From: psperson1@ix.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 09 Feb 2022 19:46:52 +0000, Jerry Brown   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:05:49 -0800, Paul S Person   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 10:30:47 -0800 (PST), T987654321   
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>Wow did it crater at the box office.   
   >>   
   >>IIRC, it's by Emmerich, so I am /still/ going to rent it.   
   >>   
   >>I survived /10,000 BC/ (the story of how a White Guy led a bunch of   
   >>Black Guys to rebel against a bunch of Yellow Guys, with a superfluous   
   >>sabretooth [as Ebert pointed out] added in for no particular reason)   
   >>and /Anonymous/ (the Shakespeare thing that turned out to be the third   
   >>installment of the /Elizabeth/ series, just with a completely new cast   
   >>and crew), after all.   
   >>   
   >>OTOH, I /did/ skip /Stonewall/, but, IIRC, the reviews suggested it   
   >>was more about an individual than a movement.   
   >>   
   >>And, anyway, /Moonfall/ is at least an SF film. I might find it ...   
   >>acceptable ... as an Emmerich film.   
   >   
   >I think of him as this generation's Irwin Allen: a purveyor of utter   
   >tosh, where the relevant question is whether the film is entertaining   
   >as opposed to whether it's good.   
      
   Without commenting on Irwin Allen, I would agree with your   
   characterization of Emmerich. Well, except that "being entertaining"   
   is a major component of "being good", IMHO. YMMV.   
      
   Or, as I would put it, an excellent provider of Brain-Dead Summer   
   Action Flicks -- that is, films which entertain without requiring any   
   mental effort.   
   --   
   "I begin to envy Petronius."   
   "I have envied him long since."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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