It was nineteen eighty something. I was at a walk in to see two great movies - Terms of Endearment and DC Cab. Bill was in the latter. A masterpiece comedy. 😂
I've had a life long alcohol problem, but am having success in quitting finally. Flight meant so much to me. Art like that and that performance really means a lot to me. To Robert, thank you for that movie.
@@zncuentertainment712At least DJ Vlad lets you talk more. To be fair, Club Random is less an interview format than a conversational one. But yes, Maher does not respect that most of the people who listen are more there for the guests than for him.
Thank you for using "actually" rather than the often Misused and abused "literally"!😊 And yes, as much as I like and appreciate Bill Maher, he has become insufferable on Club Random! As I pointed out elsewhere, he would try to tell Sully how to fly a plane!
I had the privilege of being directed by Mr Zemeckis in The Walk (I had 1 line "yo, hiya doin?) And kept messing it up. 😂 he got up from the monitor and walked 50 feet to me I felt so embarrassed but he was a gentleman. And while he walked over all i could hear in my head was Huey Lewis' "power of love" 😂
I worked on The Walk! But I worked on it back in 2009 when it was a much more experimental mocap / animation driven film. Still loved how it turned out.
I really love that Bill gets so many directors on his podcast. As a film nerd, I really appreciate it. These guys often get ignored by other big podcasts because they might not be household names, but everyone knows the work they’ve done.
He hasn't had Kevin Smith yet right? I know I've seen all the guests I like and then some but I'd still love to see repeat guests like Woody Harrelson.
It doesn't matter who he has on, because all one hears is Bill's take on everything. Ten minutes in and he's already explained to Zemeckis about the casting couch and the plabe crash scene from Castaway. What a 🤡
@xneapolisx you're saying him complimenting the crash scene and saying what he liked about it, is the action of a clown? If you don't like him or that it is and is meant to be a conversation rather than an interview, then maybe you should stfu and listen to something else? Pos
Bill talks, guests listen. It took me a year to figure it out, but I now believe Bill uses this show... more specifically his guests... as therapists to dump his thoughts on.
As a huge Zemeckis fan, I was stoked to see this happen. I'm also a big Bill Maher fan a devoted Real Time watcher. But I'm honestly getting tired of how Bill dominates the podcast and does the majority of the talking, which is nothing like Real Time where he actually allows his guests to speak.
He didn't really, and there have been plenty of guests and Episodes who talks more than Bill or know how to back and forth (it was almost instantly apparent that Zeneckis isn't that type and it was his first podcast visit ever so he probably didn't mind) Many of these episodes would have awkward silences if it wasn't a constant dialogue (try to record yourself esp. if you're drinking and being high and see how you do, I don't do neither but trust me we cut off and talk over people more often than we think and in many cases it's fukking fine)
Reality TV host and vice president Joe Rogan would also work. 😀Also, I only just realised that Reagan used the 'make America great again' slogan already; I thought it was original to Donald Trump, so clearly he i influenced by the 'Great Communicator' quite a bit.
@@mickael486 With Maher, one could make up more than one Bingo card of his personality riffs that he reflexively falls back to; during this show, and "Real News". Completing one of these cards in less than 11 minutes doesn't seem so hard a task to accomplish.
I really enjoyed hearing Robert talk about his introduction to The Beatles. Oh wait, I mean Bill talking about how he doesn’t understand the Taylor Swift phenomenon.
Bill must have watched Back to the Future with Seth MacFarlane recently, because he said he hadn't seen it when Seth was on, and Seth said they had to watch it together.
I don't know Zemeckis' patterns well enough to know his classic reactions, but I loved every time Bill hit him with a question he didn't see coming or was outside a comfort zone, and he just starts sputtering and jabbering before stalling for an attempted answer. Great guy, amazing director, love so many of his films ❤ Class act.
As a 42 year old I didn't know who this was.. I looked up all his movies and TV shows.. Holy crap nearly everything he's touched was great! Super cool!
You definitely know his style and what he's about better than you think, he just didn't have an easily recognizable, reoccurring typecast filming style and viewer experience, because his movies are so diverse and great in different ways. So many great hits from our childhood all the way to now. Signed, a fellow 42 yr old 😅.
@@gsmith1 Back to the future!! Tales from the Crypt on HBO in the 80s when I was waaaaaaaay to young to be watching it... Forrest GUMP... the guys a legend. Awesome!
My all time favourite director. I cannot wait to see “Here”. Zemeckis is one of the only directors left who would attempt (and get made) such a brave premise. The guy is a visionary and many of his “other” great movies are rarely talked about - Flight, What Lies Beneath, Contact, The Walk. Bravo Mr Z - a hero to me.
Bill, PLEASE stop interrupting your guests so often. The spotlight needs to be on them, not you. Bring their personalities out, let them talk and remember and reflect on what you are asking them about. Seriously, I feel so bad for your guests, I don’t know how many more of these podcasts of yours I can watch. And I’m a huge fan of yours Bill. No disrespect intended, but please at least rewatch this and see what many viewers, including myself, are trying to tell you.
Extremely enjoyable episode. Bill Maher is one day older than me, and I relate to everything he says regarding life in the 50's-80's and our greatest generation parents.
I don't understand people taking video at concerts rather than enjoying the music at the moment. I went to concerts with my parents before smartphones were a thing, so throughout the '90s and even into the 2010s-2013 era, I never took a photo while at a concert. I was enjoying the music.
@@vladimirhorowitz get busy living, or get busy dying, ain't that the G.D. truth! - that's from Shawshank Redemption not a Zemeckis film but one of my favorite movies.
@@vladimirhorowitzTo me, it’s Tarantino writing and directing (and probably editing, selecting the soundtrack…) Pulp Fiction in 1994, at 31. I mean - an absolute instant classic, a perfect movie. But all those blockbuster guys (Spielberg, Scorsese etc.) did tons of amazing groundbreaking work relatively young.
Him and Rob Reiner are my favourite directors in Hollywood. Never seen a bad Zemeckis movie, such an underrated director IMHO. We need more of his films and fewer, or if possible no marvel crap
Yes it was! Zemeckis hasn't quite had a smash-hit like that since, but how can you when it was one of the greatest of all time. He is a better-than-most filmmaker and I'm always interested in his projects.
@@Stephen-lt1tp Terminator and T2 are amazing movies but I don't think of them as true time travel movies because they were always in the present, but Reese and the robots were sent from the future to what the audience knew as the present day 1980s/90s when those movies were released. Back to the future the plot mostly takes place in the past with the main character being the one who traveled from the present day (1985) back to 1955 so you got to time travel along with the main character Marty.
Seeing movies in the theaters are way better than watching them at home on dvd or streaming them. When you're watching a movie in a theater it feels more like a shared experience. I saw Ocean's 8 in the theater in the summer of 2018 and the theater was packed. Hearing everyone laugh at the same lines and speak amongst one another made watching the movie so much more enjoyable. Otherwise, it would just be another fast action packed movie on the screen.
@RocStarr913 The success of a movie isn't an indicator of its quality. That's a non-sequitur. Personally, I thought the script was great. Neil Gaiman did a wonderful job. The action scenes were also spectacular. Not the greatest movie of all time, but very rewatchable, surprisingly funny, and just ask around good entertainment.
Zemeckis seems like a pretty nice and down to earth guy. But he definitely seemed to get quiet when Bill brought up anything even mildly controversial.
He hasn’t reached the age where you can say what you want, nor has he gained enough F U money to do that. But he is in the position not to be forced to do things, that younger professionals have to do to get or keep a job. He is smart enough to avoid The Mob and is so able to continue his work mostly quietly. In recent interviews he made some statements on some (entertainment business) topics. So you can know where he stands.
perhaps because Zemeckis is NOT a part of the Hollywood Jewish SWAMP... 🙂 ( and perhaps that why Tom Hanks works with Zemeckis, or vice versa .. I cannot even see Tom Hanks ever saying 'shit' .. :-) ) - BTW - full disclosure - I have not seen even one movie that I thought that Tom Hanks was the 'GREATEST; as he is promoted ... !
I imagine there are men who after the 'Me Too' movement came along, felt compelled to apologise to women who they did wrong by and those women were good with that and didn't feel like it needed to be made public. We will never know, but I'm sure it's not zero. Here's to doing the right thing and owning your own actions, no matter how hard it might be.
Bill: "You must've seemed some shit on movie sets" Robert: "Uh, I, um, with I, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh I, I, uh, uh, uh, oh, oh, oh, I, I, I,i um, um," That's code for "Yes"
Not really. I'm a huge Zemeckis fan who's followed his career since I was a kid in the late 1980's. Had the pleasure of spending an hour with him once in person for an interview. That's just his speech pattern, he's always talked like that.
Awkward. I don't want to cast aspersions, but it felt more than nothing. Having been in a situation somewhat similar - but not related to Me Too - I reacted in a similar way because I had seen something.
I worked on multiple projects with Zemeckis. He's very nerdy (in a good way) and socially very mannered and polite. You could tell his anecdote was an embarrassing and awkward experience for him.
@@thecountofmontecristo8280Yes, I think he had seen things (probably with famous actors), and been given 'offers' himself, and chose to tell the most innocent one. Even so, when you think about it, the assumption that the director probably just wanted an excuse to get a model brought to his trailer, and the model also expected that, says a lot about the directors they'd worked with before, sadly.
Zemeckis has such a great catalogue of classics, but he doesn't get enough credit for Allied. That's one of the sexiest, coolest and best thrillers of the past 30 years. Allied was called "Casablanca for a new generation", although I find it infinitely more rewatchable than Casablanca.
I saw the Beatles when they appeared on Ed Sullivan. I was also around 8 years old. It was a Sunday night and my Mom was ironing(!) and I turned to her and asked her why the girls were all crying if they're supposed to be so happy to see the Beatles? She just laughed and said nothing.
G.I.s were issued a cigarette ration. We now know that tobacco is an appetite suppressant. I don't know if it was known at the time, but I've been told researchers started noticing the connection to cancer in the 1930s. They may have been giving them cigarettes to keep them from getting as hungry as they should have been, for the physical demands of the task they had to perform.
I was thinking the same as Bill did with the life preserver point. The jokes about "gimme a Tab" or "gimme a Pepsi Free" would elicit the same response in 2024 as Lou made in 1955--"you want a Pepsi pal you're gonna pay for it"
And i did 12 years of Catholic school. I never understand these guys who talk about it being this traumatizing thing that indoctrinated us with guilt and shame. I didn't necessarily like it at the time, I mean it was school, but looking back I'm incredibly grateful for the experience. I was taught good values.
@@RocStarr913 Can you elaborate on this "hypocrisy" that you speak of? I'm genuinely curious--this is an honest question. I happen to be Christian (although not Catholic), and the whole Catholic schools thing/concept/idea has always slightly intrigued me a little bit, just wondering what it's like, etc.....what did/do you find hypocritical about Catholic school? Or were you speaking about something else?
Hey Bill I would like to ask if you could have Winston Marshall on either of your shows, he is really a talk and I think you would enjoy the banter, He took down Nancy Pelosi at Oxford and it was really good debate. Please think about it.
Again to clarify the WW2 discussion, the simple reason that Hitler never invaded Great Britain was that Germany never owned the skies over England, bombing London and other areas did not break the will of the Brits to fight on (thank you Winston), and when the Brits kicked Nazi butts during the Battle of Britain it was obvious that Hitler had bitten off more than he could chew, the invasion of the USSR was the final nail in the coffin.
Churchill was a chronic alcoholic, not a hero. Read David Irving's honest objective biography on Churchill if you dare to have your illusions shattered....
Also the German surface fleet could not even come out of port for the most part the Royal Navy was too strong. Yeah Churchill may have been a functioning Alcoholic but HITLER was a teetotaling Vegetarian …so whats your point? Referring to the comment about “illusions”.
Do you think that any of these celebrities have watched this show before going on? Do they know that they will be constantly interrupted and end up listening to Bill for 2 hours?
@@waxeatingguru That's what I keep wondering. Why are all these talented people going on crap Maher's show. They might figure there's nothing wrong with some publicity.
Talking about culture Zemekis said he wasn't sure where things tipped but he mentioned it. The internet. It's ALL about the internet. No one who has only known the internet their whole lives can understand the enormous shift in society. Night and day. In my opinion it represents the beginning of the end.
If you aren't aware of the symbolism/foreshadowing in back to the future that related to 9/11, look it up if you aren't aware of it, there's a decent video that breaks it all down. Sorry I don't know the title offhand, but it shouldn't be difficult to find. It's quite compelling actually. It's hard to think it's coincidental once you understand it.
lol. I get a big laugh out of your commercials that you hate doing. lol. Good to see him although he is just there to promote his latest movie, which is a bomb. But look forward to seeing it.
Always enjoyable when old movies come up but just to clarify about Double Indemnity, Stanwyck not only gets Fred to help kill hubby she is also simultaneously hooking up with another younger guy so when she jetisons Macmurray, her plan is to run off with an even younger guy, of course it all goes south on them and she and Macmurray end up killing each other, Also as an aside Macmurray and Stanwyck were not the studio's first choices for the lead roles actually about third choice. And just to finish my two cents worth here, Edward G. Robinsons performance in the flick is one of his best. In some critics eyes Robinsons character is what really made that movie the success that it was.
I was almost 15 when Back to the Future hit theaters. The music I love the most is from about '64-'74, especially the Beatles. But at 15, I liked Glen Miller's "In the Mood." Maybe that stemmed from my love of old movies.
Yeah, but the music industry can’t live in the past. It has many masters to serve, like the concert industry, the television industry. the radio industry, etc.
Beatles great no question. What about Bach? (A significant amount of references musically in The Beatles structure come from Bach, and many modern artists.)
I was in a coffeeshop in Madison, WI around 2003 and a girl was sitting by the window and a guy came by that she knew. He saw her, came inside and told her, "I found somebody new!" and pulled a Bob Dylan record out of a bag.
"It's one place, with the camera never moving. One place on the Earth over time" ... I haven't seen the movie, but to me, that explanation is crystal clear. I don't know why Bill didn't get it. The timespan could be then from 10,000,000 BCE to now or anywhere in between
Ah! Can’t finish this! It’s all about Bill and Robert Zemeckis being too careful in his answers wanting to please too many people! Death Becomes Her is one of my favourite films 👌👌👌
The problem with this YT platform is the majority of the viewers are several decades too young to appreciate both the guest and the host. Too many snarky trolls from lands afar, and then they upvote one another from the authoritarian agency they actually represent.
I find it hilarious that people think Bill is doing this for the money. These guys would sit around and chat even without youtube. But they learned from the youth that doesn't even want to work for a living...monetize everything! If he makes a dollar, all is worth it.
Eight minutes in, and Bill's telling Zemeckis what it takes to make a good film. Classic.
😂
It was nineteen eighty something. I was at a walk in to see two great movies - Terms of Endearment and DC Cab. Bill was in the latter. A masterpiece comedy. 😂
@@JWH66DC Cab is garbage. Even Maher thought it was garbage.
Maher is so self-absorbed.
Then stop watching Bill if you have an issue with him. It's that simple.
I've had a life long alcohol problem, but am having success in quitting finally. Flight meant so much to me. Art like that and that performance really means a lot to me. To Robert, thank you for that movie.
Congratulations, hope you keep it going. Best of luck.
For some people it was Days of Wine and Roses...
Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forest Gump, Contact, Cast Away...thanks for the entertainment Bob.
Except for Contact, I still haven’t forgiven him for the way that movie ended.
So generous of Bill to invite people on and explain their profession to them
Really condescending of Maher.
Explaining music to Daryl Hall was a highlight.
It's a toss up between Bill and Vlad from Vladtv who is the biggest narcissist and worse interviewer.
@@zncuentertainment712At least DJ Vlad lets you talk more. To be fair, Club Random is less an interview format than a conversational one. But yes, Maher does not respect that most of the people who listen are more there for the guests than for him.
@@zncuentertainment712 And yet you clearly watch… Go figure 🤷♂️
Bill arguing what scenes were actually shown in movie Cast Away ....with the actual director of Cast Away 😅😅
Thank you for using "actually" rather than the often Misused and abused "literally"!😊
And yes, as much as I like and appreciate Bill Maher, he has become insufferable on Club Random!
As I pointed out elsewhere, he would try to tell Sully how to fly a plane!
I had the privilege of being directed by Mr Zemeckis in The Walk (I had 1 line "yo, hiya doin?) And kept messing it up. 😂 he got up from the monitor and walked 50 feet to me I felt so embarrassed but he was a gentleman. And while he walked over all i could hear in my head was Huey Lewis' "power of love" 😂
I worked on The Walk! But I worked on it back in 2009 when it was a much more experimental mocap / animation driven film. Still loved how it turned out.
@@claytonshank6871 Interesting ! Is it possible to ask you some questions for a book concerning the filmography of Robert Zemeckis?
How did you keep messing up that line?
@ I was milking the “new yawk” accent, because it was filmed in Canada.
I really love that Bill gets so many directors on his podcast. As a film nerd, I really appreciate it. These guys often get ignored by other big podcasts because they might not be household names, but everyone knows the work they’ve done.
He hasn't had Kevin Smith yet right? I know I've seen all the guests I like and then some but I'd still love to see repeat guests like Woody Harrelson.
It doesn't matter who he has on, because all one hears is Bill's take on everything. Ten minutes in and he's already explained to Zemeckis about the casting couch and the plabe crash scene from Castaway. What a 🤡
@@xneapolisxyeah, Maher is terrible at decentering the conversation from himself.
@xneapolisx you're saying him complimenting the crash scene and saying what he liked about it, is the action of a clown? If you don't like him or that it is and is meant to be a conversation rather than an interview, then maybe you should stfu and listen to something else? Pos
Bill talks, guests listen. It took me a year to figure it out, but I now believe Bill uses this show... more specifically his guests... as therapists to dump his thoughts on.
Spot on 😂
dr. peterson has been on 2x & the therapeutic value in those sessions was priceless
🤣🤣
yep Bill has people on so he can talk AT them not TO them
Bill can jump in on Z's many hems and haws.
As a huge Zemeckis fan, I was stoked to see this happen. I'm also a big Bill Maher fan a devoted Real Time watcher. But I'm honestly getting tired of how Bill dominates the podcast and does the majority of the talking, which is nothing like Real Time where he actually allows his guests to speak.
That's because he's stoned and drinking here.
He didn't really, and there have been plenty of guests and Episodes who talks more than Bill or know how to back and forth (it was almost instantly apparent that Zeneckis isn't that type and it was his first podcast visit ever so he probably didn't mind) Many of these episodes would have awkward silences if it wasn't a constant dialogue (try to record yourself esp. if you're drinking and being high and see how you do, I don't do neither but trust me we cut off and talk over people more often than we think and in many cases it's fukking fine)
It's not an interview, but a conversation. So it's 50/50
Like Bill gives a shit. Go watch something else if you don't like it.
Noone loves listening to Bill Maher talk like Bill Maher
The Reagan joke totally works today.
Doc's response would be "Donald Trump...the reality TV host?? Then who's vice president...Ryan Seacrest??"
Absolutely
Aw !! 😂❤
Tbf, he was pretty famous before The Apprentice. People from the past may think "the real estate mogul?!?!"
@@brandoncaudill6864 yeah, I was trying to think of something more in the 80s but figured I'd stick with the entertainment theme
Reality TV host and vice president Joe Rogan would also work. 😀Also, I only just realised that Reagan used the 'make America great again' slogan already; I thought it was original to Donald Trump, so clearly he i influenced by the 'Great Communicator' quite a bit.
Another day, another podcast in which Bill tells his famous guest how happy he is that he never married or had kids.
and thats why we love him
You've had 11 minutes to watch a nearly 2 hour interview before you posted this comment.
And yet, We all assume that you're right.
Mmm. Kids DO suck. Goes without saying.
@@mickael486 With Maher, one could make up more than one Bingo card of his personality riffs that he reflexively falls back to; during this show, and "Real News". Completing one of these cards in less than 11 minutes doesn't seem so hard a task to accomplish.
And another whiny copy paste bitch in the comments who’s 100x worse than Bill, well done!
I really enjoyed hearing Robert talk about his introduction to The Beatles. Oh wait, I mean Bill talking about how he doesn’t understand the Taylor Swift phenomenon.
Bill must have watched Back to the Future with Seth MacFarlane recently, because he said he hadn't seen it when Seth was on, and Seth said they had to watch it together.
I don't know Zemeckis' patterns well enough to know his classic reactions, but I loved every time Bill hit him with a question he didn't see coming or was outside a comfort zone, and he just starts sputtering and jabbering before stalling for an attempted answer.
Great guy, amazing director, love so many of his films ❤ Class act.
Which makes him so easy to interrupt.
As a 42 year old I didn't know who this was.. I looked up all his movies and TV shows.. Holy crap nearly everything he's touched was great! Super cool!
You definitely know his style and what he's about better than you think, he just didn't have an easily recognizable, reoccurring typecast filming style and viewer experience, because his movies are so diverse and great in different ways. So many great hits from our childhood all the way to now.
Signed, a fellow 42 yr old 😅.
@@gsmith1 Back to the future!! Tales from the Crypt on HBO in the 80s when I was waaaaaaaay to young to be watching it... Forrest GUMP... the guys a legend. Awesome!
@@nicstevens6499 as a 42-year-old I am well aware of who Robet Zemeckis is - ie a bit of a legend. The man behind Back to the Future? Come on
dude.
@@Real_RanDZemeckis was never really a household name.
@@RocStarr913he definitely was, especially after back to the future
My all time favourite director. I cannot wait to see “Here”. Zemeckis is one of the only directors left who would attempt (and get made) such a brave premise. The guy is a visionary and many of his “other” great movies are rarely talked about - Flight, What Lies Beneath, Contact, The Walk.
Bravo Mr Z - a hero to me.
Here is a great idea. It’s not a great film.
Bill, PLEASE stop interrupting your guests so often. The spotlight needs to be on them, not you. Bring their personalities out, let them talk and remember and reflect on what you are asking them about.
Seriously, I feel so bad for your guests, I don’t know how many more of these podcasts of yours I can watch.
And I’m a huge fan of yours Bill. No disrespect intended, but please at least rewatch this and see what many viewers, including myself, are trying to tell you.
" I can't watch Guy Ritchie movies without subtitles "... I knew Bill wasn't the most cosmopolitan man in the world, but he's topped up himself there!
The sad thing is I actually pegged Maher as cosmopolitan, but he’s more of an Ugly American than I ever imagined him to be.
Extremely enjoyable episode. Bill Maher is one day older than me, and I relate to everything he says regarding life in the 50's-80's and our greatest generation parents.
What a November Night Treat.... The Amazing Robert Zemeckis made part of my childhood !!!
I don't understand people taking video at concerts rather than enjoying the music at the moment. I went to concerts with my parents before smartphones were a thing, so throughout the '90s and even into the 2010s-2013 era, I never took a photo while at a concert. I was enjoying the music.
It’s about bragging that you did it. It’s about status symbol.
There's nothing random about this podcast, as it has grown into a wonderful weave of conscientious consciousness.
What a silly sentence.
Zemeckis was 32 when he did Back to the future? Seems crazy.
Yeah. Makes you realize how short life is and if you want to do something special, you need to get on that NOW.
@@vladimirhorowitz get busy living, or get busy dying, ain't that the G.D. truth! - that's from Shawshank Redemption not a Zemeckis film but one of my favorite movies.
😮😮😮
Wowee
@@vladimirhorowitzTo me, it’s Tarantino writing and directing (and probably editing, selecting the soundtrack…) Pulp Fiction in 1994, at 31. I mean - an absolute instant classic, a perfect movie. But all those blockbuster guys (Spielberg, Scorsese etc.) did tons of amazing groundbreaking work relatively young.
Older than I would have thought
Him and Rob Reiner are my favourite directors in Hollywood. Never seen a bad Zemeckis movie, such an underrated director IMHO. We need more of his films and fewer, or if possible no marvel crap
Zemeckis hasn’t made a good movie since Cast Away.
@@RocStarr913 Used Cars was the only filmed I liked...hated Castaway.
@@billriddle9215 You didn’t even like Back To The Future or Forrest Gump or The Polar Express?
Roger Rabbit is still one of my favorite movies ever.
That movie was a technical marvel and one of Zemeckis’ better movies.
Still hold up pretty good as well, great movie.
Gosh I loved seeing “Cast Away” in the theatre. That movie has both a lot of loneliness and peacefulness.
Back to the future was the best time travel theme movie ever.
Yes it was! Zemeckis hasn't quite had a smash-hit like that since, but how can you when it was one of the greatest of all time. He is a better-than-most filmmaker and I'm always interested in his projects.
It’s one of the few screenplays I would admit is perfect.
Terminator
Nah. Primer was terrific. Even Time After Time was better than BTTF; it's highly overrated.
@@Stephen-lt1tp Terminator and T2 are amazing movies but I don't think of them as true time travel movies because they were always in the present, but Reese and the robots were sent from the future to what the audience knew as the present day 1980s/90s when those movies were released.
Back to the future the plot mostly takes place in the past with the main character being the one who traveled from the present day (1985) back to 1955 so you got to time travel along with the main character Marty.
Evident mutual respect and no politics. Very enjoyable.
Seeing movies in the theaters are way better than watching them at home on dvd or streaming them. When you're watching a movie in a theater it feels more like a shared experience. I saw Ocean's 8 in the theater in the summer of 2018 and the theater was packed. Hearing everyone laugh at the same lines and speak amongst one another made watching the movie so much more enjoyable. Otherwise, it would just be another fast action packed movie on the screen.
That would be buoyed by more comedies being made. Hardly any are made, particularly from Hollywood.
I'd love to go back to the movie house but people nowadays don't know how to behave.
Zemeckis' Beowulf is so underrated. Just putting that out there
Then why wasn’t it more successful? It was a mere technical novelty without an interesting enough script.
@RocStarr913 The success of a movie isn't an indicator of its quality. That's a non-sequitur. Personally, I thought the script was great. Neil Gaiman did a wonderful job. The action scenes were also spectacular. Not the greatest movie of all time, but very rewatchable, surprisingly funny, and just ask around good entertainment.
Yes. Mel Gibson. Mel sit down for a Club Random with Maher.
Mel eats this guy don't.
I met Zemeckis in the early 2000s and we played some ping pong, he's the man.
Robert Zemeckis has the best Top 3 ever: Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, & Cast Away
Flight, Contact, and What Lies Beneath are also excellent.
Not even close
@@litjourney cast away wasn't that good. It wasn't bad either. It just doesn't compare to Back to the Future and Forrest Gump.
I'd put Contact over Cast Away
Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Romancing the Stone are also ace.
Zemeckis seems like a pretty nice and down to earth guy. But he definitely seemed to get quiet when Bill brought up anything even mildly controversial.
He hasn’t reached the age where you can say what you want, nor has he gained enough F U money to do that. But he is in the position not to be forced to do things, that younger professionals have to do to get or keep a job. He is smart enough to avoid The Mob and is so able to continue his work mostly quietly. In recent interviews he made some statements on some (entertainment business) topics. So you can know where he stands.
@@KnarfMetmohnI would imagine Zemeckis has FU Money, he has his own production company and owns the rights to BTTF!
Yes this lol, you said it better than I could 😅
perhaps because Zemeckis is NOT a part of the Hollywood Jewish SWAMP... 🙂 ( and perhaps that why Tom Hanks works with Zemeckis, or vice versa .. I cannot even see Tom Hanks ever saying 'shit' .. :-) ) -
BTW - full disclosure - I have not seen even one movie that I thought that Tom Hanks was the 'GREATEST; as he is promoted ... !
@@damo220Universal Pictures owns the rights to Back to the Future. Zemeckis and Bob Gale own the characters.
I imagine there are men who after the 'Me Too' movement came along, felt compelled to apologise to women who they did wrong by and those women were good with that and didn't feel like it needed to be made public. We will never know, but I'm sure it's not zero. Here's to doing the right thing and owning your own actions, no matter how hard it might be.
Bill said on the Seth MacFarlane episode he had never seen Back to the Future, so I guess he watched it before this interview?
Everyone has seen Back to the Future. People who haven't even been born yet have seen Back to the Future.
@@hd9ek thats true
He would be dumb not to, considering it’s one of Zemeckis’ most popular movies.
@@hd9ekBut they must not tell anyone
Either he did, or he got so high he forgot he already saw it.
Thanks you two ! The "other " Bob's oldest friend from St. Louis.
I can't believe he pulled Zemeckis? Respect.
Bob's gotta promote his latest flop
@@edwitt137Zemeckis has arguably great ideas, but the scripts just are executed not so well.
Totally underestimate Bill Maher is! Living Legend!
@@RocStarr913 Al these boomers need to bring in a younger sharper person toactualize their vision.
Bill: "You must've seemed some shit on movie sets" Robert: "Uh, I, um, with I, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh I, I, uh, uh, uh, oh, oh, oh, I, I, I,i um, um," That's code for "Yes"
Not really. I'm a huge Zemeckis fan who's followed his career since I was a kid in the late 1980's. Had the pleasure of spending an hour with him once in person for an interview. That's just his speech pattern, he's always talked like that.
Awkward. I don't want to cast aspersions, but it felt more than nothing. Having been in a situation somewhat similar - but not related to Me Too - I reacted in a similar way because I had seen something.
I worked on multiple projects with Zemeckis. He's very nerdy (in a good way) and socially very mannered and polite. You could tell his anecdote was an embarrassing and awkward experience for him.
@@thecountofmontecristo8280Yes, I think he had seen things (probably with famous actors), and been given 'offers' himself, and chose to tell the most innocent one. Even so, when you think about it, the assumption that the director probably just wanted an excuse to get a model brought to his trailer, and the model also expected that, says a lot about the directors they'd worked with before, sadly.
Definitely 😅
Zemeckis has such a great catalogue of classics, but he doesn't get enough credit for Allied. That's one of the sexiest, coolest and best thrillers of the past 30 years. Allied was called "Casablanca for a new generation", although I find it infinitely more rewatchable than Casablanca.
Bill sounds like me trying to understand the plot of Here 😂
that was a good talk....hard to believe i spent almost 2 hours on it.......but that was a convo that flowed nicely......no one yelled lol!
I checked to see if Bill Maher would Whine about the Election, but it was actually an enjoyable Conversation. Good job Bill.
Don't know if you're referring to the election in general, or the ultimate outcome, but this interview was recorded before November 5th.
Yeah he brought up most of the movies I hoped he would. Particularly bringing up Flight.
Love Bills conversations and choice of guests. Robert has a fascinating creative mind.
Movie royalty in Director Robert Zemeckis. So many great films, and now its time for a rewatch 🍻
The graphic novel HERE is a favorite=looking forward to see it in film!
The movie isn’t very interesting. It’s a good idea not executed so well.
This has to be his most high profile guest.
Thank you for taking my camera blocking suggestion. Just in time for a real director interview ❤
I love the inside relationships; it helps understand how Hollywood gets shit done.
Back to the Future, my first film and theatre experience as a kid, saw it three times that summer…👌🔥🎉. I wish it was 1985 again, time travel,,,🚀🚀🚀
Well Biff will be President.
I saw the Beatles when they appeared on Ed Sullivan. I was also around 8 years old.
It was a Sunday night and my Mom was ironing(!) and I turned to her and asked her why the girls were all crying if they're supposed to be so happy to see the Beatles? She just laughed and said nothing.
Another podcast where people in comments reminds us that Bill is not married.
thank you for sharing Robert Zemeckis- a super episode, good topics - appreciate this one
Robert explaining the premise of his new movie to Bill is the hardest Bill has made me laugh in ages.
Such great movies!
Love this podcast
G.I.s were issued a cigarette ration. We now know that tobacco is an appetite suppressant. I don't know if it was known at the time, but I've been told researchers started noticing the connection to cancer in the 1930s. They may have been giving them cigarettes to keep them from getting as hungry as they should have been, for the physical demands of the task they had to perform.
If I remember correctly, Bill once said his father died of lung cancer.
I'm enduring/tolerating Bill so I can listen to Robert
I think it’s time to watch Back to the Future again.
So many comms in all of the trilogy.
I was thinking the same as Bill did with the life preserver point. The jokes about "gimme a Tab" or "gimme a Pepsi Free" would elicit the same response in 2024 as Lou made in 1955--"you want a Pepsi pal you're gonna pay for it"
I wonder how people who weren’t even around for Pepsi Free even caught on that it’s actually the caffeine free Pepsi.
Another Great Show!
If this isn’t one hour and 49 minutes of Bill asking Bob about Who Framed Roger Rabbit, then I see it as a missed opportunity.
And i did 12 years of Catholic school. I never understand these guys who talk about it being this traumatizing thing that indoctrinated us with guilt and shame. I didn't necessarily like it at the time, I mean it was school, but looking back I'm incredibly grateful for the experience. I was taught good values.
You are the exception I am a woman who was verbally abused thru 12 years of Catholic school by mentally ill nuns.
As a Catholic myself, it’s hypocrisy at its most rank.
@@RocStarr913 Can you elaborate on this "hypocrisy" that you speak of? I'm genuinely curious--this is an honest question. I happen to be Christian (although not Catholic), and the whole Catholic schools thing/concept/idea has always slightly intrigued me a little bit, just wondering what it's like, etc.....what did/do you find hypocritical about Catholic school? Or were you speaking about something else?
@ Watch the movie Spotlight.
Catholic school was a VERY mixed bag. Too much violence.
Yet you received one of the best educations possible for the working-class.
Hey Bill I would like to ask if you could have Winston Marshall on either of your shows, he is really a talk and I think you would enjoy the banter, He took down Nancy Pelosi at Oxford and it was really good debate. Please think about it.
Again to clarify the WW2 discussion, the simple reason that Hitler never invaded Great Britain was that Germany never owned the skies over England, bombing London and other areas did not break the will of the Brits to fight on (thank you Winston), and when the Brits kicked Nazi butts during the Battle of Britain it was obvious that Hitler had bitten off more than he could chew, the invasion of the USSR was the final nail in the coffin.
Churchill was a chronic alcoholic, not a hero.
Read David Irving's honest objective biography on Churchill if you dare to have your illusions shattered....
@@richardichard4237 And you are a fool.
Also the German surface fleet could not even come out of port for the most part the Royal Navy was too strong. Yeah Churchill may have been a functioning Alcoholic but HITLER was a teetotaling Vegetarian …so whats your point? Referring to the comment about “illusions”.
@@richardichard4237 🎯🎯🎯✋
@@richardichard4237Flawed logic there-what is your missing premise? I’m definitely no Churchill fan, but he was *crucial* in the late 30s.
Wow, that first question really made him nervous
Do you think that any of these celebrities have watched this show before going on? Do they know that they will be constantly interrupted and end up listening to Bill for 2 hours?
@@waxeatingguru That's what I keep wondering. Why are all these talented people going on crap Maher's show. They might figure there's nothing wrong with some publicity.
Tom Hanks has been doing every single podcast on the planet promoting Here. Maybe now would be the best time to invite him. What a coup that would be.
Enjoy all of these but esp the director's.
Talking about culture Zemekis said he wasn't sure where things tipped but he mentioned it. The internet. It's ALL about the internet. No one who has only known the internet their whole lives can understand the enormous shift in society. Night and day. In my opinion it represents the beginning of the end.
If you aren't aware of the symbolism/foreshadowing in back to the future that related to 9/11, look it up if you aren't aware of it, there's a decent video that breaks it all down. Sorry I don't know the title offhand, but it shouldn't be difficult to find. It's quite compelling actually. It's hard to think it's coincidental once you understand it.
Bill wanting to live forever is crazy. He was scared of old age and death in his 50's, now he wants to live forever.
Because he’s 🥜
Bill, when you let your guests talk I will watch. Seriously, STFU!
Where can we watch your podcast?
“Silence” was amazing cinematography
lol. I get a big laugh out of your commercials that you hate doing. lol. Good to see him although he is just there to promote his latest movie, which is a bomb. But look forward to seeing it.
Zemeckis had foreknowledge of several big events and communicated it through his power as a Hollywood director. Fascinating
I'm aware of this as well. It's quite compelling if you understand it and hard to think of it as simply coincidental once you see it.
Always enjoyable when old movies come up but just to clarify about Double Indemnity, Stanwyck not only gets Fred to help kill hubby she is also simultaneously hooking up with another younger guy so when she jetisons Macmurray, her plan is to run off with an even younger guy, of course it all goes south on them and she and Macmurray end up killing each other, Also as an aside Macmurray and Stanwyck were not the studio's first choices for the lead roles actually about third choice. And just to finish my two cents worth here, Edward G. Robinsons performance in the flick is one of his best. In some critics eyes Robinsons character is what really made that movie the success that it was.
Zemeckis is a genius, Bill is a comedian....and it shows.
Great episode! Zemeckis is my favorite director!
I see young people on RUclips listening to the Beatles and other artists I love, and enjoying it.
I was almost 15 when Back to the Future hit theaters. The music I love the most is from about '64-'74, especially the Beatles. But at 15, I liked Glen Miller's "In the Mood." Maybe that stemmed from my love of old movies.
I love the electric guitar, but that's not what inspired the Greatest Generation to defeat Hitler.
Yeah, but the music industry can’t live in the past. It has many masters to serve, like the concert industry, the television industry. the radio industry, etc.
Beatles great no question. What about Bach? (A significant amount of references musically in The Beatles structure come from Bach, and many modern artists.)
I was in a coffeeshop in Madison, WI around 2003 and a girl was sitting by the window and a guy came by that she knew.
He saw her, came inside and told her, "I found somebody new!" and pulled a Bob Dylan record out of a bag.
"It's one place, with the camera never moving. One place on the Earth over time" ... I haven't seen the movie, but to me, that explanation is crystal clear. I don't know why Bill didn't get it. The timespan could be then from 10,000,000 BCE to now or anywhere in between
"The world...? Wait, so it's filming the Earth from space?"
Lmao Bill's a dummy.
Ah! Can’t finish this! It’s all about Bill and Robert Zemeckis being too careful in his answers wanting to please too many people!
Death Becomes Her is one of my favourite films 👌👌👌
His movies are great. ❤
Love ya Billy
Epic Video. Thank You. Data Traveling.
An absolute American treasure, both of you 😊
Back to the future is one of the greatest movies, in that it encompasses many genres in one.
It’s nothing that special. It’s commercial.
Cast Away is still an all time fave of mine.
Is this another episode where Bill keeps interrupting his guest?
Can't swear in front of Bob Zemeckis ❤
Wait a minute? Maybe Bill did direct Cast Away after all... the new Alan Smithee of Hollywood! Get some Maher!
I like that line from Monty Python's the Meaning of Life "Oh Lord, forgive us for our dreadful toadying".
Hi Billy Martin. You're a great Executive Producer.
I love @clubrandom
When you say you’re half way through a Taylor Swift concert, well…it speaks for itself. 😂😂😂
Amazing director? A+
The problem with this YT platform is the majority of the viewers are several decades too young to appreciate both the guest and the host. Too many snarky trolls from lands afar, and then they upvote one another from the authoritarian agency they actually represent.
Please, Bill Maher has become anti-queer and Robert Zemeckis hasn’t made a good or a successful movie in years.
I find it hilarious that people think Bill is doing this for the money. These guys would sit around and chat even without youtube. But they learned from the youth that doesn't even want to work for a living...monetize everything! If he makes a dollar, all is worth it.
Sorry you're old and your life is over bruh.
@@RocStarr913as a gay man..queer is meaningless bs
BILL, YOU’RE A GENIUS AND EVERYTHING YOU SAY IS CORRECT. BOB ZEMECKIS HAS NEVER MADE A BAD MOVIE. Is that better?
This is good Bill
Bob on bringing composer in to help with Bob's version of a rough cut.
My mom is Italian (Chicago) and my father is Lithuanian (Ohio) - close enough Mr. Zemeckis