58 thoughts on “Preview Five Minutes of 2012 Online

  1. As a long time professional pilot, and one that has dealt with bad weather and insanely intense flying situations – I’m laughing out loud at the flying scenes in the trailer. Oh please …

    Could you kindly give at least a bit of try at being realistic. You’ve got the nutty high budget, so use it. Get some unemployed experienced pilots on crew, and have them do some continuity work for you.

    And such an insult to the audiences. Are we movie goers really that dumb to buy into this movie?

  2. Wow. That was friggin awesome. Exactly how I envision a disaster movie should be and not like that weak ass Day After Tomorrow. This just made my must see list.

  3. I hope it isn’t that fast paced. I mean…I understand how quickly they needed to get to the airport…but still…kinda annoying that it just jumped to the scene of them in the plane.

    Excited nonetheless.

  4. This might haul in 80 to 100 million dollars for the opening weekend. Might match the buzz of ID4 back in 1996. Or maybe people are tired of disaster flicks churned out by Roland Emmerich. But the visuals are impressive and stunning. It looks fantastic here in youtube. What more in a big screen like IMAX.

  5. Like 1/3 of the comments are against the movie and I am definitely not one of them. I dig John Cusack, and the visuals look dope. Can’t wait to see this one.

    And, Rodney, Will u please write something about how ‘Jennifer’s Body’ was. I need to hear it from someone else who knows about movies. I haven’t seen it yet.

  6. but why must everything go down, the second they escape… I mean come on! its ok 3 time, even 13 times – but not 100 times in a row!
    it just looks soooo cinematic… :/

    other than that: WOW

    1. BECAUSE from millions of people who try to escape there are some who CAN escape and some of them escape closely, simple math! AAAND the story involves exactly those who escape pretty closely cuz thats intense and entertaining otherwise it would be boring if they would have left California an hour ago right? – just that simple Mr Townes !!! if ya dont like it go and watch ur asian movies^^ in which dudes cut water drops with their swords^^ it looks cool but same argument u know – by the way i havent seen ya for a while how ya doin in würzburg?

      greet ur brother from me^^ talked to him bout a movie idea 2 days ago^^ we gonna built up a whole new project that will be nothing like the last movie we did

      servus

      Alex

      1. MY POINT IS:
        its ok the THIRD time, its even ok the THIRTEENTH time – but please, why ONE-HUNDRED times in a row??

        I am in Bielefeld, not Würzburg!
        Sad to hear your Rapvideo did not work out! :P

    2. By the way: HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!!!!! The visuals are mindblowing, i mean Transformers is mindblowing in a whole different way these are environmental VFX and they are OH MAMA! Emmerich must be pushin those VFX guys like shit.

      Pure Eyecandy!! cant wait to see this

  7. Austin..hahaha that scene in Day After Tomorrow has to be one OF THE DUMBEST SCENES i’ve ever seen in any movie..its soooooo baddddddd…that scene alone makes Day Aftr Tmmrw 1/10 in my book

  8. Looks slightly worse than GI Joe. Maybe a little better than Day After Tomorrow (where they had that wonderful scene in which the main characters had to outrun…wait for it… the COLD! Now they have to outdrive…THE EARTH!).

    Meh. Emmerich hasn’t ever been any good.

  9. come on guys, this movie is to disconnect the neurons an enjoy a 2 hour trip of massive destruction, chessy acting and very laughable dramatic lines. I think we have a future drunk movie classic

      1. I’m sure someone will inform Gov. Arnold about him being parodied / imitated in this 2012 film. Maybe he’ll smile at this or get pissed perhaps, when John Cusack tells his wife (Amanda Peet) that “the guy’s an actor he’s reading a script!, when they tell you not to panic, that’s when you run!”.. does it imply that Schwarzenegger isn’t doing his job as Governor of California?… lol

  10. I was pleasantly surprised by that clip. It made me feel like I was 15 again and I was excited for ID4! I was actually clinging to my chair watching that! Job well done Rolland!

  11. I Actually liked Day After Tomorrow. was probably my favorite movie so far by Emmerich.
    Sure their are a lot of things i would have liked done differently in it story wise but overall i liked it.

  12. If I had a marketing job, I’d be fired. The posters would say “From the Director of Universal Soldier”. But seriously, aside from independence day, I can’t think of another movie from Roland Emmerich that I enjoyed. 10,000 BC was laughable as was Day After Tomorrow. This didn’t look any better. I’m with Hazmat on this one… I’m definitely avoiding this as well.

  13. My brother and I could not stop laughing while watching this, poor Cusack. I love him, I wish he’d get a decent movie. I’ll see it (if my brother can get me in free) but I’ll be getting dirty looks for laughing at it’s faux-dramatic situations.

    1. Well, if you consider a movie teaming him up with Craig Robinson decent, then you might be in luck. Check out HOT TUB TIME MACHINE. Comes out next year.

  14. Everytime I see this thing, I can not stop myself from nit picking the crap out of it. The car driving through the building should be the best example for not going to see this film… unless you are looking for a good comedy

    1. I very much agree. Yea I get it it’s a destruction film (which I LOVE) BUT!! those parts looked corny. I hope the whole film isn’t like this cause I plan to go see it

  15. I don’t know if it’s just me, but a lot of the special effects look very cheesy to me. Like the truck exploding and that donut rolling down the street. I don’t think is going to be very good, but I am still going to check it out.

  16. LMFAO!

    And I peed myself, too.

    Lord, love a duck; this is what we’ve come to, a sensory-overload-cum-apocalypse-cum-3D-goofest. Nice.

    What’s next? We actually get to see God in Heaven? Only…only it’s Heinlein’s ‘The Book of Job’, where EVERYONE is wrong about their beliefs?

    But yes, I’m sure it’ll be fun. All that extra butter on my bucket…

  17. I’m a sucker for John Cusack, so I will most likely check this out when released. I just hope it doesn’t end up like Knowing, *spoilers* that whole alien thing was ridiculous */spoilers*.

    1. I couldn’t agree with you more. Screw plot in this case. for 10 bucks i’m more then willing to sit through 2 hours of this. Hell get rid of the story and just have a 50 minute effects reel, I wouldn’t really care. This just looks like one hell of a night at the movies with friends. Probably even better drunk aye?

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