2012

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Good call on the first bit :D

Anyway, good review I guess and I loved the analysis of the shot

why the censorship? the pixelation on the opening bit was laughable anyway. is this a new policy for the site? i was confused by bleeps in last week's zero punctuation

I definitely appreciated the expert breakdown of that beautiful shot of the coast, this movie really does look gorgeous and now that it's got your approval, I can't wait to see it!

also... first to watch? possibly. but no one cares.
[edit] WOW - no one tried to first-comment this video - we're making progress, internet!

It's true. To use another analogy, there's a difference between fresh popcorn you make in your own home and the stale over-buttered stuff you get at a cinema counter. Sure, either way you're eating popcorn, but one's going to taste a bit better and, since you're on your own couch rather than surrounded by morons, you'll probably enjoy the end product more.

That said, I'm not seeing 2012. I'm glad it's not as crap as I imagined it would be, but I still have better things to do with my money.

Like buy ingredients for homemade popcorn. Or cookies.

300lb. Samoan:
why the censorship? the pixelation on the opening bit was laughable anyway. is this a new policy for the site? i was confused by bleeps in last week's zero punctuation

I definitely appreciated the expert breakdown of that beautiful shot of the coast, this movie really does look gorgeous and now that it's got your approval, I can't wait to see it!

also... first to watch? possibly. but no one cares.

Even if you were, at least you're not doing something smegging stupid like simply saying "FIRST LOL".

Oh, you forgot to mention that the Maya's made a mistake in the calculations. The calender ends in 2208 AD, not 2012.

Man, I love it when you bash Michael Bay.

Loved the PSA.

Great review Moviebob. Full of insight, filming techniques, and Michel Bay bashing.

Ok now this is definitely my favorite part of the escapist, that was brilliant. Great work.

Woah, Mr. Chipman makes an appearance in real life. 2012 is possibly made for people who believe in this doomsdate.

Still not seeing it.

I simply loved that Micheal Bay interpretation of 2012. It was right on the money.

Multi-Kill:
Damn! Whats with the stars of the videos of the escapist looking nothing like their voices let on, and a bit on the hideous side of the handsome/beatiful spectrum!?

On a more serious note, nice review, even if your appearance did fill me with a sense of shock, awe, and disgust.

Dude, you're a jerk. I'm sure you're the picture of beauty yourself.

As far as the review goes, it was great. I always enjoy your reviews Bob! I hope that your message of the truth about the 2012 apocalypse gets spread to the masses before it's too late.

Hmmm. So it is a bad movie but a good bad movie is what Bob is saying.

I might just see it for the ride.

(Although it is the same reason I went to see Transformers 2)

what's with the censorship?

Also good review; might give this 2012 thing a look

I was shocked the low score 2012 got at ign, I was looking forward to it for awhile and I was planning on avoiding it, or was until I saw moviebob's review. Also 2012, it's the whole Y2K in a snappy new package.

It felt like you were talking faster than usual. Like you were trying to get it out fast.

But that part where you talk about the set up of the scene, went right over my head. Do you really over analyze every scene like that?

I actually took a class about Mayan Math. The calendar was made around 12AD, and the reason it ends at 2012 is because the Mayans never needed to count past 2000. They used a base 20 system: 0, 20, 200, 2000 (we have a base 10 system: 0, 10, 100, 1000). There was no calculations or advice from aliens. They just never needed to count that higher than 2000. If they did they would have made a symbol for 20000. In there time though, 2000 was about as high as they needed to count. Anything past that is just a lot.

And now you have just learned something.

What I can't understand is why the Escapist doesn't run Bob's other video line "The GameOverthinker" That's good stuff. Introspective and meandering, but it works. Plus, isn't the Escapist gaming first?

As for this review. Cool, nice to hear, but I'm still not gonna pay ten bucks to go see it. At least when someone I know crams it in their DVD player I know I can stick around without turning on my DS.

Loved the review, I've always held MovieBob's reviews highly in regards to whether or not I saw a movie (God Bless Him for convincing me to see District 9! It is the greatest movie I have ever seen, better then even The Dark Knight and Citizen Kane and I would have completely skipped it otherwise!).

His commmentary into the deeper understanding of proper film theory and artistry has cemented his place in my mind above most "proper" critics of cinema.

I was actually going to skip 2012 altogether, but now I'm intrigued. I never buy a game or see a movie or anything based solely off the words of a critic or reviewer (especially not Yahtzee, who is entertaining and correct in many aspects, but I feel in the past has overhyped some games I found I really enjoyed [i.e. Mirror's Edge, Assassin's Creed, Brutal Legend, etc.), but Bob's assertions of proper filmaking capabilities, interesting social commentary, and just plain fun disaster movie stuff has converted a nonbeliever.

Moviebob has been my favorite escapist feature for a while now.

Its also nice to see MB actually knows some stuff about film-making. It's nice to see a movie that makes use of interesting shot compo instead of the "Hurr Durr same 3 film textbook shots for every scene in the damn movie" we are getting a lot of.

I don't care what he says, Godzilla is F***ing awesome. The whole reason I would want to see this movie is because it is by the same director as the remake.

Now I'm going to go stick my head in a bucket and cry, I hope you are happy >:(

Jman1236:
I was shocked the low score 2012 got at ign, I was looking forward to it for awhile and I was planning on avoiding it, or was until I saw moviebob's review. Also 2012, it's the whole Y2K in a snappy new package.

I agree, the Mayans did a good job of setting up their calender for the next thousand years or so. I think it's more an issue of "you know, we've set up the calender for the next thousand years or so, why not take a break?" then any warnings of foreboding doom. I've researched numerology, geomancy and other stuff of the sort, you'd be shocked at the scale of Religious figures, New Age diviners, Mathmeticians who've predicted the end of the world and which have now passed us by already.

I think the audience is big enough for it, The Escapist talks alot about the psychology of games and related philosophy and psychology all the time, this would be a good addition to what they already do.

Tharticus:
Woah, Mr. Chipman makes an appearance in real life. 2012 is possibly made for people who believe in this doomsdate.

He's appeared before, back before he had his own weekly video he showed his face in "The escapist presents" where he talked about the bafta's and the lack of batman.

The Michael Bay shot actually made me slobber some of my drink down my front. I wasn't expecting to laugh like that.

It seems silly but you're right, nobody sees those movies for the plot just for the destruction.

It's about fucking time someone else other than me called out the bullshit of the 2012 theory.

And besides, even if the world really will end come 2012...what-chya gonna do?

We have NO control over the apocalypse (SRSLY SRPRIZD FACE11!), kinda like how we have no control over whether your family dies in a car crash, or your best friend contracts cancer, or if someone goes on a shooting rampage in your local mall. If you're not afraid of these things happening, then by that logic there is no reason why you should be afraid of the end of the world. Feeling nervous about it is fine, but if you're out right terrified, then you should NEED to chill the fuck out and have some ice cream.

If the total genocide of humanity starts 2012, next year, or tomorrow even, I say let it come.

I'm not afraid of the world ending in 2012. I AM afraid of people who THINK it's going to end acting like nutjobs with nothing to lose in a manner reminiscent of Y2K and causing all sorts of trouble and danger as a result of it.

So yeah, my counterpoint to MovieBob's assertion that people who believe this deserve to get advantage of is maybe they do, but plenty of other people might suffer for their idiotic hysteria and this movie is not helping.

At least, I suspect it's not. A potential benefit could be the idiots in question seeing this movie, realizing how ridiculous their assertion is, and calming the heck down in time for the actual year 2012. This is assuming idiots will have intelligent realization, however, so that may be optimistic at best.

lol win! i want to se this now, pity it won't be out in the UK for a while :(
great review!

I'm planning to see this today, good to know that its an actually good movie.

Yeah, the whole 2012 thing will probably blow over. If the Mayan calendar said anything about it ending there, well, it would join the hundreds of other apocalypse predictions that have not come true throughout human history. I don't see anybody talking about those things at all.

As for seeing 2012, I had already made my mind up to see it seeing as how I enjoyed The Day After Tomorrow immensely as an action movie. It's improbable, but it's still very fun to watch. And 2012 looks pretty much like exactly the same deal with the improbability of the disaster's scale but the fun times of watching stuff get destroyed/ characters outrun natural events, so I was sold on this pretty much while everybody else was speculating it would be bad.

And plus, there's no denying that Emmerich, as Bob says here, knows how to set up a shot. Hell, I still remember the final shot of Day After Tomorrow like I've seen it yesterday!

As well, it sees we see the face of the man who talks fast. Now all that's left is to figure out where he frequently hangs out so I can catch a glimpse of him. (please let it be close to Symphony Hall, please please please please pleeeeease...)

Haha that was great. Loved the beginning and il probly go watch this movie now.

I'm not going to see this movie, like so many films MovieBob has given rave reviews. I know it's not something I'd really enjoy. That said, I'm still always fascinated by the anylisis and the interesting observations that you cant get anywhere else :)

Wait, so it's exactly as dumb as the trailers make it look?

Gotta disagree on this one. Maybe the director is talented, but just because he knows how to "stack the building blocks" of a movie doesn't make the movie good. A well-stacked pile of crap is still a pile of crap.

Wha? I was expecting this to be a bad movie. Well, I'm pleasantly surprised.

I also agree with the opening bit. If you think the apocylapse is going to happen 2012 you should be smacked. Also, the image break-down was a plus.