The other night I was watching 2012 for the second time. The first time I watched it I remember having a great time, laughing consistently throughout. However, I didn't really remember much of the movie itself since I had ingested almost an entire bag of Franzia while watching it.
This second time though, I didn't drink. Well, not as much anyway, and I found myself genuinely enjoying the movie. Yes, it's completely illogical and filled with pointless characters connected by even more pointless coincidences, and yet it's these very reasons why I love it so much. It's just big, stupid fun.
Look, it's obvious by this point that I'm easily entertained when it comes to movies. No matter how good or bad, I just like movies, and I really like the movies Roland Emmerich makes. From Universal Soldier all the way to 2012. In fact, there are only two of his films that I can't really enjoy. One is The Day After Tomorrow, mainly because it's on TV every other hour and I'm sick of watching it. The other is 10,000 B.C. because, well, it's not that good.
Before your head explodes from that last statement, let me say that no, most of his movies aren't exactly 'Good'. I, however, enjoy them greatly.
Independence Day is probably his best movie, or if anything his most popular. It's not hard to see why. It's got a great premise, a great cast and more importantly, it shows America doing what America does best. Winning.
However, I seem to be the only person who has actually enjoyed almost every movie he has done since then. Yes, that means I like Godzilla. It sucks, I know, but I can't help myself, Roland knows how to destroy a city. Maybe he couldn't do it as well as Michael Bay did that same year with Armageddon, but shit, who can? I love a good trainwreck, and Godzilla is exactly that. There's nothing but bad ideas in this movie and yet despite it all I can't help but laughing my way through to the very end. It's just that terribly awesome.
Now let's not forget The Patriot, Roland's best movie post ID4, starring rage master Mel Gibson as a man who loved America so much, he single handedly won the Revolutionary War. I don't think anything else needs to be said about that.
Next came The Day After Tomorrow and 10,000 B. C., Roland's only two movies in which I cannot enjoy. The Day After Tomorrow is easily the better of the two, but as I said earlier, I've watched it so many times that my nose starts to bleed from anger every time it comes on. As for 10,000 B. C., there just is not one second of enjoyment there, not even in the worst way. It's a flat out boring movie.
Thankfully, he redeemed himself with 2012, his farewell to the disaster genre. He spared no expense here, spending $200 million of Sony's money and taking 160 minutes of our lives to show how awesome John Cusack is at outrunning Mother Nature. It's ridiculous and preposterous in the very best way.
In the end though, it just comes down to the fact that Roland Emmerich's movies are right up my alley. Big, stupid, and most of all, fun.
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