Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily today's Thursday October 31st

2024 on today's very special very spooky episode of the show

we are going to do one of the scariest things I can think of rank these films of Robert Zemecis.

Terrifying directors in modern Hollywood.

My name is Ben Pearson. I am an editor at slashfilm.com and I'm joined on today's episode by

slash film editor Brad Omen. Hey that's me and at slash film editor and chief

film critic Chris Evangelista. Hello. All right guys so just before we really dig into this here, I think the arc is pretty clear when we're talking about Robert Somachus. I feel like nobody, I feel like it's a widely understood thing that this guy kind of shot out of a cannon in his first several movies and made some bona fide classics and then in the past, let's call it 20 years, he's kind of gotten lost in technology.

He's always been a filmmaker who's been obsessed with incorporating technology and

especially motion capture stuff into his work that kind of defined his work in the early 2000s and he's kind of lost his way a little bit.

There have been maybe little blips that we can talk about along the way of things where it seems like maybe he was returning to form a little bit, but when you have films like

Disney's Pinocchio and The Witches and Welcome to Marwin and things like that and your

filmography back to back no less with those three. That's a rough stretch for any

director. So I guess before we really kick things off here do any of you have any other thoughts about

Robert Zamechus aside from that sort of top-level analysis of the career

trajectory that he's had so far? I feel like that pretty much covers it.

You know, I think one of the other things that maybe to appreciate is that at the very least,

even like when the movies are underwhelming or even disappointing he still manages to get very good

performances out of the actors and that's largely because he's working with like incredible casts.

So I guess that's probably like a good thing.

And so even though he does let technology kind of

overshadow his skill as a filmmaker and that's become, you know, seemingly the most important part of his career these days.

You know, I suppose there are worse filmmakers out there.

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