A few thoughts

Cleora 2022-01-25 08:04:24

1. Personally, I am particularly fond of closed-space movies. When I saw the flooding of Mount Everest in the first preview trailer, I decided that it would be the largest closed-space movie in history.
Unfortunately, this is not the case. The despair and crisis that should be present in a closed space are completely submerged in the stunts. The people in the film are always just running around in a plane.

2. There is only one most important reason why I ran to watch this movie early in the morning: watching special effects. When I saw everything collapsed in the official trailer, I decided that this was a stunt movie that reached its peak. As a blockbuster controller, how could I miss the peak-to-peak blockbuster?
Unfortunately, the fact is not like this. The only part of the film that can make people bloody is the part of the Los Angeles collapse that has been released before. Others are lacking. It seems that Hollywood still doesn't have that much money to go to the top. If movie theaters can sell it. Just look at the ticket for that section, it will be the best value.

3. I am very dissatisfied with why the director has to spend 40 minutes without any big scenes slowly laying out the plot, we think it is for special effects! Not for those clichés that know the end by looking at the beginning! Since he has the ability to express the life and death of father and son in a phone call scene, he has the ability to shorten the 40 minutes to 15 minutes. This is the fault of fixed thinking.

4. After President Blackie gave the future to Blackie, the debate between Blackie and White at the end of the film is really interesting. It should be viewed together with the election debate between Obama and McCain: When talking about human ideals, one is constantly reminding the people to pay attention to the reality, just as one is talking about health care reform, and the other is talking about no more tax increases.

5. I wonder why John Cusack became a hero in the end? Isn't the valve not closing that he caused it? How many people died because of this incident. In the end, when he closed the valve, it was only because he caused himself to take the blame. What is there to praise?

6. As a rare American blockbuster in which the Chinese really speak Chinese, they even have a professional term such as "huohua". They are really interested.

7. The old black president of 2012 is going to be bald, and you should pay more attention to Obama's hairline in the future...

8. Although the film supplements the Bible and specifies that Noah's Ark is Made in China, there is still a meaningful line: "Today, the United States will no longer exist, and tomorrow, the world will be destroyed." (To the effect) Is this meant for the people of Al Qaeda?

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Extended Reading
  • Chadd 2022-03-21 09:01:21

    Very big and very long. Visually, it completely satisfies or even exceeds the aesthetic expectations of all top special effects blockbusters, but unfortunately the other elements are not fresh.

  • Daniela 2022-03-22 09:01:18

    The most memorable sentence: This work should be handed over to China, and only China can do it.

2012 quotes

  • Kate Curtis: [as they escape Los Angeles in the plane] I don't understand. How did you know this was to happen?

    Jackson Curtis: It's not just California. It's the whole goddamned world that gone to shit. I met this guy at Yellowstone, this crazy guy, but he's been right about that's happened so far. And he says that the government is building these ships, spaceships, I don't know what, but something.

    Gordon Silberman: What, ships?

    Jackson Curtis: Yeah, places where we can be safe. He knows where they are. He's got a map.

    Kate Curtis: Jackson...

    Jackson Curtis: Kate, you gotta just trust me on this, okay?

    Gordon Silberman: Guys... look.

    [L.A. is sinking into the Pacific as they fly away]

  • Jackson Curtis: We gotta get to the Santa Monica Airport!

    Gordon Silberman: Well, take the freeway! It'll be half the time!

    Jackson Curtis: [as the freeway collapses from the earthquake] Yeah, right!