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Originally Posted by iron25
The film is directed by the same person that did Independence Day and that film was not exactly great was it.
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Yep, it's by Roland Emmerich.
He did, amongst other things: Independence Day, Stargate, Universal Soldier, The Patriot, & Godzilla.
I can't stand Godzilla or The Patriot, utter crap, both of them.
But I do actually quite like Independence Day, Stargate & Universal Soldier. None of them are "excellent", but I think they're still quite good fun.
Independence Day was admittedly yet another OTT "America saves the world!" movie, but it did have good FX & action, & was fun if you "switched off your brain" & just enjoyed it.
Unlike Independence Day, TDAT isn't a gung-ho "US saves the world!!!!" movie:
It's apparently more of a "US suggests saving the world but gets told that not only can it not save the world, its told the disaster is actually its own bloody fault in the 1st place"-type movie.
I've been hearing very good things about The Day After Tomorrow. Definitely looking forward to it.
LOL, & it seems some climate scientists & environmentalists like it too, even though it is very exaggerated:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internatio...215363,00.html