Robert Zemeckis’s golden touch has faded since the prior century, when his hit streak stretched from 1984’s “Romancing the Stone” through 2000’s “Cast Away.” Along the way, he won an Oscar for directing “Forrest Gump” (1994), the best picture winner that became one of the weirdest blockbusters in history and enshrined him as our national boomer laureate either in spite or because of its indecipherable politics..
