Escape to the Movies: 2012

[Kuchinawa212]

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>:C
No Shylock refrence this time, even if wouldn't have fit anywhere. Grr... -1 point!
But I may see this movie so +1

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Well I don't like the 2012 idea and I'm not a fan of Disaster Movies as a whole. Your review has peaked my interest, but I'll still wait for it to come out on Demand rather then see it in theaters.

Off-Topic: I love the PSA part of the video.

 

[Sethzard]

Particularly good episode.

 

[shadow_hazuki]

The movie looks awesome, but calling people idiots for wanting to cling to the next big fear, as humanity is wont to do, is idiocy in itself. How many times have we not seen this happen, West Nile, Y2K, Bird Flu, Swine Flu... so what if people cling to a theory or minor outbreak claiming it to be the end-all. Its the nature of humanity to fear. So then I suppose we are, by nature, all idiots. :\

Loved the analysis of the shot. Good stuff.

 

[quiet_samurai]

Dude... you look exactly like one of my friends, weird.

But yeah, the whole Mayan calender thing is all just a bunch of misinformation and scare tactice so people go out buying survival equipment.

I am going to see this, I have a thing for end of the world themed movies.

 

[RTR]

Thanks Bob. Now I'm ashamed for not watching 10,000 B.C.

 

[Reneux]

yes, and for some reason when exploiting fears comes to mind i think of duct tape, and poor colin powell pointing at enlarged sattelite photos at the UN with words like umd transport labled on them!
Lovely bit thanks for mixing up the pattern a bit, and the film analysis was very fun!
fondly,

 

[historybuff]

I was expecting this movie to be awful! Wow.

 

[General_Qwetch]

Thank you for the public service announcement for idiots. =D

the michael bay version of the movie was the best!

 

[oathblade]

An excellent review as usual the rest...well it was lacking. Clearly you have preconceived notions of what the Myan thing means and decided to use your movie reviewer platform to bash people who don't believe the same way as you.

 

[MowDownJoe]

Can I get an enlarged screencap of the Michael Bay remastering of that scene? That was just awesome...

 

[CompanionCube]

I always thought Bob was skinny, great video!

 

[UtopiaV1]

While I agree with everything, EVERYTHING, you just said, I have to tell you... I don't like you Bob. You're becoming a cynical and bitter version of Yahtzee, except not as funny. You used to have your own style and jokes, and some of that still exists (case in point - the analysis of the California destruction shot, excellent points (plural) and funny comments on Micheal Bay's "directing") but bleeping out swearwords and constantly calling stupid people idiots is both childish and unnecessary.

Still, overall great review, i look forward to your next one!

 

[mptothedc]

Hahahaha!! Damn your reviews are amazing... and you have no idea how many people I have had to argue with over 2012 being the end of the world.... funny one of such people believed that when they found big foot it was real....

 

[Avatar Roku]

Let me start off with saying the MOVIE review was great. It really was you hit everything on the head and did a great review ... with that said.

I really have never been so disgusted with a HUMAN BEING in quite sometime. Stick to doing your bloody movie reviews and keep your general opinion of people to yourself you arrogant conceded jackass. I don't believe in the whole 2012 hype, but some people truly do believe and are genuienly scared and that is not for your amusement. It's people like you who help fund psych wards and the like because you pray on those you see as weaker then yourself.

How about you do what you volunteer or get paid to do and bring us movie reviews. Nobody cares about your outlooks on life, society, or the way people think or react. It was down right stupid and just straight out rude and uncalled for and makes me just pray that 2012 ends up being the worst year of your life!! I personally think you owe the public and apology for it, but knowing the internet everyone will flock to your defense because it's the cool thing to do.

How old are you actually? Grow up.

Oh, calm down. He was reviewing a movie about the world ending in 2012, that theory would have sort have been an elephant in the room if he left it unmentioned. Also, note that you're the only one who was the slightest bit offended. I think you're overreacting a bit.

What I can't understand is why the Escapist doesn't run Bob's other video line "The GameOverthinker" That's good stuff. Introspective and meandering, but it works. Plus, isn't the Escapist gaming first?

As for this review. Cool, nice to hear, but I'm still not gonna pay ten bucks to go see it. At least when someone I know crams it in their DVD player I know I can stick around without turning on my DS.

I'm gonna guess they don't own the rights. Last I heard of Overthinker, Bob was trying to get Screw Attack to pick it up.

 

[Jin-Roh]

Hem... I was thinking that it was going to be a bad movie. Nice to see that not everything that looks like a pile of shit is not. I would as well say nice opening, the over all smack-down of the 3 groups is a big step foreword to get rid of the stupid poeple.

 

[MovieBob]

Okay, so... I've resisted "plugging" the companion-column up to this point; but I'm so genuinely stoked that people are responding so positively to the "shot-composition" bit in here (I'll be honest - I was a little bit hesitant that it might be tonally-incongruous, to say nothing of simply pretentious, to get all academic in what's generally supposed to be a funny show) that I feel compelled to mention that a slightly more "fleshed-out" appraisal of the director in question and his technique can be found in this week's "MovieBob: Intermission" column: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/6772-Disasterpiece

 

[GrandAm]

I saw the movie. I am debating whether or not I liked it. It was overall fun and entertaining. The visuals were great in concept as Bob pointed out.

What is causing my debate is the bad science used to explain the cause of the Earth's demise. They explain it in two different scenes that we as the audience are supposed to accept together. 1. The sun puts out a normally harmless radiation that "mutates" into a harmful one to the planet. 2. The exposition why it mutated is given by a video produced by Woody Harlson's character ala Jurasic Park when they are all on that ride explaining DNA. Both reasons are really, really bad science. One ignores constant state of matter rules, the other ignores gravity's inverse square law. Nit picky I know.

I just wish they used a better reason than trying to tie the movie to the Myan calander and planetary allignment.

They could of just had the supervolcano at Yellowstone explode as it is destined to do, to trigger all the other disasters. When that one goes it will be like all of the USA nuclear stockpile going off at once in one spot.

 

[polygon]

I had no idea there was a companion column to Escape to the Movies until now. You should've plugged it earlier.

 

[Fearzone]

Here's the deal. 2012 is a subversive social commentary on the present state of the world economy, and the way Obama is handling it, or fucking everything up I should say. This is all wrapped up in a formuliac action movie that will completely pass over the heads of most idiots out there. The subversive part is great fun. The formulaic part is mostly tolerable and generally well done.