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Oct 31, 2009 - 12:18 PM
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Cryogenix
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I love ID4, and found The Day After Tomorrow to have some cool visuals, but a weak story and hollow drama. No interest in 10,000 B.C., even if the DVD were free. Looks horrible.
But I love disaster/end of the world films and welcome all that dare to keep the genre alive. Speilberg's War of the Worlds failed, Deep Impact failed, Armageddon failed, The Core failed, etc, etc.
Actually, I enjoy seeing familiar landmarks in ruins. It's cool. Like Lady Liberty in Planet of the Apes or New York engulfed in a frozen wave, etc. Cool stuff.
One of these days, someone will get it right with both grand visuals and a meaty story.
Oh...and I think 2012 looks fairly lame. The acting also looks pretty bad.
I want an end of the world flick where we don't survive. I want some Comet Empire-like craft to attack us and make us fight to the death, using everything we have. But, in the end...we lose. But at least we went down fighting for every breath of life.
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I've liked some of Emmerich's films in the past, like Universal Soldier, Stargate (my favorite of his), and The Patriot, and even The Day After Tomorrow (IMO) wasn't that bad. But 2012 just looks plain bad to me. So bad, in fact, that I found the trailers almost come off as a parody of the disaster genre more than anything else.
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Go rent Knowing.
Was about to say the same thing. Now there was a film where the end of the world was portrayed as it would really be, down-right frightening, and not a big flashy "jee, the world's coming to an end but look how cool it looks!" kind of movie.
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Does this one have a President's speech in it ? 
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