Spoiler alert – the Mayans were wrong. But don't let that spoil a look back at a movie that finds new ways to obliterate the world. Stuart Heritage checks out the destruction, on Channel 5 on Sunday at 9pm
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When 2012 was released in 2009, it came with a nifty built-in self-destruct mechanism. Back then there was a chance, however minuscule, that the Mayans were right and the world really was about to come to a spectacular end. However, now it is November 2013, and the Mayans are all feeling pretty stupid.
Anyone watching 2012 for the first time won't experience even the tiniest twinge of foreboding. Instead, they will just think that people in 2009 were all superstitious idiots. But you've seen 2012 before. That or you've got an impressively cavalier attitude toward spoilers. Either way, you're rewatching it purely for the spectacle.
So, has 2012 been permanently...
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"Download my blog" – Charlie Frost
When 2012 was released in 2009, it came with a nifty built-in self-destruct mechanism. Back then there was a chance, however minuscule, that the Mayans were right and the world really was about to come to a spectacular end. However, now it is November 2013, and the Mayans are all feeling pretty stupid.
Anyone watching 2012 for the first time won't experience even the tiniest twinge of foreboding. Instead, they will just think that people in 2009 were all superstitious idiots. But you've seen 2012 before. That or you've got an impressively cavalier attitude toward spoilers. Either way, you're rewatching it purely for the spectacle.
So, has 2012 been permanently...
- 11/3/2013
- by Stuart Heritage
- The Guardian - Film News
The day of the screening I was joking around with some friends at my day job and came up with this snazzy catchphrase regarding the new movie 2012: “Only John Cusack can outrun disasters of massive proportions but not be able to stop the disaster that was his character’s marriage.” I knew that Amanda Peet played Kate Curtis, the separated wife of Cusack’s Jackson Curtis and I had a feeling that by the end of the movie their long lost love would be reunited by the events of the movie. Boy was I right, and I didn’t need the Mayans to predict this like they allegedly have predicted the disaster that is 2012.
Director and Screenwriter (gotta give credit where credit is due) Roland Emmerich managed to create what will be this season’s greatest comedy. I don’t think that is what he set out to do upon drafting,...
Director and Screenwriter (gotta give credit where credit is due) Roland Emmerich managed to create what will be this season’s greatest comedy. I don’t think that is what he set out to do upon drafting,...
- 11/13/2009
- by Plus1
- Atomic Popcorn
In Roland Emmerich’s latest disaster epic 2012, Amanda (The Martian Child) Peet plays Kate Curtis, ex-wife to Jackson Curtis (John Cusack), mother of two and one of a handful of characters we follow as they seek safe ground and try to survive the cataclysmic events prophesized by the Mayans centuries ago.
“I had heard of it, but I wasn’t familiar with it,” Peet says of the controversial end-of-the-world theories ascribed to the conclusion of the Mayan calendar. And she doesn’t give it much credence, either. “I feel there’s Enough to worry about. Science is more the thing with my family. I’m sure my sister and brother-in-law [who are both in the medical profession] would think I was crazy if I started talking about my fear of 2012.”
In the film, not everyone on the planet can be saved, but if you have enough money and power (a lá When Worlds Collide), you can buy...
“I had heard of it, but I wasn’t familiar with it,” Peet says of the controversial end-of-the-world theories ascribed to the conclusion of the Mayan calendar. And she doesn’t give it much credence, either. “I feel there’s Enough to worry about. Science is more the thing with my family. I’m sure my sister and brother-in-law [who are both in the medical profession] would think I was crazy if I started talking about my fear of 2012.”
In the film, not everyone on the planet can be saved, but if you have enough money and power (a lá When Worlds Collide), you can buy...
- 11/11/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (Allan Dart)
- Starlog
Columbia Pictures
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: C
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Written By: Harald Kloser, Roland Emmerich
Cast: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Thomas McCarthy, Woody Harrelson, Danny Glover
Screened at: AMC Empire NYC, 11/9/09
Opens: November 13, 2009
Is .2012. apocalypse new? No, sorry, it.s apocalypse same .ol. Unless you.re one of the a new generation of moviegoers that have never seen .Independence Day. or .The Day After Tomorrow. (both directed by .2012,. helmsman Roland Emmerich), you.ve taken this roller-coaster ride before. To paraphrase Spiro Agnew, if you.re seen one building topple, one wave immerse thousands, one statue crushed, several people falling through the cracks to their death, one giraffe and one elephant hauled onto a would-be Noah.s ark.well, you.ve seen .em all.
So what.s left in .2012. to delight us? Why the story, of course. Sad to say,...
Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten
Grade: C
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Written By: Harald Kloser, Roland Emmerich
Cast: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Thomas McCarthy, Woody Harrelson, Danny Glover
Screened at: AMC Empire NYC, 11/9/09
Opens: November 13, 2009
Is .2012. apocalypse new? No, sorry, it.s apocalypse same .ol. Unless you.re one of the a new generation of moviegoers that have never seen .Independence Day. or .The Day After Tomorrow. (both directed by .2012,. helmsman Roland Emmerich), you.ve taken this roller-coaster ride before. To paraphrase Spiro Agnew, if you.re seen one building topple, one wave immerse thousands, one statue crushed, several people falling through the cracks to their death, one giraffe and one elephant hauled onto a would-be Noah.s ark.well, you.ve seen .em all.
So what.s left in .2012. to delight us? Why the story, of course. Sad to say,...
- 11/11/2009
- Arizona Reporter
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