The Polar Express Pitch Meeting
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Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks teaming up has been a recipe for box-office success, with collaborations like Forrest Gump and Cast Away receiving tons of awards and nominations. Critics seemed to change their tune a little when the pair brought “The Polar Express” to life, based on a short children’s picture book of the same name.
The Polar Express movie definitely raises some questions. Like why did they think they could make a non-horrifying animated kids movie using entirely motion capture? What’s up with that hobo? Why does “Hero Boy” spend a bunch of time trying to give a girl her ticket back? What’s up with Tom Hanks playing all these characters? How does the kid still not believe while standing in the middle of the North Pole? Why is this all so unsettling and scary?
To answer all these questions and more, step inside the Pitch Meeting that led to The Polar Express! It’ll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
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The fact that Santa exists in the movie but just blatantly doesn’t bring poor kids any gifts always cracked me up😂
well- I heard this from a different christmas movie. He gives good little girls and boys toys, and bad ones get coal? right? No, the poor ones get coal, it will keep their home warms and that is a better gift than any toy. But for the bad kids? they get nothing.
@@shanelawrence7438 why doesn't he bring them money, or food lol
@@ravensshade Weird because he brings candy and fruit in stockings
@@ravensshade Ok, A really expensive toy he can turn in for money... I'm looking at you PS 5!
Maybe he doesn't have the letter to send to santa
“Well you see he’s visibly poor. That’s gross. Santa hates that.” You know what... that sounds credible.
If Santa said it, it must be true
Well if you rearrange the letters that spell Santa in a specific way...you get Satan.
@@Zartoo_3rd_Overlord_ofBlargon7 And that leads to problems like devil worshippers selling their souls to Santa
@@wesleyoldham-cartoonsandtv1962 I'm sure at least one person with dyslexia sold their soul to santa on accident
@@wesleyoldham-cartoonsandtv1962 or on purpose
"The thing is this kid is visibly poor, and you know....that's gross, Santa doesn't like that."
I laughed so freaking hard at that. 🤣
Santa is known for his compassion.
i roflmaoed
Now Santa knows that you’ve been good and you want a ps4 but the reason you’re not gonna get it is ‘cous Santa hates the poor.
This was tooo funny bwahaha!
“Don’t they see Santa, like, every day?”
“Well they’re still pretty pumped about it”
My dog sees me every day and she’s still pretty pumped about it,
so your saying elf people are just dogs
@@ihavemadetoomanymistakesth1921 obviously not but I guess you can't comprehend that
@@ihavemadetoomanymistakesth1921 you're
@@JB_TheRock just wanted to make a silly response but fine act like a dick
@@ihavemadetoomanymistakesth1921 😂 it didn't work
As a kid, I never ever understood anything in this movie. Now, seeing this, I get why.
Read the book. It's beautiful.
My parent in laws have an inexplicable love for this awful movie, it’s one of my least favorite things about them
Yeah, but action with the train is awesome.
This is how I felt about Sharkboy and Lavagirl
@@helloemor how is it awful?
"It doesn't matter where my vehicle is going, it just matters that you get in" - The abductor
Sorry "conductor".
Tom Hanks.....if the rumors are true
@@barriolimbas What are those rumors then?
@@silvanvanderhorst7366 Better if you look them up yourself, its CZcams
Omfg
The Jews are not a fan of that line
''Did he have any railroad tracks outside his house?''
''No, why?''
''So, how did the train get there?''
''Unclear.''
MAGIK *Snort* *Snort*
fair enough!
The train is a symbol. "One thing about trains: It doesn't matter where there going, what matters is to deciding to get on." isn't how train works, it's how life works. A more actual variant can be "I will keep moving forward".
Okay... the whole quote is "I will keep moving forward until I exterminate the enemy!" (Shingeki no Kyojin) but this sounds a bit rough. The point is that you cannot plan life to it's end and whatever happens you must decide to go forward somehow.
@@schabe6419 Cringe
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 Sounds maybe less cringer when you know what he says when someone comment that he's murdering innocent children during his extermination:
"It's not over yet!" ... -_-
But back to the train metapher it's the same: Everyone has to make decisions... that doesn't mean you can change your direction by chosing another train but it's still a train then.
Another decision you're chosing and you cannot calculate where it ends but even when it's not the same time maybe you can take a train back.
"You can never take this back." is another quote in this scene so... for this character it's barely... an inconveneience... but even without a golden ticket... cause he can power a train with brutal force... can he easily switch direction...
a direction of peace and harmony... where all the blood is only tomato sauce... and the children and enemies are cute puppets... cute ripped smashed puppets without heads...
I give up. ^^
Life lesson: If you want the next train back, ask once again wether it's that train that's moving forward into starting a war.
The conductor managing to drift a train across a frozen lake is probably one of the most metal scenes in any movie
You're goddamn right XD
MuLtI-tRaCk DrIfTiNg!!!
I'm no locomotive expert, but can engines have inverted axles?? Not even regular cars have that, lol
oh, my goodness, that scene terrified me as a kid lol!
You mean the Engineer?
"Just have one guy play multiple characters? That's kind of a weird gimmick." LOL!!!
Funny thing about that; I totally was like “yeah, it is kind of a weird gimmick-“ and then orange shirt Ryan appeared and I remembered that Producer Guy and Writer guy are actually played by the same person too lol
Aren't Ryan George doing this??🤣
One guy playing multiple characters is TIGHT!
* alex hirsch has entered the chat*
I was 400th like!!!!!!
A joke about the movie’s dead-eyed characters was to change the title to Polar Expressionless.
Bipolar Expression
I was expecting ryan to say "that's the name of the movie!"when he said polar express
@@eclipsehorse8693 damn eclipse, you e re rally went there
Haha how do you come up with this?😂
666th like, looks like their expressionless faces are the harbingers of doom!
It’s so funny when Billie is singing about how Christmas doesn’t work out for him and he doesn’t get gifts and then the little girl starts singing about how Christmas is great and kids get gifts 😂😂😂
201 likes and no comments let me fix that
344 likes and only 1 comment let me fix that
Santa doesnt care about poor kids.
492 likes and only 2 comments about the likes to comment ratio, let me fix that
575 likes and one comment hoping that everyone who reads this far has a lovely day/morning/afternoon/evening/night.
I can't believe Ryan didn't mention the puppet car part. Or was that just a collective nightmare we all had?
I just remembered that after repressing it for so long. I don’t know why Polar Express and the motion-capture Christmas Carrol were so dedicated to terrifying audiences at Christmas time.
I actually had a nightmare about that once it was terrifying
I was 17 before I could fully survive that scene
@@shockning i still will leave the room when it comes on.
Dude that scene was absolutely terrifying
“He’s probably a ghost, He’s probably dead, whose to say though?”
*Literally shows him disintegrating*
Iunno. People did that in Avengers and we're eventually alive.
@@thenewlollipopjam8248 Yeah, but the point was that they were dead until they were brought back to life.
@@thenewlollipopjam8248 context
@@greywolf7577 were they really dead though? Or did they just turn invisible?
@@Mimyakko my god... imagine someone marrying another person and their wife/husband is right there watching.
This movie honestly feels like a Christmas themed fever dream
Don't think about it too much. I didn't!
I used to watch this movie like once every couple of months when I was about 8 lol
@@doncorleole2356 I watched it only once for the first time when I was 17 lol
that is exactly how i felt watching it one time as a kid
The hobo is pretty scary.
"Don't think about it too much, I didn't." That's too accurate for a lot of writers these days.
Have you seen most shitty older films? This isn't a new thing lol
I watched this a week ago and only just realized that the poor kid literally MET SANTA and probably STILL doesn't get gifts at Christmas....
Santa really does hate that...
He gets a gift
@@rosykindbunny1313 yep, one 🎁. I still think it's sad that it's probably his only Christmas ever and he had to go all the way to the north pole to get it. 😕
@@Christina-he7bm Yeah he gets a "gift" after santa takes 2 tries remembering the poor kids name and the gift is the gift of friendship. Santa is a cheap shitter. They leave instantly after and the poor kid gets jackshit and probably never meets the other kids again as he obviously lives in some slum downtown.
@@Jebu911 who hurt you ? he gets a big gift that he said he wanted for his entire life and an apology letter from santa
@@aryaxz2255
...and there's always Toys for Tots...
He brings up a good point about all “Santa is real” universes. When people the world over are getting gifts under their tree that they clearly didn’t buy, how can anyone reasonably doubt he exists, given the tons of proof?
That Problem is in every santa movie ever...
The parents just assume they bought the gifts.
The mother just thinks the father bought the gifts, and vice versa!
wait, so you're telling me not a single parent has ever asked the other parent where the other gifts came from? I never knew terrible communication between parents was such an a univeral problem
Magic
Did anyone else notice that the characters are actually referred to as “Hero Boy” or “Know it all” if you search up the cast
Oh wow, just looked it up, and ur right 😂
@@BundasaurusPecs same lol
Yes
Hero boys name is Chris and hero girls name is Holly.
@@The_Hush_Dragon Very subtle
The way his expression fell when he mentioned the kid getting into a stranger's vehicle made me wheeze
“But in a fun Christmas way!”
That line made me think of Harry Potter
0:14 His smile slowly fading away kills me.
These pitch meetings are just getting better and better. Don't get me wrong, the earlier ones are still hilarious, but there is a visible increase in quality over time, and the characters' personalities have developed so much. Every single pitch meeting is top notch, even when I haven't seen the actual movie
For sure. Ryan didn't have the goofy constant smile in the first ones so those feel a bit more serious to me. The latest ones are TIGHT.
It was super easy barely an inconvenience
They really are getting better. It's amazing.
Something happened during 2018, none of those are funny
yup, i watched pitch meetings from 2 years ago and the recent ones are definitely better in quality
"What is going on?"
"I don’t know. Things, for sure."
The whole movie in a nutshell
I actually used "Super easy! Barely an inconvenience." when an engineer at my company thanked me for making a change to a drawing that he needed pretty quickly. He never questioned it.
“Don’t give it a lot of thought; I didn’t”
“Okay!”
😂😂😂
Semicolons are tight!
Ryan : "This kid is visibly poor right. So......"
Me : "Aw a heartfelt moment"
Ryan : "That is gross, Santa hates that"
I have never laughed so hard at any moment in all the pitch meeting series. 😂😂
Makes me think of your favourite martians song “Santa hates poor kids”
I was about to say the same thing. . .I almost choked on a Christmas peppermint. . .worth it though :D
Same!
That really was so unexpected..... it made it that much more hilarious.
You also get murdered unless you have a golden ticket. The movie sounds like NWO propaganda to me. I wonder how the ghosts fit in.
Screen Rant: "Doyou think we'll be able to get our viewers a Christmas present?"
Ryan: "Actually it's gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience."
Screen Rant: "Oh really?"
Ryan: “Giving presents is tight”............
Ryan: "I need you to get off my back about this!"
Me: *sees a new pitch meeting on a Friday *
Me: Wow wow wow wow
Seeing this catchphrase in the comments after EVERY SINGLE ONE of these videos is TIGHT
Absolutely love this movie. It was my first film that I saw in theaters. My parents said that I came out of it saying “It was big and loud” Then I had a nightmare about the puppets and have skipped that scene ever since even though I’m an adult now
"Just have one guy playing multiple characters? Seems like a weird gimmick..."
Third Ryan: " anyone want coffee?"
🤣🤣🤣
I was hoping for many more Ryans after that.
I've watched so many Ryan George videos that I literally did not notice the joke for a moment.
People probably also miss it when Ryan made a joke about how the people in charge to give choco have a similar face and later the other Ryan gives a choco
Ryan knows we need reminders that he's only one person.
"But when he gets into a stranger's vehicle in the middle of the night, his whole life is going to change" 😂😂😂
"Oh god"
@@spongebobsquarepants2981 "No,no. In a fun Christmas way."
@@ShiftNova oh ok thank goodness.
I was like WHAT???
Ooooft
Plot summarized:
“Don’t think about it too much...I didn’t!”
This Movies plot is basically about Young Tom Hanks who gets peer-pressured onto Tom Hanks Time-Travelling Train, gets Hot Chocolate from Tom Hanks Chef Army, meets Tom Hanks above the Train, and meets God Hanks at the North Pole, so Young Tom Hanks faith is restored in Tom Hanks.
In fact, don't even watch it at all. That's the best way of not dedicating one moment of your time to thinking about it.
Are you the Jedi Master Coleman Kacj reincarnated?
*"But then he does hear it ring and he gets to see terrifying Tom Hanks Santa Claus"*
Best Ryan line ever
The way his face fell at the beginning is just Ryan flexing his acting on us
My favorite Christmas movie
"Tom Hanks is Every Character: The Polar Express."
Featuring Tom Hanks. And Tom Hanks. And Tom Hanks. And also, Tom Hanks.
Rob Schneider iiiiiisssss.... A STAPLER!!!
This was your favorite christmas movie? Die Hard would like to know your location.
“When he gets into a strangers vehicle in the middle of the night, his whole life is gonna change”
“....oh god”
“No but in a fun Christmas way”
“Oh okay, thank goodness”
Only a few seconds in and already laughing my ass off.
Me too.
I LOVED the genuinely HORRIFIED look on Producer Guy's face!
Anytime the producer guy’s face changes I start laughing😂
"It's like Kirk Cameron's 1991 film 'A Little Piece of Heaven'!"
"Aha, very nice, sounds festive! What's that one about?"
"Well, it starts with Kirk Cameron abducting an orphaned black child to make him work on his farm!"
[Face slowly falls]
That was so damn funny!
I had to replay the video 🤣🤣🤣
after watching so many of these pitch meetings I've come to realize just how many times I've had to suspend my disbelief to actually enjoy the movies
This is favorite adaptation of the Scrooge story ever, for real. We got a main character that doesn't believe in Santa, a poor kid, an optimistic side character, 3 kind of magical guys that all play a part into changing the main character's view (the conductor, the ghost hobo, and Santa), and a magical adventure that happens when the main character goes to sleep on Christmas Eve where they wake up with their new perspective and changed attitude. Love it
I cant believe Ryan gave is this Christmas gift. He usually posts on sunday tho. Love you Ryan. MERRY CHRISTMAS
Ryan giving us a Christmas gift is tight!
Tsk tsk tsk...
How could you not believe in Ryan?
Do we have to put you in a random train too?
@@MasterBlek Nooo please. Forgive my insolence 😭😭😭
@@danielopeoluwa9946 Too late!
The vehicle with the stranger is waiting for you!
Prepare for The Change of Your Life!!!!
@@MasterBlek Oh my God
"You guys want a coffee?"
"Scalding hot, directly into my mouth. Don't you let it cool! Don't let it cool at all!"
🤣🤣
Thermodynamicaly impossible orders are tight!
“Yeah, he’s pretty into that.”
Everyone has their fetishes! 🤷♂️
I just read this while the dialogue just happened in the video (forgive my english)
yes, we watched the video, too.
I genuinely forget you're just one person sometimes.
0:09 Holy...
"So is this a musical?" "Occasionally, sure." That just described pretty much every musical ever.
Les Miserables sung every word, right? (Heard that from Robot Chicken lol, so a grain of salt!)
@@TragoudistrosMPH One of the only ones I like
Hamilton's pretty rhythmic, start to finish.
Anyway, it's all relative. Imagine a show running ninety minutes. If it only has four musical numbers, an audience member who's never seen a musical might say that's a lot.
But say there are nine songs in ninety minutes. Isn't that starting to stretch the definition if we call those songs occasional?
@@TragoudistrosMPH Les Miserables is technically an operetta because there are no spoken words (outside of various exclamations made within songs).
I feel like any type of show would seem unrealistic or stale if it were all musical numbers.
Writer: "Don't think about it too much. I didn't!"
Ryan keeps up this channel because writers don’t think about their scripts too much. That’s.. fair enough.
I shot egg nog through my nose when he said that 😂
Not thinking about things is tight!
I like how Ryan was aware enough that we’d forget he’s taking to himself so he introduced the coffee guy around the 3 minute mark to remind us. Very clever
2:36 I don't feel too well Mr Stark
“Terrifying Dead Hobo Tom Hanks”
I swear Ryan is the only reason I’m subscribed to this channel
There’s other stuff on here?
Oh wait that's not Ryan's channel?
A hobo that looks like he has a WW2 era infantry helmet? Is the hobo Private Ryan? DID THEY ACTUALLY FAIL IN SAVING HIM?
Ryan is the only reason for MOST of Screenrants subscribers.
Yup
Me every morning of my two and a half years as a barista: "Hey, you want some espresso?" "YES I DO, SCALDING HOT, RIGHT INTO MY MOUTH."
I feel like this is the only way to prepare coffee, tea, hot chocolate, etc...
🤣🤣🤣
Do you serve the espresso with 8 identical twins?
Loved it when "intern Ryan" came in and asked for coffee!
"a weird, hauntingly empty industrial city"- so on point, lolol
Much like FG's New Haven CT North Pole joke 🎅🏼
Merry Christmas, Ryan!
Merry Christmas
wut he sed
Trash grammar
Grammar and spelling are two different things. Mary chrismas
@@Marctersmantoll merry Christmas
Poor kid: Why havent you brought me toys?
Santa: You are visibly poor, and I hate that.
3:55 is super funny to me, cuz my stand told me a story how he was really poor growing up and on his street was pretty much all the poor people and the next street over were nice houses and middle class people. He said as a kid "Why doesnt Santa ever get us anything for Christmas like the other kids." His friend said "Santa doesnt like poor people" Him and his friends were all sad and kept playing soccer with a taped ball.
Its sad, but my dad told it to me as a funny story. he always makes light of his early life.
"See, this kid is visibly poor and Santa thinks that's kinda gross"
Jesus this is hilarious and sad at the same time.
Ryan playing multiple characters has convinced me so much that they’re actually different people so when he made the joke about one person playing multiple characters, it took me a minute to get it
OOOOOOOOOOH
When I first started watching these, I actually thought they were twins. I was kind of bummed out when I found out it was only the one guy.
Yep, the joke didn't register until he blatantly pointed it out.
I'm inclined to believe that the writers were high when they made this movie.
Well yes, but high off,what?
@@Saint_nobody hmmmmm
All writers are high.
@@jimmym3352 Am a writer. Can confirm.
It had writers?
I never know what to think about this movie's animation. It remembers me too much of ps1 textures, but at the same time it's very good for 2004.
Think of it as a cartoon. Personally, I think it’s kinda creepy.
The one thing about my windowless van filled with candy, it doesn’t matter where it’s going, what matters is deciding to get in.
"When he gets in some stranger's vehicle at night his whole life changes."
"Oh god"
Ryan has gotten SO GOOD at letting all life drain from his eyes at these moments lately.
@@michaela8395 yes indeed he has.
Guy1: "If Santa is real, why doesn't he just bring this kid toys at Christmas?"
Guy2: "Well see the thing is, this kid is visibly poor, right, so that's kind of gross...and Santa hates that."
Guy1: "Fair Enough."
"But Santa oppresses the proletariat." -- MST3K
And santa is a racist he don't give me or anybody in my country presents
@Akshay 786 Oh no, the rich families that don't pay taxes have the MOST presents!
@Akshay 786 That doesn't make sense. A taxation system is a vital part of any socialist economy.
Ohh classism is TIGHT! (Totally a word)
"But when he gets into a stranger's vehicle in the middle of the night, his whole life is going to change"
"Oh god"
I almost choked on the grapes i was eating at this part
The style of the movie is so freaky its like if they wanted to make a realistic graphic type movie but gave up half way
"Just the most annoying and arrogant kid you can imagine." Worse than Janet from The Magic School Bus? Yikes.
Yes. Worse than Janet.
“People will want attack the theater screen”
I really doubt there's a worse character than Janet. She bought a star just to mess with their gift plan
@@floricel_112 Joffrey? Frodo?
@@seantds619 neither are kid's shows
"One thing about trains. It doesn't matter where they're going. What matters is deciding to get on."
Does this include a "train of thought"? Because I'm not sure they knew where this one was going.
It's going to crash, I'm pretty sure.
Savage 😂
Whoops!
See, this movie has, like, very few redeeming qualities - if any - but I still honestly love it. Nostalgia reasons. Any time in school we had a Christmas movie party or we were picking something to watch after finishing finals before winter break, this movie was chosen a lot. Reminds me of good times and having fun with my classmates 🥰
The hobo is based on a lot of old stories common among rail crews. Any old timey career where it was common to die on the job had similar stories, sometimes involving supernatural creatures or folkloric figures. For example the song Big John and stories of kobolds for miners.
Back when model trains were a big thing kids were into the stories were kind of known. Since the kid is vaguely in the 50’s and has a model train its safe to assume he’s aware of stories of ghost hobos or living incarnations of the season helping travelers and railroad workers.
"So what are the characters' names?"
"Oh, they don't have ones."
"What?"
"Yeah, I didn't feel like naming them, you know."
"But why, screenwriter guy?"
"I don't know, producer guy, I just didn't."
😂😂👏👏
Can't wait to see your Wonder Woman 1984 pitch, it has barely an inconvenience all over it. Dry comedy, it ain't.
That movie was just...😔 A bland, confusing, Wonder Woman-Irrelevant, 2 hour mess
No it wasn't. How dare you.
I mean, if he's been hanging around her all this time, shouldn't he know what a trash can is?
We just move on lol
@@HanalaSagal Exactly.
That "Oh they do?" at 3:39 is priceless. It's basically a shorthand way of saying "Yeah sure, that might as well happen too," and it perfectly captures the way I felt about all the filler in the movie! :)
This was the first pitch meeting I saw. Admittedly, I never really completely understood the attitudes people have with this movie, just never clicked for some reason. Fortunately, Ryan was able to break it down in a way that made understanding it super easy, barely an inconvenience
In case some people don't know yet, Ryan is a youtuber & has his own YT channel on his name "Ryan George" and he posts many fun videos.
I just feel this needs to be mentioned in each video because Screen Rant are doing poor credits for him, not a single mention of his channel, just his twitter user!
He's among my very favorite CZcamsrs. His videos always crack me up.
Yeah his channel should at least be in the description
To be honest, cuz humor very much resembles my dad's sense of humor lol
By the way, my dad was the one who introduced me to the pitch meetings lol
I came to screen rant after discovering and watching every episode Ryan George has made
@@herbnfizz4113 Same
Pitcher: But when he gets into a strangers vehicle in the middle of the night, his whole life changes!
Exec: ..... Oh GoD!
that KILLED me XD
yeah that was gold
@@KnightRaymund Ryan George's writing is hilariously BRILLIANT XD
When I was in elementary school, our computer lab supervisor went to school with Chris Van Allsburg. He was her friends younger brother. She said he was always super polite and passionate about art. I just thought it was a neat story, as his books and the movies of them have always been some of my favorite
I'm glad Intern Ryan showed up after the "that's kind of a weird gimmick", since I'm so used to it at this point I would have missed the joke
"He gets into a strangers van and his whole life is gonna change"
Ryan: *shocked* "oh god"
O gawd 😲
It ok he enjoyed the Ride 😉
Yep that got immediately dark 😂
@Fentanyl Floyd ohhhhh little boys are TIGHT
*Knock on the door*
"FBI OPEN UP"
Maybe that was the kidnapped Ryan from "The first guy to ever kidnap someone" -video and he got some PTSD?
Pitch Meeting > Honest Trailers > Cinemasins
Don’t forget to put CinemaWins between Pitch Meetings and Honest Trailers
I'd but CS over HT but to each their own :)
Birdman's "everything wrong with cinemasins" > Cinemasins
@@mastodon0124 most things > Cinemasins
The souless eyes of the Polar Express
I frickin lost it at the part where the ticket hits some hobo in the face, I- 🤣😂👌✨
Back in my elementary school years, every year right before Christmas break, we'd have Pajamas Day. Everytime, they'd play this movie. It's nice to see people roasting this movie over a decade later. 😂
I love how Ryan talked about Tom hanks playing everyone as a self-referential joke but it was hidden because of the hot chocolate joke
""One thing about trains. It doesn't matter where they're going... Because we'll be together!"
*INCEPTION EXPRESS*
I can’t believe you didn’t mention how the conductor Tokyo drifts a train
And how the train is sometimes a roller coaster.
Multi-Ice Track drifto
"Deja vu I've just been in this place before..."
Don't worry it's gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
But the conductor wasn’t driving the train he was just shouting commands at the engineer from the roof of the cab
Bro I love how Ryan always finds a way for every movie to make no sense
Alright I love your stuff Ryan but I have a bone to pick with you. The know it all kid is HILARIOUS. An absolute cinematic experience. He makes me laugh every time
“It doesn’t matter where the train is going”
-1940s German soldier.
It doesn't matter where the train is going
What matters is our plan
Oh god.
You're waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope the train will take you, but you can't know for sure. Yet it doesn't matter. Now, tell me why?
@@JohnDoe-wl2ou because the destination is always uncertain. Whether it's a trip or life in general. You might have plans once you arrive or you might just simply die. Just don't keep your hopes up till you reach. And enjoy the ride till you arrive. Enjoy the present as long as it lasts. And when you arrive, if you arrive at your desired (or not desired) destination, plan and do accordingly.
Merry Christmas partner.
Dude, that's messed up
"Tom Hanks the whole dang thing" could have been the entire pitch and it still would have been greenlit.
It probably was
The polar express:
The children's names: Baby I'm not even here, Imma hallucination
0:34, had to pause to check that balding child. interesting character design
The live action Scooby Doo movie is in need for a Pitch Meeting.
I thought he already did them
Which one? There were four.
@Shrek Wazowski why Redacted?
@Shrek Wazowski yeah I see 🙈
I love how he didn't just make up random names for these characters and he's calling them the actual names that the writers gave them. That's only something you know if you know
Exactly. You wouldn't have known that if you didn't know that
@@mr.e7541 and I did know that.
@@thegrimmretails3777 But imagine if you didn’t! Then you wouldn’t have!
I can't imagine not knowing that and knowing it at the same time.
The writer admitting he doesn’t care or didn’t give it any thought (when questioned about an obvious plot hole) describes 90% of the Hollywood films to come out since 2010…
This PM was perfect, Ryan. Thank you for all that hard work and entertainment value. 🍻 ❤️
Number of motion-capture animated kids' movies that I can think of: 4
Number of those movies that were atrocious box-office bombs: Also 4
What's the 4th?
"He's literally standing in the North Pole surrounded by elves."
"Yeah, that's not cutting it for this kid--he's still like, 'Eh, maybe not.'"
"Oh, *very* high standards."
I don't get it.
@@Hamburgers4Haiti he still doesnt believe in santa even though he is surrounded by elves.
@@lyidspino7653 What do you mean?
@@Hamburgers4Haiti Santa is known to make toys for children with the help of his elves. This happens in the North Pole. Santa delivers the toys the night before Christmas. His elves are the ones that make the toys. Elves are made up and often shown to be pointy-eared children.
Since the kid is at the place where the toys are made and sees the mythical creatures that make the toys, it's still kind of crazy that the boy doesn't believe in Santa since everything else related to Santa he is able to see.
@@Lilyrobbins101 I'm not following. You're not making any sense.
Ten thousand of us just searched "people attacking the screen at a Polar Express screening" and somewhere a Google engineer is puzzled by the sudden surge in traffic for random subject
I almost died at 3:50
Man this is my favorite pitch meeting. It makes me laugh so hard. I love these pitch meetings so much, they're hilarious.
The true meaning of Christmas, money.
-Mr. Krabs (obviously)
Oh, money is tight!
@@youwanagethi til it's not. Everything burns.
Cashing in on Christmas is super easy barely an incovenience
Zemekis just can't shake this convention on his his high yield films, Back to the future, Forrest Gump, a CC, but to be fair,the cgi films were designed to be seen in IMAX 3D(money again) but the experience was worth it.
Is Zemeckis' Christmas Carol a Horror Film?
Absolutely.
i watched this when i was young those dolls you didn't mention were the scariest thing
Honestly Hanks deserves all the money this movie made for having him play half of the characters. And the same goes for Ryan
Technically Hank deserves half for playing half, and Ryan deserves all for playing all. *Channeling annoying know-it-all kid from movie*
Hanks deserves NOTHING.
@@arugulaempire8779 You mispelled everything.
"Oh no...I guess" is my new catchphrase for all faux-intense scenes
‘This kids visibly poor, and that’s kinda gross ....Santa hates that’
I just died 🤣
Best part about it is even when he meets the real santa he still didnt get anything except the "gift of friendship"
@@Jebu911 ...yeeea, I forgot about that, and I mean it's not like he lives anywhere NEAR those kids...and it's probably pretty unlikely he has the internet to keep in touch😆.
@@daboz8753 Yeah he definitely lives in some downtown slum with no way to reach his new friends haha :D Also, he made those friends himself it's not like santa had much to do about it except the train ride.
Love your pitch meetings, Ryan! I keep watching them. I would love to see you do a pitch meeting for Law Abiding Citizen and/or Gamer. :)
"I am afraid the animation might look unnatural and horrifying."
"But think of it like this: aren't all animation unnatural?"
"Wow, you just completely destroyed my argument. Let's do it."
the dark side of the force is a path to many unnatural abilities, oh wait, wrong movie
@@astridpreston2174 The Prequels are always the right movie.