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2012

Cidu Bill on Oct 8th 2009

On one hand, 2012 probably won’t be a very good movie. On the other hand, if ever a movie warrants an iMax version, this one’s probably it.

Filed in 2012, Bill Bickel, IMAX, movies | 29 responses so far

29 Responses to “2012”

NormmroN Oct 8th 2009 at 05:10 pm 1

ROFL. I so want to see that in iMax — in SAN FRANCISCO!
Frank the curmudgeon Oct 8th 2009 at 05:43 pm 2

Shinola.
Mark M Oct 8th 2009 at 07:28 pm 3

I think I’ll just continue to inexplicably fly 10 feet off the ground.
AMC Oct 8th 2009 at 08:41 pm 4

Either CGI is getting pretty good, or that movie has a budget of 726 Gadzillion dollars.
Jeff S. Oct 8th 2009 at 10:38 pm 5

We lived in Bentonville, AR when Twister came out, so we went to see it. It felt like we were in the IMax during the final scenes. Turns out, there was actually a tornado in the next town and the theater employees decided NOT to tell us. I felt so safe…
Kevin A Oct 8th 2009 at 11:49 pm 6

I saw this on 1080 HD television last night. I also continue to feel that it’s not going to be a great movie. However, after seeing this preview I feel compelled to see it on the big screen.
(Partly because I don’t think I can wait a year to find out where they land; I’m having trouble waiting a month.)

Mark M - At first, the ground falling under the plane was creating a down draft. That could continue to affect the plane for a few hundred yards after it got over more solid ground, the way water runs to a drain from all directions. Plus, every maneuver cost him lift. No matter, I agree with you, the scene feels wrong; the plane doesn’t seem to be affected by any air disturbance. (They seem to be breathing okay, so there must still be air around.)
Cidu Bill Oct 9th 2009 at 12:36 am 7

Kevin, I’m sure there are more things logistically wrong with the scene than we could possibly list — but it’s cool enough not to matter.
Slager Oct 9th 2009 at 01:04 am 8

As a person who is almost, sort of, kind of legitimately worried about the world ending in 2012, I find this an eensy bit terrifying. When exactly is this film coming out? Will there be anyone left on Earth to see it?

Well…. probably yes, and then two weeks after its release, the movie will be hopelessly dated.
David N Oct 9th 2009 at 01:36 am 9

Just a few things logically wrong with that flying scene too - but hey, who me complain? My New Mexico just got THAT much closer to the beach!

It might be a big bag of suck, but it’s gonna be a noisy, explosive, jarring, cataclysmic, mind-blowing, get-me-a-huge-bag-of-popcorn - big bag of suck.
chuckers Oct 9th 2009 at 05:35 am 10

The comment I had about “Twister” was ‘So crammed full of special effects, we didn’t
have room for a plot!’

This will probably be along the same lines. I would see it for free in IMAX if I could
but that probably isn’t going to happen.
jim in va Oct 9th 2009 at 09:52 am 11

LMAO @ Mark M! I was thinking exactly the same thing! I would have stuck that plane on it’s damn tail and gone straight up!
marie Oct 9th 2009 at 10:17 am 12

I’ve heard so many people complaining about movies based on books, tv shows, comic books, other movies, and action figures, and yet no one seems to have a problem with movies like this one, of the let’s-forget-everything-we’ve-ever-learned-about-science-and-pretty-much-everything-else-and-just-focus-on-stuff-being-blown-up genre. Seriously, it’s movies like this that make me cringe and wonder what the hell Hollywood’s been smoking.

Although now that I think about it, I think this is supposed to be a comedy, as I couldn’t stop laughing through the whole trailer.
Jester Oct 9th 2009 at 11:49 am 13

2012 AKA “Being chased for 2 hours by a hole opening up directly behind me”
Rasheed Oct 9th 2009 at 11:49 am 14

It said Nov 13. It basically looks like Earthquake: The Ride: The Movie. Stargate was okay, I really liked Independence Day (and still do), and I appreciated The Thirteenth Floor, but I haven’t cared for any of Roland Emmerich’s other movies (and yes that includes The Patriot).
MoWatt Oct 9th 2009 at 12:05 pm 15

Slager, please tell us you were kidding about being “almost, sort of, kind of legitimately worried about the world ending in 2012.”
patty leidy Oct 9th 2009 at 12:26 pm 16

did John Cusack need money for an indy flick he planning or something?
granted it looks visually fun….but..eh…….
Scott Oct 9th 2009 at 01:58 pm 17

marie, some people care. Check out Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy page
http://www.badastronomy.com/index.html

As for the movie, my willing suspension of disbelief, which is quite well developed, got knocked out by the trailer. The stupid, it burns!
Elyrest Oct 9th 2009 at 02:25 pm 18

I’m always telling my sister that in order to enjoy movies there has to be a certain suspension of reality. I think 2012 not only suspended reality - it expelled it.
Cynthia Oct 9th 2009 at 02:54 pm 19

The world’s imploding? Seriously?
Kevin A Oct 9th 2009 at 03:06 pm 20

I just realized that the surprise clip that appeared on TV was only 2 minutes and I was pretty hooked. I guess I thought it was the whole 5:28 clip because 2 minutes seemed like such a long time on TV (and I was watching a TiVo recording with no clock reference). I’m even more impressed by the full version.

There’s a making-of video I saw (not heard) on ET that shows actual cars being hurled for the scene. It seems to me that, as with Transformers 2, there seems to be a lot less reliance on CGI for the old style scenes.

I realize it got people into the theaters, but boy wouldn’t that first destruction scene in Independence Day have stopped a few hearts from grief if they hadn’t already shown it in the previews?
DPWally Oct 9th 2009 at 04:24 pm 21

If the CGI looks that cartoony at youtube size, I definitely don’t want to see it at IMAX size. It would look worse than a Scooby Doo episode.
Ray Oct 9th 2009 at 06:18 pm 22

So, no Subway to the Sea, then, I guess. Sorry MTA…
Chakolate Oct 9th 2009 at 11:56 pm 23

My favorite astronomer, Neil Degrasse Tyson, has addressed the question of the world ending in 2012. You can find the video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJjQMwEjC1I
Less reality, more fantasy, no baby blues Oct 10th 2009 at 12:58 am 24

I like the idea of a Hollywood version of a Lovecraftian apocalypse, although, knowing Hollywood, the ending will be more like a Mayan apocalypse. (Mayans believed that souls were sent to purgatory, where they would undertake a journey whose length and difficulty were determined by their karma, ending at the land of the dead, presumably, something equivalent to heaven.) I watch Hollywood movies for the action, because their stories and imagination are long dead–please, Hollywood, stop remaking everything!
Keera Oct 10th 2009 at 05:54 am 25

You know the claim that during the next big earthquake, everything west of the San Andreas fault (which includes Los Angeles) will fall into the ocean? Cracks me up to see Hollywood come up with ways to make that happen since nature isn’t cooperating.
Freezer Oct 10th 2009 at 10:29 pm 26

It’s like they saw The Day After Tomorrow and asked themselves “How can we make that movie bigger in scale and in implausibility (and most likely - the number of Idiot Balls handed out)?”
Hunt Oct 12th 2009 at 09:03 am 27

I’m a little confused as to why anybody would prefer that this particular movie be more realistic.
Freezer Oct 12th 2009 at 10:12 am 28

Not so much “realistic” as “not showing us the characters doing things that make no friggin’ sense in the damned commercials”.
Jeff S. Oct 12th 2009 at 04:08 pm 29

This trailer reminds me of The Core. SO much bad science, you had to leave your brain at the door so you would watch it.

I think it is funny that everywhere else in the scenes, the cracks are going through buildings and crossways across the highways, yet it only FOLLOWS the stars of the movie during their escape.