When Director Roland Emmerich makes a movie, it’s usually a disaster. With “Godzilla,” “The Day After Tomorrow” and “Independence Day” credits to his name, Emmerich’s catastrophe films run the gambit from not-very-good to not-half-bad. “2012″ falls somewhere around decent. It’s your typical big budget, end-of-the-world flick, with an all-star cast to boot. John Cusack stars [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Apocalypse Movies’
Nov 27
Battle of the end of the world movies
How do you like your apocalypse movies? We like ours well done, with a little bit of Will Smith on the side. This holiday season, you have a choice of two blockbuster end of days movies, and we get the feeling they will be distinctly different. “2012” is your typical big budget Hollywood flick, while “The [...]
Nov 14
Do you trust the critics?
If “2012″ seems like an average blockbuster movie, you might be surprised to hear the critics are giving it good reviews. Dan Kois from the Washington Post has this to say: If a film critic awards four stars to a movie directed by Roland Emmerich — Hollywood’s reigning king of catastrophe, the critically scorned director [...]
Nov 10
2012 comes early- And brings the end of the world
Think “2012″ is just another disaster movie? Think again. Here’s what MTV.com has to say about the new flick, opening Friday: Director Roland Emmerich has made disaster movies aplenty (“Independence Day,” “The Day After Tomorrow”) but Cusack argued in a recent MTV News interview that “2012″ is no disastrous flick. “This is more of an [...]
