"Too Expensive" my ass. This movie will make hundreds of millions if they don't **** it up.

LMAO

This is the big issue: How do you reconcile paying Will Smith $30 million plus backend while guaranteeing it'll earn at the box office?

If it flops, then everyone but Smith is out a ton of money.

By the time this comes out, there will be college students who probably have never seen the first one because it came out when they were 3-4 years old.

It airs frequently on FX and premium cable channels

I know, it was on the other night. I was being partly sarcastic... but it's always a bit funny when sequels come along 20 years down the line. There will probably be kids out there who have little knowledge of the first film.

IE After Earth

I like it.

ID4 was badass back in the day, a classic Will Smith movie.

Unfortunately, Emmerich has fallen down the reerun ladder with his last few movies, although they all gross a shit ton.

I'm looking forward to it, but in an awesomely bad sort of way. I would almost rather the reviews be terrible.

LOL

The closest thing to Emmerich is Bay, and I vastly prefer Emmerich's movies (can't even remember the last Bay movie I saw). Emmerich's movies are mindlessly silly, but he (usually) assembles a good cast with likeable heroes and follows a cookie cutter rah-rah storyline to a predictable, heroic ending, wrapped in over the top CGI effects. That's what you're going to get, and you know it going in. If you walk out of an Emmerich movie disappointed, you really have no one to blame but yourself for going in the first place.

It's not like he's pretending to peddle high art and delivering stinking shit like that hack Shyamalan.

I watched "The Rock" the other night and forgot just how much I loved that movie. Great actors, great score and a fairly normal Nic Cage.

The thing that bothers me most about Emmerich is that he's been too preachy lately with "Day After Tomorrow" and "2012".

10,000 BC was the dumbest movie ever.

Never saw 10,000 BC. The trailers didn't even look appealing for that one.

Neanderthals built the pyramids in Egypt.

Yes, that dumb.

Here's a question for you, Dane. How the **** is M. Night Shyamalan still able to make movies? I mean, he's like a modern day Ed Wood at this point.