Escape to the Movies: 2012
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Sir, I must say that your attention to cinematic camera angles and film quality sets you aside from the rest. Unlike some reviews who ramble about action or use general terms like "pretty decent" or "really cool" you sir use structure... CTRL + D
special effects were way better than his other movies. but there were so many holes in the plot/science of the movie that if you have any grasp of phisics or astronomy you cant help but take yourself out of the movie and critique it during the middle of all the big buetiful shots.
Every charecter in the movie has an overdramatized heartfelt crying scene about/with one of there loved ones. not kidding. every charecter, even the side charecters who are only in the movie for about 5 minutes. and thats about as long a time as you get to develop a connection with the main charecters. (sept Woody Harrelson that guy is awsome.)
every action scene in this movie is beyond impossible, cars drive through calapsing buildings that luckily have no walls or furniture in them. planes fly through clouds of ash without stalling their engines. everything explods on contact. not a single airplain in the movie can take off unless the runway is crubling underneath it and large structurs are resting at the end of the runway and need to be narowly missed. Seariously the exact same ploy 5 times in the movie.
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the entire premise of the movie is that neutrinos are actually microwaves and only effect the core of the earth but not the surface... so the core melts(more Melted) and the planet falls apart. because the galaxy and the planets lined up perfectly as they do every 640 million years... well the planets and the galaxy actually line up about every 200 years, last time it happened we launched the voyager space probes. neutrinos cant make it past our atmosphere. and if Yellowstone explodes it will blow with a force equivalent to a 1gigaton nuclear bomb. and the ash cloud wont settle for thousands of years. the shock wave would be enough to put most of Wyoming into orbit. and would vaporize everything on the surface of north America within about 1-2 hours depending on how hot the air is. in this movie we get to see somebody outrun that explosion in an RV.
then they fly from Las Vegas to china, via Hawaii. that is about the longest possible rout to china from vegas. the shortest route would be to head straight there passing through southern alaska. but they lucked out because china came 1000 miles closer while they where flying. aproximately movement of a continet at about 100 miles per hour. luckily continents moving at high speads dont cause tidal waves intil after they stop and the earthquakes start (again).
the entire movie would be made significantly better if you cut out all the things that roland emmerich had control over and just kept in the things that the specieal effects team created. every second of diolgue in this movie is trite and pointless. the charecters we are made to fallow are the least important or interesting charecters to be fallowing during the end of the world. and all the action is just wrong. you cant suspend your disbeleife because everything is too unbeleivable. but it all looks pretty, the camera doesnt shake too much and the shot composition is textbook. these things make for a mediocre movie, and should be considered standard and avarage, But because the only people who are given the budget to do these things all seam to be fucking idiots this is the best epic Action Movie of the year so far.
on a side note. BRONSON is fucking great. it only played at one theater in my state for one week. if its playing neer you hurry up and check it out before its gone. go see that now and check out 2012 next week at a matinee show or something.
Every charecter in the movie has an overdramatized heartfelt crying scene about/with one of there loved ones. not kidding. every charecter, even the side charecters who are only in the movie for about 5 minutes. and thats about as long a time as you get to develop a connection with the main charecters. (sept Woody Harrelson that guy is awsome.)
every action scene in this movie is beyond impossible, cars drive through calapsing buildings that luckily have no walls or furniture in them. planes fly through clouds of ash without stalling their engines. everything explods on contact. not a single airplain in the movie can take off unless the runway is crubling underneath it and large structurs are resting at the end of the runway and need to be narowly missed. Seariously the exact same ploy 5 times in the movie.
+*+*+*+*+ SPOILER ALERT +*+*+*+*+*+*
the entire premise of the movie is that neutrinos are actually microwaves and only effect the core of the earth but not the surface... so the core melts(more Melted) and the planet falls apart. because the galaxy and the planets lined up perfectly as they do every 640 million years... well the planets and the galaxy actually line up about every 200 years, last time it happened we launched the voyager space probes. neutrinos cant make it past our atmosphere. and if Yellowstone explodes it will blow with a force equivalent to a 1gigaton nuclear bomb. and the ash cloud wont settle for thousands of years. the shock wave would be enough to put most of Wyoming into orbit. and would vaporize everything on the surface of north America within about 1-2 hours depending on how hot the air is. in this movie we get to see somebody outrun that explosion in an RV.
then they fly from Las Vegas to china, via Hawaii. that is about the longest possible rout to china from vegas. the shortest route would be to head straight there passing through southern alaska. but they lucked out because china came 1000 miles closer while they where flying. aproximately movement of a continet at about 100 miles per hour. luckily continents moving at high speads dont cause tidal waves intil after they stop and the earthquakes start (again).
the entire movie would be made significantly better if you cut out all the things that roland emmerich had control over and just kept in the things that the specieal effects team created. every second of diolgue in this movie is trite and pointless. the charecters we are made to fallow are the least important or interesting charecters to be fallowing during the end of the world. and all the action is just wrong. you cant suspend your disbeleife because everything is too unbeleivable. but it all looks pretty, the camera doesnt shake too much and the shot composition is textbook. these things make for a mediocre movie, and should be considered standard and avarage, But because the only people who are given the budget to do these things all seam to be fucking idiots this is the best epic Action Movie of the year so far.
on a side note. BRONSON is fucking great. it only played at one theater in my state for one week. if its playing neer you hurry up and check it out before its gone. go see that now and check out 2012 next week at a matinee show or something.
sigh.... can i just say that the PSA at the beginning was probably the best thing in the whole world and needs to be broadcast loudly at the top thread creation screens in forums. and actually as someone who can read the mayan calendar from school stuff i once did and second hand accounts from actual native americans about it, it doesn't even really end at 2012, 2012 is the calendar version of the 999,999.9 odometer, it will just turn over. back to zero. Now there's my 2 cents.
Now to the reveiw, i understand all that film-making stuff and how it can improve the movie but you have to understand that while it might be good for clever cods like yourself, it's going to be ultimately wasted because the F**king idiots this movie panders to are too stupid to realize it's happening. And while from a pure film quality standpoint it's going to be better than alot of stuff because it has a big budget handed to a man who knows what to do with stuff.
I really don't care how good the movie is because i'm not going to spend any of my money on it because i've already seen the damn thing. My main problem with this movie is the endless ad campaign. i've seen all the money shots, all the action shots and all the edge of seat stuff because the movie is so far up it's own ass that it showed all of this in the preveiw on myspace, on whatever network special, youtube, and in every single f**king trailer commercial. I have nothing against an ad campaign but there is a good one and a bad one and this was a bad which leads me to believe the movie doesn't believe in itself. I've seen so many commercials for the damn thing that i'm wondering if the words "extordinary" or "compelling" flash up on the screen from time to time, and a big voice booming, "THE NEXT BLOCLBUSTER EVENT." oh and thats shot you said you can frame? They have. In my town on my way to work it's framed in a billboard that says "how will you survive? search 2012."
Sure i've seen ad campaigns before, this one spoiled the movie for me. it's like an advertisement for a comedy movie that tells all the punchlines i.e. meet the spartans or the proposal. this movie showed me all the cool shots and intese action sequences so i have nothing left to see unless i really like one of the actors. like, really like, like a meber of a fan club like. A good ad campaign looks like something pixar does. UP and and toy story 2 had great campaigns becasue you knew what was coming but you didn't know how it was going to come about. or even better, district 9, to pull one of bobs favorites, you knew what was it was about but other than alein snafu you had no idea what was going to happen. trailers are to give you a breif look at the generic plot used by hollywood and then some stuff to lure you to the theatre. it not to give itself prerelease appriasals of how well it will do, it is not to show all the best shots in the movie. and above all it is not to annoy or in the case of f**king idiots scare an audience into attendence.
Now to the reveiw, i understand all that film-making stuff and how it can improve the movie but you have to understand that while it might be good for clever cods like yourself, it's going to be ultimately wasted because the F**king idiots this movie panders to are too stupid to realize it's happening. And while from a pure film quality standpoint it's going to be better than alot of stuff because it has a big budget handed to a man who knows what to do with stuff.
I really don't care how good the movie is because i'm not going to spend any of my money on it because i've already seen the damn thing. My main problem with this movie is the endless ad campaign. i've seen all the money shots, all the action shots and all the edge of seat stuff because the movie is so far up it's own ass that it showed all of this in the preveiw on myspace, on whatever network special, youtube, and in every single f**king trailer commercial. I have nothing against an ad campaign but there is a good one and a bad one and this was a bad which leads me to believe the movie doesn't believe in itself. I've seen so many commercials for the damn thing that i'm wondering if the words "extordinary" or "compelling" flash up on the screen from time to time, and a big voice booming, "THE NEXT BLOCLBUSTER EVENT." oh and thats shot you said you can frame? They have. In my town on my way to work it's framed in a billboard that says "how will you survive? search 2012."
Sure i've seen ad campaigns before, this one spoiled the movie for me. it's like an advertisement for a comedy movie that tells all the punchlines i.e. meet the spartans or the proposal. this movie showed me all the cool shots and intese action sequences so i have nothing left to see unless i really like one of the actors. like, really like, like a meber of a fan club like. A good ad campaign looks like something pixar does. UP and and toy story 2 had great campaigns becasue you knew what was coming but you didn't know how it was going to come about. or even better, district 9, to pull one of bobs favorites, you knew what was it was about but other than alein snafu you had no idea what was going to happen. trailers are to give you a breif look at the generic plot used by hollywood and then some stuff to lure you to the theatre. it not to give itself prerelease appriasals of how well it will do, it is not to show all the best shots in the movie. and above all it is not to annoy or in the case of f**king idiots scare an audience into attendence.
I love Moviebob now. I liked him before... but it is now a love.
Bashing idiots and bashing Micheal Bay... it's pretty much the same thing. Right? Only difference is you are just calling one out specifically.
Bashing idiots and bashing Micheal Bay... it's pretty much the same thing. Right? Only difference is you are just calling one out specifically.
Thank you Moviebob for that public service announcement at the beginning of the review about the 2012 bs. It honestly annoys me how some people believe it and buy whatever crap someone makes that's based on it. I'll agree also that Emmerich definately knows how to make a better movie than Michael Bay, though they still both make crappy movies. Just goes to show you that the only thing we have to worry about in 2012 is Sarah Palin.
I'm a moderator on a forum dedicated to doomsday scenarios, notably 2012 bringing in more people recently yet why am I a moderator if I don't believe in it? Because I'm sane. You wouldn't let someone insane run things (please, no political satire, it's just too cliche).
As for this movie, I may go but then again it will depend on time and money in the next week or so.
(As a side note, you're not how I pictured you Bob)
As for this movie, I may go but then again it will depend on time and money in the next week or so.
(As a side note, you're not how I pictured you Bob)
i was expecting this to be awful. apparently i have a movie to see this weekend. and yes transformers sucked :\. also i loved that intro.
Thank you, I needed someone to tell me this movie was good (especially after 10,000 BC).
In other news, THANK YOU SO FRAKKING MUCH (Yeah, I said Frakking) for the public service announcement. I hate Doomsday Bullshit from the get go and the 2012 bullshit is especially exasperating.
In other news, THANK YOU SO FRAKKING MUCH (Yeah, I said Frakking) for the public service announcement. I hate Doomsday Bullshit from the get go and the 2012 bullshit is especially exasperating.
Wait, you have actually met someone who believes in it and isn't making money in the process? I mean everybody i know, realizes how silly it is.The RealSandman said:
ah i almost pissed myself laughing at the michael bay remastering of the shot
im glad im going to see this tomorrow with my friends, great review
im glad im going to see this tomorrow with my friends, great review
I must admit I expected this movie to be good even if it's a cash in on the 2012 theory. The thing is I just cannot watch movies like this because they are such an obvious cash in and when people do that it bugs the crap out of me.
The same thing goes for Jennifer's body it was just a cash in on Megan Fox being hot, well that and the plot looked horrible the acting well it's Megan Fox so that just screams bad acting and nothing about it looked good.
The Mayan calender ends in 2012 but they were thousands of years ahead of them self did anyone stop to think maybe the creators just said this is enough lets take a break? Could they predict there own demise?
The same thing goes for Jennifer's body it was just a cash in on Megan Fox being hot, well that and the plot looked horrible the acting well it's Megan Fox so that just screams bad acting and nothing about it looked good.
The Mayan calender ends in 2012 but they were thousands of years ahead of them self did anyone stop to think maybe the creators just said this is enough lets take a break? Could they predict there own demise?