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Oct 15, 2023 · 4 'Cast Away' (2000) Image via 20th Century Fox. Cast Away was among the best releases of 2000, and of the two Robert Zemeckis movies that came out that year, it was certainly the better one (the ...
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- Welcome to Marwen
- The Witches
- What Lies Beneath
- A Christmas Carol
- Forrest Gump
- Beowulf
- The Polar Express
- Death Becomes Her
- Allied
- Romancing The Stone
Robert Zemeckis’s dramatization of the critically acclaimed documentary Marwencol falls completely flat. Welcome to Marwen reduces the real-life story of artist and photographer Mark Hogancamp's recovery after being the victim of a hate crime into an overly simple "inspirational" drama and fictional love story. The motion capture technology that Ze...
This movie is not only a disappointing remake of Nicolas Roeg's 1990 version of The Witches but also an unsatisfying adaptation of Roald Dahl's original book. Robert Zemeckis replaces Jim Henson's memorable, and surprisingly horrifying, practical effects work and puppetry with unconvincing VFX. Even though Zemeckis's The Witches is far more faithfu...
Robert Zemeckis was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock when he directed What Lies Beneath in between production blocks of Cast Away. What Lies Beneath takes the themes of paranoia and voyeurism from Rear Window and injects them into a convoluted ghost story. Although the moviebegins well with an intriguing plot about a woman who believes that her neighbo...
Disney's A Christmas Carol is the most recent wholly-animated motion capture film Robert Zemeckis has directed to date. Jim Carrey is the absolute highlight of the movie; not only does he provide the voice and motion capture for Ebeneezer Scrooge but also for all three Christmas ghosts. Each role gives Carrey the chance to show his range as not onl...
Although Forrest Gump was not only a box-office smash hit but also a critical success when it was released in 1994, and despite winning the Best Picture Oscar over both The Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction, there is not a better case of a movie aging poorly. Forrest Gump represents a shift in Robert Zemeckis's career away from comedies to more...
Beowulf, Robert Zemeckis's sophomore effort in the world of motion-capture animation, is an impressive technical feat. This is especially true regarding the character model of Grendel's Mother that looks almost exactly like her actress, Angelina Jolie, in real-life. Beowulf is probably the least Zemeckis film that Zemeckis ever made, with its incre...
The Polar Express may be the oldest of Robert Zemeckis's motion-capture animated movies, but it is also still the best. Not only is it worth watching for its groundbreaking animation but also for the rip-roaring ride The Polar Express takes the audience on. Robert Zemeckis makes the best use of the CGI world by allowing the camera to fly anywhere. ...
Death Becomes Her, starring Bruce Willis, Meryl Streep, and Goldie Hawn is another Robert Zemeckis visual effects masterwork. Instead of using CGI to create entirely animated worlds or to place characters inside archival footage, Zemeckis makes use of VFX to depict body horror to a darkly hilarious degree. Necks twist round, heads fall off bodies, ...
Allied is another outlier in Robert Zemeckis's filmography. It is an explicit throwback to old-school World War II thrillers, complete with spies, bombings, and Nazi assassinations. Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard play their roles much like 1940s film stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall would have. At times, Allied feels more like a remake of Ca...
The romantic-comedy action movie Romancing the Stone was Robert Zemeckis's breakthrough in Hollywood. After amassing a reputation for films that read well on paper (Zemeckis co-wrote his first two directorial features) but did not translate to financial success, Romancing the Stone was the hit Zemeckis needed in order to make the classics he would ...
Dec 24, 2018 · 5. Death Becomes Her (1992) More than any other of his major studio movies, Death Becomes Her feels like a throwback to Zemeckis’s hellzapoppin’ crazy Used Cars days: Perhaps not surprisingly ...
- BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) Screenwriters: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale. Starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson. “Back to the Future” was the biggest box office hit of 1985 and spawned two equally successful sequels.
- FORREST GUMP (1994) Screenwriters: Eric Roth. Starring Tom Hanks, Sally Field, Gary Sinise. “Forrest Gump” became a national sensation in 1994 for its heartfelt story of an intellectually disabled boy who has a knack for inserting himself into great moments in American history.
- WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988) Screenwriters: Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman. Starring Bob Hoskins, Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd. Zemeckis scored a remarkable technical achievement with this film that has cartoon character’s interacting with live human actors.
- CAST AWAY (2000) Screenwriter: William Broyles Jr. Starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nan Martin. Zemeckis teamed with Tom Hanks to create this film about a man who is the sole survivor of a plane crash on a remote island.
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- The Polar Express (2004) Zemeckis has always been a vanguard of visual effects in film, and when motion-capture technology came into existence, he thought he had found the next revolutionary tech that would lead film production into the 21st century.
- I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) Beatlemania was one of the more exciting pop culture moments of the 20th century: when this now-classic band’s music broke wide, it was quickly followed by a period of mass hysteria exhibited by their young female fans who would congregate in large crowds wherever they appeared, creating traffic jams and stampede conditions.
- Back to the Future Part III (1990) Back to the Future is one of the most beloved film franchises in history: entire generations across the globe love these films, and for good reason: flying cars, Marty McFly, the flux capacitor, Doc Brown, time travel–these movies have great concepts married to distinct, likeable characters.
- Used Cars (1980) Before he was a special effects wizard, Zemeckis relied on story and characters rather than flashy visuals.
Rate. 87 Metascore. Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown. Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover.
Jul 10, 2019 · Every Robert Zemeckis Movie, Ranked. Moviefone. July 10, 2019 - 21 min read. Robert Zemeckis is one of the most exciting filmmakers working today, still. The filmmaker came of age in the...
