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!
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
He would play Daft Punk and they wouldn’t be ready for it.
Naw, he’d play something more incomprehesible to the 90s, like skrillex or the later evolutions of the genre.
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.
Daft! Daft! It’s Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Punk?
Nah dubstep
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.
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’d introduce the music industry to the hip new sound of dubstep
This is a remake I’d watch.
Marty: “This is a blues riff in B, watch me for the changes, and try to keep up, OK?”
Proceeds to play Smooth by Santana and Rob Thomas.
I guess you guys aren’t ready for that . . . but to your kids, it’s gonna be a hot one
“Hey Carlos! Carlos, it’s your cousin! It’s your cousin - Enrique Santana. Hey, you know that new comeback sound you’re looking for? Well listen to this!”
Holds cordless landline phone at the band
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“I want a cheeseburger.”
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Marty would rap a bbno$ song that the kids wouldn’t be ready for.
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”.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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?”
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.
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.
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.
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.
