What makes the audition scene great, is the "Too darn loud" guy, is Huey Lewis. He wrote all the modern, for 1985, songs in the movie, and performed them with his band, The News.

Thank you so much to everyone for watching my reaction? It means a lot! I hope you enjoyed it and please check out some of my other reaction videos. No idea why the audio is a little off.

This is one of the rare movies my family can sit and watch together and bonded over. “1.21 gigawatts?!” 😹

The guy who plays Biff (Thomas Franklin Wilson) is funny as hell. During the filming before Michael Fox was there, there was another actor playing Marty who caused Thomas bruces when he pushed Biff at school. Thomas was doing his best because he saw this as his golden opportunity. One day he received a call from the producer, saying there was something that needed to be discussed personally. Thomas asked for a lead but no, drive to his office to be notified. Thomas thought all kind of bad news, and he thought he blew it up somehow, and this driving was the most stressful moment in his life. When Thomas arrived, he was told the actor of Marty would be replaced and they needed to film scenes again. Thomas felt lots of relief and he asked if they would be paid for the extra work and the answer was yes. And he also asked if lunches would continue to be free and the answer was yes. Later Thomas worked for Wing Commander 3 and 4 videogames with Mark Hamill (the actor of Luke Skywalker. Mark was playing Christopher Blair and Thomas was playing Maniac. Every shot that was filmed for that game had Thomas saying hillarious twists for the speech he just had. It was impossible to stay serious. Even Mark Hamill said "I am supposed to be a dead serious character but he does not make it easy with his jokes after each scene, he is hillarious".

It's hard to believe that they shot almost the whole film before they decided to change actors. In my opinion it was the best decision to get Michael J. Fox to take over the role.. The behind the scene documentary is just as interesting as the film. This is a classic.

I've become really cynical of time travel stories of late, but this trilogy still holds up very nicely. Fun Fact: President Ronald Reagan was amused by Doc Brown's disbelief that an actor like him could become President, so much so that he had the projectionist stop and replay the scene. He also seemed to enjoy it so much that he even made a direct reference of the film in his 1986 State of the Union address: "As they said in the film Back To The Future (1985), 'Where we're going, we don't need roads.'"

Cast: Michael J Fox (Marty) was on a hit TV series called "Family Ties" at the time of this movie; Doc Brown was in a hit 1970's TV series called "Taxi"; George McFly is a character actor who is rumored to be difficult to work with... so he is well known but never became a star: Lorraine sometime later had a hit TV series called "Caroline In The City"

I’m glad you’re gonna finish the trilogy. Don’t wait too long between movies. Part of their charm is all the callbacks and Easter eggs they have between them. 😊

I have to say you're pretty damn observant with the Twin Pine/Lone Pine thing. I personally hadn't noticed that tidbit until 20 years after I had first watched this film and I had watched it at least 20 times in those 20 years. If you watch the entire trilogy. you'll find at least one other similar instance; another instance I didn't notice until years later. No, they did NOT plan to make a sequel. That last scene was intended as a joke. It wasn't until a few years later that they realized the franchise was popular enough for a sequel and had sufficient demand for it. And Happy New Year to you and yours from here in Central Wisconsin.

Fun fact: the teacher who tells Marty and his band that they're "too loud" while covering Huey Lewis & The News is.... Huey Lewis himself. :) Fun fact #2: Lea Thompson, who plays Marty's girlfriend, is now an accomplished Hollywood director, and recently directed episodes of "Star Trek: Picard" Fun fact #3: Doc Brown was played by Christopher Lloyd. He also played a Klingon commander in "Star Trek III: The Search For Spock". Kirk and his crew steal his ship, and (in the next film) use it to time travel back to 1980s Earth - therefore, Christopher Lloyd is the only actor to lose control of his time machine in two entirely different movies :)

Actually, it was not set up for a sequel. The writers just thought it was a funny way to end it. Once everyone realized the movie was a hit, THEN they knew it needed a sequel.

You're honestly the first reactor I've seen to call out the fact that literally every vehicle has a blind spot, and for that I say a hearty THANK YOU.

Your enjoyment of these movies is so wholesome and joyful! Robert Zemeckis is incredible- that's why I named my dog after him. And I'm a person who can't sleep in total silence. Before I met my husband, I used to put the tv in my bedroom on with the volume very low, PLUS a little white noise machine, and fall asleep with that. He's very light-sensitive, though, so I switched to earbuds and audiobooks. We still both can't sleep without the sound machine- we even take it with us when we go away.

This is one of the most wholesome reactions Iv seen in a while, really nice to see you really enjoy the film, all three are my favourite Films of all time, you’ll love 2 & 3 and I’m looking forward to seeing you watch them. Have a good one 👍🏻

First of all...I ABSOLUTLY LOVE YOUR REACTION!!!!!!!!!! You had me smiling the entire time!! Oh...and MAJOR CONGRATS on noticing the "LONE PINE MALL" at the end...you are 1 of very few to notice on first watch...BE PROUD!! Can't wait to watch more!! Can't wait to see your reaction to part 2 and 3!!Your GOONIES reaction is next for me!!

The song that Marty played, “Johnnie Be Good,” was released in 1958 by Chuck Berry (Marvin’s cousin)...so it was three years early. Marvin felt the need to telephone Chuck to let him hear it (“That new sound you lookin’ for”). The rest is history.

It’s too bad you had to cut it for the music copyright. One of the best lines: “Chuck, it’s Marvin. Your cousin MARVIN BERRY!” Fun fact: Michael J Fox can really play. I saw him at a Beach Boys concert once where Joan Jett brought him out to jam to get some stage presence before shooting the movie Light Of Day, where they play brother and sister in a band together.

Michael J Fox (Marty) was also in the sitcom Family Ties when shooting this. He actually did the sitcom during the day and went straight to the movie set to shoot at night.

Love the time-travel story. Love the music. Love the performances in the film. Love the comedy. What isn't there to love about this 80s classic?

Everything about this movie is either perfect or damn near perfect. One of my favorite films of all time. Top 5 for sure.

The speedometer in the DeLorean went to only 85, so they had to make a new one for the film. Pretty much all cars at that time went to only 85 ,I think it was related to the national 55 mph speed limit.

Actually, that was supposed to be the ending. They didn't intend to have sequels, but the movie did extremely well so they ended up making three. And truthfully, this so-called setup for a sequel painted them a bit in a corner as you'll see if you watch part II. In my opinion, they never topped this one.

The house that Doc lives in is a real house in California. It was built in Pasadena, in 1908 by Charles and Henry Greene. It's 6100 square feet!

Love this movie and it's two sequels with Part 2 being my favourite. There's so many little refences and hints in these movies everything connected which is mind-blowing that they planned everything out even the smallest details kind of like what the MCU does. 4:54 The man with the megaphone judging Marty’s band The Pinheads saying that there being “too darn loud” to perform at the school dance is played by Huey Lewis who wrote the song "The Power of Love" the same song Marty's band plays in the scene. 8:04 Another small detail which you noticed is the "Twin Pines" Mall sign At the start of the movie when Marty meets up with Doc the Mall is called "Twin Pines" but after Marty returns to the future and runs towards the Mall the sign is changed to "Lone Pines" Mall a consequence of Marty destroying one of Old Man Peabody’s two pine trees on the farmland that the mall replaced.

A great series. Be sure to turn off Part 2 right after the 'To be concluded...' unless you want spoilers for Part 3.

The hilarious part is that when they made the movie, they had no intention of making a sequel! 🤣

wow, ive watched this many times over the years and i never noticed the twin pine mall/ lone pine mall difference until you pointed it out. Yeah he ran over one of the trees with the car

In the 1970's and 1980's it was typical for speedometers to not go past like 80 since there was a national speed limit of 55. Cars could go a lot faster but theoretically never should. I'm pretty sure I got my 1977 Olds Regency over 140 mph a couple times, but I don't know exactly because the speedometer only went up to 75.

Mike Fox's acting in this movie is highly underrated

It is a Radio Alarm clock it is usually silent but wakes you up by playing the Radio at you in the morning

One of the best movies of all time.... EASILY!

Hope you complete the trilogy. Great reaction as always James

Highly highly recommend Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Done by many of the same people behind the camera and has a plethora of classic cartoon characters in it.

On the farm you had 3 channels ... You may have seen Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown) in the sitcom "Taxi" from the late 1970's - early 1980's ... He played the drugged out taxi driver Jim Ignatowski.

One of a kind series. Movies aren't this fun and full of heart now.

24:15 Doc's 1949 Packard I want that car so bad haha I love it! (sold for $73,000 in 2019, I remember) 💛

A fun fact about this movie. Zemeckis had absolutely no plans to do any sequels. The flying car ending was just meant to be one last silly joke, with no resolution. But the movie was such a success that fans pretty much insisted there be a sequel. Had Zemeckis known that ahead of time, he would not have put Jennifer in the car with Doc and Marty when they flew off to the future. As a result, some clever writing needed to be done to include Jennifer in the continuing story.

Alright,my first question was how have you not seen this by now. I’m about your age and saw this in 85. It’s like you read my mind🤪✌️

@ 14:06 believe it or not, Tab wasn't discontinued until about a year ago. I had a friend who drank the stuff almost obsessively; I don't think he actually liked it that much but he just wanted to be an eccentric/contrarian.

I was born in the 80's in Finland. During my childhool we had a TV, but the national TV network only had two official channels, YLE 1 and YLE 2. These were state owned and funded by TV permit fees, which everyone was obligated to pay, unless you could prove you do not have a single TV set in your house. Later, maybe in the late 80's or early 90's we got our first commercial channel MTV 3 (BTW, it did not stand for "music television", but for the Finnish words for "advertisementl TV"), and sometime in the late 90's we got channel 4, which was also commercial. So growing up, we did not have too many channels either. At some point we did get cable and got access to channels like MTV (the music one this time) and Eurosport. Fortunetaly I got to experience MTV at its prime, with Beavis and Butthead, Daria, Eon Flux and get this - actual music videos!

@30:48 I live close to this mall where they filmed the movie. Obviously they removed the sign after the filming was done since that's not the real name of the mall... BUT the mall kept the sign! They moved it inside, and if you go in there today it's still featured prominently in there, showing [LINE PINE MALL] with the time, and everything!😀

"I want a flying DeLorean !" Dude, place in queue. Some of us is waiting for that since the '90s.

This movie is taught in screenwriting school as an example of a perfect screenplay.

Happy New Year. Awesome reaction, loved your enthusiasm for George and you're the first reactor I've seen who noticed the change from Twin Pine to Lone Pine.

There are jokes in the movie that made audiences in 1985 laugh hilariously but no one gets any more. For example, at the beginning of the movie Biff says to George McFly "I had your car towed all the way to your house and all you have for me is light beer?" This is a reference to a Miller Lite TV commercial you couldn't have avoided seeing a thousand times. Another and my favorite is the scene where Marty is struggling to twist open a bottle of soda and George takes the bottle away from him and pops the bottle cap off with the bottle opener on the vending machine. Up until the mid 60 twist off caps were pretty much non-existent. By 1985 the old style non twist off cap could be found only on some beer bottles. This joke only lands if you know this.

I’m only now noticing how many big movies Steven speilberg has been apart of, crazy

A jigawatt is a gigawatt. In 1985 nobody knew how the prefix "giga-" was pronounced since it was never used for anything. So the filmmakers guessed, and guessed wrong.

10:13 they said getting the clocks perfect was one of the hardest parts of making the whole movie haha

Michael J Fox was a big TV star before he was in movies. He is still famous now. In the 1980s he played Alex P Keaton on "Family Ties" on TV which is considered one or the top classic sitcoms of all time. It was about the Keatons, an aging hippie couple and their three kids. Alex, the son, is a young Republican who is very much the opposite of his hippie parents. Very funny show!

The original theatrical releases didn't have the To Be Continued at the end. That was added later to the VHS version because the movie had been such a big success and they wanted to let people know a sequel would be coming.

if you liked Michael J Fox (Marty), then you might want to check out these other movies that he starred in: "Teen Wolf" "The American President" "The Frighteners" - he was very popular and considered a top actor of his time (1985 - 1995) but he was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease and stepped back from acting to deal with it. Then he became very involved in fighting the disease. As it became more known how much the disease had affected him, the public fell even more in love with him, and he has returned to acting.

Just a little tidbit of info. The Teacher who tells Marty he's " Too darn loud" is Hewy Louis, the actual creator of the song being played in the gym...

There's a famous Clint Eastwood movie you may want to watch before doing BTTF part II and III as it plays an important part it them. It's called "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964) as Marty would know that movie very well! @ 4:22 All the clocks going off at once is a shout-out to the original and most awesome time-travel movie made, George Pal's classic "The Time Machine" (1960) where something similar occurred. @ 15:30 And peeping at Marty's mom who liked undressing in front of her window! That's why her dad was always dodging boys there. LOL! @ 27:15 That song, Johnny B. Goode, was about 3 years away from being written and released by Chuck Berry. Actually rock and roll developed all thru the 50s and got its name in 1954, and really took off in the latter half of the 50s. BTW, did you catch that guy Marvin calling his cousin Chuck (Berry) so he could hear the song he would later write and make famous? It's another time paradox like that "chicken and the egg" thing. It's partly why physicist think time traveling to the past is impossible. But traveling into the future is not only possible it happens all the time. If one went too far ahead, one couldn't come back. @ 30:48 I gotta compliment you dude. I watch a LOT of reactors doing this movie and I swear an average of 9.5 out of 10 totally miss the Lone Pine Mall thing! LOL! The story I've read is there was no sequel planned as the flying car was a joke at the end. But the public response to the movie was so big, it surprised the producers and director, they made the two sequels back to back thus the all spoiler previews for part III. So they had to do the flying car(s) even though we knew back in '85 there would be no flying cars by 2015 let alone 2022. I think even Zemeckis talked about that. It was still cool though! Enjoyed the reaction and will be looking for the sequels. There's another time-travel movie of sorts and scientifically accurate called "Interstellar" (2014) one of the best scifi movies to date. If you haven't seen it you would enjoy it too, and should do a video. 😎👍

Michael J. Fox also starred in "Teen Wolf", another 80's classic.

Fun fact, the Delorian was made in the town I live in.

the question you ask at 15:15 is called the "pre-destination paradox," I think. look it up, cool concepts.

Michael J Fox filmed this while he was still doing Family Ties. He would film the night scenes in the evening after shooting Family Ties then on the weekend they filmed the day scenes. He basically slept in a car or van going from set to set. Between night shooting of this movie and shooting Family Ties he got to sleep in his bed. The first scene where you don’t see Marty’s face was a different actor walking around Doc’s place. It wasn’t Michael J Fox until you saw his face in the rubble. He was the main choice to play Marty but they had trouble getting him away from Family Ties and the production company said start shooting with this guy (ended up being Eric Stoltz) and if he didn’t work out they’d pay for the reshoots. This series will never be rebooted or anymore sequels while Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale are alive (they probably have in their will that even after their gone it still won’t happen). They’re real protective of it. The drunk at the end that sees the DeLorean come back to 1985 was the mayor in 1955. The teacher saying he was too darn loud is Huey Lewis from Huey Lewis and the News. They sing the song for this movie “The Power of Love”. The name of the mall was changed cause we Marty drove out of the barn he ran over one of the pines. This originally wasn’t going to have a sequel. The “to be continued” at the end was added after the theatrical release to home video.

A fun theory is that Mary's parents knew by the time Marty was a teenager that he somehow will time travel and change their futures for the better thus rewarding him with the Toyota. If you have that on your mind when you see their reaction when he looks back at them in the doorway it makes sense.

One of the best trilogies ever made. Great reaction.

Yeah, when he went back to 1955 at the beginning of the movie he knocked down with the DeLorean one of the little pines the farmer had in his plot, so when he went back to 1985 there's only one huge pine at the mall and it's no longer the Twin Pines Mall.

When 1955 the Mayor Thomas was up for re-election. The spot when Marty gets back to 1985, the drunk man on the bench is the former Red Thomas. I don't know if Marty new that Red was the former Mayor , or a drunk homeless man.

I want a flying DeLorean too! Harry Potter movies are VERY well-thought regarding clues that come all together in the end. And yes I'm trying to convince you to watch them. 😉 Great reaction!

Not sure if you caught the joke at the battle of the bands auditions. He was playing Power of Love, and the teacher who said your just too darned loud is Huey Lewis…the song writer.

Oh you caught "Lone pine mall" on the first viewing! I think that took me a half dozen times before I saw that change.

"I've never seen a movie push the setup so hard for a sequel" Back to the Future Part 2: _"Hold my beer...."_

It’s funny because they had no intention of making a sequel when they made the original movie, but the studio demanded it

Goldie was always going to be mayor because in the original timeline, Marty hadn't gone to the past yet. If he had, his life would have been like it was at the end of the movie from the start.

Tab does exist now, they brought it back. It's only sold in little small cans from what I've seen in stores.

Just found your channel. Loved your reaction. You’re very entertaining to watch. Keep up the good work!

I’ve seen this movie a million times and have never noticed the “Biff's Auto Detailing”. I have no clue how I missed that.

Marvin calls his cousin Chuck Berry to let him her that new sound he has been looking for....

I know I'm a little late to the game here, but your more recent reactions were showing up on my suggestions and I enjoy them, so I'm going back and watching some of your stuff from last year. Anyway, I wanted to comment on the actor who played Biff, Tom Wilson. He should get the best actor award for this show because he hated played in Biff. He loved doing the movies and loved everyone else on the cast, but he hated acting like that, especially to Lea Thompson who played Lorraine. He's actually a nice guy and quite opposite of the Biff character.

This is such a great movie, one of my top 3! And I love watching people see it for the first time, your reaction was fantastic. I'm looking forward to seeing you watch the other 2 as well!

Actually the speedometer on a real Delorean only goes to 85. They had to modify it for the movie. Weirdly a lot of mud 80 to mid 90s cars had speedometers that only went up to 85. Although the one in my 1990 cutlass Calais the needle had been maxed out a couple times .

One of the best 80's movies.

I hope you appreciate Biff Tannon, one of the GREATEST villains in movie history

Was Goldie always going to be mayor? Yes. Marty's trip to the past changed his present. If it was a closed loop and he was always destined to travel to the past, his actions wouldn't have changed his present.

How has no one NOT seen this. One of my son and mine’s favorite films. I saw this every weekend growing up. It’s a classic. It’s THE classic

The guy who plays the dad is Crispin Glover and is in another hilarious time travel movie called Hot Tub Time Machine.

Another movie YOU HAVE GOT TO SEE is The Last Starfighter. Fun fact, the 'car' in it is yet another kitted out Delorian, which is also in the background of Back To The Future 2! Great reactions, it's great seeing someone come into such great movies completely fresh. Also, I am sure it has been mentioned, but you get the chance to see Top Gun 2 in the cinemas this year. Hey, give the Star Trek films a whirl..

The November 5, 1955 diner scene is the first screen appearance of Billy Zane as one of Biff's cronies (Match).

One of the best trilogy movies of all time!

They actually had NO intention of making a sequel at all. true. they just thought it was a cool way to end it. when they made the sequel, after delays for FOUR years, they had to "clean up" a little bit in the fact that if they had KNOWN they were going to make a sequel, they NEVER would have put jennifer in the car at the end of the first one, so they say.

Enjoyed watching the series again with you! ☀️✌🏻

I missed this video when it first came out. Just watched it. One of the things I like about your reactions is that you also talk about the individual performances of the actors, even if you don’t know who any of them are. For this is I was specifically curious to see what your take would be to the actor who played the dad. Crispin Glover. He’s a very interesting actor. He has a reputation in Hollywood as something of the eccentric outsider. I’d definitely recommend you check out more from Crispin Glover I’d suggest “River’s Edge” (1986) “Bartleby” (2001) and “Willard” (2003)

Love your reactions and enthusiasm like an innocent child. Love your laugh and smile.

Nice reaction...actually the time machines in this movie were all real DeLoreans. There were three: The "A" or Hero car, the "B" car which did the stunt driving, and the "C" process car, which was cut in half and put on a gimble to do all of the interior close-ups.

So if i hadn't already subscribed, the minute you said it was your nap time and that you usually take a nap right about now..... i would have subscribed right then. Love your authenticity, man!

I really enjoy your reactions. We have such fun with you!

Lea Thompson was UNBELIEVABLY beautiful in this one

Found your channel last night and running through your videos. Love it! I cannot wait to see more of your videos. One of my suggestions is a seldom watched movie, but very funny, based off of an old TV show. It's called "The Beverly Hillbillies" it's from 1993. If you liked this, I'm sure people will also suggest Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which I also highly recommend.

I think you're gonna LOVE part 3!

Hi, James! Greetings from Australia! I just wanted to tell you how much I've been enjoying your movie reactions. It's so much fun watching my favourites with somebody as observant as you, who notices all the clever little setups and payoffs in a movie like Back to the Future. A huge part of my love for this movie comes from how tightly written the script is. Everything that is set up gets paid off, all the questions you have are answered as soon as you ask them and you can tell the writers spent a lot of time writing and rewriting their script until it was the best it could possibly be. Movies just aren't written like that anymore, at least not big studio movies like this is. Take care, friend!

Greetings, The Parking lot on the scenes in the Mall, That’s my MALL since late 70/80s, growing up riding the bus before getting my car. It’s called THE PUENTE HILLS MALL(Puente Hills California), and it got an upgrade to keep up with this new Century.👍 the neighborhood scenes (houses are), is in Pasadena California Same neighborhood that movies were using such as HALLOWEEN (Jaime Lee Curtis), first movie 1978, also THE WEDDING SINGER with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, among other films. Love this movie, saw it at the Drive-In summer of 1985,( I was 19)👍🤗🤩🤩🤩

I hadn’t watched that in years. Such a clever movie. It went on for quite a while. The sequels, I mean. It was always fun. Michael J Fox was America’s boyfriend/brother. Very popular. That was fun.

MJ Fox said in an interview, that the guy who played his dad, asked for a huge paycheck, so he priced himself out of the other movies.

Ok...Just found this reaction of yours! Haven't watched yet (other than your back story).. but... Back to the future is one of my fav movies of all time!! I just LOVE watching first time reactions.. and when I seen this.. I checked your reaction list... and wow... SUBSCRIBED ALREADY... I am going to enjoy your list of reactions!! Can't wait!! Will leave another message after I watch this reaction!!

You're young. Cars speedometers were limited to only show about 85 during the federally imposed nationwide 55 MPH sowed limit.

Oh and the prop master knew the DeLorean was a POS even back then. He said it was underpowered, they had to have a very skilled driver behind the wheel because the DeLorean didn't corner for shit.

There actually were no plans for a sequel. But once this became a surprise hit; two sequels were ordered.