[BGHater]

I wondered why the new time line series type TV shows haven't picked up on the 2012 theme.

You would have the series running and concluding in 2012. Have a set finish date.

[dennisw]

I saw the trailer for this and I liked it.

Here it is on you tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k9OGg227Qc

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

And, in the climatic ending: a second Obama term.

[VRWCmember]

Missing was the scene in which God summoned President Obama, Russian Prime Minister Putin, and Bill Gates before Him to inform them that yes indeed the world would be ending in 2012, and commanding them to go back and use their influence to convince the people of the world to make the best use of their remaining days, repent of their wickedness, and serve Him and pray to Him for mercy.

Obama returned to Washington, DC and called a joint session of Congress where he addressed congress and the nation. He said there is good news and bad news. The good news is that yes there is a God, and he has given a chance for repentance and redemption. The bad news is that the world is ending in 2012.

Putin returned to Moscow, and addressed the politburo and the Russian nation, saying there is bad news and even worse news. The bad news is that they have been wrong all this time and there really is a God. The worse news is that the world will end in 2012.

Bill Gates returned to Microsoft headquarters to address his executives, and said there is good news and great news. The good news is that God considered Gates to be one of the three most influential people in the world. The great news is that we don’t have to worry about fixing Vista.

[RabidBartender]

John CUSACK and Amanda PEET? Ugh. Maybe as supporting support actors. I wouldn’t go see this movie if they were the main stars.

That said, I love watching disaster movies where folks try to survive (during the disaster). I willfully suspend disbelief and usually enjoy the ride (unless it’s the horrid Day After Tomorrow crap about global warming).

Also, expect them to insert Ben Affleck and some flavor-of-the-month chick to take up 45 minutes of the flick with an insipid love story, completely killing the action and disrupting the story.

Thanks for posting the storyline - it was definitely a fun read.

[Hot Tabasco]

It would have been great if Emmerich & Co could have injected some new life into this tired genre,

Sounds like blaming Bush wouldn't even help it.

[mikrofon]

Bad timing for the aliens in 1996 — had they arrived some twenty years later, Earth was there for the picking...

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Helmsley attempts to brief U.S. PRESIDENT WILSON on Satnam’s findings, but is stopped by pompous White House chief of staff ANHEUSER, who has it out for Helmsley.

"By George, young man, President Wilson cannot be bothered right now! Don't you know that he's busy fighting the Kaiser?"

[Just another Joe]

My personal favorite is that in 2012 the earth will cross the galactic equator and enter large debris fields and the earth will become a bullseye for large meteors and comets.

Think of the unpredictability. How are you going to know where the next one will hit?

[Dr. Thorne]

A few choice nuggets of wisdom from Messrs. Cusack and Emmerich:

Cusack: "How depressing, corrupt, unlawful and tragically absurd the administration's world view actually is." Cusack railed against those "lying about the war and profiting from it. And trying to privatize Iraq so corporate interests could have a free-market laboratory without all those pesky questions about 'who owns what' and 'who gets a piece of the action.'...This is indeed a league of bastards -- these men are human scum."

"Jesus was a radical to be sure, but in an opposite way from the war mongers and profiteers who use his name today. I can't get past "thou shalt not kill" and look at this carnage and see any rational way one could say these men follow Jesus Christ."

"...I don't want that [bleep] Bush in the White House."

"Bush means Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay, and all these [bleeping] crypto-fascists are gonna get in and start carving up the pie and handing in all their markers to the Republican Party that's been itching to get back into power,"

Emmerich: “America is the oldest democracy in the world. Since then they have totally developed backwards. Europe was most of the time under monarchic influence [sic], but is today three or four times as democratic as America.”

“I would never want to be an American.”

If FReepers want to go see a movie made by Emmerich and starring Cusack, that's their business, but I have far better uses for my time and money.

[BenLurkin]

Does it have a happy ending?

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

No worries!
Jack Bauer will save the day!
That is, after he tells Congress and the new female liberal President to go pound sand. :~D

[BenLurkin]

...they, along with select wealthy elite from across the globe, will board specially built ships that can weather nature’s wrath. Everyone else will be left to perish and the people from the ships will be left to rebuild civilization and repopulate the planet.

"And a computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross-section of necessary skills. Of course, it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. Ha, ha." "But ah, with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present Gross National Product within say, twenty years."

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