Roland Emmerich might be one of the most polarizing directors in Hollywood history. A few of his movies are undeniable classics, but most of them fall somewhere in the so-bad-it’s-good zone. After the success of Independence Day, Emmerich found his apparent sweet spot and continued to chip away at it with The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, and more. But it wasn’t until earlier this year that he managed to rekindle that original flame by going back to what made Independence Day so great in the first place. Two words: science fiction.
