Hello, my name is Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club, where size does matter.

Oh, that's right. That was the tagline for Godzilla, wasn't it?

This podcast is the size of this building.

I have a complaint that I need to make that in the original teaser trailer for Roland Emmerich's Godzilla, you see a giant foot come down and he is not that size in the movie. I like to consider myself the Mayor Ebert of the podcasting world. Wait, that makes me the Siskel, the Tody? No! So we're talking about Roland Emric this week. And why? Because it's the summer, baby. It's blockbuster season. And who ruled the summer when we were teenagers? Roland Emmerich did. Man, what a time that was. I mean, it feels like Roland Emmerich's directorial career feels like an abandoned satellite. But the movies still keep coming out, though. Like, he still keeps pumping them. Yeah, they're B-movies now, though.

Yeah. Moodfall, you will be surprised at how much it cost and how it kind of squeaked out into the world. That's a money laundering operation, sure. A hundred percent. You see all those names in the credits.

It's been a while since Roland Emmerich has caught the zeitgeist. And, I mean, for a time in the 90s, Independence Day, Stargate, Godzilla, even as late as

day after tomorrow and 2012. Now, I was trying to remember, would people use Roland Emmerich

as a negative connotation in the same way they used to discuss Michael Bay? Absolutely, they did.

I can't remember specific examples. Well, definitely Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel. Yes. I just remember. And Godzilla, the 1998 Godzilla, for years, was like the go-to punching bag for, like, the movie where the Taco Bell promotion preceded the movie itself, the movie that was all hype and no substance. What do you mean when Harry Nol saw it at the giant stadium, Madison Square Garden? Yes. And the Taco Bell dog. Sitting right next to Muhammad Ali himself. That's how big it was. I'm going to need a bigger box. I can't do the accent for it in 2020. But if you were there, you remember that Taco Bell ad with the Chihuahua.

Independence Day, though, when it came out, like, it's hard to overstate how big it was. Like, it was with Terminator 2, probably and Mrs. Doubtfire, one of the movies I watch the most as a teenager. Oh, man, I watched it a lot too when I was a kid, like, had it on VHS. Give them away with like,

happy meals.

Like,

how did I watch it so much?

Did you have the, it a lot too when I was a kid like had it on VHS. They give them away with like like happy meals.

Like how did I watch it so much? Did you have the lenticular VHS cover where it where it I believe I did where you could see it like explode. You see the White House explode. Yeah. Yeah. And I remember my dad loved this movie.

I loved watching it.

And I think it also captured that Zeitgeist and that it had Jeff Goldblum, who I loved in Jurassic Park.

We'll get back to that. movie. I loved watching it. And I think it also captured that zeitgeist and that it had Jeff Goldblum,

who I loved in Jurassic Park. We'll get back to that. And it also had Big Willie, who I loved

watching every day in Fresh Prince. Well, star making vehicle for him. And so Roland Emmerich,

as he has been forgotten to like the sands of time, basically're bringing them back we're digging them back up

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