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Published:: 2010.Nov.15 / 1am

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2009
- Runtime: 158 minutes (2 h 38 m)
- Director: Roland Emmerich 53 yrs old
- Cast:
  
  Jackson Curtis
  
  John Cusack 42
  
  Kate Curtis
  
  Amanda Peet
  
  Dr. Adrian Helmsley
  
  Chiwetel Ejiofor 31
  
  Dr. Laura Wilson
  
  Thandie Newton 36
  
  Carl Anheuser
  
  Oliver Platt
  
  Gordon Silberman
  
  Thomas McCarthy
  
  Charlie Frost
  
  Woody Harrelson 47
  
  Pres. Thomas Wilson
  
  Danny Glover 62
  
  Noah Curtis
  
  Liam James
  
  Lilly Curtis
  
  Morgan Lily
  
  Yuri Karpov
  
  Zlatko Buric
  
  Tamara
  
  Beatrice Rosen
  
  Alec Karpov
  
  Alexandre Haussmann

2012

From Down in Front at FriendsInYourHead.com:

Teague, Brian, Dorkman, Jake

Teague likes it, Jake loves it, Brian hates it, and it literally made Dorkman want to kill himself. Grab a beer, it’s 2012.

When I watched this movie, I literally lost the will to live for about 3 hours. [laughter] … Because I’m not sure I want to keep living in a world where this movie gets made. — Down in Front,
2012 @0:06:50

I was expecting this to be a very heart-wrenching, end-of-the-world movie. And this movie does an amazing thing to me. This movie makes me want Armageddon to happen. … You’re crazy. — Down in Front,
2012 @0:10:29

In Independence Day, anybody that just seems to get caught up in the events eventually, by the end of it, plays a direct role in solving the crisis. … John Cusack at no point does that in this film. — Down in Front,
2012 @0:12:14

If anyone out there believes in the 2012— December 21st, 2012: f*** you. You’re an idiot. — Down in Front,
2012 @0:37:30

When I destroyed the Sistine Chapel for Life After People, I fought to not have to split between Adam and God. … But I did. … I also added a Flying Spaghetti Monster right next to God. — Down in Front,
2012 @1:38:23

It’s good that they still have cell phone service. [laughter] … AT&T has actually gotten better now, after the apocalypse. I’ll buy that. — Down in Front,
2012 @2:00:46

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Zarban 2011.Feb.20 6pm

DIF does 2012. Jake and Teague like it a lot. Brian and Michael hate it (and Michael was nearly driven to suicide). The discussion gets pretty enthusiastic at times and they talk over one another. Unfortunately, almost all the discussion is why the movie is bad or why it’s great; there’s very little scene-to-scene commentary.

I don’t like the movie, but I almost completely disagree with Brian and Michael. I think that Emmerich was trying really hard to make a good movie but he wanted to make a serious and exciting movie about the end of the world. If you make a movie about the end of the world and don’t try to make it fun, you’re dooming your efforts. Jake and Teague had fun, which is fine for them, but this movie isn’t actually made for that. The film makers really want you to be on the edge of your seat and really think about what you would do in those situations.

Regarding the comparisons to Independence Day, there’s not a moment in that movie that I believed the characters were real people, but they were kind of fun. (I’m not a big fan of ID, tho. And I hated Twister). I totally buy that Emmerich’s German-ness made him unable to realize that his actors in ID were not taking the movie seriously.

You know what I hate? Thandie Newton walks into the fucking Oval Office unbidden and unannounced. That does not happen. There are guys who will shoot you to stop that from happening. Also, there absolutely is not prayer chapel in the West Wing of the White House. That’s idiotic.

The speechifying at the end is stupid. The captain is in charge of the ship. There’s no way he’d allow some dumbass to make a speech to the whole ship and jeopardize the launching of the ship. That’s not how a ship’s captain makes decisions.

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