Roland Emmerich

Director’s Spotlight: Roland Emmerich

By: Austin Cozicar Roland Emmerich’s work has been criticized for being cheesy, unoriginal, and wildly unrealistic, and Peter Howell of the Toronto Star complained that Emmerich’s movie 10,000 BC deserves the “. . . Worst CGI, Most Annoying Narrator, Lamest Dialogue and Dumbest Action Hero [Awards].”      This is not an inaccurate description. In his 2004 film The Day After Tomorrow, global warming causes an ice age to happen over the course of a few days . . . in 2004. In the film 2012, a character is reluctant to fly a plane because he’s only had a couple…

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