Oh no...Roland Emmerich directing
Please tell me he didn’t write the screenplay.
No and even better, neither did Dean Devlin.
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Well, I'm glad that SOMEBODY is doing this movie! After the original was done on a lower budget with almost no visual effects, just vintage combat footage, it is good that somebody is doing this. So, I wouldn't get too critical.
share“Somebody”...who took a big dump with “Independence Day: Resurgence”?
shareWell, no one else was going to do it. So, I don't care about Emmerich's misfires.
shareAnd his best film to date happens to be a war film. I'll withhold judgement. If it's as bad as Air Strike or Red Tails, it is what it is.
sharethe original was awesome
shareEmmerich has been hit and miss, and admittedly all his best movies were earlier in his career, but he's definitely made some good films.
Independence Day and The Patriot were both excellent. Stargate and The Day After Tomorrow were fairly good as well. And while a lot of people talked shit about it, I thought White House Down was a fun movie.
Yes, Independence Day: Resurgence sucked terribly, but I haven't lost faith in him just yet. Hopefully Midway will be great.
I hope so too.
But I’m getting really sick of some fuqwit casting Woody frickin’ Harrelson in everything from Hunger Games to Star Wars.
Is some ignorant GEEK fan of his in CENTRAL CASTING under the impression he’s a box office draw?
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I kinda agree about Woody. I don't dislike him, but he does seem like he wouldn't be the best choice for a lot of roles that he gets.
To be fair to him though, he was great in True Detective and he also did a really good job in Netflix's recent Bonnie & Clyde movie The Highwaymen.
He’s ROY f*cking MUNSON, for f*ck’s sake!!!
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None of the movies you mentioned were any good. And Independence Day was the worst out of the bunch. The only enjoyable one was Stargate and that’s because Russell saved the movie
shareI was born in 1954 and I also Fucking disagree with your assessment of those movies!
shareWith the exception of The Patriot...
Then you’re RETARDED
shareHa ha ha HA HAAA Ha ha!
With 3 Masters degrees, I do not see how!
Anyone who brags about 3 Masters is lying. Yep
shareIGNORANT AND EMBARRASSING.
shareEmmerich directing puts me off wanting to see this. Is it going to be full of stereotypes, cheese, cliches and be overly patriotic towards the Americans? Think I'll leave it.
shareEmmerich makes a point of saying in his director's commentary that most of the seemingly unbelievable stuff in the movie really happened. And Emmerich, like Clint Eastwood in LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA depicts the Japanese as human without glamorizing their cause or politically correcting them out of some of their less appealing behaior.
shareI was pleasantly surprised. The movie was well directed and had a decent script and good acting. Of course the action was over the top, and the explosions were crazy, but if a carrier has torpedoes and bombs lying around all over the deck, the explosion is going to be ginormous.
shareFortunately, he didn't. And unlike, say, the 1998 GODZILLA, he cared about the project.
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