“Nice girl” was a euphemism for “Girl with good morals” in those days. Marty was under the impression (that his mother gave him) that if he tried anything that she would object rather than going with it and so he could play like he wasn’t taking no for an answer. He wasn’t suggesting to actually sexually assault her. He was just banking on her making the scene they needed about it if he tried even to kiss her.
I think he had resigned himself to the fact that he might have to try to cop a feel to upset her. Of course, it's not like he really wants to have to do any of this. Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do to get your parents together so that you exist (especially if you messed that up).
Well Whimsory, I've been watching your reactions for a while now, and you have always been one of my favorites, but I have to say I was not on board with this one. Maybe it's because of your twenty first century viewpoint (I really think a lot of the changes in cultural attitudes have not been for the best), whereas I have lived thru all these time periods, -1955, 1985, 2015-and perhaps have a better understanding of the times and the attitudes of those days. It's probably a mistake to watch a movie from a different period and apply current attitudes to it, instead of understanding from the get-go that those were different times. But maybe that's just me. All that said, you are still one of my favorite reactors. And btw, there are some flying cars out there that exist. ru-vid.comvOB4hRQDfrM 😀
The song Marty plays at the dance is Johnny B Goode. Band leader Marvin Berry hears it & runs to call his cousin, Chuck. Chuck Berry wrote the song in real life
If you look closely at the fine print on the very limited edition original pressings of the 45s there are partial credits given to a then unknown Martin McFly.
'Back to the Future' is such a wonderful example of how a tight script is key to making a great movie. The script was written, re-written and re-written again until it was totally airtight. Everything that is set up is paid off and the script anticipates the audience's questions in perfect time to answer them. It makes me so sad to think about how movies today are often made with the bare minimum of a first draft of a script and are massively reworked during shooting and editing. Those movies don't endure like 'Back to the Future' and that problem all begins with the lack of a strong script.
Not a single "throwaway" line. I bugged me that Doc mentioned that he was allergic to synthetics.(fabrics). I never saw the payoff on that line. It took me several viewings to realize that he was able to catch the power cable when the plug got snagged on his wool pants.😂 Polyester and synthetics were in style in 1955, and had Doc been wearing those, the plug wouldn't have snagged.
It never made sense that Marty's whole family is radically changed in the alternate future, but Marty is somehow exactly the same. Marty would probably be a very preppy character in the new timeline.
@@chardtomp That's a very interesting thing to think about. We follow the story of a Marty who grew up with a less-assertive father and a generally dissatisfied home life. Marty who grew up in the altered timeline, with a confident father and generally more successful family, would be a different, more self-confident young man. That version of Marty is seen disappearing back in time at the end of the movie. What ever happened to the Marty who belongs in the revised 1985? Furthermore, does the Marty we follow have memories that don't align with the new version of his life? Does he not remember family events that he should've been a part of? Does he remember meeting Jennifer differently? Does he remember a different first kiss than Jennifer remembers? A person could go crazy trying to untangle Marty's alternate life story!
Fun fact: the only reason they say jigawatt instead of gigawatt is because in 1985, nobody ever used the prefix “giga-“ for anything, so nobody was sure how to pronounce it. So they guessed, and guessed wrong. 😃
I thought we watched this? ! great! --------- not so great. First time I didn't like your watch/review. 😥 I realize a lot of "younger" people have more issues with the premise , but she really harped on it more than anyone else.
SparksDrinker You. quicktastic saw that you had watched the video but were confused about some elements, so he went back in time to before you were in the comment section and commented with some information to help you out.
@@daerdevvyl4314 no one is confused by that and this "some information" doesn't help anything. soooooo AGAIN!!! "Who are you explaining this to?" is a 100% valid question. you wasted time travel on less than nuthin.
So what? It's absolutely meaningless with context. She went into the movie being a big fan of Crispin & not Michael J. Fox, so her giving more recognition to Crispin isn't surprising in the least. How many other reactors went into this movie with that same bias for Crispin??? You're in effect praising her for her preconceived bias, not for something she discovered by watching this movie.
@@_MjG_Michael J Fox was a much loved international household name in the 80's and 90's, largely due to the popularity of Family Ties. So for anyone from that era it stands out that someone would seem to be more aware of Crispin. That's all these comments are about.
It's bizzare how many GenZ are so creeped out by the some of the stuff in this when it's played so lighthearted & humorously. That's the whole point, it's ridiculous! Yet a huge portion of modern television (Got, Boys, TB, etc etc) is totally perverse & they're like "this is fine." makes no sense.
They have metaphorically developed without funny bones. In general, they hyperfocus more so on the literal aspects that pertains to their own personal lives in what is meant to be fictional media that they often overlook, or completely miss the subtle or even the obvious, nuances which call for the use of a little imagination to fully appreciate classic/timeless cinematic moments as a result.
This Gen Xer agrees, especially about how Lorraine is into Marty. She doesn’t KNOW he’s her son, how could she? and Marty is 100% not into it. I’ve seen other young reactors (not this one tbf) really harping on the “incest plot line” (which no it wasn’t smh)🤦🏼♀️
Everyone in this film is exaggerated for comic effect, and do weird things to push the film along - they are meant to be jerks, and usually rub it in by being extra mean - George is meant to be super geeky. Expecting him to walk up to Lorraine and ask her out shows she has zero insight into men at all. A huge portion of high school kids were like George. Lorraine probably removed the pants just for the Calvin Klein joke, and the Hope Chest joke. Biff is obviously emasculated at the end and has to be shown as such, which is why he is there. Can you imagine the scene at the end if they had Biff knock at the door - everyone stops and someone walks to the door, opens it and invited Biff in...Obviously Biff enters to keep the scene moving along otherwise it would just die. The movie is over any way. Act confident is perfect advice for someone who is nervous for some reason, but shouldn't be. Once they get past the initial hurdle they don't need to fake it. The thing is, if some guy is nervous or indecisive when they try to talk to a girl they instantly get labelled as weird of creepy... I kind of wondered how well she watched it when she made the comment about what year he was in - it was explicitly stated not long before...
Girl I love how you do what you do but this was the worst Gen Z take of one of the greatest family movies I've ever seen. Looked like you decided from the start not to like this movie. Women are marrying former and current peeping toms or worse all the time, even now. 😄Movie simply showed it to us but in reality you never know what your guy did in teenage years or still does. You will have a hard time finding a teenage boy from any time period who never tried to peep at girls at opportune moments. Doesn't mean they are the worst options around, like you said. One thing I do agree on is the fact they still have Biff around and almost like a family member even. It was simply needed for the movie's triumphant ending for George. But at the same time, you seem to think what Marty meant by "take advantage" to be the extreme form of it, the R word or close to it. While that was never his plan. That dialogue was done that way because of the twist that George would go find Biff with Lorraine, not Marty. Just so George would start his hero act then get shocked to see it was Biff in the car. As soon as you saw George would find Biff in the car instead, you'd figure out why the writer had Marty say that line. Every other reactor seemed to get that and no one was shocked at Marty saying that. And while what Biff did to Lorraine in the car was indeed terrible, it was still a PG movie and the implication was that he was forcefully trying to kiss her. Not the R word. The second movie even made it clear that he wanted to marry her and make her his wife, not outright assault her as in the R word.
I really thought you'd love this movie, but it clearly didn't resonate with you much; which is ok 💔. I think it was the least enthusiastic reaction I've seen on your channel, which is surprising, given that this is a movie with so much life and interesting things. But that's what tastes are. If you didn't like this movie very much, I don't recommend wasting your time watching the other two. This is clearly the best of the 3.
I don't think one speaks for all. Let's not pretend like there's a hard line between people born a year before or after a certain date and time. Next to that would be to believe that astrology is actually an effective means to predict the future.
as a guitarist who had huge stage fright when I first started performing - one of the best pices of advice I ever got from this old Jazz guitarist I knew was: "If you don't have confidence - fake it. No one can tell the difference. Eventually, you won't have to fake it any more". I can testify that it works.
That reminds me of advice from guitarist Mikio Fujioka to his student (and bandmate) Takayoshi Ohmura. It was that, though you may get to the point that you don’t make them, the real trick isn’t to never make mistakes, but to learn to make those mistakes so well, nobody will really notice.
I was actually about to post a comment about how in my experience not that many guitarists hold a pick the way he does right before he blows the amp. Most of us try to use as little of the pick as is necessary to get the tone we want. Dudes got so much pick sticking out you'd think he's compensating for something. Also in my experience most of us hold the pick using the side of the pointer finger.
It's good advice when the person has no reason to be nervous, and once they get going they are ok. Not good advice to someone who has no clue what they are doing.
After you watch part 2 turn the movie off when it says to be concluded. After that they show a teaser for part 3 because they were filmed at the same time and wanted to hype people up for the 3rd one.
@@ckobo84a normal human being shouldn't be into Back to the Future at all? One of the most popular movies of all time. Surely it's normal to like it if most movie-watchers do. :P
Even if movie was great, it is outdated for new audience. even for us, old audience, it can feel dated. And the problem with second part,it is too silly. Sillier than this. This one had normal levels of silliness. Part 2 goes way above, and part 3 gets normal again. Take of nostalgia glasses a little bit
I never really thought about the whole having Biff around in the new present AFTER he tried to take advantage of Lorraine in the past. I guess the idea is he changed after the events at the dance and is now respectful to her. I'm sure Lorraine still hates his guts and enjoys seeing him being bossed around by George.
@@taoist32 Mr. Strickland: "No McFly has ever amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley!" Marty: "Yeah? Well, history is gonna change." biff is an oppurtunist, to a (rapey) fault. marty's parents and siblings are on the timeline of "amounting to something in the history of hill valley". that is how history changed the most. and they can more than afford to give biff the easiest service job i can think of - and biff, oppurtunist, will gladly take it (not likely he'd do any better in life anyway). not wanting to get conned by someone doing less than what's required of the easiest service job i can think of isn't being a bully. and i don't think, after the shit he pulled (the kind of person biff's always been), that it's a bad thing to keep someone like that on the ol "keep enemies closer" short leash. i totally get it.
@@taoist32 Not sure they qualify as bullies. One assumes Biff tried to short change George before which is why he questioned him about the second coat of wax, and Biff's reaction seems to have proved him right, (though in reality applying two coats straight away is a waste of time. The first coat would need to cure first to add any extra protection.)
Not really. It's two separate stories. The producers put out the story that he didn't come back because of a money dispute. Probably twisting the words of Crispin who actually didn't approve of the money=happiness/materialistic ending of the original. If we haven't learned by now that movie producers lie about actors they have a problem with (to try and blacklist them from the industry), I don't think we ever will haha. Anyway, Crispin's the funniest one in the movie. They're all great, but he's the best. If he did want more money, that's totally fair IMO. Knowing his worth for the work he does in his profession in no way contradicts his point re:materialism in a fictional story. I don't see the irony there.
@@raybernal6829 I think there was more to it than that. POSSIBLE SMALL SPOILER -- it had something to do with using face molds of Crispin in the second movie. Crispin said that had they used a different actor, it would have been okay. I'm sure there was more to the story,, but that was the gist. Considering the technology now, this might be a bigger issue with lots of actors.
A couple of minor things: The mall is originally named "Twin Pines Mall." If you look closely, you'll see that Old Man Peabody had a pair of pine trees at the end of his driveway -- but Marty runs over one of them. When Marty goes back to 1985, the mall is named "Lone Pine Mall." There are a lot of small details like that. The joke about Biff saying, "Make like a tree and get out of here," is that it was an incorrect use of slang that's now fallen out of use. The correct slang is, "Make like a tree and leave." The fact that Biff gets it wrong was a statement of Biff's intelligence (or lack thereof). "Great Scott" is another slang term that's fallen out of use. It was an interjection of surprise, amazement, or dismay. It is a distinctive but inoffensive exclamation, popular in the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. It originated as a minced oath, historically associated with two specific "Scotts": Scottish author Sir walter Scott and, later, US general Winfield Scott. This film creates a weird paradox that's neither broached nor resolved: When Marty returns to 1985, he sees a version of himself go back in time. However, _it's not the same Marty_ . It's an Alternate Marty who grew up in the future that Original Marty created where his father is a successful, self-confident scifi novelist; his family is completely different; and Doc isn't killed by the Libyans. The question becomes: what did Alternate Marty do when he went back to 1955? He might interfere with his parents' meeting, but to him it would be the way he'd always heard his parents recount the story: that a teenager named Calvin "Marty" Klein was hit by Lorraine's father; that Lorraine was infatuated with him for a few days; and that this ultimately led to Biff's attempted SA of her and George clocking Biff. This whole thing is entirely glossed-over and never mentioned. Over the years, fans have speculated that the easiest answer is that Alternate Doc, now aware of everything Original Marty did, simply made certain that the plutonium was packed so that Alternate Marty could immediately return to 1985. However, that still creates a paradox, since there would then be _two different Martys_ who'd arrive back in Alternate 1985. Don't think too much about it, because the logical implications get very, very twisted. It ultimately results in what scifi fans call an "Infinite Loop Paradox," where multiple different Martys start showing up in 1955. Eventually, Doc's only reasonable response would be to never follow through with the time machine at all. In any case, the entire matter is totally glosssed-over. It's best to forget about it and enjoy the films, because dramatically they're very good. Indeed, the script for this film is taught in film schools as the "perfect script" because of the way it's structured. There are entire textbooks written about it. There's an ongoing question of how Original Marty got together with Doc. According to the director and writer, Original Marty had been told by Principal Stickland that Doc was a dangerous nutcase. Being the average teenager, Original Marty pushed-back by going to Doc's lab to see for himself. He found himself impressed by all the weird gadgets Doc had lying around. Doc then hired Marty to work part-time at the lab doing odd jobs for him. Along the way, Marty convinced Doc to build the gigantic amplifier for his electric guitar that we see in the opening of the film. Another point: in the early hours of October 15, 2015, fans gathered at the Puente Hills Mall, the shooting location of the Lone/Twin Pines Mall, to celebrate the impending arrival of the DeLorean. Sadly, no flying DeLorean ever appeared above nor near it, but the fan celebration was well-covered in the press. On a personal note: as an early Gen-Xer, I was the same age as the "teenaged" actors. I instantly fell in love with Lea Thompson and continue to be infatuated with her today. Female reactors like to say, "Eyes up here," when Lorraine removes her sweater in the car. Guys my age have never been able to keep their eyes "up here." It's impressive that Lea was able to transition out of ingenue roles, which is rare in Hollywood. Typically, actresses simply "age out" and are discarded, but Lea continued to act for some time. She's also a successful Broadway actress and has now transitioned into directing. Lea remains beautiful, and is one of the few actress/directors her age who hasn't resorted to surgery nor botox nor enhancements. She's aged far better than me, and I really respect her not having chosen the enhancement route. No doubt if I were to ever meet her, I'd become a drooling fanboy and embarrass myself. 💗
Reactions to this movie really show how much has culturally changed from 1955 to 1985, and from 1985 to present. I'm glad to have grown up in the '70s, between the first two worlds, and as an early adult in the crazy '80s. Now I find it's getting harder to keep up with all the changes in the current world and have no envy for the youth who must navigate it.
Yeah. Genuine reaction, though: she doesn't quite understand the movie, to be sincere, because she sees it from the point of view of the context TODAY. But it happens to all of us, so...
I will never forget going to the movies to see this with my mother when it came out - I was 10 years old in 1985. The year 1955 seemed so old to me, just like 1985 must seem so old to many people these days! Man, how time flies.
Same, and my late mother took my younger brother and I, I was 8. Croydon Twin Cinema, Australia. I'll never forget it, mostly, walking out into the light of day and trying to process what we had just seen.
@@silvernova354 beautiful. I'll have to get down to the Glenelg river one of these days, to fish for Mulloway. Yes, they were great times. Uncomplicated. I wish I could go back!
I bet you if genders were reversed & Lorraine was the 1 peeping & George was the 1 to take off a unconscious girls pants you wouldn't be going after Lorraine but would kill George.... George was 17 in 1955, young people make mistakes, labeling him a bad person & saying Lorraine(after all her creepy antics) deserved better is insane. I'm sure if we went back in time to see our parents as teens we'd be shocked at the shit they did as kids too. Also thinking Marty was going to assault his mom when it was clear Marty thought Lorraine was a "nice" girl that never parked with boys. You could tell by the kiss Marty wants no contact with his mother & would never go through with it if he wanted to. Also first old George was still a loser that was still getting bullied 30 years later by the same person sorry there's no way you'd like someone like that I don't car how goofy his laugh is. Also peeping in movies wasn't looked down upon as much as it is now, American Pie from 1999 is 1 of the most popular teen movies ever where the lead teen video cams 1 of his classmates getting undressed to the internet & gets in 0 trouble & we're suppose to like him after. Then there's Porky's & Revenge of the Nerds that did shit that would put you in jail today. It's alright to laugh at shit that didn't age well no need to be offended it's just a movie. Sucks you didn't love a beloved movie, maybe you'd enjoy it better if you didn't have a 2024 mindset & be offended by things decades ago. Like you saying you'd love to go back to 1955 but then complain how women were treated is hilarious. It's 1955 no shit women weren't traded the best & black people weren't either. Also you begged for George to punch Biff most of the movie but had a meh reaction when he finally did was weird. Like tell me how Marty could've done anything different? His mother had the hots for him(Lorraine didn't know he was her son BTW) he thought he had to make Lorraine hate him. You don't seem to get Marty gets erased if he doesn't get his parents together, so again you said there was another way so tell us what is it?
You know you've made it when you're invited onto the Poppies! 😄 I'll have to count how many times she says "Biff SUCKS!" before I try to use it as a drinking game, because it could get dangerous.
Guess what, in the '80s, nobody thought too hard or cared about this stuff. I'm starting to believe that this last generation are just bitter about not being able to live in the, possibly, greatest decade in recent history. You will never know what it was truly like.
I've always loved that insinuation that George wasn't the first to fall from that tree. It was a clever way to establish right away how popular Lorraine was with boys in 1955. Also, since we soon learn how naughty she actually is, you have to wonder if she knew how popular her window was and dressed in front of it to give the boys a little show, perhaps in hopes that something like what happened would happen. 😄
I really had high hopes for this reaction. And yet... And it is not as if all the other reactors up here her age didn't love the movie to death and look forward to the sequels. At least she's being honest. And honestly, I won't be tuning in here for the sequels. She clearly doesn't want to do them.
All the other reactors of her generation loved it, really? Watching her puzzled reaction, at one point, I was like... oh, it's a generation problem, she's a gen Z, they're fucked up and preachy... so I was thinking of avoiding other reactions by gen Z...
@@rodolfoclaren6528 rather they (some of them) seem afraid of not being politically correct and end up being politically incorrect without realizing it.
I got the feeling that Whimsory didn't really enjoy this one all that much. Seems like it made her super uncomfortable (the whole Marty and his mom thing). Super appreciate her post-reaction discussion, very insightful!
While I get the point that Glover was trying to make with "money doesn't buy happiness," this sounds more like the opinion of someone who's never really struggled to make ends meet, or who has maybe had to choose between eating and paying rent, etc. The McFly house in the beginning is dingy, they're driving a CHEAP car that's from the 70s. they're all roughly out of shape, etc. In the changed timeline they're not mega rich or anything, they still live in the same house, but money isn't a concern anymore, they have a nice car, nice clothes, house is better kept... anyone who's lived through becoming a "have-not" to a "have," the amount of stress it removes from your life is ENORMOUS. I've seen a reactor visibly cry at the end when Marty gets the truck, where in the original timeline this was an absolute pipedream that probably wouldn't be possible in his life for several years, if ever.
@@islandseeker1260That's exactly it, they watch politically correct '80s based shows from the 2010s or 2020s like stranger things and somehow think that's really what the '80s was like it's hilarious 😂😂
@spud69g Yes because we see proof of Marty entering an alternate timeline because Marty and Doc were at the Twin Pine Mall during the experiment and at the end of the movie where Doc survives, the mall is the Lone Pine Mall. Therefore Twin Pine Mall Doc is dead, but Lone Pine Mall Doc is alive and is the one who kept quiet about already knowing Marty.
@@Lugen101 oh i know, i was poking a little fun at the time travel thought tangle 🤓 Once it happens it can never unhappen, therefore it never happened in the first place... Or did it?
Not sure it's canon, but I've encountered an explanation of how they met: Marty was trying to steal something from Doc's house, and he got caught. Rather than turn him over to the cops, Doc demands that he work off his debt as an assistant.
Lorraine did take the pants off a unconscious guy, stalked him and just showed up in that guy house(well docs house). Is not like she is not a creep either.
The part where Biff lets himself inside the house was kind of a thing in the 70s and 80s, at least in my house when I was growing up. My brother's friends would just walk inside the house -- no knocking, no call ahead of time -- it was always so weird to me, but it was a thing.
In the ‘80s I had a friend’s mom actually tell me to stop knocking when I stopped by. A lot of the time I’d be there before school and she didn’t want me waking other people up.
To be fair, Biff was already at the McFly house detailing the cars. It wasn’t necessary to re-establish his presence by knocking on the door before entering.
With my friends, it was more of a front door versus side/back door thing. If you went to someone's front door, you knocked. If you were close enough to come in through the side or back door, you were already expected so you just came in.
Back in the 70's my mom heard tinkling in our kitchen, walked in to find the neighbor girl (about 5) fishing a pickle out of a jar. "Oh, Hi, Mrs. Bogumill", she said, "I'm the pickle monster."
I had a friend whose dog went nuts if someone used the front door or if someone knocked. The first time I went there, I was told to use the garage door and walk straight in so the dog wouldn’t attack me.
I'm always amazed at how many reactors miss the fact that she gets lots of voyeurs, hence her dad saying "Another one of these damn kids jumped in front of my car!"
Not lots of. I always thought the same one over and over again. Marty's dad likes that spot. This movie is from the era of "revenge of the nerds". It would be the typical assumption.
Single Mom: Son, always be respectful and dutiful toward women to get a wife Single Mom: You're 30, when are you going to get married and give me a grandchild? Single Son: I did everything you said and women are not interested in me, what attracted you to dad? Single Mom: Don't mention your father, he's a total asshole
While I understand why certain things seem wrong and even creepy, by present day sensibilities, I think that part of the problem is that people today take their freedom of choice for granted. In 1955 a "nice girl" was one who did what was expected of her by society, i.e. didn't give in to any of her own desires. Remember that this was over a decade before the sexual revolution, women didn't have a say in their own sexuality, because if she did give in to her desires, she was no longer a "nice girl". Being taken advantage of was usually just a woman allowing herself to do what she wanted, despite of what society expected of her. You have to put these things into context and consider social norms of the time. Another great example of this is "Baby, it's cold outside" which some people today interpret as being a song about a man trying to convince a woman to stay against her will, when in fact it's about a woman wanting to stay despite social norms expecting her to leave and every reason she gives why she should leave refer to other peoples reactions. With that in mind it could even be considered progressive for the time, but that is lost on many people today because they don't consider the context and social norms of the time.
In 1985 the current generation was fairly familiar with life in the '50s due to having grown up with TV shows like Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and hit movies like Grease. It may have been a whitewashed version of the '50s but we still understood the general concepts and so the BttF story line resonated. Today's generation have no reference point for that era and so they're mostly only able to view it through the prism of the world they know, which might as well be as impossible as trying to understand life in 1885.
@@islandseeker1260This, plus the fact that if you're young today you are two or even three generations removed from people who were young in the 1950s, while teenagers in the 1980s was just a single generation removed. Back to the future even features this, in how older Lorraine in the original 1985 disapprove of Jennifer's behaviour, because her definition of a nice girl is one who adheres to the social norms of when she herself were young, despite the fact that we come to learn that her younger self actually didn't.
Neither she understood it, nor she enjoyed it. It's pretty fine, though, but it was a bit cringy to see. It's like those fake summaries of movies, like, "Lord of the Rings is about a bunch of guys who spend more than 9 hours returning jewelry". LOL.
Ifs funny how these girls talk about all the men in this being creepy when the mother was one who took off an unconcious boys trousers, drank, smoked and was obviously experienced with guys?
She can't help how she feels. Much rather the truth than her pretend, then nothing is real. I think we all like it because we think Marty and Doc are cool. If she doesn't think they're cool then I can see not caring for the story.
Well, she was honest: she didn't quite get it and she didn't like it. People of my generation didn't see what was funny about Charlie Chaplin's movies, and it's because they didn't understand the context (time, place and circumstances).
11:50 - SAME DAY PROOF Imagine things from Doc's perspective. On the exact same day you consider the possibllility of 'travel travel', someone turns up on your doorstep to tell you they arrived in a time machine you invented. The same day!
In the UK, November 5th is the date we celebrate 'Bonfire Night', also known as 'Guy Fawkes Night'. Tens of thousands of UK households would build in their back gardens (backyards), over time, huge piles of wood and other combustibles and, on the night, burn an effigy of one of 'The Gunpowder Plot' conspirators, namely Guido Fawkes. The mask used by the protagonist in the movie 'V' is a representation of the visage of Fawkes, however, the mask's design is hardly original. When I was a young kid (1970s), 'Guy Fawkes' mask could be purchased from the newsagent, were made of the same material as compressed cardboard eggboxes and came in four colours red, yellow, green and blue. We would sometimes wear the mask ourselves but most of the time the mask was placed on the effigy for burning. Kids would make an effigy, place it in a trolley, wheelbarrow or homemade go-kart, and stand outside shops shouting "Penny for the Guy" hoping passers-by would 'spare a copper' to contribute to their 'fireworks fund'.@@taoist32
I'm just saying that pointing out the obvious (Biff is horrible but Wilson is nice) and being surprised by it is kind of strange and now I'm doing it for you too. There seem to be a lot of dumb folks around at the moment.
@@eddhardy1054 it's not strange when most actors are either method or typecast "There seem to be a lot of dumb folks around at the moment." did ...did you just "i know you are but what am iiiiiii~?" me????
@@soth1sol Congratulations, that is genuinely the most stupid thing I've heard today. You think that because actors are method or typecast as arseholes then that indicates that they're arseholes in real life. I see you and Whimsory are cut from the same cloth. Goodbye dangleberry.
Fun Fact: At the audition, the guy with the megaphone saying they're music was "too darn loud" is Huey Lewis. Huey Lewis wrote the songs for the movie and his group. Huey Lewis and The News performed them 👍🏽
Two songs, but they did very well. _The Power of Love_ hit number 1 in the US (twice, since it was on the Hot 100 and Rock charts), Canada, and Australia; and _Back In Time_ hit number 3 on the US Rock chart. Not bad at all for what would be considered the b-side track (though it’s kind of weird that they used _Bad Is Bad_ for the TPoL single b-side instead).
Back in 1955, taking advantage was trying to steal a kiss. Marty had no intention to assault her. He was counting on her resisting being kissed because of what she had told him back in 1985 about never calling, parking, or kissing a boy. He was simply setting his awkward father up to look strong and protective in her eyes. It was imperitive to fix the situation he caused that would have destroyed his existence.
I originally saw this in the theater nearly forty years ago, and I keep seeing new things. I just noticed how George and Lorraine are made for each other. George climbs trees to peep on girls with binoculars, and Lorraine removes the pants of unconscious strangers.
A little bit of trivia. Lorrain's parents -- Sam and Stella were portrayed by George DiCenzo and Frances Lee McCain. They once did a play together "A Streetcar Named Desire." Have you seen that 1951 film? In that movie Stanley --portrayed by Marlon Brando --yells out "Stella!! in a painfil wail. In Back To The Future the private joke of actor DiCenzo is when he yells out "Stella" in the same kind of loud wail.
"Got stiffed"??.. No.. Lorraine is the creepiest person in this movie.. Closely followed by Biff... I mean.. seriously.. I am have social phobias, am shy and don't work well in all social settings so I can absolutely understand that someone who have a crush wouldn't have the gumption to actually go to that person and risk getting "shot down".. but what did Lorrain do??.. well.. let's start with her undressing an unconscious man.. No need to do this at all, but she did. She tried to make him stay, and tried to just grab his genitals under the table.. and then.. threw herself on him trying to kiss him without noticing how horrified he acted.. IF she hadn't felt that the kiss would've been wrong would she at all notice (or care) if the person wasn't in to it?.. I doubt it. .she is MOST likely equally much a "date-rapee" as Biff is... However Biff id more.. "Evil", but if talking about creepy, she is absolutely the biggest creep in this movie.
Let's not forget that Lorraine removed Marty's pants and definitely paid "close attention" to his underwear whilst he was unconscious for no good reason... this 1955 was pretty degenerate I guess. That being said, I don't think the movie was supposed to be taken too seriously... but everyone can have their own opinion on that of course.
Calvin Klein underwear is pretty hard to ignore from the POV of someone in the '50s. One could also make the point that men's lavender underwear emblazoned with the male name of the manufacturer was pretty degenerate in 1985 -- that is until rappers started wearing their pants around their knees showing off their undies and butt cracks in the decades to follow!
Everybody says the innocent banter between Marty and mom is gross and cringy but they have no problem with the 1985 town theater sign which titled “Orgy American Style”. People have zero logic.
I never knew a lighthearted movie like this would ever be considered controversial. Yet nowadays people watch stuff like GoT and edgy cartoons like Family Guy without batting an eyelid. Had *those* been done in the 80s you’d hear comments like “People don’t say or do things like that anymore”. Right-o.
Kind of a low-key reaction to a classic movie. A lot of credit goes to Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale for handling the mother’s crush subplot with good taste and finding the humor that would naturally happen in that situation. “Back to the Future” remains one of the best screenplays ever written and it’s great to see that it still connects with audiences today. It’s timeless. That’s how you know that it’s a classic.
A lot of the gags were the throwback jokes to older times which many people would miss today, and the writing makes it predictable, so I'm not buying the "greatest screenplay ever"
@@CheepchipsableLol. Ok. It doesn’t matter if you “buy” it or not. The fact is, the script is still taught in screenwriting classes in colleges and universities throughout the world , so that kind of of speaks for itself.
Man, might be time to remake Back to the Future to cater for Gen Z. Clearly a lot of details in the movie proved too distracting for the thinking of our current day and age. And maybe setting it in 2024 and having a high schooler going back to 1994 would be a bigger shock than someone in 1985 going back to 1955.
Another film with Christopher Lloyd in it is the cult classic "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension". It's a favorite of mine, I watch it about once a year. Peter Weller ("Robo Cop") stars with a loaded supporting cast.
Back to the Future is the pinnacle of a _perfect_ script. So much so, that it's often taught in screenwriting classes. This, Tremors and, believe it or not, The Blob (1988) are near perfect films. The characters are great, the plot is great and every single set-up has a pay-off. They're brilliant.
Very sorry to break this to you, Whimsory, but it's not a reasonable choice. Without AI, you will never have flying cars that do not require a pilot with years of training to operate... So, if you want your very own flying car some day, start embracing the AI. ;-]
25:23 Actually, it is exactly how it works. In order to learn how to ride the bicycle a person needs to ... ride a bicycle. There is no any other way around it. So, when it comes to confidence, the only way is.... to act like you are confident. Copying the behavior of confident people. Then after some time it becomes a natural state of mind. The same way riding a bicycle becomes natural physical skill after some time spent on riding it - copying "the behavior" of people who ride it.
The reason we don't have flying cars is people can't drive on the ground, much less in the air. We probably won't be able to have flying cars until we have self-driving AI to control them
I've been on this earth for over 40 years, and I've been waiting for a girl to say "being confident doesn't make you attractive. being attractive makes you confident". Thank you. It's super annoying when people say "be confident" like it's a lightswitch..
Well, if you're unattractive and lacking of self-confident makes it worse, right? So, why not being self-confident even if you're not that attractive? There must be an attractive feature that one may have... Nobody is 100% attractive or 100% unattractive; therefore, take advantage of the thing you're best at. End of story.
You can say George let his wife’s assaulter into their home, but considering they were teens and it was the 50’s, I’m not sure that would have defined their existence forever, whether that seems right or wrong to us now. I presume the remainder of their high school lives and beyond further informed and determined the exact relationship as adults. As to comparing the character and actor appearances, remember actors are usually on a different standard than normal people due to their profession, so yeah they will look better! Hope to see your reaction to the sequels.
While I get that you think you're being clever because everyone understands that it's not literally a 1:1 comparison, the process to potentially become one or the other is certainly similar enough. Both are based upon a series of continual decisions, over time.
@@tfpp1 Confidence goes down after a lot of rejections, but you can start a business to get rich over and over again and still have the same chance over and over again.
I don't trust people with moustaches, people that don't have sauce on their pie (I recently realised it's because of the moustache), and now, people that don't like Back to the Future. There's something amiss there.
First saw Whimsory on Popcorn in Bed Poppy awards. Love her channel so much now! Love the way she takes time to really put in work before the outro. She comes back with soooo much knowledge! Hoping all the best for her and her career.
It's peculiar that Crispin Glover didn't like the ending because of the materialistic theme, and "everyone has money now so everyone is happy,"....but for the second film Crispin demanded much more money....and THAT is why he was not in the second film.
I think he said the "message "of profiting from the endeavour. Crispin lives in the real world and helped make the productive squillions, so why not ask for a pay rise?
@@Cheepchipsable - No, he's not that kind of guy. He was outraged. He seems to care more about his art than anything else, and he is an over-the-top character in real life.
