2012
Edward McArdle
did not like it.
The special effects were very good, but unbelievable. The cataclysms were
unsurvivable. And we kept getting people introduced so they could be wiped
out.
And if the sea is up to the top of Everest, the world is in a certain
amount of trouble.
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Edward McArdle
Raymond Speer
The stupidity of the world leaders was an abomination. They have
advance warning in 2009: earthquakes happen, tidal waves aplenty,
volcanoes explode en masse, & etc etc. Their solution is:
Keep it under wraps. Omit all mention of the upcoming supercatastrophe
to avoid worry.
And put all eggs in one basket: freaking arks are built in Tibet (which
is refered to simply as China throughout the whole movie.) That is the
deal --- that is all there is. No side projects, no space involvement.
The Himalayas are to be flooded and the arks sail for about a month
before the water recede from South Africa. And all survivors are to
colonize South Africa? What da fook ---- will the super rich be
permitted to do stuff like buy the Pacific Coast of North America as a
vacation abode. (Hell of a big lawn, alas.)
Christ on a crutch, there are unused shipyards from the Gulf of Mexico
to the Baltic and not one boat can be built or fixed to carry some of
the refugees of a world soon to be dunked in the ocean? Somehow, it is
thought better to do absolutely nothing but build a dozen arks atop the
Himalayas.
Also unanswered is how the people all know that the world will magically
become habitable again in the two weeks after everybody dies. That is as
bizarre as building an ark the size of a city and your design prevents
it from turning on any of its engines at all unless a hydrological
chamber the size of a stage in a high school auditorium is fully
functional. That end business is too stupid and silly even to be
tolerated by an audience.
Edward McArdle
ray...@webtv.net (Raymond Speer) wrote:
I think you are being unreasonably kind to the picture.
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Edward McArdle
Jon Schild
When the very basis of the "plot" can best be described as
pseudo-scientific garbage, any logic in the movie would be like the
proverbial lipstick on a pig.
Livia
> That end business is too stupid and silly even to be
> tolerated by an audience.
>
It's an Emmerich. What did you expect? Not a good movie, did you?
I personally knew I wouldn't watch this before I am forced to when I
read the director's name.
Livia
Tim Bruening
The crisis is caused by massive solar flares (the biggest in human history) emitting weird particles (mutated neutrinos) that penetrate deep into the Earth and heat up the core. Yet the world's communications and mass media networks keep working well into the crisis. Should the flares have fried Earth's electronic communications networks well before the quakes wiped out the infrastructure?
tsbr...@gmail.com
> did not like it.
>
> The special effects were very good, but unbelievable. The cataclysms were
> unsurvivable. And we kept getting people introduced so they could be wiped
> out.
Tim Bruening
Tim Bruening
However, shortly before this shift is revealed, someone at a crisis command center says that the Earth's crust had just shifted to the SouthWEST! Hence, shouldn't China have shifted to the Southwest, not the East?
Dimensional Traveler
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