Have you guys seen this preview for Roland Emerich's "2012"??
This movie looks absolutely ridiculous, the premise is pretty damn silly....... but I'm not gonna lie, I'm a sucker for a destruction movie and this one looks pretty cool. The part with the ship crashing into the White House at the end of the trailer looks sweet. They definitely couldn't have made this kind of movie 30 years ago.
The biggest mistake of this trailer is them promoting this movie is from the director of "The Day After Tomorrow".....because that was pure garbage.
John Cusack seems like a weird choice for this movie.
Looks like another possibly succesful attempt at "biggest special effects ever". I'm thinking we might soon reach the point where you can't really "top" previous films simply by upping the scale.
(Like you can't make music essentially more "louder" or "heavier" than what's done before, just "different kind of loud", if even that.)
John Cusack seems like a weird choice for this movie.
Looks like another possibly succesful attempt at "biggest special effects ever". I'm thinking we might soon reach the point where you can't really "top" previous films simply by upping the scale.
(Like you can't make music essentially more "louder" or "heavier" than what's done before, just "different kind of loud", if even that.)
I used to think that as well, but I think technology is limitless......we'll be saying the exact same thing in 2027
I used to think that as well, but I think technology is limitless......we'll be saying the exact same thing in 2027
Possibly, but I don't think we'll be saying that in 2057, at least not with traditional films. Maybe if we've moved on to holograms or direct-sensory-input, which would pretty much be new artforms.
At some point you can do essentially everything, and we're getting there fast.
Like in music, after you could do faster-than-ear-can-register, total monotony for as long as you have power, all that atonal stuff, desibels-that-could-kill-you, completely random sounds, "music" that you can't hear but make you dizzy and vomit, we haven't really heard anything that's "more extreme" in at least a decade, and you could even say most of the borders of extreme were reached in the seventies and early eighties and just fine-tuned after that. The "new extreme" is mostly a matter of taste. You can do "new", but you can't "top" in the "going up a scale" sense.
The same goes with movies. With digital effects, you can basicly come up with anything, except with some limitations to realistic human figures. Once you CAN do anything, it's just a matter of someone doing it.
I think after you can do ultrarealistic human figures on your home computer (and there's no reason to believe we won't get there), we'll pretty soon the limits of what can essentially be done. (It will revolutionize porn, that's for sure...)
The budget on this movie must be absolutely massive. It looks like they crammed every previous disaster/end of the world/ huge special effects driven blockbuster movie into one film.
First he had aliens blow up the white house, this time an air craft carrier! lol, looks terrible but the special effects look like they could be quite something. Ill pay my $12 to see it
2012-Another "End of the World" Movie
