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Arthur_Parker
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on: October 04, 2009, 02:11:37 PM

'2012' Trailer HD

2012 - Exclusive Scene, (it's a full 5 minutes of insane shit, so spoilers, duh)

Searched and didn't find a thread, this movie looks hilariously awesome.
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Reply #1 on: October 04, 2009, 02:24:04 PM

This movie will have no substance... However, I want to see it cuz the destruction so far looks awesome.
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Reply #2 on: October 04, 2009, 06:29:42 PM

Yep, this is the BIG EXPLOSIONS movie of next summer.  It will be awesome just for that.   The Aircraft Carrier scene is like they set out with one intention; outdoing ID4 as best White House destruction scene.

The question is, will the acting and writing be at least to the tolerable level.

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Reply #3 on: October 04, 2009, 06:39:53 PM

The trailer is awesome. When it came out, I watched the wave come over the mountains, watched it again, watched it again. Best tsunami special effect ever.

This will also bring the "2012 is the end" believers out of the woodwork. I used to know a girl who had absolute faith that 2012 would be the end of the world, when the aliens would come and people's consciousness would ascend, etc. When I pointed out how ridiculous this belief was and that it isn't actually the end of the Mayan calendar (which is the background to all the twisted versions of the 2012 beliefs), people nearby sprang to her defence.
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Reply #4 on: October 04, 2009, 06:41:33 PM

Yep, this is the BIG EXPLOSIONS movie of next summer.  It will be awesome just for that.   The Aircraft Carrier scene is like they set out with one intention; outdoing ID4 as best White House destruction scene.

The question is, will the acting and writing be at least to the tolerable level.
You mean of this November. And I can't wait.

Also, when 2012 isn't the end of the world, it'll be our best chance to destroy religion. So all the crazies better hope the shit hits the fan.
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Reply #5 on: October 04, 2009, 06:45:13 PM

Also, when 2012 isn't the end of the world, it'll be our best chance to destroy religion. So all the crazies better hope the shit hits the fan.

Eh?  Damn Fundamentalist Mayans and their massive special interest groups...?
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Reply #6 on: October 04, 2009, 07:08:58 PM

I don't have any faith in Roland Emmerich to deliver a good movie.  His directorial credits for the last 10 years:

10,000 BC
The Day After Tomorrow
The Patriot
Godzilla (1998)

Every good scene in 2012 was likely included in the trailers.
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Reply #7 on: October 04, 2009, 07:28:22 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW2qxFkcLM0

If it was actually like THAT trailer it might actually worth watching  awesome, for real

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Reply #8 on: October 04, 2009, 07:31:20 PM

Also, when 2012 isn't the end of the world, it'll be our best chance to destroy religion. So all the crazies better hope the shit hits the fan.
Eh?  Damn Fundamentalist Mayans and their massive special interest groups...?
It doesn't matter which religion it is. Even if it's a mostly dead one.
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Reply #9 on: October 04, 2009, 07:52:03 PM

Yep, this is the BIG EXPLOSIONS movie of next summer.  It will be awesome just for that.   The Aircraft Carrier scene is like they set out with one intention; outdoing ID4 as best White House destruction scene.

The question is, will the acting and writing be at least to the tolerable level.
You mean of this November. And I can't wait.

Also, when 2012 isn't the end of the world, it'll be our best chance to destroy religion. So all the crazies better hope the shit hits the fan.

Hate to deliver the bad news, but the last gazillion or so millennial scares stretching back into the early medieval era haven't done much damage to religion in general. In fact, a lot of end-of-the-world folks don't even take much of a hit to their own congregation or following.
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Reply #10 on: October 04, 2009, 11:45:06 PM

Also, when 2012 isn't the end of the world, it'll be our best chance to destroy religion. So all the crazies better hope the shit hits the fan.

Eh?  Damn Fundamentalist Mayans and their massive special interest groups...?

Don't need Mayans for this anymore. It's been adopted by New Age types: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon

The people I knew who were into this stuff, had grown up with New Age parents and got into the Techno/Trance rave scenes of the early 1990s, fell out with the drug culture and went in search of natural highs. They always had the latest copy of Nexus.
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Reply #11 on: October 05, 2009, 01:56:05 AM

The Jehovah's Witnesses are still around, and they were founded by a kook who pronounced the end of the world in his lifetime.. disappointment ensued (lol, "disappointment"), but they just adjusted the date... and then again and again and again. They keep on pulling that shit, and the religion simply does not die. You can not kill stupid.

Or maybe! Just maybe the end of the world already happened, and we are all actually living in hell.. Simply for the fact that you can't kill stupid here.
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Reply #12 on: October 05, 2009, 09:14:24 AM

I prefer the Shadowrun version of 2012.

It's a tabletop RPG and a few shitty computer/video games that has 2012 as the date when magic "cycles" back into the world and things like Dragons awaken.

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Reply #13 on: October 05, 2009, 10:53:07 AM

The question is, will the acting and writing be at least to the tolerable level.

Seriously, there isn't a question about it at all. You know the writing will suck on a scale as massive as the destruction. Three words: Day After Tomorrow.

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Reply #14 on: October 05, 2009, 02:24:21 PM

The question is, will the acting and writing be at least to the tolerable level.

Seriously, there isn't a question about it at all. You know the writing will suck on a scale as massive as the destruction. Three words: Day After Tomorrow.

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Reply #15 on: October 05, 2009, 02:25:12 PM

Plot?Huh?

(Spoilered as this is really inspired guesswork. Add your own)


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Reply #16 on: October 05, 2009, 02:55:58 PM

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Reply #17 on: October 05, 2009, 04:40:45 PM

But are there snakes on that plane?

(and I only say this because I really can't think of anything that'd make this movie watchable with the serious tone they seem to be taking)
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Reply #18 on: October 05, 2009, 04:55:24 PM

Next month, eh?  I thought it was a summer blockbuster, my mistake.

The question is, will the acting and writing be at least to the tolerable level.

Seriously, there isn't a question about it at all. You know the writing will suck on a scale as massive as the destruction. Three words: Day After Tomorrow.

I wasn't implying it would be good.  Just a question of would it be Volcano bad or Day After Tomorrow bad.

lol he fell through a skylight.

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Reply #19 on: October 05, 2009, 07:22:30 PM

This movie shows the only way that California is likely to solve it's budget issues. Also, a tidal wave cresting several hundred feet above the Himalayas is entirely plausible. Maybe I'm just being overly picky about my end of the world movies, but they could have put more effort into coming up with a better way of destroying Tibet, maybe something involving plate tectonics.

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Reply #20 on: October 05, 2009, 07:30:15 PM

If that gay cowboy could outrun the cold, then by god we can have waves over Everest!  DRILLING AND MANLINESS
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Reply #21 on: October 06, 2009, 02:22:53 AM

So how does the world die this time?

   
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Reply #22 on: October 06, 2009, 09:52:47 AM

I bet at the end, Jesus pops out and saves everybody.

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Reply #23 on: October 06, 2009, 01:57:37 PM

The ending of the movie is pretty much telegraphed in the trailer, along with the major plotline.


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Reply #24 on: October 07, 2009, 06:22:50 AM


Over and out.
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Reply #25 on: October 07, 2009, 07:25:59 AM

bang zoom to the moon baby! right to the moon!
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Reply #26 on: October 08, 2009, 11:13:47 PM

They always had the latest copy of Nexus.

This was always a great read, if not necessarily for the same reasons that the authors wrote the articles.

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Reply #27 on: October 09, 2009, 01:30:05 PM

I prefer the Shadowrun version of 2012.

It's a tabletop RPG and a few shitty computer/video games that has 2012 as the date when magic "cycles" back into the world and things like Dragons awaken.


We can only wish.  That would be fucking spectacular.
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Reply #28 on: October 18, 2009, 03:43:57 PM

Why the hell is everyone spoiler'ing guesses based on trailers from a movie not out yet?!

Don't read down!! OMG! The Mayans gonna come git ya!!



John Cusack the conspiracy nut is driving with part of his family, talking about 2012/end of the world, and the government's plan to save people on giant arks. He doesn't say arks nor rockets, but I am going with arks because they're giant near-future ships shown floating on whatever rolled over the continentn. There's a clip of them is in the 5 minute trailer. So yea, it's him getting his current and ex- family together, flying through carnage with a guy who can't fly but happens to own a Cessna and can fly it with all the skill of Tom Cruise, geting to the sooper-sekret bunker/dock/port/whatever where they somehow sneak/beg/graft their way onto it. To be saved with the rest of the huddled masses.

This is an IMAX-required cheesefest where you turn your brain off. If I spoiled anything for anyone, you gotta go get some air.
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Reply #29 on: October 18, 2009, 04:23:16 PM

I got as far as the Mayans being the 'world's oldest civilisation' and turned it off.

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Reply #30 on: October 18, 2009, 07:53:42 PM

I got as far as the Mayans being the 'world's oldest civilisation' and turned it off.
As interesting as its having an expiration date, the Mayan calender is also interesting for having a start date. If one were to take it seriously, and assume that the Mayan civiliation existed for that start date... then it would be the world's oldest civilization. Unfortunately for pseudoscience, not even the Mayans themselves thought that was remotely plausible.

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Reply #31 on: October 18, 2009, 08:08:11 PM

This is going to be the film of the year.
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Reply #32 on: October 19, 2009, 11:47:45 AM

flying through carnage with a guy who can't fly but happens to own a Cessna and can fly it with all the skill of Tom Cruisee air.
I could be mistaken, but in the trailer John Cusack says he's chartered a plane... but I think the guys in the front seat when its flying are John and his ex-wife's new husband.  i.e. - neither of them know how to fly, which would explain why they don't just fly up and get the hell out.
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Reply #33 on: October 19, 2009, 04:54:01 PM

The Oscar's should really create a category for "Best Destruction of The White House Scene".  I just love seeing directors go over the top in trying to one up each other.

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Reply #34 on: October 19, 2009, 05:23:16 PM

The Oscar's should really create a category for "Best Destruction of The White House Scene".  I just love seeing directors Roland Emmerich go over the top in trying to one up each other himself.

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