Comments on: 2012

By: Jeff S.

Jeff S. — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:08:16 +0000

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.

By: Freezer

Freezer — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:12:11 +0000

Not so much “realistic” as “not showing us the characters doing things that make no friggin’ sense in the damned commercials”.

By: Hunt

Hunt — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:03:36 +0000

I’m a little confused as to why anybody would prefer that this particular movie be more realistic.

By: Freezer

Freezer — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:29:16 +0000

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)?”

By: Keera

Keera — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:54:36 +0000

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.

By: Less reality, more fantasy, no baby blues

Less reality, more fantasy, no baby blues — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:58:35 +0000

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!

By: Chakolate

Chakolate — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:56:58 +0000

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

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:18:41 +0000

So, no Subway to the Sea, then, I guess. Sorry MTA…

By: DPWally

DPWally — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:24:20 +0000

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.

By: Kevin A

Kevin A — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:06:59 +0000

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?