The Making of Back To The Future was a Sh*t Show

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Traveling through time is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make Back to the Future, from the years it took convincing a studio to make it to replacing an overly serious actor weeks into filming.
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In the entertainment world, there are millions of dollars on the line and troubled productions are bound to happen. And we are going to talk about these disastrous, never ending, and sometimes dangerous productions. From the creators of WTF Happened To This Movie?, It Was A Sh*t Show is a video essay/documentary/podcast series looking at some of your favorite films and tv shows, and why they were such a nightmare to make.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:34 - Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale's First Movie
01:30 - Three Failures with Steven Spielberg
02:15 - Developing the Idea of Back to the Future
03:23 - Struggling to Sell the Screenplay
05:08 - Frank Price Gets the Rights Back
07:06 - Meeting Sid Sheinberg's Demands
09:26 - Budget Cuts Force Script Changes
10:46 - Production Begins with a Miscast Eric Stoltz
13:34 - Starting Over with Michael J. Fox
15:38 - Difficulties with Crispin Glover
17:13 - A Hurried Post Production
18:15 - Back to the Future Releases July 3, 1985
19:12 - Back to the Future's Influence on Pop Culture
20:46 - Universal Pictures Wants Sequels
Sources:
AFI: catalog.afi.com/Film/67171-19...
catalog.afi.com/Film/56547-I-...
AV Club: film.avclub.com/crispin-glove...
Back to the Future: The Ultimate Visual History: www.backtothefuture.store/Bac...
Box Office Mojo: www.boxofficemojo.com/release...
Deadline: deadline.com/2015/10/back-to-...
The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/film/2014...
Michael Douglas: A Biography: books.google.com/books/about/...
Rotten Tomatoes: www.rottentomatoes.com/m/back...
Featured Footage:
1941 (1979)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Back In Time (2015)
Back To The Future (1985) and special features
Back To The Future: Part II (1989)
Back To The Future: The Animated Series (1991)
Back To The Future: The Game (2015)
Better Off Dead (1985)
Big Trouble (1986)
Doctor Who (2005 - )
Double Indemnity (1944)
A Field of Honor (1973)
Gandhi (1982)
Ghostbusters (1984)
I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Family Guy (1999 - )
Family Ties (1982 - 1989)
Futurama (1999 - 2013)
Knocked Up (2007)
Mask (1985)
National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
The Outsiders (1983)
Porky's (1981)
Ready Player One (2018)
Red Dawn (1984)
Regular Show (2009 - 2017)
Rick and Morty (2013 - )
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Safety Last! (1923)
Saturday Night Live (1975 - )
Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
Spaced (1999 - 2001)
The Simpsons (1989 - )
Supernatural (2005 - 2020)
Used Cars (1980)
The Wild Life (1984)
Back to the Future: The Musical: • 'Power of Love' - Back...
• Video
Collider: • Lea Thompson & Christo...
Huey Lewis and the News - Power of Love: • Huey Lewis & The News ...
Jimmy Kimmel Live: • Marty McFly & Doc Brow...
Kanye West - Good Morning: • Kanye West - Good Morning
Nerdist: • Billy West Mashes Up F...
Raving Rabbids - Travel in Time • Raving Rabbids - Trave...
Reunited Apart: • It's Time to go BACK T...
We’re Going Back: • We're Going Back | Bac...
Music:
Alan Silvestri - Back To The Future (Original Soundtrack)
Alan Silvestri - Back To The Future: Part II (Original Soundtrack)
Huey Lewis and the News - Power of Love
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
Ryan Hudson - Sh*t Show Theme
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Комментарии : 3 тыс.

@DodaGarcia Год назад

The editing and writing of this essay really pays justice to the film. Amazing timing. And my god, what a masterpiece of a film. It's not that it's better because it was difficult to make, it's that it's great because of the sheer belief the makers had helping them see the project through, their sincere passion for the story. Faced with all kinds of obstacles from the major to the downright petty, they just course-corrected and marched on. Truly inspiring.

@dominichowell6896 11 месяцев назад

The difficulties were fate.

@MadScientist267 10 месяцев назад

The "masterpiece" is largely in the detail they gave to it... Not only all the little references to itself all along the way but outstanding continuity. Silly things like the "Lone Pine Mall" joke or addressing the intricacies of time travel so the entire thing makes sense with itself... This certainly isn't matched by anything today comes up with (I'm not even sure what anyone is thinking anymore but that's another story)... It made a lot of what was made *ever* pale in comparison. They simply can't make them like this anymore. Pretty high bar to reach.

@JayaMadhavadas 9 месяцев назад

GREAT SCOTT

@ricardomiszczuk8255 7 месяцев назад

@@dominichowell6896😊

@hulky333 6 месяцев назад

It was a success also thanks to Michael J Fox.😂👍🏾

@augustday9483 2 года назад

I can't believe that the clocktower and lightning bolt were a late script addition due to budget cuts. The clocktower is so iconic and feels central to the film's identity, it's hard to imagine things without it.

@perfectsplit5515 Год назад

One-point-twenty-one gigawatts! Great Scott!

@bogusmogus9551 Год назад

And how that worked with the time travel thing. I Really thought that was a central part of the film that they knew when the lightning would strike and the rest of the film was worked around it. -Fantastic Bob Ross 'Happy little accident'

@SWest00072 Год назад

Pure serendipity!

@andrewmurray1550 Год назад

@@perfectsplit5515 "What the hell is a jigowatt?? (maybe that's the joke, it's supposed to be "gigawatt"; perhaps Doc says "jigowatt" and Marty knows this is wrong and hence his question "what the hell is a Jigowatt?" - just a theory.

@andrewmurray1550 Год назад

what was the alternative - spend most of the movie trying to break into a nuclear power station to steal - er sorry, "borrow" - some plutonium?

@LEGENDCITYest1963 2 года назад

I think you left out one big point Christopher Lloyd this guy held this movie together from beginning to end, he was the perfect actor for that role and still is today Christopher Lloyd is amazing and needs to be recognized.

@DarkSideofSynth 2 года назад

Absolutely! The Doc-Marty combo is pure bliss, and MAKES the film.

@rikuruohomaki3230 2 года назад

And to think he first hesitated playing the role. This is the role he will always be remembered for. He was in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and he was also in Zemeckis' Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but if you'd ask anyone what Christopher Lloyd's most famous role is, most people would think of Doc Brown.

@stanmarcusgtv 2 года назад

agreed - btw, did you know that Lloyd's grandfather founded Texaco and he lived at Waveny?

@kingleech16 2 года назад

@@rikuruohomaki3230 Don't forget Reverend Jim!

@tupaclives5848 2 года назад

@@rikuruohomaki3230 don't forget his iconic role in Food fight!

@fudalefu1 Год назад

“BTTF as a comfort food”, is something I never thought of. But it’s perfect. The movie is charming, funny, uplifting, and just a fun ride. They really don’t make movies like this anymore.

@troyturner173 9 месяцев назад

Right-you know EXACTLY where it's going, but you enjoy the ride getting there

@hensonlaura 6 месяцев назад

BTTF & Groundhog Day 💜

@owlNolan 3 месяца назад

Movies like this? Name one other. This is truly the best film ever. Only one other movie I can watch multiple times is "Hot Fuzz", but still it's on a different level

@jceggbert5 Месяц назад

@@owlNolan The Mitchells vs The Machines is pretty good in this regard too.

@SanchoPanza-wg5xf 6 дней назад

Seems pretty a pretty stretched metaphor.

@craigmills1012 Год назад

While Fox was an essential ingredient, you couldn't imagine anyone else playing Marty, Christopher Lloyd was even more essential, absolutely smashed it as Doc Brown

@jeahavvalentin980 Год назад

So true in everything you said

@riparianlife97701 Год назад

I loved Lloyd from the TAXI days. I saw him in Santa Barbara on roller blades in 2001. I said "Hey!" He responded with a much better "HEYYY!!!", then carved a turn into a skate park, did some crazy tricks to delight the teenagers there, then skated back out and kept going down the beach. Great moment.

@missolivie 7 месяцев назад

Michael j fox beat show is not here It’s on Frighteners

@missolivie 7 месяцев назад

Lloyd and fox are best Fox best show not on this film but Frighteners

@noelanderson969 6 месяцев назад

Even his then-Wife convinced him to be Doc Brown!!

@modelcitizen1977 2 года назад

Spielberg’s response to the request for a title change was absolutely brilliant.

@playerpage Год назад

There's a great story about the Marx Brothers responding to a cease and desist order from the producers of Casablanca, while they were making A Night In Casablanca, because the names were similar. The studio for Casablanca was Warner Brothers, so Groucho wrote back that if they can't use the name Casablanca, Warner Brothers can't use "Brothers," because the Marx Brothers owned it first.

@JB-ti7bl Год назад

@@playerpage Perfect.

@KurtRichterCISSP Год назад

*Spillburg

@StardustLegacyFighter Год назад

@@KurtRichterCISSP *Iceberg

@alexpowers5117 8 месяцев назад

Titanic

@maryhuckaby2239 2 года назад

One of the great things about "Back to the Future" is that Marty (Michael J. Fox) always looks like he just jumped out of bed having slept in his clothes and is slightly bewildered to find himself awake. Like, "What's on for today? - I haven't had my coffee yet." Of course, one WOULD feel bewildered a lot of the time with a friend like Doc. Then to find out, in reality, Michael J. Fox had literally just jumped out of bed - a mattress in.a station wagon - having slept in his clothes and had to have felt bewildered much of the time during the filming of "Back to the Future" because he was ALSO filming "Family Ties" - one production in the daytime, the other in the evening! He was getting maybe 4 hours sleep on this grueling schedule. His grueling schedule helped create the character of Marty.

@shaunsteele8244 2 года назад

he was also 23 years old at the time... you can only get away with that when you're young

@texasred2702 2 года назад

@@sizlax he looks pretty damn good for a guy who's pushing 60 and been living with Parkinsons disease for half his life.

@Lord_Thistlewick_Flanders 2 года назад

That lack of sleep for 6-8 weeks straight probably played it's part in him developing parkinsons at such a young age.

@whatagreatnameaye1169 2 года назад

@@Lord_Thistlewick_Flanders you're saying temporary sleep deprivation can cause Parkinsons?

@Lord_Thistlewick_Flanders 2 года назад

@@whatagreatnameaye1169 I'm not making any definitive statements here, but it's worth investigating. I'm speculating here but if it was involved I'd say he already had the genes/predisposition to develop it and that the BTTF shooting schedule hastened it's onset.

@riffraffrichard Год назад

Creativity was so high in the late 70s and 80s blockbusters. This one really stood out. Its a main stream picture but crafted with so much care and nuance. It's so cool they stuck to their guns and went for mj fox. He managed to portray a complex teenager, full of energy and a bit of a cool dude. However, also sometimes awkward shy, insecure and when buttons pushed hot headed.

@anti-ethniccleansing465 Год назад

Marty was never insecure or shy. He was only really awkward when it came to dealing with his parents in the past (particularly his mom), which is more than normal/understandable, because who wouldn’t be?!

@riffraffrichard Год назад

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 yeah your right I got that wrong. I guess what I meant was he showed some vulnerability even though he was confident.

@czerwonyniebieski Год назад

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 He was insecure - there is a whole subplot about how Marty fears rejection in context of his music, mirrored by fear of his father that his sci-fi stories would be laughed at.

@LilyoftheLake14 Год назад

That _high_ creativity in the 80s probably has to give a partial thanks to cocaine lol.

@riffraffrichard Год назад

@@LilyoftheLake14 so true, it was pretty pure then

@NormanTiner Год назад

I honestly teared up a little hearing about the audience reaction at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1050">17:30</a>. Making things is hard. Making complex things with lots of people is really hard. Making art under these pressures is almost impossible. For it to succeed and be a smashing success is a symphony of chaos, it's lightening in a bottle.

@brianshaker1885 Год назад

I just watched the Siskel and Ebert review where they praise the movie as the years best. And Siskel says "it's a movie with such a great screenplay and premise you could literally take the worst director and the worst cast from that directors terrible film (I forget which one) and it would still come out good." Apparently not... a movie with Eric Stoltz probably still would have been... decent... but not timeless.

@adamtzsch 8 месяцев назад

*lightning

@kamikazei Год назад

Watching the clips of Eric Stoltz in those iconic scenes made me feel like I was in a parallel universe for a moment. Excellent piece and very informative.

@VonArmagedda Год назад

Oddly enough, I'd love to see what kinda of movie BTTF would have been, if Eric stayed, and the nuke scene would have happened.

@Karmy. Год назад

@@VonArmagedda same

@StardustLegacyFighter Год назад

Mandela effect

@Kalle0490 Год назад

There is even an episode in a tv show about alternate timelines where Eric Stolz played Marty MacFly and never left the set.

@anti-ethniccleansing465 Год назад

@@Kalle0490 What tv show?

@MrWoodMan23 Год назад

Michael J was a lovable and sought-after actor. His devotion to his craft was also next level.

@WhereTheGustGoes Год назад

He's still alive, but definitely retired

@MrWoodMan23 Год назад

@@WhereTheGustGoes before he got Parkinsons I should have said.

@johncenashi5117 Год назад

Agreed. Hes one of my all time favorite actors!

@cavedog6637 Год назад

I feel very empathic toward Michael, his career could have gone so much farther than it did if it weren’t for Parkinson’s. Although the Michael J Fox foundation is doing wonderful things, it’s still very sad. Such a talented actor.

@giannisksanthopoulos4300 Год назад

Broke my heart at the end of Season 4 of Spin City. For those who never watch Spin City…find it and watch it. Those 4 seasons are just masterpiece and Michael J Fox just killed it.

@TheFiddleFaddle 9 месяцев назад

It cannot be overstated how much Silvestri's score played a role in the success of this movie. The script was great on its own, but just imagine that final clock tower sequence _without_ the iconic score.

@allanbard6048 6 месяцев назад

The INTRADA two CD release has the whole alternate score for a bit more serious tone. Love it!

@Drak976 3 месяца назад

I think that's part of why modern movies aren't as good. Everything has gone down hill even the music!

@allanbard6048 3 месяца назад

@@Drak976 Agreed. They got no heart anymore.

@AndyJay1985 3 месяца назад

It's my favorite part of the movie. Doc and Marty are finally going to send the DeLorean back. They're entering dangerous territory with one shot, but Doc knows this will work. The reprise of the main theme then kicks in.

@ollerich32 19 дней назад

This!

@internationalsolartech Год назад

I remember walking out of the theatre with several friends, not realizing many other friends had been in the theatre as well.... We all literally walked outside on that sunny hot July day in 1985 and went nuts talking about how absolutely fabulous Back to the Future was......It is a memory I've never forgotten, literally the experience about seeing THIS movie....!

@NoctLightCloud 3 месяца назад

this is what I miss nowadays. Everyone's watching entirely different stuff, and you can barely find tv series/movies/games to talk about.

@rubiesncreme 2 года назад

George isn't happy just because he's rich, he's rich because he has the thing that makes him happy and that was all he was missing to be financially secure: self-confidence. At least, that's what I got from the final cut of the film as released.

@troodon1096 2 года назад

Exactly.

@amarreezlan7131 2 года назад

he’s rich with both money and happiness, big W

@hellomark1 2 года назад

He wasn't even that rich, still lived in the same house, just had enough that they went from struggling to comfortable. The fact that Glover argued this makes me think either he's never really struggled or he doesn't understand the difference.

@SabrinaLWilliams 2 года назад

I watched this film for the first time at about age 7 on TV and even I understood that his life changed because he stood up to his bully

@dcloud 2 года назад

This is what bob shouldve told crispin. Lol

@AlexanderNash 2 года назад

The fact that the beginning of Indiana Jones 4 is actually the original ending to Back to the Future is blowing my mind on so many levels.

@Sephcala Год назад

Same here!

@syphon583 Год назад

It's funny to think that Spielberg included that scene as an homage to the original BTTF ending, but in reality I think the producer of this video just used it a semi-joke to bridge Spielbergs' connection to both franchises. I highly doubt the director did that intentionally.

@anti-ethniccleansing465 Год назад

@@syphon583 You highly doubt the director did it intentionally? Where else do you think he got the idea from??

@bpdubb 3 дня назад

I'm glad they went with the clock tower scene because when i saw the atomic bomb/refrigerator scene in the beginning of Indiana Jones is when i turned it off.

@headcode Год назад

“Endlessly watchable bite of comfort food” is the most apt description for this movie and perfectly explains why it’s my all time favorite. I never tire of watching it, and it was always my go-to movie when I just wasn’t in the mood for anything else.

@mightymartianca 2 года назад

It's kind of ironic that slashing the budget led to a final act sequence far better than what would have been made if the money had stayed on the table.

@axebomber2108 2 года назад

Scriptwriters can go overboard because they're not limited by anything but their imagination. Actual budgets force practicality and for the director to be a little more choosy about what they put on screen. Think about what Ghostbusters was when Dan Aykroyd wrote it(time and space travel in addition to the actual ghost-busting) and what it became because the concept was way too expensive.

@Underestimated37 2 года назад

It’s the cutthroat kitchen analogy: when you’re unhindered, you instinctively go overboard to compensate and everything else suffers, limitation breeds creativity. It’s also why early Nintendo video games were far more innovative and creative than they are today.

@scottsatterthwaite4073 2 года назад

Spontaneity is the key to creativity.

@vilhelmschmit9300 2 года назад

@@Underestimated37 I disagree with the video games comment, but agree with the limitations comment. Larry David said that Seinfeld was such a success because of the censorship and how they had to creatively get around it. IMO Seinfeld is way better than Curb for this reason.

@Underestimated37 2 года назад

@@vilhelmschmit9300 the video games thing isn’t opinion, it’s consensus from the community at large. Limiting the hardware forced the developers to become intensely creative, another great example is crash bandicoot 1; Naughty Dog literally had to delete chunks of the core OS libraries and invent an early form of data streaming in order to squeeze the game into RAM

@emoanimeboy2173 2 года назад

Back to the Future is proof that just because a film had a troubled production doesn't mean it's quality can't be amazing

@civilwarfare101 2 года назад

I respect film crews a lot for what they do.

@braydens5224 2 года назад

Goes for pretty much any film featured on this show. I find it very inspiring from a creative standpoint. When struggling and things aren’t going well.. it doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t end up being something fantastic if you have the right intentions

@TM__1566 2 года назад

Also The Godfather 1

@-MrFozzy- 2 года назад

Those double negatives break my brain!

@-MrFozzy- 2 года назад

@@deanjustdean7818 greatest film ever made?! Have you only seen one movie?

@riffraffrichard Год назад

I never knew they got bribed into making the sequel. You can tell the second one is them trying there hardest to do something creative with the sequel and they succeeded. I can't think of many sequels that are better than the original if it's a classic but they definitely managed to make something original and different.

@darrenfalconer3267 Год назад

i think threatened would be a more appropriate term haha

@dan-bz7dz 8 месяцев назад

I always thought they intended to make the sequel before even making the first one. Seems like a perfect overlap.

@countluke2334 7 месяцев назад

@@dan-bz7dz No, on the contrary, they always said had they known there was gonna be a sequel they wouldn't have made the DeLorean fly.

@allanbard6048 6 месяцев назад

@@countluke2334 There's another story about the sequels. Apparently, when the movie was shown on cable(!) it had a "To Be Continued" logo right before the credits roll. It caught everyone off guard because the ending was a final gag in the script. (This was somewhere on one of the early documentaries, maybe even the VHS box set.)

@Capitan_Doug_Keith 5 месяцев назад

The BTTF rankings, in my opinion, go likie this: 1. The Original 2. the Western 3. The Futuristic one

@dastardlygonzo Год назад

I cannot describe in words how much I adore this film (and the sequels). I'm glad it got made.

@GoriguiMonke 2 года назад

Every single time I rewatch BTTF it just gets better and better. It isn't lightning in a bottle, it's the whole thunderstorm. Easily one of the best filmes of all time, the ultimate crowd pleaser.

@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403 Год назад

Agreed. Sometimes they'll run the whole trilogy and I'll sit down and watch all three back to back to back.

@j_m_b_1914 Год назад

"Thunderstorm in a bottle" -- I'm stealing this!

@cattysplat Год назад

There is just a maticulousness to movies made in the 80s and 90s that just made them endlessly rewatchable classics. Even tons of cult classics that flopped in cinemas but got big on VHS and DVD. These kinds of movies almost don't seem to exist anymore. Cinema just seems so disposable now.

@missangiemissangiemissaaaa1280 Год назад

I agree I still get nervous that Marty wont make it back to 1985 and over seen thisovie literally like 50 times!! I was 10 when it came out so I seen it at the movie theater which was amazing. My gram took me 3 times to the movies to watch it. They should rerelease it so younger folks can enjoy it on the big screen

@Diwasho 2 года назад

When the script changed the time machine to be a car instead of a fridge Ford was actually in talks with the producers about having a car of their brand picked for the movie. The producers told Zemeckis that if he agreed to the Ford deal they'd be able to add roughly 5 million dollars to the budget. However Zemeckis was adamant that "Doc Brown doesn't drive no fucking Ford" and insisted on DeLorean.

@dbsti3006 2 года назад

If it was a Ford GT 40, then yeah that would have been cool too.

@joelwillems4081 2 года назад

@@dbsti3006 You mean the Shelby GT40 MKII? Yeah, that would have been cool. But Ford cars of the '80s were anything but cool. Are you telling me... that you made a time machine... out of a Fiesta? I, figure, if you're going to the past... why not do it on a single gallon of gas.

@dbsti3006 2 года назад

@@joelwillems4081 Yeah, you're not wrong. The only cool 80s Ford was the 5.0 Fox Body. Hell, they could use the 2017 GT 40. It doesn't have to be 80s.

@staringcorgi6475 2 года назад

I thought they chose delorean because delorean is a dead company so they don’t get to pay that much for licensing

@alaskanh.o.g.4lyf948 2 года назад

@@staringcorgi6475 they chose it because John Delorian almost did time for that machine so it makes it the perfect time machine

@christopherjohnson1803 Год назад

I've watched the movies 100+ times. And still never found an anachronism or plot hole. Indeed a perfect trilogy.

@c4kefrosty862 6 месяцев назад

There are plenty of plotholes, like how Doc and Marty retain memories of all the timelines, but no one else does. You could call this an observer effect, but then why when old Biff changes the world for 1985 in BTTF2 do Doc and Marty not immediately become different people, they should no longer know a life that isn't the new one they had to live in in the new timeline. It's a pothole, but the movie really wouldn't work otherwise.

@DingleDangle66 6 месяцев назад

@@c4kefrosty862Because the REAL Doc and Marty were in the wrong place. They shouldn’t have been in alternate 1985. They remember what others don’t because they were in the time machine.

@lune78 Год назад

Replacing Eric Stoltz with Michael J. Fox was one of the best decisions ever made in the history of cinema.

@johntomlinson6849 2 года назад

This is more than a perfect movie. It changed my life. I was brought up in a continuous atmosphere of little encouragement and grudging praise in a poor part of the UK. Bullied at school and then in a dead-end first job, I WAS George (though I didn't recognise that at the time) and so wanted to be Marty (despite being four years older). Encouraged by the message that you are in charge of your own destiny, I got a new job and started to work my balls off, all the time subsconsciously working to George's statement that you can achieve anything if you put your mind to it. In four years, I got four good promotions, moved to a far better part of the UK, made lifetime wonderful friends, and carried on maximising my financial opportunities. I retired three years ago at 54, never have to work again, live a life of comfortable pleasure and have never looked back. I owe this movie a lot. It was a better teacher and mentor than any human I personally ever met.

@mightyben4310 Год назад

Sorry mate. Don’t want to be be a stickler but I am fairly certain the sentence “ you are in charge of your destiny” is spelled wrong. It’s “density” you bell-end!

@_BangDroid_ Год назад

That's the power of love

@youguyssuck7595 Год назад

Same thing for me when i was a younger boy

@orandachildren1051 Год назад

It didn't teach you about Jesus so, you're screwed.

@_BangDroid_ Год назад

@@orandachildren1051 *cough Matthew 7 *cough

@StonedustandStardust Год назад

Michael J Fox is an Icon not just for this role, but for the innate charm and warmth he possesses. He is loved in this world.

@raven4k998 Год назад

yeah he is a real icon

@NoSweatMan-_- Год назад

It sucks that amazing people like him suffer from diseases, but very shitty people live in perfect health.

@bystanderbutch3509 Год назад

I saw him run up to a cornered cat and punch him. The cat hissed and Fox then screamed at him tossing death threats at him.

@kevnar Год назад

I had a paper route in 1985. I spent just about every dollar I made going to rewatch this movie in the theaters at least 17 times. Most of the time I went by myself.

@Artofficial1986 5 дней назад

Are you still alone?

@fajarazninasution1881 Год назад

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="815">13:35</a> it such a perfect time to hear the theme right when Michael J. Fox tells his story about the script and accepted the part. I literally teared up.

@biffster3192 3 года назад

Well done good sir. I love the cut from Indy in the fridge to McFly laughing. I could feel your distain for Indy 4.

@Thomasmemoryscentral 2 года назад

I really wish some people would get over slamming Indy 4. Yeah it's not a masterpiece but if that 5th film is real bad, the indiana Jones will find themselves in the same spots as Star Wars fans from the letdown of the sequel trilogy.

@PhantomFilmAustralia 2 года назад

I do that laugh every time someone around me says a shit joke. 😂

@RashaadGenie 2 года назад

Sir.

@SNNetwork 2 года назад

@@Thomasmemoryscentral what does 5 sucking have to do with people hating 4. also people are overreacting over 5 its in good hands dude knows what hes doing

@dongulio5539 2 года назад

@@deanjustdean7818 it’s funny, I didn’t feel that about the last crusade, it’s my favorite Indy tied with raiders, I felt that ford and connery, played great off each other

@gy7694 2 года назад

Very impressed with your editing and tying shot selections in with the narration (eg Biff entering the room and coming to his seat and showing the gun when you say "The Bobb's walked into Scheinberg's office... and... made it explicitly clear" and that's just one example! You've clearly gone the extra mile. Well done!

@ItWasAShtShow 2 года назад

Thank you! Glad you noticed the editing. It’s a lot of work that we’re super proud of.

@denimchicken104 2 года назад

The editing was fantastic. I actually forgot this was a RU-vid video for a moment. It felt like an official documentary with a budget to pull from all sorts of media. 👌

@texasred2702 2 года назад

Also loved the cut from Indiana Jones and the gopher to George McFly laughing.

@brunoais 2 года назад

I agree!

@ColinTimmins 2 года назад

I noticed the editing as well, very well done! =]

@michaelcopple1736 Год назад

I'm a big fan of Crispin Glover. He has a unique personality that can be difficult to direct, but he shines on screen. His writing and directing is odd, but interesting as well. Dark.

@ouethojlkjn 6 месяцев назад

100% agree. I remember seeing a memorable film with Mr. Glover in it along with a few other now familiar faces - "River's Edge". I think I know where the idea for "Twin Peaks" came from...

@princessmarlena1359 6 месяцев назад

And I do agree with his argument at regarding the altered timeline at the end of the first Back To The Future movie, why their lives shouldn’t be better merely because they have nice things. Sadly, that got him booted from the sequel.

@moaningpheromones Год назад

The story of the film's creation is a greater tale than the film itself. Lea Thomas as Lorraine . . . as I grew older I came to appreciate more just how beautiful she and the character is. She was 23, and so was MJF. I was 8 - now I'm twice her age then. Time flies in real life too.

@fromulus Год назад

I've probably seen that movie more than any other movie. Hundreds of times, it really is how you described it. Perfect, and comforting, it takes me back to my childhood.

@thomasjefferson2676 Год назад

Yes!

@NikiWonoto26 11 месяцев назад

agree - from Indonesia -

@isaacyoder4137 2 года назад

Ironically, with the insane sleep schedule, Mike Fox was inadvertently method acting with that "just rolled out of bed" feel to his character.

@billpomeroy7433 5 месяцев назад

Ian, you are a master editor. This piece is so good. Using scenes from the movie to support your commentary was brilliant. Spot on. I knew all the facts you conveyed, but I really enjoyed how you put this together. Your VO was well written and perfectly executed as well. I am a film maker and voice actor as well, and I am so impressed with your work on this. Thank you for your attention to detail while telling a story about a film, and it's sequels that will on in my life as my absolute heart-felt favorites. Alongside Star Wars and It's a Wonderful Life, BTTF is comfort food beyond reproach. THANK YOU!

@reformedgarbage5415 6 месяцев назад

Remember when Hollywood used to make good movies with great stories?

@ianrogerburton1670 Год назад

I remember how in 2015 young people who had been born AFTER the 1985 movie were going wild about its 30th anniversary. Now that´s what I call a movie with a legacy !

@TheMarslMcFly Год назад

That highkey was one of the best days I've ever had! I was born in 98, my Dad introduced me to Back to the Future when I was a Kid and it's been my absolute favorite movie (trilogy) ever since. October 21st 2015 our local cinema, like probably so many other, had a BttF Event where they showed all three movies back to back to back. There were only limited tickets and I desperately wanted to go. My birthday is October 28 so my Dad surprised me with an early birthday present and two tickets for the event. We had an absolute blast that night! Popcorn and Drinks were all you can eat/drink, and I still have that epic plastic hoverboard every visitor got for free. You won't believe how many Martys and Docs there were! I went in my Marty Halloween costume myself. It was so fun! :D

@ianrogerburton1670 Год назад

@@TheMarslMcFly An evening to treasure for the whole of your life, through both good and bad times !

@anti-ethniccleansing465 Год назад

@@TheMarslMcFly I can’t imagine sitting in a movie theater seat through three whole movies in a row lol. Hopefully they were at least the kind of seats that recline far back hehe.

@TheMarslMcFly Год назад

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Yeah you could recline them and everything. Also between each movie was a, I think 30 minute break, so it was alright lol

@anti-ethniccleansing465 Год назад

@@TheMarslMcFly Ah, ok cool. Still, what a long time, eh? Haha. Any idea how much the event cost? Just curious. All you can eat plus a fake hoverboard and limited tickets sounds like it wasn’t a cheap event by any means. You have a great dad! ;)

@luvsdizners Год назад

I had the unbelievable honor of meeting the cast and some crew on location in Puente Hills, Ca while they filmed the Twin Pines Mall scenes. In the background you can see an old Robinsons department store and on the second floor of that store was a restaurant that catered the cast and crew during their breaks. My mom of the manager of restaurant. We would stay late into the night watching them film from the windows.

@MrSirWivd Год назад

is the JCPenny still behind the parking lot like it is in the 1st movie? lol

@sandpquan Год назад

@@MrSirWivd It's a "24 Hour Fitness"

@blakjack3053 Год назад

Hey I lived in La Puente from 1963 to 1989 went to LPHS (class of 78) and was there for the Grand opening of the Puente hills Mall!

@brianshaker1885 Год назад

Amazing. What an honor.

@gabbiehernandez7390 Год назад

My grandma has lived in La Puente since the 60s and as a kid growing up I remember thinking how cool it was that they filmed those scenes at the Puente Hills mall, I would always think of it whenever we stopped by for Krispy Kreme haha ❤️

@Kris18 Год назад

This is an amazingly made video from the script, editing, and narration. Thank you so much!

@ItWasAShtShow Год назад

You’re welcome!

@mahdiclark9158 Год назад

Your love of production and film is inspiring. Please keep it up!

@niterida380 3 года назад

Everything worked out how it was meant to be. Can anyone imagine if they were given the green light in 81 or another studio decided to make this film before it was made?

@rayizard5687 2 года назад

The delay from '81 to '85 is what led to Marty gaining his older siblings so the ages would match

@clayparcell3582 2 года назад

What….!? The fuck:)

@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music 2 года назад

You're talking about an alternative timeline? Don't go there.

@RLucas3000 2 года назад

If it had been made in 81, it would have starred Gary Coleman! (While he continued to work on Different Strokes.). “What chu talkin bout, Doc?!” It would have been ... adorable. “I think my mom just pinched my cheeks!” And Crispin would have definitely tried to do the role in blackface.

@williamcole2778 Год назад

With the fridge and nuclear explosion too! Where they nuke the clock tower and destroy hill valley, 1955 to get back. Wait, this can tie in with the terminator movie hishe.

@Insipid42 2 года назад

I really don't get how Glover could miss the message of that movie. It wasn't subtle. The point wasn't that money=happiness, it's that following your dreams=happiness. The wealth was just a happy side effect.

@ItWasAShtShow 2 года назад

Right? It’s literally his line in that scene.

@liquidbraino 2 года назад

It's not like he became ridiculously rich either. At the end they're not in a mansion, they're in the same house with a happier marriage and a bit more class; his mom no longer has a drinking problem; his brother has a better job; his sister has a date. Also, it's ironic that he complained because his character has a LITTLE bit more money when he was demanding more money for the second film which is why he got fired from the second one. Didn't want his character to be "greedy" even though HE'S greedy in real life?

@ClaudetteVioletta Год назад

@@liquidbraino he didn't even act in it. They just use old footage from the first film of him

@liquidbraino Год назад

@@ClaudetteVioletta It's "act" not "acted". And we're not talking about the second movie, were talking about the first one, Zoomer.

@LordofMovies91 Год назад

@@liquidbraino are you gonna be okay? 😅

@paraglidingguys Год назад

Well put together! This was a great watch! Definitely a ‘perfect’ recap!

@SAJuk-lb4dh Год назад

I first watched BTTF new years eve 1985 , i was 16 at the time. Never knowing, or even thinking that a life long love affair with a trilogy would be born . The amount of times I've watched them is easily into four figures . It's unreal to see what went on behind the scenes before this even started filming let alone during . Thank you uploader for this very entertaining blast from the past 👏 much appreciated 👍

@anti-ethniccleansing465 Год назад

You’ve watched these movies thousands of times?!?! Wtf! Lol.

@Supersquigi Год назад

Yeah that and the emojis make me think this entire comment is BULLSHIT ......

@SAJuk-lb4dh Год назад

@@Supersquigi yeah man! He must be full of shit. I mean come on who could have watched a trilogy of movies (combined) over a 37 year period . Well over FOUR figures....FOUR FIGURES start at 1000 btw........how unbelievable and full of shit does someone have to be to claim they've actually done that ? 👊

@hensonlaura 6 месяцев назад

@@Supersquigi I agree. The writing is 'modern young', not a nearly 50 y/o person. Unaware of their own ignorance of how culture's changed since 1985 - making them different from an older generation, in expressing themselves. But who knows? Maybe they're just shallow enough to follow every trend ever. 😉

@rayizard5687 2 года назад

One thing that I never see mentioned is because the movie released in July 1985, all of the 1985 scenes were technically in the "future" as they took place in October 1985...

@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 2 года назад

You know, for October, it’s kind of weird how you saw like no Halloween stuff around.

@D-Fens_1632 2 года назад

Now that I never considered, that there are zero allusions to Halloween. It's not that strange I guess, but you'd think maybe it would have at least been a theme for the dance Marty auditioned for or something.

@jb888888888 2 года назад

In years gone by people didn't put up Halloween decorations weeks in advance.

@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 2 года назад

@@jb888888888 Halloween is the whole month, dude. It’s like Christmas.

@jb888888888 2 года назад

@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 It is NOW. It didn't used to be.

@DarrenHarrison7160 Год назад

Being a teenager in the 80s was absolutely awesome!!!

@derekteetv Год назад

Excellent work. Have seen most every special feature, and your research revealed new stuff I did not know.

@Imtavin15 Год назад

This was really well done. The info, the clips and editing, nice work. Subscribed.

@ItWasAShtShow Год назад

Ah thank you!

@AnnusMirabilus 2 года назад

Lea Thompson’s words about Stoltz saying “it’s a tragedy” reminded me of a similar experience that I had in a screenwriting course when I was in film school. I wrote two pages of comedy. We had to give it to other students to present to the class. Of course the students, as actors, played it very, very seriously. And I couldn’t say a word. At the time, it was aggravating. But in retrospect... hilarious.

@user-uy1rg8td1v 2 года назад

Release the Stoltz cut! They practically shot the whole movie with him and I want to see it as a big BTTF fan.

@BifMcAwesome 2 года назад

You should have added "Surely, you can't be serious" with the reply "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley" to the dialogue.

@HoldenNY22 2 года назад

@@user-uy1rg8td1v I _agree. with you. I like to see all the Stoltz footage they shot. Please see my Comment and other Comment I made in response about Stotz acting like he went back in Time to see his Parents.

@PuffKitty 2 года назад

@ Michael G, sounds like it could have been British comedy, read that way 😎

@Paul-os1fr 2 года назад

Now that you bring that up I would love to see something like a 3 stooges episode filmed entirely with 100% serious actors playing it deadpan.

@societycrumbles Год назад

No movie is perfect, but BTTF is one of those films I would not change a thing about. I'm so happy I got to grow up with it.

@yengsabio5315 Год назад

I concur! Lots'a love, cheers, & Mabuhay, from tropical Philippines!

@jaimefish173 Год назад

The imperfection made it perfection.

@longebane Год назад

Idk man. I loved it as a kid. Rewatched it recently. Didn't have Nostalgia goggles.. It wasn't great. The second was even more bad

@LeoTheVampire Год назад

@@longebane I gotta be honest, i also rewatched it recently, and I had some nostalgia goggles on, but I watched it with a friend that NEVER watched before. They still liked it a lot, and we're planning on watching the 2nd. And since i find the 2nd one very satisfying in how everything fits together, I totally disagree. I think the 3rd one is more bizarre and worse, but when thinking about how bizarre it is, it makes it funny again, which fits the tone of these movies. So my opinion is definitely mixed. I love the first movie for being something smart that is so very different but still works extremely well, I love the 2nd one for it's complexity (and i just find it interesting how people from the 1980-1990 envisioned today), and I like the 3rd movie for how bizarre and dumb it is. How said, I will be watching these with my friend that has no idea of BTTF, and i definitely want to know his opinion as well. But those are just my thoughts

@longebane Год назад

@@LeoTheVampire thanks for your thoughts brah

@LoneWolf-sz8bo Год назад

A brilliant movie as a 80’s kid to watch and every kid these days should watch it because it’ll never grow OUTATIME...🔮 I’m currently 48 and was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at age 46 but specialists say I’ve had it slowly progressing since I was in my early 30’s, so I know what Michael J Fox is going through and been through in a way⚡️💫

@jheiden2 6 месяцев назад

The 1980's was one of the greatest periods for well written scripts.

@Berserker8080 Год назад

This video was just as fun to watch as the movie itself! Great job and thank you!

@ItWasAShtShow Год назад

You’re absolutely welcome!

@pete6705 2 года назад

The music composure was also perfect I think. It made every scene so epic

@turtleanton6539 Год назад

Yes

@xt43 2 года назад

So basically, not only is it sometimes considered a perfect _film,_ it's also a perfect _encapsulation_ of the kind of behind-the-scenes ingenuity filmmakers need to display in order to pull it off in-the-moment

@perfectsplit5515 Год назад

They worked like hell to overcome all the crises they had in production, and karma rewarded them in the end.

@BrandonKnoblauch Год назад

Came here to say I loved the editing on this. Great job!

@mdk4641 Год назад

Fantastic breakdown of a flawless movie. I was 13 in 1985, I remember bunking off school twice a week to watch this many times a day. It seemed to stay in the UK cinemas for months. Definitely one of my favourite films of all time.

@markiskool Год назад

So glad you interviewed Michael J. Fox, it was so good to see and hear him again. I loved Family Ties, thought it was the best TV show ever and I loved all of the Back to the Future movies. You're still loved, Michael, regardless of what life handed you.

@HenryLoenwind 2 года назад

A perfect example how you get a great product when you let the creative ones do their work and give them obstacles to overcome, not when you force them to do what some exec or their market-study group thinks.

@natisnotabug Год назад

Never knew such an iconic movie had this turbulent of a history. Despite the process, the result is perfect and I'll always have most lines memorized, especially the original

@SethRadius1 7 месяцев назад

I LOVE your use of visualization and commentary here: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1264">21:04</a>. Fkin hilarious!!!

@anthonybryan6080 2 года назад

I put this on for my 10 year old son and nephew last weekend they had no idea what it was other than an old movie from my days lol they loved it! All the little easter eggs I pointed out and even a couple they pointed out to me that I never noticed they told me it's better then the last spiderman movie I was surprised as much as they were how much they enjoyed it .timeless masterpiece and absolute classic

@cattysplat Год назад

My 70 year old parents love it for the 1950s throwback nostalgia and I also get to reminisce about my 80s childhood with them.

@youguyssuck7595 Год назад

@@cattysplat i love it when they have a clash of 50s and 80s but they do it in a good way and i appreciate this film more than any other film i have seen hell even this film beats endgame

@thenewherooftime815 2 года назад

It is more then 10 miracles that this movie exists, such as the 2 Bobs being given so many chances, restarting the movie halfway in, MJF’s filming schedule, and so many other things. But it was definitely worth it, for my favorite movie.

@BaKimura03 Год назад

Wow, I have to say your video is perfect. Seriously, this can rival even the Netflix special on this. Appreciate you really getting to the good points. I haven’t been this entertained by a RU-vid video beginning to end in a long time. Appreciate this.

@ItWasAShtShow Год назад

Wow, thank you! That truly means a lot! I haven't seen the Netflix thing, but people keep referring to it here. All I'll say is, mine came out a year before theirs...

@wildhogOW Год назад

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1264">21:04</a> The perfect clip for the perfect narration, lmao Great job with this video, IWASS.

@opo3628 Год назад

You *really* have to hand it to everyone involved in this project -- not only managing to pull the film out of the dumpster fire it was smoldering in, but turning it all around and releasing an end product that would become a timeless classic.

@johnmiller5679 2 года назад

Stolz acted like a kid who really went back in time and met his parents as opposed to acting as if you are in a movie where you go back in time ti meet your parents

@PurushaDesa 2 года назад

Showmanship - it’s a very movie kind of movie (the Hill Valley town square is such a quintessential movie set) and thus demands a film star kind of performance.

@IvaN-cf7qt 2 года назад

In a parallel universe stolz made a decent horror movie about time travel and incest.

@PurushaDesa 2 года назад

@@IvaN-cf7qt Zemeckis is an expert in one of the primary responsibilities a director has - tone management. That’s why in his gut he knew Stolz was wrong. _Who Framed Roger Rabbit_ is probably his most accomplished work in balancing light and dark tones.

@vonsopas 2 года назад

Stolz would be great as Marty McFly in the 2010's nitty gritty reboot (let's pray to that never happening BTW), not for the cheesy yet lovable 80's flicks we all love and cherish

@harrymills2770 2 года назад

I'm glad Fox got the gig.

@slicedpage Год назад

fantastic content and outstanding editing, thank you

@ItWasAShtShow Год назад

You are very welcome!

@Quadrupliplex Год назад

This is wonderful in itself. Thanks for your work!

@kg1521 2 года назад

The end was beautiful. To see millions of people enjoy something the creators believed in even during hard times is just wonderful

@1000000man1 2 года назад

So Crispen Glover assumed the idea was "George is only happy because he's wealthy" But he missed the point. It's the opposite way round. George is only wealthy because he is confident.

@toddhowarddd Год назад

I think all of you are being a bit unfair to him. its not easy for actors to see the directors vision of the finished product. thats why directors exist. He protested because he cared about the film and wanted the message to be on point. I doubt you would find that kind of passion in big name actors of the current time period...

@1000000man1 Год назад

@@toddhowarddd To be honest, I don't think films should have messages, in that sense anyway. Modern Hollywood has proven what happens when you're allowed to preach to the audience. I'm not having a go at Glover, but I do think he missed the point. I think the idea was more that George is more confident and therefore has seized opportunities where he didn't before and thus become more successful and wealthy.. I remember Bob Zemekis actually acknowledging that in heinsight the film can come across like it's saying "rich = happy" but that it wasn't intentional. The other thing about their feud is that on the sequel, there seemed to be what I think was actually a misunderstanding. Bob Gale said that Glover asked for too much money; as much as the main stars. But Glover says he didn't ask for that much. He says he did ask for more, but only about the same amount as some of the other supporting actors. Now, he claims that Gale is lying and Gale says that Glover was getting way over his head.. I believe that perhaps they both got their wires crossed but the issue is neither of them are willing to swallow their pride and admit that maybe there was a misunderstanding. Also there was a law suit but this was due to something they did in his absence. They used a mold of his face to make another actor look like him in the sequel, effectively using his likeness, but he didn't give permission. A settlement was made and it also lead to some new rules within the filmmakers guild.

@TheLarryBrown Год назад

@@1000000man1 I'll believe Bob Gale over Crispin Glover immediately. Glover has gone to an entire career that shows he's eccentric, wants to do oddball projects, is not interested in normal movies, and really wants to be non-conformist. All of that lends credence to the way Bob Gale tells the story. The way Bob tells it, you can infer that Crispin simply had no interest in nor intention to do part II. Since he had no interest anyway, no harm in making a bunch of outrageous, unreasonable demands that he knew they would never grant, like four times the offered salary, top billing, personal limo, whatever. Crispin, on the other hand, is an obvious outlandish personality, it would be no surprise to think of him as exaggerating the story, twisting it for his own purposes, or just outright lying. Crispin did not know ahead of time that part II, and the entire series, would enjoy the legendary status that it has attained, making his pass on the role look foolish in retrospect. Not hard to imagine he would want to rewrite that foolishness.

@JC-bl9bo Год назад

Excellent video man, excellent. So much interesting stuff here. One of my favorite movies from my childhood and now my 9 year old son's all these years later.

@stephanvanrooy9070 Год назад

Love this! What a love letter to one of the best movies of the last 50 years.

@tisdue 2 года назад

George's happiness wasnt about wealth, it was about confidence.

@Sanpaku-san 2 года назад

Yeah the actor really had a bad take

@billolsen4360 2 года назад

And the family wasn't really wealthy. They had enough bucks to remodel their old house and buy a Toyota pickup, a BMW & make old "Make like a tree and get out of here" as their servant. They did have confidence, though. Mom's little brother was probably still in prison.

@klausaschmid 2 года назад

Hm maybe it's the American angle, but that was really the ONE thing everyone criticizes about the movie here (in Germany) - that "money makes everything alright" trope. But interesting to see how different perception on this can be. (Plus, it's any 80s movie after all...)

@tisdue 2 года назад

@@klausaschmid Money isnt mentioned once. And they live in the exact same house.

@liquidbraino 2 года назад

Ironic because Crispin Glover is all about wealth. He demanded more money for the second film but didn't want his character to seem greedy?

@md.saunders6625 2 года назад

Stoltz is a great actor but this movie wouldn't have been the national treasure that it is if he finished it. Michael j fox embodied the role and it just worked perfectly. His chemistry with Loyd was perfect and made it all work.

@liquidbraino 2 года назад

I agree, it's not that he wasn't right for the movie. The movie wasn't right for him and they should have known that from the beginning. He's not a comedic actor.

@richardday3136 2 года назад

@@liquidbraino Well fox was the straight guy playing off the absurdity around him. But he had that quintessential 80s optimism.

@BrisLS1 Год назад

And we already knew and liked MJF. He was on television as the smart, but clumsy teenager, in a family show. His character basically transferred right into this movie. I did not know who Stoltz was until Some Kind of Wonderful years later.

@liquidbraino Год назад

@@richardday3136 Totally, and that's the irony of it all. He was the straight guy but it was his reactions & "working off" Christopher Lloyd that brought humor to the movie. Those two were the perfect comedic duo, like Abbott and Costello. It's almost like "Abbott and Costello do Time Travel"

@Theoriginalmr52 Год назад

Just stumbled on this absolute gem of a documentary of a childhood staple of mine that I have watched numerous times both before my now family and with my kids too. I hope they watch BTTF and its sequels with their kids too. You did it an absurd amount of justice in the way you tell the little known story of how one of the most recognized films of all time came to be. Bravo good sir.

@ItWasAShtShow Год назад

Glad you found the video!

@dino575 Год назад

Brilliant documentary and walk through on an absolute classic! Fascinating watching this - and reminds me of my youth

@mbh9566 Год назад

One of the very few ‘Perfect Movies’ I’ve seen during my lifetime. An absolutely timeless classic, no pun intended.

@ahsansiddiqui4263 2 года назад

Michael j fox nailed it! he made back to the future into a thriller, sure his portrayal wasn't dead serious and his characters clumsiness came off as genuine and absolutely relatable. I didn't know the movie was meant to be a comedy for me as a kid the scene with him stumbling on the road side in the past was actually distressing, as it showed the character was in peril.

@KyleEvra Год назад

I like how he isn't a perfect protagonist.

@cattysplat Год назад

The performance in time with the music really brings the fantasy alive, everything is the same for his hometown, but disturbingly foreign. This isn't just the 1950s, this is the literal past and it's very, very wrong for him to be there.

@letscompose8560 10 месяцев назад

The ending of this video felt just like the endings of the movies, great job - I'm excited to watch parts 2 and 3!

@RMJ1984 Год назад

I'm happy that more and more people have learned that sequels are a good thing, if they are made with love, passion and talent. BTTF could stand on its own, but man oh man i'm i happy we got a full trilogy.

@AndyJay1985 3 месяца назад

AND we got Who Framed Roger Rabbit as an amazing bonus before part 2.

@boogitybear2283 2 года назад

Poor Michael. I can’t imagine how tired he was doing the movie and Family Ties at once. These Actors and Actresses definitely are pros.

@heiseheise Год назад

I'm impressed they were able to find time for him to do shoots that have daylight in them, if he was indeed (typically) working on BttF from 7pm to 4am! Clearly his handlers gave him to The Bobs for a few daylight hours but wow.

@bluethunder7391 Год назад

Nah, he was young and eiger to make it, he enjoyed every minute of it.

@ThisFace 2 года назад

“Dear Sid, Thank you for your humorous memo of November 14th. We all god a big laugh out of it. Keep them coming.” What a move.

@RigidRecords69 Год назад

Great video!! I couldn't imagine BTTF without MJ Fox. His personality is just perfect for the role. One of the best movies ever made in my opinion.

@jayeshchoudhari4776 Год назад

What an entertaining video. Matching the iconic content as well!

@TheNameOfJesus 2 года назад

The only movie I can think of with a similarly incredible fight between producer and director was the Wizard of Oz, which had the producers trying to cut parts of the film like the song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" but the director was fighting to keep it in, and winning. And that song ended up being one of the greatest movie songs of all time. Wait, I think I have an even better comparison - when the cartoon "What's Opera, Doc?" was being made, they had to create it against the express orders from the producer. They had to hide the real script because the producers objected to it. After it was released, it won an Oscar. So the producers were wrong. I remember one other story: John Cleese's comedy "Fawlty Towers" was rejected by the BBC as being unfunny. Cleese framed the rejection letter because history looks kindly on that show as one of the funniest, if not the funniest, in TV history. And I see parallels between those stories and BTTF's rejection.

@DeltaSpark8 2 года назад

Probably not as intense an example as what you mentioned, but I recall hearing about how Gene Wilder was extremely adamant about keeping the "Puttin' on the Ritz" scene in Young Frankenstein. Mel Brooks didn't think it would work, but after seeing how Gene wouldn't give up on it, he appeased him by saying they'd do it and if it worked, they'd keep it, and if it didn't work, they'd scrap it. On the day of filming, it only took Mel one look at the whole crew stifling their laughter to let him know Gene's scene was gold. They bickered quite a bit while making that movie, probably the only dark spot in what was otherwise an ideal production, one so good they were writing new scenes to film because they were having so much fun.

@TheNameOfJesus 2 года назад

@@DeltaSpark8 That's a good story, too. I'll go watch that clip now.

@Ometecuhtli Год назад

Also the Robocop producers didn't see a point on the scene of him returning home, but Verhoeven insisted on the "paradise lost" theme it evoqued so finally got his way and filmed it. As a little kid even I got goosebumps although I didn't fully understand its significance, today I think it's the most defining scene of the "who am I?" machine-human dilemma in the movie.

@bujin5455 2 года назад

What a beautifully well done documentary! It lives up to its subject matter.

@ItWasAShtShow 2 года назад

Oh thank you! I’m really proud of this one.

@MadScientist267 Год назад

Need the story behind 2 and 3 now. This was interesting... Didn't know how close it was to almost not happening.

@anticorncob6 10 месяцев назад

Makes you wonder how many movies there are that would've been fantastic but didn't happen.

@tylerdurdentyler 7 месяцев назад

Great job! One of my all time favs

@josephfranzen5626 2 года назад

I’ve absolutely loved these movies since I was a kid, now as a guy in his 30’s I watch the entire trilogy on UHD Blu-Ray once a year. Absolutely brilliant movies

@AnnusMirabilus 2 года назад

I had one encounter with Crispin Glover. It was far more insane (and annoying) than I even imagined. Let’s just say the man can really bore the hell out of an audience for 5+ hours and not care that he is boring.

@sholland42 2 года назад

Yeah, he was terrible in every other role. I’m sorry you had to endure that.

@macmcleod1188 2 года назад

He's quirky and good as an assassin in some movie who sniffs hair of victims.

@johnchedsey1306 2 года назад

@@sholland42 if I remember right, he was pretty good (albeit very weird) in River's Edge, but that's probably about it.

@kirnpu 2 года назад

@@johnchedsey1306 Yeah, he was made for River's Edge. There's such an "offness" to him.

@1000000man1 2 года назад

I'm actually convinced he has a form of autism. Going by some of these stories and I have experience with it. And I'm not the only person who thinks so. It's been brought up often enough that it is specifically addressed in the FAQs on an official website for people looking to get his autograph. It says he has never been diagnosed with autism. But that doesn't mean he doesn't have it. It Just means that he hasn't been tested, despite the question being raised. And the fact that so many people have wondered the same thing, says he probably should have had it checked.

@loganmarcum4495 Год назад

Of course I find this super late, but it just reminded me why I love Back to the Future so much. The film is the whole reason I got obsessed with time travel and film in general. I recently got the opportunity to see the movie in a theater and it was a truly incredible experience. Amazing video!

@budojitsu1 Год назад

Man!!! Sick edits. Loved this video.

@Launchpad05 2 года назад

Had they went with the original idea of a time traveling refrigerator, we would've had Doc Brown say 'I WAS FROZEN TODAY!'

@jamesmason007 2 года назад

Is that a reference to an old Nostalgia Critic video, where he meets Christopher Lloyd?

@stewartmcminn7773 2 года назад

"of course!" - M Bison

@Launchpad05 2 года назад

@@jamesmason007 Yup.

@misusatriyo 2 года назад

The second to last chapter of this video essay is just pure montage epicness. Great work bro!

@pianoatthirty Год назад

Thank you for making this. What an inspiring doc!!!

@tylersmyler 11 месяцев назад

thank you Schmidt - you pulled this one so tightly together for us

@Nelson_Swamp 2 года назад

I think it would be fascinating to see the Eric Stolz version of this film. I always thought it was so interesting how two different actors view the same script.

@SpielSatzFail Год назад

Me too. For me BTTF isn't a comedy flick but more of an 80s sci-fi modern fairytale... something. I'd accept it to be more serious.

@jeffreyroedel9804 Год назад

I agree, I think a slightly darker, less cartoony version of BTTF is a fascinating idea with some interesting implications in terms of theme and resonance. Maybe you miss out on a handful of the laughs, but I bet Stoltz had a certain dry comedic edge to him, too. Some bittersweetness in this mix could have worked well. It is a story with some pretty tragic things happening after all.

@zimriel Год назад

@@jeffreyroedel9804 except that we got our dark and edgy BttF with BttF...2. Complete with Biff becoming Donald Trump and on a course to rule the world. We didn't need this with #1; we got this with #2 and we loved it the more for it.

@cattysplat Год назад

@@zimriel BttF 2 is pretty grim. No wonder I never see it on TV, it's always 1 or 3.

@jo_verabradleyfan4743 Год назад

My all time favorite movie! Thank you for this wonderful video. Also, just wanted to mention that Lea Thompson is the nicest lady. I met her on a flight and told her how big a fan I was and she was so sweet and humble. Lovely lady!