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Directed By
Roland Emmerich
Written By:
Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser
Cast:
John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Oliver Platt, Morgan Lily, George Segal, John Billingsley, Thomas McCarthy, Patrick Bauchau, Jimi Mistry, Liam James, Johann Urb, Beatrice Rosen, Agam Darshi, Patrick Gilmore, Chin Han, Alexandra Castillo, Eve Harlow, Anna Mae Routledge, David Richmond-Peck, Marco Khan, Blu Mankuma, Alex Zahara, Lisa Lu, Henry O, Chang Tseng, Ryan McDonald, Ron Selmour, Zlatko Buric, Geoff Gustafson, Brandon Haas, Parm Soor, Sean Tyson, Rick Tae, Eddie L. Fauria, Ayana Haviv, Scott E. Miller, Anthony Bonaventura, Ryan Cook, Lea Deesing, Ric Govea, Karin Konoval, Jonathan Lane, Tom MacNeill, Jill Morrison, Andrew Moxham, Jessica Provencher, Larry Purtell, Dean Redman, Charlie Robson, Richard Schimmelpfenneg, Eric Shackelford, Robyn Jean Springer, Craig Stanghetta, Ian Thompson, Jody Thompson, Frank C. Turner, Jacob Blair, Raj Lal, Eddie Hassell, Michael Karl Richards, Tj Austin, Joshua Salvati, Osric Chau, Alexandre Haussmann, Jerome Young, Gordon Lai, Philippe Haussmann, Luis Javier, Abigail Delves, Peter Arpesella, Sahar Biniaz, Norman Deesing, Jason Diablo, Mary Gillis, Jacob Goodall, Daren A. Herbert, Erik Kowalski, James O'Neill, Patricia Shih, Dale Tarrant, Kinua McWatt, Raj Lal, Yuel Yawney
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2012 (2009)
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Movie Review by Martin
November 17th, 2009
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"2012" will no doubt blow many people away with its destructive special effects, all built around a prophecy that the world will end in the year the title sugests. Some will take this as some sort of creepy fact, making the movie even more terrifying to them. I, however, found this film poorer than i first thought it would be, and i didn't exactly enter the cinema with the highest of hopes, considering Roland Emmerich is behind this, and everyone who had been to see it before me descrided it with the same one word. Cheesy!
Yes its the end of the world for some reason, and John Cusack must take his family to some place where they're building ships to escape the global destruction in. Thats about it storywise, giving plenty of time for the special effects team to throw up some impressive stuff for us to sit through. Some of it is pretty cool. The only problem i found though is that i've seen most of it all before. Didnt Emmerich himself destroy another city with a massive tidal wave in his very own "Day after Tommorow?" He does it again here, and not only once, infact the whole film seems to want to keep repeating itself, with Cusack amazingly being able to outdrive an earthquake in one scene, and then a volcano eruption in the next (both times going over a ramp that forms itself amongst the destruction like some sort of James Bond). Oh yes, and some famous monuments are destroyed, i wont tell you which ones. Its a surprise.
Overall, the film is farfetched, corny, full of rediculus couincidences, often doesnt make much sence, is hardly origanal, and they even manage to throw in a couple of soppy "Independance day" style speeches that we're supossed to cheer at even though millions of people have just died.
Its not all sh*t though. If you are going to see this. You might as well catch it at the cinema where the effects will look amazing, it stars Danny Glover, the legend (not realy, but me and a friend have a running joke about him being a legend which can start up again now) doing his best Barack Obama impression, and the govenor of California impressionist. I loved him! :D
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 | BillyJean
Nov 20, 2009 9:44 PM
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Director Roland Emmerich is a moron. Like, what's next on his incredible list of mass destruction? The entire solar system, or something?
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Nov 21, 2009 6:59 AM