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Summary:
A generational story about families and the special place they inhabit, sharing in love, loss, laughter, and life.
Director:
Robert Zemeckis
Writers:
Eric Roth, Robert Zemeckis, Richard McGuire
Cast:
- Tom Hanks as Richard
- Robin Wright as Margaret
- Paul Bettany as AI
- Kelly Reilly as Rose
Rotten Tomatoes: 37%
Metacritic: 42
VOD: Theaters
Top Comment:
I'm not a Cowboys fan but I imagine that experience is a lot like rooting for Robert Zemeckis. Just decades of unmitigated success until completely falling off right around the year 2000 and now every year is more pain and disappointment. I love this guy and I want him to succeed again but God damnit does he make it difficult to root for him
Robert Zemeckis' 'Here' Review Thread
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Rotten Tomatoes: 23% (from 13 reviews) with 5.40 in average rating
Metacritic: 46/100 (7 critics)
As with other movies, the scores are set to change as time passes. Meanwhile, I'll post some short reviews on the movie. It's structured like this: quote first, source second. Beware, some contain spoilers.
Zemeckis for years now has been fixated on technology and its visual capabilities, to the point where he neglects the rudiments of story and character development. The vignettes here return frequently to the same families at different moments in their lives, but rarely settle in for long enough to sustain narrative momentum or give the characters much depth.
-David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
From “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” to “The Polar Express,” Zemeckis’ superpower has always been his pioneering spirit, while his kryptonite is a penchant for unearned sentimentality. “Here” fits that pattern to a tee, as Zemeckis dedicates his energy not to crafting fully dimensional characters, but to advancing the sort of “digital makeup” Martin Scorsese used to youthen the cast of “The Irishman,” effectively draining the project of the very thing he set out to celebrate: life.
If you’ve ever passed through or lived in a house and wondered who was there before you — whether Paul Bettany as a cranky boozer, Kelly Reilly as a stroke victim in a wheelchair, or Tom Hanks and Robin Wright as lovers who can’t seem to make it work but sure tried — “Here” will resonate. But if you have no curiosity, then there’s nothing, not a thing, ultimately here for you.
Robert Zemeckis reunites with the crew and (horribly de-aged) cast of Forrest Gump to turn a formally audacious comic into a visually lackadaisical film. Here tells the story of one family's living room from a single camera angle, which it attempts to transform into nostalgic sentiment about American history. But these self-imposed limitations yield no creative solutions, and with one hand tied behind its back, Here can merely gesture towards the ugliness and complexity of the culture it portrays.
-Siddhant Adlakha, IGN: 5/10 "mediocre"
Here is a noble experiment, and a welcome dose of originality in a year full of sequels, even if it doesn’t quite work on every level. For me, I tried mightily to resist its emotional pull, but by the end I finally surrendered to it and shed more than one tear in thinking about our ever-changing place on this earth and how we have to somehow hold on to what is good in this life, even in the darkest of times.
The de-ageing techniques used to make Hanks and Wright appear younger are skillfully executed, and the actors manage to create some achingly tender moments. But Zemeckis, as is often the case, cannot resist overdoing potentially poignant moments with cutesy flourishes or by amplifying Alan Silvestri’s string-laden score. The characters’ lack of definition may help them resonate with audiences, who will project their own fears about mortality, loss and failure onto these somewhat blank individuals. But while Zemeckis taps into something powerful about our desire to make our time here on Earth count, it’s bitterly ironic that what his film most needs is, in fact, more time — so we can understand these people better and give their universal anxieties and dreams more resonance.
Like watching Madame Tussaud’s mannequins in a community theater play, Here becomes more tiresome as it draws closer to its inevitable everybody-moves-out finale, and Zemeckis’ few socio-political nods — Bettany’s military veteran grumbling that no one thanked him for his service; Black parents schooling their son on the precise way to handle being pulled over by the cops — are simply empty gestures.
-Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
In many ways, Here is an experiment in framing and concept that fails. And yet, I'm in awe that Zemeckis did it. Even with the movie's rough edges, his passion and sentimentality is as clear as ever.
PLOT
The story covers the events of a single spot of land and its inhabitants, spanning from the past to well into the future.
DIRECTOR
Robert Zemeckis
WRITER
Eric Roth & Robert Zemeckis (based on the graphic novel by Richard McGuire)
MUSIC
Alan Silvestri
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Don Burgess
EDITOR
Jesse Goldsmith
RELEASE DATE
- October 25, 2024 (AFI Fest)
- November 1, 2024 (theaters)
RUNTIME
104 minutes
BUDGET
$80 million
STARRING
- Tom Hanks as Richard Young
- Robin Wright as Margaret
- Paul Bettany as Al Young
- Kelly Reilly as Rose Young
- Michelle Dockery as Mrs Harter
- Gwilym Lee as John Harter
Top Comment: Is it safe to say the mo-cap movies broke Bob Zemeckis? Flight and The Walk were actually good but anything afterwards feel like desperate attempts to be relevant or for hire jobs.
'Here' Review Thread
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I will continue to update this post as reviews come in.
Rotten Tomatoes: Rotten
Critics Consensus: While it's heartening to see director Robert Zemeckis return to humanistic storytelling, Here's stagey conceit and overabundance of spectacle robs it of emotional resonance.
Score Number of Reviews Average Rating All Critics 36% 91 5.00/10 Top Critics 21% 29 4.50/10Metacritic: 41 (33 Reviews)
Sample Reviews:
Peter Debruge, Variety - Had Zemeckis built “Here” as a museum installation instead of a film, the fixed POV probably would have made sense. But we’ve come to be moved, and for that to work, the camera should too.
David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter - No one fully manages to get out from under the movie’s preoccupation with visual technology at the expense of heart.
William Bibbiani, TheWrap - The concept is incredibly ambitious. The execution is dinner theater.
Mark Kennedy, Associated Press - It’s a lot of work, clumsy often, and Zemeckis has gotten lost in the uncanny valley, trying to tell a very human story about what unites us but by altering the actors so much that the human connection is lost. 2.5/4
Amy Nicholson, New York Times - Don’t force a plot to emerge. Better to experience “Here” like open-eyed meditation, nodding at connections and ideas so fragile they’d disintegrate if said aloud.
Rafer Guzman, Newsday - Zemeckis deserves credit for trying to wrap his arms around some very large themes — the misty past, the unpredictable present and that slightly spooky feeling of just being alive. 2.5/4
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune - The movie lunges for your tear ducts and your heartstrings; the narrative hopscotch won’t cooperate and it’s not really what McGuire had in mind. At all. 2/4
Odie Henderson, Boston Globe - Couple the broad acting and cliché-ridden screenplay with the fixed-frame format, and “Here” comes off like a bad sitcom, or even worse, a school play made by a bunch of fifth-graders who decided to tackle Eugene O’Neill and “Death of a Salesman.” 0.5/4
Benjamin Lee, Guardian - What little the film has to say about life can be summarised by a series of tacky fridge magnets, and maybe if Zemeckis was aiming to show us that the world is and always has been monotonous and empty then he has perhaps succeeded. 1/5
Tim Grierson, Screen International - Although there are plenty of lyrical moments, Zemeckis’ lack of restraint and some questionable narrative choices undo what should be a moving affair.
Ryan Lattanzio, indieWire - If you’ve ever passed through or lived in a house and wondered who was there before you “Here” will resonate. But if you have no curiosity, then there’s nothing, not a thing, ultimately here for you. B
Nick Schager, The Daily Beast - Affected and artificial to the point of aggravation, it’s an interminably draggy endeavor that gives the lie to its oft-spoken phrase, “Time flies.”
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club - Here is ultimately too simplistic to work as either a domestic drama or a deconstruction of the same—an experiment in storytelling that turns out to be an object lesson in undercooked ambition. C
Derek Smith, Slant Magazine - Here is all moments, some small and many big, but it’s lacking in gravitas, concerned as it is with tugging at our heartstrings by serving up little more than signifiers that we can project their own memories or personal baggage into. 1.5/4
Kristy Puchko, Mashable - Here is an experiment in framing and concept that fails. And yet, I'm in awe that Zemeckis did it. Even with the movie's rough edges, his passion and sentimentality is as clear as ever.
Alonso Duralde, The Film Verdict - Gives viewers the feeling of being an audience member at a play or, more appropriately, at Disneyland’s old Carousel of Progress attraction, where a rotating stage showed tourists the same living room over the course of decades.
Nell Minow, Movie Mom - The importance of showing, not telling is a lower priority here than the movie’s conceptual and technology gimmicks. B-
SYNOPSIS:
Reuniting the director, writer and stars of Forrest Gump, Here is an original film about multiple families and a special place they inhabit. The story travels through generations, capturing the most relatable of human experiences. Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Castaway, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Contact, Back to the Future) directs from a screenplay by Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Killers of the Flower Moon, Dune, A Star is Born) and him. Told much in the style of the acclaimed graphic novel by Richard McGuire on which it is based, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright star in a tale of love, loss, laughter and life, all of which happen right Here.
CAST:
- Tom Hanks as Richard Young
- Robin Wright as Margaret Young
- Paul Bettany as Al Young
- Kelly Reilly as Rose Young
- Michelle Dockery as Mrs. Harter
DIRECTED BY: Robert Zemeckis
SCREENPLAY BY: Eric Roth, Robert Zemeckis
BASED ON THE GRAPHIC NOVEL BY: Richard McGuire
PRODUCED BY: Robert Zemeckis, Derek Hogue, Jack Rapke, Bill Block
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Jeremy Johns, Andrew Golov, Thom Zadra
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Don Burgess
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Ashley Lamont
EDITED BY: Jesse Goldsmith
COSTUME DESIGNER: Joanna Johnston
MUSIC BY: Alan Silvestri
MUSIC SUPERVISOR: Joel Sill
VFX SUPERVISOR: Kevin Baillie
CASTING BY: Lucy Bevan
RUNTIME: 104 Minutes
RELEASE DATE: November 1, 2024
Top Comment:
Most of those reviews read as "Oh good job buddy, you really tried your best. Let's go out for pizza to make you feel better!"
Did anyone else hate Here?
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I will probably get negative responses for this post, but did anybody else hate Here? I love Tom Hanks movies and was really looking forward to this one. I thought it was so disjointed and lacking in a story line though that I was almost falling asleep. If I wanted to see everyday life in a house, I would sit in my own living room and watch TV. Anybody else have the same experience?
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Robert Zemeckis' 'Here' Review Thread
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Rotten Tomatoes: 23% (from 13 reviews) with 5.40 in average rating
Metacritic: 46/100 (7 critics)
As with other movies, the scores are set to change as time passes. Meanwhile, I'll post some short reviews on the movie. It's structured like this: quote first, source second. Beware, some contain spoilers.
Zemeckis for years now has been fixated on technology and its visual capabilities, to the point where he neglects the rudiments of story and character development. The vignettes here return frequently to the same families at different moments in their lives, but rarely settle in for long enough to sustain narrative momentum or give the characters much depth.
-David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
From “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” to “The Polar Express,” Zemeckis’ superpower has always been his pioneering spirit, while his kryptonite is a penchant for unearned sentimentality. “Here” fits that pattern to a tee, as Zemeckis dedicates his energy not to crafting fully dimensional characters, but to advancing the sort of “digital makeup” Martin Scorsese used to youthen the cast of “The Irishman,” effectively draining the project of the very thing he set out to celebrate: life.
If you’ve ever passed through or lived in a house and wondered who was there before you — whether Paul Bettany as a cranky boozer, Kelly Reilly as a stroke victim in a wheelchair, or Tom Hanks and Robin Wright as lovers who can’t seem to make it work but sure tried — “Here” will resonate. But if you have no curiosity, then there’s nothing, not a thing, ultimately here for you.
Robert Zemeckis reunites with the crew and (horribly de-aged) cast of Forrest Gump to turn a formally audacious comic into a visually lackadaisical film. Here tells the story of one family's living room from a single camera angle, which it attempts to transform into nostalgic sentiment about American history. But these self-imposed limitations yield no creative solutions, and with one hand tied behind its back, Here can merely gesture towards the ugliness and complexity of the culture it portrays.
-Siddhant Adlakha, IGN: 5/10 "mediocre"
Here is a noble experiment, and a welcome dose of originality in a year full of sequels, even if it doesn’t quite work on every level. For me, I tried mightily to resist its emotional pull, but by the end I finally surrendered to it and shed more than one tear in thinking about our ever-changing place on this earth and how we have to somehow hold on to what is good in this life, even in the darkest of times.
The de-ageing techniques used to make Hanks and Wright appear younger are skillfully executed, and the actors manage to create some achingly tender moments. But Zemeckis, as is often the case, cannot resist overdoing potentially poignant moments with cutesy flourishes or by amplifying Alan Silvestri’s string-laden score. The characters’ lack of definition may help them resonate with audiences, who will project their own fears about mortality, loss and failure onto these somewhat blank individuals. But while Zemeckis taps into something powerful about our desire to make our time here on Earth count, it’s bitterly ironic that what his film most needs is, in fact, more time — so we can understand these people better and give their universal anxieties and dreams more resonance.
Like watching Madame Tussaud’s mannequins in a community theater play, Here becomes more tiresome as it draws closer to its inevitable everybody-moves-out finale, and Zemeckis’ few socio-political nods — Bettany’s military veteran grumbling that no one thanked him for his service; Black parents schooling their son on the precise way to handle being pulled over by the cops — are simply empty gestures.
-Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
In many ways, Here is an experiment in framing and concept that fails. And yet, I'm in awe that Zemeckis did it. Even with the movie's rough edges, his passion and sentimentality is as clear as ever.
PLOT
The story covers the events of a single spot of land and its inhabitants, spanning from the past to well into the future.
DIRECTOR
Robert Zemeckis
WRITER
Eric Roth & Robert Zemeckis (based on the graphic novel by Richard McGuire)
MUSIC
Alan Silvestri
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Don Burgess
EDITOR
Jesse Goldsmith
RELEASE DATE
- October 25, 2024 (AFI Fest)
- November 1, 2024 (theaters)
RUNTIME
104 minutes
BUDGET
$80 million
STARRING
- Tom Hanks as Richard Young
- Robin Wright as Margaret
- Paul Bettany as Al Young
- Kelly Reilly as Rose Young
- Michelle Dockery as Mrs Harter
- Gwilym Lee as John Harter
Top Comment: There’s a slight chance that Bobby Z is not actually back
Here (2024) - What was that mess?
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At nearly two hours, Here (2024) feels like an endurance test rather than a film. While the de-aging technology used on Tom Hanks is undeniably impressive, it seems the filmmakers forgot that movies are supposed to have plots. The narrative, if you can even call it that, meanders without purpose, offering little in the way of character development or emotional engagement. Instead of a compelling story, we get a visually polished but ultimately empty experience. If you’re here for nostalgia, you might find some enjoyment—otherwise, there’s not much to hold onto....
Top Comment: I didn't mind it. I actually thought it could have had less plot. The graphic novel doesn't have a plot, just bounces around from the distant past to the future in that one space. The film should have gone to the future as well. As far as the de-aging, usually that doesn't work in movies, but it works in this because aside from that close-up shot of Robin that is in the trailer that looks like animation, the actors are at a remove from the camera. So you don't get the up-close view that can betray how artificial it looks.
Here - Official Trailer (HD)
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Top Comment: This is based on the fantastic graphic novel called Here by Richard McGuire . Each page is a splash page that jumps from year to year, showing one place on Earth over millions of years.
'Here': Robert Zemeckis's New Movie Spans a Century, but ...
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Here
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I have watched this movie three times. I do not see all the hate it got. Honestly I think it will be considered a masterpiece in a few years.
It’s finally a movie that takes a risk and it succeeds at it. Fantastic film all around. Robert Zemeckis does a wonderful job stitching together the multiple story lines and it’s interesting throughout.
Such a good movie I think everyone can get behind. It deserves a second and third watch.
Top Comment: the concept is interesting but the rest of the film just falls flat. the acting isnt all that great the writing is mediocre . i will say the scene when the baby flies o the sofa got a huge laugh from me though. What about the film do you think will make it be highly rated in the future?
Review of "Here"
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Here is another review from your friendly neighborhood review guy...
I was shocked at my immediate reactions to watching “Here”. Not only was it a ground-breaking film with its style, but the story was also a very emotional tale.
https://1guysmindlessmoviereviews.com/2024/11/10/here/
Top Comment: read the review. great way to summarize the movie. I too was disappointed how they had the ending. sometimes a movie doesnt have to have a happy ending but I wanted something with some sort of conclusion or meaning behind it. Instead it was tragedy after tragedy. It was heartbreaking. I thought Bettany was amazing. Zemeckis is an artful director and his movies are classic- my faves of his: Castaway, Back to future, Forrest Gump, Contact. This wasn't in his best movies. It was a very different vision and take and I liked it but I wished the plot was different in the latter half of the movie. Also what was the point of the Native American storyline? I felt it was so out of the blue and there was no tying to the other characters.