The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Some people have been calling The Day After Tomorrow a throwback to the Irwin Allen disaster films of the 1970s, but in reality, it is more of a throwback to the disaster films of the...
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The Patriot (2000)
Can Robert Rodat, the writer of Saving Private Ryan, do for the Revolutionary War what he did for WWII? The answer is: not with Roland Emmerich at the helm. Emmerich, of course, is the big budget...
Godzilla (1998)
The Godzilla films originated in Japan during the 1950s as an allegory for the deadly destruction of nuclear weapons, embodied in a creature created by massive radiation imbued with cataclysmic powers. Its production house,...
Stargate (1994)
Around 1978, Roland Emmerich, a film school student in Munich, screened a documentary about who built the Great Pyramids of Giza and why. The documentary incorporated ideas from Erich von Daniken’s book, “Chariots of...
Independence Day (1996)
In the 1990s, it seems that if you’re given a budget over $100 million, the rule of thumb is to put 90% of it into special effects, while whatever paltry sum is left should...