Things You Only Notice In Back To The Future After Watching It More Than Once

Back to the Future is one of the great movies of the 1980s, and its sequels continued its story in fine fashion. It's frequently cited as a favorite film, and for good reason - the more you focus on the way these films are put together, the more you realize how thoughtful every filmmaking decision was. BTTF frequently makes allusions to outside events, and it likes to sneakily reveal future narrative events long before they occur. Issues like nostalgia and abuse are handled with great care and thoughtfulness, and you can't help but admire the film the more for this. These are thing you only nice in Back to the Future after watching it more than once.
#BackToTheFuture #Movies #BTTF
Plenty of foreshadowing | 0:00
Sequel bait | 1:02
Safety Last! | 2:07
A timeless slogan | 3:02
The good old days? | 4:01
Just like in the movies | 5:08
Tardy Marty | 6:18
Precision lightning | 7:09
Like father, like son | 8:06
Not ready for that yet | 9:15
Book-lover bonus | 10:09
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[@Looper]

What did you notice in Back to the Future only after you watched it again?

[@EdWeibe]

I am trying to find out why the Doc says "NEVER!" before Marty goes back to the future by the lightning bolt idea. I know the photo has something different in it but what?

[@davidharrison3711]

1.) The Hill Valley Courthouse became the Department of Social Services. 2.) Doc Brown nearly starts a fire when he runs a model of the car onto an oily rag, causing a fire. Perhaps his obsession with dangerous experiments caused the Brown mansion to burn down, (only his garage remained). 3.) The Twin Pines Mall became the Lone Pine Mall. 4.) Goldie Wilson's name is eerily similar to 1985 Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode's. All these things I noticed the SECOND TIME I had seen the film!

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

@@davidharrison3711 When the model car catches fire and runs into the oily rag, Doc puts it out with the water-filled fire extinguisher. When he does this, he uses all of the remaining water in it. It's a hint that he's not too concerned about fire preventative measures until there is a fire, which indicates in the news clipping of how fire destroyed his house. Did you also notice at the dance the Pepsi crate the speaker sits on disappears just before Marty kicked the speaker over? In the second film, Marty doesn't even jump off the speaker during his solo like he did in the first. Magic speaker, I guess.

[@eagle219406]

@@PhantomFilmAustralia Yes he did. You just don't see it because you are looking up at Future Marty.

[@egrintarg230]

His girlfriend and his mother in 1955 are played by the same person. Could have been a bit less gross by simply hiring another actress.

[@KGBeast.]

There's no such thing as watching the Back To The Future movies "too many times"

[@themattk]

Agreed!

[@raydonahue1978]

There is when you're outta time.

[@ericseitzler81]

Yea I've literally seen each movie over 300 plus times ,part one is my favorite movie of all time and the first movie I ever remember watching.

[@adamcuttler9665]

@@ericseitzler81 the first movie is iconic

[@MikefromQueens]

Agreed

[@jessetorres8738]

In my opinion, Back To The Future is the most consistent movie trilogy, at least in terms of quality, which is ironic because it breaks the key rule of a trilogy of essentially doing the same story 3 times, yet it works given the motif of history repeating itself. Look at all of the elements that appeared in all 3 films: Marty saying "This is heavy" and Doc Brown saying "Great Scott," Marty hitting his head and waking up with a version of his mother taking care of him, Marty walking into a diner and encountering a Tannen as well as a Strickland, a chase scene in the town square and Marty almost crashing into a vehicle, a Tannen crashing into manure, a scene where a character wears a bullet proof vest, pictures/documents changing, Marty being called "chicken," and of course the entire clock tower scene all appear in each film.

[@alvexok5523]

You are completely 100% correct with all of those, except one. Marty only reacts badly to being called chicken in parts 2 and 3. The "nobody calls me chicken!!" thing never happened in the first movie. And if you're wanting to get technical, reacting to being called "chicken" was mainly all in part 2 because in part 3, Marty reacted to being called "yellow" instead of "chicken" each time, with the exception being Needles challenging him to that drag race. The latter though was the only time in part 3 that wasn't in 1885. In all the 1885 instances, he was called "yellow". But still, both parts 2 and 3 repeated the same situation since "chicken" and "yellow" mean the same thing

[@GetStrumming]

@@alvexok5523 -Here’s a little, off-the-top-of-my-head theory: maybe Marty only uses these phrases in parts two and three because he has subsequently altered his family timeline, where George is a confident, no-crap kinda guy. Maybe, as a result, when Marty was growing up George gave him the advice, ‘Marty, always stand up to the bully and never let them call you chicken’. He never used the expression in the first movie because that was before he changed his family history, where his father was weak and would never have told him to stand up for himself. Obviously, I’ve over thought that and have probably watched the film far more times than is healthy! The ‘maybe’ and ‘what if’ game is always fun to play though. I bet Bob Gale has a laugh at some of the outlandish theories which are out there!

[@davidharrison3711]

Biggest plot hole in the entire trilogy: In Part II, Marty, Doc, and Jennifer go to 2015, only to see their OLDER SELVES in the future! If all three had gone to 2015, then that would've meant that they all had disappeared in 1985, where NO ONE knows what might have happened to them. But truth be told, the number of plot holes in the entire trilogy can only be counted with two hands, which isn't bad for a time travel movie; most have a few dozen of them. The producers and the director certainly did their homework when making all three films.

[@GetStrumming]

@@davidharrison3711 I totally agree! With time travel movies your dealing with Science Fiction as opposed to Science Fact, so all bets are off when it comes to an idea being factual correct or incorrect. As you said, when Doc, Jennifer and Marty arrive in 2015 their older selves shouldn’t really exist as there are no guarantees at that point that they’re ever going to get back to 1985 and to live their lives through to 2015! You can tie yourself into knots hypothesising on theories and laws of time and ultimately someone has to draw a line and say ‘listen, we’ve got a story to tell here’ and concentrate on the narrative rather than the minutiae of what can be a very mercurial set of scientific theories. As you said, the BTTF deals really well with these complex ideas. I always loved the fact that Marty watches himself (or maybe an alternative self) travelling to 1955 in ‘Lone Pine Mall’. Those little Easter eggs are what makes the film so clever.

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

@@davidharrison3711 The plot hole in the sense is that they would have been missing for thirty years and to everyone else, would have appeared to have not aged. This plot device was used in _Flight of the Navigator._ In saying that, for Marty, Doc, and Jennifer to have existed in the future, it was in their destiny to have succeeded in their mission and made it back to the past.

[@JV-pu8kx]

If there is any technology we need from BttF's 2015, it is definitely "Mr Fusion."

[@kevinb3812]

Yes, bring it!!!

[@davidm4566]

The danger of Doc hanging from the clock tower is that he could have moved the hands. The reason they knew exactly what time lightning struck was presumably because it stopped the hands in place. If he moved them on accident then it would give a false time and might change the future/past where Marty has the wrong time and they miss the lightning altogether

[@dennisanderson3895]

I noted, upon my first release theatrical viewing, that if the DeLorean had NOT initially stalled on Marty, he would have hit the wire too soon to receive the lightning's input! Interesting that you note the "discrepancy may well have been caused by Doc's weight on the clock hand! It would fit seamlessly with the Harold Lloyd motif + eliminate an "unforeseen miscalculated factor" (as a physicist would likely put it).Now, we need to find out from the top production heads of the time, if honestly (b/c a happy, coincidental, unintended blend is also a part of movie magic) that "gap" was intended or, as Bob Ross would say, a "happy little accident." [C'mon, S & Z! WE *need* to know!]

[@NarwahlGaming]

@@dennisanderson3895 I saw an interview (or, possibly a theiry) video where it hypothesized that the Delorean is semi-sentient or was part of the predestination paradox, and that it stalled on purpose specifically because Marty was going to be too early. There's 60 seconds in a minute but, the car only stalled for 10 seconds, or so. The clock tower doesn't have a seconds hand on it.

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

Clock technicians would have been able to ascertain the second the lightning struck the tower by the inner cog mechanism of the clock.

[@davidm4566]

@@PhantomFilmAustralia Why would they go in to check if the hands read a certain time? They wouldn't know they were off and would just assume that was when it stopped.

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

@@davidm4566 The Clock Tower was a historic part of Hill Valley. It had no second hand, having it's minute hand tick once every sixty seconds--making the margin of error a full sixty seconds. The clock was struck by lightning and was destroyed. Apart from Doc and Marty, nobody else knew that because there were no witnesses. There was fire, a broken piece of masonry, and some cables. There would have been some investigation conducted by authorities as to what happened and when. Cogs on the clock mechanism are marked for calibration, making it easy for investigators to ascertain and report when the clock was destroyed down to the second. This is obviously hyperbole, however it demonstrates that it was indeed possible to determine the exact time of the lightning strike from a clock with no second hand.

[@jojohill27]

Got the blu-ray special editions of these films some of my favorites of all time

[@davidm4566]

I got the VHS editions! Nothing beats the nostalgia of watching BTTF on video tape!

[@arizonaFIREent]

@@davidm4566 I only have the first one on vhs smh

[@eamonclark4952]

I have the VHS 📼 of the first two films

[@ddwalker3744]

This movie is an absolute classic!

[@davidharrison3711]

When one of my co-workers told me that I should see the new movie "Back to the Future" back in 1985, he told me that it was almost believable! I told him, "Wow! Is it THAT good? "I've GOT to see it!" Also at first, I presumed that Ivan Reitman had directed the film, since he had a knack for making the outlandish somewhat believable (i.e. "Ghostbusters" and later, "Twins"). But it was ANOTHER genius, Robert Zemeckis who made this masterpiece!

[@mmcfreds]

Even better than worrying about the exact second lightning strikes, ask yourself how Doc could have known the time machine would stall at the starting line, delaying it from reaching the clock tower. Then worry about whether or not Doc knew the performance specs of the car, then worry about Marty dragging the clutch from 2nd-3rd gear, and only then you’ll start to realize how many times I’ve seen this movie.

[@ericseitzler81]

I've never understood why doc just didn't put the car on something like a treadmill like thing,that way it could do 88mph sitting in one spot and he wouldn't have to take the chance of timing it right but I guess if he did that we wouldn't have one of the greatest scenes in film history.

[@chrislorusso433]

Doc broke the clock by hanging on the hour hand. It didn't break by the lightning strike. The time given by the "save the clock" lady was a minute before the lightning struck. Had the Delorean not stalled, Marty would have hit the wire early.

[@ericseitzler81]

@@chrislorusso433 yea they knew the minute it would strike but not the seconds,if the lighting hit at say 11:45 and 45 seconds then the timing would have been off,like I said they knew the minutes but not the seconds.

[@SUP3RBACON911]

The time machine has a mind of its own it’s aware

[@Tiernan422]

@@ericseitzler81it’s not that the speedometer has to be 88, but the car must physically have the kinetic energy and velocity of 88mph

[@JrGoonior]

This may be considered a paradox: Marty's first time around with a wimpy father figure who's constantly bullied by Biff may have caused Marty to seek out a "stronger" father figure and friendship in Doc. When Marty gets done in 1955 George McFly is no longer the wimp and is a stronger person. When Marty gets back to 1985, his father is no longer bullied by Biff and still has his stronger personality, would Marty still be friends with Doc Brown?

[@Mikhail-Tkachenko]

Yes, because from Doc Brown's perspective he and Marty met for the first time in 1955.

[@D-Fens_1632]

Yes, their forbidden love transcended time.

[@iamrenvik1522]

Love finding new things in any movie after watching it again and again

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

Did you notice the disappearing Pepsi crate under the speaker at the dance?

[@davidharrison3711]

@@PhantomFilmAustralia "Erased......from existence!"

[@julieabraham3566]

There are two dark and unsettling details that I have noticed. One: Biff attacked Loraine and would have raped her, if George had not saved her, yet older George keeps Biff around for menial tasks. And Loraine is ok with this? Two: Marty came back home to a family that he did not grow up with. All the memories and experiences that he had were with a family in an alternate timeline. His family may be "better" but this Marty does not belong with them. And what happened to the Marty who does belong there? Did he land with the more dysfunctional timeline or did he blink out of existence?

[@RDSports5]

To answer the first unsettling detail: Yes, totally agree, but it was probably the only way the writers could prove that in the new 1985, George had truly overcome Biff's constant bullying. Still really twisted though for sure. Second detail: I've read and heard several theories, but the one that seems most plausible is that the Marty from the 'Improved 1985' can be seen at 1:33am traveling back to 1955, and thus essentially being caught in a time loop, so he wouldn't be present in 1985 just hours later when the Original Marty wakes up. It does suck that he didnt really grow up with this version of his family, but even an altered version his family is still his family at the end of the day. Also, it seems pretty clear that Marty spends a lot of his time either with Jennifer, playing in his band, or hanging with Doc, so I don't think he minded much that they were different, especially since the environment seemed WAY healthier than two siblings with low self-esteem, a dad who still gets bullied by his HS bully, and a mom who thinks vodka is the same as water

[@plantainsame2049]

The first one you have a point but the second one there is no other Marty it's a weird time travel thing so when explaining time travel the easiest way to just go to the Doctor Who route and wibbly wobbly timey whimy

[@davidharrison3711]

I get it that 30 years is a long time, but certain things are going to stick with you, no matter what; and this is one of them. I don't think it's a writing flaw; I think it's a character flaw, just George McFly's.

[@davidharrison3711]

@@RDSports5 And yet, there IS a story (perhaps canon), that the "new" George McFly DOES notice that Marty is the same person who met him 30 years before, ("So, it WAS you!") Apparently, he never shared this with his wife, Lorraine.

[@AnthonyLeeBand]

I’m not sure they would recognize Marty cause it’s been 30 years and he was only there a week. It’s like trying to remember a substitute from elementary school lol

[@khatimahmad6208]

You know one thing I noticed when Marty taught his dad how to have courage his dad said In back to the future part 2 that he always told a son not to let anybody call him chicken. Which causes Marty to crash into the Rolls Royce. So all the events go back to the future part 2 wouldn't have happened if if back to the future part one didn't happen

[@davidm4566]

Butterfly effect! You change one small thing and it leads to other unexpected changes.

[@blazed85]

This is heavy, Khatim.

[@khatimahmad6208]

@Tom Foster Marty changed the future by going in the past and giving his dad the confidence to punch Biff. From that point on George McFly taught his kids to never Let someone bully them or call them chicken

[@khatimahmad6208]

@Tom Foster There's a scene on part 2 where George McFly's hanging upside down and they're explaining how he got in the accident with Roll Royce and he says he always taught his kids never let someone call you chicken

[@davidm4566]

@Tom Foster That's why I like predestination paradoxes like in 13 Monkeys.

[@TheaterGeek2007]

I've always thought they could just pull the delorean up to the wire until it touches, lift the drive wheels up on jack stands and step on the gas until the speedometer hit 88 MPH. That way, no matter which of the 60 seconds in that minute the lightning hit, contact is assured. Then, after the time jump back to 1985, the wheels would hit the ground, and Marty could just hit the brakes.

[@maldonboy1]

I had a similar thought, however I was and have always been under the impression that the car had to be in motion? So... could they have connected a coiled wire (similar to a vacuum's power lead) that would carry on releasing once making contact, so that the car is travelling at 88mph whilst connected, ready for the lightning strike? With your idea it's impossible, from the Physics I remember from Secondary School in 1993, you won't get to 88mph from stationary instantly, the De Lorean's acceleration was 0-60mph 8.8 sec for a manual and 10.5 sec for an automatic. I'm sorry for picking holes, I like to look at the problems that come about from the films as a bit of fun and tend to find the more it's thought about the more questions that come up.

[@kurtisduke2685]

You mean axle stands jacks just lift a car axle stands hold it up

[@fasdfdsdfs]

In the beginning as the camera is panning around Doc Brown's garage(?) it passes a picture of a guy hanging off the face of a clock. And what happens at the end? Doc Brown hanging off the face of a clock.

[@lauraleecreations3217]

I love this series. I watch 2 and 3 a lot! My middle child used to watch it all the time

[@davidharrison3711]

I found Part II to be too dark; the least liked of all three films. The original IMO is still the best.

[@davidpumpkinsjr.5108]

I always figured that Doc's mention of discovering the next 25 World Series winners was just Doc making a joke and he was never serious about this.

[@StoneColdMagic]

Agreed. And even if he were serious he, likely, wouldn’t have bet money on them. Which means that being upset with Marty was not hypocritical.

[@raymondm.9954]

I doubt that they were thinking of sequels when the first movie was made. But the line could have given them a plot idea for the second film.

[@BLAPYOU]

Knowing the exact second the lightning strike has always bothered me.

[@michaelcritchlow4373]

All this this is gold !!!

[@1966bdc1984]

I immediately noticed (for the first time) that starting around 1:48 Doc is wearing a shirt with trains on it. While they're not the type seen in BTTF3, I wonder if that was a deliberate nod to what was to come.

[@browneyes142a]

Except that there weren't supposed to be any sequels. The ending was a joke. The studio basically forced the Bobs to do the sequels. Thankful they did.

[@oblioarrow567]

Doc's bandana in BTTF3 is made from the remains of that shirt.

[@plantainsame2049]

@@browneyes142a this is battf 2 and 2 and 3 where made together

[@ismailmayet6181]

One of the best movies ever made

[@ericseitzler81]

Correction..the best!!!!!

[@NateKat80]

Great Scott!!!

[@Never-Too-High]

has anyone seen this trilogy a couple hundred times? I seriously watched this so much growing up I started to memorize all the lines. Anyone else watch it too much as well?

[@markmac2206]

yep. ive seen part 1 at least 100 times, part 2 probably 200 times, and part 3 at least 50 times. had them on VHS then got the DVD trilogy pack later on.

[@ericseitzler81]

I've seen in each movie 300 times plus, probably closer to 400 times .and I'm not making that up.it was and still his my favorite movie ever(part one)and always will be but your not the only insane one my friend.lol

[@Ranvirgrewal2792]

Yeah i can recite the entire dialogue of the first and second movie

[@raphaellakarolinedelima1982]

Yes, I know all the lines

[@Never-Too-High]

Niiiice. Glad to know I'm not alone, I started seriously wondering as a kid if I was going a bit crazy. Hopefully one day we can be like ready player one and PLAY the game as Marty or Doc. I will spend a lot of money to do that.

[@urboialex8201]

Back to the future is by far the most perfect movie ever made

[@DarkNemesisTM]

This is heavy, Doc

[@marknorville9611]

A darker plot twist in BTTF is the amount of time that Biff with Marty's Mum in the car. The amount of time that he was locked in the car, and the time that it takes George to reach the car was enough time for a drunken Biff to get his end away. So that is the darker side to the movie, however it was assault either way no matter what he did.

[@davidharrison3711]

Not to mention, that both George and Lorraine seemed to have forgiven Biff 30 years later; perhaps Biff did some work on their house and/or gave have a good deal on it.

[@markmac2206]

@@davidharrison3711 yeah i wouldnt let that guy near my family. they even credit Biff for getting them together! thew line shouldve been "oh that Biff, if it wasnt for him putting his hand up your dress we wouldnt have gotten together."

[@davidharrison3711]

And we NEVER knew if Lorraine had a child from Biff.

[@technomikelyons]

About the mayor campaign comparisons, two more things I noticed about the mayors' names: Both their first names reference colour. Red, and Goldie. Their last names, Thomas and Wilson, form the name of the actor who plays Biff, which is Thomas [F.] Wilson. Coincidence, maybe, but could be an in-joke/Easter Egg.

[@davidharrison3711]

Whoa!!!

[@davidharrison3711]

Zemeckis and Gale did their homework, that's for sure!

[@hayleyhawkins]

wow!! so interesting

[@calidingoVIII]

One thing I noticed is that in the beginning, Doc used a remote control to do a "test run" one minute into the future. Then after that, the remote capability of the time machine is never seen, used, or mentioned again throughout the trilogy.

[@throatwobblermangrove8510]

He used it as a safe way of testing the device. Once the safety had been established, there was no need to use it again.

[@afonsocoelho5477]

Here in Portugal, that franchise is really beloved. You should talk about other countries as well like I show in my channel the beauties of my country.

[@davidharrison3711]

I wouldn't be caught dead amongst the waves in Nazare, THAT'S for sure!

[@markthomas6236]

I love what you do

[@georgemaragos2378]

Hi, i was aware of all of them, but in watching your video i actually noticed something for the first time. at @ 2:00 when doc is talking to Marty about gambling etc, i notice he is wearing a bright yellow shirt, but it has trains and cowboys on it BTTF Part 3 hint

[@stevetheduck1425]

Twin Pine Mall, Lone Pine Mall, as Marty destroys a pine tree when he crash-lands on a farm in the 1950s. But this means there's a cascade of Martys crossing into other time-lines. There's a shot during the time Doc is meeting with the Libyans that should show a Marty running down a slope in the background. It's rumoured that a shadow of someone is visible, but I've never been able to confirm this. It seems there's a Marty for every Doc, even in Rick and Morty. ;-)

[@davidharrison3711]

There's actually a town called Lone Pine in California; I wonder if it was once called "Twin Pines"? lol

[@petertoth3477]

@@davidharrison3711 Only one way to find out 😎 *BttF theme song intensifies*

[@davidharrison3711]

In the book version, it stated that prior to Marty going into Lou's Diner to look up Doc Brown, he takes in a movie "The Cattle Queen of Montana", which starred Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan. He later tells Doc this, who in turn tells him, that he could've altered the time line, and could cause catastrophic consequences. "So I killed him with my fifty cents", Marty said. "Not necessarily, but you understand my point", Doc replies.

[@alancranford3398]

The Ballad of Davy Crockett sung by Fess Parker!

[@StefanBlagojevic]

10:50 on that last part of the video "Heinleins's All you zombies", well #Looper, a movie from Fred Ward called "Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann" from 1982, answers that question VERY WELL.

[@ravex24]

9:07 In this scene at the end of Marty's solo, we see people looking mad, bewildered, and shocked. One lady on the right has her hand over her chest like it's going to kill her. Anther guy just right of center plugs his ear at the pain the last note causes. However, there is one person out of this entire crowd that appears to smile. Almost dead center, we find the man himself, Mr. George McFly.

[@kevinb3812]

That's an observation I'll certainly be looking for! THANKS!

[@NarwahlGaming]

If I remember correctly, in the beginning, before Marty time travels, the plug from Doc's experiment and the broken fascade from when Doc almost fell are already present on the clock tower.

[@ravenrog]

They knew exactly what second the lightning would strike. The flyer said PRECISELY at 10:04 pm. 10:04:00. Shouldn't bother y'all.

[@ericseitzler81]

Clocks don't show seconds only mins.

[@badbiker666]

Doc said he wanted to know who won the next 25 World Series, he never said he intended to go back and bet on them. Desiring to see the World Series isn't hypocritical. He's just a sports fan. Yes, it is ironic that the 1955 and 1985 mayoral campaign slogans are exactly the same. But you didn't point out that even the posters on the van are exactly the same, except for the photo of the incumbent mayor. Also, a side note, when Marty returns to his 1985, he greets the bum on the park bench as "Red." I have always thought that was the same guy who was mayor in 1955. Apparently not, as another breakdown video said that either Zemeckis or Gale said that wasn't true. Too bad. I thought that was a funny touch. I have always wondered how the writers of Back To The Future could create such a brilliant script but miss totally the unlikelihood of Marty hitting the wire at the exact moment the lightening struck. Yes, I believe it was mentioned that the clock was struck at "exactly" 10:04 pm, but to me that's still got 59 chances to miss out on the 1.21 gigawatts. I have always thought it was pretty weird that not even Doc Brown made mention of how critical it was and how difficult it would be to achieve.

[@pep590]

You make an outstanding point about the World Series and betting. Big difference. Your post is excellent overall.

[@markmac2206]

i agree he wouldnt bet on them BUT as a sports fan, wouldnt that take the fun out of it? the best games ive seen were ones where my heart was pounding and i had no idea which way it would go.

[@ericseitzler81]

Naw I've seen other videos where they said red was the same guy as the mayor in the 50s

[@badbiker666]

@@ericseitzler81 You're right! Those "other videos" certainly know more about the movie that the guys who wrote and produced it. What was I thinking?

[@ericseitzler81]

@@badbiker666 the other videos I was talking about was videos of the bob's talking about it.i wasn't talking about some KZbinrs that said it but the actual guys Bob Gale and zemickas.

[@cadillacdeville5828]

I remember that movie 🍿🎥

[@kassadyne3602]

Real quick another fun fact, in BTTF2 in the alternate timeline when Biff takes over, when they show Biff goons in the casino, if you look really close the guy who wears the 3D glasses, he still has them on, his sun glasses has a real dark red & blue tint to them

[@jingo500]

Anybody else recognise a young Billy Zane in the first one? THAT'S something I never noticed, even on rewatches.

[@davidharrison3711]

Caledon Hauxley.

[@nrood3821]

i never thought about marty being late the whole movie til he needed to step up to save his friend and he was there when his friend needed him. it shows another layer to movie that friendship is a good thing

[@ericseitzler81]

Yea but why 10 mins???if my best friend was gonna die I woulda came back hours or days earlier just in case something went wrong so I could save his life.

[@ironeagle5955]

And he was still late.. Doc was shot by the Libyans. It was the letter that saved Doc, NOT Martys' puctuality.

[@8tonystark8]

My absolute favourite film(s)

[@johnsciara9418]

At 6:29 in this video, there is a clock that has a 4:00 time for London, but an 8:00 for Paris. London and Paris are only one hour apart.

[@leethomas2155]

The time of inpact made sense because it stated 'persicely 10.04pm' so that meant the second it hit 10.04pm

[@matthewtramp1148]

When Doc asked Marty who was the president in 1985 he makes a comment about Jane Wyman being first Lady but by that time Ronald was already married to Nancy.

[@danielwilliams5139]

During one scene in the background a guy rides a bicycle and looks like Doc in Part 2

[@johndurrett3573]

Robert A. Heinlein...highly recommend all his books. "Have Space Suite Will Travel" was targeted at teens and was a break thru book that started my love for reading.

[@robertstewart239]

I didn't even notice that they changed the actress until I watched it on the DVD extras decades later!

[@egrintarg230]

Man that oh so distant year of 2015 is gonna be wild with all that high tech stuff.

[@docbrown459]

just like Fry is his own grandfather

[@lelonfurr7913]

loved the RAH REFRENCES

[@Markymark0128]

Watching it now.

[@vakhtangjokhadze2427]

Nice work but missed Two Pine Mall > One Pine Mall

[@ironeagle5955]

Actually, he was late getting back to Doc also. The letter is what saved him, NOT Martys' punctuality.

[@davidharrison3711]

In the updated version, the word "terrorists" is left out, (perhaps an ode to 9/11).

[@raymondm.9954]

I always wondered why 1950s Doc didn't have Christopher Lloyd's natural dark hair. I also wondered how Marty was able to attach the camcorder to Doc's TV. There wouldn't have been a jack back there, would there?

[@martingarcia4373]

Yes there would be back then. Back then,when VCR'S first came out, I was 17 years old, when you bought a VCR, or a BETA, it would always come with an adapter that you could use with your rabbit ears antenna.

[@JrGoonior]

@@martingarcia4373 The problem was, there is no modulator on the camcorder to "transmit" on channels 3 or 4 like a standard VCR of the day (80's). It is possible that with Doc's advanced knowledge of electronics he was able to connect the audio and video directly in to the circuits of the TV to watch the video Marty had taken 30 years in the future.

[@dennisanderson3895]

10:55 R A Heinlein disliked "paradoxes." In His reckoning: Say, you were selected to time travel and prevent JFK's assassination. You can't. While arriving there is, to *your* personal timeline, a "future event" you are only just experiencing, as Time progressed, the date/time came up, you "appeared," you did whatever you did, JFK got shot, you vanished and returned home. That makes a heck of a lotta sense. I believe his amazing short story, "All You Zombies," was a sarcastic reply to readers who "enjoy" paradoxes. Basically, Heinlein said, "You *want* a paradox? *I'll* give you a paradox!," and wrote a tale in which - b/c of time travel and genome-altering tech - the SAME person is: 1) Themself 2) Their own father... 3)Their own mother... 4) The child resulting from that sexual union 4)The bartender who initially recruits [his personal timeline younger self] to enjoin "the team." **THERE'S** a fraggin' paradox for ya, ya paradox-lovin' summbeaches!!

[@vassa1972]

Great flick

[@davidharrison3711]

That's what Biff said about "A Fistful of Dollars", starring Clint Eastwood. Perhaps where Marty got the idea of using the stovetop as a bulletproof vest.

[@SoundSpeeds]

Doc Brown says the lightning strikes the clock tower at precisely 10:04PM. That would mean it's right on the second. The car that catches on fire and runs into the rags and catches fire led demonstrates the carelessness around the shop that lead to the Brown Manor burning down. That's in a picture at the beginning of the movie.

[@TheChickenlittle11]

One thing I thought would’ve been in this video was how in the original 1985 timeline Doc has Marty meet him at Twin Pines Mall, but once Marty goes back in time and ends up running over one of Mr. Peabody’s pine trees in the new 1985 timeline the mall is now Lone Pine Mall.

[@dragnet53]

It would have been funny that they did a Futurama type skit. Marty, You are your own grandfather. lol

[@SBaby]

2:00 - Honestly, Doc scolding Marty about the Almanac could be explained by what happened in the first and third movie. In the first movie, Marty went back to 1955, and as he was telling Doc about things from 1985, Doc started to become apprehensive about knowing too much about the future, both from this and also from seeing what was happening to Marty as a result of mucking about with the spacetime continuum. Then in the second movie, Doc displayed the apprehension by sedating Jennifer so she wouldn't know too much about the future (this didn't stop her from finding some things out anyway, but it was the intent that mattered). In the third movie, Marty is briefly in 1955, where Doc learns that his future self wants to destroy the DeLorean. He had thirty years to ponder the possible reasons why this was. So in other words, Marty's adventures in 1955 are what caused Doc's outlook to change. He still went to 2015 like he originally planned, but with a bit more reservation than before.

[@dragnet53]

Doc should have allowed Marty to keep the Almanac. I mean, after all, Marty did save his life.

[@throatwobblermangrove8510]

Doc only mentioned that he would know who won the next 25 world series. He never indicated he planned to make money from the idea. Sedating Jennifer was just a plot device to get her out of the way of the plot for the majority of the movie.

[@benullom2301]

I'm sure it's in the comments somewhere but while you're talking about Marty and the sports almanac, your referencing that the doc scolded him was different from the doc that mentioned finding out the next 25 World series winners. Here's where I catch the mistake that's the doc from the beginning of the first film, saying he could find out the next 25 World series winners, now we don't know how long he's been using The Time machine by the sequel, but it's definitely not 30 years. I think what should be taken away from that is in his time being a time traveler he's realized interference of any kind almost always leads to failure, with Marty's parents somehow able to be the exception to this rule.

[@LeonardStauffer]

There is one clock in docs garage that isn’t 25 minutes slow. It’s the one in the floor during the opening sequence. FYI.

[@chronicallycrude4149]

I watched these movies at least 3 times a year since I have been 10. These were not unknown.

[@cabellero1120]

I saw this in the theater, years ago! I thought it was Awesome! The coolest movie I ever saw! As an Adult, I realize that it doesn't make much sense. What happens to the alternate timelines when Marty returns to the present?? Do they just fade away? Where was Doc Brown and family going at the end of BTTF 3? He'd said he'd been to the future, was he going back to 1885? If Marty's time travel journey was erased, at the end of BTTF 3, Then Why didn't the timeline revert back to the original film? Where was Biff, when Marty returned to Hill Valley in #3?? ???

[@brianellinger6622]

The Billy Goat Trail is pretty cool

[@stevenlitvintchouk3131]

When Marty goes back to 1955, he crashes the DeLorean into Farmer Peabody's house. The name was an allusion to "Mr. Peabody and Sherman," a children's cartoon from that same era in which Mr. Peabody operated a time machine to go back in time. Mr. Peabody called his time machine "the Wayback Machine." That name has lasted and today, it's what the Internet Archive is called.

[@garyjbaker]

Not sequel baiting at all. It was truly meant to not have a sequel. Then Universal told "The Bob's" Gale & Zemeckis that they were making a sequel with or without them. Bob Gale has said that the hardest part of BTTF2 was figuring what to do with Jennifer. Because there wasn't ever meant to be a sequel, her being in the car at the end of the first movie was a huge headache. Bob Gale said if they knew then that there would be a sequel she wouldn't have been in the original ending at all.

[@FalseHope61]

Can somebody for the love of god tell me what the background music is? Been searching for it since 2018.

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

I never argued with my parents over music. My favourite music was all made before I was born. Whether it's classical, or 70s and 80s pop. I already always hated the music from my own lifetime, so I don't need to wait for the future for that.

[@throatwobblermangrove8510]

No, Marty did NOT work past his "lateness" problem in the end by showing up early. He set it 10 minutes early and showed up too late to stop the shooting, which is what he was doing. This act was completely in line with his previous actions. "All You Zombies" isn't about incest. The twist to the story is that there is only one character involved in the entire drama, although he's initially shown as three different people. If you're unfamiliar there was a movie adaptation called Predestination starring Ethan Hawke.

[@StormBringer1966]

I think, and that's my own theory, that Doc made some bets in order to have so much money in his briefcase. I don't believe that he got a job in order to earn it. And I don't think that he stole it.

[@ericseitzler81]

Well they did say he was rich back in the day so I'm sure he had a little left especially after selling his mansion to make a parking lot to burger king.lol

[@davidharrison3711]

@@ericseitzler81 The Burger King that Marty's brother Dave (Marc McClure) worked at. lol

[@ericseitzler81]

@@davidharrison3711 lol I didn't think of that,good catch.

[@AirforceVeteran4peace]

Doc was more father figure than friend to Marty which I never noticed until I rewatched BTTF later

[@Petebootyfudge5312]

I always thought it was weird that martys parents raised a kid that looks like the kid that set them up in high school. I think family guy made the point also

[@Thortok2000]

I may be misremembering things, but I'm pretty sure they made it clear that the lightning strike occurred on the second that it hit that minute on the clock. Like it was documented that it was exactly on the second of that minute, the exact second that the minute ticked over.

[@markmac2206]

Doc did say "precisely 10:04 pm" so youre right.

[@nicholasbstone]

The term misremembering should be banned!

[@Thortok2000]

@@nicholasbstone Oh hey look it's a bot trying to stir stuff up. Let's try replying to it to trick it into thinking people are engaging with it and see if it will accidentally say something bannable.

[@Tiernan422]

The point also being that the clock stopped working when it was struck, it wasn’t just that it got hit but that it stopped it. Just by looking at the clock you’d see that the strike occurred at 10:04:00 They could’ve made it happen at 10:04:12 or soemthing but that’s overly complicated and most people would be confused by it

[@djmocha7]

I don’t know if anybody commented this already, but it’s been said that Doc may have been suicidal in the beginning of part 1. Reason being, why would he stand in front of the Delorean, and hold Marty next to him while he was testing it if none of his previous inventions ever worked, unless he figured it would fail as well, and run them both down?

[@ewetoobblowzdogg8410]

Loved Liz Schue in Adventures in Babysitting

[@tmnt2105]

I think that I watched it multiple.

[@VanillaLimeCoke]

0:42 Don’t forget when Strickland warned Marty not to hang around Dr. Emmett L Brown or he’d end up in big trouble. Which is what happened. He almost wasn’t born in Part 1 He changed the whole entire town in Part 2 Then he was nearly shot dead by Buford Tannen in Part 3

[@adredy]

backgroung music ? 3:20

[@dontcoloroutsidethelines6815]

One plot I always had a problem with is something has to be done in the future. Even if Biff doesn't get involved when they go back the thing that needs to be fixed is still there when they go back to the past. First time watching I thought of that. The Doc should have known better.

[@HereIsWisdom1318]

7:00--This wasnt Marty breaking character and being on time for a friend! It was doc breaking his own rule and reading the letter that Marty wrote him back in 1955.

[@americanfreedomlogistics9984]

In BTTF 2 you can see a sign over the door to Principal Strickland’s office that reads “DISCIPLINE “ in BTTF 3 Marshal Strickland tells his son “Maintain discipline at all times. Remember that word, discipline.”

[@davidharrison3711]

"And if you don't maintain that discipline, I'LL make sure you end up flying a cargo plane full of dog sh!t out of Hong Kong!" Oooops, wrong movie!

[@nicholasong2892]

I just noticed doc's writing pad looks like a giant SD card. 7:13

[@Markknott29]

I’ve been searching for someone to notice an anomaly in the film which is obvious to me but nobody appears to have pointed it out yet… Please tell me I’m not the only person who has spotted it… The band on stage has a guitar amplifier sitting on top of an upturned cola box…. When Marty joins the band and kicks over the amplifier, the box has disappeared… Anyone else noticed this?

[@RedDefender77]

continuity errors

[@theforsaken127]

The think with the almanac, the Doc wanted to know the winners, not for financial gain, Marty wanted to use it for financial gain, so I dont think the Doc was being hypocritical.

[@AnthonyLeeBand]

So why wasn’t Biff rich and powerful as an old man when he got back to 2015. Is it cause Marty and Doc didn’t leave to go back to alternate 1985 yet?

[@urboialex8201]

I've seen buff over a billion times

[@bryce253]

I thought he finally was going to give a good explanation as to how Goldie could be Mayor in the beginning of the movie in 1985 if he got the idea to run only after Marty went back in time to 1955 and planted the seed in his head. The only explanation if it just isn't a plot hole is that Marty had already gone back and what we start with in 1985 actually isn't the beginning of his time traveling.

[@dennisanderson3895]

3:31 Draw your own conclusions regarding how careers - and positions, civil and economic - can fluctuate: When Marty returns to 1985, he sees the "Crazy drunk drivers," mumbling wino...which is Red, the incumbent mayor from from 30 years before. A creepy detail - it makes one wonder what began the downward spiral of a former mayor to being a street-drifting, presumably homeless, alcoholic. [I presume more than losing a 2nd or 3rd reelection bod.] But this was a clever and sobering detail.

[@etsequentia6765]

Just saw another BTTF video... turns out it's NOT the same character. Fox apparently improvised the name 'Red' in the scene but it was never meant to be the same guy. Source: movie dvd commentary.

[@LeonardStauffer]

No this isn’t Former mayor red Thomas. It’s a completely different character. Check the credits.

[@gkroll8467]

Part two is shit part 3 was good part 2 shameless product plugs no story but to repeat the last half of part one I saw that film jerk offs

[@isaacheres1354]

5:55 yeah having to set up a camera on and having to playback on a 1950's TV set seems to be farfetch, but they have to, otherwise the fictional movie would not carry on

[@maldonboy1]

Is it that easy to connect up to a 50's TV? Would the 50's TV have a Co-Axial connection? Living in the UK I've always wondered why in American films and TV programs that they had the set top rabbit aerials, did they not have roof top aerials? Another unanswered question, did Marty have the connectors for the video camera handy?

[@ericseitzler81]

@@maldonboy1 naw you had to have "rabbit ears"that's what we called them)to get a signal for your tv antennas,and no you wouldn't have been able to connect a camera to a 1950s tv set.

[@frankc1354]

First time I rented a car I actually connected it to the tv antenna leads with a screwdriver

[@frankc1354]

Car - V C R

[@steve_santiago]

The “foreshadowing” on the sequels is not accurate as Bob Gale has said that they only made the sequels after the huge success of part one.

[@darrenkilhams8056]

But why are commenting about bttf part 2 /3 when originally there was no plans for a sequel, was just left with a cliffhanger. Due to the success the sequels were created

[@royfr8136]

The only thing that has bothered me since i was a kid is... their 3rd child looking exactly like some dude they met in highschool and with the same name..... ??? i think thats a bigger one to try to explain

[@aedinius]

Some of these ideas seem to hinge on Marty being the oldest, but he seems to have an older brother (who works an office job while living at home) while Marty is still in high school

[@davidharrison3711]

Marty was the youngest; the reason why Dave disappeared in the photograph, WAS because he was the oldest. From the book.

[@ewetoobblowzdogg8410]

Marty plays a Gibson guitar that didn't come out for another year or two

[@kaydog2450]

The clock tower in 2015 in back to the future part 2 still has a chunk missing 60 years after marty went back to 1985 so really from 1955-1985 they never fixed it even when they changed the clock tower between 1985-2015 they still didnt patch that up you would think that someone would have noticed

[@soyreeng8864]

I just realized the guy running for mayor "red" Thomas is the bum on the bench in ep 1 also named "red" and the drunk bum in ep2 in biffs alternate reality is the same same "red" in ep1.

[@RedDefender77]

not the same guy

[@conorjackson7894]

What would happen if the put the delorean on a giant car treadmill and connected it to the wire when the lightning hit, that way they could just have the car driving at a constant 88mph until the lighting strikes…. Less risk 🤷‍♂️

[@FeedScrn]

Great movie. // Someone pointed out that having Biff subservient, washing George's car and being close to his wife at the end of the movie - may not be realistic or wise.