Watch 5 minutes of the apocalypse in magnificient EmmerichVision!

Here's a 5 minutes clip of 2012, featuring about 15 million deaths.

Holy crap. They should provide seat belts in the theatre! This is the ultimate geek movie... I love the absurdity and cheesiness of this scene!

It's worth noting that Emmerich can hold the camera steady and you can understand what's going on.

And yes, some scenes are edited out, so there are some continuity errors in this clip.

"Doughnut!"

this movie looks both depressing and bad.

Lots of effects..I'm a sucker for that.

You're on the freeway and a giant doughnut rolls towards you.

What are you going to say? "Dog"? "Cupcake"?

How is saying "Doughnut!" different from saying "Watch out!" - except that it's funny in a dumb way when you think about it?

I'm sorry, but if you think more than one second at that line you realise that hey, someone might actually say that in real life:o

I was expecting a comment about "Take the freeway!", not about the doughnut...

Is that Phenelope Cruz

Is that Phenelope Cruz

nikola96

Like I said in the FAU, movie looks mediocre and I have bad feelings about it. I'll watch it though, wait for dvd.

Looks like the type of movie i might like. I like these end of the world things like The Day After Tomorrow and 28 Days Later and The Day the World Stood Still and War of the Worlds.

The acting was decent enough for me and the special effects were pretty good (but they didn't seem as good as the bridge scene in War of the Worlds). Unfortunately this looks like it will have quite a bit of political bias thrown in.

Lots of effects..I'm a sucker for that.

Lto_thaG

Roland Emmerich is a poor man's Michael Bay. With that said, I'll be passing on this.

Michael Bay is a poor man's Roland Emmerich.

Michael Bay is a poor man's Roland Emmerich.

Baranga

[QUOTE="Baranga"]

Michael Bay is a poor man's Roland Emmerich.

Hallenbeck77

And how is he after watching Stargate, ID4 and The Patriot?

Emmerich is a lot better than Bay. He knows how to shoot a movie, while Bay is only an expert in advertisments. Both are very skilled when it comes to practical effects and CGI, but Bay simply can't shoot anything else. Emmerich has coherency and clarity, and keeps the camera steady.

He's just an entertainer specialised in simple popcorn flicks - those are his own words, he's not an aspiring artist like Bay. This is his last disaster movie though.

So whats making everything blow up over dramatically this time Mr Emmerich? Aliens? The weather? I wonder what his pitch meetings are like? "So everything's gonna go BOOOOOM! and KAPLOOGE! there will be spolsians everywhere!"clubsammich91

Crustal displacement, a theory that got Einstein interested.

[QUOTE="Hallenbeck77"][QUOTE="Baranga"]

Michael Bay is a poor man's Roland Emmerich.

And how is he after watching Stargate, ID4 and The Patriot?

Emmerich is a lot better than Bay. He knows how to shoot a movie, while Bay is only an expert in advertisments. Both are very skilled when it comes to practical effects and CGI, but Bay simply can't shoot anything else. Emmerich has coherency and clarity, and keeps the camera steady.

He's just an entertainer specialised in simple popcorn flicks - those are his own words, he's not an aspiring artist like Bay. This is his last disaster movie though.

Roland Emmerich is a pretty bad director, and this looks awful.

No independence day, thats for sure. That had.. you know.. a good story, decent acting (with chesse) and still awesome action.GenTom

Wait, Independence Day had a good story?

Hallenbeck - you should see The Patriot. It's from the writer of Saving Private Ryan.

There are almost no 'splosions and CGI. It's just a good old fashioned melodramatic war story.

I pity those that can't appreciate a movie only because of its visual element - which is the most important - and always need an Oscar-level story as a hook.

Also its a shame John Cusack is wasting his talent here, he is a really good actor when he picks good roles. The only Roland Emmerich film that was close to being good was Stargate, and thats because of Kurt Russell. His other stuff bores me.

Hallenbeck - you should see The Patriot. It's from the writer of Saving Private Ryan.

There are almost no 'splosions and CGI. It's just a good old fashioned melodramatic war story.

I pity those that can't appreciate a movie only because of its visual element - which is the most important - and always need an Oscar-level story as a hook.

Yeah, good special effects, but not feeling the rest of it.