Independence Day (1996)
Independence Day
”Humanity unites to fight against mysterious alien species attacking Earth.”
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Why watch this film?
Great example of the disaster movie of the 1990s - and of course American egoism. The script is shallow, there is no character development or very clever solutions. But who needs all that? We have aliens wanting (without much reason) to destroy Earth, resulting in incredible sequences of destruction and all that talk about uniting humanity against the invaders. With popcorn and butter, those are enough reasons for watching this movie.
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Plot summary
On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. First thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species who have set out to launch an attack throughout the globe. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles, and Washington when a band of survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens. On July 4th, humanity fights for its freedom.
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Midway
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, which triggered the United States' entry into World War II, has been tackled on the big screen many times over the decades and from various angles (there's the classic 1953 romance 'From Here to Eternity' or 2001's Michael Bay-directed 'Pearl Harbor'). So it's hard to show something new on the subject and 'Midway' at least brings a different approach by depicting the eponymous battle, a decisive naval encounter that occurred six months after the Japanese invasion. Directed by Roland Emmerich ('Independence Day', 'The Day After Tomorrow'), the feature is more focused on surprising with a visual spectacle - with more refined special effects - than being a well-written drama, although the performances are convincing for part of a cast that includes Ed Skrein ('Deadpool'), Aaron Eckhart ('The Dark Knight'), Mandy Moore ('This is Us'), Nick Jonas ('Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle'), Luke Evans ('Fast & Furious 6') and Woody Harrelson ('Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri').
2012
After the idea that there would be the "millennium bug" at the turn of the 2000s, end-of-the-world and other catastrophe believers began to bet that 2012 would mark the end of the line. The final point. And this idea ended up becoming a movie in the hands of Roland Emmerich, one of the biggest fans of this type of story - like "Independence Day" and "The Day After Tomorrow". So, in 2012, we follow the journey of a frustrated writer (John Cusack) who wants to survive the planet's catastrophe. Cusack ("High Fidelity") is bad, the effects are bad and the plot is obvious, seeming like a collage of everything the director has already done. However, even so, it is possible to embark on the ridiculous and wrong idea - as we now know - and have fun with the idea of the end of the world on such a random date.
Moonfall
You can say that Roland Emmerich is the father of disaster cinema. Although he was not the one to inaugurate the genre (‘War of the Worlds’ did that two years before the filmmaker was even born), it was the German who gave the popcorn cinema format for aliens invading Earth, earthquakes destroying the surface and a cold to kill - literally. In 'Moonfall', the feeling is that Emmerich takes everything that worked (and failed) in his career and puts it all into one story. After all, we follow the journey of astronauts (Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson) who face a monumental challenge: understanding what is happening with the Moon, which is leaving its orbit and starting to destabilize the Earth. From there, a dive into all the elements of this disaster cinema begins. Obviously, there is a lot out of tune: parallel plots that are not interesting, megalomaniac visual effects that do not convince, physical absurdities and so on. But in the end, there is one certainty: 'Moonfall' is very entertaining. You root for the characters, anxiously follow some catastrophes and so on. Technically problematic, yes. But the movie has heart. And that ends up being enough to keep us glued to the screen while the world (and the Moon) are collapsing in front of us.
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