2012..The Movie

[Patroklos]

If I made a disaster film, people would leave the cinemas crying, trembling and in a state of deep shock.

This is generally the feeling I had. It had nothing to do with the destuction of mankind though.

 

[Lord Baal]

Oh, and Danny Glover continues to be the worst actor on the face of the earth. Seriously, the guy has no skill whatsoever. Whenever I could undstand his mumbling he carries about as much gravitas as a comma patient.

That's because e's getting too old for this $^#&.

If I made a disaster film, people would leave the cinemas crying, trembling and in a state of deep shock. Because that's a natural reaction to bad things happing for real.

I think that's just the feeling people would get from any movie you made Winner.

 

[Joecoolyo]

If "fun" is the emotion one should feel when watching a film in which 99.996% of humans suffer a horrible death and practically everything is destroyed, this race really deserves to suffer.

If I made a disaster film, people would leave the cinemas crying, trembling and in a state of deep shock. Because that's a natural reaction to bad things happing for real.

Actually throughout the entire movie, only one scene actually kinda scared me (I'll put it in spoilers in case you haven't seen it yet)

Spoiler :

The scene when the people aren't let onto the boats, so instead try and run to the entrance attempting to get in before the wave. The whole of idea of a massive crowd pushing, shoving, trampling (because of it people were pushed over the edge of the cliff, falling to their deaths, which is what really frightened me for some reason). I guess this scene was really the only frightening one was because it is the most realistic (as in this one can happen any day, unlike a 10.5 L.A. earthquake).

The of course otehr than that, most of the CGI wasn't really fun, nor terrifying, just a bunch of eye candy (Yellowstone Volcano, best CGI in the entire move!).

 

[dirtyparrot]

That's because e's getting too old for this $^#&.

It's ironic that I think those were one of his lines in one of his movies.

As for the movie, I guess I'll say that it's watchable, but it's not going to blow you away. Obviously expect some very flawed science and for it not to make any sense in any way. I couldn't stand the touchy-feely jump that they kept trying to push on us. Maybe I'm just not sensitive enough or something.

 

[Lord Baal]

It's ironic that I think those were one of his lines in one of his movies.

That was kind of the point.

 

[Winner]

I think that's just the feeling people would get from any movie you made Winner.

Assuming I knew how to direct a movie, I don't think so Seriously now. I've never written a script, but I am perfectly sure I could write a better one than 2012 if I really tried. I mean, it was so stupid that if I knew the producers meant it seriously, I'd have to leave. (Boy, the "science" was sooooooooo stupid.) Aside from few funny lines, it was boring and completely lacking any sort of coherence. It was more like a bunch of short destruction clips loosely connected through a handful of characters. And the worst part was the last half hour - pure boredom. Who's interested in the ships and the idiots on them? I want more destruction! Aren't there more famous places which need to be crushed? London? Berlin? Prague? Great Wall of China? Pyramids? Australia?

Worst spent 2 hours salary in a long time. The CGI was the only interesting thing, but I expected much more of it - basically everything was shown in the trailer before.

(though I give it one {+} point for euro being the hard currency )

 

[Lord Baal]

Assuming I knew how to direct a movie, I don't think so Seriously now. I've never written a script, but I am perfectly sure I could write a better one than 2012 if I really tried. I mean, it was so stupid that if I knew the producers meant it seriously, I'd have to leave. (Boy, the "science" was sooooooooo stupid.) Aside from few funny lines, it was boring and completely lacking any sort of coherence. It was more like a bunch of short destruction clips loosely connected through a handful of characters. And the worst part was the last half hour - pure boredom. Who's interested in the ships and the idiots on them? I want more destruction! Aren't there more famous places which need to be crushed? London? Berlin? Prague? Great Wall of China? Pyramids? Australia?

Worst spent 2 hours salary in a long time. The CGI was the only interesting thing, but I expected much more of it - basically everything was shown in the trailer before.

(though I give it one {+} point for euro being the hard currency )

I seem to remember my roommate, who also has no idea how to direct or write, coming up with the idea of taking a dump, not flushing the toilet, filming it for 90 minutes and releasing it as the next Alien vs Predator film. I told him not to be ridiculous, they'd never let him sully a work like that with the Alien vs Predator name.

Australia never gets destroyed in these films. In Independence Day we nailed a ship that was preparing to use its Monument Destroying Laser (tm) on the Harbour Bridge, and I think that's the closest any Australian city/landmark has come to getting wrecked in a disaster film - excepting the Mad Max series, which is Australian anyway.

My favourite disaster film is Armageddon, for one reason and one reason alone; they dropped the asteroid on Paris. And they're surprised that the French don't like them?

 

[Winner]

I'd love a realistic catastrophic movie about an asteroid impact, BTW. Nearly everybody dies, Earth is totally devastated... as I said, people would leave the cinemas terrified

 

[civ_king]

I'd love a realistic catastrophic movie about an asteroid impact, BTW. Nearly everybody dies, Earth is totally devastated by a Czech dictator whose code name is Winner as I said, people would leave the cinemas terrified

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[holy king]

threads 2?

 

[moscaverde]

2012 movie: Get all the cinema cliches you can think of, put some bad actors and a few cgi. No plot at all.

 

[bestrfcplayer]

Actually throughout the entire movie, only one scene actually kinda scared me (I'll put it in spoilers in case you haven't seen it yet)

Spoiler :

The scene when the people aren't let onto the boats, so instead try and run to the entrance attempting to get in before the wave. The whole of idea of a massive crowd pushing, shoving, trampling (because of it people were pushed over the edge of the cliff, falling to their deaths, which is what really frightened me for some reason). I guess this scene was really the only frightening one was because it is the most realistic (as in this one can happen any day, unlike a 10.5 L.A. earthquake).

The of course otehr than that, most of the CGI wasn't really fun, nor terrifying, just a bunch of eye candy (Yellowstone Volcano, best CGI in the entire move!).

That was one of the best parts of the whole flim! Except for the secne where they got out of LA with all the buldings falling down and stuff. I also liked the prelog to the whole thing.

 

[Winner]

threads 2?

Something like that. Imagine somebody made a proper remake of Threads with modern CGI and all the good stuff while maintaining the deeply disturbing sense of desperation and catastrophe.

That would be a disaster movie worth the name.

 

[Arwon]

The movie was terrible and I loved every minute of it, laughing out loud quite frequently.

Needed more smashy porn, though.

 

[Tee Kay]

Half-baked plot.

But yeah, plenty of destruction.

 

[Arwon]

I'd love a realistic catastrophic movie about an asteroid impact, BTW. Nearly everybody dies, Earth is totally devastated... as I said, people would leave the cinemas terrified

There's an unrelentingly bleak 1980s British nuclear war TV movie called 'Threads' which you should take a look at.

 

[Winner]

As some of my posts above suggest, I've already seen it.