Movie review: 2012

[submarine_bells]

So Martindale dragged me out to the movies this evening. Apparently someone had suggested to him that "2012" was worth watching, in a "cool special effects" sort of way, so since our local cinema does cheap tickets on tuesdays, we went to see it tonight

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[reverancepavane]

...everyone knows that the cold cold hand of physics pales into floopy insignificance next to The Power Of Love
Of course it does. And if you'll excuse me, I have some teenage female singers to train to resist the upcoming invasion of giant alien warriors in battlepods.
Although it is quite fun what the SFX programs can do nowdays (assuming you have the computiung power to make it work. Have you tried Vue yet (a terrain/environment generator)? Just what I've needed for years.

[submarine_bells]

Have you tried Vue yet (a terrain/environment generator)? Just what I've needed for years.

In my copious spare time... *laugh* Seriously, no I haven't had the spare time to really do much at all in terms of modelling or animation for a while. Data Collection really has eaten my life. Still, thanks for the heads-up. I have it on good authority that I won't be data collecting for ever; when it's over and done with, I'll see about checking out Vue.

[reverancepavane]

No. It only seems like it goes on forever.

[submarine_bells]

So, did the end of the world save someone's marriage? That seems to be traditional in this crap.

Yep, more or less... in that the johnny-come-lately New Boyfriend to the wife got squished while being heroic, leaving Our Hero to Be Even More Heroic And Save His Family. Fluffyhugs abound.

The dialog in the film was no better and no worse than in most other high-budget flicks. It was the concepts that were so ludicrous.

[expandranon]

Wasn't it great how ex-wife was liplocking with ex-husband and mouthing I-love-yous at him barely 5 minutes after new-husband had been ground into hamburger meat?

[elynne]

Friends tell me I should see it in the theatre for "full big-screen special effects awesome". I tell friends I should absolutely not see it in the theatre for "top volume WHAT THE CRAP IS THIS CRAP heckling annoyance of other audience members" which I can guarantee I will not be able to refrain from, given what I've seen of the trailer. And from what you're telling me here... omgwtfbbqFAIL.

[submarine_bells]

M and I were laughing out loud through the first third or so of the film. I don't think anyone really heard us over the crash and uproar of skyscrapers falling over and vast chasms eating supermarkets and white-picket-fence housing estates.

[expandranon]

I laughed a lot, too. There's nothing like planet-sized slapstick.

I think the movie would have been better if they'd just skipped over the Poseidon Adventure segment and ended the movie.

Also, why didn't the whole Earth just melt? I presume nothing had shut off the CHUDtrino flow. They certainly never said it had stopped. Oh, but there I go, trying to apply logic to this mess of a disaster porn flick. It's like watching bad regular porn and asking, in all seriousness, whether a pizza delivery guy would really carry around a huge bottle of lube.

[epi_lj]

clawfoot and I are planning to see this tomorrow.

I'll be seeing it for free with free soda and popcorn, so I'm hoping that that cushions it. :)