Bringing up from the dead....
Oh.My.God... I just watched this on DVD after my sister reckoned it was really good. Half way in my mum and had our mouthes open in disgust. We're not snobs when it comes to films but god...
Having said that it wasn't terrible, just too far fetched to even take remotely seriously. The Day After Tomorrow was pretty good and, although there were a couple of big "wtf" moments most of it was reasonably believable (if slowed down). 2012? Anyone that has any knowledge in Geology and Earth science will be crying:
Random massive cracks that deep?
Plates sliding into the ocean? How?! What?! Yet the only way that could possibly happen in our wildest dreams would include masses of magma and ash/eruptions!
A supervolcano erupting with a littl bit of smoke and some lava bombs? Obviously the biggest Volcano in existance today would do that... And obviously you can outrun a 700mph pyroclastic flow in an old camper van.. (at least that is consistent with other films though...)
Tsunamis that can hit Washington and get into the Himalayas?! Must have emptied the entire ocean!
Cruise ships miles out to sea being swept away by giant waves?!
All of this apparently settling down in a few weeks?
That's just for starters...
Also who's idea was it to build a load of super ships in the Himalayas? Because steering ships like that through mountain peaks, before the water dropped, whilst in massive currents is a good idea?
Obiously you spend tens of Billians on ships and you equip them with what I can only assume is second world war oil/coal engines? Obviously nuclear was to expensive.
Why, when flying up did the small aircraft always end up below most of the city and in canyons?
And breathe...
Yep that water would have been well below zero, no way he could have remained underwater for that length of time without turning blue!
Why? It would probably have been warm. It was supposed to have come from the Indian Ocean a couple of hours previously so wouldn't have lost much heat (Although that would depend on how much of it was surface water, which should have been most). That's about the most realistic part in the entire film.
Is it me or does the last 45mins felt like they ran out of budget, dodgy camera works and pretty poor studio setup (when in ship e.t.c.)?
I thought that too, looked like scenes from "the making of", like they hadn't put any processing over it. It reminded me of rides at a theme park.
Anyway having said that I probably will watch it again, when I want something brainless. Still 5/10.
