Comments on: The 2012 Trailer is Apocalicious

By: tereglith

tereglith — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:08:02 +0000

I'm pretty sure they're just plain arks - What happens is some type of crust upheaval that leaves the entire world flooded, apparently somehow creating the trillions of gallons of water needed to achieve this out of thin air. And the arks just float along with self-sustaining farms in them. Until MegaShark or Giant Octopus comes along, or course.

By: republibotthreepointoh

republibotthreepointoh — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:18:14 +0000

Not sure there's anything as sophisticated as 'suspension of disbelief' involved here: I have yet to see a Roland Emmerich movie that made a lick of sense whatsoever. He just rifles through old movies, cuts out the standout scenes, and then ties them together. I mean, ID4 was nothing but a pastiche of every 50s invasion movie ever made, with some Star Wars thrown in and a dash of World War II swagger. If he thinks the Space Ark from "When Worlds Collide" or even "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" looks cool, then by damn he'll stick it in.

By: lostepic

lostepic — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:51:53 +0000

Yeah I suppose if I suspend disbelief, there could be space "arks" to an unknown habitable world with unknown power to propel them or sustain them in space indefinitely. Its just when the timeline is set near our current timeline, technology shouldn't be far from where we are.

By: republibotthreepointoh

republibotthreepointoh — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:12:30 +0000

Obviously, they're space ships. Space Arks. They're going to "The New World," as per that one Simpsons Halloween Special. Or the George Pal movie, "When Worlds Collide."

By: lostepic

lostepic — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:16:54 +0000

Oh. If its really the end of the world in 2012, where are these supposed ships that the government built going to take the people? As stated before, Emmerich will destory everything with CGI glory, but he will always give our characters a way to survive or beat it. So either the Earth isnt really ending, or it is in which case where are they going to go?

By: lostepic

lostepic — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:10:17 +0000

@republibotthreepointoh: I agree. While McCormic left a little hope at the end of "The Road", it still ended on a depressing downer. However, I have a feeling that the movie is going to play it on the lighter side since they already have shown the mother in the trailer, what seems to be a prominant role that she didnt have.

By: republibotthreepointoh

republibotthreepointoh — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:38:31 +0000

@ Lostepic: Point taken. My bad.
@ Suiter: I dunno. This could just be my take on it, but when I read The Road I felt very strongly the author was implying this was the last generation, and there was no future.

By: suiter

suiter — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:27:06 +0000

@republibotthreepointoh: "And then the movie would be about people struggling to transition to survive, not just boom-crash-bang."
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That's coming out too.. Vigo Mortensen in 'The Road', where he has to keep his family safe after a cataclysmic event,

By: lostepic

lostepic — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:52:28 +0000

@republibotthreepointoh: that was the point they stayed away from actual science and explaining the hows and whys. Leaving the real scienctists to try to make those fantasies a reality. Oh and a gravity issue affecting the earth story is going to TV in a miniseries. A dead star hits the moon causin gravitational and porlarity issues and the earth adn moon draw eachother in adn causes all sorts of "supposed" gravity issues earth.

By: republibotthreepointoh

republibotthreepointoh — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:44:12 +0000

Really Star Trek never had much to do with science. They paid a lot of lip service to it, but they pretty much ignored the actual physical universe as much as possible in favor of the doubletalk they used on the show(s). What grows tiresome about these disaster movies is that the disasters themselves are all so predictable - alien invasion, big rock/comet hitting earth, trendy-yet-incoherent ecological fubar, perfect storm, massive hurricane, earthquake, volcano, giant shark vs. giant octopus - meh. Boring. What about something a bit more interesting, like a heavy-gravity zipping through the solar system at a right angle to earth's own orbit, thereby causing our orbit to shift in some way. Not enough to make the earth unlivable, but enough to radically change the life of every man, woman, and rat terrier on the planet. Wouldn't that be fun? And then the movie would be about people struggling to transition to survive, not just boom-crash-bang. 'course that's just off the top of my head. I'm not a hollywood producer, so I dunno from nothin' what would work...