The "2012" film with John Cusak (Spoilers)

[Fire Walk With Me]

It just wasn't a very good movie...how many times can one outrun the very edge of disaster and have it be fresh? And (spoilers) wouldn't the radiation causing the problems have also boiled the scientists and everyone else? From IMDB.COM:

"In 2009, American geologist Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) travels to India to meet his friend Satnam, who has discovered that neutrinos from a massive solar flare have penetrated the Earth and are causing the temperature of its core to increase rapidly."

From Wikipedia.org: "...neutrinos are insignificantly absorbed by the mass of the Earth". "The exceptionally weak interaction with normal matter allowed the neutrinos to pass through the churning mass of the exploding star..." "Because neutrinos interact so little with matter..."

High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos are still theoretical. The backstory for "Zombieland" was far more plausible than this!

Your thoughts?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. It's just another action movie.

With most of those movies you pretty much have to suspend your actual knowledge of the minutiae of science and just enjoy the special effects. Otherwise you won't have any fun at all.

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. True. I didn't have any fun at all.

I -did- enjoy the fissure scene in the supermarket. That was good!

[pitohui]

2. i don't think you have to give a spoiler warning for the first 5 minutes of the film

the backstory for "2012" is silly season mayan myth that the world ends on dec. 12, 2012 (12/12/12 -- get it get it get it) apparently the mayan calendar was remarkably like our own - the neutrino thing is just some bait the director throws in so he can have some scientists as leading characters

even when i was more active in the new age than i am now, i always got a personal chuckle out of that one

this movie is just for fun, altho i would have liked to have seen more of john cusack's rear end and less of woody harrelson's

that blond russian pilot dude's butt was probably pretty nice as well...too bad he was pretty much sitting down in almost all his scenes

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

14. actually 12/21/2012

[pitohui]

15. sorry thanks, ghost! EOm

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[Generic Brad]

3. Does anyone survive?

Or does the entire audience leave by the end of the film?

[doc03]

4. The special effects were entertaining although

totally ridiculous. The acting was just plain awful especially John Cusack. Another godawful movie is Those Men that Stare at Goats, there were a handful of good laughs. Don't waste your money on tickets all those good scenes were in the previews.

[pitohui]

10. the acting was fine

actually for a film of that nature i didn't see any of the "clunky" awkwardness you usually see as actors struggle to deliver the lines w. a straight face

i thought the acting was great, maybe too good for a film of that type, since no one cares if the acting is good or not

but everyone seemed to be quite natural, maybe harrelson was over the top but he was supposed to be...

[Bucky]

5. What the fuck did Mayans know about neutrinos?

If they're gonna use 2012, they need to at least include an enormous fire demon burning the universe to a crisp. That's what I wanna see.

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Yeah, that would have been interesting.

[hedgehog]

8. This movie has something for everyone: physicists can hoot

at the description of neutrinos, economists can wonder why no one notices the disruption in money markets and commodity trading as well as a major shortage of steel and cement, pilots can debate the survival of various aircraft and engineers can chortle when no one knows how to override the limit switch on the back door.

[pitohui]

9. and the rest of us can hoot at the great "end of the world" cell phone coverage

half the planet is in ruins but by gum the cell phones still work!!! golly geebus, what can't that ever happen to me?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

11. My favorite part was when he held the boom box playing "Also Sprach Zarathustra" over his head.

You woulda thought he'd worn that boom box thing out by now, but at that moment of the film, at least when I saw it, there wasn't a dry seat in the house.



I also liked the part with the cannibal dwarfs. Oh, I'm sorry...I meant to say "cannibal LITTLE PEOPLE."

And the unicorns. That just kicked the film to a whole other level. Yep, the unicorns. Might have been a disappointing remake / sequel "weak-uel" without 'em.

:grouphug:

[hedgehog]

12. Anyone who has read this far must know that there are spoilers here:

The planes flying between falling buildings.

The Winnebago apparently doesn't need the rear axle.

No one ever has a back problem or whiplash after falling.

The water in the pit is boiling, but apparently sea water is unaffected (or at least no one notices sea water heating up.)

[lost-in-nj]

13. any time I go to the movies

I leave everything at the door...

so I can have a good time

I LOVED this movie

my fingernails will let you know how much I loved this movie....

I can never understand how any one goes to the movies with out leaving reality at the door and just to go and have a good time......

hello.......

this is Hollywood

right????

thanks


lost

[skypilot]

16. I wanted to like this movie but...

...it started boring me to tears almost as soon as the shit started hitting the fan. Just too many near misses coming back to back to back. Cusack manages to avoid the skyscrapers falling down right in front of him while staying just ahead of the massive sinkhole opening up behind him and then manages to leap, Dukes of Hazard-style, over the sink hole in front of him. It was like watching a video game-- or a cartoon. I just went numb almost immediately.

[qb]

17. Are spoilers really possible for a movie about the end of the world?

I'm only interested in the special effects. 2.5 hours is ridiculously long for a movie like this. I hope the DVD has the option to jump to all of the disasters.