Rewatchables Reference

• Winner: Marty trying to get the Almanac back from Biff in 1955, including the recreated prom sequence and car chase – approximately 15 minutes (Bill and Chris).
• Other contenders: the downtown Hill Valley 2015 / Cafe 80s / hoverboard chase sequence (~7-8 minutes), Marty buys the Grays Sports Almanac, dystopian 1985 / Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise.

• All the future predictions that came true: FaceTime/video chat, flat panel TVs, hands-free video games, wearable technology, fingerprint scanners, self-lacing Nikes, drones, watching multiple screens at once.
• Alan Silvestri's score (Chris).
• The decision to make the future funny/goofy rather than dark.
• The 'Jaws' 19 trailer as a joke about franchise culture.
• Nike Air Mags concept (led to real patent in 2009).

• The 'same actor playing multiple characters' technology – now commonplace, hard to explain how revolutionary it was.
• The movie being nerdier/geekier than the first one – Marty spends most of it helping explain time travel rather than being cool.
• Pepsi product placement – way too much.
• Michael J. Fox playing his own daughter – 'super weird,' unnecessary.
• The 'Back to the Future' 3 trailer at the end (disappointed audiences).

• Winner: 'I Can't Drive 55' by Sammy Hagar outside the casino (Chris).
• Runner-up: 'Beat It' in the Cafe 80s.

• The Crispin Glover / Jeffrey Weissman situation. Glover's absence is 'the torn ACL of the movie.' They used previously filmed footage, prosthetics, and tricks to disguise the recast.
• Zonked-out Jennifer (Elizabeth Shue) also problematic – Zemeckis admitted he wouldn't have had Jennifer get in the car if he'd thought about it more.

• Chris: it's time for real hoverboards.
• Sal: Marty is not George's son – he's Biff's son. Lorraine was promiscuous in 1955, Marty is nothing like his father, and he has a temper like Biff.
• Craig: Doc is the only good actor in this movie.

• Crispin Glover was offered $125K-$150K but didn't do the sequel.
• Claudia Wells (original Jennifer) dropped out due to her mother's health crisis, replaced by Elizabeth Shue.

• Winner: Tom Wilson as Griff (Biff's grandson in 2015) – 'one of the most annoying characters probably that we've ever done in the Rewatchables.'
• Runner-up: Lea Thompson as Lorraine in the casino/dystopian 1985 scenes.

• Winner: James Tolkan as Mr. Strickland – also in 'Top Gun'.
• Runner-up: Joe Flaherty as the Western Union man (also the heckler in 'Happy Gilmore', SCTV alum).

• Sports Almanacs: 'Unequivocally yes. This is the go-to Sports Almanac.'
• Tom Wilson: yes – plays ~19 different versions of characters.
• Hoverboard technology: yes (Chris).
• Sports gambling movies: yes (over 'Rounders', 'The Gambler', Uncut Gems).
• Michael J. Fox: no. Lea Thompson: no. Elizabeth Shue: no. Zemeckis: no.

• The 'chicken' flaw comes out of nowhere – should have been 'loser' instead.
• Biff's rise as a gambler would create butterfly effects changing the very sports results in the Almanac.
• Old Biff returns the DeLorean to the same timeline after changing the past.
• 50 years of sports data fitting in a super thin almanac.
• Doc leaves the keys in the time machine.
• No jet lag from time travel across decades.

Jennifer: Jamie Gertz, young Jennifer Connelly, Mindy Cohen, or Justine Bateman (Bill suggests Bateman would have been a fun Family Ties connection).

• SAG collective bargaining agreement clauses about likeness exist because of the Glover lawsuit.
• The Oh La La magazine cover girl was Venetia Stevenson from the July 1955 issue of Swank.
• Lea Thompson took home the prosthetic breast implants because it was a mold of a real chest.
• Originally the sequel was going back to 1967 but George and Lorraine would have been too old to be hippies.
• A sport called 'slam ball' was planned for 2015 scenes but cut for budget reasons.

• Bill and Chris agree this franchise could be remade. The time-travel concept allows going to any era.
• New cast suggestions: Bill Hader as Doc (good call), need a true high-school-age unknown for Marty.
• Chris notes a modern version going back to fix recent history (9/11, Trump) would make it a non-comedy.

• Chris: Nike Mags (profitable on secondary market).
• Bill: the self-drying/heated jacket.
• Original almanac props sell for $45-50K at Hollywood prop auctions.

• Chris: 'The past is the past. Just leave it alone. Look forward.'
• Bill: 'Really try hard not to fuck your mother.'

Chris picks 'Back to the Future' 3 (because 2 is basically part 1 revisited).

• Why does Marty hate being called chicken so much?
• How would you handle the Almanac to avoid suspicion? (~70% win rate needed).
• Is Doc Brown gay? (A scene was cut from movie 1 where Marty asks 'Do I turn gay?' about his future).

Michael J. Fox (panel agrees). Zemeckis also cited by Chris for the technical achievements.