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POSTED Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:03:05 PM Delete post? (Moderator ONLY)
Here's just a portion of one...it's exactly as I feared.

Cue the rollicking silliness. You know those scenes that play out in every action movie made since 1980? The ones where the bus jumps the broken bridge? Or a man falls over the edge and everyone thinks he's dead but it's okay because a single hand suddenly appears, clinging to the cliff? Or how about the plane that's trying to escape from an explosion and gets enveloped in smoke only to come bursting out with impossible speed? What about the eleventh-hour miscalculation that results in the timer speeding up towards impending disaster? Then there's the grandpa with regrets, the 'ultimate sacrifice' guy, the wormy scientist who makes good, the noble daughter who outlives the father, the divorcee who falls back in love, the evil rich dude, the ethnic stereotype village, the holy man on the mountain, the beauty queen with the handbag dog, the dude with two day's pilot training who must repeatedly fly everyone to safety at street level, through a collapsing city? What about the obligatory heroic kid, or the water escape scene, the tacked-on happy Hollywood ending where it's all sunshine and laughing and nobody really feels too remiss about the death of 5.9 billion people?

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"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
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There's another problem to deal with if this movie succeeds, we're going to need buckets to catch all the crap knockoffs that will follow this.

Just once, I'd like to see the US not be the focus of the destruction. besides, there are taller buildings to destroy in Singapore.

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
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I can't review yet but so far I'm not discouraged, I wasn't expecting anything original, just a newer, better "Day after tomorrow". and nothing bothers me more then those predictable Romantic comedies that keep just repeating. A problem occurs, then boy loves girl (or sometimes the other way around) then with time, she loves him back but then that same problem back fires and **** hits the fan and a break up occurs, so the boy needs to do something remarkable to win her back and he does, Happy ending
at least this we get once every 5 years, those we get about 10 each year

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I'm not expecting for this to get great reviews, just like I didn't for TF2. I'm just expecting a really fun, cool film.

Best of 2009:

1. Transformers 2 - 10/10
2. The Hangover - 10/10
3. The Blind Side - 9.5/10
4.2012 - 9.5/10
5. Paranormal Activity - 9.5/10
6. Fast and Furious - 8.5/10
7. Friday the 13th - 8/10
8. Monsters vs Aliens - 8/10
9. Wolverine - 8/10
10. Terminator 4 - 8/10
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The-Wildcat said:

I can't review yet but so far I'm not discouraged, I wasn't expecting anything original, just a newer, better "Day after tomorrow". and nothing bothers me more then those predictable Romantic comedies that keep just repeating. A problem occurs, then boy loves girl (or sometimes the other way around) then with time, she loves him back but then that same problem back fires and **** hits the fan and a break up occurs, so the boy needs to do something remarkable to win her back and he does, Happy ending
at least this we get once every 5 years, those we get about 10 each year



Yeah I guess you're right. The disaster films of this magnitude are far more expensive.

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i dont know what to think about this movie, i think i may watch it just to get out of the grind of parenting lol im not expecting too much from it other than some cool scenes with stuff being destroyed

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and I just gotta say "The Day the earth stood Still" sucked hard core, like really sucked, I think THATS the kind of "Disaster Film" (if you can even call it that) that we should try not to repeat

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I'm sure the theater will be packed, but I really don't know if I'm going to see this.

I really don't like the kind of movies that make you feel like hahahah we got your money, fool!

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THIS IS FUNNY: from a review

[i/]The Mayans saw it coming. The Earth's crust destabilizes, quakes and tsunamis run riot, and continents shift, opening up a chasm directly under Columbia Pictures, the folks who hired Roland Emmerich to direct the movie. Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow, Godzilla) is one of the three worst directors to hand such a story to, the other two being Michael Bay and McG.[/i]

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JamieSage said:

THIS IS FUNNY: from a review

[i/]The Mayans saw it coming. The Earth's crust destabilizes, quakes and tsunamis run riot, and continents shift, opening up a chasm directly under Columbia Pictures, the folks who hired Roland Emmerich to direct the movie. Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow, Godzilla) is one of the three worst directors to hand such a story to, the other two being Michael Bay and McG.[/i]


ooo burn!

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i just skipped over those reviews, i dont want anything messing with how i expect the movie to be. and i expect it to be a great action flick on a large scale.

my movies for 2009

1. Terminator Salvation
2. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
4. Star Trek
5. Fast and Furious
6. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
7. Taken
8. the International
9. Knowing
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My review: Pocorn film, all right for mindless entertainment. Big dumb and noisy. If you want to spend your money on it, go ahead.

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Blipvert's Ghost said:

My review: Pocorn film, all right for mindless entertainment. Big dumb and noisy. If you want to spend your money on it, go ahead.


if i see it it well be when it comes to Rainbow so i can watch it for 4$

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The Philadelphia Daily News called this the single worst movie since Earnest Goes to Jail. Wow, now that's harsh.

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I liked it, typical disaster movie from Roland. I give it a 8.5/10.

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I hadn't planned on even seeing this when I saw Roland Emerich's name attached. But, my girlfriend wanted to go see it and I was a good sport. I was actually surprised, in that it was a lot better than I expected, and it was better than Emerich's previous work.

The most simple way to sum up 2012 is this: It is basically Dante's Peak on a MUCH larger scale -- it is completely unrealistic, but keeps you biting your nails on the edge of your seat when the s**t finally hits the fan.

If you are as well-read in science as I am, you will start finding HUGE scientific inaccuracies within the first few minutes of the film, and continue to find more and more of them all the way through to the end. If you can accept this as Hollywood BS and not let it bother you, then you will probably have a good time with all the action and drama, and there is plenty of both. Most of the acting was superb as well. Blu Mankuma gave one of the most realistic and emotional portrayals I've ever seen on screen.

One last observation: There is a very specific example of how Roland Emerich has grown as a film maker over the past decade. I was dreading that trademark moment that's in all of his films. You know, right after the climax, when the protagonists have survived/won, and it cuts to a scene in a base/control room, and the cheesy "victory" music plays while everybody cheers, pumps their fists in the air, high-fives and hugs each other (if you don't know what I'm talking about, watch ID4 and Godzilla, and watch what happens right after the climax). Well, in 2012, right after the climax it cuts to the scene in the control room, and everybody's cheering, pumping their hands in the air, high-fiving and hugging, but THIS TIME, the background music is MUCH LESS cheesy than in those previous movies. So there you have it -- he IS making progress. Baby steps, Roland. Baby steps...

We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. -Tyler Durden, "Fight Club"
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He's making movies that thrill and divert people, but they don't have anything worthwhile to say.

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
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Rostron2 said:

He's making movies that thrill and divert people, but they don't have anything worthwhile to say.



True, although this one seems to have more of a message than his previous efforts -- it is basically a commercial for the idealized, utopian, storybook vision of how things "should" be, as opposed to the reality of human nature and the fact that it is impossible for our leaders to make decisions that benefit everyone and leave out noone. Oliver Platt's character was villainized in this film for being insensitive and "cruel", but if you really think about being in his shoes in that situation, it becomes obvious that 90% of what he said/did was absolutely correct. Maybe even 95%.......

We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. -Tyler Durden, "Fight Club"
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Let's see...he's destroyed the world with:

1. Aliens
2. Climate Change
3. Solar neutrino somethingerother

He needs a good plague film.

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Rostron2 said:

Let's see...he's destroyed the world with:

1. Aliens
2. Climate Change
3. Solar neutrino somethingerother

He needs a good plague film.


Bring on the Swine Flu movie! H1N1
LOL!

We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. -Tyler Durden, "Fight Club"
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