Has anyone seen a trailer for this? I’ve seen 3, 1 of them in the previews before Zombieland. It looks amazing. The visual effects are stunning. It’ll probablly scare the Snarfs out of me, but I really wanna see it for my 14th birthday. Share anything that you’ve heard about this film, and share your opinions.
I think it looks interesting…
I’m sure it will be good, but it looks kind of corny. 
Or it will be like Titanic. 
I might be a little too scared to see this. It looks almost too good to be just a movie.
What scares me more is the REAL 2012 prediction. 
But another way to look at it is as a new beginning so it could be a prediction of a fresh start for humankind, rather than an ending.
It’s all hogwash, there’s been many predictions made about the end of the world before, Y2K, and I think one more a few years back, but we’re still here. If something massive was going to happen to Earth, I think we would have foreseen it years before and made the necessary preparations, instead of the usual last-minute escapes they portray in disaster movies.
But yeah, the trailer is pretty jaw-dropping, especially with the whole freakin’ continental shelf tipping into the ocean thing! 
I’m more looking forward to Avatar and Princess and the Frog, though if I have enough spare cash and my buds are interested in going, I won’t mind checking this out.
For visual effects artists or those who want a behind-the-scenes look, a new featurette has been released which reveals how they made those massive waves that swallowed Tibet and the White House…
This movie just looks 100% insane. I have a feeling it will be similar to the day after tomorrow in the way that when the massive mind blowing effects are over and done with you will be left with a dull movie
It looks like it will be the dumbest movie (In a bad way) since Transformers 2.
Looks like the biggest pile of stupid I’ve ever seen…
Although the special effects are very nice.
I have no intention of seeing it, it doesn’t interest me at all.
I went to see the mother of all disaster epics, 2012 on Sunday, and what I can say about it is this: It’s so epic, it actually becomes too epic. What I mean is, it’s actually so over-the-top and excessive in its wanton destruction and wiping out of the human race that it becomes too long, too gratuitious, and actually too boring. Yes, there can be too much of a good, or in this case, bad thing, and this movie delivers ‘em by the truckloads. If you’re going to see the special effects wizardry and all that, let me tell you, it’s absolutely breathtaking and one of, if not, the best of the year. The only movie I reckon that can top this is Avatar, but the bar has been set pretty high; skyscrapers fall over like decks of cards, Yellowstone is turned into one huge barbeque, and in one jawdropping shot, the entire freakin’ continental shelf of Los Angeles gets swallowed up by the ocean! At one point, my movie buddy (who is my fellow animation school colleague) turned to me and muttered “Imagine the render times for this.” Never have I seen such magnificent mayhem of such magnitude!
But then, it starts to become repetitive. The protagonist outruns the millionth fireball that always manages to stay just behind him, the plane flies through yet another set of collapsing buildings before bursting out of the smoke cloud just in time, the characters are called to the cockpit to witness another scene of chaos for the zillionth time… by the time we reach the last quarter of the movie (which has enough underwater scenes to fill a Poseidon Adventure feature-length), I was so exhausted and beyond caring about the characters. It doesn’t help that Emmerich disposes of his heroes with such impunity, most of them are just killed off without any particular reason or demonstrating any kind of sacrifice, it’s sort of like they just died in vain, and it almost became almost Saw-level torturous to watch. Actually, when I wasn’t cringing, I was laughing at some of the deaths because they were unintentionally hilarious. So how you might react depends on your disposition.
John Cusack does what he can with the predictable script and cookie-cutter characters, we’ve got the loser dad with ex-wife and the more successful new husband, the little adorable daughter and the bratty pre-teen son, the sadly resigned President (played by “I’m too old for this &*$%” Danny Glover!) and his beautiful First Daughter, who also happens to be the love interest of the scientist who saw it all coming… I particularly liked Woody Harrelson’s screw-loose hippie-hermit/pirate-radio host, but sadly he didn’t get as much screentime as I would have liked him too.
I think the best way to describe 2012 is as a ‘guilty pleasure’. You’ll be impressed by the massively gargantuan sequences of the end of the world and all that, but after watching the umpteenth character bite the dust, you start to feel a little queasy. A truly ‘bad-feel’ movie.
Rating: 3/5
Check your brain at the door. Completely preposterous. If you like fires, explosions and crumbling buildings and hair-breadth escapes, then this is the film for you. For me, I’m more choosy now. Pixar is always worth my money. Roland Emmerich’s stuff isn’t.
I saw this movie on Saturday, and I really liked it! I thought that that the special effects were incredible, but the actual story line was just okay. There were a few things in it that I was kinda like “eh, I don’t think so”, just some of it was a little too far-fetched for me. But since my Step Dad told me about the real 2012 prediction like, 2 years ago, it was really cool to see the movie! I did think it was a tad long though. 
I saw the preview in theaters, and it gave me shivers how BIG it was, but the reviews haven’t been too good, so I probably won’t see it.
Wow, just about everyone here hates this film so far. I thought it was good, and even a little intense at some parts. I ended up seeing it the Sat. after it came out, instead of my birthday, but it was worth it! Oh, and did anyone notice [spoil]at the very end, Africa looks like an alien head profile? It had one body of water that looked like the eye, another body of water under that where the mouth would be, and the top of Africa formed an elongated head![/spoil]
To be fair, the special effects people have really outdone themselves again. But like Transformers 2, they keep getting really cheesy scriptwriters to work with, which is a pity. It seems there’s no dearth of visual effects talent in Hollywood, but a virtual famine of good storytellers. 
By the way, to anyone who watched the [spoil]final evacuation scene[/spoil], were you reminded of the [spoil]Axiom ships in Wall-E[/spoil]? 
Its not that there is a lack of good scrip writers, its that holywood doesn’t want to spend money making films that are a potential risk. I have a friend who writes scripts and he was over in LA speaking to studios and one of them asked him to re-write his script and turn it into more of an action film (it was a psycological thriller i believe) because during the current economic climate they just wanted to make action films and ‘blow stuff up’.
Sounds like something from the orange ad’s i know, pretty depressing really. I’m sure there are exceptions of course but this is what he was told to do. Its a shame because the original script seemed really interesting
2012 just seems like one of those typical Hollywood disaster movies that make money off of end of the world predictions, knowing there are people out there that are really worried about those things.
I just got back! Here is my review!
HOLY CRAP THIS MOVIE IS AMAZING! And Flik-E,I does seem like that,but the movie is still AWESOME! I loved the part when [spoil]that building collapsed and they drove threw it! [/spoil] I made some people laugh in the theater at one part when that guy said “You mean the North Pole is now a part of Wisconsin?” And I said “There goes Santa Claus” But the movie was SWEET! If you like destruction and like to see things get blown up, (me for a example)this movie a must see for you!
10/10
EDIT:I just read some reviews on here and why does it seem like everyone hates this movie! ITS AWESOME! Sure it did get a little boring at some parts,but this movie is GREAT! Even better than The Day After Tomorrow That movie was good,but this movie is WAY WAY better!
Good point, I agree with you on that. I suppose Hollywood producers have to take more risks instead of resorting to the usual explosions, gunfights, car chases fiesta. I don’t mind the explosions, gunfights, etc., but it’s a pity that most of the movies coming out nowadays seem to focus on those instead of the story. I miss the action movies of the 80s and 90s when all the stunts were done without CGI trickery (although disaster movies are the exception, since their setpieces are so massive it wouldn’t be financially viable to do it in real-life), and had a decent plot to boot…
Haha, I loved that part too. They did something similar in Lethal Weapon 4, which Danny Glover (The President) starred in, but I like 2012’s take too! And the way John Cusack’s character kept screaming throughout the entire scene! 
A Singaporean radio DJ called this “The Day After The Day After Tomorrow” interestingly. I think the special effects certainly improved since Emmerich’s last outing (which was the dismal 10,000 BC). Not that the visual effects has anything to do with the director, of course. But yeah, it really is stunning. If Mother Nature threw a tantrum in TDAT, then in 2012 she totally loses it!
I think the reason why most critics didn’t like it was because of the poor pacing and plot, and I agree with them to some extent. It’s no Independence Day, but it’s way better than Deep Impact for sure (which had a similar humanist theme on the ethics of who gets chosen for the continuation of species, but it was too slow and boring). And be sure to see on the biggest screen possible for maximum awesomeness.
Yeah that was hilarious! Well I though you rated it 3/10,but then i saw the 5. I like to rate using 10’s cause its gives you more options.