brian harper
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Moonfall Miraculously Manages to Make a Murderous Moon Mundane
It’s not much of a hot take to say that director Roland Emmerich’s continual attempts to return to the disaster movie genre after 1996’s Independence Day have produced diminishing returns. But it’s tough to imagine a cinematic apocalypse that’s less epic than Moonfall, in which even the film’s characters can’t be bothered to care about…
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Moonfall Looks Like Roland Emmerich’s Loudest, Dumbest Disaster Movie Yet
Some men just want to watch the world burn. Or tear itself to pieces. Or explode several million times. One of those men is director Roland Emmerich, whose career mainly consists of disaster movies both large (Independence Day, 2012, The Day After Tomorrow) and small (Midway, White House Down, the godawful 1998 U.S. Godzilla movie).…