2012 Review (11-15-09)

Watched most of your videos Spoony but i had to say that in the cinema i said the same thing you did.
How can he easily out run that cloud but the plane can't? lol

I just watched this (Most of it). Independence Day is still my favorite that he has done. I was starting to get confused about whether this movie was intentionally a comedy movie. The Special Effects looked so BAAAD. I nearly fell off my couch laughing at how bad they were. In fact, this movie's special effects were so bad I not only appreciated Independence Day more, I appreciated the Special Effects in the War of the Worlds remake as well.

When John Cusack was running for the plane (after he SOMEHOW manages to grab onto a ledge while the world is still falling around him when the super huge RV he was in plummets ass end into the abyss), the shot just looked so comedic, so slow, so green screen and so... fake running...? (I don't know how to put it better than that). While it was funny, it's just bad. I didn't enjoy the fact that I was laughing at it.

And really? Was I the only one that noticed that practically everything just looked CG and fake. And did he have to CG a shopping cart moving slightly to the left? Was I not the only one that noticed that? That is just LAZY.

And I stopped watching it after the hour and a half mark, not because I was pissed off at how bad it was... I just didn't care anymore. So I'm different from you here, Spoony. I didn't even enjoy laughing at it.

But maybe that's because I waited for the DVD instead of seeing it in theaters. But I think I would have pissed off others in the theaters from laughing so much.

When I saw this movie I was dragged by some friends, not wanting to see it myself because I had already allowed Emmerich to fuck me over too many times. Then, after 1 hour and 30 minutes, the intermission came and I immediately panicked when I realized that I had only sat halfway through this piece of shit. I was literally the only person in the theater that didn't walk out talking about how good this movie was. If the world was ending, why the fuck would you entrust the only hope of man's survival to the Chinese?! I mean, all the toys I had as a kid that instantly fell apart were Chinese! Just to clarify, I don't have any problem with Chinese people but why wouldn't they have had more than one country doing this? And what I didn't get about only rich people going on these arcs is that what good is money when you have nothing to buy? And who would work in lower class jobs after the world ended? I could go on and on but I don't want to waste time I could be using to send mr. Emmerich a mailbomb.

Actually, I'd like to see Spoony do a review of Boondock Saints. I personally kinda like that movie, but there's so much opportunity to rip into it that I kinda want to see this guy do it. Hey, his FFVIII review made me laugh and I love that game, so if anyone's fit to do it (in my humble opinion) it's our Spoony.

As for 2012, I'm so sick of all these nutballs in my life hammering on about the end of the world (why do I hang out with these people?) that I do not want anything to do with it ever again. I guess I'd watch this movie if someone brought it for movie night, but I'd never pay to see it.

i didn't want to hate boondock saints because no one else said it was bad, i still hated it, i just didn't want to be that "one guy" who hated a good movie. im just glad im not alone

LOL at the "i might get hate mail for hating boondocks but bring it on cause the movie SUCKS" its just great that spoony stands by what he says and doesn't get swayed by anyone else >:D

Nice review Spoony. Two things I kinda disagree on. The first is that you have no connection to any of the characters. I actually liked the Black jazz musician, whos name I've forgotten, and his relation to hisson Adrian. That wasn't in the movie much but I felt for them is basically what I'm trying to say. Another thing is when you talk about the destruction and how it leaves no impact. What I liked a lot about this movie is also when you see people die in the earthquakes. Why? Well because they took the time an effort to edit that in. It me connect to whats going on when I see actual people die and not just the destruction cars and buildings.

Like Spoony I felt the movie was entertaining but not really a good movie.

This comment is rather random but is a piece of advice from me. Spoony, take your time with your stuff. I think the community is acting like rabid dogs because firstly, your material is good, and second, there is no real schedule on when they can expect stuff from you (SWAT LP vids, for example)

IDK but I just saw the movie yesterday... and I had a blast! With movies like this you really don't have to expect much characterization and story. It's stuff blowing up, everything going to shit and all you have to do is wonder: "what will come next? and how will they survive it?"... and of course they will survive somehow. But the fun of it for me is the awesomeness of it all. I was laughing a lot while watching this movie. So it was well worth my money...

(of course it's not even close to being the best movie of all time or anything... but it was really entertaining!)

I agree a lot with your review..well to a point. I actually really liked this movie which surprised me because I'm also not a huge fan of the genre. My problem with this genre, along with horror genre type disaster movies is that I'm always not sure if that would be the real way to act in that situation. For me, this really humanized the characters, such as the guy presented facts and people listened, instead of the whole everyone doesn't believe him until the worst happens. I just watched "The Mist" yesterday and was so frustrated with the people who didn't believe anything and just laughed about all until someone was killed. 2012 however I found the reactions pretty believable. Like really, what else would you do in this situation?

I'd personally recommend this movie as well, it somehow kept my interest for how long it is too which surprised me. And out of all the new movies I've seen as of recent, this has been the best one.

ok about spoony saying he should slap the stupid out of filmbrain was justified considering the way filmbrain just rages on about stuff that are really pretty irrelevant to the movies he reviews and just bashes them for the sake of bashing with no real point to it.

Now about boondock saints while i do disagree with spoony ,(and think it was just hilarious entertainment being ridiculously over the top at times, but that is what i like about it) i would like to hear what is it exactly about it that rubs spoony the wrong way,and makes it so bad in his eyes.

So Spoony please give us an in depth review on boondock saints as i'm sure we all want to have a peek at what is going on in that squishy and mostly brilliant gray matter of yours.

You need to make DVDS. Me and my brother would buy all of them. DVDS!

Anyone with access to the Internet would know that the Mayan calander resets its cycle in 2012. So in all reality were safe and sceptics are cavemen!

Worst role that Woody Harrelson has done is when he played that tranny hooker Galaxia in Anger Management

It just hit me while watching the bitter sweet ending of Pirates of the Caribbean 3. If Boondock Saints gets so much hate from Spoony for being an insult to decency than Mystice River is the grand king of all that's wrong in the world plus bad witting seen a mile away. If the Boondock Saints presents everything that's wrong on over testosterone movies than Mystic River is an EMO script that tries to hard to prove that there's evil in thsi world and good doesn't always win in the moct retarded, convoluted and weak plot of the decade. I mean I've saw the twist of that movie from the beginning whe the 2 kids phoned the police.

I'm calling you out Spooner not to review the Boondock Saints but to review Mistick River for the weak movie that it really is, if you have the balls. Yes the 2003 movie directed by Clint Eastwood has some pretty good acting but it's weak in it's premise that it tries to act as a mature movie that cuts through the happy ending BS by using a Swiss cheesed plot full of inconsistencies.

If you really consider yourself a critic I'm calling you out to review Mystic River and show us what a true critic you are and if you can cut the mass praise critic BS.

i was suprised at how good the child acting was especialy the girl

Boondocks Saints didn't suck, that's your opinion. Just like it's my opinion that I could name 100 people who do the same set up as you and they just do it better.

Just an opinion, you just like to think your opinions are facts.

My review is the most popular on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFDk0CKilAI

Up next New Moon. By the way Bad Boys and The Rock OWN 2012!!!

From reading the comments, I apparently need to watch boondock saints, as there is a real divide amongst fans on this movie. I request a Review!

The fact that Michael Bay's movies are worse does not make Emmerich's movies good.

I walked out of 2012 pretty disappointed. I set my bar pretty low, and yet my horribly low expectations were still too high for this dreck. For the first half of the movie I was actually entertained, and this elevated feeling lasted until roughly the time Las Vegas got wacked. After that the adrenaline levels came down, and the thirteenth time a reaction shot was followed by something huge slamming into the camera wasn't really that new anymore, the sheer stupidity of the movie caught up with me and surviving the rest of the movie was harder for me then for the humanity in the movie itself.

Seriously.. there are so many times you can see "a vehicle avoiding horrible disaster in the last second my swirving/rising in the last moment even though 99% of the landmass around it is wrecked".I can agree to one deus ex machina, or two, but in this flick they are one-a-minute. I finally turn in the towel when the world itself turns to accomodate our heroe's needs, after which they find a place to land a plane at the top of the frikking Himalayas, and then meet not ONE but TWO rescue opportunities in the space of fifteen minutes. This doesn't require suspension of disbelief, this requires suspension of brain activity.

It doesn't help that the characters aren't just one-dimensional, they are half-dimensional, and that we have a dozen of Heroic Moments. Good thing that the important stuff gets sorted out in the end, like the "wetting the bed issue". Also, it's quite amusing how they have clear skies and sunshine in the end, what with the Yellowstone supervolcano filling the atmosphere with ash for the next hundred years and bringing on the second ice age and everything.

They should edit this movie into a 30-minute version and sell it as a Universal Studios theme park ride. Then you would get your money's worth. At two and a half hours, it heavily overstays its welcome.

Ugh, i gotta comment on the bandwagon here and go..
Now i gotta see a real review of Boondock saints.
I have No interest in seeing the second, but i do like it original. So what if its not a great vigilante movie and there are better ones of the its genre. Its like saying cause the Godfather was good, no other movie can be about the mafia and also be good. Just cause its been done before doesnt mean it cant be done again, or different.

Its got the following it does because its over the top. Because its got a dark sense of humor, wacky characters and frankly, i think, great direction. There were some very clever scenes in that movie and over all just a fun dark comedy of an action flick.

There is one movie where Randy Quaid boasts a pretty stellar performance--The Last Detail. I think he may have even scored an Oscar nom for the role. Its convincing and dynamic, and the only movie that I know of where he doesn't play a tinfoil hat/trailer trash type character. Its a highly underrated 70s flick from a highly underrated director, and features a young Jack Nicholson as a foul-mouthed sailor with a Napoleon complex. I suggest you pick it up if you haven't already.

"it's not a good movie....AT ALL" if that's true (and it is) how could you spend 20 plus minutes talking about how it is in fact a good movie?

Ok, I gotta say i'm honestly shocked that you liked this movie. this movie is EVERYTHING you scream about being wrong with hollywood. it's a blatently stupid stupid idea. it's all about effecdts (the same effects we saw in EVERY devlin emmerich movie to date - except the patriot, but believe me if they had skyscrapers and landmarks to crumble at that point in history, they would have, trust me) I honestly can't see how you hate transformers and armageddon and such (which they deserve, don't get me wrong) and - even more crazy- OTHER shitty devlin/emmerich movies (which they also deserve, though i don't find stargate to be complete dog's nuts, but it hasn't aged that well, and it gets less good every year that damn show it spawned won't die), but like this. I'm honeslty confused. You bashed literally every single frame of war of the worlds (rightfully so, mind you) but you give 2012 a free pass? a movie that is literally just as mind numbingly stupid, overblown, pointless, fx driven, utterly implausable (as in "how the hell did they live through THAT?") and just generally BAD in every way a movie can be bad BUT didn't even have the benefit of giant robots death raying things??!!

and the boondock saints? really? i mean i know i'm like 200 some comments late here on this, but how in any universe can you like this (or any emmerich movie as you said, you tell me how ferris bueler as "the worm guy", dennis quaid unfreezing hot dogs for 3 hours, randy quaid doing...ANYTHING, or a retarded iguana in a jurrassic park halloween costume pretending to be godzilla, the list goes on...) could be better than the boondock saints?

I mean, it's not the greatest movie EVER, surely it's fans are a little too rabid, troy duffie is a flaming egotist douche-nozzel, and i honestly quake in fear at how mind numblingly stupid this waaaay too late and unneccessary sequel is going to ruin the first one (never had any interest in seeing it, i just knew it would be bad and from all the reviews it seems i'm right. that movie NEVER needed a sequel), but it's a decent little flick. it does what it sets out to do, and it's fun, it's quotable, and i really enjoyed it. everyone's entitled to their opinion and all, but c'mon, you can't honestly tell me you'd rather watch the day after tomorrow or freudzilla or independance day before boondock saints. at least the boondock saints doesn't feature no less than 37 shots of people outrunning fireballs (or their dog's outrunning them, and then leaping to saftey a foot and a half away from said fireball that devoured all of the oxygen in the tunnel so that...grr...it hurts just to say it)

I know i'm totally geeking out here, but seriously, i really wanna see you review saints now, cuz i really have to know where you're coming from with this. I'm willing to hear you out, maybe you've got some really good reasons for disliking it and you've pointed out a lot of things about movies i've never noticed before, but you can't make a statement like "it's one of the 20 worst movies ever made" or "i can name 100 vigilante movies better than this" without backing it up some. everyone's entitled to an opinion, but i think you just hate the movie for hating it sake so come on, you threw it out there. you can't go on for half an hour going on about how good this diarhea was AND bash one of my favorite movies in the same video and not at least explain it a little

I mean, you love YOR for god's sake!!! how can you be so unforgiving of boondock saints? (hey, i love rebbo as much as any fan of shitty cinema, but come on!) you said you watch sci fi channel original movies of your own free will! you said you liked that goddamn movie where the earthquake actually CHASES a guy!! there's nothing wrong with shitty movies, i LOVE shitty movies (why else would i be HERE?) but come on man, you liked 2012???!! you bash boondock saints??!! did the boondock saints kill and eat your puppy laughing while you were tied up watching as a kid or something?

now i know i just went on way too long about this. but what i really should have done was counter your "this movie is worth seeing" argument with only this

"drive-car-out-of-back-of-crashing-plane" oh it's ok, they wore their seatbelts...for god's sake, the science, the world views, AND the physics were all worse than captain planet!!! yes CAPTAIN PLANET MAKES MORE SENSE!!!

"The Mayans warned us…but they didn’t see the end of their own civilization coming, now did they?"

EXACTLY what I said.... but I added more to my rant. Summing it up:

Isn't this movie going a little for with profiting off fear mongering?

(Haven't actually watched the vid yet, so if you say the same thing, awesome)

I thought Boondock Saints was ok. It had its parts(Ron Jeremy ftw) but I think it is overrated and the director is a complete douchebaggery egotesticle fuck. I would like to see the 100 vigilante justice movies that are better than Boondock Saints though. I don't like Roland Emmerich either and his movies are so fucking illogical that it makes me slap my forehead constantly. I know they are movies and don't have to be fully logical but at least try to make it a little more rational.

I'm glad to hear someone else not sucking Boondock Saint's cock. When I saw it, I thought it was an old action movie, only to find out that it was considered amazing. It's not terrible in my opinion, but it's far from a masterpiece.

Kinda like this movie. Though to me, 2012 seemed to suffer most from being split between John Cusack's storyline, and the whole arc thing. I know they brought it back together at the end, but really, if Cusack's character was moved to the background, and the movie was spent exploring the "how best to rebuild humanity" thread, it would've been far more interesting.

Well, I haven't seen 2012 and I probably won't until it comes out on DvD. That said I did see the Day After Tomorrow. I thought that was entertaining as well, but also not a good film. Somehow I found it more implausible than the aliens of Independence Day. Speaking of which I don't understand the hatred that movie garners. It had good pacing, and I thought, mostly good characters. I liked Goldblum, Smith, and uh... that guy who played the President. Whatever his name was. It had good special effects too.

@CrimsonDusk

I'd rather see a lesbian love scene with Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie O'Donnell than watch District 9.

What does MOFO mean?

@Mistwraith
I must apologies if it seemed that way, I read your post but didn't right my response as directed to you. From the beginning when Spoony posted the video people gave almost the same response: "Spoony you are great, yeah Boondock Saints kind of sucks, people should stop overacting it's just he's opinion." Well after some time passed since he posted the video and going on with my life, I remembered he also doesn't respect other people opinions. Also I think he kind of enjoys the posts that contradict his opinion since he personally admitted he's going to get flack for his comment and said to bring it on, maybe he'll get more traffic for the controversies than his awesome reviews. So he generally knows peoples reactions and I think I'm some of the many that fell for it.

The bastard made me fall to his game and go into a nerd rage about the movie. GOD, but still I want to see that list MOFO. If ia had to choose from all of Reb Browns movies, District 9, Paranormal Activity, Drag Me To HEll, 2012 I'd still watch Boondock Saints. You know why: because that movie was made in 1999 and in my opinion it aged well. The other movies I listed won't. That's what a cult movie means, it doesn't have an immediate reaction to it's premise but through time it gets the acknowledgment it deserved.

I would like to add that I too want to see your review of The Boondock Saints. I know I won't agree with you, but I am still curious as to why you feel that way.