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"besides the Nazis were very smart and came up with a lot of new technology and ideas but they too aren't around today"

I'm sorry but I laughed when I read that statement. Then I read it 2 more times to make sure I didn't misunderstand. But then I went to cnn.com to see if there was some breaking news I missed about the German people being wiped off the face of the earth.

1/16/2009 3:50:17 PM

you do understand that the mayan people still exist today, right? you can't possibly be so ignorant as to think that none are left.

please think of a better analogy next time.

1/16/2009 4:32:18 PM

^^NAzis! who said anything about the german people.

1/16/2009 4:44:53 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/01/27/2012.maya.calendar.theories/index.html

womp womp.

1/27/2009 9:43:28 PM

^^there are still plenty of Nazis around today, especially in Germany. there are also plenty of Mayans left too, but we call them Mexicans nowadays.

1/27/2009 10:10:19 PM

^yes i know, some of my best friends are mayans

1/27/2009 11:06:33 PM

ttt

7/8/2009 2:39:33 PM

ahsdfklashdf/w3k!

7/8/2009 6:16:44 PM

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"there are still plenty of Nazis around today, especially in Germany USA"

7/10/2009 5:19:44 PM

I saw the preview for this and thought the tagline should have been "From the maker of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow comes Almost the Exact Same Movie.

7/18/2009 7:17:05 PM

So there's a new commercial about the end of the world and a commercial for a government agency that is working to protect us.

http://www.instituteforhumancontinuity.org/

The Dark Knight had similar things, a Joker recruitment site and Harvey Dent's campaign site, but some moron is going to take this 2012 commercial seriously.

8/25/2009 12:54:29 AM

^ just saw that commercial on the history channel. i thought it was gonna be a commercial for some retarded end of the world 2012 show until they said the part about science confirming that there would be some kind of solar activity that would have a devastating effect on the planet.

8/26/2009 1:29:02 AM

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/10/02/this-5-minute-clip-from-2012-will-destroy-your-world/

10/2/2009 2:30:59 PM

^ is that actual footage from the movie? That shit looks comical.

10/2/2009 2:50:21 PM

That's too bad too, I kinda like John Cusack. They should just call that movie "Explosion!"

10/2/2009 2:59:40 PM

so, lafta, when nothing happens I'm gonna laugh at you, all the time, and reference this to counter anything you ever say again. oh wait you've already done something dumb enough to deserve that, never mind.

[Edited on October 2, 2009 at 3:03 PM. Reason : dd]

10/2/2009 3:00:28 PM

on december 21st 2012 I will pad in this thread 960 times in one day

10/7/2009 2:56:19 PM

how to outrun the apocalypse

10/7/2009 2:56:58 PM

Let's scare children some more.

Even the Maya are getting sick of 2012 hype
Apocalypse Next? Experts trace fears to modern, not ancient sources
Oct . 10, 2009

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"MEXICO CITY - Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world. Or is it? Definitely not, the Mayan elder insists. 'I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff.'"

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"It can only get worse for him. Next month, Hollywood's '2012' opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House. At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the 'Ask an Astronomer' Web site, says people are scared. 'It's too bad that we're getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they're too young to die,' Martin said. 'We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn't live to see them grow up.' Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan, ideas. A significant time period for the Maya does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years. But most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya Indians say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials — such as one on the History Channel that mixes predictions from Nostradamus and the Maya and asks: 'Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?'"

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"'If I went to some Mayan-speaking communities and asked people what is going to happen in 2012, they wouldn't have any idea,' said Jose Huchim, a Yucatan Mayan archaeologist. 'That the world is going to end? They wouldn't believe you. We have real concerns these days, like rain.'"

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"'It's a special anniversary of creation,' said David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin. 'The Maya never said the world is going to end, they never said anything bad would happen necessarily, they're just recording this future anniversary on Monument Six.'"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33261483/?GT1=43001

10/12/2009 12:44:42 AM

poles are gonna switch.

10/12/2009 1:16:41 AM

jahhahahahahahhahahaha omfg

i was really excited about this movie until I saw that clip. wow.

just, wow.

that looks completely fucking awful. did Michael Bay do this shit? and really? literally EVERYTHING around collapsed in front of, behind, and around them, and they drove to the goddamn airport? suck my fucking dick, hollywood.

like a great history professor said to me about modern television, cinema-"this is what they think of us. they think we're absolutely stupid".

10/12/2009 11:12:52 PM

It is spectacle and I like it. It looks completely fake, but I think it is supposed to. I don't actually want to see what it looks like when a cat is crushed alive or set on fire, but Tom & Jerry is great entertainment.

10/13/2009 10:43:01 AM

i love how the entire earth was collapsing behind them, and yet they somehow manage to have time to navigate airport traffic, get into a plane, and get it lined up perfectly on the runway.

10/13/2009 10:54:59 AM

bwaaaa

that clip was great

gotta see this when it hits red box in about 3 months

10/13/2009 11:00:10 AM

this is going to be the shittiest piece of shit ever

10/13/2009 11:12:30 AM

Awesome. They should call this:

The Core 2: 2012

10/13/2009 1:53:19 PM

Saw it tonight.

Loved the ridiculous disasters throughout the movie. Otherwise exactly what you'd expect

[Edited on November 13, 2009 at 3:00 AM. Reason : OH YEAH AND ITS 2:40 LONG ]

11/13/2009 3:00:32 AM

Hahaha. Nearly 3 hours? Back when movies like LOTR were new people complained about the increased length. Now even the B movies go on for an epic 210 minute run time. It's the new overused gimmick:

Hyper extended jaws
Bullet time
2.5 hour minimum

11/13/2009 8:51:57 AM

yeah i heard this is real funny

11/13/2009 2:53:27 PM

It may even rival The Day After Tomorrow in terms of horseshit premise, acting, and writing.

11/13/2009 3:01:06 PM

Wow...that clip looks absolutely hilarious...how much shit will I get from the crowd if I see it this weekend and laugh my ass off throughout?

Quote :

"did Michael Bay do this shit?"

Roland Emmerich, who brought us such classics as Independence Day, Godzilla, and The Day After Tommorrow. I think the majority of his movies involve some amount of massive destruction.

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"We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn't live to see them grow up."

Well they arent going to grow up anyhow if the world ends...so whats it matter, she wont have missed out on anything. This is like the guy that was preparing for the end of the world, so he can survive...how are you going to survive if the world is over? Theres nowhere to survive...

11/13/2009 4:00:36 PM

"The guy is an actor, he's reading a script"

Is this movie intentionally mocking itself, I get the feeling this movie takes itself as seriously when it really should be more on a Mars Attacks level.

11/14/2009 1:10:25 AM

This is pretty much "The Day After Tomorrow 2" right?

11/14/2009 8:41:39 AM

I am going to watch this and be entertained. It's the same cheezy stuff you see in every disaster movie, just more of it.

ID4 - Dog out-runs Fireball, also plane takes off just before fireball
Armageddon - Oil Rig workers quickly become astronauts and ride a space buggy across a meteor w/ guns
Deep Impact - Kids out-run tidal wave on a dirt bike
Day After Tomorrow - Kids out-run COLD
The Core - Everything
Daylight - Stallone explodes himself and the girl through the top of the underwater tunnel to get to the surface
Twister - All those times they were inside a tornado and didn't get ripped apart
War of the Worlds - Cruise out-runs/wits alien dust lasers. Aliens don't sanitize earth water before drinking it.
Day the Earth Stood Still - Mom and Kids barely outrun swarm of all-consuming micro-organisms


granted some of this is from digg

[Edited on November 14, 2009 at 12:46 PM. Reason : .]

11/14/2009 12:42:11 PM

i think they should be forced to call some of these new movies "animated features"

11/14/2009 3:00:39 PM

^^ I can't believe you didn't include The Happening. Hotdogs.

11/14/2009 7:56:30 PM

Speaking of disaster movies, "Ice Twisters" at 9pm tonight on sci-fi

11/14/2009 8:29:54 PM

Just saw it...this movie was awesome and well worth the 2hours and 40 minutes. One of my favorite disaster movies.

11/14/2009 10:26:12 PM

Quote :

"or dogs can sniff out terminators"

or how cats dont like MOTHER FUCKING monsters

11/14/2009 10:48:47 PM

Quote :

"Just saw it...this movie was awesome and well worth the 2hours and 40 minutes. One of my favorite disaster movies."

Same, it's a lot better than I thought it would be. Unlike The Day After Tomorrow, this event is actually scientifically possible.

Good movie. 9/10.

11/15/2009 1:33:42 AM

i really liked it, i wish it was even longer

11/15/2009 2:37:53 AM

This movie was fucking irritating.

Seriously.

I've never felt so fucking annoyed watching a movie.

The worst movie I've seen this year, bar none. DO NOT SEE.

11/15/2009 3:02:17 AM

definately some unnecessary drama, but overall it was a super movie, with many more dimensions than your average disaster movie, plus much better graphics

11/15/2009 3:50:49 AM

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"Unlike The Day After Tomorrow, this event is actually scientifically possible."

BS. This is nearly as much of a scientific stretch as that movie. I am not much of a disaster movie fan (some friends are though, which is why I went) so my criticism may not matter to you, but this movie was boring. 4/10 from me. The disasters are entertaining if you turn off your brain, but that gets old after awhile.

Friends seemed to enjoy it, but all agreed it dragged. Just too long for its own entertainment value, and I have no problem sitting through long movies that are good I thought the CGI was pretty hokey most the time too (which I guess is what they were going for?).

That being said, if you love these kind of movies, you'd probably enjoy it. If you aren't into disaster movies, its a pretty blah imo.

[Edited on November 15, 2009 at 9:40 AM. Reason : ]

11/15/2009 9:13:17 AM

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"If you aren't into disaster movies, its a pretty blah imo."

Hmmm..Red Flag #1 as to why you wouldnt like this movie.

Thats like saying, if you hate red, you probably wont like the red shirt. NO WAY! REALLY!?!?

11/15/2009 10:46:17 AM

judging from the clip posted above....this looks retarded

11/15/2009 12:21:57 PM

^^ by into I mean a big fan. I can enjoy the cheesiness of dantes peak to an extent and I loved Independence Day etc., but this movie did nothing for me. I'm not saying I have a permanent aversion to disaster movies, just saying that, to me, this movie seemed like something that would only be enjoyed by someone who loved disaster movies and explosions, no matter how bad the story or acting or anything else was.

ie look at something like Eragon. Terrible movie and terrible book and I am someone who is into fantasy. But I might say that if you are someone who just eats up any sort of fantasy/high fantasy regardless of the actual content of the story (which I know people like that) you might enjoy it still.

11/15/2009 12:42:25 PM

^^how about looking at reviews, this was an awsome movie
definately had about a dozen over dramatized moments but the larger story and cgi made it the best disaster flick i've ever seen

[Edited on November 15, 2009 at 12:43 PM. Reason : ,]

11/15/2009 12:42:42 PM

Reviews haven't been overwhelmingly favorable Not that I put too much stock (if hardly any) into reviews myself tho:

IGN US: 2.5/5
IGN AU: 1/5
NY Times: 2/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 38%
Rolling Stone: 1/5
MetaCritic: 51%
Yahoo Movies: C

There were of course favorable reviews as well though, so I'm not trying to make it seem like ALL reviews were negative, but it is a mixed bag at best.

[Edited on November 15, 2009 at 12:56 PM. Reason : ]

11/15/2009 12:55:52 PM

i meant tww reviews

11/15/2009 12:58:04 PM