

How often do you look at the change you get back? Quarters, dimes, and nickels hadn't changed in size since at least the 30's or 40's (depending on denomination) to the 80's. Marty probably paid a dime for the coffee and the Roosevelt dime design has been around since 1946. The only major change to it was that they stopped being made of silver in 1965. Plus, Lou the owner of the diner is probably in his late fifties and would just as likely need reading glasses to read the date (I know, I sure as hell do). LOL

[@txdomino]

You said that Michael j fox was the perfect casting for this movie. The funny thing is that the movie started production with someone else as the lead. But it wasn't working out because the guy was playing it too serious. Michael j fox added a bit more comedic feel to the character. They were finally able to get Michael j fox in the middle of production and had to reshoot some scenes.

[@stanzelot]

1.21 Gigawatt. How many times has this been referenced in pop culture?!