anticipate (and play along with hoos) roland emmerich's 2012

well i enjoyed it. disaster effects never looked so good, cusack and harrelson work hard for the lols.

do they explain why they choose to fly the airplane through a bunch of near-misses with falling buildings instead of you know maybe flying up high above everything like planes are meant to do (basing this all on the ad which i've seen about 2,012 times by now)

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I think the idea is that the plane only just took off from a too-short runway (and maybe has some damage or something) and so hasn't gained the needed altitude yet. I don't know if this really makes sense w/r/t real life planes but it's how the movie thinks about it...

his entire house is trolling u

xpost yuh that happened a couple of times in the movie iirc

i enjoyed j cusack staying ahead of the supervolcano explosion in a camper van. that's the kind of suspension of disbelief a guy can really get behind.

haha. kinda want to see it but 3 hours???

thats just more apocalyptic value for your movie dollar

yeah, tbh i was getting ready for it to end 2 hours in, but it just got incredibly crappy instead. still worth a look on the big screen though- i really can't remember disaster effects as good as this.

this movie ends with a line about a girl not wearing pull-up diapers anymore. wow.

it's incredible

Couldn't even manage my way through a downloaded copy. zzzzzzz

Awful writing, acting, quite good effects, but it just goes ON and ON and ONNNN

suppose I should go see this before it stops playing in theaters

After fifteen minutes or so I was cheering for the solar flares, tsunamis, and the earth's unstable core. Kill the humans! Kill all of them!

Yeah, with a cast like this (and a movie this boring), it's easy to root for the disaster over the survivors, since if the disaster wins, you'll be rid of John Cusack and the movie will be over.

Rented this on Blu-ray and have to be honest... It's AWESOME. Loved the ships and several of the 'ride' scenes (no matter how ridiculous). Everything else was serviceable. Cusak looked constipated which was also entertaining.

i enjoyed it. i just pretended that the director meant me to laugh through most of it. the last half hour just needed chopping tbh

Haha I saw 5 minutes of this when I was in line at Best Buy the other day and thought it looked far worse than I could have even imagined. The CGI just looked laughable.

this managed to be both terrible and weirdly dread inducing

i just pretended that the director meant me to laugh through most of it

We just watched this. I couldn't believe I *wasn't* meant to laugh all the way through it, tbh. As a spoof of all disaster movies ever, it was top notch.

i started watching this a while back but as soon as john cusack came onscreen i was just like 'fuck it, life's too short' and turned it off

he did nothing of the sort

etc

Really so silly. I saw this, actually enjoyed it, and yet when i try and think back to the movie, it just seems like the entire 2 hours was slow motion shots of the bus driving off an endlessly collapsing cliff with explosions behind it.

Nah, that was pretty much it. Ooh, it also had a moment of dubious racism as well, when Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor were queuing to get on the arks. Yer man from The West Wing was explaining that the guys to be saved had been chosen to be the best genetic material to repopulate the earth, accompanied by shots of cute photogenic passengers. Cut to two Arab sheikh chaps, penny drops "these people aren't good genetic material, they're just RICH!".

It really does help to think of it as a spoof. We nearly lost it when Cusack's hand appeared out of the crack at Yellowstone Airport and then he RAN AFTER THE PLANE AND CAUGHT UP WITH IT!

this film in no way sucked

this sucked in no way film