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Film The End of the World is Coming....
Posted by David Schmader on Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:32 AM
...to a theater near you.
For those who like their post-apocalyptic cinema stupid and kaboom-y, there's Michael Bay Roland Emmerich's forthcoming 2012:
And for those who prefer the bleak and bookish, there's John Hillcoat's forthcoming The Road:
I prefer my end-of-the-world entertainments to be verbose and ironic.
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Stupid and kaboom-y, please. I demand a spectacular apocalypse. A spectacolypse, if you will. Climaxing with a show-stopping musical number.
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I so much want for The Road to be good; I just reread the incredible book last week and it's hard to imagine asking audiences to sit through something so bleak (assuming Hillcoat did the book justice at all).
I can't believe producers keep throwing money at that guy responsible for excreting ID4, Stargate, Godzilla and Day After Tomorrow.
I can't believe producers keep throwing money at that guy responsible for excreting ID4, Stargate, Godzilla and Day After Tomorrow.
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i saw the trailer for 2012 last night and was commenting how it looked exactly like the trailer for the day after tomorrow. and it turns out it is directed by the same person. (emmerich, #1 is correct). go go making the same movie twice!
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I feel so dirty that I look forward to every Emmerich film.
Its like he ups the destruction ante in every film:
Independence Day destroyed the major cities.
Godzilla destroyed a cultural and national icon.
The Patriot destroyed United States history.
The Day After Tomorrow destroyed the northern hemisphere.
10,000 BC destroyed my faith in humanity.
2012 destroys nearly everything, apparently.
I expect his next film after this will be simply opening credits followed by the planet Earth exploding like Krypton for 20 minutes of the BEST FUCKING CGI OF ALL TIME EVER THAT COST $500,000,000 dollars, followed by the closing credits
Its like he ups the destruction ante in every film:
Independence Day destroyed the major cities.
Godzilla destroyed a cultural and national icon.
The Patriot destroyed United States history.
The Day After Tomorrow destroyed the northern hemisphere.
10,000 BC destroyed my faith in humanity.
2012 destroys nearly everything, apparently.
I expect his next film after this will be simply opening credits followed by the planet Earth exploding like Krypton for 20 minutes of the BEST FUCKING CGI OF ALL TIME EVER THAT COST $500,000,000 dollars, followed by the closing credits
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The 2012 trailer made me think of Robot Chicken's take on Michael Bay.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRS90V8BQ…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRS90V8BQ…
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@3 Hey now, Stargate and ID4 were made of Win with a capital W. We get the only viable long-term competitor to Star Trek out of one, and ID4 has one of the great sci-fi action movie lines/sequences of ALL TIME.
"Is that glass bullet proof?"
"Is that glass bullet proof?"
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The preview of 2012 is hilarious. I loved it when they show buildings, hundreds of them, toppling over sideways, like trees (a different preview, on TV, showed more of this "effect". With no dust, so you can see them really clearly. It's got to be the most ambitious, and thus worst, CGI of all time. If this gets any Oscar mention for special effects I will howl with laughter. And Jon Cusack appears to be trying out for a competition for the stupidest human who ever lived -- jealous of Nic Cage, perhaps? Shit music, too.
Oh, and the Maya were not "Earth's earliest civilization", nor did they in any way predict the end of the world.
Death to Hollywood.
Oh, and the Maya were not "Earth's earliest civilization", nor did they in any way predict the end of the world.
Death to Hollywood.
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Doomsday predictions are a dime a dozen.
http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm
The 2012 nonsense began when the doomsday industry stopped making money on Y2K. Look for them to suck another date out of thin air as 2012 gets closer.
As for 2012 the ancient Mayan People couldn't even predict their own collapse.
http://www.skepdic.com/maya.html
Galactic alingment hoax http://www.dailycommonsense.com/2012-gal…
Planet X Nibiru Hoax
http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astr…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJjQMwEjC…
http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm
The 2012 nonsense began when the doomsday industry stopped making money on Y2K. Look for them to suck another date out of thin air as 2012 gets closer.
As for 2012 the ancient Mayan People couldn't even predict their own collapse.
http://www.skepdic.com/maya.html
Galactic alingment hoax http://www.dailycommonsense.com/2012-gal…
Planet X Nibiru Hoax
http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astr…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJjQMwEjC…
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Is this 2012 movie based on the Whitney Strieber book? Because then it might have a bit of a chance, in an entertainment sense.
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It shows the dome of St. Peter's toppling over, intact, and ROLLING over the assembled multitudes. This really could be the worst movie ever made. Move over, Ishtar and Waterworld. I hope it bankrupts Sony.
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@5:
Basically, what I'm envisioning is Emmerich doing a remake of "When World's Collide", only we get to see the worlds actually collide.
Basically, what I'm envisioning is Emmerich doing a remake of "When World's Collide", only we get to see the worlds actually collide.
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Hello and whoops, yes, it's Emmerich, and I see now that the media reports naming Bay as would-be director are from 2007...Anyway, fixed, and Fnarf's enthusiasm has proven contagious....I can't wait for 2012....
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@13 Emmerich wouldn't make a pussy move like physical worlds colliding.
It's galaxies or nothing.
It's galaxies or nothing.
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2012: ALSO the best song on the latest by the Gossip..I'd post the link, but I 'm a tard and can't post a link to save my life
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@7, not even Spader and Russell could save Stargate; I've never been bored enough to try watching one of those awful looking spinoff series, nor do I recognize any Trek series outside the original as canon. ID4 was possibly the best of that lot of hackery, if you took it as tongue in cheek over the top self parody, though more irritating than amusing. I have no defense for why I paid to see Day After Tomorrow in theaters after those other two movies; I wasn't even all that drunk. Day After Tomorrow was like having the director blasting hot beer & chili farts in my face for two hours.
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I think there should be an end of the world movie that ends like this:
1. Earth blows up into micoroscopic pieces of space dust
2. The sun novas (or goes nova, I can't recall the correct usage)
3. The center of the Milky way collapes into itself in a nano-second (yeah impossible but it's my movie)
4. One second after #3 happens the entire universe collapses back into itself in less than 4 seconds.
The End
1. Earth blows up into micoroscopic pieces of space dust
2. The sun novas (or goes nova, I can't recall the correct usage)
3. The center of the Milky way collapes into itself in a nano-second (yeah impossible but it's my movie)
4. One second after #3 happens the entire universe collapses back into itself in less than 4 seconds.
The End
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On the small screen, the 2012 trailer looks so CGI cartoony and fake. And why on Earth didn't they take off over the Pacific ocean like all planes do in LA?
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On the other hand, if it hadn't of been for Godzilla, a lot of young Japanese women would never have chosen to become biochemists or genetic scientists, and I for one am glad for that.
2012 looks like a cool and totally ridiculous thrill ride. I'll have fun watching it in 3D.
2012 looks like a cool and totally ridiculous thrill ride. I'll have fun watching it in 3D.
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I'm too close to the date of my own demise to be entertained by end-of-the-world craptaculars, but I do like the adjective kaboom-y, Dave.
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The best part of the 2012 trailer is, without a doubt, when the Creation of Adam splits in two directly at the point where God and Adam's fingers touch. I mean, it's just so symbolic, man. Like, God is forsaking his creation and stuff. Deep. Very deep.
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"The Day After Tomorrow" is my all time favorite movie to give the MST3K routine to. That flick is non-stop hilarity.
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The Road preview looks way more colorful than I imagined in the book. Then again, it's probably hard to effectively shoot gray on gray on gray on gray on gray under an endless endless endless gray ashen sky.
Kind of chagrined that they will be showing the "origin" of the apocalypse. I got the impression it was a nuclear winter though of course it's never explicitly described. Per usual with McCarthy, it just is.
Kind of chagrined that they will be showing the "origin" of the apocalypse. I got the impression it was a nuclear winter though of course it's never explicitly described. Per usual with McCarthy, it just is.
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@37. Charlize Theron's production company optioned the book. At the time I heard this I wondered how she was going to insert herself into the story since the wife/mother was barely in it. Looks like there'll be flashback/dream sequences detailing what happened before the boy and the man were alone.
In any case, this isn't a film I'll bother with because I don't want some star's vanity project to pollute the images the book left in my head.
In any case, this isn't a film I'll bother with because I don't want some star's vanity project to pollute the images the book left in my head.
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@36 - right on! Although from the look of the trailer for 2012, Air Force One is not as lucky as it was in Independence Day.
I am a huge fan of the end of the world/apocalypse genre. Of course, Hollywood gives us these spectacular scenarios played out in all of their CGI glory, and they always seem to have a happy ending. Yep - global destruction and a happy ending! No wonder we Americans love going to war and have little interest in cooperating with multilateral treaties. There will always be a happy ending.
European film makers take a much more realistic road. I guess, perhaps, they realize that the end of the world is not as exciting and flashy as we would like to think. I guess it helps that they have been through world-ending scenarios for real a number of times in the past few centuries. Then of course, there is the sub-genre which refuses to take the end of the world seriously. 'Les Derniers jours du monde' which came out a few months ago in France managed to make the end of the world both depressing and hee-larious.
Suffice it to say, if the end does come, I am more worried about dying in a horrible and violent way from the mass panic of my fellow citizens or law enforcement than I am from mile-high tidal waves or bombardment from solar radiation. Hurricane Katrina was a good preview of that.
I am a huge fan of the end of the world/apocalypse genre. Of course, Hollywood gives us these spectacular scenarios played out in all of their CGI glory, and they always seem to have a happy ending. Yep - global destruction and a happy ending! No wonder we Americans love going to war and have little interest in cooperating with multilateral treaties. There will always be a happy ending.
European film makers take a much more realistic road. I guess, perhaps, they realize that the end of the world is not as exciting and flashy as we would like to think. I guess it helps that they have been through world-ending scenarios for real a number of times in the past few centuries. Then of course, there is the sub-genre which refuses to take the end of the world seriously. 'Les Derniers jours du monde' which came out a few months ago in France managed to make the end of the world both depressing and hee-larious.
Suffice it to say, if the end does come, I am more worried about dying in a horrible and violent way from the mass panic of my fellow citizens or law enforcement than I am from mile-high tidal waves or bombardment from solar radiation. Hurricane Katrina was a good preview of that.
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@37
I heard that the before the apocalypse scenes are not in the movie. They company that made the trailer inserted them to make the movie look fun and action filled.
That's what I heard on the internet.
I heard that the before the apocalypse scenes are not in the movie. They company that made the trailer inserted them to make the movie look fun and action filled.
That's what I heard on the internet.
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Apparently Aragorn finds the One Ring at 2:08, so the movie ends with him killing all the baddies with a big mace and everyone is happy, right?
Seriously, The Road looks a thousand times better than 2012. I wasn't aware that this was the same director that made the brain-liquefying Day After Tomorrow.
@6: A thousand thank yous for posting that link. That was the funniest thing I've watched in weeks.
Seriously, The Road looks a thousand times better than 2012. I wasn't aware that this was the same director that made the brain-liquefying Day After Tomorrow.
@6: A thousand thank yous for posting that link. That was the funniest thing I've watched in weeks.
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