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Escaping The Los Vegas Apocalypse | 2012 | Now Scaring
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A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind.
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You know its a fiction movie when US President stayed behind
And By choice 🫡, Mostly If Not all always run
Wait, hold on what’s happening in this movie?
People need leaders no point if they all die
@Ripvanwinckle-41Basically (and wrongly) the world decided to shift its magnetic poles (north becomes south and south becomes north) when that happens volcanos erupts and earthwakes begin and a huge flood is coming to nepal and USA Basically the movie premise is: what would have happened if the great flood from the bible happened in real life. So this family tries to escape, in any way possible. Think of It as how marvel mix something serious with humour. If you wanna see a good disaster movie watch Greenland
@Ripvanwinckle-41 it’s called 2012. Multiple 9 magnitude earthquakes erupt worldwide and cause tremendous destruction, before the tsunamis flood most of the Earth. You can search it up
RIP to the tower operator. He stayed to the last moment to enforce rules on a plane that was fleeing the literal apocalypse
Probably didn't let them take off because it was unsafe to do so with the ash cloud. Other than that, I don't have a reason as to why he didn't want them to take off.
Coded NPC?
He was probably hanging onto whatever normality was left in that little concrete tower
@craboverlord478 Probably the only one left in the tower.
@craboverlord478 Sounds fair
"Tower to Antov, what are you doing? Power down immediately!"
"Bro, why are you still working??"
Employee benefits man, my dental check-up is in a month!
When ur in a literal apocalypse but ur boss won't let you leave until 5pm
A real person did this in real life by the way. I forgot what country but an earthquake suddenly struck, the ATC quickly gave final clearance for the last plane to take off before eventually dying. Quite the opposite of what happened here
@adambrande That's much more realistic. It's all you can do in that position.
"You don't have clearance, but don't let that stop you. We're all screwed, so nobody is going to stop you. Good luck out there."
@adambrandeif I remember it's Indonesia, I just forget what airport is it
One of my biggest gripes with this movie was the guy who plays the step-dad. Seems like a great guy. Good husband and father, and he basically dies in one of the most gruesome ways imaginable. (Literally grinded through gears). The wife acts sad for a minute, but then gets back with Cusack. Her and the kids act like nothing happened a little while later lol
R.I.P 2012 Step-Dad. You were too good for that family 😢
Yeah, it was the one time where the cliche step dad was actually good to the kids and wasn't some comical loser villain, but a competent, caring stepdad who wasn't a schmuck and didn't treat the bio-dad with contempt
@AndoCommando1000 if it wasnt for him theyd be all DEAD
Worst part is Cusack literally could have saved him but he put like 25% effort
Men are expendable.
@jackashmorelmfao how??? Is he elastic man who can stretch his arms to reach for him? You can clearly see in the scene where he holding on to the rope to not lose his footing. He extends all the way to reach for Gordon but he’s just too far. The Chinese laborer was saved because not only was he closer to Jackson, he was also holding on to the same rope. If Jackson were to let go of the rope, he would slip and fall into the gears, possible even pushing them two in the processs
But yeah it’s bullshit how quick they get over Gordon’s death
3:06 I love how everyone is either bashing or liking the person in the tower still doing his job till the bitter end
Great job buddy, hope it was worth it
Lmao what else was he gonna do? Might as well get lost in your job 😂
"It's Russian, huh?"
"Lift your big ass for Sasha"
Man that cracks me up. I like how strong the Slavic characters' accents are in this movie
Even tho as an actors they are Slavic but not Russians which is the difference 😂
Where was the PULL UP, pull up Warning in the cockpit?
LIFT YO BIG AZZ FOR SASHA is no worse than the second funniest line in the whole movie 😂😂
Funniest thing is that the plane isn’t even Russian, but Ukrainian. Antonov is a Ukrainian company. Though back then, a lot of people couldn’t tell the difference out of ignorance.
@Pilotmario
100%.
ATC: "You do not have clearance, you must abort! I repeat, you must abort!"
Ash cloud: "Employee of the month, ladies and gentlemen."
Ash Cloud wouldn't have caused the control tower to instantly combust. Probably an extended pyroclastic flow from Yellowstone Super Volcano.
@CFRF13 Which is what happened
Who’s going to stop to stop them? The Air Force?
Not to mention the fact that who in their right mind would be landing in a place that's about to get obliterated, but why exactly don't they have clearance? Just because they said so? Employee of the month, and also Jerk of the Year for trying to take as many people down with him as possible during the apocalypse.
Gotta watch out for those lawsuits if someone crashes a plane on takeoff…..
Rest in Peace Antonov An-225 Mriya, you'll always be remembered.
Yuri's country did that
She was a good ship. Too bad her resting place will never be found
man i just wanted to watch a movie
@rip_easterscribble cant even get away from reality anymore.
@theotherdave8013 ye dud
This scene would be better if the ATC tried to guide the plane to the runway then wished them luck and godspeed seconds before the ash cloud hit them
If the ATC helped the Antonov, then he would've allowed the people before Gordon and Sasha to take off, meaning they would have no plane to escape and they'd die :(
@K-BallMapthe writers could have adapted that part and that the rich mobster owned a plane locked at a hangar. It would have painted a clear message of human selflessness where a single member of our species is capable of executing the task until the final breath.
@tsrmmercy836 Depending on the size of the plane, Sasha would not need a co-pilot, meaning the Curtis family and Gordon Silberman would be left behind.
Assuming their plane was a big one, and Sasha needed a co-pilot, bringing the Curtis family and Gordon onto the plane then yes, it might have worked.
But it wouldn't be guaranteed.
What if their plane was slower than the Antonov-500? The only reason the Curtis family got onto the Arks was because they teamed up with the Buddhist monks and their grandparents, which were going by car, and nearly left the Curtis family behind.
What if there was less fuel on the plane than on the Antonov? Despite how quick the landmasses of the Earth were moving, it still wouldn't be enough to catch the falling plane, and it might've landed in the South China Sea.
What if the plane had too much fuel? The only reason the Antonov landed right next to the Arks was because the Earth's landmasses had moved, and by a lot. If the plane Yuri had in Vegas had more fuel, then they would've overshot their target, landing somewhere outside of China.
@K-BallMap Or they followed protocol till the end then regrets their decision upon seeing the ash cloud and knowing there is no hope in staying the first place so they just make one last ditch effort to let the Antonov go for the 2nd time.
2:26 CJ: Nice Car, Smoke?
What he’s basically saying 3:10 is stop you have to stay here and die.
wrong abort kinda means cancel so he is telling them to cancel the takeoff
@rip_easterscribble Which in this situation would result them in dying from the giant black pyroclastic clouds of death
@SamForShortVT or for short giant deadly ash cloud
@rip_easterscribble
You’re annoying
They didnt know they would die
Damn, can’t believe I survived this
Me too
wdym
@realcombasic dang it must have been traumatic for you to make you forget 😂
Will tell my kids this happened in 2012
Same ngl
"we lost all the landing gear in Vegas" 😂
It stays in Vegas, as it should
@leetraviusmckay314 that’s Vegas baby
"Great. At least we're not gonna be needing the landing gear."
"What about it?"
"Oh, we lost it all in Vegas."
@rip_easterscribble I guess it's true what they say, you can bet anything in Vegas on a gamble
But how are they going to land and refuel and refuel in Hawaii if they lost their landing gear
Las Vegas is roughly 740 miles away from Yellowstone. The fact that the pyroclastic flow from the initial eruption is STILL pushing that far at max speed just shows how scary a hypothetical eruption of a super volcano can be.
Is that what that was? I wondered what was going on. I thought it was just basic earthquakes, the ground opening up, that kind of movie destruction. Yes, a super-volcano is scary.
It's like what Charlie the news reporter or something, he says that the ash clouds ends far away to Washington DC and that is where the ash clouds ends but at the east side of US 🇺🇸 survives Ash clouds but didn't survived earthquake and tsunami and that is what happened to the American president.
Far scarier if you consider the original explosion was severely downgraded. If Yellowstone really went boom it would be instantaneous.
I concur
Or it's completely bunk and the movie is extremely over exaggerating it lol. The flow wouldn't go that far, but the localized ash clouds and debris would
People complained about it being unrealistic, but I think that government employees rigorously enforcing regulations despite the impending end of the world is one of the most realistic things in this movie.
Maybe, but they would probably do it remotely now.
Ah yes, the city of Los Vegas and Las Angeles
Hollywood is really good at fearmongering. People who were born before 2012 knew this feeling.
Before the movie people were already scared dawg
Oh, you know, only causing over 10.000 people to commit suicide because they believed this was gonna happen....
Yeah They just Popularized Some Mayan prophecy about Moon cycle
Dude, I was born when Eisenhower was president. You kids don't know a thing about fear.
People legitimately offed themselves because of the whole scare and hysteria about the whole 2012 Mayan calendar apocalypse thing.
The fact that air traffic control wouldn't let people take off is baffling.
2012: Las Vegas
2025: Los Angeles 🔥😭
"Los Vegas" 🤣
Gordon saying "We lost it all in Vegas" in regards to what happened with the landing gears. Classic😅
For some reason the first time I saw this movie I somehow didn’t connect the dots that this was supposed to be the same pyroclastic flow from the earlier Yellowstone super volcano eruption scene. I just thought it was a random ash cloud for no reason to create suspense, because Hollywood.
It wasn’t until a second viewing where I realised, for once Hollywood didn’t consider that just because the main characters escaped from the Yellowstone eruption meant the volcanic danger was over.
They actually followed through with the fact the danger from the Yellowstone eruption didn’t magically end just because the scene ended. It kept covering more and more of the country despite the fact they had escaped it once already in a smaller plane. It was still a looming threat that followed them to a new geographic location and caught up to them at a later part of the film.
"Giant ash cloud created by the super volcano will first envelope 👉Vegas, and the St.Louis, and then Chicago, and then at loong last... Washington DC will have its light go out!"
This gives not only a preview of the major locations hit by the cloud in order of distance, but it's also a foreshadow about Vegas and, most important, DC before it gets shifted next to the new South Pole(Wisconsin). I'm still not sure if what's falling in DC during the President's final moments is snow(because of the nearby South Pole) or ash, but ash falls like that only if there's an active fire nearby, while the ash cloud was just self-moving instant death.
Apparently the Yellowstone hot spot has shifted under the continental divide so if it does erupt, it might blow up a hill or two but nothing more, I heard that from a Yellowstone park geologist guide person
@randominternet8198 they're saying that to keep you calm while they complete their magma transfer devices to remove the impending explosion
yeah, except a pyroclastic flow, esp that big, would be traveling probably the speed of sound. They'd have never escaped the first one lol.
Pyroclastic flows cant go that far though
Rest in peace Gordan, he was a great father, very supportive and an amzing pilot. He lilteralry helped flew a huge ass plane. He never deserved the guresome death he got. What a great man. Plus props for the actor too.
yep RIP Gordon man really liked his character
Man, Hawaii would suck here. I mean LA and Vegas was bad, but lava makes everything so much worse
I mean, Vegas is literally engulfed in a pyroclastic cloud from Yellowstone, which is typically between 200-700° C, so that’s not much better
At least in Hawaii, you had the chance of getting on a ship and getting away from the lava.
@robertcooper6853youll be engulf by huge waves and rouge waves, and tsunami.
@paogene1288Hawaii’s lava and volcano isn’t erupted one
@paogene1288the mega tsunamis from the continents shifting was not enough to kill the cruise ship. So I don’t see who small boats wouldn’t have survived somewhat
No wonder they were running out of fuel. The direct route from Vegas to the Himalayan mountains is up past Alaska. They were definitely taking the scenic route.
That might be in the way of the pyroclastic flow.
They went around the ash cloud flying away from California to Hawaii and then to China
They went straight to Yellowstone if they take direct route to china lmao
@drmaulana2600 Not quite - they would end up going up to Alaska then Siberia. They might have to veer west to avoid the blast of Yellowstone by flying over the North Pacific but Hawaii is WAY out of their way.
@richardthomas5362 But as they said in the video/movie they had to get more fuel on Hawaii, so thats why.
There goes Hawai, there goes hawai
there goes Hawai - the island is gone.
"Antonov, get back here and die with us, don't you dare try to survive!"
😂😂😂
Never understood that part.
"I had VIP tickets!"
_My brother in Christ, you brought half of the show aboard your own plane._
Honestly when I was still a kid the step dad annoy the shit out of me. Now I grew up and finish my pilot course I realised the dude truly being challenge by being forced to take the fastest pilot course ever and the entire family that prefer the main character doesn't help his sanity either. I can imagine how he feel to be the outsider and the ending honestly didn't do him justice. RIP for this legend, finishing MER and flying commercial jet in two days
He's unsung hero
People before 2012 will watch this movie and say "Yo remember when we actually thought this was gonna happen at the end of 2012?""
I remember a coworker saying he was gonna check and see if anyone was throwing any end of the world parties around that time.
3:08 Man, that guy was dedicated to his job, hope it was worth it.
7:39: Hawaii: best for place for summer!
Aslo hawaii: *filling with lava and volcanoes*
I know is a hell of a place to hangout
7:11 “Uh oh.”
President be like: Im getting too old for this s***...
That tower operator sure loves his job
02:15 A titanic cloud of debris is coming their way and they have time to admire the plane? They got a lot of nerve😅
Hilarious how the tower even gave a shit about them taking the plane as they see their death incoming lol
They were really lucky. The plastic surgeon knew the trophy wife, the driver knew the billionaire... Then they said Gordon was a good enough copilot.
2:03. My favourite bit of the whole movie
😂😂
"Come on baby, lift your big ass for Sasha!"😂😂😂
I love it when movie characters are quite literally 1 inch away from death and start laughing hysterically like they weren't about to die. it makes me ease up a little bit to how sad the scenes can be
Quite impressed with the plane's ability to fly through all that ash and debris and not suffer any engine failures.
It's russian eh?
Big Planes are built tough. The Antonov, one of the biggest piece of art there is, Has one of the most sturdiest engines there is. Next to Airforce 1 and the AC-130s
@tiveqcriarcontanova *Ukrainian
Ah yes I can still remember how the world ended back in 2012.
One of the biggest mass hysterias in human history and all that because of a calendar running out. 😂
A fun story to tell to your child and grandchild nontheless
thankfully they don't lose their head every New Years Eve when our Calendars run out...
Y2K said hold my beer
I turned 30 that day. I absolutely tied the end of the world into my party
"Oh my god! The Mayans ran out of rock!"
7:52 a world made into Volcanoes
"not good, dat is not good" the Russian said calmly.
Karpov cracks me up. 💀
"Hmmm... The world is being destroyed by intense geological disasters. Where's the safest place? Oh yeah! The very stable region of Hawaii"
It's about as stable as Iceland or Japan , both of which is he as far away as possible of in this scenario ,
Africa was quite stable, most of the continent doesn't suffered earthquakes or inundations, even the mount Kilimanjaro became the tallest mountain of the world.
They passed irrelevant but safe, like they did in COVID -19 pandemic.
They didn’t realize the why and thought that even far away landmasses were safe
It's been almost 3 years since An-225 left this world but it's legacy will live on
RIP
Покойся с миром "Мрия"
Man. Even in a movie, seeing my home city go down hurts lmao
2:48 the fact that he has an icon near controls :D such a Russian thing to have it in a vehicle
7:41 DAMM IT MAOI!!!!!!! Didn’t you learn from last time, DON’T TAKE THE HEART! Now Te Ka has gone and escaped again 🤦🏻
Hell has no fury like Te Ka’s scorn
@brave_jedi9437 does this movie look like Moana i think you're psycho
@Sahilprakash1999 LOL. That was a joke.
@brave_jedi9437 do i look like I'm laughing
@brave_jedi9437 😡
2:02 RIP mriya 😢
I feel like the speech cutting out was supposed to be spooky and ominous but ended up being unintentionally really funny.
4:10 the best line, i quote this constantly haha
Those poor people in the terminal.
Yes, no chance of survival!
Only people on this plane survive!
I love how they fly between the crumbling Wynn and Encore
the firefighter kills me everytime 💀 bro thinks hes him
This is like when you are trying to escape with an airliner in GTAV.
I thought the thumbnail of Los Angeles burning was a news clip lmao we're so cooked
Ngl this movie was ahead of its time
>Movie takes place in a grand-scale catastrophic event
>People think the Hawaii islands, i.e one of the most unstable part of the world (tectonic wise) are gonna be fine
Yes.
3:07 YOU DO NOT HAVE CLEARANCE YOU MUST AFFORD UGHAAHHH
As a Las Vegas resident, I couldn't help but notice the plane took off from the airport and was going the wrong way down the strip
surely because they were running away from something right? mhh
@Umochi6934 No. They took off and were headed towards the airport, not away
0:18 bros speaking like Yoda
Zlatko Buric in real life sounds like a mafia boss 😂😂😂
"jackson, stop saying I'm a pilot." "okay so stay here and die!" *runs away*
Hawaii looks looks like Mustafar from Star Wars.
It just came to me. If they dumped the cars they would have enough fuel to land lol
The Tower: "Stay on the ground and die with the rest of us!" 😂
Yes, those people in the airport are not survive! Only people on this plane survive!
“In Mother Russia, Botox injects you,”. 😂 seriously, dudes face was about to fall off
"Los Vegas" 😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣
That firefighter knew everyone was gonna die I know it’s just a movie but man could you imagine leaving everyone behind to burn alive in a ash cloud
I live while they die? Yeah, I can imagine that.
Gonna tell my kids this really was 2012
yeah no way i get this in my feed during the LA fires
The landing gear went on a trip in Vegas.
They need to rerelease this in 4DX, would watch that in a heartbeat!!!
Diamond head is dormant, does not mean cannot erupt again 😂😂😂
i can only guess as to why this appeared in my feed
The tower operator was like "HALT YOU ARE VIOLATION MULTIPLE FEDERAL AVIATION LAWS!"
I'm gonna show this to my kids and tell'em that's how I had to go to school when I was younger.
😂😂😂😂
lol dude asking for clearance when death is rushing to him lol
After all our concerns, everyone suddenly forgot about the polar bears and pandas
😂😂😂😂
I think all goverment of the world already rescue most of the animals and transport to ships with chopper.
@ZhaoYang221 probably did it like how Noah’s ark was
This guy survived the end of times yellowstone erupting and this wow
Jackson asked Sasha if he had a plane to escape from Las Vegas and Lily blurted out that Gordon was a pilot and Gordon and Sasha managed to fly because they wanted to fly out of Las Vegas with the survivors and the control tower was crushed by the volcanic ash.
They went via the state of Hawaii apocalypse
"Sure Boss, but I need co-pilot."
The plane was meant to carry a tank or two. Even loaded with cars, that’s nothing, meaning it should be able take off quickly and climb steeply
that plan would 100% stall right? lol
Oh wait, I know..right next to Las Angeles
The end of the world would like this 😂
"Today none of us are strangers; today we are one family stepping into the darkness together."
That quote gets me every time. 😢
Way too serious for such a goofy movie. The premise behind 2012 is so outrageously dumb, that it should make no effort to take itself seriously. When the little girl starts crying as she watches people die below her...just insulting. Either make the premise remotely plausible, or add supernatural elements, like angry gods or something, or ramp up the camp. You can't have it both ways. Which is why this CGI monstrosity bombed at the box office.
Imagine that scene happening and Trump is president. No elegant words forthcoming, and you know he wouldn't have going down with the ship.
@nancybarnes7109 You don't support Trump?
@brianbenfield3270 lol regardless he literally would be on that ship first
@TheAngryAstronautshush up
his "Goooodd.. that is Goooood" always had me 😅🤣
Was sort of his catchphrase in the movie.
A girl in my school genuinely believed the world was gonna end in 2012 on that day and leading up to it she just became suuuuuper rude and had no filter and would disrespect everyone and teachers even her twin sister then after it everyone just hated her but she became popular again later just from being pretty and being a cheerleader a few years later
So basically she became a bitch because she was under the influence of this movie. Bro, when I first saw this movie, I also believed the world was ending in 2012, but I just panicked internally during my exams. That's it. What the girl you're talking about did is just pure idiocy. She did that to herself...
That was incredibly fucking hilarious 😂
There is no justice.
I don't have 2012 stories like that, but I was friends with a guy when the Y2K panic hit, whose parents believed in that stuff and took him and the family to a lodge in the mountains that didn't have mainline electricity supplied to it. Only a small spare generator and everything else was old fashioned and electricity free. They stayed there for 3 weeks around new years 2000 and eventually just went back home when they realized it was a big fat pile of nothing and the world just continued on as it always had.
The whole class trying to survive from the black smoke was in the gym room
Who’s here in 2025?
7:57
It’s over Anakin! I have the highest ground!
Every person you pass by in a car, on a train, has a family, a whole different life to you, job, clothing, food preferences all so different and most of us will pass hundreds of them every day.
To know if something like this happened every single one of those people and their families wouid die is sobering.
It’ll be hilarious to see Anakin and Obi Wan duel on Hawaii here.
0:13. References to Independence Day, Godzilla 1998, The Day After Tomorrow, 10,000 B.C., possibly The Patriot.
Holy shit I had never caught that, good eye
How?
@charlespuruncajas9663 zoom in lower left, upper left, upper right.
Wow
@theonebman7581 just have to look for the Easter Eggs in scenes if there are any to be found.
I wonder how much further they could have flown had they jettisoned the cars...
7:40 that's the hell
Thats the state of hawavii…..
@Centlover1 that doesn’t sound right😳
"Los Vegas" 😭😭😭😭😭💀💀💀💀
This was all a dream in Gordon’s mind. He woke up, realizing they were waiting for him on set to direct Spotlight.