There's a difference between wetting the bed and not being toilet trained. Kids can be toilet trained, but when they go to sleep they lose control of their bladder.
Fucking really. I mean out of all the subplots to include in a disaster movie no matter how exploitative of a phenomena including a plot point of 'pissing in the bed' is fucking ridiculous. Because that's exactly what audiences pay for when they want to see a disaster movie.
Well, this movie is now good enough for making fun of because it implanted the thought that the world would end on the 21st of December 2012 into people's minds and now that nothing of the sort has happened. Which was exactly what I did after I rented this movie from my local video store (a few years before video stores were replaced by rental kiosks).
Reminds me of what I consider the one line in The Condemned (Another film covered on Bad Movie Beatdown) I agree with being when the main villain in an interview said "It's the parents responsibility to monitor what their kids watch"
Or in John Q, when gladhanding police chief Ray Liotta rightfully points out to Robert Duvall that giving in to Denzel's demands sets a super dangerous precedent and douchebag surgeon James Woods points out to the other hostages they can label him the bad guy all they want but Denzel is still the one holding them at gunpoint.
Something tells me we may have found our motivator for why so many giant, reactionary douchebags online, thought that they're in the right mind to do anything socio-political on RUclips. You know. Besides obviously having little regard to the intelligence of average viewers.
Originally posted in May 2011, this was originally a two-part episode, and this re-edited version puts them both together for the first time. This removes 3m 36s in total, and a big chunk of this is the "coming up" section at the end of the first part, and the "welcome back" intro that proceeds the second, although as per usual, edits have been made to trim down both film clips and speed up the pacing. This version also restores some footage: earlier versions of the review removed a short sequence where a disaster hits Japan, which had just occurred in real life at the time was originally posted, and had delayed it's release; those missing lines are back here. This has been re-posted due to the release of Geostorm, which isn't a Roland Emmerich film, but certainly close enough. Hope you enjoy!
I thought this was a very good review but the way you mnockingly said little bedwetter was uncalled for. In fact that whole criticism of the film was. Many children deal with this stuff and I wouldn`t know why a film can`t depict that when you can depict Lesbianism, homosexuality and so on.
Dennis Fluttershy That doesn't really matter. We will all be dead by March 26, 2407. Plus, some of humanity will have lived on Mars for centuries by then. Humans on Earth would be fucked if the world ended but not humanity as a whole.
After they let all those thousands of extra people onto the ships, I always like to imagine a sequel where everyone slowly starves to death on the ships.
In the planned sequel 2013 there was going to be a major plot development where the ship's crew turn into degenerate cannibals eating each other and violating all who stand in their way, locked beneath the ship's lower decks as Jackson Curtis organizes a hierarchy system to keep himself and the other former officials in a position of power proving that ultimately humanity has learned nothing of its folly except for the fact that the little girl no longer pisses the bed at night.
Man, the 2012 panic. I remember walking in the supermarket a few days later, I saw on a journal that a mother poisoned her three kids because she didnt want the "end of the world" to take them or something. It made me honestly hate the huge buzz around all this. Many people were afraid that day and did stupid stuff... it really went out of proportion.
Actually at the end when she said “no more pull-ups” she meant that she was literally out of pull ups because they had used them to soak up all the water that had gotten on the ship. She still wets the bed to this day.
I agree! Theses peoples were not jerks and didn't deserved to die especially Gordon! If he didn't fly the plane in London, Jackson and his family would be dead! This guy was really kind, i'm sad he's gone 😥
Just for the record, the Mayans did not had to predict their own demise... because they are still around. There are Mayans living to this date in Mexico and Guatemala.
Poshboy, these people speak mayan, some of them still follow the Maya religion and self-identify as Mayan. Pict is a dead language and no remain of their religion is left. Hollywood said that the Mayan people disappeared and somehow everyone just believes it. Must be weird if you are Mayan. Here some information that you can find interesting: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_peoples en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_religion en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_languages
I always find it hilarious how in these idiotic catastrophe movies it is like Mother Earth herself is the main villain and is deiliberately chasing the main cast around with earthquakes and floods and volcanoes. Y'know, that would make for a better movie, having Earth herself be trying to kill just ONE guy. :)
With a simple rewrite you could turn it into an over the top Matrix Dragon Ball Z influenced action movie where John Cusack could play his fanfiction tier character who goes SUPER SAIYEN in a battle against Mother Earth in an awesome kung fu battle which honestly would've been a much better film than Roland's exploitation of conspiracy theory bullshit.
I know this sounds very cheesy and sentimental but why didn't Gordon and Tamara live so they could end up together by the end? Think about it, they could have bonded over being dumped/cast aside by their significant others, they could have survived to the end and revealed to be in a relationship at the film's conclusion. Again, it stinks of sentimentality but it might have been better than the fates both of them actually got.
Theres an alternate ending where the jazz musician survives the capsizing of the ocean liner, which came to rest on some random island. The movie ends with the three arks going to the island to rescue the survivors. Many people preferred that ending, and I have to say that so do I!
This is what Hollywood fails to get. In disaster movies, bigger isn't necessarily better. Take movies like Towering Inferno (a high rise building), Airport (an airplane), or even Earthquake (a city and the surrounding area). In those films stories of small scale heroism (or cowardice) work because the scale calls for that sort of thing. When dealing with extinction level events, the rules HAVE to change. The rebooted Battlestar Galactica did an episode on abortion when humanity's population had decreased to the point where it may or may not be viable. The President, a woman who's supported choice before the attack, chose to outlaw it in the fleet because survival was more important. It's the difference between a general planning an executing a massive battle plan and a sergeant leading a platoon. One doesn't have the luxury of worrying about the guy with the girl back home.
The only real point Adrian has in this movie is how spacious the rooms are. Like he said you could probably fit 10 times more on the ship if you made the rooms small. That at least would show you are trying to save as many as possible while still knowing you can't save everyone.
@@PalithaH still wouldn't be enough water to reach anywhere near the top of the Himalayas. And if enough water to do so magically appeared there'd have to be so much water vapor in the atmosphere you'd drown above water
@@nicholashurst780 Sorry, but you're wrong. Why people keep missing the obvious, I will never understand. Everyone seems to think that the water has to come from the air so we would all drown. That's not even close to true. There's equal to, if not more, water under the Earth's surface than there is above it. Even just taking the water in aquifers and things like that within a mile of the surface has enough to cover all of the continents. It's been found that there's even more water 600 miles below the surface. Possibly enough to equal all of the water in the oceans today. So if you have an equal amount of water that's on the surface now flowing up from underground, you'd cover all of the land masses. Therefor, the water didn't just "magically appear", it's been there all along but it's just hidden until the earth opens up and out it flows.
This feels to me like the film is mainly about the disaster, with the characters just added to fill the story with some drama. I had a similar feeling about "Day after Tomorrow". "Independence Day" has much better characters and unlike here they don't seem to be inserted just to fill the space between the disastrous events with something - they actually take real part in the plot.
DGM actually day after tomorrow is pretty believable since non of the parts of the earth in the tropicals were effected but that also begs the question why people went to Mexico and not Puerto Rico which is owned by America and is in the tropics
Dad bought a pirated DVD of "2012" when I was a kid and played the movie in front of us. I kept walking in and out of the living room. I got bored. I wonder how I'd feel about the movie if I saw it now.
No way those Arks were built in under 2 years. No way governments made the decision to build them in under 2 years, no way were they commissioned, designed and built in 2 years, in secret and the chosen ones already picked. And that is just the beginning of a list of things wrong with this.
Also, from what I can tell, they sold spots to aristocrats in this film. First, there's no way they could do that in secrecy, second, what would world governments do with the money after the apocalypse when all financial systems are gone, and third, current plans for apocalyptic events involve only saving the most essential people (scientists, military, top politicians, etc.) to give humanity the best chance at recovering and many aristocrats are only rich because they inherited their money and not for any natural talent or intellect.
@@taylorfrench6722 Of course they could, they can manipulate every big company, censor everything needed and kill everyone who knows. These are the most powerful states on the world combined, they will be able to do that. And back then, the Internet wasn't used as much. And they could manipulate TV. And they needed that money to build the ships in the first place, like, cmon didn't you already knew that? And what you said was exactly what they did, just saving rich people to finance it all and because they are influential too.
I think this might be my favourite Bad Movie Beatdown episode. And man was this movie not any more deserving of its beatdown than this. While 2012 might not have been the Apocalypse watching this movie certainly made it feel like an apocalypse.
@@royalcass Even if they were Transformers in this movie, i doubt they could saved people from Volcanoes and Tsunamis X) Sure thye might saved a few but will probably sacrifice themselves. Even with thoses robots, it won't make the movie better!
@@ladypool1404 That makes me want to see someone make an alternate retelling of Transformers G1 where the Ark reactivates after a disaster that SEEMINGLY wipes out all of humanity (Emphasis on seemingly for some sort of mystery)
I have a confession to make: I had seen this film in cinema, I was 16 yrs old and saw it with my 57-yr-old COPD'd father. Me and my Pops did enjoy it at the time, but now I feel stupid for it. As someone who goes to the movies to spend time with his father, does that make me a horrible person with bad taste?
If you had a good time with your dad, I can't take that away from you. My opinions are my own, you're welcome to enjoy the films I review, it's all in good fun.
You can like whatever you want. I like this movie a lot just because of the disaster scenes. I agree with the critics about the plot, butI still watch it from time to time. I don't give a fliying f about the story. Just gimme the explosions 😂Same goes for armageddon and the day after tomorrow.
I really like in such movies that everyone is dead, science and the las of physics just flop over and somehow, the entire world is actively trying to kill the protagonists. It is like if in a WW2 movie, Johnny McHandsome would be going from Paris to Stalingrad, fighting both the Wehrmacht and the Red Army, survive the Blitz and walk from Africa to Indochina, without an issue, and would still find time to shoot Hitler and leave just in time to fly the bombers that drop the A-bombs. Both of them.
Another point against Roland Emmerich. The owners of Godzilla were so not amused by his take on the giant lizard. They put their own take on it (Simply called Zilla) in Godzilla Final Wars.
They were actually going to make a television series continuation out of this movie called '2013'. I think this one movie was enough, they didn't have to dilute their stupidity into TV. Thank God the movie didn't make enough money for that to happen.
Little Loud Well The Movie made a decent amount of money Because of a amazing advertising campaign. Just think they couldnt care about making a tv sequel.
To be fair, the movie had a budget of 200 million and it while it was more successful internationally, it only made 166 million domestically so I guess that’s the only reason the tv spin off didn’t get made?
@@royblekman8186 "Amazing" isn't the word I'd use, considering it involved portraying the arks as a real program and playing on people's real-life unfounded apocalypse fears, and suicide hotlines were experiencing record numbers of calls from teenagers and young adults who were contemplating ending their lives because they didn't want to die horribly when they're inevitably left behind, all so Roland Emmerich could get more people to see his latest borderline propaganda pseudoscience misery porn.
Had to look at a google map to see the distance between LA and Yellow Stone. It’s 1,007.0 miles away, a 14.6 hour drive and a 328 hour walk. So you were right about “How did he hear the radio station from Yellow Stone in LA?”... I have no idea how that’s possible without listening to a satellite radio station. Maybe that’s what he had lol Keep rocking and thanks for the laughs!
This movie came out when I was about 9, so I have some nostalgia for it, that and the fact that my brother burned it on 2 CD's, not a DVD, 2 CD's, because it doesn't fit on 1 Aah, those were the days
13:26- They should've made Gordon a commercial airline pilot instead of a surgeon, that way it would be more believable for him to be able to fly all these planes.
Kate’s reconciliation with Jackson would also make a bit more sense. Gordon would have to frequently be absent as a commercial pilot, even if he wasn’t willingly neglectful.
Neutrinos... behaving... as microwaves... ... OK, this is officially the MOST braindead premise I've ever heard. And I'm watching Everything wrong with... and entire Channel Awesome and THAT should say something.
Dara O Briain had a terrific stand-up bit about 2012 and the science in it, that I was saddened to see was no longer on RUclips, because it really goes to town on that concept.
So the "neutrinos" came from the sun, skipped every layer of the atmosphere, the surface on the land and water, and all the other layers, and went directly to the core? Did they have a TARDIS?
That was a fantastic bit, and also rightly points out that we're never told the Neutrinos have unmutated or anything... So they're presumably still heating up the planet. Eventually the entire crust will likely be destroyed, eliminating the remaining human race and all other life, which would be tragic, except that it means that Jackson finally bites it and I'm willing to chalk that up as a win!
I watched this when I was younger, and I always thought that this was part 1, and the 2nd part would be about living on the arks and what societies formed from them and how the people have to adapt to the new world they inhabit, will the sins of the past affect them? Or can they make something better from the ashes?
I can’t hate this film. When I saw it, my friends and I had so much fun laughing at how dumb it is and how funny the characters are at not behaving like actual humans, it was beautiful. I’ll always be grateful for this stupid stupid movie
This movie just makes me angry. Teary angry. So many pointless callus deaths and no way people can survive in completely impossible situations. This movie is pure ridiculousness. I had to sit in the front row when I saw this film. I walked out with a headache and anger. Brilliant review on this.
my guy, its just a disaster movie. nothing is meant to make sense. its called a sense of disbelieve, so just turn off your brain and enjoy the damn movie
“They’re gonna need a bigger plane”... was that a reference to the Jaws line “We’re gonna need a bigger boat”? ;) Either way it made me giggle, thanks!
Still think Fawful's Minion of all people did it better in his joke about the line on his old video game killjoys list when talking about the Aztec Complex in Goldeneye. After the line itself he said "No you're gonna need a bigger tombstone"
Jackson Curtis surviving all that calamity reminds me of Owen Grady from Jurassic World, how he survived molten lava pouring all around him AND a thousand foot fall off a cliff.
21:30 I almost pissed myself, holy shit that hilariously caught me off guard. God damn I hated this fucking terrible movie. There are very few movies that I actually _despise,_ but this is one of them. Thank you for beating the hell out of it. Man, I HATED this awful, horrendously stupid fucking movie.
The "humanity" scene from the Dark Knight when the Joker sets people against each other. However, I agree that slimy money-grubber is right, if you stay too long you have a huge risk of killing everyone on board. So, this half of humanity will be lost. Like I'm ignoring how stupid the sudden changes would be, but the odds are, it wouldn't be just one volcano going off if it was bad as the movie seems like it would be. Ash would hang in the air for weeks at minimum and years at worst. But at one month, the skies are clear, the polar ice caps are reforming and sucking back in lost water, and it looks like everyone will be able to live in their cities again. Once those ice caps melt, it's going to be centuries for them to reform. I would have ended the movie by cutting to 5 years later, and have them on the deck. First time their family has gotten a chance to see the clear skies. Since there are so many people, you could even point out they can start fishing for food now as the supplies have run off. But nope, two weeks later, an event so devastating it kills the majority of the planet and does damage to the planet it will never recover, and you get a happy ending.
Well it’s a good thing the world didn’t end in 2012 so we can put this stupid conspiracy to res- “THE MAYAN APOCALYPSE HAPPENED IN ANOTHER UNIVERSE THANKS TO THE MANDELA EFFECT!” Oh come on!!!
This movie brought up many unanswered questions. Some of them were answered by the writers. What happened to the people in Vegas that were not killed in the earthquake? What happened to the little girl and her parents? What happened to the lady with the dog? Were the people walking up the mountain killed by the wave? That last question was answered by the writers. There were many survivors. A lot of people made it up the mountain. They're on the mountain and are waiting to be picked up by the government.
I'm glad you re-release this one, I tried to watch your original review to 2012, but it was unavailable or blocked for some reason. Too bad the quality of this is bad.
It was never in great quality. I don't know why, but it came out very dark, so a lot of the footage is brightened and colour corrected, hence why it looks so soft, even in comparison to other videos from the time.
I hate it when disaster movies suck nowadays. Even with Moonfall that released on February 2022, as I like to call it 'Moon Month' before January-February of 2023 because rabbits, since they have what I like to call "abuse of special effects/CGI". About time we talk about scientific and regular inaccuracies here! 1. If the earth got smothered in massive tsunamis as they level cities, the same planet would run out of water, and sea life would practically die. 2. The movie took place on December 21st, 2012, and there are no Christmas decorations and snow at Yellowstone, especially everywhere else. 3. The family has plot armor so they survive the end of the world while everyone is screaming and dying because the movie wanted it. 4. An average human being could hold their breath underwater for 3 minutes, however in the ark, they held their breath more than three minutes as their ship gets submerged.
I'm saddened to report that Emmerich has still not given up on the disaster genre. Now he wants to crash the Moon into the Earth. He's ultimately a one trick pony with some conspiracy theory mumbo jumbo to boot.
I watched Moonfall and it wasn't too bad. At least it's better then 2012 that's for sure and of course it includes a conspiracy theorist. What the fuck is with Roland Emmerich and conspiracy theorists
@@silverhawk_25 He seems to be part of that generation that came of age after Vietnam and Watergate just as theories about ancient aliens were getting popular. So he's grown up in a conspiracy mindset. And despite his skill with special effects he's not very smart. He seems to believe all the popular conspiracies. I did too at one point. Then I turned 15.
You missed another mistake: If an earthquake that heavy really were to hit Los Angeles, then given the fact that L.A. is on a transform fault, it would’ve slid UP the US mainland and not out to sea
The population of the greater LA area is the same as the population of the entirety of Australia. When you see LA be destroyed in a movie, it's not just "One city" of people, it's the population of a whole continent/country.
How about those subtitles aren't they just great. The English (auto-generater) needs some work done on it. At around 21:55 you read this "Adrian who's father just died doesn't seem to show much sadness about AIDS. Elsewhere the prescient aids the survivors".
I saw a documentary on the making of Independence Day, and the scene where the fire unfolds throughout and destroys LA was done by using a scale model of LA nailed to a wall vertically with pyrotechnics lit at the bottom that rolled up it filmed in slow motion.
Yep, that was the line. I felt rather guilty over it, hence why it was cut and replaced with an apology, but I kept the original versions of the episode, hence I was able to restore it.
The scene is an unintentionally funny one, but when I originally uploaded this review, it was very much too soon. I think enough time has passed since those events to restore the original lines.
Natural Disasters are very common in Japan. The country is located between the biggest ocean and the biggest continent and on a earth crust rift. Japanese are as used to Natural Disasters as Scottish are to rain.
When I see the bullshit way this movie deals with the "who do you save at the end of the end of the world" question, I can't help thinking about the Battlestar Galactica miniseries where, after the death of most of humanity the survivors decide they have to abandon thousands of people waiting to board their ships in order to save the tens of thousands who are already on board. And we hear the screams of the dying but we also see that the survivors were right. Now that's the difference between a work which actually asks questions about what you can sacrifice in order to survive while still deserving survival and a forgettable piece of crap.
And I love it to this day! I have the Blu-Ray that has the original theatrical version and the extended "Ulysses cut" that put all the deleted scenes back in to make a complete fleshed out story. I think it's great!
Billions are dead, but at least the little girls toilet trained now.
Sigh.
Will Rigby gets all just get high. It’s WAY better then watching this.
plot twist. there are no toilet's on the ship
There's a difference between wetting the bed and not being toilet trained. Kids can be toilet trained, but when they go to sleep they lose control of their bladder.
And the people who hated each other are in love and the other guy is dead so they can get back together and not feel bad bout it
Fucking really. I mean out of all the subplots to include in a disaster movie no matter how exploitative of a phenomena including a plot point of 'pissing in the bed' is fucking ridiculous.
Because that's exactly what audiences pay for when they want to see a disaster movie.
I was looking around the market at the DVD stalls and I found 2012 in the comedy section XD
SaintJack 🤣
Apt😂
Lmaoo
Well, this movie is now good enough for making fun of because it implanted the thought that the world would end on the 21st of December 2012 into people's minds and now that nothing of the sort has happened. Which was exactly what I did after I rented this movie from my local video store (a few years before video stores were replaced by rental kiosks).
It is the best unintentional comedy of 2009.
“Why is it in bad movies the rich selfish jerks or jerks in general ALWAYS make the most sense and are realistic?”
Reminds me of what I consider the one line in The Condemned (Another film covered on Bad Movie Beatdown) I agree with being when the main villain in an interview said "It's the parents responsibility to monitor what their kids watch"
Or in John Q, when gladhanding police chief Ray Liotta rightfully points out to Robert Duvall that giving in to Denzel's demands sets a super dangerous precedent and douchebag surgeon James Woods points out to the other hostages they can label him the bad guy all they want but Denzel is still the one holding them at gunpoint.
Something tells me we may have found our motivator for why so many giant, reactionary douchebags online, thought that they're in the right mind to do anything socio-political on RUclips.
You know. Besides obviously having little regard to the intelligence of average viewers.
Originally posted in May 2011, this was originally a two-part episode, and this re-edited version puts them both together for the first time. This removes 3m 36s in total, and a big chunk of this is the "coming up" section at the end of the first part, and the "welcome back" intro that proceeds the second, although as per usual, edits have been made to trim down both film clips and speed up the pacing. This version also restores some footage: earlier versions of the review removed a short sequence where a disaster hits Japan, which had just occurred in real life at the time was originally posted, and had delayed it's release; those missing lines are back here. This has been re-posted due to the release of Geostorm, which isn't a Roland Emmerich film, but certainly close enough. Hope you enjoy!
Film Brain yaay!! Thank you Matthew!! I never got to see the first part as it was blocked!!
Shame, the "I'll give you a hint, it's John Cusack!" line was a great ending.
I thought this was a very good review but the way you mnockingly said little bedwetter was uncalled for. In fact that whole criticism of the film was. Many children deal with this stuff and I wouldn`t know why a film can`t depict that when you can depict Lesbianism, homosexuality and so on.
Look at the cute little doggie woggy foggy woggy 🐶🐶🐶🐶 woof woof woof woof woof 😂
This review was "Good, very good"😎
The world will end in 2012 they said.
8 years later and were still here.
Reverse Dipper Pines Maybe the mayans meant the world *should* end at 2012
I always wondered about the people who really believed it and were then forced to run out and do all their Christmas shopping in 2 days.
We are on the way, straight to it.
Dennis Fluttershy That doesn't really matter. We will all be dead by March 26, 2407. Plus, some of humanity will have lived on Mars for centuries by then. Humans on Earth would be fucked if the world ended but not humanity as a whole.
6 years later in 2018, and counting...
After they let all those thousands of extra people onto the ships, I always like to imagine a sequel where everyone slowly starves to death on the ships.
Graham Kennedy sadly the end of the movie shows they survive
In the planned sequel 2013 there was going to be a major plot development where the ship's crew turn into degenerate cannibals eating each other and violating all who stand in their way, locked beneath the ship's lower decks as Jackson Curtis organizes a hierarchy system to keep himself and the other former officials in a position of power proving that ultimately humanity has learned nothing of its folly except for the fact that the little girl no longer pisses the bed at night.
@@TheSkully343 I'd pay to see that
@@TheSkully343 Wow that sounds awesome! I would pay to watch it :D It sounds more thrilling and dramatic than what we got!
That sequel is called 'Water World'.
Man, the 2012 panic. I remember walking in the supermarket a few days later, I saw on a journal that a mother poisoned her three kids because she didnt want the "end of the world" to take them or something. It made me honestly hate the huge buzz around all this. Many people were afraid that day and did stupid stuff... it really went out of proportion.
And in the end all efforts in vain
Don't blame the year blame human stupidity
@@ismaelguardado1414 Not just human stupidity, blame the Mayans for being like "Oops, we forgot to have more dates on the calendar."
I think that panic even caused the famous Macho Man to kick the bucket, from what I can remember.
Funny thing. Back when I was reading comic strips I remember Mother Goose & Grim made one about the 2012 Mayan apocalypse fears.
Actually at the end when she said “no more pull-ups” she meant that she was literally out of pull ups because they had used them to soak up all the water that had gotten on the ship. She still wets the bed to this day.
😂😂
Justice for Sasha, Tamara, and Gordon
I agree! Theses peoples were not jerks and didn't deserved to die especially Gordon! If he didn't fly the plane in London, Jackson and his family would be dead! This guy was really kind, i'm sad he's gone 😥
Just for the record, the Mayans did not had to predict their own demise... because they are still around. There are Mayans living to this date in Mexico and Guatemala.
El Ochentero Isn't that a bit like saying that the Picts still exist because there are people living in Scotland.
Poshboy, these people speak mayan, some of them still follow the Maya religion and self-identify as Mayan. Pict is a dead language and no remain of their religion is left.
Hollywood said that the Mayan people disappeared and somehow everyone just believes it. Must be weird if you are Mayan.
Here some information that you can find interesting: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_peoples
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_religion
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_languages
Well the 2012 was the end of there calender nothing more.
I always find it hilarious how in these idiotic catastrophe movies it is like Mother Earth herself is the main villain and is deiliberately chasing the main cast around with earthquakes and floods and volcanoes. Y'know, that would make for a better movie, having Earth herself be trying to kill just ONE guy. :)
With a simple rewrite you could turn it into an over the top Matrix Dragon Ball Z influenced action movie where John Cusack could play his fanfiction tier character who goes SUPER SAIYEN in a battle against Mother Earth in an awesome kung fu battle which honestly would've been a much better film than Roland's exploitation of conspiracy theory bullshit.
@@TheSkully343 I had a similar idea but with the Final Destination movies
It's a New Mother Nature Taking Over
It was done BETTER in the film 'Crack in the World'.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_in_the_World
It/herself but yeah. Great premise!
I know this sounds very cheesy and sentimental but why didn't Gordon and Tamara live so they could end up together by the end? Think about it, they could have bonded over being dumped/cast aside by their significant others, they could have survived to the end and revealed to be in a relationship at the film's conclusion. Again, it stinks of sentimentality but it might have been better than the fates both of them actually got.
Theres an alternate ending where the jazz musician survives the capsizing of the ocean liner, which came to rest on some random island. The movie ends with the three arks going to the island to rescue the survivors. Many people preferred that ending, and I have to say that so do I!
that is the stupidest idea i have every heard im glad they didn't do that ending this movie was awesome
I agree that ending sounds better
Why did the plane explode when they were out of fuel?
jJE KUNTRA Fumes, probably
jJE KUNTRA Ask George W. Bush
Because shit movie for dummies?
Probably made by the same people who manufactured the tanks in Ikari Warriors.
This is what Hollywood fails to get. In disaster movies, bigger isn't necessarily better. Take movies like Towering Inferno (a high rise building), Airport (an airplane), or even Earthquake (a city and the surrounding area). In those films stories of small scale heroism (or cowardice) work because the scale calls for that sort of thing. When dealing with extinction level events, the rules HAVE to change. The rebooted Battlestar Galactica did an episode on abortion when humanity's population had decreased to the point where it may or may not be viable. The President, a woman who's supported choice before the attack, chose to outlaw it in the fleet because survival was more important.
It's the difference between a general planning an executing a massive battle plan and a sergeant leading a platoon. One doesn't have the luxury of worrying about the guy with the girl back home.
Movies like that has to have heroism and sadistic sences but this movie have nothing but pointless characters and useless deaths
I think Airplane is a parody of Airport.
@@Dinosaurianationazation It's actually a parody of Zero Hour.
@@OjoTheLuckyOtter What's that?
The title of the movie makes it soooo dated already.
Yeah.
lol what about now?
Blame the Aztec
The only real point Adrian has in this movie is how spacious the rooms are. Like he said you could probably fit 10 times more on the ship if you made the rooms small. That at least would show you are trying to save as many as possible while still knowing you can't save everyone.
They ran into Everest? Really? Where did all that water come from? Did the entirety of the polar ice caps all spontaneously melt at once?
Actually,they did
@@PalithaH still wouldn't be enough water to reach anywhere near the top of the Himalayas. And if enough water to do so magically appeared there'd have to be so much water vapor in the atmosphere you'd drown above water
@@nicholashurst780 Sorry, but you're wrong. Why people keep missing the obvious, I will never understand. Everyone seems to think that the water has to come from the air so we would all drown. That's not even close to true. There's equal to, if not more, water under the Earth's surface than there is above it.
Even just taking the water in aquifers and things like that within a mile of the surface has enough to cover all of the continents. It's been found that there's even more water 600 miles below the surface. Possibly enough to equal all of the water in the oceans today.
So if you have an equal amount of water that's on the surface now flowing up from underground, you'd cover all of the land masses. Therefor, the water didn't just "magically appear", it's been there all along but it's just hidden until the earth opens up and out it flows.
@@chb2551 nerd
This feels to me like the film is mainly about the disaster, with the characters just added to fill the story with some drama. I had a similar feeling about "Day after Tomorrow". "Independence Day" has much better characters and unlike here they don't seem to be inserted just to fill the space between the disastrous events with something - they actually take real part in the plot.
DGM actually day after tomorrow is pretty believable since non of the parts of the earth in the tropicals were effected but that also begs the question why people went to Mexico and not Puerto Rico which is owned by America and is in the tropics
Dad bought a pirated DVD of "2012" when I was a kid and played the movie in front of us. I kept walking in and out of the living room. I got bored. I wonder how I'd feel about the movie if I saw it now.
No way those Arks were built in under 2 years. No way governments made the decision to build them in under 2 years, no way were they commissioned, designed and built in 2 years, in secret and the chosen ones already picked. And that is just the beginning of a list of things wrong with this.
Also, from what I can tell, they sold spots to aristocrats in this film. First, there's no way they could do that in secrecy, second, what would world governments do with the money after the apocalypse when all financial systems are gone, and third, current plans for apocalyptic events involve only saving the most essential people (scientists, military, top politicians, etc.) to give humanity the best chance at recovering and many aristocrats are only rich because they inherited their money and not for any natural talent or intellect.
@@taylorfrench6722 yes, money would be worthless
@@taylorfrench6722 Of course they could, they can manipulate every big company, censor everything needed and kill everyone who knows. These are the most powerful states on the world combined, they will be able to do that. And back then, the Internet wasn't used as much. And they could manipulate TV. And they needed that money to build the ships in the first place, like, cmon didn't you already knew that? And what you said was exactly what they did, just saving rich people to finance it all and because they are influential too.
26:25 The ground communication may have ceased, but that doesn't necessarily include satellite communication.
I think this might be my favourite Bad Movie Beatdown episode.
And man was this movie not any more deserving of its beatdown than this.
While 2012 might not have been the Apocalypse watching this movie certainly made it feel like an apocalypse.
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Seems like the Aztec's got it wrong
This movie has a very Michael Bay-ish Paul W.S. Anderson-ish feel to it.
right? surprised the vehicles never transformed
@@royalcass Even if they were Transformers in this movie, i doubt they could saved people from Volcanoes and Tsunamis X) Sure thye might saved a few but will probably sacrifice themselves. Even with thoses robots, it won't make the movie better!
@@ladypool1404 That makes me want to see someone make an alternate retelling of Transformers G1 where the Ark reactivates after a disaster that SEEMINGLY wipes out all of humanity (Emphasis on seemingly for some sort of mystery)
I think they call it
A Roland Emmerich film
Bay v Emmerich: Dawn of CGI Disasters
The cgi tho hasn't aged much tbh. Which is awesome
I have a confession to make: I had seen this film in cinema, I was 16 yrs old and saw it with my 57-yr-old COPD'd father. Me and my Pops did enjoy it at the time, but now I feel stupid for it. As someone who goes to the movies to spend time with his father, does that make me a horrible person with bad taste?
If you had a good time with your dad, I can't take that away from you. My opinions are my own, you're welcome to enjoy the films I review, it's all in good fun.
For sure, thank you for the generosity. It's good to see you currently making great videos, big fan here from the U.S. *;D*
You can like whatever you want. I like this movie a lot just because of the disaster scenes. I agree with the critics about the plot, butI still watch it from time to time. I don't give a fliying f about the story. Just gimme the explosions 😂Same goes for armageddon and the day after tomorrow.
@@DemonBoy3223 honestly mate, there’s nothing wrong with enjoying this madness 🙂
9:46: and wrote and directed a movie about the theory that Shakespeare didn’t write his own plays.
I really like in such movies that everyone is dead, science and the las of physics just flop over and somehow, the entire world is actively trying to kill the protagonists.
It is like if in a WW2 movie, Johnny McHandsome would be going from Paris to Stalingrad, fighting both the Wehrmacht and the Red Army, survive the Blitz and walk from Africa to Indochina, without an issue, and would still find time to shoot Hitler and leave just in time to fly the bombers that drop the A-bombs. Both of them.
Oh no, the Neutrino's are acting up! That could only mean one thing, Krang is back from Dimension X! Better contact the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
_Hotrodding Teenagers from Dimension X!_
LOL, I love this!
Actually the Mayans believed a new era would begin when their calendar ended
Lucina Lee Its like claiming that the world ends every year when the yearlong calendars dies.
@@williamtimonen6814 Can I watch that movie? It'd at least be silly rather than pretentious (I hope).
Richard Nimz Its mostly boring. Theyre so used to it that there is barely any emotion within it.
Another point against Roland Emmerich. The owners of Godzilla were so not amused by his take on the giant lizard. They put their own take on it (Simply called Zilla) in Godzilla Final Wars.
“What a pathetic creature.”
They were actually going to make a television series continuation out of this movie called '2013'.
I think this one movie was enough, they didn't have to dilute their stupidity into TV. Thank God the movie didn't make enough money for that to happen.
Little Loud Well The Movie made a decent amount of money Because of a amazing advertising campaign. Just think they couldnt care about making a tv sequel.
To be fair, the movie had a budget of 200 million and it while it was more successful internationally, it only made 166 million domestically so I guess that’s the only reason the tv spin off didn’t get made?
@@royblekman8186 "Amazing" isn't the word I'd use, considering it involved portraying the arks as a real program and playing on people's real-life unfounded apocalypse fears, and suicide hotlines were experiencing record numbers of calls from teenagers and young adults who were contemplating ending their lives because they didn't want to die horribly when they're inevitably left behind, all so Roland Emmerich could get more people to see his latest borderline propaganda pseudoscience misery porn.
2012 may have come & gone but I'm still cleaning up the sticky mess it left in my attic. Filthy, filthy year.
Love the review dude. Made me smile and laugh. I'll be subscribing definitely.
Had to look at a google map to see the distance between LA and Yellow Stone. It’s 1,007.0 miles away, a 14.6 hour drive and a 328 hour walk.
So you were right about “How did he hear the radio station from Yellow Stone in LA?”... I have no idea how that’s possible without listening to a satellite radio station. Maybe that’s what he had lol
Keep rocking and thanks for the laughs!
AM booster/rebroadcast stations?
We have them in the UK used by national radio stations.
This movie came out when I was about 9, so I have some nostalgia for it, that and the fact that my brother burned it on 2 CD's, not a DVD, 2 CD's, because it doesn't fit on 1
Aah, those were the days
Trying to understand this movie will probably make you stupider. It already hurts my head...
Mutating... neutrinos.
...I... I can't... I just can't.
28:30 I FELT THAT ME AND FILM BRAIN ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO NOTICED THE HYPOCRISY.
I laughed more than I should have at that bowling pin sound effect. XD
I only saw this because a friend rented it, and I remember constantly rolling my eyes at the endless parade of Emmerich cliches.
This Movie Tricked Me Because The World Didn't End In 2012.
13:26- They should've made Gordon a commercial airline pilot instead of a surgeon, that way it would be more believable for him to be able to fly all these planes.
Maybe have him be a little out of practice with the planes they were using. And have him breathe a sigh of relief that he's still got it.
Kate’s reconciliation with Jackson would also make a bit more sense. Gordon would have to frequently be absent as a commercial pilot, even if he wasn’t willingly neglectful.
Hello Gordon!
Neutrinos... behaving... as microwaves...
...
OK, this is officially the MOST braindead premise I've ever heard.
And I'm watching Everything wrong with... and entire Channel Awesome and THAT should say something.
Dara O Briain had a terrific stand-up bit about 2012 and the science in it, that I was saddened to see was no longer on RUclips, because it really goes to town on that concept.
Film Brain The Latinos are mutating and they're heating up the planet!!
So the "neutrinos" came from the sun, skipped every layer of the atmosphere, the surface on the land and water, and all the other layers, and went directly to the core? Did they have a TARDIS?
That was a fantastic bit, and also rightly points out that we're never told the Neutrinos have unmutated or anything...
So they're presumably still heating up the planet. Eventually the entire crust will likely be destroyed, eliminating the remaining human race and all other life, which would be tragic, except that it means that Jackson finally bites it and I'm willing to chalk that up as a win!
to paraphrase that one dude who screams every now and then in phelous' stuff. "NEUTRINOS! DON'T WORK THAT WAY!"
I think there should be a disaster apocalypse TV series or Video Game because we see so many zombie apocalypse stuff it's tiring.
I watched this when I was younger, and I always thought that this was part 1, and the 2nd part would be about living on the arks and what societies formed from them and how the people have to adapt to the new world they inhabit, will the sins of the past affect them? Or can they make something better from the ashes?
I can’t hate this film. When I saw it, my friends and I had so much fun laughing at how dumb it is and how funny the characters are at not behaving like actual humans, it was beautiful. I’ll always be grateful for this stupid stupid movie
I saw this movie in theaters and by its conclusion I was wishing the world would actually end
Here from 2022.
This movie *did* get something right: billionaires will let us be taken down by a disaster if they decide so.
This movie just makes me angry. Teary angry. So many pointless callus deaths and no way people can survive in completely impossible situations. This movie is pure ridiculousness. I had to sit in the front row when I saw this film. I walked out with a headache and anger. Brilliant review on this.
my guy, its just a disaster movie. nothing is meant to make sense. its called a sense of disbelieve, so just turn off your brain and enjoy the damn movie
@@wuchuendarylng4300 Boomer
That WTF moment with the giraffe in the ship was hilarious.
Matthew’s face when those guys are looking up at that giraffe above them is legendary. “What the f…..?”
I'll admit it, I watched this in theaters just for the destruction porn. I didn't go for the story what little there would be.
Agreed just movies like this one we here to see the destruction not story.
me to
Same
So do we just need to ban Roland Emerich-esque disaster movies from being made?
I dunno. Sometimes we need something stupid once and a while.
The Superman reference was AWESOME!
Speaking from the future, just wait till you see Emmerich’s new movie *Moonfall*. You can’t even fathom how ridiculous he can get.
Oh, I have. It was so stupid I thought my brain was going to dribble out of my ears.
🤣
“They’re gonna need a bigger plane”... was that a reference to the Jaws line “We’re gonna need a bigger boat”?
;)
Either way it made me giggle, thanks!
Still think Fawful's Minion of all people did it better in his joke about the line on his old video game killjoys list when talking about the Aztec Complex in Goldeneye. After the line itself he said "No you're gonna need a bigger tombstone"
Jackson Curtis surviving all that calamity reminds me of Owen Grady from Jurassic World, how he survived molten lava pouring all around him AND a thousand foot fall off a cliff.
1:38- At least Chiwetel redeemed himself with 12 Years a Slave... though, he did voice Scar in The Lion King remake...
But what about Boomer??? Boomer... will live!
AAAAAHHHH!!!
And Caesar.
Wait what!?
Swag Toy it was from nostalgia critics review of Independence day
SaintJack it’s also a joke in the Critic’s review of Man in Steel
Seeing the queen being portrayed in films now seems strangely outdated now.
21:30 I almost pissed myself, holy shit that hilariously caught me off guard.
God damn I hated this fucking terrible movie. There are very few movies that I actually _despise,_ but this is one of them. Thank you for beating the hell out of it. Man, I HATED this awful, horrendously stupid fucking movie.
🎶well it ain’t the end of the world buddy🎶 worst forshadowering and timing ever.
Think that was your best review yet. The part when you saw the giraffe when they were drowning was hilarious!
The "humanity" scene from the Dark Knight when the Joker sets people against each other. However, I agree that slimy money-grubber is right, if you stay too long you have a huge risk of killing everyone on board. So, this half of humanity will be lost. Like I'm ignoring how stupid the sudden changes would be, but the odds are, it wouldn't be just one volcano going off if it was bad as the movie seems like it would be. Ash would hang in the air for weeks at minimum and years at worst. But at one month, the skies are clear, the polar ice caps are reforming and sucking back in lost water, and it looks like everyone will be able to live in their cities again. Once those ice caps melt, it's going to be centuries for them to reform. I would have ended the movie by cutting to 5 years later, and have them on the deck. First time their family has gotten a chance to see the clear skies. Since there are so many people, you could even point out they can start fishing for food now as the supplies have run off. But nope, two weeks later, an event so devastating it kills the majority of the planet and does damage to the planet it will never recover, and you get a happy ending.
This movie is my guilty pleasure and I feel slightly ashamed about it.
*when Yellowstone erupts
The entire Eastern half of North America will die and a global famine will likely kill billions more
Not if.
Well it’s a good thing the world didn’t end in 2012 so we can put this stupid conspiracy to res-
“THE MAYAN APOCALYPSE HAPPENED IN ANOTHER UNIVERSE THANKS TO THE MANDELA EFFECT!”
Oh come on!!!
This movie brought up many unanswered questions. Some of them were answered by the writers. What happened to the people in Vegas that were not killed in the earthquake? What happened to the little girl and her parents? What happened to the lady with the dog? Were the people walking up the mountain killed by the wave? That last question was answered by the writers. There were many survivors. A lot of people made it up the mountain. They're on the mountain and are waiting to be picked up by the government.
I'm glad you re-release this one, I tried to watch your original review to 2012, but it was unavailable or blocked for some reason.
Too bad the quality of this is bad.
It was never in great quality. I don't know why, but it came out very dark, so a lot of the footage is brightened and colour corrected, hence why it looks so soft, even in comparison to other videos from the time.
Don't you dare badmouthing Woody Harrelson. He is a gem in this movie, hamming the sh*t out of it.
He played one of my favorite characters in this, he cut through the bullshit and spoke the truth!
You could say it was off by eight years... 😔
I hate it when disaster movies suck nowadays. Even with Moonfall that released on February 2022, as I like to call it 'Moon Month' before January-February of 2023 because rabbits, since they have what I like to call "abuse of special effects/CGI". About time we talk about scientific and regular inaccuracies here!
1. If the earth got smothered in massive tsunamis as they level cities, the same planet would run out of water, and sea life would practically die.
2. The movie took place on December 21st, 2012, and there are no Christmas decorations and snow at Yellowstone, especially everywhere else.
3. The family has plot armor so they survive the end of the world while everyone is screaming and dying because the movie wanted it.
4. An average human being could hold their breath underwater for 3 minutes, however in the ark, they held their breath more than three minutes as their ship gets submerged.
Still your best review IMO
I would say there needs to be a drinking game for this movie but pretty sure that would be a good way to get alcohol poisoning
The ship sailed despite being damaged? Must be a Carnival cruise!
The day after tomorrow was so much better.
Have you seen the alternate ending?
For some reason I was unsubbed from your channel, glad I'm back now and keen to rewatch all your videos
Where's Gordon?
He's dead, run!
Why was "fucking" censored at 35:42?
Because in older episodes I tended to bleep strong swearing for comic effect.
I'm saddened to report that Emmerich has still not given up on the disaster genre. Now he wants to crash the Moon into the Earth. He's ultimately a one trick pony with some conspiracy theory mumbo jumbo to boot.
I watched Moonfall and it wasn't too bad. At least it's better then 2012 that's for sure and of course it includes a conspiracy theorist. What the fuck is with Roland Emmerich and conspiracy theorists
@@silverhawk_25 He seems to be part of that generation that came of age after Vietnam and Watergate just as theories about ancient aliens were getting popular. So he's grown up in a conspiracy mindset. And despite his skill with special effects he's not very smart. He seems to believe all the popular conspiracies. I did too at one point. Then I turned 15.
Actually, speaking of Y2K hysteria, wasn't there a made-for-TV disaster movie about that? You should totally rip that one. ;)
You missed another mistake:
If an earthquake that heavy really were to hit Los Angeles, then given the fact that L.A. is on a transform fault, it would’ve slid UP the US mainland and not out to sea
"arnold swarzenegger isn't still going to be the governor in 2012!!"
me in my hermit hole in 2022: "he's not governor anymore?"
The population of the greater LA area is the same as the population of the entirety of Australia. When you see LA be destroyed in a movie, it's not just "One city" of people, it's the population of a whole continent/country.
Film Brain. Why do you do this to yourself? This many bad films cannot be good for your cranium.
21:13 This was bad taste were film brain issued a apologise
I'm most impressed by the movie's ability to move Yellowstone National Park to a couple hours' drive outside Los Angeles.
How about those subtitles aren't they just great. The English (auto-generater) needs some work done on it. At around 21:55 you read this "Adrian who's father just died doesn't seem to show much sadness about AIDS. Elsewhere the prescient aids the survivors".
I saw a documentary on the making of Independence Day, and the scene where the fire unfolds throughout and destroys LA was done by using a scale model of LA nailed to a wall vertically with pyrotechnics lit at the bottom that rolled up it filmed in slow motion.
21:16 to 21:23, wait, that was the joke that was edited out because of the earthquake in Japan?
Yep, that was the line. I felt rather guilty over it, hence why it was cut and replaced with an apology, but I kept the original versions of the episode, hence I was able to restore it.
I felt the apology was more fitting from the previously uploaded video.
The scene is an unintentionally funny one, but when I originally uploaded this review, it was very much too soon. I think enough time has passed since those events to restore the original lines.
Natural Disasters are very common in Japan. The country is located between the biggest ocean and the biggest continent and on a earth crust rift.
Japanese are as used to Natural Disasters as Scottish are to rain.
This vid is only 3 years old yet he looks like he is from 2012
That's because this is a re-upload of a video from 2011.
@@FilmBrain ahh gotcha
When I see the bullshit way this movie deals with the "who do you save at the end of the end of the world" question, I can't help thinking about the Battlestar Galactica miniseries where, after the death of most of humanity the survivors decide they have to abandon thousands of people waiting to board their ships in order to save the tens of thousands who are already on board. And we hear the screams of the dying but we also see that the survivors were right. Now that's the difference between a work which actually asks questions about what you can sacrifice in order to survive while still deserving survival and a forgettable piece of crap.
I hope Nostalgia Critic will review this.
Love your content
Which end of the world movie was worse? This or Knowing?
11 years later and the world still hasn't ended.
Ohhh, this is the version before FB re-cut it for the tsunami.
This is the Waterworld of our generation.
And I love it to this day! I have the Blu-Ray that has the original theatrical version and the extended "Ulysses cut" that put all the deleted scenes back in to make a complete fleshed out story. I think it's great!