There are a few directors in Hollywood whom I will defend to the bitter end. They make crap, but I love the crap they make. These directors include Renny Harlin, Paul W.S. Anderson, Brett Ratner and Roland Emmerich.
Sure, their movies look good, but they are nothing more than bloated, overproduced excuses for a special effects spectacular. And, with a surprisingly small number of exceptions (like Harlin’s “The Covenant” and Emmerich’s “10,000 B.C.”), I love them.
Roland Emmerich returns to making disaster movies with his latest epic “2012.” The film has a familiar Y2K feel about it, predicting the end of the world on December 21, 2012, which is also the end of the Mayan calendar. (Why modern-day apocalypse lovers put their ultimate faith in a society that couldn’t keep itself from vanishing will continue to amaze me, but let’s go with the flow here.)
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