2012

Blue K, Custodian of the Cinema

This is about as good as craptacular CGI movies can get. And it's got an anti-capitalist/anti-materialistic message too! Woot! Yes, I realize the irony of one of the most expensive movies ever made preaching about the evils of capitalism, but hey... If you're gonna blow shit up, blow it up right. And this one does it better than every other disaster flick I've seen.

Jaspar Lamar Crabb

A movie that manages to wipe out most of mankind in order to spread the message that it's bad to wipe out mankind.

Christopher R. Smith

Roland Emmerich's disaster blockbusters have been fun in the past, but this time he pushes his own cliches too far. A handful of impressive action sequences and CGI effects aren't enough to make the leaden, painfully overlong plot watchable, it's so crammed with bland, forced humor and sentimentality. For a movie of this colossal scope and budget, the digital photography looked surprisingly cheap.

House 0f Leaves

I admit to being suckered into seeing the spectacle on the big screen. Even at 1 star out of five, this is Emmerich's best film, easy. There were no fart jokes, or robots pissing on things, which was nice.

anarresti

A prepper's wet dream. Other than that, pure boredom. We just see characters prepping for what we know will happen. And then it happens. Yawn!

Steve Pulaski

I'm not sure this film would've angered me so much if it had been about thirty-five minutes shorter.

Michael Harbour

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.

Christian Harding

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.