All this technology and they use it for Tom Hanks to larp as a teenager. Honestly, I'd rather see any young unemployed actor with a poster of Forrest Gump glued to his own face than whatever this is.
This is ridiculous, my girlfriend and I have been together 16 years and we saw this and both absolutely adored it, I suspect anyone who hates on this film is someone who is actually never felt genuine love before.
@@BrightAura777 the very first conversation she ever had with me was "I never want to get married and I never want kids" and we've been together ever since, she's 40 now..... do you have to be married to your pets to have a sincerely loving relationship, obviously not, so go find another way to feel superior on the internet somewhere🙄
I've always respected Zemeckis as a technical wizard, but it seems like some of his projects of late have been solely all about technical benchmarks/experiments rather than solid storytelling. It kind of reminds me of James Cameron recently, too.
To paraphrase Roger Ebert, you can make a bad movie out of a good script, but can never ever make a good movie out of a bad script. That the Avatars made tons of money is beside the point. So do Tik Tok videos, but they're still forgotten a minute later.
I think Robert Zemeckis has become a shell of his former self. Not saying its bad and he is one of my favorite directors growing up as a kid watching Back To The Future, Forrest Gump, and one of my favorite underrated horror comedy classics, Death Becomes Her. By the 2010s, he had lost his step after a series of disappointments like Allied, Welcome to Marwen, and the absolute running joke that was Disney’s ill-fated Pinnochio remake. File Here under another misfire by Zemeckis. I’ll wait for a rental.
He is obsessed with every new filmmaking technology. I got a feeling that he directs movies just to play with new toys. Producers give him money to test it )) That's the only explanation on - "how the hell he still directs movies ? " Robert Zemeckis... I remember his "CGI movies ark". Beowulf has been the best project from those years. One second 🤔 I think it's last decent movie directed by him. can't remember anything good since then. The Walk was bad , ww2 movie with Brad Pitt bad 😮💨
Great video! Sounds like Here is a cinematic version of "We Didn't Start The Fire". What an odd filmography Zemeckis has - a run of blockbusters and all-time classics in the first half of his career, then almost exclusively stinkers in the second half.
The music does the heavy lifting. A brilliant insight. Now I'm wondering just how good those Scorcese scenes over Clapton actually were. Or maybe we should accept there's a balance of inputs that combine pleasantly, or not. Thanks, I appreciate your comments on movies. You're very good.
Its amazing to look at the endless hits Spielberg produced with these young Directors. He really did have an eye for talent back then. While still directing his own films. Poltergeist, Goonies, Back to the future, Indy, E.T. the list goes on.
I think Robert Zemeckis's first script sale was the Chopper episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, which he wrote with his writing partner Bob Gale (they also wrote Spielberg's 1941, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, and Used Cars). Kolchak: The Night Stalker had a story editor named David Chase, who went on to create The Sopranos.
When mega directors get old they decide it's time to make a film for themselves. These are often bloated and self-indulgent. This is zemekis' swan song is all. Don't take it too seriously.
Death Becomes Her is the one for me and would have been held in higher regard by the general audience if Zemeckis hadn't got cold feet about the subplot and ending. It was a 2hr movie originally but he removed a half hour of the original film just weeks before the release. Universal should go into the vault and release it. I always loved Cast Away... not Forrest Gump.
I haven't seen HERE yet, but the responses to it piss me off. It's a great idea for a movie, and had it been made 50 or 60 years ago (by a household name European, or a John Frankenheimer/Arthur Penn type), it probably would've been great. But, instead, we get Robert fucking Zemeckis. Such a waste. At least Malick's TREE OF LIFE still exists.
Your channel is underrated. Besides the cgi, i think the problem for Zemeckis is he's dated. His style no longer matches the modern age or modern interests. Plus, a whimsical look at the past doesn’t interest people anymore. But I agree that it's admirable he's at least trying something different. Unfortunately, studios aren't willing to risk different films like in the 90s anymore. I'm surprised you didn’t mention from his films What lies beneath. Do you rate it? Despite its faults, I love WLB. I think it's a good example of a flawed movie that still has a lot of intriguing elements and charm. Unlike Here from the sounds of things.
I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Used Cars are really good movies! Used Cars is hilarious with Kurt Russell's best role, an unscrupulous car salesman with political aspirations. Great cast. (And Kathleen Turner first turned everyone on in 1981's Body Heat with William Hurt).
It's become cool to crap on Forrest Gump but it was a great movie experience. The Oscar was well deserved. But it's been downhill from there for Zemekis. About Beowulf, I actually liked his Grendel as a character. I thought it was a great creation, he was like another version of Frankenstein's Monster, an ill-made freak. But the movie itself was uneven.
The bland uninspiring poster even uses the same Gump font - and shows us there are three seasons that’s so deep and original 🥴🙄 I have to watch this just for the heavy handed Native American scene
I try never using the phrase "this movie hasn't aged well", 'cause in my opinion it's a flawed statement. You may need to readjust your expectations, and keep in mind the historical context, but great movies - and great art in general - never age, 'cause it speaks about something that's eternally true. So, my conclusion with Forrest Gump, a movie I really liked in the theater when it first came out and that I enjoyed less and less as I rewatched it, is that my first judgement was wrong: I was blinded by the excitement for the cutting edge special effects, I was easily moved by Alan Silvestri's score, I was full of respect for the director of Back to the Future, but Forrest Gump wasn't really a good movie. Strip away all the secondary elements and you'll have a manipulative, sappy, insincere, overlong empty little fable that winks at the audience every two minutes. So, I have no reason to believe that Here is all of that, just worse. Also, Zemeckis has never stopped using gimmicks since Forrest Gump: it's like he needs to shift your attention to something novel and unique 'cause without his technical tricks he doesn't know how to direct a compelling story anymore.
I think they stole the premise of this movie from "A Ghost Story", if you watched it, you would recall that the "ghost" gets stuck in the house where he lived when he died and he is vaulted in the past and then to the future of people living in that house or on the property of the house. While the overall story is a bit different, the premise is oddly similar.
The dumbest thing about trying to make characters sound like they're from 40s or whenever is that in real life people actually spoke more or less like they do now. They didn't talk like movie characters, look at any blooper from an old black and white movie, the second the take is abandoned they feel very modern, like people today.
I really like A CHRISTMAS CAROL mainly for Jim Carey’s performance and Dickens’ masterful dialogue. I Watch it every December. It has the season about it.
I think it took a risk and to me that is more important than perfection. The locked camera was fun and yes, cheesy dialogue throughout but I'd rather this to Transformers 64. Good review as always. PEACE.
Saw the film at home, found a free copy. Since i watched it, in its entirety mind you, im still grappling with it. Its a hamster maze for humans. The human equivalent of those sea park whale habitats where theres like 2 ft of water on all sides. And yes, i could have turned it off. But i think if youre going to pass judgement then you should see the whole product. And no, i willer never go through it again.
The last Zemeckis film I liked, was Flight from 2012. Before that, it was Castaway and What Lies Beneath both 2000. He's not as bad is Tim Burton though; I can't watch his films since Big Fish anymore.
Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie of all time and should've won best picture in 1994 and Shawshank Redemption should've gotten a few Oscars instead of non.
Hey, Jimmy! "Contact", "What Lies Beneath" and "Flight" are extraordinary films! What are you talking about? When the Fire & Ice RPG game from Kickstarter finally gets produced en masse, will your D&D circle live-stream a playthrough for us to watch?
flight is shockingly good. i agree with his decline but flight felt like - if not a return to form - then a positive evolution. along with the wolf of wall street, plays up the trope where all things are possible with the proper application of cocaine!
Robert Zemeckis fans will just have to pardon me, but I've found him to be a boring bourgeois director from the outset. His work was always over-produced sitcom TV fodder for me. Nothing horrible, but definitely designed for folks conditioned by commercial network TV, especially the network crap that thrived during the 70's and 80's. Thankfully i was old enough to spend my formative years watching practically every movie that was released during the late sixties and seventies in theaters until things started toning down in the 80's as hokey middle-class conventionality was making a big fat comeback on the screen with Zemeckis leading the way with a kind of yuck-yuck charm that really turned me off. I hope I haven't offended his fans too much, but to each his own. My favorite of all Zemeckis' pictures was DEATH BECOMES HER, where everything he learned about movies just seemed to come together just right.
He himself called Death Becomes Her overproduced... but I think it's absolutely done right. The original cut of the film seems better to me though... the final cut hinges too much on the effect scenes. It was a half hr longer originally with a different ending and more sidecharacters interactions (like the maid, the cabana boy etc). The original ending was a bit melancholic though with an 80 year old Ernest in a park in Switzerland with his wife. It ends great though, in a more haunting way. Madeline & Helen sit there on a balcony plagued with deadly boredom and see Ernest is alive (after faking his death 27 years before in another deleted scene). They watch him sitting on the grass with his wife as he touches her old hand with his still young hand. Then the eternal ladies' beautiful faces turn to skulls duing the fade out of the movie.
Flight is the only thing close to a movie since Cast Away and ironically, both involved plane crashes. Between this one, Pinocchio and Marwen he has made a trilogy of dog crap.
Robert Zemeckis has ALWAYS been a HACK. Yes, since 1941. Yes, he got incredibly lucky with Back to the Future and Forrest Gump. Yes, Tom Hanks is horribly overrated as an actor as well.
All this technology and they use it for Tom Hanks to larp as a teenager. Honestly, I'd rather see any young unemployed actor with a poster of Forrest Gump glued to his own face than whatever this is.
This is ridiculous, my girlfriend and I have been together 16 years and we saw this and both absolutely adored it, I suspect anyone who hates on this film is someone who is actually never felt genuine love before.
I have a wife and family and it was manipulated garbage. To each his own.
@@cowetascore8476😂😂😂😂
Having a girlfriend for 16 years that he hasn’t married talking about “genuine love” yeah ok 😂
@@BrightAura777 the very first conversation she ever had with me was "I never want to get married and I never want kids" and we've been together ever since, she's 40 now..... do you have to be married to your pets to have a sincerely loving relationship, obviously not, so go find another way to feel superior on the internet somewhere🙄
go find another way to feel superior on the internet somewhere
I've always respected Zemeckis as a technical wizard, but it seems like some of his projects of late have been solely all about technical benchmarks/experiments rather than solid storytelling. It kind of reminds me of James Cameron recently, too.
To paraphrase Roger Ebert, you can make a bad movie out of a good script, but can never ever make a good movie out of a bad script. That the Avatars made tons of money is beside the point. So do Tik Tok videos, but they're still forgotten a minute later.
I think Robert Zemeckis has become a shell of his former self. Not saying its bad and he is one of my favorite directors growing up as a kid watching Back To The Future, Forrest Gump, and one of my favorite underrated horror comedy classics, Death Becomes Her. By the 2010s, he had lost his step after a series of disappointments like Allied, Welcome to Marwen, and the absolute running joke that was Disney’s ill-fated Pinnochio remake. File Here under another misfire by Zemeckis. I’ll wait for a rental.
He is obsessed with every new filmmaking technology.
I got a feeling that he directs movies just to play with new toys.
My god. I forgot he made Pinocchio 😅
Never heard about Welcome to Marwen 😑
Why would you rent “another misfire”?
Did people just forget about how absolutely masterful Flight was? It seems people have forgotten or just didn't see it. It's amazing.
I found your channel by chance, I'm surprised you do not have more views. Your good at reviewing movies.
Lmao. You really are new here I see.
He is obsessed with every new filmmaking technology.
I got a feeling that he directs movies just to play with new toys.
Producers give him money to test it ))
That's the only explanation on - "how the hell he still directs movies ? "
Robert Zemeckis... I remember his "CGI movies ark". Beowulf has been the best project from those years.
One second 🤔 I think it's last decent movie directed by him. can't remember anything good since then.
The Walk was bad , ww2 movie with Brad Pitt bad 😮💨
once the 80s was over, so was Zemeckis's creative streak
Um the 90s has death becomes her and Forrest Gump so no it didn’t
@@RandyWhite-e6t what you wrote emphasizes my point
@@markpaterson2053 not really
@@RandyWhite-e6t really
@@markpaterson2053literally the opposite.
HERE is an awesome movie, very creative filming. I'll be seeing it again today.
Great video! Sounds like Here is a cinematic version of "We Didn't Start The Fire". What an odd filmography Zemeckis has - a run of blockbusters and all-time classics in the first half of his career, then almost exclusively stinkers in the second half.
PS: You should see Used Cars. It's one of his best.
Gerrit Graham kills in that movie!
Such a shame Zemeckis' career took a dip. He's got some absolute classics, but everything after Contact has been absolutely nauseating
Actually we used to love Tom Hanks. Now he is Box Office Poison and will remain so forever
The music does the heavy lifting. A brilliant insight. Now I'm wondering just how good those Scorcese scenes over Clapton actually were. Or maybe we should accept there's a balance of inputs that combine pleasantly, or not. Thanks, I appreciate your comments on movies. You're very good.
Its amazing to look at the endless hits Spielberg produced with these young Directors. He really did have an eye for talent back then. While still directing his own films.
Poltergeist, Goonies, Back to the future, Indy, E.T. the list goes on.
I think Robert Zemeckis's first script sale was the Chopper episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, which he wrote with his writing partner Bob Gale (they also wrote Spielberg's 1941, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, and Used Cars).
Kolchak: The Night Stalker had a story editor named David Chase, who went on to create The Sopranos.
When mega directors get old they decide it's time to make a film for themselves. These are often bloated and self-indulgent. This is zemekis' swan song is all. Don't take it too seriously.
zemeckis also directed two of the best tales from the crypt episodes 'All Through the House' and 'yellow'
Death Becomes Her is the one for me and would have been held in higher regard by the general audience if Zemeckis hadn't got cold feet about the subplot and ending. It was a 2hr movie originally but he removed a half hour of the original film just weeks before the release. Universal should go into the vault and release it.
I always loved Cast Away... not Forrest Gump.
I haven't seen HERE yet, but the responses to it piss me off. It's a great idea for a movie, and had it been made 50 or 60 years ago (by a household name European, or a John Frankenheimer/Arthur Penn type), it probably would've been great. But, instead, we get Robert fucking Zemeckis. Such a waste. At least Malick's TREE OF LIFE still exists.
Death becomes her is such a cult classic, we just watched it for Halloween...
Love BttF, Forrest Gump and Contact
i haven't seen Here but the trailer reminds me of the music video for we didn't start the fire by Billy Joel
Yep, I love old Zemeckis, but his needle drops are the most obvious, cliche choices imaginable.
Your channel is underrated. Besides the cgi, i think the problem for Zemeckis is he's dated. His style no longer matches the modern age or modern interests. Plus, a whimsical look at the past doesn’t interest people anymore. But I agree that it's admirable he's at least trying something different. Unfortunately, studios aren't willing to risk different films like in the 90s anymore.
I'm surprised you didn’t mention from his films What lies beneath. Do you rate it? Despite its faults, I love WLB. I think it's a good example of a flawed movie that still has a lot of intriguing elements and charm. Unlike Here from the sounds of things.
I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Used Cars are really good movies!
Used Cars is hilarious with Kurt Russell's best role, an unscrupulous car salesman with political aspirations. Great cast.
(And Kathleen Turner first turned everyone on in 1981's Body Heat with William Hurt).
It's become cool to crap on Forrest Gump but it was a great movie experience. The Oscar was well deserved. But it's been downhill from there for Zemekis. About Beowulf, I actually liked his Grendel as a character. I thought it was a great creation, he was like another version of Frankenstein's Monster, an ill-made freak. But the movie itself was uneven.
The bland uninspiring poster even uses the same Gump font - and shows us there are three seasons that’s so deep and original 🥴🙄 I have to watch this just for the heavy handed Native American scene
This movie needed a european director like Tarkovsky, Begman, Kieslowski, even Lanthimos
Firstly, what is farrest gump? Secondly, I agree with your opinion about Here. I just don’t know what farrest gump is.
I saw the trailer and one word came to mind…. “pretentious”. And any “de-aging” and I’m out.
Bob Zemeckis was never suited to become Jim Brooks. Also, as I learned recently, Zemeckis was instrumental in creating "Tales From the Crypt."
I try never using the phrase "this movie hasn't aged well", 'cause in my opinion it's a flawed statement. You may need to readjust your expectations, and keep in mind the historical context, but great movies - and great art in general - never age, 'cause it speaks about something that's eternally true. So, my conclusion with Forrest Gump, a movie I really liked in the theater when it first came out and that I enjoyed less and less as I rewatched it, is that my first judgement was wrong: I was blinded by the excitement for the cutting edge special effects, I was easily moved by Alan Silvestri's score, I was full of respect for the director of Back to the Future, but Forrest Gump wasn't really a good movie. Strip away all the secondary elements and you'll have a manipulative, sappy, insincere, overlong empty little fable that winks at the audience every two minutes. So, I have no reason to believe that Here is all of that, just worse. Also, Zemeckis has never stopped using gimmicks since Forrest Gump: it's like he needs to shift your attention to something novel and unique 'cause without his technical tricks he doesn't know how to direct a compelling story anymore.
I think they stole the premise of this movie from "A Ghost Story", if you watched it, you would recall that the "ghost" gets stuck in the house where he lived when he died and he is vaulted in the past and then to the future of people living in that house or on the property of the house. While the overall story is a bit different, the premise is oddly similar.
“Stilted” is the word you were looking for 😉
Used Cars was pretty funny
The dumbest thing about trying to make characters sound like they're from 40s or whenever is that in real life people actually spoke more or less like they do now. They didn't talk like movie characters, look at any blooper from an old black and white movie, the second the take is abandoned they feel very modern, like people today.
I really like A CHRISTMAS CAROL mainly for Jim Carey’s performance and Dickens’ masterful dialogue. I Watch it every December. It has the season about it.
"I'm sharpening my knife, kupo".
Ouch. Not only were there no memes, I never heard about this movie until now.
What a shame. We really need a old fashioned good family drama film like this director and actor used to do.
I think it took a risk and to me that is more important than perfection. The locked camera was fun and yes, cheesy dialogue throughout but I'd rather this to Transformers 64. Good review as always. PEACE.
It’s like the feather in Forrest Gump set Zem on a course to hell
Saw the film at home, found a free copy. Since i watched it, in its entirety mind you, im still grappling with it. Its a hamster maze for humans. The human equivalent of those sea park whale habitats where theres like 2 ft of water on all sides. And yes, i could have turned it off. But i think if youre going to pass judgement then you should see the whole product. And no, i willer never go through it again.
This movie looks so cringey. Thank you for taking one for the team, again, James. Have a great weekend!
tom hanks is in it ::: nuff said. such a bore.
It's a movie for the mentalist mindset. It was interesting. I'm not a Hanks fan, though he acted almost human.
he did direct three of the best episodes of tales from the crypt, did you ever watch them?
I believe the word you're looking for is "pretentious "
The last Zemeckis film I liked, was Flight from 2012. Before that, it was Castaway and What Lies Beneath both 2000.
He's not as bad is Tim Burton though; I can't watch his films since Big Fish anymore.
03:01; cue Patric Willems's video
Thanks for Saving me the admission I suspected a sleeper from Trailer 🎃 Too Bad
Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie of all time and should've won best picture in 1994 and Shawshank Redemption should've gotten a few Oscars instead of non.
If Bettany & the extraordinary Kelly Reilly suck, something’s rotten in Denmark!! (That’s the phrase, right???)🍿🎬♥️
We didnt need the hummingbird.
Wasn't the Oscar winning Cavalcade a little bit like this?
I figured you would love this no matter what. Same as you hate blockbusters no matter what. Bi polar cranked to eleven?
Hey, Jimmy! "Contact", "What Lies Beneath" and "Flight" are extraordinary films! What are you talking about?
When the Fire & Ice RPG game from Kickstarter finally gets produced en masse, will your D&D circle live-stream a playthrough for us to watch?
Alot of the reviews are saying the same thing, sounds like the problems are obvious that the filmmaker should have caught it and changed it.
THANK YOU.
flight is shockingly good. i agree with his decline but flight felt like - if not a return to form - then a positive evolution. along with the wolf of wall street, plays up the trope where all things are possible with the proper application of cocaine!
Could have sworn I posted a comment here but it got deleted.
I haven't seen Here but I thought The Walk was fine. Flight and Allied were good too. Not classics but good solid movies.
I knew this was DOA sounds like a complete bore
Is this the same director who made the inspired Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Thanks for the warning. I won't be seeing this
I give it a 5+. I thought it was OK.
From the very first trailer I could tell this was going to be a vomit inducing saccharine garbage fest.
This looks about as cringe as Benjamin Button. NO THANK YOU.
What Lies Beneath is a fantastic film. It’s Hitchcockian and underrated. I think it’s one of Zemeckis’ best films.
Dude you almost got Robin Wright.
Uh no.
Too bad, it looked like a very good concept in the trailer.
Nooooo one of my FAV EVER Directors… I’m not surprised w Tom (dude Pinocchio Really?? #KARMA) but Robin and Robert… dam
Robert Zemeckis fans will just have to pardon me, but I've found him to be a boring bourgeois director from the outset. His work was always over-produced sitcom TV fodder for me. Nothing horrible, but definitely designed for folks conditioned by commercial network TV, especially the network crap that thrived during the 70's and 80's. Thankfully i was old enough to spend my formative years watching practically every movie that was released during the late sixties and seventies in theaters until things started toning down in the 80's as hokey middle-class conventionality was making a big fat comeback on the screen with Zemeckis leading the way with a kind of yuck-yuck charm that really turned me off. I hope I haven't offended his fans too much, but to each his own. My favorite of all Zemeckis' pictures was DEATH BECOMES HER, where everything he learned about movies just seemed to come together just right.
He himself called Death Becomes Her overproduced... but I think it's absolutely done right. The original cut of the film seems better to me though... the final cut hinges too much on the effect scenes. It was a half hr longer originally with a different ending and more sidecharacters interactions (like the maid, the cabana boy etc). The original ending was a bit melancholic though with an 80 year old Ernest in a park in Switzerland with his wife. It ends great though, in a more haunting way. Madeline & Helen sit there on a balcony plagued with deadly boredom and see Ernest is alive (after faking his death 27 years before in another deleted scene). They watch him sitting on the grass with his wife as he touches her old hand with his still young hand. Then the eternal ladies' beautiful faces turn to skulls duing the fade out of the movie.
Zemeckis made "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"!!!!
So sad that he's gone.
This year is a cluster*** of awful films!!! The Crow, Joker 2, Megalopolis...jeez!!!
Every time someone speaks it seems like a stage play monologue
@8:24 😂
used cars is great
He hasnt made a good movie in 20 years.
Flight is the only thing close to a movie since Cast Away and ironically, both involved plane crashes. Between this one, Pinocchio and Marwen he has made a trilogy of dog crap.
Kathleen Turner & William Hurt in Body Heat? Woahhhh…hottest movie EVER!🥵
Used Cars......see it!
This is unfortunate
Used Cars is very funny
He Coulda just made bttf4. Oh well
I think Francis Ford Coppola used to be a great director but after Megalopolis and Twixt, he has become pretty mediocre
Hanks will never top the magic of Forrest Gump with zemeckis stop trying they failed miserably with pinocchio too
Wow,this looked really bad from the trailers.4 mill total BiO
Robert Zemeckis has ALWAYS been a HACK. Yes, since 1941. Yes, he got incredibly lucky with Back to the Future and Forrest Gump. Yes, Tom Hanks is horribly overrated as an actor as well.
John Carpenter hasn't made a good film since The Thing.
Vampires is f’ing awesome. How dare you sir
@Neat0_o His best are late 70s and early 80s. I think most people will agree on that.
You're both right.
Christine was after The Thing.
@@cowetascore8476 Yes it was good, but not better than his earlier work.
Forest Gump is a way better film than Pulp fiction. Lmao, are you even serious?
Forrest Gump is a sappy silly tale. Hasn't aged well.
@@XanArt21 Good thing no one cares about your opinion