Nothing like a Good (Awful) Disaster Movie at 1 AM

[MadBadger]

2012 for the first time...and last

[Heddi]

1. wasn't that just dismal? I can suspend reality for a good non-reality flick

but that movie just takes the fucking cake. I feel stupider having watched it. It was way too long...If memory serves, it was over 2 hours...or maybe it was just time dragging because of the ridiculous movie. And hay look! We're driving a limo through scenes of crashing landscapes and uprooted ground. Oh hay now we're driving a winnebago through scenes of crashing landscapes and uprooted ground. Oh hay now we're flying an airplane through scenes of crashing landscapes and uprooted ground.

It was like a hanna barbera cartoon where they just use the same background in a loop whenever the characters are running...tree, stump, grass, mountain. Tree, stump, grass, mountain, etc etc

[MadBadger]

6. My biggest gripe of all is how well the kids and everybody handled the entire city collapsing

They really took it in stride. Dakota Fanning freaked the fuck out in War of the Worlds.

[NMDemDist2]

2. we actually liked it

totally BS the whole way through but the CG was great

[Crystal Clarity]

3. I had an odd fascination w/disaster movies as a kid.

Beginning w/the 1974 'Towering Inferno' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072308/

I watched it again as an adult a few years ago and now wonder... What was I thinking? It seems so poorly done to me now.

The mid and late 70's gave us a lot of cheesy disaster movies. I'm not sure if I'd want to even bother w/2012 but I bet it's no worse then a lot of those 70's 'blockbusters' (lol) :-)

[MadBadger]

5. they arent poorly done, but still just so bad.

Sometimes entertaining though

[Crystal Clarity]

8. Yeah, you're right

Your simple 3 letter adjective 'bad' describes the movie much better. It did win 3 Oscars at least, and I've always liked Steve McQueen. :-)

[old mark]

4. I was reading a book describing cottonmouth moccasin snakes around 1 AM

didn't get to sleep till around 3...

Don't care much for no snakes...


mark

[hedgehog]

7. My favorite part was near the end of the movie when the engines wouldn't run because a door was

partly open, and the entire ships was at risk. No one had ever heard of jumping the limit switch!