Emmerich went to university like, "I can make a new 2001: A Space Odyssey" and proceeded to shit out with way too large a budget this poorly mixed and weirdly dubbed over itself string of what feels a fuckton like references to other prominent space movies. Discount Mark Hamill and Willem Dafoe have some hilarious moments and the last like 15 minutes were very amusing, but this did not need to be as long as it was.
For his first…
This movie captures everything that makes Roland Emmerich so compellingly bad as a director, and why we love him. It's a cascade of stereotypes and Americanism and sums up his approach to movie-making in the most perfect way possible when Matthew Broderick asks what's up with all the gum.
"It makes us look more American."
The dude loves cinema. His movies draw such audaciously apparent inspiration from what he perceives as classics (especially Spielberg, which is also seen here), but…
Ever since a couple days ago when I commented that Dennis Quaid and Sam Neill look kinda similar, I cannot stop watching horror movies that have one of the two of them in it. They are the two best Scream Queens I've ever seen.
Come to think of it, how can we be sure Dennis Quaid isn't actually the Substance version of Sam Neill?
Now I know what you're saying. "Bdbd, that makes no goddamn sense, Dennis Quaid is still…
In almost every single way, this is a step down from the first film. But at least I learned a lot about ankylosauruses! Who knew they were vicious carnivores with brains all throughout their body for agility purposes? School really is good for nothing.
Boromir goes from being most hated to most lovable to most hated to most lovable over the course of a couple hours and it's wonderful
I did NOT remember this being a musical. That said, the goblin numbers were absolute fucking fire.
Probably the dumbest movie I've seen this year, and it was epic. I think it could have done with another random group of ninja antagonists or two, but it lived up to the hype.
Simuled with than and puppie
Yeah, I just watched it, and I'm already rewatching it. And you know something? I'll fucking do it again.
Simuled with kusa
I fucking lied the other day. I said that In the Mouth of Madness is probably the best that cosmic horror in film has to offer, but then I watched this.
This genuinely might be my favorite movie of all time.
Actually I lied again. It is.
Simuled with than
I can appreciate a lot of what this movie tries to do, from the themes and ideas to the way it toys with you. I also was pretty fond of the end and its reveals, the way it mashed Korean and Western spirituality, and the unpredictability of the story.
On the other hand, I find a small portion of the ambiguity to be problematic. I enjoyed analyzing and theorizing and then reading some other people's ideas, but some of the…