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|  #1 Posted on 14.11.09 1848.38 | Instant Rating: 3.32 | I went and saw this because I secretly like to watch big things get destroyed. From the previews it looked like we'd get a lot of it, and we did, but for my money Cloverfield was more fun.
I knew this movie was going to have the standard Hollywood family stories intermixed, but they really put the cheese on thick on this one. The little dog scene at the end was a bit much on any front. Usually when a movie has John Cusak in it, I figure some bigger names turned down the script first. He was fine though, it was the storyline that had problems. Woody Harrelson's character was enjoyable as well.
You know what you are getting into if you go and see this, but you aren't going to come away with anything really memorable.
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| #2 Posted on 14.11.09 2002.16 | Instant Rating: 4.77 | I concur with everything you said. You get what you paid for and you know what you're getting going in.
This is the review I wrote (SPOILERS):
http://www.backofthehead.com/2009/11/2012.html | KJames199
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|  #3 Posted on 15.11.09 2324.11 | Instant Rating: 7.06 | Saw it. It wasn't quite as terrible as The Day After Tomorrow, which disappointed me a little. Stuff blew up and impossible things happened and most of the special effects looked okay and I enjoyed my popcorn and I got exactly what I expected out of this movie. Wouldn't go see it again, won't buy it, but have no real complaints.
Oh, except one:
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| #4 Posted on 16.11.09 0516.25 | Instant Rating: 1.48 | Go see this shit drunk!
The effects were top notch but the plot and certain plot points really made this a fucked up movie.
Danny Glover playing what has to be (timeline wise...) the first black American President and under his watch... the world as we know it ends, is pretty fucked up as it is, but they really mess some shit up here.
John F Kennedy is commonly known as the first president to try to bring about a major change with trying to do away with 'separate but equal'. JFK was the president that I think could have made huge strides in Civil Rights for all people in this country... and to have the one US Aircraft carrier with his namesake be what kills our first African American President... well, that is totally fucked up.
And then, at the end, where we find out that Africa was virtually untouched by the destruction and all the white people are headed there to essentially take over and rebuild the world... again, that shit is fucked up.
I saw this wit a black friend of mine and upon leaving the theater, he told me that "...the effects were pretty damn cool, but what was up with all the hate on black people?"
See it once for the effects, but try to ignore the story.
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|  #5 Posted on 16.11.09 0558.19 | Instant Rating: 6.34 | Originally posted by Cerebus
I saw this wit a black friend of mine and upon leaving the theater, he told me that "...the effects were pretty damn cool, but what was up with all the hate on black people?"
See it once for the effects, but try to ignore the story.
And here I am thinking the message was the other way around, just like they have in some point in Day after tomorrow.
"the world might shit all over Africa but in the end they'll need them to survive"
(like in Day after tomorrow America has to beg to Mexico for help. Oh sweet irony)
I liked it. More than I had expected. I thought the family story was over the top, but less annoying than Day after, or War of the Worlds. I actually thought for a second that Cusack wouldn't make it.
Of course the effects are insane and over the top, but thats what I wanted.
Woody was awesome. :)
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