Rewatchables Reference

• The clock tower sequence – Marty going back to 1985. Bill's pick: 'one of the great action scenes, not only of the 80s – every piece of it is perfect.'
• Marty playing 'Johnny B. Goode' – 'Guess you guys aren't ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it.' Almost cut from the movie but preview audiences listed it as their favorite scene.
• Marty in 1955 meeting George and Lorraine in the coffee shop. 'Why do you keep calling me Calvin?'
• Doc Brown sends Einstein into the future. 'Riveting stuff.'

• Huey Lewis – Bill's winner. 'Power of Love is just a good song. 35 years old. A lot of 80s pop songs have not aged well. That one's just fucking good.'
• Alan Silvestri's score – 'iconic, up there with any John Williams score of the time.'
• Christopher Lloyd himself – 'hasn't aged at all.'
• The high school prom band (Chuck Berry's cousin Marvin).

• The Libyan terrorists subplot – 'they don't really explain the geopolitical whatever of the Libyans being in suburban California.' Zemeckis has 'basically apologized for this whole part of the plot.'
• George McFly as a peeping Tom, watching Lea Thompson undress from a tree.
• Biff assaulting Lea Thompson in the car – 'kind of insane, can't believe they did it.'
• Lea Thompson's fat mom makeup – 'just looks really fake 35 years later.'
• Marty McFly inventing rock and roll as a concept.

• Eric Stoltz was originally cast and filmed five weeks before being fired for being too dramatic and lacking comic timing.
• John Lithgow was first choice for Doc Brown over Christopher Lloyd.
• Ralph Macchio turned it down, 'saying he thought the movie was about a kid, a car, and plutonium pills.'
• Johnny Depp, Charlie Sheen, and John Cusack were also considered for Marty.

A two-man race between Crispin Glover and Christopher Lloyd. Bill is not a fan of Glover's performance: 'I never got it.' Sean defends it as 'perfectly calibrated to the movie... this movie is essentially a cartoon come to life.'

• Courtney Gains (Malachi from Children of the Corn) – Bill's personal choice.
• George DiCenzo (plays Lea Thompson's dad) – 'one of the all-time that guys from that era.'
• Billy Zane – Chris suggests him but Bill notes he doesn't have a speaking line.

• Crispin Glover's part (George McFly) is the one they'd recast. Nominees: Anthony Michael Hall, Tom Hanks (too old), Robin Williams ('1978 Robin Williams would have been perfect').
• William Zabka suggested for Biff.

• Thomas F. Wilson and Stoltz had physical altercations during fight scenes; Wilson had bruises and planned to get payback, then Stoltz was fired.
• Lea Thompson was dating Dennis Quaid at the time of filming.
• Huey Lewis was nominated for an Oscar for 'Power of Love' but lost to Lionel Richie's 'Say You Say Me.'

• Michael J. Fox – yes. 'Being on the number one sitcom and being in an all-time iconic movie in the same summer. That's bonkers.'
• Robert Zemeckis – yes. 'This is what sets him up for anything he wants to do.'
• Time travel as a concept – yes. 'This centrally popularizes a ton of ideas about time travel that really only scientists or physicists had ever contemplated before.'
• Huey Lewis – yes.
• Christopher Lloyd – yes (coming right off Taxi into this).

• Dave McFly has a job and a suit in the improved 1985 timeline but is still living at home.
• George McFly's actual job is unclear in the improved timeline.
• Why did the Pinheads get dismissed so quickly at the Battle of the Bands tryout?

Michael J. Fox – unanimously. 'Without Fox, the movie might have been just another teen sci-fi film, maybe a cult classic, but not a paradigm-shifting cultural event.'

• Is Doc Brown a good dog owner? Consensus: bad dog owner. 'So unwilling to feed his dog himself, he builds a giant robot contraption.'
• What is going on with Marty hanging out with Doc Brown? 'That is just really creepy.'
• How many concussions did Marty get in the trilogy? 'At least like three or four.'