We’ve been covering Roland Emmerich’s “2012″ since it was announced in February of 2008. Almost two years later, the film explodes its way into theater this Friday, and no one and nothing is safe. Emmerich and company ponders the end of the world in “2012″ by way of the Maya Calendar, which depending on your belief, either foretells the end of the world in December 2012, or, well, doesn’t. That’s all fine and well, but the real question isn’t whether the Maya Calendar predicts the end of days, but if the movie was worth your time.
This is your open discussion thread for “2012″. If you’ve seen the film, tell us what you thought of it. Liked it? Loved it? Indifferent?
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I watcht the movie last night and it’s a Hollywood movie.Big special effects and ZERO development in characters and plot.
In EVERY disaster scene the characters need to run away and they succeed every LAST second.I don’t need to speak of the cliché scenes like doing things under water with tons of oxygen,etc….I give it 2 stars out of 5…just for the special effects.
I LOVED the movie 2012! it’s graphics were amazing! it kept me on the edge of seat. an exilerating movie well done by the whole cast. It made me laugh in some parts and made me stand up and shout at the characters to go go go! Hurry! lol! it is one of my favorite movies ever. I didn’t expect most things that came. It was unpredicdable! i give it 4/5 stars. why only 4? I think they should of had a better story line with characters and maybe a little less action. I would recommend this to anyone who loves entertainment and thrill. the graphics were even better than the knowing. If you have seen that anyway. and i’m very glad that there wasn’t any gore and all that gross junk in it. well hope you go watch it and enjoy as much as i did!
I saw the “2012″ movie over the weekend and the special effects were great. For those who always want to complain about something, just remember “it’s Hollywood”. The movie pretty much sum’s up all the devastating previous disasters the earth has seen (except asteroid impacts). Long movie well worth the money.
A Beginning, Not an End
An Editorial
November 29, 2009
I know it’s late in the week, but I’ll do it: here’s my counter point to the 2012 movie review “End of the world is, well, kind of a drag.” The only drag I see in this review is its writer, Roger Moore. First rule in watching a science fiction/fantasy movie is “It’s only a movie.” Stating that, you can dump Mr. Moore’s take on 2012 and move on to some serious critique. The previews of 2012 did not lie. The film is a special effects’ rollercoaster ride. Despite the excellent human theme content, you get your money’s worth, hands down. In other words . . . It’s all CGI hell breaking loose!
The viewers are not as stupid as Mr. Moore would have you believe. They get it. They know it’s an action movie; they’re not staunch believers of the Apocalypse’s Hour three years from now.
Mr. Moore runs down the movie director’s list of past achievements, bunching them up with other B movies. The fact is that all of Roland Emmerich’s films are above “B” rating. They may stretch the reality and audaciousness of our patience and intelligence, but Emmerich does not do it for pennies per movie. His themes and production quality are brought up with the same courtesy and value for what we pay to see in a science fiction film. But of his take on 2012, director Emmerich adds more than the high quality special effects: moral consciousness.
In the final hour of our existence on earth, human beings will overcome their sense of egocentrism and cynicism and learn, or rediscover, what it is to be human, or more directly, why should we as a specie continue.