2012 (Movie)

[Starkers]

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.

Yeah that was pretty harsh, the guy seemed a genuinly nice bloke, and probably a better father than Cussack was! I don't see why they couldn't all survive, hell as someone said it would have been quite shocking if they'd killed Cussack!

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

No, that's The Happening

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I hope the South Africans told them all to piss off when they turned up.

 

[JarodRussell]

2012 is the result of the studio begging Emmerich for another disaster movie, when he wanted to do something else. So he gave them a disaster movie. And it's the best one I have ever seen. The world is destroyed, big time. With a huge dose of self-irony, and a couple of clichés turned upside down. Excellent.

And it's a million times better than a made-for-TV-disaster-film starring Dean Cain or Luke Perry would have been.

 

[milo bloom]

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.

This is the same type of right-wing, "family values" type writing that makes Forrest Gump so unpleasant to watch. The son was defiant and the daughter was suffering from Elektra-complex induced incontinence due to the presence of the stepfather, but both were magically cured when the "regular" father was returned to the fold.

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.

She was an evil Commie, and she had been carrying on with the Russian pilot dude; again, she had gone against "the family" and had to be punished.


I swear, we only Netflix'd this movie because my wife wanted something dumb and fun, but the more I talk about this film the more I absolutely loathe it and everything it stands for. And that's not even getting into the science and engineering flaws present, just the aformentioned family dynamics stuff is enough to get my blood pressure up.

 

[JarodRussell]

This is the same type of right-wing, "family values" type writing that makes Forrest Gump so unpleasant to watch.

Oh boy.

 

[Starkers]

Its a daft notion that the characters can only be happy if they get back togeather, which wasn't needed. Surviving the end of the world should have been enough. I mean Mrs Doubtfire ends happily (if I recall) but Robin Williams doesn't get his kids/wife back as such.

Actually from a family values kind of set up you'd think new Dad would be a far better role model/father figure than loser John Cusack!

 

[Trekker4747]

And Forrest Gump?! Forrest grew up in a household with an absantee father but a strong-willed mother. Forrest as a result of his household and childhood dynamic became a College Football star, a warhero and a multi-millionaire who also had the honor of meeting several US Presidents, bridged a gulf between China and the US and even managed to (unbeknowst to him) reveal a political scandal (Watergate.) Then he went on to become a single father.

So... I'm not sure what "family values" Forrest Gump was trying to preach but it seems like Forrest grew pretty well considering he grew up in a single-parent home.

 

[JiNX-01]

Its a daft notion that the characters can only be happy if they get back togeather, which wasn't needed. Surviving the end of the world should have been enough. I mean Mrs Doubtfire ends happily (if I recall) but Robin Williams doesn't get his kids/wife back as such.

Actually from a family values kind of set up you'd think new Dad would be a far better role model/father figure than loser John Cusack!

That was another gripe I had. Billions had to die just to reunite an incredibly dysfunctional family.

 

[Colonel Midnight]

Horrible movie. It felt like I was getting dumber the longer I watched it... painful.

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Brikar99]

I love this movie precisely because of how dumb it is.

 

[DonIago]

As a brainless popcorn flick, it at least has the advantage of moving along much faster than Independence Day. Though in the end I suppose it comes down to whether you prefer aliens and ship-to-ship combat or quasi-natural disasters.

 

[Starkers]

I think the trouble is that the nature of the disaster left limited options for set pieces, hence why we got plane escapes earthquake about three times!

It was enjoyably dumb, but it should have been a good thirty minutes shorter!

 

[JarodRussell]

Its a daft notion that the characters can only be happy if they get back togeather, which wasn't needed. Surviving the end of the world should have been enough. I mean Mrs Doubtfire ends happily (if I recall) but Robin Williams doesn't get his kids/wife back as such.

Actually from a family values kind of set up you'd think new Dad would be a far better role model/father figure than loser John Cusack!

That was another gripe I had. Billions had to die just to reunite an incredibly dysfunctional family.

No, billions died while a dysfunctional family reunited. That is not the same thing.

 

[barnaclelapse]

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I have scientific proof that 2012 is one of the five worst movies I've ever seen in my life.

At one point one of my brothers came in the room to check on because he suddenly heard me yell "Are you FUCKING kidding me?!" at one o'clock in the morning after Gordon (actor's name escapes me, and I'm not looking it up) says something to Amanda Peet's character about feeling like they're being split apart (or something along those lines) and then a huge crack in the floor separates them.

 

[Chris_Johnston]

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I have scientific proof that 2012 is one of the five worst movies I've ever seen in my life.

At one point one of my brothers came in the room to check on because he suddenly heard me yell "Are you FUCKING kidding me?!" at one o'clock in the morning after Gordon (actor's name escapes me, and I'm not looking it up) says something to Amanda Peet's character about feeling like they're being split apart (or something along those lines) and then a huge crack in the floor separates them.

My exact reaction!
I couldn't even finish it. It made The Core look good!

 

[DonIago]

(sigh) You folks are looking at this all wrong...you're supposed to watch the movie with a bottle of rum or other booze of your choice and chug at the appropriate times, such as the one cited above.

As Worf would say, "This movie -will- be entertaining!"

 

[propita]

I thought this was supposed to be a comedy?! We laughed all the way through it, especially when the slow driver bought it.

I kinda wished the boyfriend and Russian girl lived and got together. And for all the Russian guy being a dick, he did save his kids.

 

[barnaclelapse]

(sigh) You folks are looking at this all wrong...you're supposed to watch the movie with a bottle of rum or other booze of your choice and chug at the appropriate times, such as the one cited above.

As Worf would say, "This movie -will- be entertaining!"

I already drink too much. That movie would have put me in a coma.

 

[DonIago]

Then you have to ask yourself whether a coma is preferable to watching the movie.