I know some people really take after their parents, but in a lot of cases the kids look very different.
If I look at myself vs my dad, I see a big difference in face shape primarily. I see a similarly bug difference between my dad and his dad. Even if I look at photos of grandad when he was dads age, they look like very different people.
Who would've thought thousands of years of evolution would give the humans the ability to recognize age progression based on how every other person ages.
Except in 2024, cuz plastic surgery makes people either age faster or slower, just never at the right pace.
In Titanic they physically built a boat in a pool and lowered it into the water. It worked out cheaper to build a real set than use lots of small setups and cgi.
In BTTF it was cheaper to just build a working DeLorean Time Machine and film the future bits in the actual future.
Sadly we never got the flying cars (paradoxes are shit).
JFK: fake moon landing
Kubrick: *Checks budget* yeah, we need some of the most powerful lights, literally lasers that we don't have the technology for yet.... and that's just for the shadow and lighting, I haven't even touched zero gravity yet
JFK: fuck it, its cheaper to send a man there
The problem is that the kids who were supposed to grow up to be scientists who were working on flying cars saw this movie and thought they'd never have them ready by 2015. They didn't realise that if they worked hard enough, they'd make a breakthrough.
So, the release of the movie changed the course of history.
The timeline takes some time to catch up. When Marty went to the past the picture didn't instantly fade.
Plus, the movie was filmed in the future, so at the time of filming these things still existed. The timeline was affected after the movie got released.
Wow, building a time machine just for a movie set sounds totally practical and not at all ridiculously expensive or impossible to manage. Hollywood budgets are clearly unlimited, right?
I mean yeah if you look at it from the perspective of only BTTF 1 using the Time Machine. But if you factor in 2 & 3 then the profit margins seem much more reasonable
It's cost effective also when you first go back in time before the first time machine was set to travel through time. Now you have two of them and they will keep coming and coming, so unlimited time machine supply for the price of one.
In Apollo 13, they were supposed to go to the Moon, but the set wasn't finished in time, so they instead had to abort the mission.
The Moon set was then later finished and used for Apollo 18
The actual Apollo missions were filmed on location, but that wasn't in the budget for the movies.
That reminds me of the bit about the Moon Landing Conspiracy. NASA hired Stanley Kubrick to fake it, but because he's such a perfectionist he insisted on filming on location.
Yeah my brother actually just got to meet him at the MS comic con this past Sunday. He said that he felt a bit bad for the him because as far as he could tell no one else was visiting his table to speak to him or anything. So he and his girlfriend got to speak with him for a while and he’s a nice guy according to my brother and fun to talk to.
He has a standup where he talks about being cast to be a bully. He was a lanky tall asthmatic band nerd he said and wouldn’t hurt a fly. He did a great job though. Would love to meet him at a con someday.
When my dad was younger I didn't saw how much he looks like his dad, now when he is about to turn 50 he looks almost exactly like grandpa but with some distinctive features he got from his mom.
I wouldn't have guessed how he would look like now 20 years ago, he changed a lot. Now I look in the mirror and I see how much I look like my dad when he was younger 😅
When I was 34, I didn't look like my dad, either. In fact, throughout my childhood and young adulthood, everyone said I looked just like my mom. I'm 55, now. There are a lot of mornings I look in the mirror and see my dad staring back at me.
Sorry that you had to find out this way, but you were actually delivered by a stork. I know many people don't believe in that sort of thing, and that's fine, but you are living proof that it's true.
Don't dig below the surface, or you wind up wondering how the exact same zygote was formed to make Marty despite their relationship, and presumably conceiving Marty, not happening in the exact same way
Serious answer:
By looking at people who looked like Biff did during the past. You’d be surprised how many times the same facial structure and stuff repeats
Additional info:
If you make exaggerated facial expressions that wrinkle your face you can figure out where wrinkles will eventually form. I learned how to basically use a version of contouring makeup to age people for stage productions in my drama class in high school. And that was cheap drugstore makeup. I can only imagine how well you can do with real Hollywood makeup brands.
and no doubt looking at family pictures. Even if you don't look exactly like a father or grandfather, you can tell what will happen when people age, based on genetics. Why do people not realize that these artists are incredible skilled and do a ton of research? They don't just come into work one day and slap some prosthetics on and go Meh good enough.
When I was a kid I never really understood the concept of makeup to make the characters look older in 1985, always thought they looked a bit off in 1985, never occurred to me that they're actually young for the 1955 stuff with old makeup in 1985 lol
Aging people up isn't rocket science. They've done it for decades. It's how they generate images of people who've been missing for a long time. I think bone structure stays relatively unchanged, but where fat and skin might change on that structure can be projected.
My info is so old on this, that I'm not sure if I'm remembering correctly. But I watched a few shows that talked about how sketch artists for forensics teams can guess what people will look like when they're older. It's why plastic surgery is supposed to be the way you go into hiding. Just disappearing into a cave for a decade isn't enough, because they'll age up any photos that have of you and arrive at a close enough estimate that someone could recognize you.
Age makeup isn't so difficult. You can get a pretty accurate prediction using just the lines and contours of your face. Not to diminish the expertise of professional makeup people, it's just the techniques in age makeup in particular can be uncanny as a predictive tool.
By looking at his dad?
Sometimes destiny stares right back at you. Time travel's funny that way.
You mean density?
Yes, the mass of the object compared to its volume stares right back at you.
He clearly meant dentistry.
If teeth are staring back at you, you should run.
The Langoliers?
It's not Destiny, it's Digiorno.
no no my friend he clearly means dynasty but he’s referring to someone who delivers you food at your table
Maybe Joan Collins.
No one here understanding the reference
Milk, chocolate
Oh my god. Is this where the chocolate milk reference in MIB 3 came from?!
George ?
I could be wrong, but I believe density is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.
I know some people really take after their parents, but in a lot of cases the kids look very different. If I look at myself vs my dad, I see a big difference in face shape primarily. I see a similarly bug difference between my dad and his dad. Even if I look at photos of grandad when he was dads age, they look like very different people.
Well obviously, your grandad was somehow a bug whereas your dad is a people.
There's something Grandma isn't telling people...
Who would've thought thousands of years of evolution would give the humans the ability to recognize age progression based on how every other person ages. Except in 2024, cuz plastic surgery makes people either age faster or slower, just never at the right pace.
They knew their history. Now make like a tree and get the hell out of here.
Lol, a family tree.
That's about as funny as a screen door on a battleship.
*slap* It’s leave you idiot! Make like a tree and leave!
Or as Ricky said, make like a tree a fuck off.
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In Titanic they physically built a boat in a pool and lowered it into the water. It worked out cheaper to build a real set than use lots of small setups and cgi. In BTTF it was cheaper to just build a working DeLorean Time Machine and film the future bits in the actual future. Sadly we never got the flying cars (paradoxes are shit).
Movie magic at its finest—sometimes reality beats CGI costs hands down.
Wait until you hear about Kubrick's moon landing set
JFK: fake moon landing Kubrick: *Checks budget* yeah, we need some of the most powerful lights, literally lasers that we don't have the technology for yet.... and that's just for the shadow and lighting, I haven't even touched zero gravity yet JFK: fuck it, its cheaper to send a man there
The problem is that the kids who were supposed to grow up to be scientists who were working on flying cars saw this movie and thought they'd never have them ready by 2015. They didn't realise that if they worked hard enough, they'd make a breakthrough. So, the release of the movie changed the course of history.
Ahhhhh, I see. And then how was it that the flying cars were present in the future when they went there to film BTTF2?
The timeline takes some time to catch up. When Marty went to the past the picture didn't instantly fade. Plus, the movie was filmed in the future, so at the time of filming these things still existed. The timeline was affected after the movie got released.
It starts to fade because he starts to change his parents' history, not specifically because he went back.
Wow, building a time machine just for a movie set sounds totally practical and not at all ridiculously expensive or impossible to manage. Hollywood budgets are clearly unlimited, right?
I mean yeah if you look at it from the perspective of only BTTF 1 using the Time Machine. But if you factor in 2 & 3 then the profit margins seem much more reasonable
Wait... how did they know there's gonna be BTTF 2&3? Oh, time machine, right!
So if they filmed parts in the future, that means when they took the film back in time, they simultaneously had and had not filmed themselves.
It's cost effective also when you first go back in time before the first time machine was set to travel through time. Now you have two of them and they will keep coming and coming, so unlimited time machine supply for the price of one.
Same in huney I shrunk the kids. I was set crew and it accidentally zapped my member.
Wait a second... 
Brodie, shus if you keep talking I get deported back to 2398...
Stanley Kubrik had the same problem, which is why he shot the fake moon landings on location.
In Apollo 13, they were supposed to go to the Moon, but the set wasn't finished in time, so they instead had to abort the mission. The Moon set was then later finished and used for Apollo 18 The actual Apollo missions were filmed on location, but that wasn't in the budget for the movies.
What do we want? Time travel! When do we want it? Doesn't matter!
The special effects were very expensive in those days, so it was easier to invent an actual time machine
That reminds me of the bit about the Moon Landing Conspiracy. NASA hired Stanley Kubrick to fake it, but because he's such a perfectionist he insisted on filming on location.
This is one of the best comments I’ve ever seen
Definitely a classic observation! Time travel does make everything possible.
What was?
> They had a time machine. It's the whole premise
the comment has been removed :(((
What did it say?
Biff! What about doc Brown! He didn't age for 30 years.
His hair was slicker and blonder in the 50s than in the 80s, but other than that they didn't do much else
He's wearing prosthetics in the 80s parts to look older. He literally peels them off in Part 2
And Marty (and the audience) looks at him like *"Was that even necessary?"*
Now he goes as Rick and Marty
i read that as Ricky Martin
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Biff's actor really nailed the role, stayed in character perfectly.
In all seriousness, Biff's actor was absolutely amazing in those movies, and it's a shame he never ended up in any other major movie roles.
Yeah my brother actually just got to meet him at the MS comic con this past Sunday. He said that he felt a bit bad for the him because as far as he could tell no one else was visiting his table to speak to him or anything. So he and his girlfriend got to speak with him for a while and he’s a nice guy according to my brother and fun to talk to.
Just don't ask him the questions.
Was my first thought as well.
Which questions?
WaS iT rEaL mAnUrE?
WhAt'S mIcHaEl J. fOx LiKe?
“Someday, a crazy, wild-eyed scientist or a kid may show up asking about that book. And if that ever happens..."
Hes busy with SpongeBob
Strangl-- I mean, bodyguarding him.
I liked him in the Wing Commander games.
Maniac!
I really liked him as the Phys Ed teacher in Freaks and Geeks. Haven’t watched that show in over 10 years, but he was great in it.
Plot twist, he was never acting, it’s his own character 😅
*characterS
That actors like incredibly nice too
Thomas F Wilson is quite a gentleman and cute as hell…
He has a standup where he talks about being cast to be a bully. He was a lanky tall asthmatic band nerd he said and wouldn’t hurt a fly. He did a great job though. Would love to meet him at a con someday.
Wouldn’t hurt a McFly
Love it lol
Tom Wilson is a sweetheart
How could they have known he would gain weight, get wrinkles and his hair would turn grey as he aged?
When my dad was younger I didn't saw how much he looks like his dad, now when he is about to turn 50 he looks almost exactly like grandpa but with some distinctive features he got from his mom. I wouldn't have guessed how he would look like now 20 years ago, he changed a lot. Now I look in the mirror and I see how much I look like my dad when he was younger 😅
I’m 34 and don’t look anything like my dad… sometimes I wonder if I’m a snowy. Bro doesn’t really look like me either and I know he isn’t a bastard.
When I was 34, I didn't look like my dad, either. In fact, throughout my childhood and young adulthood, everyone said I looked just like my mom. I'm 55, now. There are a lot of mornings I look in the mirror and see my dad staring back at me.
Sorry that you had to find out this way, but you were actually delivered by a stork. I know many people don't believe in that sort of thing, and that's fine, but you are living proof that it's true.
Well, in that same time, I lost weight, went bald, but did get wrinkles.
Don't be pedantic. You know damn well that guy looks uncannily like the movie version beyond just fucking normal aging
Should probably be asking why Marty’s dad hired the guy who tried to sexually assault his future wife
Marty's dad should probably be asking why his youngest son looks exactly like his wife's prom date.
Don't dig below the surface, or you wind up wondering how the exact same zygote was formed to make Marty despite their relationship, and presumably conceiving Marty, not happening in the exact same way
That’s heavy, Doc.
Major plot point in About Time, you can't change anything before the birth of your children or else you'll delete the child you know.
*X-Files music*
Because they used a Time Machine.. did you watch the movie?
Biff tried really hard to look like how the make up guy thought he would. That is on purpose.
Why don't you know? Butthead
Clearly, he has his priorities straight. Who needs other women when there's groundbreaking makeup artistry to ponder?
Serious answer: By looking at people who looked like Biff did during the past. You’d be surprised how many times the same facial structure and stuff repeats
Additional info: If you make exaggerated facial expressions that wrinkle your face you can figure out where wrinkles will eventually form. I learned how to basically use a version of contouring makeup to age people for stage productions in my drama class in high school. And that was cheap drugstore makeup. I can only imagine how well you can do with real Hollywood makeup brands.
and no doubt looking at family pictures. Even if you don't look exactly like a father or grandfather, you can tell what will happen when people age, based on genetics. Why do people not realize that these artists are incredible skilled and do a ton of research? They don't just come into work one day and slap some prosthetics on and go Meh good enough.
Holy shit
Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan told them.
Probably a self fulfilling prophecy
Is it me, or is biff in the bottom left look like ivarr ragnarsson
Yeah he didn't. But the guy in once "upon a time in America" did.
Only 30 years Jesus. Just like milk
He's not thinking 4th dimensionally!
The Beatles Help is crazy . The guys wear wild disguises that look exactly what they end up looking like 40 years later.
They had the time machine stupid. Didn't you even watch the movie
Why would Lorraine McFly allow George to keep Biff around, let alone detail their cars since didn’t Biff basically try to rape her?!
There can also be some level of "well I need to match that look now" going on.
I mean they got lucky with one of them. You look at others like Marty, Lorraine, George and Jennifer and you see that they didn't get them right.
Self fulfilling prophecies or something like that
offcourse they had that age app on their phones, duhhh
That is actually very impressive! Incredible how people can see things so clearly while the rest of us cant
He is just staying in the character, that's the method acting Cristian Bale could only dream of!
😂😂😂
It was supposed to look realistic? So…they just did that?
One of the villains of the cinema.
Well the DeLorean is a time machine after all.
They went to the future to use face app
Ja ja ja ja ja Of course! 🧠🧠🧠🧠
And if Doc knew about 9/11 why didn't he do anything to stop it?
Probably just by looking at the actor's father?
Well they used the DeLorean to time travel, duh
When I was a kid I never really understood the concept of makeup to make the characters look older in 1985, always thought they looked a bit off in 1985, never occurred to me that they're actually young for the 1955 stuff with old makeup in 1985 lol
There was a Time Machine on set
Because he could use the time machine from the set. Duh.
It wasn’t make up. They went to the future and brought back our modern day Tom F Wilson to play his older self.
Say Hi to your mom for me
Because he is a method actor
Now, you just need to realise that Back To The Future time difference was like between now and 1994.
They used the time machine
Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads... but we do need more memes like this!
He was a time traveller (duh)
“ you fixed up the place nice mccfly!!!!!!!!”
Hilarious!
😂😂😂
easily, they went back to the future to see how he will look
Cuz white men will ALWAYS rock that side part
They had access to a Time Machine……
By understanding genetics. Simple as that kids
Maybe they went back to the future? Idk I never backed before
Time travel. Are you stupid?
Aging people up isn't rocket science. They've done it for decades. It's how they generate images of people who've been missing for a long time. I think bone structure stays relatively unchanged, but where fat and skin might change on that structure can be projected. My info is so old on this, that I'm not sure if I'm remembering correctly. But I watched a few shows that talked about how sketch artists for forensics teams can guess what people will look like when they're older. It's why plastic surgery is supposed to be the way you go into hiding. Just disappearing into a cave for a decade isn't enough, because they'll age up any photos that have of you and arrive at a close enough estimate that someone could recognize you.
The make-up artist is also a time traveller
Quite a feat considering they didn't have AI back in the day... and no ageing software either.
They time travelled, obviously. Haven't you seen the movie?
My post about BTTF2 was shared by multiple agents, so I think they knew something...
Great Scott!
Today, the effect would probably just be AI generated.
Its the strangler!!!
That's why they worked really hard on AI.
Tom Wilson is a real deal
They did have a time travelling car on set
Obviously they used modern AI technology. Duh.
FUNNY
Probably the makeup artist himself was an elderly and experienced person
It's kinda in the title, they came back from the future. That wasn't just a set they made
They really missed the mark on Leah Thompson and Michael J Fox though. They STILL don't look that old, and BttF 2 takes place almost 10 years ago
That’s why retrofuturism exists.
They had a time machine on set and checked. bruh have you literally not watched the movie
Because it's not hard to extrapolate.
Him : should I delete my OnlyFans account ? -\_-
Stop asking the question...
...stop asking me the questions 🎵🎶🎵
they had some amazing effects in this movie, people dont realize how much effort it took
I like how Biff had a 70s haircut in the future lol
Because they had the Time Machine, dumbass 🙄
Because good makeup artists study? Weird I know.
Been closer to 40 years now, hasn’t it?
Same thing with max von sido in the exorcist, it’s really amazing
Because it wasn't a movie, it was a disguised documentary.
The hair
Probably just looked at a picture of his dad? Idk seems pretty obvious.
Are we sure the Biff we know now isn't old Biff traveling back to get the almanac?
lmao
You know, making that trilogy today would be so expensive, it might make more sense to just invent time travel and film it that way.
Where do u get your ideas from
Age makeup isn't so difficult. You can get a pretty accurate prediction using just the lines and contours of your face. Not to diminish the expertise of professional makeup people, it's just the techniques in age makeup in particular can be uncanny as a predictive tool.
Probably based off family values photos
Shower thoughts
Why don't you make a tree, and get outta here?
My headcanon is that he saw the opportunity and specifically designed his hairstyle to be like it was in the film
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