The new one has the ex-president in some weird mental state and has twitches and knows the aliens are coming. Then he supposedly martyrs himself within the alien safety cage while his daughter screams No, daddy! and gets some kind of alien signal knowledge via tentacle strangulation. Except the real downer is he lives! Sure Bill Pullmans acting is great but its still really stupid. Then the guy (who plays the Android from Star Trek) wakes up after 20 years of being in a coma right conveniently as the aliens are returning. Walks around in a hospital gown with his ass hangin out hahaha so funny and well written by popcorn standards is stupid. The gramps who takes the tidal wave ride with his fishing boat when the alien ship lands haha so funny uh no really stupid but weeeee! Or the idiot of a captain who fires upon the 3000-mile wide ship because yanno he's masculine and incompetent and gets fired back upon destroying himself and all his members on their very tiny base. Because the script requires something to blow up and some kind of faux emotion from his pilot daughter I guess. And the alien symbol that looks a lot like a computer on/off button. Creative metaphor, or uncreative laziness?
I've never really gotten the
leave your brain at home dumb fun of these popcorn movies? I'd thought you can actually have a fun rollercoaster ride without it being too complex or serious but intelligent and not
dumb to the point it's clear Rolland is barfing out a screenplay without any feet on the ground, as the metaphor goes.
2012 is the other film that ranks right up there as the dumbest in the last 15 years or so. Extraordinary visuals on the tidal waves, but the car scene where the ground is falling below them is incredibly lazy and stupid and suggests right around this time Rolland was getting tired of making disaster movies. (He acknowledged as much.) There fun in a cinemasins sorta way for how bad they are, but lets not mix them with Indiana Jones or Back to the Future.
