Nov 14
This way I can be prepared. 
Seriously though, have any of you seen it yet? if so, throw a mini review in the comments! Trying to see what the general feedback out there is like. Not that anything will stop me from going. Kind of a sucker for these end of the world sorts of movies. I even like the “world has already ended” movies. (Road Warrior, Waterworld, and the upcoming Book of Eli, etc.)
Anyway, post your thoughts!
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Yeah, I saw it yesterday. It wasn’t great, but OK-ish.
It’s not as good as “The Day After Tomorrow” but it’s not bad, you know. xD
I enjoyed it, it’s a real popcorn movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW2qxFkcLM0
that is all
Its a whole load of fun. Ands thats all it needs to be no?
Saw it today and enjoyed. Worth seeing on the big screen for the visuals alone. Cool movie and it really doesn’t matter if you buy into the whole 2012 stuff. See it Scott!
Saw it with a large portion of my company after a quarterly presentation, just glad we were all on the same page and all found it funny. It was amusing, but there where parts where it was trying to be serious and just ended up being so so so funny, but ya, totally worth seeing.
They pee’d on that plant in Waterworld, didn’t they?
YES!
Saw it. Films been getting allot of love with some critics. Basically felt it was a bunch of chase scenes from various disasters that at one time had their own movie and are now crammed into one (Earthquake, Volcano, Tsunami, etc). Way too much hollywood formula in terms of characters and resolution, I would imagine this film being a prime candidate for Film Sack in 20 years…(if we make in past 2012 that is…
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Was a fun flick. Popcorn flick for sure. Made me hate Olivier Platt even more then I already did. Woody Harrelson is awesome in it though.
Looks to me like one of the dumbest movies of all time. I wont be seeing it – and if you drag me kicking & screaming to it, I will hope some vital part of me gets snagged on something sharp in the road & I die before arriving at the theater.
I just saw it yesterday and the first half suck. The second half sucks too, but at least you get to see how the world ends.
No plot, just a little tension between characters and a lot of destruction.
It’s not that bad. Just get yourself a huge bucket of pop corn and enjoy.
Good but not great. Lots of stars. Star Trek and Serenity were represented! Awesome special effects, insipid plot and characterizations.
It was an awesome movie. Pretty impressive graphics. I love that Woody Harrelson was in it. Probably the most cliche thing about it was the fact that everytime sh*t hit the fan, the protagonists were able to dodge the bullet literally just by a second before having to face another defecated fan just around the corner. Still was worth to go see.
I don’t think I -can- see it for one simple fact. In the previews they were flying around in a plane, dodging buildings and whatnot, and flying under all the debris. Planes can go UP. Why didn’t they?
I loved the movie. I thought the CGI was astounding, good acting, good use of comedy when necessary.. Also it was pretty believable due to what scientists predict.
Well let’s see:
The acting: Sucked. Really; it was absolutely atrocious. The only person worth mentioning was the dad. Every other actor sucked.
The Story: What story? The movie only goes on for three hours just so they can squeeze in more disaster CG. And another sex scene. You don’t care about what the characters do and what will happen, you just want to see more sex and disaster.
The CGI: If it was just this it would have been a much more entertaining movie.
I haven’t see a movie that expected people to just suffer through crap to wait for an explosion to happen since Transfomers 2. Forget the end of the world, THIS was the disaster the Mayans predicted.
The movie has two or three great moments, all of which can be seen in the trailers (volcano, earthquake and airplane), which shows the director is still the master of disaster movies for disaster’s sake… But that is all. The rest of the movie is dumb, in the worst sense. The premise is dumb, the acting is horrible, the characters are either flat, retarded (or unappealing), and the plot is completely by the numbers.
I guess it is enjoyable if you go with the right mindset (that is, just a popcorn, CGI-filled flick), but I think you would be better of just watching those two or three scenes on youtube.
MIUCH better than I expected this to be. Enjoyed the action after two weeks of “Paranormal Activity” and “The Fourth Kind”.
-AJF
I’m with most of the comments here: good movie, not great. First half snooze, second half great graaaaaphics.
It was a million disaster movies all crammed into one. Woody Harrelson was all of the conspiracy theorists crammed into one person. Loved his character!
Regarding the planes not going up, Soysaucebeast, every time that happened the plane fell a little before going up (besides, the Antonov is a beast of an airplane!), but even though they probably used that free fall to intensify the drama of the takeoff I also got the feeling it took way too much time to go up.
It was a freakin movie people…that’s it. I paid to see things blow up and people survive. I got what I paid for.
Yes, Woody Harrelson was the best actor in it, I love his work. Also the special affects were awesome. It is hard to see all the detail that they put into it. When LA breaks apart, there is sooo much going on it’s very hard to catch everything.
Bottom line, I got what I paid for. I’m most likely gonna but it when it hits DVD.
On top of that, a 200 Million dollar budget got them $225 Million worldwide opening weekend.
SCORE
God this movie blows.
After the Vegas scene you could have rolled credits right there and I would have said it was an ok Special Effects movie. But after that part it rolls on and on and on and on.
3 hours of zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Rental at best.