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Dictator (F), hearing loud report, thinks he’s been shot and falls over backward on bulb (G), snapping picture.” To operate a Rube Goldberg “picture-snapping machine,” for example, “As you sit on pneumatic cushion (A), you force air through a tube (B) which starts ice boat (C), causing lighted cigar butt (D) to explode balloon (E). He designed ridiculously complicated devices to perform simple tasks, and illustrated them in single cartoon panels with lists of instructions.
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Since the ideal audience for “White House Down” would be a theater full of Emilys – a herd of impressionable 12-year-olds – maybe I should explain what I mean by “Rube Goldberg.” Goldberg was a cartoonist who satirized modern machinery. It’s as if Emmerich has gone from the Bard to Rube Goldberg. Cale got a Silver Star in Afghanistan, and, on the home front, a divorce. He takes his tween daughter Emily (Joey King) to his job interview because she idolizes President James Sawyer (Jamie Foxx) the way she used to worship her war-hero dad. It mixes camp and carnage, but it’s not outrageous – it’s limp and awful.Ĭhanning Tatum plays a Capitol policeman named John Cale who wants to go from guarding the Speaker of the House to serving on the president’s security detail. Everyone who participated in “White House Down” should have wished to remain anonymous, including each member of the wildly overqualified cast. It’s a blatant attempt for the director to revive his box office fortunes by blowing up parts of the White House Complex as gaudily as he did 18 years ago.Įmmerich’s last film, “Anonymous,” was an opaque historical fantasy about the disputed authorship of Shakespeare’s plays.
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The new film from the director of “Independence Day” (1995), Roland Emmerich’s “White House Down,” is a stupefying current-events fantasy about a reactionary terrorist takeover of the White House. Especially since the cast is so strong: Jason Clarke, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Richard Jenkins, James Woods, Jimmi Simpson, Lance Reddick, Rachelle Lefevre, Garcelle Beauvais, Peter Jacobson and Jay Mohr.‘White House Down’ presents The Worst Wing – Orange County Register Close Menu I’m still leaving it on my list, for now. Yeah…Īt least “Olympus Has Fallen” played its president as tough, but not a super hero. Especially when Foxx is playing action hero. The rest of the film just looks cartoony. Right off the bat (nitpick warning) I’m to believe a guy wanting a job in the Secret Service would bring his daughter to the interview? I was excited about the thought of the film, especially since I liked “Olympus Has Fallen.” But, then I saw the trailer for the film: The film stars Channing Tatum as a prospective secret service agent who must save the President of the United States (played by Jamie Foxx.) Sure we’ve already seen the White House attacked this year in “Olympus Has Fallen,” but is there room for more destruction in Washington D.C.?Ĭontinuing my 2013 must-see list ( click here for the other films on my list), is the new film from “The Day After Tomorrow” director Roland Emmerich. Channing Tatum and Jaime Foxx star in “White House Down.” /SONY PICTURES