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[Myke Greywolf]

My brain just wanted to run away when it was revealed that the reason why the plane was conveniently able to travel from the USA to China in record time was because the earth crust had drifted in the opposite direction while they were in the air.

 

[Steelrain]

I thought it was a pretty good disaster flick.

Explosions are cool.

 

[yellow submarine]

I love it. It was the culmination of eveyghing Roland has done. It is THE disaster movie.

Basically, this. I love Roland's Independence Day, and 2012 was his love letter to fans of CGI destruction like me. The story was campy/cheesy enough for me to really enjoy it.

I enjoy a cerebral movie as much as any guy, but "entertainment" movies like 2012 have their place for me. As "5 Fa5t 5 Furiou5" had it's place for other people (that are not me).

 

[Alrus]

People go to the movies to be entertained. 2012 was entertaining.

It's not science.

Being just entertaining doesn't make a movie gross over 600 millions overseas.

 

[industrian]

They made the mistake that The Day After Tomorrow made in that they cast the most pedestrian actors possible that led to making the action/ongoing disaster just seem boring. That and there was no real enemy or antagonistic element to it. It was just a series of "we need to be here. We need to fix this." set pieces.

Good special effects though.

 

[Falifax]

Watched it with a thought that it's an Emmerich movie, left satisfied.

Spoiler

They're building spaceships, man!

 

[patapuf]

My brain just wanted to run away when it was revealed that the reason why the plane was conveniently able to travel from the USA to China in record time was because the earth crust had drifted in the opposite direction while they were in the air.

my personal favorite is the reason it all happened: mutated neutrinos.

 

[Myriadis]

It's a Roland Emmerich movie. What do you except?

(To be honest, even with that in mind I thought that it was bad. Nice effects, though.)

 

[Vyroxis]

The one thing that consistently bothered me about this movie is why more naval ships didn't survive. You can't tell me that EVERY vessel in every navy around the world was lost.

 

[Derrick01]

Like a typical Emmerich movie it's only good when everything's going to shit, and then in the last 1/2 or 1/3 of the movie when it's mostly talking it's garbage because his movies have such awful writing. Stick to what you know man!

 

[xam3l]

The movie was a disaster.
http://youtu.be/ZW2qxFkcLM0

 

[coldfoot]

The one thing that consistently bothered me about this movie is why more naval ships didn't survive. You can't tell me that EVERY vessel in every navy around the world was lost.

I know right? Now think about all the submarines in the world and how none of them survived either...

 

[jb1234]

This. It's on par with The Core.

Aww.. I like The Core. It's a guilty pleasure of mine. The actors went into it knowing that the script was a piece of shit and they all chewed the scenery like nothing else. I wouldn't be surprised if the director actually encouraged it. It also has a *terrific* musical score, which I'm convinced helps carry some of the more hysterical dramatic scenes.

2012 is only entertaining when stuff is blowing up... and even then, it's all in a vacuum. When the characters actually try to emote, I found myself nodding off. Its biggest sin is that it's boring.

 

[black_13]

FUCKING AWFUL!

 

[Log4Girlz]

Hey remember that one time where they got poo all over the car? Yeah, I think that was a wink to the audience.

 

[The Technomancer]

It had a couple of scenes that legitimately took my breath away on a big screen, but thats about it.

 

[NomarTyme]

I liked it .

 

[Daigoro]

Being just entertaining doesn't make a movie gross over 600 millions overseas.

so you're saying its a good movie then.

 

[PKrockin]

For a movie about the world ending I remember it being incredibly bland and dull. I guess that's what happens when you fail to make any sort of connection with the viewer.

 

[yogloo]

I love how the indian dude still had signal on his phone when the tsunami was about wipe him out.

 

[RoadHazard]

I wouldn't call it a good movie, but I enjoyed it for what it was. But yes, them just barely managing to escape certain death again and again did become quite ridiculous after a while.

 

[.GqueB.]

People go to the movies to be entertained. 2012 was entertaining.

It's not science.

Pretty much. People are really overthinking this.

Entertainment + hype + John cusack = $$$

 

[dekline]

Yellowstone blowing was amazing.

 

[outsida]

Its one of those good bad movies. Terrible premise, story and characters yet fun to laugh at how horribly bad it is.

 

[Zaptruder]

2012: Family runs away. Earthquakes, explosions and disasters follow.

Solution: Stop fucking moving!

 

[Gospel]

i just turn my brain to the lowest settings to get the fullest enjoyment out of them. and it worked pretty great for 2012.

that part where they drive through falling buildings and shit was straight up fabulous.

 

[Vyer]

Easily one of the shittiest movies I've seen.


Still not as bad as 10,000 BC though.

 

[Team Filler]

Really? People actually liked this abomination of a movie? Really?

How many times in the same movie can somebody be entertained by an airplane just barely taking off before the runway falls away underneath it? Ugh, I don't think I could hate a movie more than I hate 2012.

 

[Timedog]

Dawg, I cried.

 

[Cesar]

Jesus says that everyone should watch it though: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=488625

 

[Lucian Cat]

Popcorn movie.

 

[Quick]

I was watching it on Showcase, too. It's a great visual spectacle, that's all I'll praise it for. Seeing Yellowstone blow up was insane.

 

[.GqueB.]

Really? People actually liked this abomination of a movie? Really?

How many times in the same movie can somebody be entertained by an airplane just barely taking off before the runway falls away underneath it? Ugh, I don't think I could hate a movie more than I hate 2012.

Twice?

 

[Laughing Banana]

I love how the president's daughter gets all high-morale and teary-eyed like when she's already safe and comfortable inside the ark.

I love how John Cusack's family is the cause and the source of the Ark getting jammed, potentially killing thousands upon thousands of people.

I love how the new husband getting killed so unceremoniously that no one gives a shit about it.

But by golly the special effects though... incredible.

 

[demon]

Whenever I try to think of this movie I always get scenes from 2012 and Day After Tomorrow mixed up, and I can't tell the two apart.

 

[Quackula]

The best thing about this movie is that for one reason or another, it seems to kinda have shut up a lot of that 2012 apocalypse nonsense that inspired it.

 

[ProfessorLobo]

My favorite part of the movie is the hopeful ending where millions of rich white people set sail for Africa, the one untouched part of the world. I wonder what's going to happen there.

 

[tafer]

Whenever I try to think of this movie I always get scenes from 2012 and Day After Tomorrow mixed up, and I can't tell the two apart.

Same here, but I like the disaster genre.

Nothing wrong with some dumb fun.

 

[Dr_Boris_Goltz]

I hate John Cusack.

 

[Aselith]

I enjoyed it.

 

[Blood Diamonds]

Let's go to the moon everyone!

 

[Quick]

My favorite part of the movie is the hopeful ending where millions of rich white people set sail for Africa, the one untouched part of the world. I wonder what's going to happen there.

 

[Loofy]

I thought it was awesome, in an Independence day kind of way.

 

[rekameohs]

Yeah it was pretty fucking bad. Plenty of way better disaster movies out there.

 

[wsoxfan1214]

Only thing more painful to watch than the progression of the Senators' season.

 

[Team Filler]

My favorite part of the movie is the hopeful ending where millions of rich white people set sail for Africa, the one untouched part of the world. I wonder what's going to happen there.

That was another masterstroke in cinematic storytelling. The whole world is crumbling from crazy tectonic action and the one untouched place is Africa, a continent with a giant fucking rift running through it.

 

[kittoo]

I loved how the tsunami crossed all of India, then crossed Himalayas too to fuck up the arks! lol. What was it a 10,000 miles high tsunami?

 

[rekameohs]

I also liked how Los Angeles is apparently right on top of a massive chasm inexplicably.

 

[pottuvoi]

It's a fun summer movie not a great one, but it is far from being a truly bad one.

 

[glaringradio]

Roland Emmerich has had a free pass from me ever since Universal Soldier. John Cusack just sweetened the deal.