He would play Daft Punk and they wouldn’t be ready for it.
Nah dubstep
Naw, he’d play something more incomprehesible to the 90s, like skrillex or the later evolutions of the genre.
I feel like Dillon Francis is the right level of “starts out normal enough, then devolves into chaos”
“I Need YOU YOu You you yo y-”
Maybe some manic hyperpop
Or some kpop
Kpop started in the 90s with Seo Taiji and Boys.
Hyperpop didn’t start until the 2010s.
Not quite the same timeframe, but that clip of the surviving members of The Doors listening to Skrillex is one of the most hilarious things I’ve ever seen.
Opens with Marty mumble rapping in fron of a giant speaker that explodes.
I feel like he’d start talking in brain rot and be like, “Your kids are gonna love it.”
“Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ‘99… wear… sunscreen.”
Daft Punk were already around in 95 though
Yeah, basically all dancey electronic music was invented in the eighties-nineties, little remained to discover. Idm and breakcore already came about with the crazy structures. Dubstep is the one major missing link, but it’s pretty straightforward evolution from dnb.
Fun fact: Scorn’s ‘Greetings from Birmingham’ came out in 2000 (made by former Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris), but somehow the dubstep genre got entirely hijacked by the London people later on.
Daft! Daft! It’s Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Punk?
Harder!
Doc: Who’s president in 2025?
Marty: Donald Trump.
Doc: Donald Trump?! The dumbfuck?
Flipping on the TV
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous is on
Donald Trump is talking about how he hopes his daughter is as fuckable as his second wife
“Mr. President!”
He finally won the Dem nom?
Though that was more on the second half of the 90s that it became popular.
Marty would be teenager from today. He’d be livestreaming Doc Brown’s experiment. He’d see his dad watching the dancing baby in the 90s and be like, “I’ve seen this meme, it’s classic”. They’d be like, “wtf is a meme”.
“Oh he means an image macro”
Well, there was the entire newsgroup alt.memetics…
If back to the future was released today more than 1/3 of the population would root for biff and would say that the movie is “too political” and “woke propaganda”.
Then again, being OK with child rape by that same group of people wasn’t something I would have expected even 10 years ago… I knew they were brain-dead, just not that much…
If back to the future was released today more than 1/3 of the population would root for biff and would say that the movie is “too political” and “woke propaganda”.
That was half the joke of the original movie. Biff got super rich off cheating at sports gambling and was rewarded for his sudden financial success with political authority, because the writers of the movie knew that’s how Americans respond to anyone who appears to be financially successful practically overnight.
Biff was a critique of the people who elected Ronald Reagan. People who were saying exactly the same fascist shit as MAGA Trumpies today.
Then again, being OK with child rape by that same group of people wasn’t something I would have expected even 10 years ago…
You must have slept through the whole Catholic Sex Abuse moment. The sex-crimes apologists were crawling out of the woodwork. Guys like Ross Douthat made their first nut trying to defend the indefensible. Half of the Peggy Noonan columns were just her whining about anti-Catholic bias every time another child-rape story broke. JD Vance made his Catholic Turn right in the middle of the scandal, seemingly to suck up to the rich Catholic fuckwits gullible enough to believe he was going to protect them.
Before that, you had the string of scandals at the Texas Youth Corrections office. And the Abramoff Scandal, which had an often-undercovered element of child sex trafficking in the Marianas Islands. And, of course, Epstein himself got off with multiple slaps on the wrist across multiple administrations, thanks to his DC (and Mossad) connections. All these people and institutions retained conservative support in the face of a deluge of accusations and a torrent of new victims coming forward.
Biff has a certain amount of sympathy from me. At least in the first one.
Biff engages in some morally unpleasant punching-down bullying. In return Marty breaks the laws of continuity and fucks up his whole bloodline.
Its a pretty disproportionate response.
He’s literally based on Trump
Marty doesn’t know that
some morally unpleasant punching-down bullying
Weird way to describe his attempted sexual assault on Lorraine.
Weird way to describe his attempted sexual assault on Lorraine
Rape. The word you’re looking for is rape.
Please for the love of all the gods do not give studio execs this idea or they’ll be scrabbling for a remake.
The original director and screenwriter aren’t allowing anyone to do a remake, so I guess we are safe as long as they are alive.
https://consequence.net/2025/07/back-to-the-future-why-no-remake-sequels/
Heroes
Robin Williams did Aladdin on the proviso nobody would do a remake.
Edit: Okay, I’m wrong. It happens. Sometimes a lot.
It was on the proviso that Disney approve that his voice acting - and the Genie character - were not used in any of the film’s promotional material. They did it anyway, hence why he didn’t voice the Genie for the 2nd film voiced by Dan Castanella (The Return of Jafar), and came back for the third (King of Thieves) after a public apology from the Disney head at the time, and $1,000,000.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/robin-williams-demands-for-aladdin-threequel/
Did that include a Live Action remake?
Explicitly a live action remake
Do The Return of Jafar and Aladdin and the King of Thieves not count?
Scrambling?
Nope, scrabbling. The film will be written using whatever words the writers use in their scrabble game
They will be scrambling to scrabble a script…I see.
I hope they cobble something together that is somewhat comprehensible.
Scrabbling a script isn’t something you can to while scrambling. You end up dropping way too many letters and your dialog ends up consisting of mostly two and three letter words.
Part II would be basically be Terminator and they’d still promise flying cars and hover boards.
Here’s a few events from 1885:
Mark Twain publishes “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
Washington Monument dedicated
Convicted murderer gets spared from death when gallows malfunction
Apache leader Geronimo flees Arizona reservation, setting off panic
Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor
Chinese miners are massacred in Wyoming Territory
No, not 1885. 1926. It would be Gatsby era.
Doc would be stockpiling gold for the Depression and driving an early electric Model T.
OH! Right! It would be 100 years earlier. I am not a smart man.
Oh well.
It’s all good. The joy of realization was a gift you gave me today.
I mean, I would watch it.
Super Mario Brothers was released closer to WWII than to today.
Joe Biden was born closer to the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln than to his own.
I haven’t heard this one before. Excellent.
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Marshall? It’s your cousin, Marvin. Marvin Mathers.
You know that sound about Aunt Debbie’s spaghetti you’ve been looking for? Well, listen to this!
And then he’d be in the future of '56 where people are calling each other “choom” and solar power doesn’t work cause of all the dust and pollution in the sky, but people wear two neckties sometimes.
Sounds nova
Stop, stop, it’s getting too real!
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Blame it on the Rain. I’d be like “oh I’ve seen these guys before, they lip sync and the guy on the left is about to die.”
Dad crawls out from under the desk
“Hey hey hey, now we can surf the World Wide Web!”
Marty: “Hey I’ve seen this funny image before.”
Kid: “How have you seen it before? It just got posted.”
Marty: “Yeah, it’s a… repost.”
Kid: “What’s a repost?”
Wow what a reference lol
Marty would say “no cap” often causing Doc to ask what the future had to do with headwear.
“Does everyone wear hats in the future? Did the ozone hole get bigger?”
Funny the massive cultural change between the 1950s and the 1980s whereas it really feels like far, far less has changed between the 1990s and today.
Idk, the internet, smoking rates, queer issues, maga, americans identifying as socialists, mass surveillance, etc.
Marty would be showing up in the 90s with a mustache and crop top, confused as to why everything is smoky as hell and why so many people are calling him homophobic slurs, as he has to figure out how to get onto and use the internet. Also a lot of his slang will be incomprehensible to the people of the 90s
Edit: I forgot the biggest thing! Cell phones weren’t common yet. Getting ahold of someone while they weren’t home or at their desk was unlikely to succeed.
I feel like it’d be better to say that the broad cultural attitude and even aesthetics havent changed too much since the 90s. You could throw me in my normal clothes (Read weeb shirt and surplus camo jacket) and there’s a pretty good chance folks would just assume I’m punk or grunge. While culture has shifted the broad attitudes have really only gotten bleaker if more socially progressive, but here’s the thing the culture that existed when my grandmother was 20 and what existed when my mother was 20 is for more different than my mother and I at 20. Throw me back to 1999 and I would only look different in that I’m a paranoid asshole trying to murder his own father.
Note I’m 26, just using 20 as a baseline since it’s pre 9-11 for my mom and 1976 for my grandmother.
yeah but in 1995 there was no broadband internet so going online to check or search for something right away was out of the question, no widespread cellular phone usage so no contacting anyone at any moment, no social media, I think the cultural change in regards of how we perceive the world as interconnected has changed
Yes. But we did have computers, basic social media, cell phones, and yes, we did have what constituted fast internet wirh DSL or T1 lines. No, it wasn’t “broadband” by today’s standards, but it was fast enough. Cable internet came out for consumers in ‘96.
Point being anyone going back to ‘95 would have little trouble understanding the world, and vice-versa. The big difference would be carrying the internet, CD collection, and movies in your pocket on a phone. I daresay there would be no small number of people who would prefer the ’90s to all the bullshit happening over the last couple decades.
Going from home PCs, early gaming consoles, cable TV, laser-discs, and a whole other shitload of changes technologically and societally between 1985 and 1955 IMO would be a lot more stark.
The lack of smartphones and social media would be a huge change for a 17 year old today going to 1996. That alone would probably give them difficulty in navigating society.
yeah I’m talking about widespread use of all of that
While you’re secifically right, that’s splitting hairs when compared to the wild differences betwen ‘55 and ‘85 - which is NO PCs, NO cellphones, NO internet, etc. and the point of the comparison was the differences between going back to ‘95 or ‘55 from the specified decades. NOT focusing on a single aspect of today vs ‘95 which, by comparison, is minor despite some 17 year olds having mental breakdowns over a cellphone addiction.
Well, if you count Lemmy as social media, I guess usenet is… tho it’s for nerds in universities.
I think a big part of that is how the 80s/90s had inherited a lot from the 1950s that never really made it over the 2000s divide.
So what you had in the 1980s was 50s revanchism that dominated mainstream culture while a strain of alt-media was growing in the cracks. And now that old 50s/80s culture has been fully strangled by an outgrowth of 90s/00s culture which has become the cornerstone of modern media and culture.
FFS, there’s a Hillary Duff revival going on. Won’t be long until Britney Spears is rediscovered and we have another Bush running for the White House.
My guess is that the time machine would be a Pontiac Grand Am.
Doc breathes you made a TIME machine catches breath out of a CyberTruck?
Einstein explodes
Who would the terrorists be?
Make it be Jan6ers
beat me to it
And instead of promising a functional dirty bomb he claimed he has irrefutable evidence of 2020 election tampering 😂🤣😂
“I promised them I’d get them the true Q story, but I just took a bunch of Alex Jones rants and existing conspiracy theories and mixed them up”
He could say he tried it with 3
android butt plugscybertrucks before he realized the vanishing car/firetreads weren’t the vehicle traveling through time, it was just that piece of shit vehicle exploding
How about a Pontiac Aztek?
“The way I see it, if you’re gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?”
Yeah no wouldn’t work with an Aztek
It’s ironic, which was invented in 2006
“I had to modify it so that it would be able to reach 88 miles per hour. The tires are the only factory original parts left.”
I think the difference is between how much things were chamging back then. The 50s were very different to the 80s. Technology changed completely and also the 80s were post-vietnam which caused huge changes in the culture. As for the 90s its all about digital technology and computers aaand so is today? Theres a reason for(at least for people arround me cause im gen z 💀) our grandparents being ‘technology shocked’ so much while our parents grew up sorta with the same stuff as us. Yes the access was different but my mom used to play pirated videogames on a computer at the library. That definitely wasnt a thing in the 50s. Thats my perspective at least. Also me being eastern european may influence this cause for us time and progression was locked for so long and the 80s freed all of it up.
In 1998, my father sent me to school with a pager you could leave voice messages on. My friends were amazed how advanced it was.
1995-2005 was all about Chatrooms (AOL, IRC, AIM) and early social media. 2015-2026 is all about Chatrooms and social media being taken over by corporate interests, state actors, and political public opinion manipulation all posing as the AOL, IRC, AIM era.
The omnipresence of the internet and its perversion into a tool of the surveillance state would be the most shocking thing to a lot of people, I think. If you told an adult from the early 90s that all of their communications would go through one device that you kept in your pocket and that large corporations and governments were collecting data from it 24/7, they’d shit a brick.
I think a teenager like Marty from today would have a hard time navigating communication in the 90s as well. Like you had to get your hands on the Yellow Pages and use a pay phone or a land line somewhere. People weren’t walking around with cell phones that you could just borrow, and you couldn’t just look someone up with their name on social media and send them a DM. That’s something that I think is much more different 1996 to 2026 than 1955 to 1985.
Today, the Internet is something which just exists and is deeply (forcefully) entrenched in our everyday lives. A teenager from today would have their mind blown that in 1995 you had to hook your computer up to the phone jack to access the Internet and it’d be difficult to do much without Google as the default search.
The more important question, what car would be the one modified ti become a time machine?
Based on the stainless steel body requirements, I know the answer and I don’t like it.
I think about joke in the movie would be its supposed to be a cyberpunk, but the vehicle falls apart during a test run, so they use a Ford focus instead.
If they remake BTTF with a Cybertruck we should burn down the movie studio
Yeah, remember Doc Brown’s reason for choosing the DeLorean was because, “If you’re gonna travel through time, you ought to do it in style”.
Cybertruck is not style unless you are a brain-rotted seven-year-old.
Maybe a Rivian? You’d have to come up with a different issue other than the car not starting, like the difficulty of charging it or something.
Except DeLorean’s reputation was as unreliable and lame.
But stylish. Cybertruck is Sega Genesis graphics shoved into a ps1 body
What car could they be referring…
stainless steel body…
AH FUCK YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH
Took me a second and I wish I hadn’t figured it out
As far as short-lived US brands with only one production model go, there are two choices in the recent past - Fisker Karma and Lordstown Endurance.
Based on Hollywood’s current casting priorities, it would have to be a Subaru.
And Marty would have to be played by Zendaya. With Pedro Pascal as Doc.
I’m not ashamed to say i would enjoy that.
I could live with that.
In the category of “quirky and iconic but affordable sports car just a few years old at the time of the plot” there’s probably only one obvious choice for 1995: Mazda MX-5
Yeah, my thought was either a Miata or maybe go a bit more exotic and go with the Lotus Elise (first released in 1996).
Lotus Elise would almost have been a perfect fit, if it had been a little less expensive and released a couple of years earlier.
As I recall, they used to be more similarly priced. Like I remember being flabbergasted at how cheap the Elise was compared to my expectations. I was expecting something more like $60-80k but they were like $30-40k. Miata was a bit cheaper but not by a huge margin.
Though it was a bit different because the Miata was more of a comfort sports car while the Elise was more of a racing sports car with bare minimum interior. Though that makes it sound even better for Doc Brown to tinker with because he wouldn’t have to strip out as much to fit his extra stuff in.
Oh another option just occurred to me, though I don’t recall the specifics, but wasn’t John Titor’s time machine mounted in a vehicle of some sort? His story timeline matches up fairly well with this BTTF remake idea, though iirc he left from the 30s rather than the 20s, and I think his wasn’t closely integrated with the vehicle (like I seem to recall he had said something about swapping the vehicle it was in during his journey). Could update the method from flux capacitors to virtual black holes and even show that laser bending trick (where all other light mysteriously isn’t affected by whatever is affecting the laser lol) as a satirical nod to whoever did that hoax.
