Our review of the paranoid, conspiratorial, alternate-history disaster film from Master of Cinematic Disasters, Roland Emmerich. See where liking Independence Day got us? Do you see?!?!?
Our review of the paranoid, conspiratorial, alternate-history disaster film from Master of Cinematic Disasters, Roland Emmerich. See where liking Independence Day got us? Do you see?!?!?
When I pretended that this movie was supposed to be a comedy I almost enjoyed it. Unfortunately it kept trying to be moving and sincere and that just ruined all the fun I was having. Cheer while the useless rich and their servants survive the end of the world! Uggh.
The story only becomes fun again when I imagine the inevitable re-enactment of Lord of the Flies. With cannibalism.
At least that would’ve provided some justification for the presence of Cusacks’ stupid kids. They do less than nothing in this movie, existing only to tick another box on the checklist of Things Movies Must Have To Be Successful These Days.
Your experience parallels my own to an astonishing degree…which is exactly what I hoped would be the case. As a director, Emmerich may continually fail to make good movies, but in spite of himself (and his producer/writers) he’s made some of the best Rifftrax fodder of the last decade.
You seemed to look down on how the story revolves around John Cusack (a failure) and his broken family, which I think is extremely similar to that Spielbergs War of the worlds and how Tom Cruise plays his character, making the entire narrative bend to show his transformation into a good caring dad, do you think that Steve plays off this whole self-realisation theme better than Emmerich does?
Also, from this moment on im going to dedicate atleast 20% of my time on the internet into making ‘…its russian’ a well-known meme 😛