I had to double check and make sure that Roland Emmerich was actually still working. Sure enough, he has an upcoming secret service summer blockbuster starring Channing Tatum and a number of rather impressive names, going by the title White House Down. So if that’s good I may end up having to eat these words later. For now, it is to revel in the garbage he has put out recently.
I’m not saying he was ever this brilliant filmmaker, but Independence Day was a solid summer movie, even if its special effects in hindsight look even more dated than they actually are. Still, it was a fun movie. I wouldn’t call it amazing but I don’t think of it as a bad movie either. 2012, on the other hand, while tremendously fun to watch, was an absolute mess of a movie. 10,000 BC wasn’t even enjoyable, and The Day After Tomorrow looked incredible at the time but was a bit of a joke. Anonymous was basically dismissed out of hand. It’s tough to imagine that Emmerich will ever recover and return to even the midlevel status of a movie like Independence Day.
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Published: Mar 8, 2013 02:25 pm