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Wow. Ok, I love John Cusack but even without him this movie looks pretty awesome. The story might suck but it's visually captivating.

Wow, it's so full of crap and itself I can taste the cheddar.

Oh good lord, as soon as the director came on and announced himself, I was about ready to close the tab.

At the very least though, it's his own movie, so it doesn't really matter.



Okay watching the whole thing, it at least looks cheesy enough to be interesting. Like a corny seventies disaster movie made with today's effects.

i'll see it. Meaningless fun.....

I've been intrigued ever since the teaser came out...what...a year ago? I think it was attached to Cloverfield, I forget.

Anyway. Mayan prophecy. I'm totally in.

Though I suspect Devestator probably has more polygons in him than the USS JFK AND the giganto-wave combined.

Meh.... I just no longer care for these type of Disastor movies anymore...

It's like Noah's Ark mixed with what Revalations, and Mayan Mysticism, with prolly some type of polictical underlining tone.

Just too much camp for me. Granted I'll rent it, but meh....

Yeah but you know the award for best special effects will go to this movie anyway because no self-respecting organization will give an award to a giant robot with wrecking balls.

I don't think they'd give it to Roland Emmerich either.


Wait, did Day After Tomorrow win any effects awards?

w00t! This looks awesome, though I can't wait until 2013 so those Mayan prophecy nuts can shut the hell up.

Somehow, i always knew the end of the world would come at the hands of John Cusack

This might just end up being the most unintentionally funny movie of all time.

I can't picture John Cusack as anything other than Rob Gordon in High Fidelity now.

Yikes.

That looks...astoundingly bad.

FROM THE DIRECTOR OF

INDEPENDENCE DAY

AND

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW

COMES

PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THING A THIRD TIME

And yet Godzilla of all movies had to be the one where he was like "You know, I'm tired of all this city destruction."

So, after 2012, when's the next date when morons think the world's going to end?

2027.

2029, the apophis will impact.

2097.

Wipeout.

I hate to bear terrifying news, but Wipeout is on TV right now.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was actually referencing the PAL title of an old PSX game.

Don't mind me.

I thought that was it's NTSC title too?

Was it? I heard the NTSC one was Wipeout XL.

Ah, turns out it is. Guess I got to used to one of my old roommate's foreign game collection.

I give up. I officially hate movies now. That's right, this is where it fell apart for me.
I don't know whether to blame Fox or Germany.

It'll be hard to beat SoaP.

There was nothing unintentional about that movie on any level.

I hope this is the global disaster film that remembers Canada.

I'll probably see this, I enjoyed ID4 and Day After Tomorrow on a mindless destruction level. So is this some modern take on When Worlds Collide, or does the Earth's warranty just run out?

Meh, I'm not that thrilled about it, but it looks neat.

Ridiculous.

I think of Canada whenever I see someone destroy the White House. Been there, done that.

wow that looks fan-huging-tastic! cant wait to see it! I enjoy these types of movies!

VGM out...

Believe me, there's no civilization in Canada to destroy and the citizens actually like it that way.

That looks huging terrible.

Eh, I'll wait until TF3, when Unicron visits the Earth.

I can't get the sound to work

youtube?

I dare someone to grab the trailer and dub REM's "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" over it.

Solar flare or something making Earths everything go coocoo. If I remember it correctly... I whas bored and read the script review ages ago.

2012 looks pretty, I'll give it that. But there's no real hook there, aside from the expected vague prophecy and government survival plan. I also know nothing about the protagonists, that's another movie trailer no-no.

On a different note, this may be the first time we've seen movie footage of an airplane fly by two buildings and (presumably) not carry any 9/11 subtext. Just something that caught my eye.

I was ignoring the trailer, then I finally decided to watch it.

Scientifically and historically inaccurate? Check.

Silly Acting? Yep.

Average Special Effects? Yep.

Ripoff of a story from at least 20 other movies I've already seen? Yep.

Lots of crowd and Fwiffo pleasing destruction? Hell yeah!

Will see? Certainly possible!

The only thing thats going to happen on 21st december 2012 is people waking up to the news of mass suicides and panic and riots and looting.

That sounds like every day.

I swear, last week or so I had my alarm clock on "start radio" instead of the usual high beep in the hopes that it would make my morning easyer.

I woke up to the news that Korea (the one with the guy with the tupé and glasses wich makes him look a bit like Elton Johns alien cousin) had nuclear weapons and being all Napoleonic about it. Nothing brightens up the day as mutually assured destruction.

There is expected to be an increase in solar activity in 2012. It's nothing we haven't been through before, we just haven't had the electronic infrastructure that we have today when it's happened in the past. If I recall it was when electricity was in it's infancy and some wires started fires last time we had a bad one.

Really not seeing how it could translate to tidal waves and jive falling from the sky though...

I know a Mayan Prophecy/2012/Dinosaur-human footprint fossil/Nibiru person. It's hard to have a conversation sometimes, and I can't wait to hear him explain how all of this stuff will be real.

People like to assume that because the Mayan calendar ends in 2012, something significant happens. Well guess what, our calendar ends every freakin' year and nothing cataclysmic yet!

The only part of this which was interesting to me was the airlifted giraffe and the idea of big civilization-preserving arks. (I'm assuming these are spaceships that were being built?) That to me is the interesting storytelling, and I'd much rather see a movie all about that than about the natural disasters on crack. Of course, Titan AE covered some of that. And as noted, dozens of other movies have covered most of the rest of this movie.

Day After Tomorrow was fun with some drinks and friends and specifically for the purpose of laughing at, this one might be too.

Man, I can't wait for the "This Is Gonna Happen!" crowd when this movie is released.

I just read a review of the script here, and they've worked in the "Yellowstone super-volcano" scare for good measure.

We're all gonna die!

eventually from any number of causes

Sadly enough, this one probably won't have obviously-computer-generated wolves running about.