Roland Emmerich and the Towering Inferno
My first reaction to seeing Roland Emmerich’s latest movie in the fascinating genre of “Roland Uses CGI to Blow Stuff Up While Generic but Weakly Sympathetic Characters Run Away” was a big wide yawn that would have done credit to the MGM lion. My second reaction was a slightly weaker yawn. In Independence Day, we had the loosely plausible scenario (assuming you believe that aliens exist) of aliens arriving and blowing up the world’s major cities. In Godzilla we had the not very plausible but amusing scenario involving a mutated lizard produced by an atomic blast wrecking New York. In The Day After Tomorrow, it was global warming or something, in 2012 it’s the Mayan calendar. Run everyone, the Mayan calendar is coming to get you!
It’s funny how the special effects have gotten better, but the concepts for these movies have gotten much stupider.
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Stumble it!
