This looks unbelievably ridiculous - and I can't wait!!!

I have a confession:

I enjoy watching The Day After Tomorrow.
How can you hate a movie in which a character literally out-runs the approaching ice age?
Watching the world go boom is popcorn fun at its best!

Take a look at this new trailer for 2012. Was that Manhattan I saw sinking ala Titanic into the Atlantic?



Michael Bay, eat your heart out.

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Updated On: 6/19/09 at 07:58 AM

Well, at least we don't have to worry about the 2012 election.

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lol was that a shot of California breaking off and falling in the ocean at one point? This looks awesome.

IT looks like he had a bunch of leftover effects shots from his previous movies and edited them together.

IF the world IS going to end, I hope it doesn't come down to JOHN CUSACK to save us.

Updated On: 6/19/09 at 10:30 AM

How many movies can you make where there is a mass destruction and still keep it fresh? Armageddon.Independence Day. Deep Impact. Day After Tomorrow.Earthquake.Twister.Dante's Inferno. Volcano and about a hundred or so others.The water towards the end of the trailer looks way too CGI (duh!)I am sick of these kinds of movies but why is this coming out in November 2009? Wouldn't 2012 be a better year? If this must come out this year why is not a summer release? This looks like it would be a perfect Summer popcorn movie. Did they feel threatened by TRANSFORMERS PART TWO?

I guess my complaint is here they are spending a ton of money on a movie that will not be that memorable and be confused with a dozen other movies a year or so from now. Then you have a talented filmmaker like Terry Gilliam who can not raise a third of what this film probably cost to make a movie he's been wanting to make for years now. I am using Gilliam as an example but there are so many others like him. SO many un-produced original stories to tell and we get The Day After Tomorrow Part II.

Argh! (end of rant)

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Updated On: 6/19/09 at 10:43 AM

I can't stop daydreaming about the wonder that is The Day After Tomorrow. I loved the part where they showed people in the Northeast getting FROZEN SOLID in SECONDS, then had Dennis Quaid put on gloves and a parka and WALK from DC to NYC with no ill effects.

"How many movies can you make where there is a mass destruction and still keep it fresh?"


The disaster movie doesn't claim to be fresh, it's just fun to watch sh*t get destroyed.

From "San Francisco" in 1936 to the Irwin Allen pics of the 70s people have always enjoyed the spectacle.

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Updated On: 6/19/09 at 11:33 AM

Yeah, disaster films are an enduring genre and usually a moneymaker. Asking for them to disappear is like trying to get rid of romantic comedies or super hero flicks. Every film is a variation of its genre and some are better than others. Disaster flicks keep getting produced because people enjoy watching them and they may not want to simply watch the same ones over and over again. Personally, I'd happily attend another disaster film than any of the endless parade of sophomoric frat-minded SNL-inspired "comedy" films.

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I LOVED Independence Day! LOVED IT! I went to one of the all-night screenings when it opened- I think I got tickets to the 5 am showing- the theater was packed. I happened to sit behind 4 British Tourists who were screaming and whooping through out....until the scene where all the other world's armies were shown hiding, waiting for the Americans to do something. When the British soldier was told "The Americans have a plan!" and he remarked "About Bloody Time!" They went curiously silent.

I think any of us could conceive of an alien plot to destroy earth, but it's impossible to imagine a scenario where any organized human resistance would be lead by anyone other than the Americans.

Truly, that is the Odessa Steps sequence of Sci-Fi films.

I read once that they added that scene of the dog being saved after that was the one thing test audiences REALLY would not accept. NYC? Kill'em. The White House? Blow it up. But DON'T KILL THE DOG YOU ALIEN FREAKS!

Poseidon Adventure is my all-time favorite and I agree the "remake" is garbage (as is the campy stage musical spoof). And though many seemed to passionately hate it, Cloverfield quickly shot into my top five upon first viewing. Yes, it had its moments of implausibility (what disaster film doesn't?), but for originality, style, action and effects, I gave it a 9 out of 10.

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I did see Coverfield in the theatre and I admit, the shaky cam business made me quite queasy to the point where I was afraid I would have to leave (though my stomach settled about halfway in and then I was fine). But honestly, it was so effective, I think the film would have been greatly diminished without it.

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