If you’re going to bring the world to an end, or make any kind of disaster flick in general, it needs to be big, dumb and, most of all, fun. The emphasis should always be on the word fun. Let that be a lesson to you, Hollywood hotshots. This includes Bay, McG, and Sommers.

With a long history of destruction and CGI-driven films tucked tightly under his belt, Roland Emmerich once again brings us an exhaustive, 158-minute whirlwind excursion into what has been appropriately termed “disaster porn.” Horror may have its “torture porn” but action aficionados now have their own crown which is a lot more fun for what it is.

According to Box Office Mojo, Emmerich has given us four of the top five highest grossing disaster film weekend openings. The only other director included in this list is Steven Spielberg, who is obviously the better director, but it’s still a very interesting fact. Aside from War of the Worlds, the list also includes The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day, Godzilla and Emmerich’s possible masterpiece, 2012.

In 2009, we begin where Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) learns that there has been an explosion on the sun causing Earth’s core temperature to increase very rapidly. Helmsley quickly returns to Washington, D.C. to deliver the message to Carl Anheuser (Oliver Platt) who for once takes a maniacal sounding scientist seriously and delivers the message to President Thomas Wilson (Danny Glover, who seems to be literally getting too old for this).

Jumping through 2010 and 2011, President Wilson informs the other heads of state of the situation while Wilson’s daughter, Laura (Thandie Newton, still seemingly playing an SNL sketch character as she did in W) finds the Mona Lisa missing after she thought it had been sealed away for safe keeping.

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