comment #1

Jason says ...

Somebody must have been inspired by the "bloody elevators" trailer for The Shining because it uses the same music by Wendy Carlos.

comment #2

moviemaniac2002 says ...

Emmerich should bring back the Dick Cheney
clone from "Day After Tomorrow" and cook up an especially eye-catching CGI demise for him, maybe have Mt. Everest fall on him or impaled by the Washington Momument.
But Emmerich's already behind the curve on the President's casting. (Dennis Haybert and Morgan Freeman have already ably served as Aftrican American presidents.) Disaster movies have to stay ahead of the game...'2012's Prez should be
a Gay Asian Transsexual.

comment #3

Rich S. says ...

That's a money shot, right there.

Speaking of which, whatever happened to that remake of When Worlds Collide? Spielberg was interested and then Sommers. There's some real potential there, especially in that scene near the end when mankind, who has been ignoring the warnings, wakes up and tries to take over the Space Ark.

comment #4

actionman says ...

Wells -- where's the Quantum thoughts?

Ebert have it **

2012 will be just like The Day After Tomorrow. Great looking and extremely stupid.

comment #5

Rich S. says ...

Ebert really bombed Quantum.

I have a theory as to why Jeffrey hasn't posted his Quantum review yet. Let's see if I'm right.

comment #6

JB Moore says ...

"Five Years After The Day After Tomorrow" would make a much better title.

comment #7

Sean says ...

I also like how they're selling the "conspiracy" of it -- having people google 2012, and finding that host of results, rather than just directing them to Sony's website.

comment #8

BurmaShave says ...

If you Google 2012 right now you get a lot of Palin I imagine. Terrifying indeed.

comment #9

p.Vice says ...

This movie looks like a metaphor for the next Republican presidential campaign.

comment #10

btwnproductions says ...

The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno are far better than Emmerich's movies, which are more on the level of The Swarm and When Time Ran Out. Outside of the sequence where the wave swamps Manhattan, Day is unwatchable.

comment #11

clancy says ...

Jason- Not to mention the same opening shot from "THe Shining" credit sequence.

comment #12

Edward Havens says ...

Roland Emmerich is just Uwe Boll with better financing.

comment #13

Chase Kahn says ...

Let's hope it's as good as 10,000 B.C.

comment #14

DeafBrownTrashPunk says ...

disaster movies are so boring and usually get dated quickly.

comment #15

Nick Rogers says ...

10,000 B.C. was just a disaster, not a disaster movie. Roland Emmerich's movies really suck only when they're not disaster movies.

comment #16

Krazy Eyes says ...

Maybe this is a stupid question but what sort of disaster would cause a tidal wave to sweep over the Himalayas? Cool looking money shot but it did make me scratch my head.

I know that 2012 is the end of the Mayan calendar but we're not talking about another meteor flick, are we?

comment #17

fattyhadaparty says ...

A slow, measured build, tantalizing copy, unsettling music and a series of iconic money shots; in short, a textbook example of a great teaser trailer.

Emmerich's always been an interesting case; a director who seems to possess the talent to make something more than disposable "event" pictures, but lacks the will to do so. My guess is that he has grown used to playing with a very large model train set (generally around $130 million) and lacks the resolve to walk away from all of that fanstastic catering.

"The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno are far better than Emmerich's movies, which are more on the level of The Swarm and When Time Ran Out. Outside of the sequence where the wave swamps Manhattan, Day is unwatchable. "

Couldn't disagree more. While both ADVENTURE & INFERNO have achieved iconic status, they date badly. Unlike Emmerich's movies, Allen's contain very few jawdropping moments. Most of his budgets seem to have been spent on the cast and production design, and the films themselves play like very expensive TV movies (INFERNO is lit like a sitcom). Aside from the capsizing sequence, the main attraction of POSEIDON, is the inverted sets.

DAY AFTER TOMORROW was one of Emmerich's better efforts. Once you accept the utter ridiculousness of the central premise (Remember that weekend when we had to outrun the next ice age in Manhattan?), it's quite entertaining. It had some amazing action sequences, incredible effects, credible acting and some appealing main characters. Then he had to follow it up with that piece of mastadon turd called 10,000 B.C.

Emmerich's a hack, but a hack of the highest order. Say what you will about his body of work, but he's one of the few directors out there who can deliver the goods promised in the trailers. He knows how to craft those "wow!" moments in an exciting and visually coherent way. Whether the films surrounding them have any lasting merit, well...

comment #18

lipranzer says ...

Emmerich delivers films with "tight scripts and reasonably professional performances?" How did you type that with a straight face?

comment #19

theultimatebiu says ...

Trying to figure out why the destruction is happening in a disaster movie always cuts the fun in half. The teaser is alright and I'll probably watch it whilst drunk or high and that's my two cents for the day.

comment #20

Mark says ...

i already question their research, as by 2012, the world will hold 7 billion people, not 6.

comment #21

Roman says ...

"Roland deserves credit, at the very least, for cranking out handsome, well-lit disaster films with tight scripts and reasonably professional performances, which is more than Allen ever managed. "

Wells, are you out of your tiny mind? Are you seriously parising this shitmaker for "tight scrpts" and performances? He makes nothing but psudo-scientific but really pathetically shallow shit for the lowest common denominator, that's unimaginatively, yes you read it right, directed and has cheesy looking effects? Jesus, Wells and you have issues with other, much better directors. Get a sandwich, dude. Go get a freakin' sandwhich.

comment #22

Mike says ...

Is there any actor less enthusiastic than John Cusack when appearing in a popcorn flick? Whenever he shows up for a money job he makes sure the audience knows how much he hates being in it. As cheesy as Con Air was, his performance was the worst thing about it.