Siskel & Ebert Back to the Future (1985) Review

1985

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[Monkofmagnesia]

SIskel describes Christopher Lloyd as "pretty good" and said his character was based on Jerry Lewis' nutty professor. Come on! I've always liked Siskel, but Lloyd was more than "pretty good," and his character was original!!!!!

[WastedPo]

I'm very glad that Siskel loved this classic so much. However, it's probably not right to give *all* the credit to the screenplay. There were so many important factors perfectly done that allowed BTTF to be so good: the perfect tone of the leads, Silvestri's classic score, etc. An obvious demonstration of how the script alone wasn't enough was how they had to recast the lead to MJ Fox because the humor or liveliness that Zemeckis was going for reportedly wasn't there with Stoltz.

[Monkofmagnesia]

@mrjking77, That does make more sense.

[mrjjking77]

You could say it was a less irritating take on the nutty professor type character.

[mrjjking77]

@WastedPo It's one of those perfect storm situations where you have the perfect script, the perfect actors, and the right director. It all came together.

[ByronIsTheBestEver]

lol family guys parody to back to the future

[ByronIsTheBestEver]

if you saw your parents....AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! right in they're faces

[TheHenderson31]

great movie.. from top to bottom. first two were best by far... third one was ok... wish it was better

[bagyourface]

@nonplayerzealot4 ha! i remember, i saw it in the theater, i remember the year of the showing being 1984, because in the movie marty says it's "1985" and i remembered it because the year was a year ahead.

[vnisanianisback]

@aBigSaltyDookie Actually no. It's a redub. If you listen carefully to the audio in Doc's voice in the blu-ray, the "You made it" part sounds much clearer than the rest of the audio.

I sampled the audio from this video, ran it through Audacity, and tried to experience that line by lowering the pitch several times. The only conclusion I came to is that there's no way that line was changed by lowering the pitch. It sound distorted if they did that.

Trust me, it's clearly a redub

[striker12111]

I didnt mean to dislike thsi video

[aBigSaltyDookie]

@vnisanianisback

I just threw my blu-ray in and you're right. The "Marty, you made it!" is different but it is synced with the lip movement perhaps the clip in the Siskel and Ebert review was just a review copy that was pre-final cut of the film? I dunno.

Doc actually sounds slightly less excited in the blu-ray. Maybe they just changed the pitch of the phrase so that it didn't sound like he's yelling it. Odd.