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Has anyone seen 2012 yet?

I saw it yesterday, and I HATE IT. It was so predictable, and was filled with softcore "gore".

The idea of a doomsday movie is not bad, but the idea of THAT movie was horrible. I'm going to try my best to not spoil that movie, but making a giant ship that can withstand wave damage to protect mankind? Really? Why not just have a building that can withstand tsunami damage with the ships safely protected inside instead?
 
The END OF THE WORLD doesn't mean you, an insignificant human, get to survive. That's why the trailer turned me off this movie. You can't run away in an airplane!
 
You know we've a movie/tv forum, right?
 
the destruction scenes were great, but i didnt like the story as much. I mean c'mon, two years to build all that?
 
PorkPi said:
The END OF THE WORLD doesn't mean you, an insignificant human, get to survive. That's why the trailer turned me off this movie. You can't run away in an airplane!
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It happened at least three times in the movie, maybe four. Six or seven if you're counting all vehicles containing John Cussack.

It was ****ing stupid. Just as I expected, visual overload--too much going on at once. The idea of the entire world getting eaten up at once is so unbelievable, I wasn't pulled in for one moment.

There were tons and tons of cliches. Acting was terrible.

Everything that everyone with a brain was expecting.

The only thing I did like were the Arks at the end. The launching location and the design of the Arks looked really cool--from a sci-fi standpoint.
 
Roland Emmerich is Micheal Bay's long lost German brother.
The guy had two decent movies in the mid 90's then started making these gigantic, CGI infested crapfests just like his American counterpart.
 
I've already mentioned my hatred of this movie: possibly the worst movie this year certainly the longest and most boring anyway :|
 
I saw it today and the entire audience was laughing collectively at:

- Danny Glover's lisp
- Danny Glover's acting
- All the telephone "I love you" scenes

And so much more I can't remember, felt like it was a comedy with so much laughing. Most people went for the CGI destruction, but there was way too much filler between those scenes that you really felt the 2h40 minutes. Everybody groaned too whenever there was the cheap violin music.
 
DEATH eVADER said:
What was the softcore gore?
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When the death is supposed to be incredibly gory, but they don't show it.

Think of it as softcore porn. You get all the action, but the camera is always at a bad angle.

I mean if you're gonna grind someone to bits you might as well just show it.
 
Uh bad film? Right...

From wikipedia:
It opened at number one with an estimated $65 million on its first weekend domestically and $160 million in foreign markets, totaling $225 million worldwide
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and that's just the OPENING weekend, so...

you guys don't know a lot about movies, huh?
 
Seppo said:
Uh bad film? Right...

From wikipedia:

and that's just the OPENING weekend, so...

you guys don't know a lot about movies, huh?
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Financially successful in the box office? Yes. Critically successful? Hell no.

I know a hell of a lot about movies, especially why millions of people buy into bullshit like this.

It seems that you don't know much about movies if you think the amount of money a film grosses equates to how good a film actually is.
 
Anyone who didn't go see this knowing full well it was going to be hilariously bad, and provide tons of entertainment value (laughing at how bad it is) then just stop watching movies because god damn what did you expect? A masterpiece?

No this is "SHIT BLOWS UP: THE MOVIE".

I had fun.
 
flamingdts said:
When the death is supposed to be incredibly gory, but they don't show it.
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When everybody gets covered by glass of falling debris from skyscrapers, you could almost feel the presence of a condenscending John McClane in the background saying "Glass? Who gives a shit about glass?"

Financially successful in the box office? Yes. Critically successful? Hell no.

I know a hell of a lot about movies, especially why millions of people buy into bullshit like this.

It seems that you don't know much about movies if you think the amount of money a film grosses equates to how good a film actually is.
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Basically this, the movie industry has many small Gems that are Critically brilliant but do not gross as much due to lack of funding in the hype department.
 
I'm pretty sure it's up to the individual to decide whether a movie is good or not.
 
Captain M4d said:
Financially successful in the box office? Yes. Critically successful? Hell no.

I know a hell of a lot about movies, especially why millions of people buy into bullshit like this.

It seems that you don't know much about movies if you think the amount of money a film grosses equates to how good a film actually is.
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Spider man 3 *wink*
 
My favorite part was the 5 minute clip they released a few weeks ago.

I loved how no matter which way they were driving the earth was falling away directly behind them. Then when they got on the airport, the earth is falling away directly behind the airplane. Then rather than pulling up and flying over the debris, the pilot insists on flying into the crack so he can look cool by dodging all sorts of falling debris.
 
xcellerate said:
My favorite part was the 5 minute clip they released a few weeks ago.

I loved how no matter which way they were driving the earth was falling away directly behind them. Then when they got on the airport, the earth is falling away directly behind the airplane. Then rather than pulling up and flying over the debris, the pilot insists on flying into the crack so he can look cool by dodging all sorts of falling debris.
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Totally equates to a good meaningful movie doesn't it? The whole exploring danger thing?

"It's a haunted house, millions of people died in there. Let's go in and piss off some spirits!!"
 
xcellerate said:
My favorite part was the 5 minute clip they released a few weeks ago.

I loved how no matter which way they were driving the earth was falling away directly behind them. Then when they got on the airport, the earth is falling away directly behind the airplane. Then rather than pulling up and flying over the debris, the pilot insists on flying into the crack so he can look cool by dodging all sorts of falling debris.
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yes because movies have to be the way people think in reality.....reality is boring get over it. enjoy the damn movie, and shut up everyone about how its illogical! its a fictional movie, can you guys really bitch about how something entertaining, again, in a movie, doesn't make sense in real life?
 
just saw it...i think there was every cheesy cliche in that movie. Character development was bad, the story flipped-flopped around way too much.

Those 2 russian kids...probably the ugliest kid's i've seen all year.
 
I had low expectations before i went to see it but i was surprised how decent it was. Mainly thanks to the cast. It was certainly better than Roland Emmerich's previous two movies.
 
I liked it. It was OK. I mean, it's not a piece of art, but it was still a good watch.
 
I thought it was pretty fun. The actors all reminded me of the guys in Independence Day (except no Will Smith badassery). The whole story was so "family time in Hollywood" that I really didn't want to hate it because that would be pointless. The destruction was cool, but kind of disappointing when you think about what a real mega-tsunami would look like (mile high waves), or what the eruption of Yellowstone would REALLY look like. Woodie Harrelson was awesome as always too.
 
Saw it yesterday. It was OK, definitely better than "The day after tomorow". I agree Woodie Harrelson was good, too bad his character was killed off so quick.
 
TwwIX said:
I had low expectations before i went to see it but i was surprised how decent it was. Mainly thanks to the cast. It was certainly better than Roland Emmerich's previous two movies.
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This. FAR better than I expected it to be. Still not a great - or even good movie, but it was sort of fun.
 
Why does transformers get endless pages of rage and hate but this film gets virtually no abuse at all.

You people are ****ing astounding.
 
Mr-Fusion said:
Why does transformers get endless pages of rage and hate but this film gets virtually no abuse at all.

You people are ****ing astounding.
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Transformers had a considerably worse cast, and made the transformers into a huge joke instead of being awesome. It was an insult to the series. Think about it, most of the people who didn't like the Transformers movie really enjoyed Transformers as a kid. This has no source material. 2012 also had no delusions about what it was. It was a silly end of the world movie. Transformers should not have sucked.
 
I haven't seen it, and probably won't see it until it arrives on sky. Just another 'OMG THE WORLD IS GONNA BLOW!' film, so I can expect crap acting, cheesy dialogue and just pure CGI rapage. The entire concept for it is laughable, and its even more laughable that films like these can make so much money.

And Transformers was wank.
 
I wasn't planning to see it, but the conditions I gave my date were "Anything except New Moon".

It's not saying a lot, but it was certainly the 'best' of the "End of the World" movies.
 
I dunno I thought the day after tomorrow was ok, Independence Day was fun as hell if im being honest, despite it being drenched in cheese lol. And yeh ok I sympathize with you, I'd rather throw myself out of a tall building that see anything twilight orientated.
 
I actually didn't see Day After Tomorrow, and Independence is pretty awesome for having Goldblum, but I can just never get past how awful the science in that movie is. Not that they necessarily did their homework with this one, either, but, you know.

I find it amusing that all three movies are the same director.
 
i thought it was solid, i didnt have the highest expectations going in, and it was better than i expected
 
I thought this film was hilarious.

So glad I didn't pay for the tickets.
 
Adrik_Senturu said:
Anyone who didn't go see this knowing full well it was going to be hilariously bad, and provide tons of entertainment value (laughing at how bad it is) then just stop watching movies because god damn what did you expect? A masterpiece?

No this is "SHIT BLOWS UP: THE MOVIE".

I had fun.
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agreed

I still don't thing the CG in the movie is as photo-realistic as everyone makes it out to be... there were quite a few places where it there was obvious CG.
 
there were quite a few places where it there was obvious CG.
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This, for me i really noticed the bit where they drove the limo through the other side of some building :|
 
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