2012 (Movie)

[Trekker4747]

I watched this one the Sunday afternoon while visiting my parents, nothing on the TV it was OnDemand so I played it.

God! This movie is just ridiculous and over the top. So completely and totally. The "chase scenes" with cars, planes, RVs, limos, etc. out running the world collapsing just behind the vehicle was just awesome.

Oh, and the plane flying through a crumbling LA (why the pilot didn't just pull up is beyond me. The limo out running things, god.

The Yellowstone Caldera erupting was pure awesome, though.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Once they dropped "MUTATED NEUTRINOS!!!" in the first five minutes I knew we were in for some quality entertainment. Apparently elementary particles have genes that can mutate. Who knew?

 

[DonIago]

I knew we were in for some quality entertainment as soon as I heard the name Emmerich, myself.

 

[Starbreaker]

I really enjoyed the 15th daring plane escape.

 

[Trekker4747]

Once they dropped "MUTATED NEUTRINOS!!!" in the first five minutes I knew we were in for some quality entertainment. Apparently elementary particles have genes that can mutate. Who knew?

That was my first big laugh of the movie. That these supercharged neutrinos are super-heating the Earth's core but they're not effecting anything or anyone on the surface?

Awesome. Quality entertainment.

I thought that casting Woody Harrelson as the drugged out hippie conspiracy nut prone to posting in TNZ with regular insanity was brilliant, personally.

 

[Samurai8472]

Emmerich formula

-band of ethnically diverse people band together to overcome odds

-Some weird nut

-The government secretly constructing or hiding some secret billion dollar device

-god awful cardboard characters

Thank fully he left out New York being washed away for the 4th time

 

[Mr. Adventure]

The "chase" scenes were hilarious, if you view the movie as a comedy it's pretty entertaining. I don't think a genuine parody could have been done any better.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

The movie is eye candy and little else. I thought the arks were pretty cool, and the Yellowstone explosion was awesome, until the plane was swallowed by the pyroclastic flow and then still flew out of it.

 

[Trekker4747]

And, man was Cusak's character annoying or what? His "woahs" and "screams" during the whole thing was just... Ugh.

And the dumbassed "doctor" boyfriend of the exwife worried about his car and a proper pre-flight procedure when a major state crumbling earthquake is occurring all around him. (Which, I'm sure, would've hampered how well both the plane and car would've handled on the ground but, then again, I've never driven during an earthquake.) During the disaster the dumbass even suggests they take the freeway during the massive earthquake as if this is a mundane trip to the airport so they'd need the greater speed they can dive at on the interstate.

He deserved to be crushed by the massive gears of the ark's doors that, somehow, couldn't handle a powertool. That's right. A powertool trapped in the gears of a massive, building-sized, door/hatch almost caused thousands of people to die on a gigantic ship.

That movie is a comedy. It's so ridiculous. It may very well be the greatest comedy ever.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I thought killing the boyfriend off for the purposes of getting Cusack and his wife back together was pretty crass and needlessly harsh, myself. Despite being occasionally dumb for the sake of (bad) plot, he saved them on a few occasions and seemed like a nice enough guy who cared about his girlfriend and her kids; and they cared for him in turn. Yet they give him a gruesome crushed-in-gears demise usually reserved for villains, henchmen, and the politician/administrator who denies every effort the scientist/engineer/pilot/doctor/soldier/reporter makes at warning them of impending disaster.

There's like 400,000 people left in the world, so I think any taboos about having multiple partners are going to get thrown out the window pretty fast. They could have left them all together as a family.

Likewise, drowning the Russian girl after she survived everything else was unescessary. I get killing off secondary characters as the movie progresses, but it really added no drama to the end by killing them off so pointlessly.

 

[DonIago]

^I tend to agree with this. Killing the boyfriend was cheap.


I also have to wonder who designs a ship so that the engines can't be activated at all if a door is ajar.

I'm enough of a cynic to see the necessity of keeping the full scale of the disaster and the development of the arks a secret, and found the good guys' "we must be honest or we're not Americans!!!" attitude pretty tiresome under the circumstances.

I do love the eye candy of the major disaster scenes, but it would be oh-so-easy to treat the rest of the movie as a drinking game for the stomach-turning so-called emotional moments.

 

[bigdaddy]

While I watched it I was hoping the end of the world would happen.

I like mindless entertainment, but saying 2012 is that isn't far to the mindless people of the world. It was HORRIBLE!!!! I like how the step dad died and NO ONE GAVE A FUCK!

Unreal!

one of the worst movies ever made.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Emmerich's films get cheesier and cheesier. And dumber and dumber. I guess Dean Devlin did bring something to the table after all. Since Emmerich and Devlin are no longer together the films get worse and worse. It was meant to be serious but it was so goofy. At least Amanda Peet was hot. The CGI was rather cartoony when LA was destroyed.

 

[Shurik]

This movie was last year's best comedy and best Emmerich's offering since Independence Day. No other disaster porn can possibly outdo 2012.

 

[Stevil2001]

2012: It's a Disaster!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW2qxFkcLM0

 

[Samurai8472]

This movie was last year's best comedy and best Emmerich's offering since Independence Day. No other disaster porn can possibly outdo 2012.

Not until one movie decides to blow up the earth than manually piece it back together

 

[JiNX-01]

And, man was Cusak's character annoying or what? His "woahs" and "screams" during the whole thing was just... Ugh.

OMG, the casting (save John Billingsley and Danny Glover ) was terrible.

I could not have cared less about the family we were supposed to be rooting for. I actually hoped when Cusack's character (I didn't even bother to learn his name) drove the RV into the fissure during the eruption that he was dead -- or better yet, he climbs out the hole and the boyfriend has already taken off in the plane with the family and Cusack is running down the road screaming for them to come back for him and even his kids don't want to turn around ).

 

[DonIago]

Actually? If Cusack had given the maps to the family and then died (the plane's moving too fast or something), that would have seriously improved the film. It also would have been an awesome kick-to-the-crotch to everyone expecting him to survive.

Hey, I thought the casting of The Operative as Adrian (I won't even try spelling his name) was pretty cool.

 

[Shurik]

This movie was last year's best comedy and best Emmerich's offering since Independence Day. No other disaster porn can possibly outdo 2012.

Not until one movie decides to blow up the earth than manually piece it back together

 

[Pauln6]

Likewise, drowning the Russian girl after she survived everything else was unescessary. I get killing off secondary characters as the movie progresses, but it really added no drama to the end by killing them off so pointlessly.

The thing that I found so offensive was that she was drowning in the room next door while everybody was standing around ruminating, hugging, and blubbing about how much they loved each other. They must realise that drowning victims can be resussitated if rescued fairly quickly so I can only assume that they didn't give a shit because she was Russian?

The other parts that annoyed me the most was sending unqualified characters all the way from the bridge to fix a problem that really should have been fixed by a team of engineers on site in half the time and the way everybody stood around variously staring and then cheering and hugging for what seemed like a drearlily long period when they actually should have been doing their jobs and driving the ship. Hollywood schmaltz trampling all over common sense and any hope of a coherent plot!