2012 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital
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Earth’s billions of inhabitants are unaware that the planet has an expiration date. With the warnings of an American scientist (Chiwetel Ejiofor), world leaders begin secret preparations for the survival of select members of society. When the global cataclysm finally occurs, failed writer Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) tries to lead his family to safety as the world starts falling apart. 2012 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital
From Roland Emmerich, director of THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW and INDEPENDENCE DAY, comes the ultimate action-adventure film, exploding with groundbreaking special effects. As the world faces a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions, cities collapse and continents crumble. 2012 brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors. Starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Woody Harrelson and Danny Glover. 2012 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital
Additional information
| Aspect Ratio : | 2.40:1 |
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| MPAA rating : | PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) |
| Product Dimensions : | 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4.66 ounces |
| Item model number : | 043396572942 |
| Director : | Roland Emmerich |
| Media Format : | Blu-ray, Subtitled, 4K |
| Run time : | 2 hours and 38 minutes |
| Release date : | January 19, 2021 |
| Actors : | John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton |
| Subtitles: : | Czech, English, Arabic, Danish, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Italian, Finnish, Estonian, Japanese, Greek, German, Portuguese, Latvian, Korean, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, Norwegian, Polish, Lithuanian, Turkish, Russian, Slovak, Swedish |
| Producers : | Larry Franco, Harald Kloser, Mark Gordon |
| Studio : | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
| ASIN : | B08LNFVN61 |
| Country of Origin : | USA |
| Number of discs : | 3 |
| Best Sellers Rank: | #810 in Action & Adventure Blu-ray Discs |
| Customer Reviews: | (11,982) |
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Nathan –
VFX showcase
This movie is essentially just a showcase for VFX, but it has a really good story, plot, and acting. Horror movies don’t scare me ever, no matter how gory or scares it has, but this movie and “the day after tomorrow” both scared me more than any other horror movie has. Something about disaster movies scare me, so I guess it’s irrational fear that gets me
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Cindy Scott –
Way better than advertised – way better than expected
When I first heard about “2012” prior to it’s release, I thought “Ooh geez, here comes another doomsday piece of quackery.” When I saw the previews, and learned that Roland Emmerich was the director, well, it all made sense. Of course the visual effects in the trailers were awesome, but I didn’t feel like buying into the 2012, end of the world story line. I’d thought Emmerich had been a tad heavy handed with “Day After Tomorrow” and so I avoided “2012” at the box office and waited for “Avatar.”After seeing “2012” on Blu-Ray, I admit I was wrong. If you just suspend disbelief a little bit, sit back, and allow yourself to be entertained, this film will not disappoint. No mistaking here, willful suspension of disbelief is necessary. There are just too many close calls, near misses, and coincidences to take the film on anything but a surface level. But, if you allow yourself to be drawn in to the eye popping special effects, the incredible depth of detail in the CGI rendering of destruction, the wry sense of humor, you can actually have a pretty good time with this movie. My son said he can’t wait for this film to be turned into some kind of ride at Universal Orlando.It IS a long movie, and the characters are paper thin, with a plot that hangs on a thread of scientific information. But, it doesn’t FEEL long, you become invested in the characters, and the science begins not to matter. In fact, the film’s pace moves along quite nicely. And though the characters are thin, you do “root” for John Cusack to succeed in saving his estranged wife, resentful son, and precocious daughter. Heck, halfway through you even begin rooting for the wife’s boyfriend to survive! How the film resolves itself is actually a bit of a surprise (if it hasn’t been spoiled for you elsewhere). I actually think that the marketing of the film did a disservice. If more of the character driven moments had been shown in the previews, I probably would have bit on seeing the movie in a theater.And so, there is an entertaining plot with interesting characters, lot of really excellent visual effects, and a satisfying ending. It even survives multiple screenings. The Blu-Ray 2 disc special edition includes a few deleted scenes, an alternate ending (too much suspension of disbelief required), and a variety of behind the scenes featurettes. I think it’s a good value.I do have to mention that the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier was retired from active duty several years ago, and therefore would not be at sea, in a position to tumble into the White House as a tsunami wipes out Washington in 2012. Having said that, I must humorously add that Danny Glover’s President Thomas Wilson had the entirely wrong line as he looked up to see the ship coming. He should have said, “I’m too old for this s#$t!” (Not knocking Danny Glover’s performance – just thinking that the call back to “Lethal Weapon” was dying to be used)
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Linda Bee –
Interesting enough to watch, but overall disappointing
I watched this movie solely for the special effects, as they seemed so highly touted. And they weregood, but were too overdone, to the point of diluting excitement and awe. They ramped up intowhat I call “finale mode” much too quickly. By the time Washington DC or Paris, etc., fell to annihilation,it seemed fairly blase. I mean, once you’ve seen a major metropolis engulfed in balls of fire, or sloughing offinto the ocean, you’ve seen them all. That’s the frame of mind I fell into too early in the film. And thedangers the protagonists encountered were WAY too close, way too over-the-top and ridiculous to be anythingbut cartoonish. It so completely put a distance to any sort of reality, that tension and suspense suffered as a result.I won’t go into all the defects of writing and predictability, which other reviewers have already pointed out.I am just disappointed that a film with this budget and tech talent could not do more with it. It was merelyyour basic, any-scale disaster story with completely unoriginal characters and dialog. All the standard”tug at the heart” scenes were included; all the bland and expected “moments of humor”; everything we’veseen a hundred times before, and even if we haven’t, it still felt like it. There should have been a greater senseof the momentous, a different atmosphere conveying the horror, the awe of such unprecedented events;but it somehow only conveyed a localized sense of urgency occasioned by any immediate danger.There are a few things I’ll mention, just to illustrate. Several major areas of earth have been decimated;no doubt billions are already dead. And heads of state are reluctant to “go public”, for fear of creatingpanic and anarchy? Sorry, guys, but I think you’re out of the loop by this point. And so many, manyminor points of near-impossibility that it becomes a major mass in the way of credulity: people stillable to opportunely communicate on cell phones; everybody managing to get to China in what seemsa couple of hours; one of the main characters calls his estranged son in the midst of this global chaos,and the ringing phone wakes him & his family from a sound and apparently blissfully unaware sleep.I mean, only someone on a Mars colony could have been ignorant of what was going on in the worldby that point. The one line in the whole film which was gratifying to me was when one of the leadscientists confronts a wealthy industrialist as they were boarding the “ark”, and lectures him on themorality of “buying” his way onto the ark, while millions of poorer folk were to be left to die. And theindustrialist says “You can give your own tickets to them if you want, I don’t care,” and continues to board,leaving the moralist looking befuddled, then meekly following industrialist onto the ship. It showed thehypocrisy which is rampant in the world today, and I’m surprised it was included in any film made inthe past decade. I guess they just figured few people would notice it.I will give it 3 stars, for I was able to watch the whole thing, the acting was completely adequate, andthe technical aspects were professionally done. It was just the triteness of the story, the unoriginalcharacter types, the overwhelming feeling I’d seen all this before even though the scale of the settingwas so much larger–just the sameness and lack of anything substantially new–kept me from ratingit higher.
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Canopus –
Great Saturday Movie-Kids Loved It UPDATE
Well, is it Shakespear? No. It is not coincidence that the “artsy flicks” which are all released at the end of the year to very limited audiences do very little at the box office. This is what it is..a special effect disaster movie. I packed this with another film like it, “San Andreas” and we had a blast. The kids loved it.Price? I got the special addition, two disc blu ray. Price? I did what they called “shopping” and got it for less then Wally World. No I did not go for a digital download. I have a 4K TV, so this was great. Not the Blu Ray is an upgrade from the DVD version.As I said, a great diversion movie. It is a disaster movie. If you want to entertain the kids etc this works. if you want to entertain the Book Club friends with Wine and Cheese this will not work. Ahh I remember when Star Wars got bad reviews….UPDATE..Just got the 4k version. Still love the movie, the special effects beat the other disaster flicks decisively. Brought up by Irwin Allen’s disaster flicks like Towering Inferno, any Volcano movie, and the recent San Andreas, this one stands out. Story is great. Like the “The Day After Tomorrow”. Well worth it.
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Christina –
This is a really great movie!
This movie came out in 2009 and I’ve watched over & over. The special effects are outstanding! John Cusak and Woody Harrelson and the rest of the actors are terrific in it (they’re 2 of my very favorite actors). The story is something to think about in today”s world. It is exciting to watch and never a dull moment. The ride through watching it is thrilling, exciting and heart-warming. I never tire watching it. DVD was in perfect condition (new) along with the packaging and delivered on time. VERY happy I bought it!
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Johnny W. –
Excellent Movie!
Very long movie,one of my best you will not fall asleep during the movie. It is a thriller, I don;twhat to tell too much but is a great movie and highly recommended!
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Tony Khamvongsouk –
2012 (Blu-ray)
Movie – 3.0When I first saw this in theaters I had somewhat high expectations. The only previous Emmerich films I’d seen prior to this were Independence Day and Godzilla. Given my limited experience to his work, but with remnants of nostalgia from ID4 (loved it as a kid), I went in expecting this same kind of formula: an element of doom that threatens humanity (malevolent aliens, or in this case the end of the world), people uniting in response to that threat (after the damage had already been done, of course), and in the process exposing humanity’s faults for what they are, therefore, eliminating our differences and bringing us closer together as a people. I caught on to this back in the theater, but naivety got the best of me and I think my change in tastes over the years (it’s been about a decade since I’ve seen either of those movies) has caused me to over-analyze Emmerich’s latest film. To be blunt, I hated this movie the first time I saw it. The cheese, campiness, ostentatious melodrama, and writing problems bugged me. Now? I don’t think it’s as bad as before. Despite this movie being a little longer than I’d like, I actually found some very profound themes on a subsequent viewing: mortality (how we take life for granted), selflessness (or vice versa, if you look at all the snobbery throughout some of the characters), and just the very fact of how disconnected we are as a species (which Emmerich tries to build through the many, many characters and their relationships throughout the film, but never really succeeds in fleshing out). The special effects are spiffy and I’m really starting to like Chiwetel Ejiofor as an actor. Maybe I found these themes by accident, but turning my mind to “popcorn mode” actually made said themes a little more impacting overall. With that said, these themes are still too unfocused than can make up for all the cheese and “fun,” but I can say I actually like the movie at least a little more than I disliked it before. If I had to summarize the movie, I’d say “go popcorn, but expect a few surprises.”Video – 4.5Sony presents us with an excellent 1080p picture in an original aspect ratio of 2.35:1 framed at 2.39. Colors are especially prominent and diverse throughout the film ranging from very accurate skin tones to lush landscape views and, of course, meteorological destruction. This is complimented by outstanding contrast levels making explosions, smoke, and all that other CG anarchy look flawless. Black levels are also handled near-perfectly, though I think I saw a little color banding through some of the darker-lit scenes. Sharpness, details, textures, and line delineation are also spot-on, adding a great sense of depth and HD pop to the film’s presentation. Water during the tsunami scenes in particular stand out to me the most and, despite the weak writing, are amazing to look at from a visual and aesthetic point of view. All the crumbling buildings, fireballs, and earth-splitting are certainly a sight to behold. If at least not for the corresponding reference audio, this is a demo-worthy disc to showcase your HD home theaters for video as well. Which brings me to…Audio – 5.0These days in Hollywood, mayhem usually begets a very strong and active sound field. 2012 is no exception to that as Sony’s DTS-HD 5.1 track is every bit as frenetic and chaotic as what you’re seeing on the screen. High and low ends are reproduced perfectly. Grinding gravel, shattering glass, the rumbling earth, molten lava, gargantuan tidal waves, vehicle engines, and every other discernible sound effect add an extra level of realism that make the special effects so much more enjoyable. The sub-woofer stays relatively quiet pre-Apocalypse, but when that crust displacement thing starts kicking in, you’ll be happy to know that sub you bought is earning its money’s worth. Dialogue also stays clear throughout the entire film, never losing consistency in volume level. Separation of said dialogue and all the special effects noises are never a problem either, with directionality giving a very spacious feeling to said destruction all across the sound board. Again, like the video, this would make an especially good reference BD to wow and showcase to your friends.Extras – 3.5As much as I like to give commentaries a listen for whatever kind of extra information on production or writing that they have, I’m going to be honest and say I don’t think I have it in me to sit through this movie two more times for both a P-i-P and audio commentary track. After watching the standalone featurettes on disc 2, I find Roland Emmerich to be something of a paradox. He seems like a very detail-attentive director who takes pride in his craft; that craft for this particular movie being a spiffy visual feast of destruction, mayhem, and a sort of child-like imagination in the way those ideas come to fruition. However, unlike a Michael Bay or Jon Turteltaub who both possess that “big kid director” kind of approach to movie-making, I feel Emmerich lacks in general enthusiasm as a whole, at least that’s the feeling I got from the interviews here. And to sit through two and a half hours of that blandness twice is just not something I’d rather use my free time for. That being said, I give Sony a lot of credit for putting these extras together. A good majority of them focus a lot on production and the ego of Emmerich and his “master technique” for making epic disaster films (of which only one really stands out to me at this time), while the rest of the features are tied into the whole Mayan Calender and impending Apocalypse craze. I found these parts to be interesting at some points, but then blatantly insulting at others. For a movie about the end of the world that supposedly uses scientific “truth” and reasoning for a believable premise, the “experts” interviewed here are more than adamant to the point of either saying “it could happen,” or as that one scientist said “it will happen [and that I’ve been right all along because this movie is so well-crafted by Emmerich, how can it not be the truth?].” On top of that, he goes on to use the excuse that the reason most regular people won’t believe his theory is because of a subconscious defense to the “fear” that our lives will, indeed, end when he says it will according to the Mayan Calender. Take from these segments what you will, but after such a brazen display in ideological put-downs that nearly defeated the purpose of the movie for me, I have to say it’s a strange array of extras that gets an A in effort, but a C in continuity and bias.Overall – 4.0I didn’t like the film so much the first time around, but was surprised upon a repeat viewing. For me, I like movies that manage to have a little bit of everything: good production values, an engaging story and/or characters that, when aptly put together, make for some semblance of entertainment or thought-provocation, and a good cast of actors/actresses. 2012, while on the extremely high end of production values, also has a surprising amount profundity with more or less cookie-cutter archetypal characters, though with a good performance by one Chiwetal Ejiofor. Consequently, the presence of many an absurdity represented by some of the supporting/unnecessary characters, cheesy screenplay, silly script, and unfocused attention to some of the finer details in the writing ruin what could’ve made this a much more fulfilling and epic Apocalypse film. I wish I could say this is more than another popcorn flick and a definite must-own title outside of its reference A/V presentation, but I consider this a rental at best. However, if you’re happy enough with the popcorn mentality and aren’t bothered by some of the movie’s faults, then this is definitely worth adding to your collection.
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KT –
Fun
Fun movie for the entire family.
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Isiah Taylor –
A Blockbuster That Deserves A Place in in the Realm of the Classic!!
Whoa! Where do I begin??My name is Isiah and I’m from Tallahassee, Florida and I am telling you that we need to ADD a certain movie to our hall a classics; classics where even today, they give us pause with their messages, themes, story lines, and sometimes, special effects. One of these movies, based on my humble opinion, should be the Roland Emmerich’s film-the Mother of Disaster Films, the film that ended the 2000s with a bang…”2012″!! Roland Emmerich was born in 1955 in Germany and is well known massive disaster movies such as “Independence Day” (1996), “Godzilla” (1998), “The Day After Tomorrow”, and recently “White House Down”. While being criticized for his films being too long, over reliance on special effects, poor character development, and so on, Roland’s films, to me, our truly massive and opens up the movie with a global initiative where the disasters he creates affects almost all of the Human species, which is clearly evident in 2012. I first fell in love with Roland’s work when his most celebrated work, Independence Day; in which aliens attack the planet during the American holiday of Independence Day. I have seen many documentaries about the making of this movie and the difficult work and skill needed to produce such an epic, from model miniatures to shooting. ID4 has been credited for inaugurating the era of the disaster film that lead up to 2012 and continues to this day. Now, the movie!I first saw the trailers at my high school during lunch. I remember seeing the images of Los Vegas, the crumbling of the Christ the Redeemer statue and others back in the fall of 2009 when I moved back to Tallahassee from Apalachicola. I was certainly turned on by the sporadic clips of the movie but the LA scene DEFINATLY sealed opinion of the movie. I have never seen destruction of that scale and I would even say it rivals the destruction scene in ID4 where only the US Bank Tower was destroyed. In 2012, the mother of all earthquakes rips apart the West Coast in disaster scenes never before seen. So, on Saturday of November 13, 2009, I invited my dad (despite us not getting along), to see the film at the Tallahassee AMC 20 theater located in the former Tallahassee Mall. I was completely amazed, wowed, and even bought to tears by the movie. the sheer scale, situations, and movie length already suggested to me that this would be an EPIC film. I’m not here to narrate the film since I would assume everyone on this forum has seen the movie in its entirety but I am here to tell you what I got out of the film. The characters are rather well-explained and have taken their roles respectively. President Thomas Wilson (Danny Glover) is rather an ode to the accomplishment of Barack Obama who has been informed of the 2012 situation and his visibly concerned but not overly dramatic about it (since, the information of the end is being kept away from the public). The fact that, during the catastrophes, the President remained to address the nation one last time rather than board the arks in China speaks to his attribute of Humanity. Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) is a struggling father and holding odd jobs who is estranged from his ex-wife and kids but still manages to care and hold on to hope that he will one day be reunited with his family- a massive global event just so happen to set those wheels in motion. Adrian Helmsley (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) takes is job vary seriously and in a way has been the voice of the Humanity through science, him being the one who knows the the disasters are about to happen much sooner than expected and collaborates with world leaders to save Humanity. Finally, Oliver Platt plays Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser, a rather snobbish individual who is only concern with control and power rather than love and compassion-in contrast to the humanitarian of Helmsley. I was wowed by the grand scale of the calamities at hand; massive earthquakes literally ripping apart continents, terrible volcanic eruptions, to massive tsunamis flooding every country, this movie is as close to slow-pace end-of-the-world as you can get (as opposed to “Knowing” which ends it all in one swift blow). The movie, thankfully,takes place in 2012 and the human race is going about their normal lives, unaware that most of them will be dead in a few days, note the playful chatter of the morning radio hosts in LA after an earthquake when we are first introduced to Jackson Curtis’s character. This movie could have easily been set during or after the cataclysms and then the background development would have been absent, which would have made this movie less enjoyable. Due to the hysteria that would have enveloped the populace if knowledge of the disaster was made public, the governments of the world hold on to information to ensue a selected few survive. The disaster happens and its a struggle between the ones chosen to survive and everything else. Those in the disaster zone are obviously dead, those not there are scrambling to survive but know that their time is coming as whole civilizations are virtually wiped out. Those chosen to survive are now in charge of likely saving the human race from extinction despite being selected because of their checkbooks. Finally, the movie details the most single destructive event in modern earth history andcertainly human history,not even a large-scale nuclear war could compete with this, in my opinion. In many cases, the governments of the world have abandoned their people and let then fend for themselves, it shows whole cultures and societies being systematically destroyed; the fact that America, the sole superpower of the earth, ceases to exist after being ravaged by earthquakes, tsunamis, and the Yellowstone eruption and subsequent ash cloud. Indeed, the world has sure come to and end. One could only imagine families,couples, and even total strangers either fighting each other ore holding hands as they wait to die. Hell, i almost cried when President Wilson died when the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy hit the White House and along with billions of others. In addition, human greed and the dark side of Capitalism ultimately ensured that only a select few survived due to their financial situation, as opposed rather how they could contribute to a post-2012 world or not. I actually thought that the 2012 myth would happen in some form when during the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami and the destructive 2011 tornado outbreak in the Midwestern United States. But, in 2012, had my first prom, I graduated from high school, and started college. The only thing that happened on December 21, 2012 was the movie “2012” in honor of the date, premiered on the FX Channel. Humanity breathed a sigh of relief. (Lol!) This movie is certainly ca classic and it should be treated as such.So what do you think?XOXOXOXOXIsiah
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Midge –
Excellent! Edge of your seat Thriller!!
SPOILERS throughout!I don’t know what movie the rest of these brain-fried people saw. I’m sure glad I watched the movie before reading their 3rd grade diatribes.This was one of the most excellent, thrilling, action-packed disaster movies I’ve ever seen. There’s not a boring moment in the entire movie and has you on the edge of your seat every moment.It was a pleasure to finally see a disaster movie which is truly packed with disasters destroying the entire planet and every identifiable landmark instead of wasting time with ridiculous side stories. Most of the movie is through the viewpoint of global scientists, leaders and the struggle of one family to survive. I watched it for the disaster storyline, not their personal stories. When people complain about the lack of depth for the family, this is a disaster movie, not Sleepless in Seattle. If they had spent a lot of time on the personal issues of families, it would have ruined the movie and impeded the flow of suspense.I’m thankful they kept to the main core of the plot “The destruction of the Earth!” The entire movie was a fresh concept for global destruction. I was surprised to learn that these were not spaceships… although I think that would have been neat as well. However, it did not make as much sense for the two leaders which stayed behind, as it might have made if these had been interplanetary vehicles.While I understand the concept that no gov’t would inform the population of such a cataclysmic event due to global panic and violence which would ensue from the very type of people who wrote those ridiculous critiques… many could have survived via ships or high altitudes if they had known planetary flooding was the main issue.You can also bet the wealthy, famous and chosen few would be the ones to get the seats. It isn’t pretty, but unfortunately, realistic (as was the elimination of anyone who threatened to spill the beans). However, I doubt the escape ships would have all been in China. Each country would have had their own assembled at their respective black ops sites, under their control.It was obvious the person in charge of the plane flight scenes had no knowledge of aerodynamics or piloting. Planes simply cannot fly like that and would have stalled and crashed within minutes. However, it did not make it any less exciting. Having had about the same amount of flying skills, I did share Gordon’s horrific predicament at being expected to fly a plane he had never trained for. That part was realistic but I doubt he would have managed that well under those conditions (not even in a simulator). However, it didn’t dampen the excitement of the scenes.Same with the unbelievable driving escape scenes where no vehicle could survive the bizarre destruction sequences. Yet, no less exciting even though we knew it was over the top. We were still on the edge of our seats all the way.On the “divorced family being saved by the part time dad” issue… that has been overused from movies like Day after Tomorrow and War of the Worlds, so the theme is too repetitious as is the bratty kid routine which was also used in the Day the Earth Stood still. So, on this subject, these directors and writers do need to get away from these overused themes. In this film, would have opted to save Gordon in this scenario since he was the one who earned the family’s love & respect.You can also bet that the cell phones and electricity would not be working and there would have been in a lot more global panic. However, our beloved media & political circus would have certainly been making jokes chastising everyone for making a big deal out of nothing (as depicted) while the planet was disintegrating beneath their feet. Have to keep the masses calm no matter what.The officials also seemed to be unreasonably blind as to what was occurring globally when they had access to hundreds of orbiting satellite systems. It took these survivors a month to find out that one of the continents had not flooded, (despite the supertech ops center they had?) As a director, I would have opted to flood all of the continents. I would not have left any landmass untouched because that really changed the dynamics.I would also have also opted for a simple discovery of the father alive on his ship & his rescue without the alternate ending discourse dialogue. Tsunami’s are not as bad at sea as they are near a coast. At sea, they are swells, not waves, so it is likely large ships out at deep sea would have faired quite well. The film’s research on realistic effects of cataclysmic occurrences was a bit thin.Opening the gates of the ships at the last moment was in poor judgment. If they had done so earlier, it would have been ok, but to wait until the tidal wave was on the way was most definitely not the smartest thing to do with humanity at stake.It would have been better with the President all the way to the end of the movie. The Secret Service would not have left him under any circumstances despite any protest he might have made. He would have never been out of their sight and they would have taken him by force if necessary to save him and the continuity of gov’t. I think this should have been handled quite differently than it was. I did not agree with the fate of this character. He should have been a survivor and an inspiration to the survivors.Even with these improvements I would have opted for, I still loved the movie. It was a great disaster film!Don’t listen to these brain-fried low brows that were probably dragged away from their favorite sports game and beer, etc., by their families and forced to watch the movie. Their lack of education and mentality is obvious just by reading their mindless attempts to attack the director and film to get revenge for missing their favorite TV sports; It was obvious just by the time of year and date this film was released. The reviews improved as soon as football season was over. That should tell you something about the hostility & validity of those holiday reviews.Think for yourself. If you enjoy action packed disaster movies, you will love this movie. It outdoes any disaster movie ever made. If you are looking for soapy relationships… then perhaps Sleepless in Seattle is a better choice for you. If you are looking for info on the Mayans & 2012… then you should look for documentaries with that info. But this is not for thin-skinned picayune whiners who are impossible to please.This movie is for people who love disaster and action movies. The scientific concept of this disaster is fresh and original. The director does a great job of destroying every famous landmark and anticipated trouble spot across the planet. You get to see California fall into the ocean; the Yellowstone Caldera in a magnificent explosion; Hawaii buried in lava; the Sistine Chapel crumbling into dust around the masses; the Las Vegas casino’s disintegrating magnificently; the destruction of Brazil’s landmarks; Washington DC in ruins; California skyscrapers crashing around their ears; incredible tsunami’s miles high… covering every coast on the globe; continents tearing apart into horrific chasms taking everything of civilization down with it. You can’t ask for more than this movie has to offer in disasters. A refreshing change from all those movies where they usually save civilization in the nick of time. Not this one. They utterly destroy it along with a majority of the population, in full realistic “top of the line” effects!This is by far the best disaster movie ever made with the most fantastic effects you could ever hope for. It is truly like riding the world’s scariest roller coaster for almost 3 hours. You are on the edge of your seat throughout the entire movie. Not a boring moment. The tension is tight from start to finish and will twist you into knots without a chance to catch your breath. There are no pauses between the action and constant tension. The bigger the screen, the better you will appreciate the experience. This ultimate disaster movie is indeed all about the fantastic special effects. They did not scrimp on any of them.You will not be disappointed if you love disaster movies crammed with global destruction and special effects. This film outdoes any disaster movie ever made.
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