Film Friday: “Even Ringo Starr Is Better Than Roland Emmerich” / Torontoist

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Film Friday: “Even Ringo Starr Is Better Than Roland Emmerich” / Torontoist

“If there’s something that all critics know, it’s that it’s great fun to rip apart something that’s incredibly bad. Especially if you know the person who made it deserves it. So as a result there’s a regular bounty of great criticism thrown at Roland Emmerich’s 10,000 B.C. The guy has foisted some of the worst, laziest, most idiotic films on the public ever (his take on Godzilla should have had him tried in the Hague) and just the trailer of 10,000 B.C. seemed like it was intentionally trying to make us stupider.”

My headline joke might have been a little too obscure for some readers. I was playing with the fact that Ringo Starr (a drummer, popular opinion famously holding that he wasn’t very good, not that I would wish to comment) was actually involved in the making of a film about prehistory (Caveman) that is almost certainly better than 10,000 B.C. is - at least Caveman is intentionally a comedy.

March 7th, 2008 : Columns, Torontoist

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