Kyle Lewis
12Jan12
the worst film I saw that year.
I'm not sure this film would've angered me so much if it had been about thirty-five minutes shorter.
Goodness, it was a waste of my time. The special effects were cool, but the plot was silly and hard to believe. John Cusack's character was always lucky. Always.
Roland Emmerich has gone far too long with his series of disaster flicks, only Independence Day was self-aware on being silly and the rest (especially this one) slowly gets old with its cliched stereotypical characters and boring set-pieces that gets stupidly over-the-top. To top it all off, the 2012 doomsday theories is (pardon for being juvenile here) completely and utterly bulls**t!
Like "Crack in the World" [http://mubi.com/films/crack-in-the-world] but without the sweaters.
Another awful Roland Emerich film with fun special effects. As usual, lots of stereotypical characters doing stereotypical things against a backdrop of things falling spectacularly apart. Emerich hires very good, engaging actors to embody his cardboard characters so the weaknesses are not nearly as glaring as they would otherwise be. And, really, you can't do better than John Cusack as a sympathetic leading man.
I thought some of the sequences were really, really cool, but it was a pretty lame movie on the whole. Some of those take-off scenes with the collapsing buildings and stuff was pretty incredible though.
If Harold Camping was wrong, then Roland Emmerich will have done nothing but abuse me. Give me my £34, 2:41 hours and spine health back!
A movie that manages to wipe out most of mankind in order to spread the message that it's bad to wipe out mankind.
I’d rank watching this film (alongside drinking McDonalds milkshakes, driving way over the speed limit, and shoplifting) among the guiltiest of pleasures life has to offer.
This movie will be terrific to watch in 2013. Special effects were impressive. The earthquake scene in California scared the crap out of me, to be honest. It convinced me more to enrole in flight school right away. SPOILER: The last words in the movie were "pullups." If I remember right, all the folks went outside the boat and the little girl told her mom no more pullups. All I thought was, "How was that relevant?"