Every Roland Emmerich Movie Ranked Worst To Best (Including Moonfall)
Roland Emmerich is a filmmaker best known for his visual spectacles in the disaster and sci-fi genres—here is a comprehensive guide to every film he has directed up to Moonfall, ranked from worst to best. The German director made his first film, The Noah’s Ark Principle, as part of a university thesis as a student at the University of Television and Film Munich, establishing himself in genre filmmaking. While many of his films have been critically panned, Emmerich’s filmography has earned over $3 billion worldwide, making him the fifteenth-highest grossing director of all time.
With record-breaking box office numbers for several of his films, Emmerich has been proud of his aim to make popcorn movies. The filmmaker is unconcerned with the poor critical reception for many of his films, though Roland Emmerich has been critical of other filmmakers’ mistakes in interviews, recently blaming Marvel, DC, and Star Wars for ruining the movies. This is somewhat ironic considering the director has often named Star Wars as an early inspiration, even including Darth Vader in a key sequence of his early ghost film, Making Contact.
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Along with directing, Emmerich typically also contributes to film projects as a writer and producer, giving him greater control over the end results. This has also allowed him to focus on the large-scale spectacles he is best known for, especially within the disaster genre. This has earned the director a title as “master of disaster” within the industry, though he has also made several films outside of the genre. Emmerich has also been vocal about his love of the genre he is best known for, and once listed his favorite disaster films, including many that have inspired
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