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[@nickreacts6394]

Which is better, 1 or 2?

[@magusmelanie828]

Just wait until you get into 3 - the perfect conclusion to this "train wreck"

[@TTHBLOX_]

All 3 films are equal to me. One big story!

[@Lannisen]

It's 1, 3, 2 for me. I never got hooked on the second as a kid, the story was a bit too all over the place, but my dad made me watch all the classic westerns as a kid so I loved the 3rd.

[@magusmelanie828]

@@Lannisen Agreed - the 2nd really strings together the universe, but the story/film is the least of them, as good as 1 is, esp as a stand-alone, but when taken all together 3 kind stands out for the overall story and conclusion - it's rare to get that satisfactory of a conclusion in a trilogy

[@StefanBuscheZUKUL]

1,3,2 for me. But the whole triology is one perfect movie for me. Still one of my alltime favorites!

[@bigdream_dreambig]

"Did Biff do that to hide the book?" No, given his age and the times, I'm pretty sure Biff did it to hide his girly magazine. The fact that it made Marty follow the wrong magazine was simply a side effect.

[@NetanelWorthy]

I’m surprised you didn’t see Elijah Wood as the child in the diner. Especially being a lord of the rings fan.

[@3DJapan]

I've never recognized him in this, even after I knew it was him.

[@eugeniapatroncosta920]

@@3DJapan I check it before watching Back to the Future-part 2.

[@sk70091]

It's such a brief moment, and he's so young in this. I didn't realize it was him either until it was pointed out to me.

[@Joker_JAK]

I recognized Elijah Wood as "the kid from The Good Son" long before he did LOTR. It's funny to me that no one recognizes him. Looks the same to me.

[@Nicamon]

@@Joker_JAK For me it's the other way around. I've watched"The Good Son"after knowing about"The Lord of the Rings"so Mark&Henry for me are "Little Frodo"and"Psycopath Kevin".😬

[@xxlCortez]

You didn't notice that Marty's daughter is also played by Michael J. Fox. That's why she had weird voice.

[@jameshenner5831]

Elijah Wood was at the 80's Cafe as a little guy. Strangely, the "Cubs Win World Series" headline was not quite right for 2015. In the real 2015, the Cubs lost the final NLCS playoff game on October 21, 2015, but they won the World Series in 2016.

[@StarlasAiko]

Not the first time Science Fiction was off by one year...in the SciFi series Perry Rhodan, the moon landing happened in 1968.

[@videohistory722]

The joke was that it was never going to happen regardless, because they said they did it against a baseball team that doesn't exist, the Miami Gators. There's a football team, and there's a college baseball team that's called the FLORIDA Gators, but no Miami Gators baseball team.

[@needles1987]

The MLB strike in 1994 changed the timeline.

[@orangeandblackattack]

@@videohistory722 But only a few years early before the Miami Marlins franchise was started.

[@becksimilian2955]

How am I *just* noticing, after countless times watching this movie, that Marty can't open his pepsi in the Cafe 80s. That's a callback to the 1st film when he can't open the coke bottle in the 50s

[@SunSoar25]

That "screen door on a battleship" thing is Biff screwing up "screen door on a submarine". 😂

[@Jim73]

a reference to the first movie "make like a tree and get out of here" instead of "and leave"

[@danielallen3454]

Grandma Biff was actually voiced by . . . Biff. Thomas F. Wilson, the actor for Biff, actually voiced his grandma, Gertrude.

[@kriscynical]

33:00 I would just like to point out the fact that the specific track from the soundtrack that plays during this scene is titled _"Pair o' Docs"._ Paradox. _Brilliant._

[@s.c.sanchez1610]

The ending of the first movie was actually more of a gag and was never really intended to lead into an actual sequel. Little did anyone know. While I think the future scenes and the story surrounding Marty's kids wasn't as well thought out as the first movie was, it was Part Two that warned us all about the consequences of tampering with time & the creation of a darker timeline.

[@inarar5334]

Zemeckis and Gale infamously noted how quickly they remove Jennifer and "if we really intended to make a sequel we wouldn't have had Jennifer in the car."

[@joshuayoung9902]

Hilarious that you make a LOTR reference minutes before we see Elijah Wood setting up the Wild Gunman game!

[@chuckhackett4493]

Fun fact: Biff is watching a movie called " A Fistful of Dollars" which is a spaghetti western starring Clint Eastwood.

[@MrDarkwing78]

You may know, wasn't AFFoD a westernisation of "The 7 Samurai", or was that literally "The Magnificent 7"

[@sawanna508]

@@MrDarkwing78 "The Magnificent 7" but AFFOD is a westernisation of another japanise movie.

[@dannybob42]

Biff's grandma is voiced by Biff's actor, Thomas F. Wilson. This film most of the original cast play multiple roles, Fox plays himself in 3 different timelines as well as his son AND daughter, Lea Thompson of course reprises her role as Lorraine in the different timelines. Absent however are Crispin Glover and Claudia Wells, Wells quit acting for a bit when her mother got cancer so she was replaced by Elizabeth Shue of then Karate Kid Fame, Jeffrey Weissman replaced Glover as George because of a pay dispute, the use of Glover's likeness actually led to a huge lawsuit. In addition, a young Elijah Wood is in the film, and Needles is portrayed by Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers They did film 2 and 3 at the same time yes.

[@becksimilian2955]

The grandma is voiced by the guy that voices Roger Rabbit. He's also the old guy in 2015 that wishes he put money on the Cubbies

[@ShuffleUpandDeal32]

Yeah well they weren't too sad to see Crispin go, lol.

[@michaelconnor1542]

Crispin Glover was such a hypocrite on money. He complained about George becoming wealthy and that fixing his issues. Then gets pissy about money. He also failed to get that money was a side affect of George becoming more confident. Not the other way round.

[@videohistory722]

6:24 there's a real life explanation: They de aged him because the filmmakers did not want to go through the process of making Christopher Lloyd look older anymore, nor was Lloyd keen on wearing any more makeup than was necessary. Plus, they didn't want Doc to be physically in his seventies for the 3rd movie.

[@spikesecho724]

Part II is for real my favorite, but I think a lot of people don't care for it

[@em_me]

On October 21st, 2015, we had Back to the Future day in my class where we watched the second movie and compared it to how 2015 actually turned out! I made cookies that looked like the dehydrated pizzas!

[@sk70091]

I saw this movie (as well as the first one) in theater that day, which was awesome because even though I'd been a fan for 20 years, I'd never seen any of the parts on a big screen.

[@Karamarika]

Little did we know it was actually alternate 1985 that predicted the future we are currently living in.

[@IggyStardust1967]

Thor, a few things: Movies from the mid-1960s though the late-1990s have hundreds, if not thousands of gems that you will enjoy. I know, I lived through it. I'm actually a bit jealous of your hair. Mine is just below my shoulders, but used to be around the length of yours. It'll get back there, if I live long enough. If you'd like a list of movies from that era that almost no one reacts to, I'm your man. Just hit me a reply, and I'll list some for you to consider. (Sorry, I'm on Disability, and can't afford patreon) Love what you do here, man!

[@kriscynical]

_"Flying straight through glass? That could be fatal."_ If you go back and look at that scene again, the girl hit the pillar on the way through the glass. It ended up injuring her pretty badly!

[@mycroft16]

This movie never fails to amaze me. Since they had no plans on making a sequel, they had to rebuild ALL of those 1955 sets with exacting detail. People in the same places, etc. Timing. And then film the 2nd movie AROUND the 1st movie. It's god damn brilliant. And it makes for one of the most fun time travel films ever. The interplay of 3 completely different time periods is perfectly handled. The call backs and self-references to the first one are genius. Also, the future dinner... Michael J Fox is playing old his old self. His old self's father. His son. AND he is also his daughter. They had to set up a motion control rig and film each of his 4 roles individually and then composite them. Which meant every single prop had to be in the exact same spot for every single take. That is insanity. Especially for the 80s.

[@Karamarika]

Iirc, it was the first time they had done that sort of thing with an actor playing two roles. They had to figure out how to pull it off.

[@mycroft16]

@Karamarika there was also an earthquake between 2 of the shoot days so they had to make sure everything was back in place to the millimeter.

[@thedisneybroentertainment5547]

Jennifer had to be recast for the sequels with Elizabeth Shue due to the fact that the original actress Claudia Wells left acting in 1986 after her mom was diagnosed with cancer. She ended up going back to acting about 10 years later.

[@hamzah5643]

haha yeh, but if u think about it, flying cars are a bad idea, look how many idiots are on the road, imagine if we had that many idiots in the skies, and.....if u think about it, a rehydrated pizza sounds like a nightmare :D

[@randyparker2134]

Yeah, but the big thing is the maintenance. When a car runs out of gas or gets a mechanical problem, you just coast to the side of the road. When a flying car does the same it drops out of the sky on buildings or people.

[@Joker_JAK]

On Oct. 21st 2015, I timed it so that the moment they traveled to the future in this film it would be that exact time in real life. It was kind of surreal. I love the whole trilogy, but the second is by far my favorite. Also, the filmmakers weren't trying to predict the future. They just created a future they'd WANT to see. They figured there wouldn't be flying cars and such.

[@ebashford5334]

Right. In time travel movies where future events drastically changes as it did in this one, any depiction of the future can be taken with a grain of salt. Just another possible timeline as we saw what happened when Biff totally changed everything. They got the large/wide/flat screen TV right though in the original timeline.

[@_toph_]

the stunt with griff's gang going through the glass actually was incredibly dangerous. stunt people were hurt while practicing it. one stunt woman ended up refusing to do it and another took her place and almost died from it.

[@kratosGOW]

Since they couldn't redo that scene you can see the fall that led to the injury right up until she touched the ground.

[@PhilBagels]

And there was another almost death from a stunt in the third movie as well.

[@deeanna8448]

@@kratosGOW I don't know how people see these things. I didn't see it even when I slowed it way down 🤷‍♀️

[@kratosGOW]

@@deeanna8448 As I said, you can see the fall right up until she impacted the ground. We know this because of the behind the scenes footage and interviews.

[@deeanna8448]

@@kratosGOW I need to watch on my laptop instead of the phone.

[@3DJapan]

"taking a break from Spielberg"... Proceeds to watch a Spielberg produced film.

[@BunnyGirl71]

Yes, the theatrical version of BTTF 2 also showed previews of BTTF 3. It gave away too much in those scenes, diluting the novelty of the 3rd movie greatly. I'm glad that you added this one to your list. The attention to detail in keeping all the scenes consistent with the first movie and the time hopping is fantastic. Biff Tannen is arguably one of the best villains of 80's cinema. (I actually knew bullies who were as bad as his character.) The actor did a great job of playing stupid very convincingly, though you can tell by 2015 Biff's interaction with 1955 Biff that 2015 has gotten a bit smarter (calling himself out on his misuse of metaphors), so I think it would be plausible that 2015 Biff could have stolen the time machine and did exactly what Marty was planning on doing, by using the almanac when he was young to make money. In my book, this movie is the best of the trilogy.

[@MysterClark]

You mentioned the similarities to End Game and I just wanted to make sure you remember that they actually referenced these movies in End Game. It can be fun to see where other movies drew inspiration from. To answer your question though, I think growing up I liked the second one best for a while but now that I've grown up more I like the first one because it's just so classic. I loved seeing the future and all of the cool stuff when I was younger but now we are living in those days. Certainly wish we had some more of that stuff although they did get some things right.

[@Wawagirl17]

Yes, when I first watched the trilogy 2 years ago (summer 2020 at age 28), I thought the first film was absolutely delightful, but it was THIS film that got me super hooked and desperately NEEDING to see Part III - ASAP. Not only because of that epic cliffhanger, but all of the time-hopping around, the crazy Dictator Biff universe, returning to 1955 Dance Night with TWO Calvin Kleins, the race to retrieve the Sports Almanac, it was so insane I was on the edge of my seat the entire time! However, even though I still adore the entire trilogy and truly do love them all, rewatching a few years later, the first one is simply the gold standard. It's so perfect and lovely, I have to always admit that it is indeed the best.

[@scottalynch]

Yes, the preview played after #2. #2 was in theaters Nov 1989, #3 was May 1990, just 6 months later

[@artsysabs]

I wonder if theres been any other movies released so close together like that

[@scottalynch]

@@artsysabs the only other one I can think of off the top of my head is Matrix Reloaded (May 2003) & Matrix Revolutions (Nov 2003)

[@Tr0nzoid]

@@artsysabs, "Kill Bill" volumes 1 and 2 were about eight months apart. The breakdancing movies "Breakin'" and "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo" were about six months apart.

[@jaystanley9363]

If anyone seen this in theaters, would have probably seen the previews and the movie the wizard with fred savage was one of them.. That movie actually had a slip moment of a young tobey maguire, close to the end of it..

[@Karamarika]

I remember being soooo excited for the third installment after seeing the second. I didn't get to see the first in the theater when it came out because I was too young, but the 2nd and 3rd were at just the right time for me.

[@FrankJReynolds]

This was, I believe, the first sequel where the second and third films were shot at the same time, and released just six months apart…that was why there were scenes from the third movie at the end of the second one. (The first two Christopher Reeve Superman films back in the 70s were also meant to be this way, but they ran into problems, so it took over two years for the second Superman film to be released.)

[@robertwade3845]

On the other hand, The Three Muskateers (1973) and The Four Muskateers (1974) were shot as one movie with intermission but divided into two films by the producers. 'The Salkind Clause' is the result of the lawsuits by cast and crew for only being compensated for one movie rather than two.

[@kcmann4152]

Being born in 73 was the best thing. Got to see all of these great movies in the theater or watching Star Wars and Jaws at the drive-in theater was amazing. So many cool memories. But yeah they did show part 2 with previews of part 3 when you saw it at the theater. It's only because they did part two and part three at the same time.

[@rotru4977]

I love the idea of an alternate timeline/reality. Part 3 is great to, can't wait for that reaction. PS those Nike shoes are real, they'll set you back about $100,000 though.

[@davidanderson1639]

Make that $100’000 for a pair of Air Mags. There was a limited number with speed lacing auctioned off a few years back. All the proceeds went to Michael J Fox’s Parkinson’s Foundation. The Props Store in LA have the last surviving screen used pair; they are bolted to a board as it’s the only way they could hide the practical lacing effect.

[@rotru4977]

@@davidanderson1639 I missed a zero. I'll correct it lol. Yes I seen a pair for 4x that on StockX. They'd be cool to own that's for sure.

[@davidanderson1639]

@@rotru4977 Having seen a set in the flesh, they do look nice; the box is a bit basic though. The funny thing is, that like the previous release of the Air Mags, they aren’t really meant to be worn. Even the reproduction of Tinker Hatfields schismatic for the shoe that comes with them even states they aren’t meant to be worn 😂 I have seen pairs of replicas on the RPF prop builders forum; you can buy replicas (minus the swoosh) from China….& then people have been adding the swoosh & extra details. Not sure if I’d trust the charging port for lights on the reps though!! 🤔

[@rotru4977]

@@davidanderson1639 I guess if I had $100k to blow, it'd make more sense to buy a DeLorean.. at least I could drive it around vs shoes I shouldn't wear 🤣

[@highstimulation2497]

"EAT LEAD, SLACKERS!!!!" is my favorite line

[@artsysabs]

Same 😂 and "slackers" in general is a common reference in my household lol

[@Wawagirl17]

30:23 "Even Darth Vadar would tell Biff to dial back the villany just a little bit." LOL, so true. I freakin' love how Biff is just One-Billion Percent Irredeemable. No reasonable, understandable, sympathetic, complex, gray-area moments whatsoever. He's just a scumbag. He's one of those iconic "love to hate" characters, and it's a hilarious blast!

[@edelmar17]

I don’t know… I think Vader would’ve slain the younglings lol All Biff did was take away their ball 😅

[@ryanswaynow]

Let’s be honest: flying cars are a terrible idea and we will never have them in mass production. Think of every engine failure, car accident, fender bender, or road rage incident you have ever had in your entire life. Now imagine all those things happening 30,000 feet above the ground. Yeah. Definitely never getting flying cars😂

[@hungmanhorsecarriage]

I'm not sure if you noticed but Jennifer is a new actress and George mcfly is also a new actor. But I've been waiting on this , My absolute favourite of the bunch

[@micahslaydon7324]

When you said that hill valley 2015 in this movie look like Disneyland, I can understand that to I first I would thought it would look like universal studios to.

[@StarkRG]

"Is this a preview for what we're going to see in the third one? I don't want to see anything!" I agree that the first one was a better movie. The second, I think, suffered because they had written themselves into a corner with the jokey ending of the first one. They had never intended to make more and ended the first with them flying into the future as a joke. When it came to writing the second one they had to cover where _that_ story thread was going, but it wasn't enough for a full movie, so it ends up feeling like first quarter of the movie is just a set-up for the second quarter which is just a set-up for the last half. It's still a good movie, it's just not as strong as the first and, in my opinion, third movies of the series.

[@saikanzen1762]

Since you mentioned Avengers Endgame, I just now realized they copied Marty getting hit by his past self with a door and losing the almanac when Tony got hit by the Hulk with a door and losing the Tesseract. Glad to see you're enjoying these movies as they were a huge part of my childhood.

[@bigdream_dreambig]

"Like a screen door on a battleship" is another saying Biff gets wrong. It's supposed to be "like a screen door on a submarine."

[@g.b569]

The stunt through the glass of the building was nearly fatal for the stunt people who did it. Fortunately, no one was killed

[@3DJapan]

There are some shoes with power laces now, Nike makes some. Nike Adapt they're called.

[@ShuffleUpandDeal32]

You want flying cars? People can barely drive on the road, lol.

[@shallowgal462]

Since the original's ending was 100% a joke and no sequel was anticipated--they were worried it might be a big flop--Zemekis & Gale had to write themselves out of Jennifer being along as best they could. Jennifer was recast because the actor's mom was sick with cancer and needed her.

[@Xenotric]

this one really leans into the time machine angle way more and is good fun exploring things that I think a lot of people would have been talking about doing after the first movie "Oh if I had it I'd go to the future and learn the lottery numbers!" type thing and showing the way it could backfire etc. Redoing some scenes like the waking up to his mom mirroring when he woke up in past etc. Works so well and sets up the final one nicely!

[@robertoprestigiacomo253]

The not meeting their future selves is actually a plot hole. If you travel to the future, you remove yourself from the present and so you cannot exist in the future unless you go to the future but then you come back in time. So if you meet your future self, he will already know that you're coming from the past because that's what he did.

[@Karamarika]

That's a hole in just about all time travel movies. If anyone was going to come back from the future to change the past, they would have already done it. That would make it so we only knew the changed version, which would then negate the need for the future person to ever come back to change it. Yet another problem that shows that time travel just isn't possible.

[@stevenalexander6713]

Yep. Parts 2 and 3 were filmed at the same time, just like the Lord of the Rings movies. Speaking of Lord of the Rings, that was a young Elijah Wood at the arcade game in the diner.

[@StephanieMaireFaith]

Michael J Fox played his daughter, son, him, and his older self,

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

The predictions about the 2015 technology were accurate at the time, but a big explosion at Cyberdyne Systems back in 1991 screwed up the timeline again.

[@rmh258]

Hey Thor, did you catch the cameo? Hint, the kid in the orange shirt at the video game.

[@ganapatikamesh]

I remember back in 2015 there was a documentary about this film wherein the writers, producers, director, etc all said that when they were planning the future (2015) parts that they weren’t trying to be accurate or predict anything, but were just having fun and kind of poking fun at films that do try to predict the future. So the fact that that future and the actual 2015 don’t line up isn’t a surprise since they weren’t even trying. But there’s still some things from that future that I think would be neat. I mean, I like the curb lights in the neighborhood. :-) But the 2nd one is my favorite of the Back To The Future films, especially how it interacts with the first film. As a kid growing up watching this it wasn’t something I had ever seen before in a film so enjoyed that!

[@rxtsec1]

The director has always said part 2 is his least favorite because he was editing the movie while making part 3 at the same time & felt part 2 suffered from not being able to edit properly.

[@SmithDoe]

13:37 Fun Fact. Cubs DID win the series for the first time in their history... In 2016... One year apart from the movie.

[@DAMIENDMILLS]

7:38 I was gonna say how nerdy you sounded, but the fact that I understood the reference means I'm just as big a nerd as you. Well almost anyone who has never seen the Lord of the Rings knows Gandalf. But casual fans may have heard of Pippin, but unless they actually watched the entire trilogy, no one would know who Denethor was.

[@micheletrainor1601]

I always wondered if the Biff in this one is inspired in a way physically and a few other trates like casino,womaniser etc was inspired by Donald Trump in the 80s cause around this time Donald Trump cameos n so many tv programmes, he was just everywhere back then. Its who he really reminds me of in this one even when it first came out i thought it. It may just be me but i wondered if anyone else can see it.

[@juzujuzu4555]

It's important to note that all things about the 2015 future were meant to be a joke. They did it so over the top that everyone realized we are not supposed to think it's any prediction at all and that it's important in other ways. In that sense it's dated, as almost no one who sees this film nowadays realizes it and the film gives really different vibe because of it. I mean the personality traits of the youth and things looking much more artificial, minority report like as you stated, those were important aspects for sure. Youth becoming much more violent, Biff is hardened criminal running essentially a gang, and other aspects like this were on point. But for the most part it was just made so over the top that the future aspects wouldn't be taken seriously.

[@kratosGOW]

I don't know if you noticed the not-so-subtle parody of Trump... haha

[@richardfoster2435]

I don’t know you noticed it but Jennifer looks a little different that’s because they switched actresses The first one was played by Claudia Wells and the second one is Elizabeth Shue

[@captainbryce1]

Trivia: The original BTTF was never intended to have a sequel. Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis conceived of it as a stand alone film. The ending was only intended to be the last 'gag' of the film. It wasn't until the critical and fan reception was so positive and for several years demanding a sequel that they wrote one. This explains the gap between the release of the first two films (part II was released 4 years after the original). Zemeckis has said that if he had known they were going to do a sequel from the beginning, he never would have had Jennifer get into the DeLorean with Doc and Marty. This explains why they came up with this recurring theme where Jennifer is required to be unconscious for most of the film (Doc using the sleep inducer on her first, then her fainting later on). Her character is not essential to the story so they had to find convenient excuses to get her "out of the way" of the story. They also had to reshoot the entire end sequence from the first film since Elizabeth Shue replaced Claudia Wells as "Jennifer". However, reshooting also allowed them to include a scene where Biff (1985) sees the DeLorean (which was not in the original cut), setting him up to be the villain again in the next film. The reshoot was so well done that most people reacting to the film today don't notice. But if you watch them back to back, you can clearly see the differences. Besides the obvious new actress playing Jennifer, Michael J. Fox had visibly aged in those 4 years. And while he was arguably young enough to pass for a high school teenager in the first film, in this one he's pushing 30 and clearly not a teenager. Christopher Lloyd delivers some all his lines differently (making Doc a little funnier, but also sounding a bit less natural in my opinion).

[@NicoAnimation]

When I was a kid, Part 2 was my favorite. As an adult, Part 1 is my favorite. But I love all 3! Can't wait for you to experience Part 3 - it's a fantastic ending to the trilogy that calms down a little, takes its time, and is more heartfelt than the first two. Also yes, originally in theaters in 1989, Part 2 ended with clips of Part 3, exactly as you saw here. If it didn't it might've confused audiences since no movie had ever done that before - plus, audiences had to wait a full year to watch Part 3!

[@eugeniapatroncosta920]

11 months to be exactly.

[@richardfoster2435]

The reason why Marty said the shark still looks fake is because in the original 1970’s Jaws it was a man made shark 🦈 aka fake shark

[@MissFinefeather]

“I wish we had flying cars” Trust me, you don’t. Think of all the crazy drivers on the roads today and imagine trying to dodge them high up in the sky. A simple collision will lead to one hell of a fall. Then again, having flying ambulances and fire trucks would be great.

[@StCerberusEngel]

Concerning the producer credit for Kennedy, there's an old industry saying: The only thing required to have a producer credit is someone willing to give you one. The level of involvement for producers varies wildly from project to project and person to person. Not making any claims against her here, but Executive Producer doesn't necessarily mean as much as people think it does.

[@JiReyAnimation]

"Not making any claims against her here" you say as you explain something only useful for people who want to discredit someone.

[@StCerberusEngel]

​@@JiReyAnimation You seem to disregard my use of the qualifying term "necessarily." Not discrediting anyone. Explaining something that puts into perspective the potential involvement of parties in a project. She could have a lot to do with something, or very little. It depends on each project, so her credit might appear in great projects that she helped make great, or great projects that she didn't have much to do with. It could also appear in crap that she did or didn't get involved with much. It's a gamut. So if she gets crap for one project, that doesn't mitigate her involvement in others, whatever it might have been. And if facts can discredit someone, then maybe that someone didn't deserve such credit. Might watch the behind-the-scenes info on this trilogy again and post any info on what she did for the project if I can find it. Most of the top online search results just say she "produced" and "collaborated" without detail so... Or you could take it from here if you like.

[@StCerberusEngel]

@@JiReyAnimation And just to update really quickly, I found one article detailing that her role on most sets seemed to largely be handling talent and doing a lot of organizing, as well as advising Spielberg on his scripts to one degree or another. So her involvement wasn't minimal. This doesn't mean a producer will always be this involved, however, and that was the point. The more you know.

[@JiReyAnimation]

@@StCerberusEngel that's good to know, but my point was that the circumstances in which you choose to bring up said facts were not really the best. He's already giving her credit for working as a producer on a successful franchise. There's no need for "Well actually we don't really know how much producing she did." Because that just makes you look like you're trying to belittle whatever contribution, big or small, she did. It doesn't matter how much or how little she did, what matters is that she did, because films are a team effort and every role, big or small counts. And a lot of people ignore that, and choose to discredit people for the good stuff they make just because they worked on something they don't like.

[@StCerberusEngel]

@@JiReyAnimation He also brought up the fact that she got a lot of crap for a lot of the decisions she currently makes. So acknowledging that producers don't always play the same role on every project, especially when their position at the company shifts, as hers has, might help to explain a fluctuation in quality of the work observed. Also, how big a role someone plays can make a huge difference. Because the wrong people in the wrong positions can be disastrous if they have too much influence over the outcome. A few small problems can either be glossed over, or they can be a frozen O-ring aboard a space shuttle. Yeah, everything's a team effort, but if someone spills coffee in the breakroom, that probably won't cause a fire on stage that halts production. And I directly stated I wasn't decrying her work on these projects. My opinion of Kennedy makes no difference here. If you must know, I don't much care for her personally, but it seems she did a good job of keeping things running behind the scenes when she worked for these directors. Apparently she can't take notes for shit, according to Spielberg, but there's an example of the wrong person doing the wrong job.

[@angyliv8040]

Actually there are flying cars but not for everyone. One of the kids in the video game is Elijah wood (Frodo)

[@richardfoster2435]

Fun fact litlle boy in the diner in the red shirt is a young Elijah Wood aka Frodo Baggins from the lord of the rings trilogy!

[@circuitgamer7759]

You know a movie is particularly good when the reactor puts "PERFECT SEQUEL" in the title with no question mark :)

[@rxtsec1]

Jennifer was put to sleep because the director never intended to make the sequels but after its success he had too. He said had he knew he was making a sequel he never would have put Jennifer in the car

[@c-puff]

When you finish all 3 movies, I highly recommend the short video Christopher Lloyd and Michael J Fox released on the exact day in 2015 that the future segment takes place in this movie. It's really heartwarming.

[@StephOMacRules]

It's funny that when watching it from a modern viewer's point of view there are predictions for the future not noticed since they seem to be taken for granted these days like video conferences.

[@danhalstead705]

Yes, and just being able to work from home too. Then they ruined it by having a fax machine. XD

[@glennwelsh9784]

Flying cars are actually a horrible idea. People can't safely drive with four wheels on the ground today. Can you imagine the same people trying to control a flying vehicle, and how many people would die because drunk drivers would crash their flying cars into people's walls and roofs?

[@DwynTwo]

Exactly! And what if a car falls and lands in a crowd of people? Plus, many people are afraid of heights. Personally I'm really glad flying cars don't exist

[@slxdeprod]

Funny, you pointed out how a lot of these issues could have been avoided by locking the DeLorean and I've never thought about it before after 20 years of growing up watching this movie but when you really think about it, maybe you don't want locks on that vehicle. like, can you imagine how incredibly fucked you would be if you lost or damaged the key and got locked out in another time?

[@amaiyagrace]

Also, if Doc had taken the almanac to the past, none of this would have happened. And destroyed it in the past. Instead of leaving it on the garbage, none of this would have happened besides locking the car.

[@JoshuaBloom01]

Fun fact: the voice of Biff's grandmother was done by Thomas F Wilson, Biff himself!

[@biguy617]

This movie has 2 cameos from the voice of Roger Rabbit. The first is the Clock Tower guy.. His second cameo is in 1955 as the guy that got the manure out of Biff’s car.

[@UltrabotUltimus]

4:00 I mean there is technically... The 3 just jumped into the future... Olay I'll leave.

[@bluebear1985]

On the actual October 21, 2015, Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd appeared in character on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" as Marty and Doc, rolling on stage in a DeLorean (what else?). The two of them arrive in the future a bit disappointed.

[@Pixelologist]

Old Biff (smacking young Biff upside the head): "It's SUBMARINE, you idiot. As funny as a screen door on a SUBMARINE. You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong!"

[@llorona7847]

In all fairness, it took mankind approximately 65 years to go from the first successful flight to landing on the moon. I think in 1985 guessing we could have flying cars in the next 3 decades wasn’t completely unreasonable 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@bigdream_dreambig]

My biggest problem with this movie was the sudden introduction of the "chicken" issue with no background laid for it in the previous film.

[@unseenentity326]

"I'm glad there's not a time jump" he says right as they make a time jump.

[@ScarlettM]

10:15 - I was hoping after LotR references you'd recognize Elijah Wood. He's a baby here.

[@ushakovsergey6883]

12:30 its not 4th wall breaking. Beef just recollecting his own memory from 1955

[@entertainmentlife430]

Yay! Sequel! This is so fun. They are equal to me. Both are just as fun.

[@woundedmonk1884]

10:03 the kid on the left is Elijah Wood

[@aldo4908]

About the 2015 future that's presented: remember that Biff created an alternate timeline, by changing his past. What Marty did in the first one was precisely that. So the 2015 we see is not ours, is the 2015 that Marty created in the new alternate timeline. A 2015 in which the cars fly and the all thing we see in there, that is not in our actual timeline, takes place haha. Awesome reaction, can't wait to see the 3rd one!!!

[@RetrofanFilms]

You wondered if the trailer for Part III was shown in theaters. It was. When the sequel for BTTF was announced; they said that one film would come out in November of 1989 and the other in May of 1990. And on the DVD Commentary, co-Producer Bob Gale said that when Part II was released, Part III had been “in the can” and completed; so they cut a little teaser for Part III on the end of Part II to let the fans know that there was more to come. In terms of is Part I or Part II better; you always go toward which film established the franchise. Sometimes it’s the sequel (The Wrath of Khan, The Empire Strikes Back, T2: Judgment Day), but most of the time it’s that first film that sets the stage for (potentially) other films to follow. Back to The Future..the first film..is one of those films.

[@johnjay370]

In response to thors reaction comments about how Kathleen Kennedy was on the staf of a good movie. Starting at 4 minutes and 8 seconds into the video. Starting with... Just because someone is riding on the waves of great and successful people does not mean thay are the reason for that success. Producers are not directors. Kathleen Kennedy is not great, just fortunate to work with the greats. No need to give her undue credit. Look up how Gorge Lucas took back his company from a producer partner. Its a good story and explains why producers dont make the greatness of the product. Thay help with the funding or assist with the production pipeline. Thay are not the creative force that makes the story great. So stop acting like Kathleen Kennedy being on the staff of back to the future franchise made the franchise great, when it did not. When you do you actually detract from the people that made these films, great.

[@MelissaMeyer82]

May I please suggest you react to the Outsiders, Walk the Line and American Psycho

[@rebajoe]

Past, present and future, Biff has seen the time machine in action. Also considering how Biff had that special trick for starting up his car and later has his own Auto Detailing business, I buy that he'd be able to work the controls for the DeLorean.

[@petergoss821]

The best part of this was the Cubs won the WS in 2016, one year after BTF2 predicted it 30 years earlier. Lol

[@dandotvid]

17:34 Yeah that's probably the biggest plot hole in the entire trilogy. I mean, how does Biff, someone who is known for being pretty dumb, know how the time machine works? And how much fuel does each trip take now? Does one refuel into the Mr. Fusion last several trips? Doubtful that Biff would have known to refuel before heading back.

[@deeanna8448]

When this movie came out, 2015 seemed so far away! We watched it as kids and thought there might flying cars by then!😂

[@danhalstead705]

"His stare is hilarious... You turn into Clint Eastwood." Uhh, funny you should say that....

[@gloriebluestein9721]

taking a break from speilberg......enters a different kinda speilberg

[@Rob_Infinity3]

"Oh no, is this a preview of the next movie? I don't want to see spoilers" **Carries on watching preview** 😂

[@The_Stoned_Wanderer]

No one talks about it but the "hoverboards" we got in 2015 are just stickless segways

[@biguy617]

Young Frodo, Elijah Wood, makes a cameo when Marty uses the Wild Gunman game.

[@richardfoster2435]

The doc said watch out for griff and his bionic implants that’s why he could grow taller and strength and he’s talking like a robot

[@3DJapan]

"Screen door on a submarine" is the expression.

[@Aelda69]

Biff is basically what happens when kids grow up without a strong male role model in their life. Biff is an orphan and his grandmother was abusive, so he turned out as one would expect growing up in such a hostile environment. While this is no excuse for his behaviour as an adult, it does reveal why he is the way he is.

[@irenesiefker8558]

Definitely prefer the first one. I am not surprised that you like Strickland because he is a bit like Snyder

[@Nicamon]

I remember that on the 21st of October 2015 they aired the entire trilogy on TV in Italy and that's when I watched it for the 1st and(for now at least)last time.

[@delbomb3131]

If you've never seen it, find a short clip of the 3d billboard in shibuya.