comment #1

Rich S. says ...

Caught the viral campaign last night with the company advertising the lottery to get on the Ark. Pretty clever. Maybe this will ultimately end up being like the long-planned When Worlds Collide remake.

comment #2

Stringer Bell says ...

Emmerich's stuff is always a guilty pleasure, because the effects are pretty damn good.

Cusack's been taking paycheck jobs since Con Air. He used to be noble, but saw that it got him nowhere. Still wondering why he has so much more hair now than in 'Say Anything'. He probably went the McConaughey/Stiller route.

comment #3

Rich S. says ...

Here's the website for the viral campaign:

http://www.instituteforhumancontinuity.org/

comment #4

DeafBrownTrashPunk says ...

I looooooove John Cusack, but this movie isn't helping his career :-/

comment #5

GKLondon says ...

My wife loves this kind of stuff, so I always have an excuse to indulge my interest in wanton CG destruction. I mean, I have to watch this shit cause my wife likes it.

comment #6

BoshBarnetWonkyDonkey says ...

I looooooove John Cusack, but this movie isn't helping his career :-/

How is it not? He'll be paid handsomely and he'll be seen by a wide audience. He won't get a chance to particularly shine in it, but at least he's reminding people he still exists.

I love Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity, but I do think that Cusack is somewhat overrated by Gen X'ers. His good films to bad films ratio isn't all that great.

comment #7

allstar397 says ...

You can't go see this wells, you'll be thrown out of the cranky critics club!

comment #8

admiralmpj says ...

First Deep Impact, now this.

Isn't that Danny Glover playing the President?

How many more Black Presidents have to preside over the celluloid end of the world??

comment #9

SnarfTheFierce says ...

Cusack is in greater need of a hit--a real hit--than at any previous point in his career. In the past, he's been able to get through fallow times on his "one for me" indie credentials, but he hasn't managed even a critical success since High Fidelity.

comment #10

QualityGibberish says ...

You know, when the end finally does come, these guys are gonna find it underwhelming. Meh, kinda mezzo mezzo. Doesn't live up to the previews.

comment #11

p.Vice says ...

A friend of mine used to say that you know a man's a real man when he wants nothing more than to punch John Cusack in the mouth.

comment #12

Steven Kar says ...

GKLondon, Yeah right. You love watching this shit, and it's not because your wife drags you to it.

comment #13

Steven Kar says ...

I'm surprised this won't be shown in IMAX.

When the teaser played before Transformers 2, the audience approved, loudly.

I think this, CHRISTMAS CAROL, AVATAR, TWILIGHT 2, and maybe even SHERLOCK HOLMES are the only movies this fall/winter that have a good chance of reaching $200+ million at the domestic B.O.

comment #14

bildeaux says ...

Talk about a director doing the same thing over and over and over.

I wonder if the righties see that last shot as a subliminal "John McCain" taking down the "Obama White House."

b.

comment #15

markj says ...

Dean Semler was the DP ?! How the mighty have fallen...

comment #16

Mr. Buckles says ...

The ultimate natural disaster porn, niiiiiiiiice. This is Emmerich blowing the wad on the planet that he always wanted to.

Man, I can't wait for this to make it to dvd... i'm pouring a mean Maker's on the rocks and watching the Capitol take it up the dome and laugh my ass off - that damned dome had it coming.

comment #17

Terry McCarty says ...

SnarftheFierce wrote:
Cusack is in greater need of a hit--a real hit--than at any previous point in his career. In the past, he's been able to get through fallow times on his "one for me" indie credentials, but he hasn't managed even a critical success since High Fidelity.

I thought that WAR INC. had a number of decent-to-good moments and should be regarded as Cusack's ALPHAVILLE (transferring his GROSSE POINTE BLANK character into a fantasy-based-on-reality realm).

comment #18

Anonymous Bosch says ...

Saw the trailer. Big Fat Meh. George Pal's estate should sue. And I knew there would be some Lower B / Borderline C-Lister star doing it for the paycheck and hopefully to step a few rungs back up the bankable ladder.

The world is ending, so why exactly an I supposed to care if John Cusack, his cute-kid-who-speaks-like-a-scriptwriter, and his no-doubt estranged wife get on a spaceship?

I've seen enough of these things. I know exactly how it will play out. I cringe at how tedious the inevitable Mayan Mumbo Jumbo Exposition; Military War Room Arguements With Extras Trying To Look Busy Staring At Computer Monitors; 'We Must Save The President' Bullshit Drama; and Overplayed Swelling Strings Reconciling Family scenes will be to sit through, so I won't, especially since the trailer showed the money shots anyway.

Remember after 9/11 when Hollywood declared these kind of movies a thing of the past? I LOL'ed then.

comment #19

Terry McCarty says ...

Speaking of apocalyptic scripts, I remember reading long long ago in the AFI AMERICAN FILM magazine (an article about top unproduced scripts)that Anthony Burgess wrote an updated version of WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE called (if memory hasn't failed) PUMA.

comment #20

Mowkeka says ...

Just like eight years of Clinton, now that a Democrat is back in the White House, global warming is no longer a threat.

comment #21

DeeZee says ...

"I hate myself but I know I'll be seeing this"

At the "Boy and his Dog" screening, Ellison called Emmerich a "nazi" when he was trying to remember his name.

Kar: X-mas Carol's kinda iffy, and no one's sure if Twilight isn't played out by now.

comment #22

Mighty Kornholio says ...

First of all, global warming isn't a left/right issue. It's a rich elite con artist/the rest of us issue. IT'S A FUCKING LIE. Al Gore is a scumbag, lying douchebag. End of fucking story.

Second, the visual effects for this movie look very impressive. I'm sure the movie will be really dumb, but I'll have to check it out regardless.

comment #23

MovieBob says ...

Emmerich is about the best in the world at this stuff, and he almost-always does it without a lot of self-aware winky irony. This will be the best POSSIBLE version of this film that could be made, and the good actors on-hand will likely come out looking good.

There's nothing wrong with enjoying a "money shot" FX porn movie so long as it doesn't actively INSULT your intelligence. Emmerich's stuff, excepting the Godzilla remake, usually doesn't. There's a difference between "silly" and "dumb."

comment #24

DeeZee says ...

Kornholio: "It's a rich elite con artist/the rest of us issue. IT'S A FUCKING LIE."

Are those icebergs disappearing a lie, too? And considering the rich Republican elite con artists dumped us with a pointless war and trillions in bad loans, while letting New Orleans drown, I think I can trust Gore a bit more on the subject.

comment #25

Terry McCarty says ...

DeeZee wrote:
Kar: X-mas Carol's kinda iffy, and no one's sure if Twilight isn't played out by now.

NEW MOON will do at least as well as TWILIGHT; maybe better.

comment #26

mccool says ...

Not once does anyone say, "Jesus, you read about global warming and hear Republicans try to deny it's happening on the news shows but to see it live...wow."

Sounds like you find some sort of satisfaction in this. Some pleasure. Glaciers melting and tidal waves destroying cities .... SEE, YOU MORLOCKS, I TOLD YOU!! You'd rather see the earth destroyed and be proven right than have any meaningful or insightful discussion about it. You're just as dug-in and unreceptive as the deniers.

comment #27

DeeZee says ...

mcool: I think the problem is the deniers would rather have the earth destroyed by continuing to "discuss" the issue than act on it.

comment #28

Mighty Kornholio says ...

DeeZee

LOL you mean the pointless war and bank bail-outs that all the Democrats voted for too, and continue to vote for now? Right? Is that what you meant? Last time I checked Obama was increasing the war spending and 24 trillion has been promised to the banking industry. With his rubber stamp of approval. Pull your head out, both parties suck.

I'm not even gonna go into the global warming, oh my bad, "climate change" (it's been changed by the governments public relations people) Since you call me a "denier" (the mass media's talking point phrase, lumping me in with the holocaust deniers, I'm also with over 35,0000 scientists so it's a big boat buddy) it's obvious that you're too narrow minded and brainwashed to reach.

comment #29

Mighty Kornholio says ...

O.K. I just can't let that one slide. First of all it's a complicated issue and don't expect you people stuck in the left versus right false paradigm matrix to even have the ability to read this article and process the information. Lol. But here you go:

"Satellite data shows that concerns over the levels of sea ice may have been premature."
http://tinyurl.com/ytzg4n

BESIDES the fact that much of the ice came back this year (GASP YOU MEAN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA DIDN'T INFORM YOU? NO WAI) there's also a serious debate over what exactly is causing the alleged "warming" in the first place. Could it be the sun? No fucking way, the sun can melt ice? Are you telling me that the heat from the sun fluctuates over time?? And the carbon dioxide ice caps on Mars was also melting? How the fuck did my Landcruiser melt the "ice" on Mars?

comment #30

Mighty Kornholio says ...

"I think the problem is the deniers would rather have the earth destroyed by continuing to "discuss" the issue than act on it."

Lol. You know, you'd think humans would learn. There's an old phrase in Texas, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, won't get fooled again!

This global warming hysteria/propaganda IS NO DIFFERENT than the Iraq had weapons of mass destruction bullshit you morons ate up willingly. Now you're ready for seconds, eh? You want to pay higher energy bills and carbon taxes to the rich elite so they can save the polar bears eh? Well ain't that noble. I'm sure Al Gore will donate a few dollars to a polar bear shelter after the carbon trading company he's invested in starts raking in billions of dollars. I know you sure as hell won't be able to afford after paying $300 to fill your gas tank. Sucker.

comment #31

DeeZee says ...

Kornholio: "LOL you mean the pointless war and bank bail-outs that all the Democrats voted for too, and continue to vote for now?"

They voted for that shit, because they're stuck with Bush's mess. And most of them voted for the war the first time, because they were lied to by Bush.

"I'm also with over 35,0000 scientists so it's a big boat buddy"

Scientists with no actual credentials, other than being part of the coal and oil lobbies.

As for your link, it needs to be updated. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iwkYPqq0HlSqAe1ebSMegc4ZfTWQD99VINI00

"There's an old phrase in Texas, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, won't get fooled again! "

I love that you're using the phrase without irony, just like Dumbaya.

"This global warming hysteria/propaganda IS NO DIFFERENT than the Iraq had weapons of mass destruction bullshit you morons ate up willingly."

I didn't know taxing the rich is the equivalent of bombing civilians.

"You want to pay higher energy bills and carbon taxes to the rich elite so they can save the polar bears eh? Well ain't that noble."

Um, we're already paying higher energy bills, so they might as well go to energy-efficiency.

"I'm sure Al Gore will donate a few dollars to a polar bear shelter after the carbon trading company he's invested in starts raking in billions of dollars."

Last time I checked, he invested in an energy-efficient house.

"I know you sure as hell won't be able to afford after paying $300 to fill your gas tank."

Newsflash. That's what many working-class people had been paying each month last year, just because of those gas-guzzling SUVs.

comment #32

Mighty Kornholio says ...

*yawn*

This is why I wanted to just ignore you to begin with. I don't have time to read your childish, moronic, lazy, and pathetic excuse for an argument or rebuttal. Instead of researching for yourself Al Gore's investment in carbon credit trading companies you wrote some innane bullshit about solar panels on his roof. Lmao. Jesus fucking christ. Just sit down and shut the fuck up and do your homework or you're getting detention kid.

1919-1932 warming trend 33% greater than current trend
http://tinyurl.com/ljdlk7

Oh I get it that journal was funded by big oil. What a lazy, and hollow argument. I should have expected such a response from the likes of you. Sad.

comment #33

Mr. Buckles says ...

Kornholio and DeeZee... you're boring the piss out of me.

Believe it or not, I don't come here to be illuminated on issues scientific or political by your rambling posts as tempting as they are.

I mean both are your opinions, how could they be wrong?