Roland Emmerich’s 2012 Trailer Starring John Cusack
There was a time when Roland Emmerich was one of the biggest directors working in Hollywood, both in terms of box office numbers and spectacle, but lately his FX-heavy blockbusters have started to feel somewhat dated and hokey. It’s true that his last film, 10,000 BC, was pretty awful, and The Day After Tomorrow wasn’t much better, and yet, there’s still something about a new Roland Emmerich flick that feels like an event. Up until now, we’ve only had a small hint of what his new movie 2012 is all about, but this week the full trailer has been unleashed and by all accounts, it looks to be a fine return to form for Emmerich.
Starring John Cusack, Thandie Newton, Woody Harrelson, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt and Chiwetel Ejiofor, 2012 is quite simply about the end of the world as predicted by the ancient Mayan calendar. The trailer is chock full of global catastrophes and world monuments getting destroyed… you know, the usual stuff. The special effects look pretty impressive, but the thing that sucks is that in addition to all the destruction, there’s bound to be some lame attempts at drama with a bunch of characters we don’t care about. Why can’t we ever just have two hours of massive flooding and streets being ripped open? It’s just not fair. Still, I’m a lot more excited about this movie than I thought I would be. 2012 hits theatres on November 13th; check out the trailer below and see what you think.
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It seems like Mr. Emmerich is putting less and less thought into his excuses for widescale disaster. At first he was using elaborate Egyptian/alien mythologies, then he went down simple yet effective routes like alien invasion and giant lizard shows up, then he started gettting lazy and decided to just take global warming and exagerate it beyond all reason. now he’s just saying the disaster will happen because it’s the right day of the week.
BTW this Mayan apocalypse Bullshit needs to be nipped in the budd. The Mayans were dead wrong about when the world began, what makes anyone think they were right about the year it’s going to end?
Posted by MJS on June 19th, 2009Looks like just a huge CGI-fest. I’ll pass.
Posted by Raph on June 19th, 2009eh this looks pretty uninteresting. just a load of CGI thrown in. but i bet it’ll still do good in theaters.
Posted by modesilver on June 19th, 2009Ok…I gotta admit, I’ll probably go see this. For me, Emmerich’s movies are a bit of a guilty pleasure; it’s mindless fun, you get to see things destroyed, and you don’t have to think about the plot of the movie. Plus, I’m a Cusack fan.
Posted by Dennis on June 19th, 2009I really hope something will happen. I think the year will come and go without much interest. I do think that there will be an age of creativity and new music. This was predicted by Louis Riel.
Posted by Ken Suitor on June 19th, 2009I think I will pass as well. The special effects were getting boring to watch by the end of the trailer. Though driving on hype of the end of the world at a specific date is kind of silly. I mean how ridiculous will this movie be when people watch it post 2012?
Posted by Nick D on June 19th, 2009When I first heard about this film I was really excited. Now that the trailer is out, I’m not all that excited anymore. Just a typical “world coming to an end” film with a bunch of CGI.
Posted by Matt on June 19th, 2009“2012: Time for Change”
Posted by Etznab on June 19th, 2009is a feature-length documentary, directed by Joao Amorim of Curious Pictures and featuring Daniel Pinchbeck, the bestselling author of “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl” (Penguin, 2006). In the style of “An Inconvenient Truth”, “What the Bleep Do We Know”, and “Waking Life”, our film explores ideas about what the immediate future may hold, symbolized by the myths and prophecies of the Mayan culture of Mexico. Interviews with design scientists, anthropologists, physicists such as Dean Radin, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Nassim Haramein John Todd and Paul Stamets and celebrities such as Sting, Ellen Page and Gilberto Gil. 2012 combines film and animation in an innovative way, taking us on a journey through our own evolution.
“2012: Time for Change”
is a feature-length documentary, directed by Joao Amorim of Curious Pictures and featuring Daniel Pinchbeck, the bestselling author of “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl” (Penguin, 2006). In the style of “An Inconvenient Truth”, “What the Bleep Do We Know”, and “Waking Life”, our film explores ideas about what the immediate future may hold, symbolized by the myths and prophecies of the Mayan culture of Mexico. Interviews with design scientists, anthropologists, physicists such as Dean Radin, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Nassim Haramein John Todd and Paul Stamets and celebrities such as Sting, Ellen Page and Gilberto Gil. 2012 combines film and animation in an innovative way,
2012timeforchange dot com
Posted by Etznab on June 19th, 2009THIS IS DISASTER PORN!!!!
Posted by rus in chicago on June 19th, 2009My friends and I in high school thought of a genre of porn that parodied the disaster film trend that started way back then. Natural disasters would engulf the world around them, but the characters would just keep going at it in their final moments. We would call them “Jizzaster Movies”.
Posted by Nuno on June 19th, 2009Why do i feel NOTHING while watching this? No sense of fear, dread or anything.
I think Emmerich needs to take a course on minimalism. If he dropped the music entirely, and just had some ominous sound effects with maybe one single locked-off shot of a building slowly being destroyed…. maybe, just maybe… i might be interested.
Posted by dunk on June 19th, 2009If only Emmerich could figure out how to better integrate these cool effects shots into his films, rather just drop them in the middle of some tedious story about a scientist racing against the clock to blah blah blah…
As is I’m sure every single worthwhile minute of the film was in that trailer.
Posted by Rusty James on June 19th, 2009I think Emmerich’s films have all made the lists for most implausible, scientifically impossible, historically/scientifically/whatever inaccurate, etc. etc. Let’s see, using a Macintosh to upload a computer virus to an alien ship’s computer? Uh, yeah right.
Posted by Maopheus on June 19th, 2009Are you saying aliens don’t use Macs? Seems hard to believe.
Posted by Sean on June 19th, 2009This looks absolutely amazing. I´m seeing this day one.
Posted by ColinZeal on June 20th, 2009There are way too many “meaningful shots” in this trailer. Does the Sistine Chapel really have to cleave in just the right spot for the Apocalypse to be riveting? This movie is gonna be an embarrassment to everyone involved and lay flat like Emmerich’s other stinking turds. If anything, I’d welcome the apocalypse just to get this hack out of the film industry.
Posted by centorpedo on June 20th, 2009Looks like it might be a fun film.
Posted by Matt Keith on June 20th, 20092012
10 000 BC
The Day After Tomorrow
Independence Day
Does putting a date for the title really sell a movie?
Posted by Glendon on June 20th, 2009Worked with Friday the 13th.
Posted by swarez on June 21st, 2009Groundhog Day…
Posted by rus in chicago on June 21st, 2009Didn’t work for The Day the Earth Stood Still…
Posted by Shut-Up Ed on June 21st, 2009Looks like a fun, dumb disaster movie! Like ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ without a conscience or an agenda. If we had a drive-in here I’d go see it there.
Posted by Bas on June 22nd, 2009This looks boring. All his movies look exactly the same. The only thing that has me slightly interested is that John Cusack is in it.
Posted by Niklas on June 23rd, 2009I actually liked The Day After Tomorrow, so I’m looking forward to this as well. The trailer looks suitably OTT. John Cusack and Oliver Platt are nice choices, too.
Posted by Disaster Movie World on June 24th, 2009Geez, you pretentious film school wannabes need to get a grip. So it’s a big dumb disaster movie, big deal. Not every movie has to be a character driven masterpiece. Leave your brain at home and enjoy this for what it is…
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