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Back to the Future (1985)
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An appropriate movie to review as we release episode 100 of our show. One of the all-time classics, we explore our rewatch of 1985's American science fiction film, Back to the Future.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Bob Gale. Starring Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, Christopher Lloyd as Emmett "Doc" Brown, Lea Thompson as Lorraine, Crispin Glover as George, and Thomas F. Wilson as Biff Tannen
With a budget of $19mil, it made $388mil in the box office. Currently an 8.5 on IMDb.
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Transcript
Introduction to the Podcast
00:00:00
Speaker
And now, your feature presentation.
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Speaker
In the world of big budget blockbusters, travel back in time to explore the epic and not so epic movies of yesteryear.
Concept and Format of the Podcast
00:00:28
Speaker
This is On Second Watch, a movie nostalgia podcast.
00:00:38
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Welcome to On Second Watch, where we first review a film based only on our nostalgia for it and then rewatch the movie to see if it's better or worse than we remember. And to make things more entertaining, we play Plot Summary Mad Libs, which is exactly how it sounds. We take the plot of the film and my co-host provide replacement words and we create a new plot, which is sometimes better than the actual plot. If it was born. That'd be a good one.
00:01:02
Speaker
Uh, great. No, nevermind. Not gonna go there. Nope. Nope. And we've also introduced a high stakes game of trivia where the winner has the power to choose the next category for spin the wheel.
Host Introductions and Film Background
00:01:13
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So my name is Tim, who is just as awkward as George McFly in high school. And I'm sure most can vouch for that. We also have the wish.com version of Doc Brown, Chris. Oh my God. I was just thinking of your Halloween costume.
00:01:32
Speaker
That was a fantastic costume. Thank you. All $30 worth of it. Then we have the one who just found out she's the same height as Marty McFly, Dana. Really? She was astounded by the statistic. It's like, Michael J. Fox is the same height as me. It was like, I don't know. Just some revelation. So tiny. I felt tall for a second, OK? We'll let you have this fun, Dana.
00:02:04
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We also have our own actual Doc Brown, but with crazier hair Carrie 100% accurate 100% her hair is awesome. How dare you? Thank you. Thank you Then there's the bully the womanizer the biff of our podcast. Of course, I'm talking And then remember that drunk sleeping on the bench at the end of the movie
00:02:34
Speaker
Good old Fred. That's our spaz. Take it all day, baby. Yeah. Have I passed out cuddling a bottle in my hand? Yes. Multiple times. Will I do it again? Most likely. Perfect. It's nothing better than cuddling a bottle of alcohol. We don't kink shame here. You can do whatever, man. I trust me. I know.
00:02:56
Speaker
If you can't tell already, we are talking about 1985's American science fiction film Back to the Future. This is directed by Robert Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Bob Gale, starring Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, Christopher Lloyd as Emmett Doc Brown, Leah Thompson as Lorraine, Crispin Glover as George, Thomas F. Wilson as Biff Tannen.
00:03:18
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And with a budget of $19 million, it made $388 million in the box office and currently sits at an 8.5 on IMDb.
Nostalgia Ratings and Trivia Game Intro
00:03:28
Speaker
And we spun the wheel on the category of IMDb's top 50 movies and landed on Back to the Future, which was Dana's choice.
00:03:36
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And our average nostalgia came out to a 7.2 and everyone came in with a solid seven, except for me, I gave it an eight. So our conversation after we get through our trivia and plot summary Mad Libs will be interesting, I think for sure. So why don't we just jump straight into trivia?
00:03:59
Speaker
I'm gonna tank this one. Oh, yeah Yeah, you're gonna take this one Chris. You're funny. It's not a horror movie. Somehow. I won't remember it, dude This is your movie you win his doc bro. Fuck. Thanks. That's true The time bar is gonna run out by the time I even like click a button. It's going to be great
00:04:19
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So for the record, this is the first time using this platform, so I expect it to go perfectly flawless, right? Nope. My internet's probably going to fuck something up. We will see. I see six people in, including myself, just so I can make sure the screens are actually moving appropriately.
Technical Difficulties and Trivia Questions
00:04:34
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So let's begin. Oh, man. Oh, snap. Is that a gong? It's a Mortal Kombat intro. God, that's amazing. Just making sure.
00:04:49
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Beck, I just said this in the question earlier, Back to the Future was released in what year? Oh man. 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987. Oh snap. I missed it by a year. I went with my birth year and it's not that one. It's the year after. Awesome. Is it 85? Yeah. Well, that's what was in the movie.
00:05:16
Speaker
1985. Yeah, I saw 84. I got nostalgic for my birthday. My birth, my birth year. And plus that's the Tigers were in the one world series two, four of 84.
00:05:30
Speaker
All right. Ready for question two. I'm already behind. Who did not star in this film? Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Shue and Thomas F. Wilson. Well, that was a tricky one there, buddy. No, it wasn't. I know. I know exactly why you picked. I know what he did. I know why he did it. Oh, it's Elizabeth Shue. She's in the second and third one. She replaces a jet of her.
00:05:54
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Oh, I thought Redmond, I had it wrong. Who was she in this movie? I was so confused. Yeah, she's not it. Chris had it right. She replaced. And the second, I think the third or did they go for it? Her mom, the actress' mom ended up having cancer and she went to be with her other than being second or third movie. Gotcha.
00:06:21
Speaker
All right, let's take a look at those leaderboards so far. Oh, my goodness. Carrie and Chris are tied for first with 180 points. Oh, shit, shit. Dana was 61 points at the bottom. Yeah, Dana. I told you this was going to happen no matter what you did. Well, let's see what happens with question.
00:06:41
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which Academy Award did this film win? You're a boner Tim. Music original song for the power of love, best sound, best effects and sound effects editing or best writing screenplay. And for what it's worth, it was nominated for each one of these. I know. That's why I'm like, Oh shoot. I actually don't know the answer to this. I have no idea. I'll be upset. I thought my guess was the correct answer.
00:07:09
Speaker
Best effects. Damn it. Effects editing. Oh, my God. Wow. Totally bombed. It's imperative. I think that's the first one Chris has gotten wrong. And Kerry. Ever? No, I get a lot of wrong. Kerry gets them all right. Well, barely not.
00:07:31
Speaker
Jumping to question four. That was a stupid question. What was Marty McFly's band called? The Pinheads. The Pinheads. Marty and the Flies, Starlighters, or just too darn loud? I got excited. You were awful, Daniel. I got excited. I knew it won. That's for sure.
00:07:51
Speaker
That's uh, it's the star lighters and the homelanders. Dude, it's Marvin Barry and the star lighters. How dare you? I did not know. Thanks, Dan. So the last two questions that were an absolute wash. One because none of us knew it and then the other one because someone opened his mouth. You're welcome. Who cares? You got me by a point. One point in front of Chris.
00:08:14
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I don't know why I must have hesitated. I don't know. Actually, I don't really know how that works. I mean, I get the answer as soon as I mean, yeah, I collected like in two seconds. That's really weird. I wonder if it took when I got it wrong. I took too long to get it wrong on the other question. Chris is just going to blame the Internet. Yeah. Well, no, that's my
Mad Libs Game and Recap
00:08:31
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job this time. Not this time. I just know that. Clearly my name being question five. At what time did the lightning strike the clock tower?
00:08:40
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955 p.m. 1004 1016 or 1024. Fucking asshole. Legit don't remember. Not only do I not remember, this guy's got it right within each other, so it's like you're easily going to have to stop.
00:09:01
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So it's pretty split. The correct answer is pre-10-04. There you go, Chris. Got it wrong. Bang. That was a nut bag and a half right there. I don't know what that means. Neither do I. I just felt like I had to be said. Don't know either. So Chris is in the lead with 360. Nikki right behind with 332.
00:09:25
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and carry spaz or 336 yeah sorry my dyslexia is coming off those four points might matter i know all right jumping to question six which of the following did doc brown not reference traveling to interesting signing the declaration of independence the birth of jesus the moment he invented time travel or to relive woodstock
00:09:52
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I know, I can't get out of my head now. All right, you all guessed right. We live Woodstock, so let's see. Chris and Nikki, first and second, carry right behind. Spaz and Dana. Yay!
00:10:07
Speaker
Let's do this right, Dana. Four and five, like always. Question seven. When George was about to ask Lorraine to the dance at Lou's Cafe, what drink did he ask for? Boom. Got it. Orange juice, chocolate milk, or a milkshake? Took a minute from the answers to pop up for me. That was a fucking slam dunk. I just totally like fat fingered this. I almost did a minute ago. I got nervous. Oh, it's chocolate milk.
00:10:37
Speaker
Yep. Boom. It is chocolate milk. Did you hit milkshake? Oh, no. I did. I figured it. Oh, no. Justin, bring all the boys to the yard. Yay. I got you, Kerry. Oh, God. I mean, it's one thing to lose with a has-fed. Yes.
00:11:02
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Hey, Kerry, keep that finger in these questions. Let me do this. Okay, let's, let's, uh, pull the brakes here, Daniel. You fat finger the hell out of this, Kerry. Fat finger it good. I don't like the way you're saying that. I don't like the way you're saying that. The penultimate question. Question eight. What was George McFly's science fiction book called? Oh, shoot.
00:11:24
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The Brain Eaters, a match made in space, the Brain Invaders, space lovers from another galaxy. A match made in space is correct.
00:11:46
Speaker
I need to stop watching these so far in advance. Oh, it is a tight. I know. I know. I know. Oh, man, Dana almost overtook me. All right. So with this last question, you have the opportunity to wager any amount of points between all your points to none of them. Oh, God. Oh, yeah. If you get it right, you add that amount to your total. If you get it wrong, you lose that amount. Bring it on. So statistically,
00:12:16
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Anybody is still in this game. Got nothing to lose. So there it is. So you choose how many points you want to bet. Five seconds left.
00:12:36
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How much in damage did Biff say Marty caused on his car? Boom, got it. $150, $300, $400, or $500? Yeah, suck it. I think that might be the only one I actually got right. Legitimately, no idea. Oh, $300, man. $300. Those are $500 glasses, you son of a bitch. Oh, that's right. Son of a bitch. We're not watching.
00:13:04
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or 300. So let's see who last place here had to be Chris Nikki. I only, I only wagered half. I went. Oh, Nikki, Nikki wisely. Nice. All her points. I mean, you person.
00:13:33
Speaker
So Nikki wins with 1,134 points cause she wagered it all. And I'm never going to win. I'm actually kind of happy because like, I, like I picked the last one. I was like, that's good. I don't want to do another one. Chris with nine 14 spaz was seven Oh eight Dana was seven Oh four carry with two. Hell yeah. Coming up three.
00:13:57
Speaker
Wow. You're making this really awkward. You are welcome. That's not a fair deal. That's not a fair deal. That's been alone for a long time this weekend. I've been alone a long time for a long time. That checks out. Fantastic. How long have you been alone in a long time? Well, it's, you know, the long time. Oh, okay. I mean, the hands. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. We're going. Nope, we're done. Nope. Starting to get old, man.
00:14:26
Speaker
Don't know. Let's start. Just, um, let's move on. Let's let's move on. Yes. Why? Let's let's let's having fun here. We're all having a good time. You're the only one having fun, sir. Well, that's your fault. Then keep it all be having a good time. Let's let's just keep the creep factor going here and jump into Mad Libs. Perfect. Oh, gotcha. So let's see for our host order. Yeah. Should I just do this for the order of it? We won. What do you think? I think so. Go for it. It's a good randomization.
00:14:57
Speaker
There's the power of love. Can we, like, dock him points every time he sings? I mean, I will. How dare you? Take away your imaginary points. Don't take away my points. Don't make me feel any better every time you say it, I dance a little. See? It's the news. He's bringing us. It's the news. Oh, my gosh. All right. To start things off, I need six nouns. No, you don't. I do.
00:15:26
Speaker
You're a liar. I wrote this, I do. You're a fucking liar. Boat. Fish. Ah, an aquatic theme. The Deep would be happy. Yes. Oh, gosh. I haven't watched the last two episodes, it's totally unrelated. I mean, I think you've seen enough. I've definitely, every time I say that after every episode, I've seen enough and then they just keep
00:15:55
Speaker
Wrapping it up. Fantastic. Trash, Tim. Trash. Perfect. Peach. Cookie. One more. What did we say? Someone said something. Appropriately, I said butt head. I like it. Don't work. I now need six adjectives. God, you're annoying. Why are you even here? I honestly don't know anymore.
00:16:20
Speaker
Microscopic. Foolish. Hairy. Huge. Course. Juicy. Flabby. Oh, God. Juicy and flabby. Yeah. I'll use both. Yeah, you will. See how that works out. Yeah, hopefully. Probably. Yeah. All right. Nine verbs. Oh, you're right. The verbs are the worst. Yeah. Help us out, Tim. You're smart. They have so much potential. God. Rust. Come right out of the gate with it, Chris.
00:16:50
Speaker
I mean, I'm just... why not? Where you know it's gonna devolve into this anyways. Rupulse. Exactly. A ghast. Did you say spy? Do you mean peep? You know peep? Peep the counts? I like you spying on someone. Perhaps in a tree? Perhaps. Fucking perv. It's so funny that... That's why you're a hilt. You're a move creep. What do we have? Dive?
00:17:16
Speaker
I got thrust, repulse, spy, aghast, dive. Sin. Yes. Yes. That one hits hard. That one hits hard. Dance scene, sins repeatedly. Yes. Poke. Ooh.
00:17:35
Speaker
God damn it. Wash. Cleanse myself in this conversation. Yeah, that's right. Tear. All right. I need a make and model of car. It can't be DeLorean. Ooh, ooh, 1973 El Camino. There it is. I like it. Party in the back, full make for that. Chevy. Yes. Chevy El Camino. What a beautiful car. Except for the 80s model. Big blocky bitch.
00:18:04
Speaker
Tell us how you feel. I need a scary object commitment. A body part for two sexual.
00:18:19
Speaker
Is it? Is it? Two sexual four. I mean, it's my point is this is the least sexual thing you've ever picked. And now I'm just like, I didn't even know what to do with that. Two sexual ban. Two sec. Why? Why? Why is it two sexual? Unless you're a lumberjack. I don't know. Maybe maybe that's the meeting here. Usually it's something out of line and we got four arm this time. So I don't know what he's thinking, but I don't like it. It's funny. It's cute how you actually think I'm thinking that I just throw shit out.
00:18:49
Speaker
I've known you for long enough. I shouldn't be doing that. I just say shit. I mean, why think you look what we talked about earlier. I don't remember. She's going to say, of course, she's going to say forearm. Yeah, it's thick and meaty. Yeah, exactly. There you go. There you go. There we go. With a little bit of hair. Can I get another body part, please? What? Another body part.
00:19:13
Speaker
What is, what is the thing above? No, the filter. I like forearm. Now we have cervix. We have both Chris. We have both. You changed that.
00:19:37
Speaker
I will, Tim, use it. How about a male body part? Penis. I mean, what did you expect? I mean, yeah. I mean, there's softballing it in and there's just rolling it on the ground, Tim. What else, Adam's apple? How about a dangler? The dangler. The pendulum. How does that work for you?
00:20:02
Speaker
They sway. A pet in the pendulum? Yes. All right, Poe. Settle down now. That's a good damn, Poe. Oh my god. What do we have for body parts? I'm afraid to ask. We have a penis, or the danglers, or a pendulum. Whatever Tim's true is. We have forearm and cervix. Let's go. We're just going to find out when I read this.
00:20:24
Speaker
I feel like we should blanket ban like just point blank sexual like parts and that way because it just it just kind of takes away. It's too obvious. Yeah. Not trying hard enough. I said the forearm. That was fucking sexual. You guys brought the rest on yourselves. All right. There we go. Moving on. I'm going to throw punch you, Tim. I need a very bad situation. Being stuck in a room with Dan.
00:20:54
Speaker
Yeah, that'll work, Carrie. Being stuck in a room by yourself with space. We're going to have gas in the desert. I would take the heat death instead of spaz. Yo. Yes. You know we're not wrong. You know, if you only breathe, you guys don't know what's bringing this out. You bring this side out with me. Not like this, normally. It's your fault. I need a number. Six. Forty-two. Sixty-eight. Fourteen.
00:21:34
Speaker
All right. I need something very powerful. Hydraulic press. That would be powerful. It was hard not to say lightning. Like now, much booties are placing. Forearm.
00:21:47
Speaker
Yes. Yes. My forum is quite strong. Oh, I wasn't talking about you in particular, just forums in general. All right. This is the Platinum Man Libs of Back to the Future. Chris is a microscopic boat and hard rocking teen, desperate to be anything but like his parents. His mom is Nicky, the foolish fish and depressed alcoholic.
00:22:16
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And his dad spazzed the hairy trash man. Yes. It fits so perfectly. Who is too weak to stand up to Dana, his huge peach of a boss. I'll take Dana out.
Film Review and Impact Discussion
00:22:35
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Who thrusts him every day. Hi, Dana. Whoa. Man, I'm so happy right now.
00:22:44
Speaker
It's my dreams are coming true. Dana's trusting me. Oh, it's just a peach, ain't it? One night, Chris meets up with Carrie, his course cookie and eccentric scientist friend who reveals to Chris that she invented a time machine out of a 1973 Chevy El Camino powered by Butt-Headium. Awesome. That's fantastic. This is my dream in life now. Gotta make it, Carrie.
00:23:13
Speaker
which she repulsed from Tim, the juicy and flabby terrorist who wanted Carrie to make him a creepy doll.
00:23:20
Speaker
Dang. Wow. That's right. Tim, the terrorist finds, uh, finds them and spies carry in the far forearm. That's weird. And as Chris flees in the time machine accidentally travels back to 1955, his carelessness changes the course of his own history where he meets teenager spaz who is a gasting outside of teenager Nikki's window.
00:23:50
Speaker
And everyone else is aghast, watching him aghast himself outside the window. I'm just doing what I do. Being a creep. Aghasting, yes. Taking the place of his dad, Chris is hit by his future grandfather, resulting in teenage Nikki diving him back to health while aggressively pursuing him by sitting his calf under the kitchen table.
00:24:13
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and suggesting to her mother that Chris can poke in her room that night. Oh, this went from like enjoyable to strictly are fantastic. This is uncomfortable. I'm Chris has to correct the timeline by convincing spaz to wash Nikki at the dance. I mean, it is enchantment under the sea. God, I would take good care of Nikki.
00:24:39
Speaker
All while Dana tries to tear Nikki, making Spaz's life worse than stuck in a small room with himself. And kill Chris for causing $64,268,147 in damage to his car. I used all your numbers.
00:25:05
Speaker
To succeed, Chris recruits the help from a younger carry to plan the timeline fix, as well as to harness the power of a hydraulic press to fuel the time machine and go back to the future. The end. Yeah, it was beautiful. Just kind of brought a tear to my eye. I was doing a lot of things. Yeah. I was doing a lot of things in that one. Wrong. So wrong.
00:25:31
Speaker
I don't know. I feel like it's one of the, I feel like it's one of the first Mad Libs we've done in a while that didn't have the word moist in it. Oh God. Why did you even say it then? Moisted? Moist needs to be in a hallway. Can't forget the Moist Maker. Yeah. So that's all our fun and games. So let's jump into our, our thoughts of this film as I try to locate my notes, which I lost. Perfect. Sweet. Cool. It's power of love, man. It's power of something.
00:26:00
Speaker
It's the power of grace call. All right. Who wants to kick us off talking about Back to the Future? I don't know. Dana, since you picked this film for a wheel, did you want to start?
00:26:12
Speaker
I think as soon as I picked this and then one I said, oh, I would have picked a different movie. Well, I'm glad I didn't. I really liked watching it again. I felt like I laughed a lot more at this movie than I ever did when I was younger. And it actually kept my attention a lot more than I expected.
00:26:30
Speaker
You guys don't realize this, but I lose my attention span a lot with these things. You guys have no idea how bad it actually is. But regardless of that, I actually watched the entire movie and I enjoyed it the entire time. Man, this movie still holds up. It is phenomenal. So I'm going to put my score up to a nine. Coming in hot. Damn. All right. Go to Carrie.
00:26:56
Speaker
agree and disagree on this data hopefully I'm not like the hater I still really like this movie you'll tell by my score but yeah I don't think it held up as well as I thought it was going to hold up was actually my takeaway from this there are a lot of things where I was like oh so cringy in 2022 but still enjoyable because I'm a kid of 1985 right like I was
00:27:17
Speaker
You know, it was funny to me before and it's, I mean, it's still funny to me now, but for the record, I've never noticed that that's Billy Zane in this movie until the time I watched it. Good old match in the background. Yeah. I just like literally was like, Oh, huh. Never noticed that before.
00:27:35
Speaker
Yeah, that was bizarre. Thanks, Vinny. But legitimately, I really enjoyed it. I don't know. It's it's just one of those feel good movies that I can go back and rewatch. But this had been a while since I had seen it. I'll be honest with you. This is it had been easily at least 10 years since I'd seen this movie. And I still really, really enjoyed it. So I'm actually going to bump up to an eight. All righty. How about you, Nikki?
00:28:01
Speaker
I don't have a lot different to say than what's already been said, actually. I'll just say that, like Dana, I laughed a lot, a lot more than I expected. And I didn't expect it to hold up as well as I thought it did. I know what you're talking about, Carrie. There were a few parts where I was like, oh. But I forgive movies that are older when there's words and stuff like that. Totally.
00:28:24
Speaker
You know, it's, it's the time. So, but yeah, when doc, like, I think my favorite was just like when doc would say like, what, this has nothing to do with mass. When you said it was heavy and he's like, there's not word again. There's something wrong with the gravitational pull. Um, no, I thought it was really well done. Good movie. And I'm also going up to an eight. Well, I think I'm going up. Am I, was I a seven before? Yeah, you were seven. Okay. Yeah, definitely an eight. Let's circle back to Chris.
00:28:51
Speaker
It's been a very long time since I have seen this film, but honestly sitting down, it's a two hour movie, um, which is, it's kind of surprising, um, for being a little bit older, usually they're a little bit shorter, but anyways, I enjoyed it from beginning to end. I, it's just a really good movie. And I think it actually, you can see a lot of movies from that, that era that like, they look like they're from the eighties.
00:29:21
Speaker
I really liked the fact that there wasn't a lot hinging on like eighties. Ask if you will. I mean, obviously certain things, but like for the most part it kind of is time agnostic in a way. Like the eighties like vibe, like I could watch this again another 20 years and enjoy it as much as I did that. Like I don't feel like it feels dated. Um, and to me that really helps because it just was a very enjoyable two hours. I had a lot of fun. I'm going to crank it all the way up to a nine. Like I really, really had a great time with this movie. And it's like, I've always enjoyed it.
00:29:51
Speaker
But it's been so long since I've seen it. I wasn't sure if it was going to hold up. And to me, it still was just as much fun as I've been watching it as a kid. Awesome. Scores are flying up. Spaz, are you going to buck that trend? Well, because of this movie, it took me down like a little rabbit hole because I pretty much fell in love with Chris Lloyd. After watching this movie, I went back and I watched Hall of Taxi, which then made me fall in love with Andy Kaufman.
00:30:17
Speaker
watched a lot of his stuff that he did and then Danny DeVito became a favorite of mine, obviously. So I went into Danny DeVito territory. So because of this movie, I just kind of wrecked probably most of my life watching stupid TV shows and
00:30:35
Speaker
Actually, Taxi was a good one, except for later seasons, but I digress. But with this movie, I mean, you get a little bit of everything. You get romance, you get action, you get drama, you get Christopher Lloyd's facial expressions, which are amazing. I mean, most of the time I was just watching his face and not really paying attention to anything else. His eyes bulging out. Yep.
00:30:56
Speaker
It was amazing. And then, like I said before, all the memes that you get from this movie and YouTube channels that me and Chris used to watch when we were drunk. It's a special thing, this movie, and my grade is definitely going to be a nine. I'm bumping it up. Look at that. Yeah, I wrote down on my notes, Christopher Lloyd's incredible facial expressions and reactions. Michael J. Fox has some good ones, too.
00:31:21
Speaker
For my thoughts, someone from the 80s watching this film and then seeing the flashback 30 years ago into 1955, just kind of seeing that aesthetic and everything had to have been pretty cool, just like it's cool for us to sit down and watch this film.
00:31:35
Speaker
which is 85. So, you know, you're looking almost 40 years ago. Sorry, guys. It's almost 40 years. Um, just, just seeing that, you know, the times, the hair, the clothes, and then jumping back even further into the fifties was just a lot of fun. This movie, like Dana said, was a lot funnier than I remember it being. Uh, I know I've always liked it, but I, Dana and I were just laughing like the whole time, whether it's just,
00:32:00
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crazy things that were said, the facial expressions. I did get to, um, unbox my special spaz edition of this Blu-ray because it was still in its cellophane. So I cracked that open and there was, there's so many bonus content on this. I kind of wanted to circle back and watch it with the commentary, but I did watch the show on Netflix. I keep forgetting what it's called. The movies that made us. Yes.
00:32:23
Speaker
That's fantastic for back to the future. One thing we did notice, though, that when this was remastered in HD, the things that did stand out while everything looked great, the only it was the prosthetics to make them look old. Yeah, you could just look really bad. I was going to say that he's a doctor. Yeah. Christopher Lloyd's in the beginning. You could totally see the prosthetics. I'm like, oh, boy, that looks terrible. The racial illness. Oh, it's so horrible. It looks like someone slapped him with some rubber, rubber cement. Yes.
00:32:53
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And Dana told me, I can't stop looking at his neck. Yeah, exactly. That was what I, yep, I couldn't stop either. That and the weird, awkward, like transitions between scenes. Like I actually thought I was watching an edited version. Yeah. Like, where just like suddenly just go to black and like transition to a new scene. I was like, am I, is that where a commercial is supposed to be? Like, am I watching like a wrong version?
00:33:16
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It was really uncomfortable, but I think it was more of a thing. I thought that that was so weird, and I'm like, is that, that's kind of one of those things that I would have been like, huh, is that like something that was like normal in 1980? But I was just like, I don't know. I just, I really don't know. I don't know if more transitional scenes were common back then, but it was very jarring not just to like pan to a door or something and just be like, oh, fade to black. Yep. All right. You've seen the editing process wasn't strong back then.
00:33:44
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orders. But the writing was strong enough to carry it. Like it was like the writing was so fantastic. Right? It was just more jot jarring. Yeah. I was jarring as Tim's comment about times now that I think about it. Thanks a lot, Tim. You're welcome.
00:33:57
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The span between when this movie took like in 85 versus 55 is only 30 years. We're further away from when this movie was actually made from now, the actual distance in the movie just makes it so much worse. Chris, you know, every time we do one of these, you do this shit. Yeah. Well, you know what? I'm having a crisis. Okay. A little bit of an existential crisis right now. Why? You're 37. Old man, Chris. Man yells at clouds next.
00:34:27
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Um, something else that was cool. It was just kind of like the pure nostalgia for so many brands. Um, I don't think they did it on purpose just to have, or anyone paid to have their brands on this, this movie, but just JVC, these giant camcorders, the Pepsi, the Nike to be paying tip. Like if they were so obvious in this, like it was pretty bad. It was like ET level bad, you know, Nike shoes. Yeah.
00:34:55
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Those are nice though. And Doc Brown's boots. A lot of product placement that just, holy crap, forgot about that brand, that thing existed. Pepsi Free. Pepsi Free came out, Tim, I think in conjunction with this movie right around then. Yeah, but it didn't last long because it was terrible. Yeah, what is it? Pepsi Crystal or whatever? Yeah, Pepsi Crystal. They came back with that a couple of years or a few years ago, I think, too.
00:35:24
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Not having watched this film in a long time and seeing Doc and Marty interact with one another and then thinking about Rick and Morty. Yeah. Just you could just see how they just model just basically exactly that same kind of relationship. Pretty much. But I also noticed that I feel like the Sir Reginald Hargraves from Umbrella Academy had a lot of mannerisms as Doc Brown. Like the way he spoke and went about his way just it reminded me a lot of the song.
00:35:52
Speaker
I didn't even notice that. But now that you say, oh, yeah, huh. I wouldn't put too much to do, but you're right. Yeah. Probably the only reason I noticed that because we just binged the last season of, uh, umbrella academy and just, just kind of just clicked in my head. Some great quotes. The one from Lorraine's dad hitting him with the car, just yelling, Stella, another one of those kids jumped in front of my car. And then Christopher Lloyd referring to the enchantment under the sea dance as look, there's a rhythmic ceremonial ritual coming up.
00:36:22
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I do have to say that Marvin Berry and the Starlighters, that song Night Train that they're playing, I forgot that move, that song was from this film, and it's one of those songs that has been stuck in my head for like 30 years. It'll just randomly pop in my head for no reason whatsoever.
00:36:47
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And it's that song. So now that I watch this movie again and I heard it, I'm like, oh crap, here we go again. Good luck to another 30 years. Well worth it though. It's a very enjoyable song.
00:37:01
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Yeah, this movie was fantastic from start to finish. Like I said, I forgot how much I did love it. It's like Spaz was saying, it has literally everything in it. And it's a lot of fun, a little awkward at times, but that's just part of the humor. And it makes me kind of want to watch Back to Future 2 and 3, but I don't know if those live better in my brain than it would rewatching it. The second one's still good, but the third one has never really been good.
00:37:29
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Third one was okay at best, and to be honest, I honestly don't remember the second one at all, and I'll be really truthful. I can't 100% tell you I've ever watched it all the way through, if not even at all. I remember hoverboards and funny sunglasses, and that's all I remember from the second one. That's all you need to remember. Oh, and I remember manipulating the stock market or betting. No, I was betting, yeah. Yeah, betting. I remember that.
00:37:59
Speaker
Yeah, the Almanac. That's it. Biff had that or whatever. Yeah. That's all I remember. Whereas I could tell you the third movie and the first one, no problem. And the third movie has another song at their dance that stuck in my head, too. Exactly. Something about this music, but I don't know. To me, this is a near perfect movie, so I'm going to say 9.5. Wow. Yeah, baby. Love it.
00:38:27
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It's got science fiction. It's got great music, great acting. It's just, it's awesome. I honestly contemplated like a ton, but I was like, it's not perfect, but it's very, very, very good. Like, like I said, I, at first I begrudgingly watched it. I was, I'm not going to lie. I was like, Oh God, I forgot to watch this. Maybe I can watch it at two X speed.
00:38:47
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And like I, so I sat down and I was like, and I got through it and I was like, wait a second. I was like, Oh, this is, this is really good. This is really good. Like I forgot how good it was. Like I remember loving it like when I was younger, but I was just like, shit, this has been like one of the better movies I've seen in a long time again.
00:39:04
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Yeah. And I remember earlier this year when we were contemplating doing like categories, you mentioned, Hey, Michael J Fox movies that are not back to the future. That's just because everyone, everyone defaults that or team walls. And I'm like, I'd like to see us go back and seriously watch doc Hollywood. I mean, who's going to write your doc or I love the frighteners, but like, like doc Hollywood, it was like, it was popular, but it wasn't like, Oh my God, has everyone seen doc Hollywood? No, everyone's going to be like,
00:39:32
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Has everyone seen back to the future or teen wolf or something like that? And so it's like, I was like, Oh, we'll review really obscure Michael J Fox movies. Um, but, and then we ended up going full circle and doing back to the future, which I am very happy that we did. Indeed him too. Can't say anything bad about it. I just,
00:39:52
Speaker
There was some racist dialogue that I was shocked to find out. It was said in this movie that I totally did not hear as a kid, but yeah, we heard it. We didn't know what it meant. I had no idea what it meant until now. I was like, I was like, Oh, okay then. Yeah, I was like, yeah, I wasn't expecting that. I was like, Oh, yeah, I forgot. I remember there was like one instance, but then there was a couple more and I was like, Oh, okay.
00:40:18
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I was gonna say there's also a lot of swearing, like a lot more than I remembered. Yeah, like PG PG in the 80s was like a really interesting thing because like, like, I believe we talked about this wasn't it was Jaws or Indiana Jones at the Temple of Doom? It was Jaws. That was genius, wasn't it? No, Jaws was PG. I believe it was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was what brought on the introduction of the PG 13 rating, because Temple of Doom is actually PG.
00:40:48
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And what peachy movie has a scene where a dude's getting his heart out of his chair. Yeah. Like that's too many. So that was 80. I don't know. I'm terrible with the day. 83, 85, 86, some murder. But anyways, long story, a bit longer. I don't think the PG 13 rating was around four back to the future because I feel like it's a very strong candidate for PG 13 just with the amount of language, you know, peep and Tom comments, the racist commentaries.
00:41:17
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like forcing a girl, like force yourself on a girl in a car. Like, like, yeah, I mean, there's, there's, there's a lot there. Don't get me wrong. It's a, it's, it's a good movie, but I was just like, they took some liberties. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I could've done, I could've done like the, the out of left field, like racist commentary. I was just like, Oh, okay. Forgot about that. Yep. Yep. So I got to say, Nikki, you mentioned that you were watching this with your kids for the first time. What, what'd they think?
00:41:46
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So they, I tried to watch it with them, but they just didn't, they weren't really in the mood. They kind of wandered in for part of the movie. Two of them did. And I asked, so
00:41:58
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So my seven-year-old watched most of it and I was like, what do you think? Thumbs up, thumbs down in the middle. And it took him a while to answer and he said thumbs up, but I don't think he really like got it or paid enough attention. And I'm kind of glad because I was like, oh my gosh. Like I said, I was like, oh, gosh, there's so much swearing and bad things happening. It's like, oh, this is really not a good candidate for watching with the kids yet.
00:42:24
Speaker
You know what's funny is you think about it too. Like, so yeah, you're talking about your kids and your oldest being seven. I mean, he's my middle one actually. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. Uh, but anyway, yeah, but yeah. So in that age range, even like I didn't even go so far as going all the way up to like 10 years old and sitting down and watching this. Now you think about it. I remember being very young and watching this. And what do I remember? The cool car and the dog and like the beginning scene of them actually like going in time, you know, the fire and tires and then being bored out of my skull.
00:42:53
Speaker
for like most of the 1955 park, because it's more of a drama, you know, in a way with comedic elements. I mean, him doing certain things, there's like splashes of action. But it's, but it's more about him trying to connect his mom and his dad back together. Yeah. And it's like, Oh, you know, as a kid, you're like, Where's, where's the car? I need more of the car. You know, the humor is not like, it's more at all. Yeah, yeah. I mean, watching this again, like at 37, I was like,
00:43:21
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I was like, I found myself laughing at stuff that are probably as like a 10 year old been like, what, huh? Like, why, why is that funny? That's yeah. Ha ha. He got poop in his car. Like, ha ha ha. Like, seriously. I mean, that's, that's probably, you know, but I don't know what stood out to me, Chris. Like, so one of the things I struggled with was I remembered the amount of bullying towards George and I was like, Oh, it couldn't have been that bad before I started watching this. I'm like, nope, nope, nope, nope. It's a, it's pretty bad.
00:43:50
Speaker
Pretty, it's pretty bad. It's like, Oh, yep. Like, like, you know, bullies. It's like, yep. You know, the eighties. I mean, every movie from the eighties has like your typical, yeah. Like I, like one of my favorite movies from the eighties is the monster squad. And there's like the whole scene about like, like the dude from the wonder years being like the older brother being a giant bully until he gets like what's common to him.
00:44:20
Speaker
And it's just like, what? Every movie in the 80s had just some like D bag bully. And a lot of dad jokes, which we also got in this one. I mean, I'll never have enough dad jokes. Make like a tree and get out. Yeah. I laughed more than I should have at that scene because I was just like, oh, yeah. And it just chuckled. What's funny about that is my husband says that all the time. And I was like, is this where you got that from? He's like, yeah. Because honestly, I think my score would have been higher if I didn't watch it with him because
00:44:48
Speaker
The words right before it happened and I'm like that would have been hilarious if you I mean it didn't ruin it but it would have been a lot funnier if like the Doc Brown invention where he's like trying to read his mind he's like Do you know what this means?
00:45:10
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And then Tim was like, this thing doesn't work at all. I'm like, and then he says it. I'm like, Oh, that's so funny. Why did you ruin that for me? Yeah. All right. So I'm going back and looking guys. So we rated this one pretty high with an average of 7.2 for a nostalgia. And with all reviews now rewatching it, they all went up significantly higher, which brings our average to an 8.8, which comparing that to IMDB.
00:45:39
Speaker
I think it's an eight point five. So wow. We're above IMDB by a couple decimal points, but are better worse compared to our nostalgia. It's a whole one point five eight higher, which is our greatest increase out of any film we've done. Wow. Wow. Which is pretty impressive since it was already rated high. So yeah. Yeah. I like to see one of our movies do the inverse. Oh, it happens. We've done that.
00:46:07
Speaker
Yeah. No, no. You guys came right out of the gate. It was like, this movie's going to suck. And then we went and reviewed it and you're like, Oh, thanks, Chris. This movie sucked. We've already done that song and it's like five times over. That's all right. Maybe one day. We'll see. No, I doubt it. But yeah. Well, there we are with our 8.8 rewatch score of Back to the Future. So if you haven't seen it yet, you have our glowing recommendation. So.
00:46:37
Speaker
If you haven't seen it, what's wrong with you? Maybe we're just too young. There's young kids there. They're Nintendos. Don't tell me
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00:46:45
Speaker
that. I don't want these kids watching this movie stupid. And I'm be like, wow, you know what? Get out of here. Take your Tamagotchis and go. I don't know what your kids are into these days, your talks and your Tamagotchis and your ticks and stuff. Bring Pogs back.
00:47:01
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Oh, there you go. I want to throw shit at something, all right? Let me throw a giant piece of metal at some cardboard and make up some rules. On the fly. All right. Well, thank you for listening to On Second Watch. You can follow us at OSWPodcast.com for the latest reviews, giveaways, and leave your nostalgia for our next review. Make sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter. And if you have a movie you'd like us to review or suggest a spin the wheel category, you can do that as well at OSWPodcast.com. So thanks for listening, everybody. And we'll catch you in our next movie review.
00:47:30
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