Dearest Michael Bay: I have seen many of your films and have enjoyed them greatly. Explosions, car crashes, shoot outs, giant metal things fighting other giant metal things: these are the things the modern action film are made of. As such, I love them all like tiny, violent children. I haven't seen Transformers: Revenge of Robo-destructo-porn yet, but I expect it to live up to the title.
However, there is a movie coming out later this year that threatens to make your films look like a Fancy Feast commercial. I speak of Roland Emmerich's 2012.
Judging by this trailer, 2012 is nothing but scorched earth, giant waves, and John Cusack and Chewitel Ejiofor getting paid. Wanton crap-exploding for two whole hours. And that last shot, with the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy crushing the White House?
Michael Bay, you just got served.
Love,
Marc Bernardin
P.S. My best to your awesome kitty.
Seriously, is that not the craziest trailer you've ever seen? My gods, it's full of everything…on fire!
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It has every action thing you could think of. Clearly no plot just how much money can put into this to make it the most action packed, fire crashing, explosion movie. Oh lets pay some people who aren’t working that much just to get us to watch. crazy trailer ever….
Needs more robots. And possibly vampires with guns.
Wow… I love ID and Day After Tomorrow BECAUSE they show things crashing into landmarks. Sometimes I just want some awesome special effects and really don’t need a plot and this looks like it fits the bill. I’m there in November!
Wow. I love Michael Bay for the crazy, plot-free, blow s*** up director that he is. But this trailer is seriously the most plot free, blow s*** up thing I’ve ever seen.
I am so watching this movie.
Awesome.
Roland Emmerich is the hackiest hack in the history of hacks. He’s like Ed Wood with an unlimited bank account. And at this point, he’s just making the same movie over and over again. This looks indistinguishable from The Day After Tomorrow.
Who goes to see this crap?
what the hell was that???
AWESOME! Yea, the plot’s probably thin as ice but who cares?!! There’s plenty of hype about 122112, and this movie definitely peaks my interest. I’m there!
Holy crap.
Um, does Roland Emmerich have something against the White House or something?? This has got to be the third or fourth time he’s destroyed it in one of his films…
Wow, ridiculous
Ouch. That must hurt when those things happens.
ok. look. if you people like plot free movies, then why don’t you just ask for hollywood to make a sequence of really impressive things blowing up that at least doesn’t try to pretend to be a real movie. i have nothing wrong with amazing special effects, but what is wrong with them actually serving the plot instead of replacing it? and the fact that you people are proud of the fact that you like your entertainment mindless? it’d be mindblowing if your minds weren’t already blown out before!
LOVE IT! But my favorite part was Mr. Emmerich’s pronunciation of the the word “yahoo” at the beginning.
Too many flat vs 3D, fake vs. real special affects- way overdone, it gave me a headache. A little less panavision and more specific to less scenes would have been better, but who I am- I won’t go, but lots of gloom and doomers will and the 2012 hype will get a boost. But more power to the movie makers that makes one that gets people out of the house to a real movie.
the fact that you people are proud that you like your entertainment mindless not only incredible, it’s reprehensible. you should be ashamed to call yourselves human beings. i’m all for awsome special effects, but whatever happened to having your effects SERVE the plot instead of REPLACING it? we really have come to that point that many sci fi books and movies have warned about where people are just breathing automatons with no desire to think or rationalize. i mean why do you even bother living? and it scares me that people like you voice your opinions and influence events or vote, because you don’t really have any. you just want to see things blown up. wooo.
I kinda agree with “Astro Boy” -Needs more robots. And possibly vampires with guns.- but i think id add some zombies in for good measure. lol
After seeing this, it’s hard to believe that Emmerich could louse up Godzilla. And yet, somehow, he did.
By the way, in terms of landmarks, there’s an Arby’s at the corner of Fifth and Main that hasn’t been shown exploding in slow motion. But I think that’s about all that’s left.
I’m such a sucker for these disaster movies! I can’t wait!!!! It’s looks just frickin awesome!
This is possibly not the biggest error/point I could mention about this film, but HELLO? “Mankind’s Earliest Civilisation”???? At least TRY and give the film some atmospheric credibility without blowing the first sentence!
Looks like an epic film though…whether win or fail will be another matter…
lighten up, “idiots”, and save your judgment for someone who cares.
Oh my god, is that little Shawn from Psych in there!! Squee…for any version of Shawn.
JFK is Alive….and well!
That’s Armageddon!
looks depressing.
Since when are the Mayans the worlds oldest civilization? They really think we’re dumb.
Looked like a far better version of “Armageddon,” for the first half of the trailer. Beautiful haunting imagery, incredibly credible SFX, and a suprisingly horrific tone. Then the C-grade Hans Zimmer music comes on, and lines like “People have a right to survive blah blah blah” start rolling in. It’s weird. The cliches of the second half completely negate the unexpected power of the first.
John Cusack – why??? Lloyd Dobler would be so disappointed. This movie looks hirariously awful, enough to make Day After Tomorrow look like a documentary. Take that, Michael Bay, with your giant robots that only choose to morph into GM cars for no real reason.
I’m very apprehensive towards films made by Roland Emmerich ever since I threw $10 in the garbage, er, I mean, paid $10 to see 10,000 BC last year. What a terrible movie that was.
But the special effects for 2012 do look pretty awesome.
I am so there in November. I love disaster movies, the less plot and more mayhem the better! I hope it comes out in an IMAX format.