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Coolmodo
11/07/09

In reply to Roland Emmerich's 8 Rules For Ending The World
They were interviewing him on German TV last night, interestingly enough he never was a big fan of sci-fi and actually preferred to read literature from the 19th and 20th centuries, such as Dostoyevsky. #2012
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MonkeyT
11/07/09

@Coolmodo: So when did his interests migrate to the Brothers Kaboomov? #2012
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Bootknife-Jackson
11/06/09

In reply to President Obama Inspired Roland Emmerich to Make Independence Day 2
i consider this film the last of the great blockbusters #independenceday
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MonkeyT
11/06/09

In reply to Roland Emmerich's 8 Rules For Ending The World
Meredith, when you were writing this, were you experiencing deja vu regarding your previously published Ronald Chevalier story? #2012
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
11/06/09

In reply to Roland Emmerich's 8 Rules For Ending The World
Do you suppose he's ever said, "Ich bin ein Desaster!"?
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Edited by Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. at 11/06/09 7:39 PM

Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
11/06/09

In reply to President Obama Inspired Roland Emmerich to Make Independence Day 2
"I'm the President of the United States. Welcome ta Earf."

Goldblum will be the top science advisor/Secretary of Alien Tech Stuff; Pullman as the former prez will be another adviser, or maybe head of the United Nations after his awesome work on blowing up the aliens. He'd be the first UN prez everyone respected or at least stfu and listened to. #independenceday
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RoboBagins
11/06/09

In reply to Roland Emmerich's 8 Rules For Ending The World
Seriously Roland Emmerich is like, my Disaster Hero.

I don't always want to see a thinker, a ponderer.

Sometimes I want a reptile brain rollercoaster!

When will we see the Emmerich/Bay crossover movie: The End - Everything Blows Up - EVERYTHING #2012
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EnochLight
11/06/09

@RoboBagins: LOL - "Disaster Hero". +10. #2012
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Makidian
11/06/09

@RoboBagins: And it would have to be a mash up cast with every actor that has been in their movies, and Will Smith would have to be the lead. #2012
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MacWarrior
11/07/09

@RoboBagins: I was sort of looking forward to Independence Bay until Roland announced he's directing :( #2012
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Dresan
11/07/09

@Makidian: Imagine! Will Smith and Shia LaBlaBla together at last!

Oh wait... #2012
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Makidian
11/07/09

@Dresan: They had I, Robot but Shia wasn't a huge star that was roundly hated by the internet at the time so they could lead together. For the record I think Shia is a decent actor, I hate his name but he is entertaining. #2012
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Dresan
11/07/09

@Makidian: Yup, agreed. Just don't mention him wanting to be in Y: The Last Man 'cause I'll flip out.
:( #2012
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MonkeyT
11/06/09

In reply to Roland Emmerich's 8 Rules For Ending The World
I was reading through this and wondering "just how many of these applied to Godzilla?" Turns out, most of them. Good luck, Roland. #2012
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
11/06/09

In reply to Roland Emmerich's 8 Rules For Ending The World
Meredith... great questions, nice answers on his part (good to know he doesn't take this that seriously) but I am a little upset that you didn't ask him his position on Bongos. #2012
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PostMarque
11/06/09

@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: ditto... she has skillz... put i want his position on pancake and bacon strip #2012
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Dr Emilio Lizardo
11/06/09

In reply to Roland Emmerich's 8 Rules For Ending The World
Roland Ememrich's most important rules:

You don't need a script, just more 'splosions
Directors shouldn't need to direct people, just 'splosions.
'Splosions! #2012
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Kaiser-Machead
11/06/09

In reply to Roland Emmerich's 8 Rules For Ending The World
Maybe I'm alone in this, but the more gratuitously the heaps of bodies pile up in a movie, the less I actually care. It becomes akin to mowing over an anthill in your backyard. War of the Worlds had its fair share of problems, but when people got incinerated, it seemed to matter. #2012
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PendensProditor
11/06/09

@Kaiser-Machead:
You're not alone. I watched that trailer where an entire city is falling down around the characters, and I felt absolutely nothing. The world is ending and I'm bored by it.

Meanwhile when I watch Saving Private Ryan and one of the characters takes a single bullet, my stomach aches and churns with empathy.

Until Hollywood figures out that it needs to deliver some genuine feeling again, it's going to be stuck making everything bigger and bigger and bigger just to keep people awake. #2012
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Cory Gross
11/06/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Disaster porn is the ultimate excess of torture porn. The only enjoyment that can be derived from it is ignoring what it would be like to be a real human being caught in a real, horrifying circumstance like that.

This is part of what makes Gojira so incredible and its sequels, honestly, only kinda' so-so. The tragic atmosphere of it, the dead bodies, the singing children, is so unnerving because it so powerfully recalls Hiroshima. It's also why, no offense to Ray Harryhausen, the atomic warnings of Beast from 20,000 Fathoms are so tepid and forgettable.

Emmerich's "destruction of humanity as an aesthetic pleasure" (to paraphrase Walter Benjamin's essay on facism) is also tepid, for the same reasons. The whole friggin' planet blows up but nobody "real" dies. Or aliens blow up everybody and we're just supposed to cheer on the happy Americans who swept into the power gap *grumble* #2012
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/06/09

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You forgot Godzilla. That was the biggest bomb of them all... #2012
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Jeremy Tapsell
11/06/09

@Jrsy Devil's Advocate®:

We shall never forget. #2012
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ManchuCandidate
11/06/09

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So when the apocalypse does come, will we bitch it wasn't exciting enough? #2012
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Anekanta - Go Play!
11/06/09

@ManchuCandidate: Imagine how disappointed you're going to sound when you tell your great grandchildren how the city took forty years to completely flood; not at all like the CGI tsunami you saw in that movie way back when.

Then your great grandchildren will ask you what a movie is.
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Edited by Anekanta - Go Play! at 11/06/09 3:59 PM

Cory Gross
11/06/09

In reply to President Obama Inspired Roland Emmerich to Make Independence Day 2
King? Interesting choice of words given how mindbogglingly, ass-lancingly Americocentric the film is.

July 4th really is just another day. It has no meaning for anybody else. Nor do I want most of the rest of the world blown up so Americans can swoop in and save the day, thereby making July 4th some kind of weird, Manifest Destiny global celebration. I do not want your figurehead leader as my king, thankyouverymuch.

Between this and his comments about religion, Emmerich should really go crawl back under a rock or something. #independenceday
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somekindarobit
11/06/09

@Cory Gross: Gee.... where is this movie made again? Could it be AMERICA?! How about every country out there stop making movies that are catered to their own people and just make things that the whole world can relate to? That sound good?

The thing is... most American entertainment is going to be centered on America and how awesome we are. Maybe your country can make it's own movie about how awesome they are so that you can enjoy something too. #independenceday
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closeencounter
11/06/09

@Cory Gross: If Americans don't swoop in and save your ass, nobody else will. I have yet to see one...single...country...having any kind of celebration once America has helped re-build any country devastated by war, hurricane, earthquake, etc. #independenceday
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Cory Gross
11/06/09

@closeencounter: "If Americans don't swoop in and save your ass, nobody else will."

America probably could do a lot of good in the world if it wasn't such a net negative influence. Thanks again for training Bin Laden and leaving everybody else's soldiers to die trying to find him while you guys ran off to Iraq to whip another one of the lackeys you put in power to begin with.

And that's kind of what made ID4 so disturbing. You just know that what's happening there is that the Americans have swept into the global power gap caused by the alien invasion. Independence Day doesn't become a spontaneous global celebration. It's imposed by fiat from the only intact government, who are incidentally the only people who know how to use all this super-advanced alien technology.

But yeah, it is just a movie and I'm reading too much into it. I'm sure that Emmerich occupies the same fictionalized head space that actually believes that America wouldn't ever hurt anybody or do anything bad. #independenceday
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CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton)
11/06/09

In reply to President Obama Inspired Roland Emmerich to Make Independence Day 2
Whoa - hold on, what about Bill Pullman? I loved him as the gruffed voice ex-fighter pilot/Gulf war vet/ US President.

Would they just kill him off? Did he retire and start his own private foundation? #independenceday
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Bootknife-Jackson
11/07/09

@CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton): he served out his term, than retired to a life of space smuggling and skullduggery when he purchased a flying Winnebago off eBay #independenceday
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Bill-Lee
11/06/09

In reply to President Obama Inspired Roland Emmerich to Make Independence Day 2
It could be a buddy movie with a character based on Obama and another based on Al Gore as they team up to clean up the aftermath of all those giant spaceships crashing to earth. I can see the trailer now: "One's a charismatic middle aged black man and America's first black president! The other is the rather wooden former Vice President and Nobel Laureate who's made saving the Earth his personal crusade! Can these two set aside there differences long enough to...clean up...the toxic waste left behind...after a bunch of UFOs crashed into...Really that's your movie?" #independenceday
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