See the room in the center of the trailer “Here”

Normally we try to be high-spirited about even the worst trailers, but there comes a point when someone knows and loves a thing too much to enjoy an adaptation of it. Sometimes it’s deserved, sometimes it’s not, and of course it’s all biased, but it’s better to admit all of this up front rather than harbor bullshit until release day. What we mean is that you’re going to be reading a lot over the next few months about Robert Zemeckis’ epic and ambitious project. Here is, and you should view him with the same frustrated skepticism that everyone has had about his work since he created The Polar Express. Why? Well, it’s because there is basically certainly not that it can capture what made Richard McGuire’s high-art comic strip so devastating and moving. Seriously, you can find the original six-page story online, and it will give you an idea of ​​what the work is supposed to be like: haunted, tragic, anything other than the kind of boomer nostalgia that man seems terminally attracted. has.

Here is the story of a single room in a family home, presented from the same perspective over time, told non-chronologically. It’s the kind of comic made specifically for this medium, and the translation to screen will likely fail to capture what makes it special, especially in its pacing. You control the speed at which this “story” – more of an assemblage of details that can slowly be pieced together into a narrative rather than something structured – unfolds, focusing on what you would like to focus on. As much as he should be commended for his ambition in trying to adhere to the details of the job like the obstructions assigned to him by Lars Von Trier (good thing Tom Hanks and Robin Wright wanted to play, because it shouldn’t have been a task easy). conversation with the studio), he is already overcomplicating things with this aging and garish digital production design. Print out a nostalgic bingo card based on this trailer released earlier Wednesday. We think you won’t even need free space to fill at least two lines.

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There is no synopsis suitable for a project like this, so we recommend just going ahead and checking out the book. Or maybe not, because you’ll end up jaded and frustrated by the whole ordeal like us.

Anyway, Here hits theaters on November 15. We promise we’ll keep an open mind, at least now that we’ve got this out.