Finally Watching Back To The Future And It Was SO MUCH BETTER Than I Thought It'd Be... *Reaction*

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[CorrectFossa]

Every moment is a set up, a payoff, or an integral part of a character arc, or an Iconic joke. A perfect script in every way.

[Theomite]

The moment when Marty hugs Doc at the clocktower hits WAY different when you're a kid vs. an adult. Because as a kid, you know what it means, but as an adult--after you've lost people you love to time--you *understand* what it means. Marty lost his best friend, got him back, and now faces losing him again, this time for good. He has no idea if his plan will work or not so this may be the last time he gets to see the most important person in his life. What a lot of us would give to be able to not just see the ones we've lost, but to have the chance to save them, man that shit HITS.

[neojc]

Laughing like George McFly is not a bug, it's a feature! Spread the joy!

[DanSolo]

My grandmother took me to see this in the theater as a birthday present. She wanted to see Yentil, but since I expressed interest in BTTF seeing the poster at the multiplex, she wanted her grandson to see what he wanted to see. She was 34 in 1955 so to be watching a movie with nostalgia, and that was acted well and just plain fun, she loved it. She would tell my mom that she was pleasantly surprised at how much fun she had.

[TaRatTinCan]

In 2000 I was 8 years old in our local supermarket there was corner with VHS tapes and my mum would sometimes buy me some. However there was no real separation - genres, years of production, classics and absolute garbage, all together. It was like a scavenger hunt.
So one day I found 4 tapes that looked particularly cool, so I convinced mum to buy them all.
It was Back to the Future trilogy and Independence Day. I felt like a won a jackpot that day.

[newsguy]

They did not have skateboards back in 1955. Also--a fun fact: Did you notice that when Marty came back to the mall at the end, it was now named "Lone Pine Mall." At the start, it was the "Twin Pines Mall." Marty had run over Peabody's twin pine with the DeLorean.

[Björn-cw]

I suggest "Who framed Roger Rabbit". The film also stars Christopher Lloyd and is directed by Robert Zemeckis.

[johnnehrich]

I grew up in the '50's and when I watched this when it first came out, I was stunned by all the nuances they got right about all the things alien to the people in '55 meeting someone from '85. (Of course, the people making the movie also had lived to some degree in that past - not like it would be if the movie was being made now.)

What sort of blew my mind was seeing things I remembered from my childhood and yet by '85, I had not really thought about the vast changes that had occurred slowly enough to not see. This movie could be shown in a history class and every line in '55 could warrant a discussion of changes. (And also, many viewers today don't get.)

The astonishment of Doc hearing Reagan had become president would have been universal at the time, as in '55, he was a grade B movie star, that few paid attention to outside the film industry. (And Doc suggesting Jerry Lewis and Jack Benny would be an equal joke, for VP and Treasury Secretary.)

In '55, people were just starting to get tv's, with a vast change in just a few years. But the idea at the time that anyone would have two tv's would have been almost unthinkable, even though people now can't grasp how that idea was still so radical.

On the other hand, as with all notions of time travel, predicting future changes flops really bad, as you will see in the sequel where they go to an envisioned 2015. Including just as it was astonishing to the '55 people that a black man could become mayor in a general election in 30 years, to us in the 1985, that a black man could be president in a mere 30 years seemed like an unrealistic goal when the movie was made.

[CommadoreGothnogDragonheart]

There's a lot of cool details you notice on later watchings. For example, when Marty goes to meet Doc it's at the Twin Pines Mall, but when he returns it's called Lone Pine Mall because Marty destroyed one of the old man's pine trees when he left the farm.

The next two are just as awesome!

[twylanaythias]

A few fun details:
~ At the beginning of the movie, the ledge on the clock tower is intact; when Marty returns to 1985, the ledge is broken (from Doc's mishap)
~ In addition to writing The Power of Love, which Marty and his band perform at the audition, Huey Lewis is the guy with the megaphone who tells them they're "too darned loud"
~ When Marty returns to Twin Pines Mall (after killing one of Peabody's pine trees), it's called Lone Pine Mall
~ Old Man Peabody and his son Sherman were named in honor of the old Peabody and Sherman time travel cartoons

[dsscam]

3:46 Not only "playing music" but playing HIS music. That was Huey Lewis himself- the singer, producer, and creator of the song Marty was playing (and his other one "Back In Time")- that was the #1 hit during the movie's run. 15:28 Even though the skateboard was invented in the 50s- the first brands didn't come out until 1963. Apparently, the inventors got their idea from some mysterious Hill Valley kid who was only in town for a week. 23:22 The drunk was the 1955 Mayor. 23:44 It runs on regular gas. Also, you missed the transition from the Twin Pines Mall to the Lone Pine Mall due to Marty destroying one of Old Man Peabody's Pines. You missed a lot more too -- wish your reaction was longer. But, you were hilarious, as always.

[nicholasyoung]

I was born in 1980, and this movie was such a huge part of my childhood. My siblings and I used to build the time machine out of refrigerator boxes and stuff. That's why I love reaction videos. It's really wild to see the reaction of a younger person to something that was so influential to my generation.

[videohistory]

Fun fact: in the "Darth vader" scene, the original plan was to have actual Van Halen music playing, but Eddie was the only one who signed off on it, so they improvised.

What you're hearing is just Eddie by himself playing a few solo riffs.

[jlorna]

It hasnt aged. This movie is timeless perfection.

[BMcCauley]

You have quickly become a channel I come back to for fun reactions, and I’m so glad you’re finally getting to my favorite film series ever since I was a kid. The movies came out before my time, but I was obsessed with them and still consider them favorites.
If no one else has said it yet, and if you haven’t already watched it pre-releasing this one; At the end of Back to the Future 2, stop the movie right after the “To Be Concluded” logo at the end because immediately after that, there is a “trailer” for the third movie with some VERY heavy spoilers for Part 3.

[RossWrock]

Ange, to this day this movie is consider one of the most "perfect" ever made. The script is actually taught in film schools all over the US. Such a great, fun film. I remember watching it back in the 80s, and being upset every time the "To be continued" came on the screen. As a child it seemed like decades before 2 and 3 were released. By the way, while the sequels aren't as good as the original, they are still amazing. Brilliant really, considering how they worked within the confine of the first film. You'll see what I mean.

[jessetorres]

Back To The Future is my favorite movie trilogy, & in my opinion it's the most consistent film trilogy (at least in terms of quality). I hope you react to Part 2 & Part 3 as well ANGELINAA.

[twiddlinbits]

Fun fact: George fails at punching with his right hand, but succeeds with his left.

In the fifties, left-handers were commonly trained to use their right hand as children, and studies suggest that it was psychologically harmful to them. George probably didn't really realize he was left handed. But when he pushes the weasel to the ground on the dance floor, he does it with his left hand.

[ejdouglass]

As an older viewer, I'm not QUITE old enough to have seen this in theaters, as I was a toddler, but I definitely watched it on VHS when I was still a kid. Every time I've seen it again over the years, I find more to appreciate about it -- it holds up incredibly well and is just so immensely watchable and enjoyable through and through. I really look forward to seeing the entire trilogy on the channel. It works really well as one longer story told in three parts, and outside of the Lord of the Rings is probably one of the most enjoyable trilogies I've ever seen put to film. You have a lot to look forward to!

[jordangan]

Another interesting fact: The reason Biff blocks George’s first punch is because he’s actually left handed and tried to punch with his right, which Biff caught and thus, George ends up knocking him out with his left hand.