Sim1A Letter to Roland
November 25th 2009 17:48
Dear Mr. Emmerich,
may I call you Roland, please?
I have just returned from the cinema where I saw your latest epic ‘2012’. Let me congratulate you on a fantastic movie, containing the most spectacular effects I have seen to date.
I went to see the movie because I wanted to sample your trademark disaster scenes, like the ones in ‘The Day After Tomorrow’, and as such I thought the build up at the beginning was a bit slow. You could easily have cut 20 minutes or so at the beginning. However, I wanted to thank you for not casting that bland and uninspiring Jake Gyllenhaal again. Instead, I felt the actors suited their roles perfectly and had no qualms taking a back seat and letting the special effects take centre stage. I was a little saddened to see Los Angeles reduced to a gaping dust-filled hole on the earth surface, as I spent a rather enjoyable holiday there earlier this year. But the bit where the Vatican collapses was just brilliant! I lost count of the number of times I exclaimed ‘Fuuuck!!!’ and ‘Jeesuuss!!’ during the movie, but suffice to say, it was in the double figures.
Of course, you very cleverly included some comic moments, as forms part of the recipe for a Hollywood blockbuster. The scene where her Majesty the Queen takes her corgies aboard the Arc was genius! The whole cinema laughed. And God knows, the end of the world is an inherently funny subject.
I would have appreciated if you had warned your viewers not to wear mascara to this event. Because the goodbye scenes were even sadder than those in ‘Deep Impact’ and there were numerous other moments when I welled up.
You may also wish to advise the audience, that this film MUST absolutely be seen on the big screen. Watched on DVD, it won’t have half the effect it has in the cinema.
Roland, all in all, I wanted to thank you for a very entertaining afternoon indeed. It was a bit cold in the cinema today, but that’s hardly your fault.
I very much look forward to the next time you erase humanity on celluloid.
Yours sincerely,
Sim1
P.S. Roland, I sure am happy that Caesar, the chihuahua survived.
may I call you Roland, please?
I have just returned from the cinema where I saw your latest epic ‘2012’. Let me congratulate you on a fantastic movie, containing the most spectacular effects I have seen to date.
I went to see the movie because I wanted to sample your trademark disaster scenes, like the ones in ‘The Day After Tomorrow’, and as such I thought the build up at the beginning was a bit slow. You could easily have cut 20 minutes or so at the beginning. However, I wanted to thank you for not casting that bland and uninspiring Jake Gyllenhaal again. Instead, I felt the actors suited their roles perfectly and had no qualms taking a back seat and letting the special effects take centre stage. I was a little saddened to see Los Angeles reduced to a gaping dust-filled hole on the earth surface, as I spent a rather enjoyable holiday there earlier this year. But the bit where the Vatican collapses was just brilliant! I lost count of the number of times I exclaimed ‘Fuuuck!!!’ and ‘Jeesuuss!!’ during the movie, but suffice to say, it was in the double figures.
I would have appreciated if you had warned your viewers not to wear mascara to this event. Because the goodbye scenes were even sadder than those in ‘Deep Impact’ and there were numerous other moments when I welled up.
You may also wish to advise the audience, that this film MUST absolutely be seen on the big screen. Watched on DVD, it won’t have half the effect it has in the cinema.
I very much look forward to the next time you erase humanity on celluloid.
Yours sincerely,
Sim1
P.S. Roland, I sure am happy that Caesar, the chihuahua survived.
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