J.L.R.
12-16-2009, 04:31 PM
It seems that for the last couple of years, Roland Emmerich seems destined to out-destroy his last movie, with each new one being even less interesting than the last.
His career started out with the indie sci-fi cult film, Moon 44, where he met newbie screenwriter, Dean Devlin.
The duo later created Stargate, of which had a bit of success and spawned the famous sci-fi tv series.
Roland then blew away the audiance with ID4. It was a ton of fun, despite the cooky-cutter story, with all the cliches you could possibly imagine. Imagine... nerds...wearing glasses... OMG! I almost expected Goldblum to have a pocket protector...
D & E sort of had a falling out though, after their next monster project, "Godzilla" bombed. In truth, I still don't understand the decisions that were made about the movie. I guess the studio saw it as being made by the same guys who made ID4 and thought it was going to be a hit. Unfortunately there weren't any trained monkeys on hand to spot the horrific plot holes in the cheese script... and thus it was born.
Roland would go on to create the EPIC failure, "Day After Tomorrow" of which was crowned as Global Warmings epic wake-up call, but as soon as the audiance saw how utterly rediculous the plot was, we realized the Global Warming is REALLY that rediculous, and now all of those poor scientists who lied, and or manipulated data, to further the greenbacks of politicians, are having an inconvienent truth. :D
D.A.T. was a disaster, and so Roland then created 10,000 BC, of which defied the simple logic of land travel, as I guess in prehistoric earth, people could get from the North American rockies to ancient Egypt in a matter of days.
So how was he going to out do himself...
Here comes 2012: The End of the Earth or... "Killer Nutrinos Create Epic Special Effects".
The movie is so rediculous, that you NEVER feel remotely concerned about anybody in the movie. You would think a movie about the world ending would be epically emotional, but no... it isn't. It is hard to take a story serious when you have actors talking about mundane life issues, as countless millions are falling, being flayed, frying, being crushed in the windows behind them. For a second, I was worried that they were going to start talking about the importance of choosing the right drapperies on the air plane.
Folks the plot defies the imagination, by all accounts. Michael Bay could even come up with a better plot, than this. Through out the entire movie, your heroes amazingly enough escape situations that scienficially would have been IMPOSSIBLE to escape. Then again, as with Day After Tomorrow, science plays very little importance, or than the tech used to create the stunning effects.
This movie is BAD... BAAAAD... It is enjoyable only to those who enjoy watching the newest CGI tech, because everything else is so unrealistic, that it boggles the mind.
Deep Impact, is still one of my favorite disaster movies. While it had its far share of "silly" moments, it had a lot of heart, and brought tears to your eyes.
Rent/Buy Deep Impact... forget 2012...
His career started out with the indie sci-fi cult film, Moon 44, where he met newbie screenwriter, Dean Devlin.
The duo later created Stargate, of which had a bit of success and spawned the famous sci-fi tv series.
Roland then blew away the audiance with ID4. It was a ton of fun, despite the cooky-cutter story, with all the cliches you could possibly imagine. Imagine... nerds...wearing glasses... OMG! I almost expected Goldblum to have a pocket protector...
D & E sort of had a falling out though, after their next monster project, "Godzilla" bombed. In truth, I still don't understand the decisions that were made about the movie. I guess the studio saw it as being made by the same guys who made ID4 and thought it was going to be a hit. Unfortunately there weren't any trained monkeys on hand to spot the horrific plot holes in the cheese script... and thus it was born.
Roland would go on to create the EPIC failure, "Day After Tomorrow" of which was crowned as Global Warmings epic wake-up call, but as soon as the audiance saw how utterly rediculous the plot was, we realized the Global Warming is REALLY that rediculous, and now all of those poor scientists who lied, and or manipulated data, to further the greenbacks of politicians, are having an inconvienent truth. :D
D.A.T. was a disaster, and so Roland then created 10,000 BC, of which defied the simple logic of land travel, as I guess in prehistoric earth, people could get from the North American rockies to ancient Egypt in a matter of days.
So how was he going to out do himself...
Here comes 2012: The End of the Earth or... "Killer Nutrinos Create Epic Special Effects".
The movie is so rediculous, that you NEVER feel remotely concerned about anybody in the movie. You would think a movie about the world ending would be epically emotional, but no... it isn't. It is hard to take a story serious when you have actors talking about mundane life issues, as countless millions are falling, being flayed, frying, being crushed in the windows behind them. For a second, I was worried that they were going to start talking about the importance of choosing the right drapperies on the air plane.
Folks the plot defies the imagination, by all accounts. Michael Bay could even come up with a better plot, than this. Through out the entire movie, your heroes amazingly enough escape situations that scienficially would have been IMPOSSIBLE to escape. Then again, as with Day After Tomorrow, science plays very little importance, or than the tech used to create the stunning effects.
This movie is BAD... BAAAAD... It is enjoyable only to those who enjoy watching the newest CGI tech, because everything else is so unrealistic, that it boggles the mind.
Deep Impact, is still one of my favorite disaster movies. While it had its far share of "silly" moments, it had a lot of heart, and brought tears to your eyes.
Rent/Buy Deep Impact... forget 2012...