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Your Favorite Robert Zemeckis Film Is:

haven't seen any
0 (0%)
don't like any
0 (0%)
other
0 (0%)
Used Cars
1 (4.5%)
Romancing the Stone
1 (4.5%)
Back to the Future
8 (36.4%)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
5 (22.7%)
Back to the Future Part II
0 (0%)
Back to the Future Part III
0 (0%)
Death Becomes Her
0 (0%)
Forrest Gump
0 (0%)
Contact
2 (9.1%)
What Lies Beneath
0 (0%)
Cast Away
4 (18.2%)
The Polar Express
0 (0%)
Beowulf
0 (0%)
A Christmas Carol
0 (0%)
Flight
0 (0%)
The Walk
0 (0%)
Allied
1 (4.5%)
Welcome to Marwen
0 (0%)
The Witches
0 (0%)

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Zemeckis, Robert
« on: July 14, 2008, 09:44:52 PM »
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Re: Directors Best Poll - Robert Zemeckis
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2008, 09:45:51 PM »
Back to the Future. Is this really a contest?
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Re: Directors Best Poll - Robert Zemeckis
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2008, 09:47:22 PM »
Forrest Gump

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Robert Zemeckis
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2008, 10:58:48 PM »
Back to the Future
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Re: Directors Best Poll - Robert Zemeckis
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2008, 11:04:46 PM »
Die Hard!

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Robert Zemeckis
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2008, 11:07:12 PM »
What's interesting about the place in Back to the Future in his filmography is that it and Roger Rabbit are also easily the best directed films he has made. The other ride heavily on screenplay and effects, and there are no different, but there is a certain playfulness to the direction of BttF that truly stands out as fantastic. Take, for example, how Marty and Doc are almost never on the same plane in the depth of field in any of their conversations. They constantly move back and forth, keeping the pace up and helping to really nail the comic timing. Or how about the way the film moves at a slow enough pace to work as a character comedy, but has enough speed to it that it is easy to forget the film is just a comedy rather than a great action sci-fi. Roger Rabbit shows real depth in his ability to create atmosphere around clearly zany goings on. If it weren't for Zemeckis' direction in Roger Rabbit the film would get bogged down by a lack of belief in the story being told. The special effects great, the direction holds it together.
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Re: Directors Best Poll - Robert Zemeckis
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2008, 12:37:00 AM »
Robert Zemeckis used to be one of my favorite directors of all time, but I didn't follow him into his current CG movie phase and I desperately wish he would stop.

Top Films in Order (and All Classics)

1. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
2. Back To The Future
3. Romancing The Stone
4. Forrest Gump
5. Contact


too bad none of these films are as good as Die Hard.    ;D

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Robert Zemeckis
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2008, 03:14:53 AM »
Back to the Future
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Re: Directors Best Poll - Robert Zemeckis
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2008, 04:15:59 AM »
Back To The Future followed by Contact with a different ending

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Robert Zemeckis
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2008, 04:20:28 AM »
Contact with a different ending

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