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Quote of the Day
From 2012 director Roland Emmerich, on whether real life slows down his moviemaking:
If I cannot destroy a big high-rise anymore, because terrorists blew up two of the most famous ones, the twin towers, what does this say about our world?
Quite so. If you can't cinematically destroy New York and Los Angeles, then the terrorists have won. Still, apparently there are limits. Emmerich also reports that he avoided destroying Mecca in 2012 because his cowriter told him, "I’m not writing this to get a fatwa on my head."
As an aside, I was quite disappointed in Emmerich's last big disaster flick, The Day After Tomorrow. Not for all the usual reasons, though. There's a book by Allan Folsom also called The Day After Tomorrow, and I was hoping that it was the inspiration for the film. It was quite a terrible book, but after 600 pages of terribleness its final sentence is one of the finest in popular literature: "The severed, deep-frozen head of Adolph Hitler." How could you not make that into a movie? But he didn't. Instead, it was just another ice age.
Actually...
...that's not a sentence.
and his name wasn't spelled
and his name wasn't spelled Adolph.
"...that's not a sentence
"...that's not a sentence ... and his name wasn't spelled Adolph."
Brilliant!! Damn I love the internet. Thanks loads.
Tripp
What about Heinlein
He also wrote a book with the alternate title Day After Tomorrow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Column
This would also make for an excellent box office draw, particularly if we changed the original villains the Pan-Asians (a combination of Japanese and Chinese) into Islamo-Fascists. One of the central plot elements is a weapon that can be selectively tuned to kill only a particular ethnic group leaving white people unharmed. Man the wingnuts will be so jazzed and jizzed by this they will forget they ever saw Red Dawn. Plus the special effects needed to reproduce the final chapter would be freaking awesome.
I mean if we are forced to live with knuckle dragging racist troglodytes at least let us make a nickel or two pandering to their baser side.
Movie. Not.
LOL!
What about the drug-induced sex marathon?
Admit it Kevin, you only read The Day After Tomorrow for the drug-induced sex marathon involving Joanna.
From wikipedia for Heinlein's book:
Just how many Iraqis have died as a result of the US/UK/Micronesia invasion?
That's Not a Sentence!
I have nothing else to contribute...
The only thing that makes me
The only thing that makes me consider seeing this movie is that it stars John Cusack, an actor who makes me wish I were 20 years younger. I will probably wait until it is on HBO or the other premium channels. I find such disaster movies boring and predictable with no really interesting characters. Cusack is very nice to look at for two hours, though.
best sentences
My favorite beginning sentences:
"The sky through the portal was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." --William Gibson, Neuromancer
"We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold."
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegal
you forgot one
"It was a dark and stormy night." (among others) Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time.
(I had an AKC-registered Basset at the time, he needed a middle name. We picked "Tesseract.")
The movie was actually
The movie was actually inspired by a book called "The Coming Global Superstorm" by Art Bell and Whitney Strieber. It's pretty much pseudoscientific dreck and bad history, but at the beginning of the chapters (in italics) is more or less a story told of characters going through a superstorm. Parts of it were directly put into the movie, such as the British guy at a research station in Scotland, and the idea of a rescue of kids from a library from a frozen-over New York.
I've seen the trailer for
I've seen the trailer for this thing; those were some amazingly well-crafted destruction scenes, all in the service of an indescribably stupid narrative.
When they debate in the future how it was that 21st-century human civilization was destroyed, part of the answer will be that while world climate was spiraling toward catastrophe, some of our best and brightest were spending their time creating masterful idiocy like Roland Emmerich movies.
There's always Tokyo,
There's always Tokyo, trashed by innumerable sci-fi monsters.
I would hate to be flying a plane with no elevator in 2012
Actually, it'd suck to be flying in a plane with no ability to go "up" pretty much any year, but especially when stuck in the middle of a large city with skyscrapers falling down around me.
I really hope they explain in the movie how the plane was able to get up to a few hundred feet but not any higher. Sigh.