The Dutch 2-1 victory was correctly called by , and .
Only correctly predicted Uruguay’s victory on penalties after each team scored a goal.
Because I carelessly forgot to include a 4-0 option for the Germany-Argentina match, nobody called the results correctly. , , , , , , , , , , and all at least predicted a German win without choosing the wrong score.
, , , , , , and all predicted Spain’s 1-0 win over Paraguay.
It is striking that nobody’s name appears more than once in the above lists (and, er, less striking that my name doesn’t appear at all). , and at least called the winners of all four matches correctly. Well done to them, but also especially to for her sole correct forcast on Ghana-Uruguay.
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Emmerich’s films of the ’90s weren’t bad, though I suppose the von Daniken style back story to Stargate might have given us a hint of his penchant for conspiracy theories, ufology etc. and Independence Day a hint of his penchant for destroying New York, but these were all reasonably well made movies, and not especially dumb. Things seem to have gone downhill in the ’00s, with the awful The Patriot, the unconvincing The Day After Tomorrow, and the very silly 10,000BC and 2012. I haven’t seen Anonymous, though obviously it’s reheating the usual half-baked authorship nonsense. I suspect his earlier success has given him the resources to be self-indulgent – hardly the first person in the movie industry to succumb to that vice, though.