What?! 2012 is a bad movie?! Say it aint so!
By vidiot 1 Comments
A new blog post is coming, but until then let's have a moment of silence concerning the reviews for the film 2012.
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...Alright, that's more than enough.
From the people who gave us Stargate, Independence Day, that American Godzilla movie, that other natural disaster movie with global warming killing us, and that other disaster movie with people dressed up as the Flinstones, comes 2012.
This movie, alongside another bad alien abduction movie has been bombarding me (and perhaps you?) ad-nauseum.
The great thing about 2012 is how one could make a judgment of the film from the first teaser.
Some say Hollywood clearly has run out of ideas regarding their big budget productions.
Some should win some type of "Captin Obvious" award.
There are problems with RottenTomaotes for sure, but I will always have fun simply reading the quotes for the reviews.
I don't think that, other than Zombieland and The Hangover, I've laughed this hard all year, although I'm sure the comedy in 2012 is 90% unintentional.
Actors say silly lines with deadly seriousness. Exposition is wielded like a sledgehammer. All you can do is grit your teeth and wait for the next wave of destruction.
Emmerich, Bay and their brethren need to learn how boring these CGI onslaughts have become. When we see 18 skyscrapers collapse and several dozen vehicles wreck at the same moment, what do we focus on?
The defining entrant in, and the nadir of, the disaster porn genre.
A state-of-the-art multiplex three-ring circus whose special effects stagger the senses and play like a video game, whose human drama aims for the cosmic and lands waist-deep in the Big Silly.
Too long by an hour and populated with nothing but stereotypes, we ultimately want the world to come to an end, if only so we can get up and go to the bathroom.
Emmerich wasn't content to merely make the biggest disaster movie ever: he had to make every disaster movie ever... [I]t's like something Ed Wood would have made if he had a budget...
Roger Ebert sums it up best in his positive review.
This is fun. 2012 delivers what it promises, and since no sentient being will buy a ticket expecting anything else, it will be, for its audiences, one of the most satisfactory films of the year.
Yeah. I'll pass.