I really think that Roland Emmerich has something against the White House.
To be fair, 2012 was a mess of a movie. It was about an hour too long, wasted John Cusack’s talent, and was purely masturbatory for Roland Emmerich. But how can you watch the destruction at hand and not be awed by it all? It’s a prototypical Hollywood blockbuster, flawed to no end, but watching California sink into the ocean with surround sound on never gets old.
But perhaps the wildest bit of natural destruction comes from watching the demise of the White House, complete with the President inside. A tidal wave unmatched in size picks up the nearest aircraft carrier and tosses that sucker right into the nation’s capital. I’ve never been near a boat of that size, but I can imagine it would wipe out the White House and still be able to float to the Pentagon.
Sure, aliens can blow up the White House with a fancy beam and whatnot, but watching Mother Nature flood the crap out of a highly populated city blows them out of the water (pun intended). I’d like to see Windows 98 solve this problem.