nearly forgot to mention that Part II is already available in both edited and full-length forms on Patreon :) www.patreon.com/professorreactions

You have no idea how funny it is that you called Marty a chicken.

I always imagined the reason the lady freaked out when Marty found the estates as a yet to be built neighborhood was cuz they had nuclear fear in the 50s and some dude is in a nuclear hazmat suit just walked up to the car looking for help, so I imagine she and her husband probably think he's radioactive lol

Before anyone else says it - the guy that says Marty is "just too darn loud" is Huey Lewis, the singer that sings the opening song of the movie "Power of Love" among others Also - to prepare you for the next one, Marty's gf changes actresses for the next movie because the OG actress had to go help her sick mom...

I'd say it's not about Lorraine having never met a dude like Marty before in her life...so much as Lorraine was basically lying when she told her kids (hey! Marty, too!) that she never did that sort of thing. Protecting her image in their eyes, maybe.

Not every reactor gets the detail with the change from "Twin Pines Mall" to "Lone Pines Mall". Good job :-) From today's point of view it seems a bit strange, that back in the first half of the 80s loud rock music was some kind of a red flag for some people. I remember a summer camp where we had some kind of a party on the last evening. Me and some other friends were into hard rock, and we asked the dj, if he could bring some more rock sound, which he promised. But only after just one song from Def Leppard the teachers stopped "this dangerous situation". Skateboards were actually invented around the 50s. And one joke the younger people often don't understand: Marvin Berry calls his cousin Chuck Berry to let him hear "Johnny B. Goode" (which is written by Chuck Berry).

The scrip to this movie is often touted as the “perfect screenplay”, and is taught in USC film classes.

I've heard some reactors say that this movie makes them nostalgic for a time that they never lived in. I definitely get that feeling.

This film trilogy is such a re-watchable good time. Everyone has a favourite, but the three films tie together amazingly.

"Give in. Just once. You're not related yet." Hahaha!

As someone who took AP Chemistry in high school, the "Plutonium is real?" line made my eye twitch. It's funny that you called Marty "chicken", because... well, watch the sequels, and you'll see. What happened to the cop? A bribe.

Marty using a skateboard 21:11 Kids in 1955 watching that: "What is that thing he's on?" Kids riding soapbox scooters 21:40 You in 2022 watching that: "What is that thing he's on?"

“GIVE IN, Marty. Just once. You’re not related, yet.” LMAOOOO first reactor I’ve seen egging Marty to go for Lorraine

Man, I remember the first time I watched this movie as a kid. My dad bought us the DVD, and I didn't want to watch it because it was live-action (I only liked animated movies back then. For some reason, most of live-action movies scared me lol), but I loved it. I remember having goosebumps when Doc pulled out the letter. As for the ranking, I think everyone, me included, pretty much agrees the first one is the best (not that 2 and 3 are bad or anything). Personally, I like the 3rd one overall slightly better than the 2nd one, but Part two has my favourite final act out of the three, although this one is a very close second. Glad you're watching these, and I can't wait for the rest of the series!

Loved your reaction! You're right about the writing -- Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale wrote scripts that are like finely crafted machinery, with each part fitting in smoothly at just the right point, and the whole thing working in an incredibly satisfying way. All 3 movies in the series are good; which one you prefer is a matter of taste. Marty's mom was clearly lying at the start, saying she never did "those things" with a boy -- what parents always do with their kids, pretend they never had wild or reckless moments in their youth.

"is this the bad guy from like mike" YES lmao and thats such a funny way to recognize him

I love how Biff’s joke is supposed to be “Make like a tree and leave.” But he’s too stupid to tell it right! 😆

Yeah, a great story about the transformation of a teenager's family. Absolutely no fluff in this move. i.e. There were no extraneous scenes. Every segment reinforced the characters and progressed the plot. Everything that was setup in the opening act had a satisfying payoff throughout the movie. They didn't treat time travel as a gimmick but as a well-defined means of creating that Spielbergian suspense. Everything had to go wrong and we get that huge hit of dopamine when they finally make it with one second left. Simple but effective movie making. Imaging trying to sell this story to a studio; there's absolutely no way anyone would think this would work on paper but they executed it so beautifully that it became a huge success.

This is the first of your 'watching' vids I've watched. Instant sub. Paying attention and actually enjoying it, not just performing for the camera. Gonna check out more!

32:10 -- Congrats.. You are the FIRST reactor that noticed the Lone Pine Mall change.. Marty ran over one of Old Man Peabody's pine trees and killed it when he was escaping from the farm..

It kills me that you’re half my age haha. I can’t be that old. I love your reactions. I grew up on this movie. So in the ‘80s, in a lot of places teachers could still use corporal punishment! So it wasn’t strange to us when Marty gets manhandled. That guy would be fired today. About whether or not what happens in the past had always happened: that’s called a bootstrap paradox. That’s the way time travel is in Potter like you said, what happened always had happened. But there are some theoretical issues with that. The way time travel is depicted across the three Back to the Future movies is the more theoretically accepted, straightforward approach. If you change things, you create an alternate timeline. Ronald Reagan was an actor in old westerns before becoming governor of California and then president. We in California seem to love electing actors (like Schwarzenegger). And it’s implied that Doc paid that cop off, lol

Back to the Future is taught as a perfect example in screenwriting classes at film school. Please watch Frequency (2000) starring Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel. Great & totally unique take on time travel, and relevant to a comment you made about this movie! The kids were using a homemade scooter. The sequel set-up was just a closing joke. They had no idea it would be such a hit as to get a sequel.

"Whoa they've really cleaned this place up, looks brand new" when Marty sees his school 1st time in '55. I thought that was the funniest line in the movie as he wasn't used to time travel yet at that point.

"Make like a tree and leave" was a phrase back in the day. Also, actor Christopher Lloyd who plays Doc was the Tv show Taxi among other credits (One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest". You might want to check out the KZfaq video "Rev Jim takes a diverse test". Classic.

The Back to the Future films are among the best trilogies in film history. This first movie is a nearly perfect film and universally loved.

The actor who played Marty's dad is named "Crispin Glover" now 57, who in the last decade has been in such films like Alice in Wonderland, Hot Tub Time Machine, By the Rivers of Babylon, and the 2015 mini series Texas Rising, also back in the 1950s bars of soap were usually delivered to small drug stores in wooden crates "soap boxes" and after delivery they just threw the boxes out and the local kids grabbed them to make these wooden up right push carts or scooters with old skate wheels, which later changed to small wooden push cars and then to official soap box racers, which are still held to this day, but the cars are now mostly fiberglass and steel but still called "soap box racers".....

So glad you liked this film! I swear, it's just a classic. It's so funny and smartly written and FUN. It just doesn't get old, either. It was funny back then, and it still works. I'm in my 40's and I remember going to see this in the theatre with my sister and a family friend of ours (I think I was maybe 12?) and it made such a huge impression on me that I've never forgotten the experience. I remember the three of us walking out of the theatre, still laughing and quoting parts of the movie over and over again. "One point 21 jigawatts!"... "What the hell is a jigawatt?" and "Think, McFly, think..." and "There's that word again, 'heavy'... is there something wrong with the earth's gravitational pull in the future?" Lol. It's really fun to rewatch as well because you'll catch things you didn't notice the first time around. Like how it became "Lone Pine" Mall because Marty accidentally knocked down the other pine when he first crashed into 1955. 🤣 Brilliant.

25:20 thanks for keeping this scene in here, the romanticism of the past must be balanced with what actually happened, which sadly includes the racism.

I was 14 when this movie came out. I was an 80s kid (51 now). I always loved this movie and so did my parents because they grew up in the 50s. So I remember wondering at the time whether this movie would have any meaning or value at all to people of future generations or if it just wouldn't relate or be relevant. Happy to see that young people today can still enjoy it.

Yes Reagan was an actor , he did some well received movies and a few stinkers . But i think the movie that comes to mind for most people is Bedtime for Bonzo, a cute comedy .

"Go ahead! You're not related to her..yet!" Best line ever

every previous generation watching this movie: this is fun but the stuff with the mom is pretty weird gen z: CMON MARTY!!! CHICKEEEN!!!!

Fun fact, one of Biff's goons, the guy you said wore the 3D glasses is actually the protagonist in another overlooked 80s movie called 3 O'Clock High. It's essentially the greatest 'bully' movie of all time, and Steven Spielberg was involved in it but was uncredited. You might want to look into that too. It exudes just as much 80s nostalgia as Back to the Future ( :

The guy who said they are too darn loud is actually Hewy Lewis from the band Hewy Lewis and the News who made music for this movies soundtrack. As a rock musician himself the music clearly isn't too loud for him but since Hewy Lewis did music for the movie they were willing to give him a cameo in the film.

The Delorean somehow knows when to break down. If it hadn't stalled the first time in 1955, Marty would have driven it into town. Then, if Marty had hit the gas when Doc's alarm went off, he would have been too early for the lightning strike. And in the end, it stalled to keep Marty from showing up at the mall before the other Marty left

Your statement near the end was so true and most people don't even think about it: Why go into the future to fix a problem with your kids? Why not just fix that problem when (or before) it happens instead? Like, what was the plan? Go into the future, fix the problem and then go back to the time before you fixed it? How does that make any sense? But in any case, this is a great movie with an almost perfect script. For an excellent take on how and why it was made, I highly recommend the "Back to the Future" episode of Netflix's excellent series, "The Movies That Made Us".

btw, the guy who tells him he's "just too loud" is actually Hewey Louis which is who he was playing :D

I remember those subdivision signs. When I saw this and heard the music swell, it took me back to 1953. For an old guy like me, this was a wonderful trip.

In a deleted scene, after Doc Brown climbs down from the ladder once the cop asks for his permit, he actually pays off the cop to look the other way.

Yes Reagan was an actor, especially in Westerns and war movies. He was in one movie with a chimpanzee called Bedtime for Bonzo (1951).

The guy had 3-D glasses because the first big 3-d movie craze was from 1952 to 1955. However there are misconceptions about it. They did not use colored 3-d glasses but polarized tinted glasses. People just remembered wrongly at the time that 50s 3-d movies used red green glasses.

This is is the first time I watch you. That was a great reaction!!! I can't wait to see your reactions to Parts II and III!!! This movie was meant to be a stand-alone movie. The "set up" at the end was done as a joke by the writers and producers. Turns out that it worked really well for a Part II. Part II and Part III were filmed back to back so Part III came out in theatres only six months after Part II.

So glad that you understand the so called "RULES" of time travel. He couldnt go foward in time to undo the damage , therefore he must correct the damage NOW or back in the past

4:55 when the mom says all those things that she didn't do at their age... While in reality she did all that and more Also stuff changes when something is changed in these movies... Not going to tell what where when why or how Also the brother couldn't do that even if he was alive .. his head was gone first... Wich means no sight

This is my favorite movie series, and glad to see you really enjoyed this. I'd think you'll like Part 2 and 3, so here's hoping you do reactions to those as well.

You were so attentive and caught so many details that fly over some reactor's heads, excellent reaction! Great commentary throughout as well. Glad you enjoyed this one so much, it's in my top 2-3 fave movies of all-time. and this trilogy is my fave trilogy of all-time, looking forward to your reaction to the others.

I was born in the early 80s, so seeing the opening scenes of this film takes me back to what the world actually looked like when I was about 4 years old.

One of the jokes you may have missed is the teacher saying that they are "just too darn loud". That "actor" was Huey Lewis whose song Marty's band was playing, plus his songs The Power of Love and Back in Time were in this movie. He wrote Back in Time specifically for this movie.

Noticing background details are important in all three movies. An example is when you first see Biff after he wrecks George's car. At the end he owns an autobody shop. Also, Doc mentions that the Mall was a farm owned by Mr. Peabody. The Rocky and Bullwinkle show was a cartoon from the 50s or 60s. There was a segment about a time-traveling dog and his friend. Mr.' Peabody and Sherman.

When Marty first arrives in Hill Valley in 1955, they show a movie theater with Ronald Reagan's name on the marque

Loved this reaction to what has got to one of my favorite series of films. I love watching them. I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions of 2 and 3. Thank you for this little trip down memory lane. I love seeing young people react and genuinely enjoy something I've seen and loved for years.

2:12 - The guy in the glasses with the megaphone who told the band that their music was "just too loud" was actually musician Huey Lewis. He wrote the theme song to this movie.

Dude, the 80s/ 90s had some of the best blockbuster movies ever! You need to check out more 80s/90s movies: Best movie made times, in my humble opinion! This is just one of those classics of those times!

The pacing is so great with this movie and there's pretty much not a single wasted line of dialogue, almost all the lines in the first or the background details set up something later.

Everybody loves George's laugh at the beginning. 😂

When Reagan watched the film and reached the scene in which he is mentioned, he almost choked on laughter. He then ordered that the scene be played again.

I love how my generation (I'm 42 eff 10/30ish), can look back at this and see younger people examine what was something I watched as a kid (85-91ish). I'm enjoying your reactions.

I saw the trilogy in theatres as a movie-marathon for the anniversary of the date in the future they go to. I've seen them all so many times i thought watching them all in a row would feel like a long time. The night flew by. One of the best theatre experiences i've ever had. Enjoy the sequels!

Asking good questions: 1.) What happened to the cop asking for Doc's permit? We find out in a deleted scene that Doc just bribed him to go away. That's why he got his wallet when he said he had a permit. 2.) Wouldn't Marty's parents recognize him in the future? In the screenplay for the originally planned sequel, Marty goes back to 1967. Lorraine mentions he reminds her of the Marty/Calvin she knew, but claims "he was taller." The idea is, they had a somewhat larger than life memory of Marty and so they wouldn't recognize him if he was standing in front of them twelve years later.

1. The cranky principal also played the Air Boss in Top Gun. 2. The guy that say's "You're just 's too damn loud" is Huey Lewis himself. (Heart of Rock-n-roll). 3. The guy that says "It's too loud" is Huey Lewis {Power of Love} 4. Eric Stoltz was supposed to play Marty. Thankfully, we got much better for the gig. 5. If you want a first time/share of an OUTSTANDING movie where Christopher Lloyd plays a bad guy you must do "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". 6. The next one is the best of the hat-trick.

The first act of this movie is perfect. They have the viewer take in all this information that pays off later. Plutonium, Goldie Wilson, the clock tower, how his parents met, Twin Pines, how Doc invented the Flux Capacitor. And the climax is countdowns within countdowns.

Being a 90s baby is truly awesome. The 90s was so pure.

Love your reactions bro, keep it up ..looking forward to what else you react to in the future

that thing the kid had was a 1950's scooter- you took 1 roller skate, a frujt box and a couple of 2 x 4 s & nailed it together. I was born in '51- I made one.

The song being played while Marty is skateboarding to school is by Huey Lewis and the News. The battle of the bands judge that's judging them as "too 📢 loud" is Huey Lewis

Love the theory that doc Brown was suicidal because none of his inventions ever worked, and he was going to end his life during the time experiment. That’s why even doc Brown looked surprised when it worked. And look up “Back to the future Robot Chicken” lmfao

The thing the little kid was playing with, that Mary pulled apart to make the state board, was a scooter made with roller skates and an old crate. Yes, that was a thing. Dig the tin can "headlight". 😁

Glad you like it young man. I saw for the first time at the movie theatre...Gawd! I'm old. :D

Dude. I'm already 40, I'm from Ukraine, from the former USSR. I still consider this film and its sequels to be one of the best entertainment films on the planet. Of course, there is no advanced computer graphics here. But you must admit, both history and the world , and actors, and even effects - all this still looks drop dead.

12:34 -- Actually, if you look closely in the background, you can see Doc bribing the cop while Marty slips the envelope in his jacket pocket.. His "permit" for the weather equipment was a twenty.. (Which went a lot further back in 1955 than it does today.)

Lorraine has taught me something, whenever your sweet old grandmother or sweet mother says , oh in my day is girls never did that...bullshit it's always the sweetest old folks that were loose in their day

Something that always strikes me about this is that everyone seems to think that Biff got his comeuppance at the end of the movie. I look at it a little differently - the guy is running his own business and that's not nothing. I like to think it's actually kind of a happy ending for Biff too.

Doc Brown is such an iconic character, that I'm willing to bet that whatever character you say reminds you of him, was probably based on him. And yep the dad from this was the villain in Like Mike, the protagonist of Willard, and the Thin Man in Charlie's Angels.

32:07 That happened in 1955, right after he arrived. While he was fleeing Peabody's field. He ran over a pine and killed it.

Someone may have mentioned but when Marty's band is auditioning - the person that tells Marty they are too loud is actually from the real band that played that song.

19:30ish; "Make like a tree, and get outta here". There used to be a lot of expressions used to tell someone to go away. For example, 'Take a long walk of a short pier'. This is Biff (consistently) screwing up one of those sayings. It's supposed to be 'Make like a tree and leave(in place of leaf)'... Such a FUN movie trilogy in so MANY ways!

The guy telling him they're "just too darn loud" is Huey Lewis of "Huey Lewis and The News", the band that made the song Fox and his band are playing.

A lot of people talk about how Marty looks like their son and "why dont they recognize him".... well they knew him for a week... its doubtful out of many years of high school they are gonna remember someone they only saw a few times within the span of a week.. or am i overthinking this?

FYI There was alcohol in the bottle that Michael J Fox drank from in the car and he didn't know. The reaction was genuine. Cheers from Australia

The mall parking lot scenes were filmed here in Wilmington, NC at Independence Mall. The pines are in reference to the ton of them here in Wilmington.

It's funny you keep mentioning Jim Carrey though Christopher Lloyd was in Taxi and the stoner cab driver, and this came out in 1985. Jim's big break came on a show called Living Color which was a variety show kind of like Saturday Night Live. That show did not come out until the early 90's so if anything, Jim was inspired by Christophers talent

The man who said they were too loud is Huey Lewis. And that is his song they were playing.

Plutonium is used in nuclear weapons. Reagan was an actor in the 40s and 50s. Star Trek was a TV show in the 60s. Star Wars was released in 1977. The song Marty played at the dance, Johnny be good, was released in 1958 by Chuck Berry. Supposedly he was the one the musicians called to hear the new sound.

The kid playing Lorraine’s younger brother later played the older brother Wayne in the 80-90’s series The Wonder Years.

The first thing I remember seeing Doc (Christopher Lloyd) play in was the tv show Taxi. Then I remember being shocked when I realized it was him playing the Klingon Commander Kruge in Star Trek III. He was also Professor Plum in the movie Clue, Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Uncle Fester in The Addams Family movie, and lots more movies and tv shows including The Big Bang Theory and The Mandalorian.

As someone who grew up in the1950's and saw this movie when it first came out, I really REALLY appreciated all the nuances of 1955 they captured (and it took seeing the movie to remind me). When the mother says "shush, no one has two tv's," it hit me between the eyes. In the early days of television, it was simply inconceivable, no matter how rich you were, to have more than one tv. (Odd, but true.) Ronald Regan was a B movie actor at the time he won governorship of CA in the '70's. (The 1955 theater marquee is listing a movie he made back then.) It was a real shock when he won the presidency in 1980. The other people Doc. Brown asks about as part of this were well-known actors. Jerry Lewis played a goofy whinny jerk. Jack Benny was best known for being stingy. Classic joke: Robber holds Benny up and demands "your money or your life." Moment of silence. Robber asks "well?" Benny replies "I'm thinking, I'm thinking." In the 1950's, the civil rights movement was in its infancy. (Brown v. Board of Education which desegregated public schools was decided only the year before.) The idea of a Black mayor was still inconceivable in '55. (As was the idea of a Black president was inconceivable in '85, and of course, the writers couldn't predict that it had happened by 2015.) The 1980's were the nadir of downtowns everywhere, with all business and the life of the community shifted to the malls. The 1985 version of Hill Valley had abandoned stores, and marginal business like adult theaters. Mothers used to write the name of their kids on their underwear, always white. In 1950's, the idea of a future atomic war was considered only a matter of when, not if. Also atomic-powered planes and trains. Plutonium is man-made radioactive fuel (and highly poisonous), used for nuclear reactors and bombs. No natural source. Children made scooters by cutting a roller skate in half, attaching the two pieces to a board, with a wooden crate ("soapbox") to hold onto. Skateboards were invented c. 1950's in California as a dry-land version of surfing (so Marty could very well have invented it). The 1936 movie "Reefer Madness" set the public attitude toward marijuana for decades to follow. (Extremely hilarious to watch now as the dangers and effects were so overblown.) In the parking lot scene, the one guy says "we don't want to mess with any reefer ADDICTS." Movies in the 1940's often had the heroes perform top-40's music to natives in some far off island, and the music is instantly popular. In this movie, when Marty goes heavy metal at the end of his performance, the audience is stunned (as is the case when a new genre of music is first heard, from Beethoven to ragtime, jazz, big band, the rock). Johnnie Be Good was just a bit more novel to the teenagers at the time, but not Van Halen. This movie was a refreshing bit of reality here. Yes, gas stations really did have a bunch of uniformed attendants who came out to service your car. Biff is portrayed as a dunce because the well-known saying was "why don't you make like a tree and LEAVE/leaf."

Great video,,. New to your channel but can't wait for the second movie to be released on here

I want to give you a bit of trivia about the second movie and a recent, um, politician of note, but I don’t want to spoil anything. I’ll just simply say a warning offered by the second movie was not heeded.

Yes he is the actor (Crispin Glover) that played the guy who ran the orphanage in "Like Mike"

i love how marty runs over one of the two pines in 55 and in 85 its now lone pine mall

its pretty funny you called Marty chicken. lol

Part III is also available.

The setup for the sequel was done as a joke. There was never an intention to do a follow up but audiences demanded it. So they filmed 2 and 3 back-to-back, several years after, to get a trilogy done in one go.

0:26 "Plutonium is real??" I am already so happy that I stumbled into this.

i'll fill u in on a few things without too many spoilers: Marty McFly comes from an Irish-American family who immigrated to America (exactly when you learn about later in the trilogy) and Marty is the youngest son in the family who is a decent guy but he does have a certain weakness that is addressed in Part 2 Dr Emmett Brown is a scientist who was originally from a wealthy German family called the Von Braun Family, they immigrated to America sometime after the McFly's...but the exact date i can't remember. Needless to say he squandered most of the wealth of his family building the DeLorian Time Machine. plutonium is a rather dangerous radioactive chemical that in 1985 (the year this is set) wouldn't be easy to get hold of and well...in the past...near impossible to get a hold of. what lorraine has for Marty in 1955 is called florence nightingale effect...it's where a nurse feels sorry for the person they are taking care of and falls in love with them...and it has been known to happen in real life many times.

8:41 press repeatedly to hear yodeling

I didn’t notice anyone point this out. At the try out for the talent show is actually Huey Lewis, it’s HIS song they’re playing. It was a real treat for us back then because that was unheard of at the time. If I may suggest some classics from 70-90’s you owe it to yourself to see. Gotta see all the Mel Brooks films. Just be prepared to be a bit shocked, possibly offended. Thing were different back in the 70’s, people had much more of a sense of humor about themselves. Before you watch his movie Dpace Balls, a parody of 1977’s Star Wars. You’ll really want to see that Star Wars movie first to fully appreciate it. The following are not Brooks but great movies. Maybe check out a preview to see if there are any your interested in. Animal House (1978) Blues Brothers (1980) Flatliners (1990) All-Star cast wow Princess Bride (Dudes love it too) Who Framed Roger Rabbit Ghostbusters (1984) Indiana Jones series (2nd one 👎🏻) A very overlooked film is Dick Tracy (1990) Superstar cast Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Madonna... it’s visually amazing. Or, at least at the time it was. It was the first movie that really felt like a comic book to me. Some say Batman does, but I think Dick Tracy did it way better.

When you said your parents were scared of the log trucks in final destination, I knew you were way younger than me but being born in the 2000s was like an intentional punch straight to my face huh?

Really cool reaction. It was awesome seeing you have so much fun with this. I'm so glad I got to see this as a kid, brings back so much nostalgia. And yes, this film is extremely well written. A lot of older films, especially in the 90s, were well made and a lot of fun. Jurassic Park and even Jumanji (Robin Williams) had a lot more depth than films today. By the way, since you seem to react to TV shows more than films, it would be cool to see you react to 'Breaking Bad' if you haven't seen it :)

So who else thought that was a grandparent standing behind you for a while before realising it was a picture or cutout of Henry Winkler? Just me? Ok, I'll grab my coat.