Posted on 10/02/2009 12:53:50 PM PDT by K-oneTexas
Do you believe in the Mayan calendar? Do you believe the world will end on December 21, 2012?
Well the latest disaster pic is upon us or will be in the theaters on November 13th.
Also another trailer at YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz86TsGx3fc
Awesome computer graphics.
The Mayans just ran out of rock.
My calendar ends on December 31 2009.
I saw the trailer. It was pretty good, if vertigo-causing. Trouble is, the Mayan calendar doesn’t say the world is going to end in 2012. That year merely marks the change of an era, or a time-count period, in the same way the year 2000 marked a time-count period change on the Gregorian calendar that we use.
If Obama is reelected in November 2012 it doesn’t make any difference.
Well that just takes the fun and hysteria right out of it. :)
Putting aside, for a moment, the fact that I would have zero interest in any film starring John Cusack (even if Amanda Peete stepped up with another gratuitous nude scene), the trailer made me want to avoid this one for all its worth. I had no idea what was going on, and the CGI looked cheesey, not believable. No thanks.
“Do you believe the world will end on December 21, 2012?”
Absolutely, for the democrats.
Actually, the way things seem to be headed, it could happen. But, I am okay with that. I mean, if we’re all gone, I could hardly feel that I got screwed on the deal. LOL
Ca going down? What the? Is the Earth hollow? If the Earth is coming to an end where do they think they are going?
I loved it! Can’t wait
Awesome effects. Looks like it’s going to be some great fun.
Seen the trailers, it’s looking to be a shining example of everything that’s wrong with CGI. Because they can do MASSIVE special effects for dirt cheap that’s all they’ve got. At least the disaster movies from the 70s had some semblance of plot (not necessarily good plot, but some plot) because you couldn’t carry a 2 1/2 hour movie on the 3 killer sequences they could afford so they had to that other 2 hours with people talking. Now that people talking is actually more expensive than FX they can’t even be bothered to fake a plot. If it wasn’t for the fact that they know viewers like to emotionally bond with characters in peril they might do an all FX movie.
John Cusack ... it’s already got disaster written all over it
Cannibals got recipes?...
I saw it, and thought it looked downright silly. Driving on the edge of a fault line, outracing the shock waves, flying planes between falling buildings. I thought it was a spoof. I can’t believe anyone would package 2 hours of this into a movie....
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later view
Yes, cannibals do have recipes and most rather simple.
Especially meat, always served rare.
I thought it was just that 2012 is when the calendar guy got tired of writing dates.
I don’t want you to tell me if the Earth comes to an end in the movie but tell me this: will there be a sequel?
If the Earth is coming to an end where do they think they are going?......
Exactly, that is what I said. The must be rushing to a space shuttle or something.
The must = They must
Screenplay: CGI shot of something blowing up -- Cusack reacts to green screen -- CGI shot of something blowing up -- Cusack reacts to green screen etc. x 3 hours. Result: OSCARS® all around, plus zillions of bucks.
Still, it's going to be a great popcorn flick. Luckily, I know a manager at a local movie theater who grants me a special "friend of employee" discount!
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One day to cannibals were eating a clown. One cannibal turned to the other and said, “Does this meat taste funny to you?” Ba Dumm Tssssssshhh
‘Knowing’ was awesome. Usually don’t like Nick Cage flicks, but Knowing was worth it.
The trailer was so over-the-top rediculous, it made me think that either they can’t possibly actually put that in the movie, or the movie is a complete joke.
IN the trailer I saw, they get in a car and the earth is collapsing under them for dozens of miles but always just after they drive by, and then they get to the airport and the runway collapses just as they take off, and then for some stupid reason they fly so low they have ot keep ducking under buildings that are falling.
Oh, and the buildings are tipping over, as if they are trees. Two buildings fall in opposite directions, hit each other, and instead of breaking apart, they look like swords in a swordfight.
Anyway, if it was meant to be a spoof of disaster movies, it couldn’t have been any funnier.
Its a modulus math thing. When the cycle completes, the next one begins....like a new hour, a new day or a new year.
Boooo, hissssss...
Hey aren'tchu from a neighboring planet bullied by those racist SOBs from the Enterprise?
Trust me, I feel your pain. LOL
Ah Jeez, to = two(2).
What a nit wit.
In Armageddon type movies from years past the Earth was always saved at the last minute. These days the earth usually gets destroyed. The optimism of the past being replaced by pessimism.
Yup. Triskellion. Home of the Gamesters.
Standard Roland Emmerich...remember the scene in Independence Day where Air Force One takes off and barely stays ahead of the Washington fireball?
It’s so hypersilly, it’s looks like a great cheesefest. I’ll watch it at the matinee for an afternoon of mind numbing explosions.
Nope and Nope. This is no different than the world was going to end because of Y2K nonsense. It seems like about every 10 years or so we have to have a end of the world conspiracy.
As for the Mayan calendar, there is no evidence that the Mayans put any special emphasis on 2012. Yes it was the end of a cycle, but like our calender going from 1999 to 2000 it had no special meaning to them, in fact the Mayans believed the world would exist for something like 90 billion years. There was a good show on a few months back debunking the Mayan hoax, i forget what it's called. But you can find some of the same information on wikipedia and skeptics.com.
Many disaster moves over the years.
We start with Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’, ‘The Towering Inferno’, ‘The Posiden Adventure’.
Then, ‘Volcano’, ‘Dante’s Peak’ and ‘The Core’.
More recent, ‘Deep Impact’, ‘Independence Day’ and ‘The Day After Tomorrow’.
All chose a different ways to be done in! All entertainment to be sure.
That would make them more realistic.
You can be the biggest optimist in the world, in reality, the truth is, earth does not survive in the future.
The sun too has a life span, if we don't kill each other off prior to the that, but the earth will not survive.
“‘Knowing’ was awesome. Usually don’t like Nick Cage flicks, but Knowing was worth it.”
Knowing made no sense to me. If the angels/aliens wanted to save a few people, why go through the trouble of having a kid write down all future disasters fifty years ago. Its not like that info could prevent what happened. If they wanted to warn us they could have done so much more effectively. “HEY A-HOLES, YOUR PLANET IS TOAST ON DATE X!”
‘Knowing’ was a great movie. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Cannibal’s recipe book: How to Serve Your Fellow Man.
Thought the name had a familiar ring to it.
Those suckers pulled my PLUG!!
I know the universe has to save energy & all but still, how's *that* for chutzpah.
BTW my friend, a favor?
Put 100 quatloos on Green Bay to win for me, will ya? ;^)
Too many illegals on the Coast side of the fault: things got SO out of balance that SoCal slid into the Ocean. . .
That’s my theory at least, but then I’m a bitter clinger and all. . .
>>My calendar ends on December 31 2009.<<
Good one! :)
Was also curious and did some surfing to find out...WHY??
Some technobabble about the Earth's magnetic field shifting due to Sun spots. That shift affects the Earth's core. Those changes in the core causes all the special effects you see in the preview.
The Battlestar Galactica shaped ships are built to protect people until the Earth calms down.
This is like the movie 'The Core' but with better special effects.
“You can be the biggest optimist in the world, in reality, the truth is, earth does not survive in the future. The sun too has a life span, if we don’t kill each other off prior to the that, but the earth will not survive.”
True, but these movies are set at most a hundred years in the future, not Billions of years in the future. Even the biggest pessimist doesnt think the sun burns out in the next millenium.
I consider the whole thing to be superstition, but the movie looks like it’ll be a hoot!
Well isn’t this just effin’ great . . . another crazed idiot in the White House and now it’s a replay of the 1970s- disaster movie after disaster movie just like when Jimmy ‘Peanut Brain’ Carter was the dimwit in charge.
Oh yeah, by Dec12 Hussein will be gone and all his damage will be overturned by those shining examples of Constitutional gummit - I give you the Pubbies. Right.
Send in Ron Paul or another libertarian please. I can’t take any more shadow gummit types working for the New World Order.
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