Scene from 2012
POSTED BY: Haken
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 22:12
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I got the feeling I was watching "Independence Day".
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Originally posted by traveler:
I got the feeling I was watching "Independence Day".
It did have that ID feel to it, didn't it.
Not sure about this one. I think Haken is right in that it has that completely over the top, theme park ride thing going on.
Given the special effects and visuals it seems like a movie that if you do want to see it you almost have to see it on the big screen to appreciate it.
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Yeah, that pretty much renews my opinion that all disaster movies SUCK. Had no desire to see this in the 1st place, and now, after seeing that clip, I wanna see it even less. 
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Each decade has its "OMG TEH WORLDZ IS ENDINGZ! OH NOESSSSSS!" movies, in larger or smaller format. Some are good, some are bad, all are pretty bleak, with pyrric victories at best for a small portion of remaining humankind. Whether based on people or natural disasters, I think they prey on the fear of our world falling apart, since it's largely run by very, very large factors. Hows that for Unification?
1970s--Alien(s): (evil corporations rule teh worldz and want us eaten by aliens)
1980s--Terminator(s): (evil corporations rule teh worldz and want us rooled bai teh robots)
1990s had lots of natural disasters, water-based ones, basically the Flood all over again. Comets, asteroids and other celestial bodies were trendy too (Armageddon for example). Last I saw, Hollywood was trying to rehash some old standbys.
Even Tim Burton, master of the escapist genre is
guilty of the visually stunning 9. But again, puppets in a post-apocalyptic world? This trend is getting annoying.
So why isn't 2012 about an evil corporation? Because the evil corporations HAVE taken over, and it's only a matter of time till Blue Sun! Mwah ha ha! I jest. Sort of. We'd all look better in Star Treckian red-shirts. With knifeable logos.
I thought we were done with all this after "The Day After Tommorrow." Snore.
Actually, the trailer made me laugh. It looks like one of those bad Ice-Cube road trip movies plus explosions and pestilence. Yoikey.
Going for a ride.
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I dunno... having the airport runway collapsing just as the plane is taking off? C'mon... And my first question to the pilot would be, "Hey buddy, think you can gain some altitude? Like sometime this month?" no pilot in his right mind would be tooling along at pracrtically ground level where he could get squashed when he's got an AIRPLANE that goes UP for Chrissakes! This isn't an amusement park ride -- oh wait! but it will be soon, right?
OK, rant over. But yeah, I like John Cusack, too...
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I hate it when that happens.
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Notice how none of the movies predict USA surviving as a utopia of individual freedom that only exports democracy and peace?
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I myself thought it was a comedy for the first few minutes. Sort of like a "Scary movie" parody of how the world will end.
Then I saw that they were trying to be serious.
When the ground was breaking. I thought it was going to be a worm monster that pops up, like the one from Beatlejuice.
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Quote:I just had another thought. Maybe this movie is about what would have happened had we not addressed Y2k.
Originally posted by Karel:
Next time, don't let the Mayans invent a calendar that runs out of numbers, or this will happen all over again.
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” -- George Santayana
*re-snort*
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