After reading this...

[shipperx]

Okay, is it bad, that after reading this:

Emmerich, the creative force behind “Independence Day,” “The Day After Tomorrow” and “2012,” struggles mightily to squeeze the intricacies of Elizabethan politics into a blockbuster formula

I kind of want to see this movie?

Why, you may ask...because 2012, Independence Day, and Day After Tomorrow are three of the most hilariously unintentionally funny movies that I've ever seen. I think I laughed most if not all the way through 2012. (They outran a volcano in a Winnebago! How can that not be loltastic? I also remember laughing at Independence Day, because of course the alien ship was DOS compatible. Why wouldn't it be? LOL)

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[sp23.livejournal.com]

I agree about the lolability of those movies. I saw DAT at the theater, and actually LOL'd rather inappropriately throughout the movie. I love ID but mostly because of it's crackiness. But the biggest laughapalooza has to be 2012!

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah... I was so glad we were the only people in the theater when we went to se 2012 because I laughed insanely through the whole movie.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

I think my favourite bit about 2012 was how, supposedly, all the richest, most powerful people in the entire world had made secret plans for a world-wide disaster that would make every volcano on Earth explode at once, and set up a secret evacuation plan that depended entirely on being unable to land and refuel in... drum roll... Hawaii.

OK, the bit where they announced that they were about to hit the tip of Mount Everest in a boat was pretty hilarious too.

And the bit where it turned out that Africa was OK after all.

[nmissi.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to it; think it sounds fascinating. But then, I signed the "declaration of reasonable doubt" and am open to alternative Shakespeares, so I'm sort of the built-in audience for such a movie.

2012, DAT, and ID were all right up my alley, too- I love a good disaster movie, I do. I blame my childhood; I grew up in the 70s- on "the Towering Inferno" and "the Poseidon Adventure." I don't want realism in my disaster, I want derring do, and cool one liners. :)

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

A lot of people are annoyed by the premise, but I'll see it for the same reason I saw both Elizabeth films: I love seeing a bunch of my favorite British (and Commonwealth) actors prancing around in costume, chewing the scenery and declaiming all over the place. I know I'm supposed to care deeply about the verisimilitude, but I really don't.

Yeah, I'm a total Anglophile ho.

[binsoup.livejournal.com]

because that Winnebago ran on fusion fuel. i like your rants. i always end up, as they say LROTF.