Brand new boy, this time about how a key visual in Emmerich's 2012 borrows from the classic nuclear footage taken during the 1953 Upshot-Knothole explosions - y'know, the trees bending against the explosion that you saw at the beginning of Fury Road.
Thanks a lot. Now I want to watch 2012.
It's good! I'll got bat for it, even if it's 30 minutes too long. It's the world's bleakest Looney Tune ever, where you're simultaneously giggling at the absurd near-misses of the heroes while sort of shocked by how viciously the film murders cities and middle-fingers religion. (The natural disasters pointedly destroy St. Peter's Basilica, the Christ the Redeemer statue, a Buddhist sanctuary, the roof of the Sistine Chapel, and cuts off the President in the middle of a prayer. Emmerich wanted to include destruction of Islamic sites, but producers feared a fatwa.)Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
I don't know if I can call it good, but when it came out I still watched it twice in theater just to, at the very least, experience that bugnut, insanely escalating, one-damn-thing-after-another-and-another first city-wide disaster again.
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
The ground splitting after the line "I feel like there's something pulling us apart" is *chef kissy fingers* cinema.
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Newest boy, Gustave Dore in Aronofsky's The Fountain:
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