Posted on 11/13/2009 3:40:20 PM PST by doug from upland
'2012' movie review: Roland Emmerich ends the world ... again
By Stephen Whitty/The Star-Ledger
November 12, 2009, 4:28PM
“2012” Movie Review -- Remember “Independence Day,” that alien invasion movie with great special effects that made a ton of money?
You don’t remember it half as well as its director, Roland Emmerich. Because he turned it into a blueprint for “2012.”
2012 (PG-13) Columbia (158 min.) Directed by Roland Emmerich. With John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor. Now playing in New Jersey.
STEPHEN WHITTY’S RATING: TWO STARS
Ratings note: The film contains approximately 6 billion acts of violence.
There is one, of course, every half-hour or so — the movie hasn’t been so much written as plotted on a graph — complete with national landmarks and religious icons torn to bits. No Muslim symbols, though; as Emmerich has honestly and gracelessly admitted, he dislikes all religions, but gave Islam a pass for fear of a fatwa on his head.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
I figured that it would be stupid when I saw the previews.
It looks like a video game would be more entertaining and
cost less.
Read the whole article. It is a rich piece of scathing contempt - admirable for articulate sneers in its own right.
Alien invasions, black holes created by super colliders, coronal mass ejections from the sun, asteroid close calls in 2029 and 2036 and the Y2038 problem with Unix computers.
>>The whole entire world could not have fixed their code. I don’t recall ever hearing about any y2k disasters, did any happen?<<
Yes. A few smaller companies went under. One company actually folded before the fact because they knew the cost of fixing would be more than they could afford. They just closed their doors. I cannot remember the name though.
On the comical side, there was one state that issued car tabs for the year 1900. But ultimately there were just fringe inconveniences. The potential for very dire stuff was very real, but it really was a “worst case scenario” sort of thing. That said, a few of the guys actually doing the remidiation did buy farms and such, just in case. I actually knew a few of them.
There you go. ;-)
Rev Bookburn 6:02PM
They don't need a plot. Screwballs like Palin, the teabaggers, Fox "News," and many evangelists have been selling the end of the world to their unstable followers. People will watch the film and then say something like this is really going to happen!
cydewaze 7:07PM
They don't need a plot. Liberal Lunatics like Al Gore, Olberman, the global warmers, msnbc "News," and many socialists have been selling the end of the world to their unstable followers. People will watch the film and then say something like this is really going to happen!
LOL! Isn't the internet a wacky and entertaining place!
so basically, what he is saying is that there is much more to fear from miltant Islam than from global warming...
I’ve never bought into the whole “cataclysmic end of the world” scenario. I just cannot imagine so many things turning so sour at exactly the same time. One at a time maybe, but not ALL of them!
That being said, there is one disaster scenario that has my attention — the end of abundant electricity. There are both man-made and natural disasters (look up “EMP” and “solar storm of 1859” respectively) that could zap our electric grid.
No electricity means no food storage or distribution and that means lots of hungry people followed by lots of dead people. Just my 2 cents ...
http://www.2012planetalignment.net/
December 21, 2012 has been called doomsday, the day of enlightenment, and even the day the earth will turn upside down by many different culture and civilizations throughout history. Although the prediction on what is actually going to happen is vague modern day scientists know we our planet is aligning with the galactic equator. Well what does that mean and what does it have to do with humanities future? In the milky way, which is an active galaxy, our solar system moves above and below this galactic plain. As stars and planetary systems, including our own approach this galactic plain the gravitational influence increases, which disturbs the stability of the planets, including earth. The passage through the most dense portion of the gravitational plain is the direct result of the devastation cycles and pole shifts that we see recorded throughout earths history. This distinct nature of our solar system is how many ancient civilizations based there calenders, which are incredibly accurate.
Although many of us have heard or are aware of the ancient Mayan calender, a lot of us either don’t understand it or simple don’t know how it works. Well to start the ancient Mayans had a very accurate understanding of our solar system and its cycles. Their long count calender is most significant of their calenders because according to Mayanist (people who study Ancient Mayan People and culture) it ends on the specific date of December 21 2012, which coincides with modern day astronomers, who believe that is about the time that our planet alignment takes place with the galactic equator.
Modern scientists have a theory that is quite similar to the Mayan prophecies of the planets alignment. This theory is called pole shifting, in which the position of the north and south pole change, which could cause world wide disaster, massive tsunamis could wipe out coastal cities, hurricanes on every continent, it would be major catastrophe, unlikely as it seems a Princeton University study suggest the poles have shifted before and that the north pole was in the middle of the pacific, which would put Alaska at the equator.
This doomsday date has been prophisized for thousands of years by the Mayans, Zulus, Incas, Hopi Indians, and many other ancient civilizations. Some believe it is a day of enlightenment, some believe the pole shift theory, and some believe that gods will come that day. Whatever the case may be and with some many different scenarios I hope the best one plays out.
Modern information has revealed that the heliosphere, the protective shield of energy that surrounds our solar system, has weakened by twenty-five per cent over the previous 10 years and is now at it lowest level since the space race commenced fifty years ago.
Men of science are dumbfounded at what may be making the barrier contract in this way and are going to launch a mission to analyze the heliosphere. Dr Nathan Schwadron, co-investigator on the IBEX mission at Boston University, said: “”Around ninety per cent of the galactic cosmic radiation is deflected by our heliosphere, so the boundary protects us from this harsh galactic environment.”
The heliosphere is produced by the solar winds. A combining of electrically charged molecules and magnetic fields that emanate at more than a 1,000,000 miles an hour from the sun, adjoin the intergalactic gas that occupies the breaches in space between solar systems. Without the heliosphere the damaging intergalactic cosmic radiation would make life on Earth just about impossible by demolishing DNA and making the climate uninhabitable.
If the heliosphere continues to weaken, men of science dread that the amount of cosmic radiation arriving at the innermost parts of our solar system, including Earth, will increase. This can result in arising levels of disruption to electrical equipment, damage satellites and possibly even injury life on Earth.
Well, if he wouldn’t go after Muslim symbols, at least you can still enjoy Paul Potts singing about nuking Mecca (translated from the Italian)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZzUSiFIIg8
That’s some really bad writing.
I just got done watching it on the net, John Cusack was the best part of it. Really!
They could have named the movie 2013 or 2011, it has nothing to do with all the hoopla of 2012.
Oh, but he really went out of his way to show a long and drawn out destruction of the Vatican. He probably keeps a cut of the footage for himself to wank over. A truly awful film. (I had to go, my wife wanted to see it)
"But it was DANNY GLOVER!! Yuck." Come on. Why do all your decisions have to be motivated by politics? I can't stand Glover's politics either, but he did an adequate job in his minor role here. Conservatives aren't supposed to be ideologues.
2012 is not a CGI-fest, it's not an "actor's movie," it's an action movie, but not overwrought, IMO; it's got Amanda Peet, there are some strong "family values" messages, and Woody Harrelson's pretty freakin' funny. If you don't like it you can come back and flame me . . . :o)
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