A quick review on 2012 by Tiglet

[Tiglet]

Okay guys,

Here in Belgium the movie 2012 was just released and I decided to go check it out with the girlfriend.

Before the movie:
My expectations were high as I'm the sort of guy that loves movies where the world comes to an end and humanity is threatened. Normally I don't go the cinema a lot but I made an exeption for this one because it runs at 2 hours and 35 minutes and has lots of great special effects which my TV probably can't produce in the same quality as on the big screen.

During the movie (possible spoilers):
Well the movie starts up slow with the usual "getting to know the family" stuff. We get to know the main character and OFCOURSE he's divorced and alone and his wife has found a new guy which we are supposed to dislike but start to like in the end. They got 2 kids too.

Here's where it already goes wrong... KIDS. They are annoying for the whole movie and just scream "DAADDYYY" "MUUMMMMYYYY" etc. Would have loved to see em die during first seconds of the movie.

Anyway, then we get to know why the world is going to end (the scientific dribble).

Then finally the good stuff starts, the world starts to get destroyed. The special effects in this movie are superb. I mean reallllyyyy good and its all awesome but we probably all knew that before watching this movie.

Now what annoyed me during this movie is the following:

**SPOILERS**
The family gets in 3 different planes and 3 times the same thing happens. Everything behind them gets destroyed and they manage to fly of JUST in time (SURPRISE SURPISE).
Also there are car jumps. 3 to be exact and almost exactly the same.
The ground disappears before them and they JUST manage to jump over it with a limo, trailer and a bentley.

Oh, and the president is annoying as hell too.
The whole world is going down and some littel girl is crying and the president goes "I'll find your daddy" and he goes to find the little girls father.
He approaches a paramedic and asks "who do I see for missing persons"...

WTF... the world is exploding around him and he cares about freaking missing persons and people are bleeding and dieing all around him...
If I was that paramedic I would have just hit him in the mouth.
**/SPOILER**

Anyway, the movie was good just for the special effects but the story was totally uninteresting and the family was just plain annoying.

Conclusion:
Go see it if you just wanne see super cool special effects.
Don't go see if you're expecting a good story and an unpredictable story.

I give it a 6/10 (10/10 for visuals).

Movies I liked:
Lord of the rings, Transformers I & II, Independance day, ... (these are all better than this one)

[computer2slow]

So basically The Day After Tomorrow.

[ken]

Review in a Hurry: Beyond ridiculous and overstuffed with dizzying computer effects, director Roland Emmerich's 2012 is a disaster pic that pulls no destructive punches. But at more than 2.5 hours, it's close to one earthquake too many.

The Bigger Picture: Are you familiar yet with the Mayan prophecy about the world ending on Dec. 21, 2012? If not, you're about to be. See, the Earth's crust is heating up, but it's got nothing to do with global warming!

As our tour guide through a planet-wide catastrophe, John Cusack stars as everyman Jackson Curtis, failed sci-fi writer, father and—conveniently!—chauffer to a wealthy Russian tycoon (Zlatko Buric). This is important because ever since 2009, the world's leaders (such as POTUS Danny Glover) and the superrich have been investing in a Noah's Ark-type project to save that which is "valuable for the survival of the human race."

Films like 2012 too often wallow in dialogue that feels less like how people actually talk and more like signposts for the audience to grab hold of. So when we see Thandie Newton looking over the Mona Lisa, we know that this is the Great Art of the World that must be saved—'cause the kindly old curator says as much. (That, and it's the Mona Lisa.)

In the wrong hands, this could be, well, a disastrous way to make a movie, and Emmerich has been a culprit in the past with The Day After Tomorrow and 10,000 BC. But 2012 works; those signposty speeches allow for a kind of logic amidst all the mayhem. And such mayhem!

Now, our hero's main goal is clear, for Cusack to just survive when L.A. undergoes the best-worst earthquake possible by today's CG. It can be really easy to lose focus in a film like this, but that never happens in 2012.

A great cast—including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet and Oliver Platt—make the crazed logic of it all go down much better, too.

They can't sell everything, though. Peet, as Cusack's ex-wife, try to frankly rebuild a marriage seems a bit pointless when Yellowstone is raining volcanic ash.

The 180—a Second Opinion: It's long. Really long. But for those who crave this kind of bloodless destructive force-of-nature fest, you could do a lot worse. Like The Day After Tomorrow, for starters.

[rhpsfan]

Scientific Dribble

Why do I have a picure in my head of Albert Enstein Dribbling a Basketball?

[Chief]

Nice review there tiglet - original and written with 'feeling'!

[minarstud]

its a great movie i liked it