The Reel Rejects - 2012 MOVIE REVIEW!! (2009) FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

Starting point is 00:00:00 Getting engaged, at Shane Company, Dream Engagement Rings are our specialty. We have the most beautiful, natural, and lab-grown diamonds, hand-picked in every price range, ready to compare side-by-side. Shop online at shanko.com or in store. Shane Company, your friend and jeweler. Meet the most capable CRV Honda has ever dreamed up. The all-new CRV Trail Sport Hybrid. With all-terrain tires and available enhanced traction control, it's built for wherever the day takes you. Heated front seats and a heated steering wheel?

Starting point is 00:00:29 ideal for winter drives and crisp early starts. And with generous cargo space, it's ready for big gear and even bigger getaways. The CRV trail sport hybrid. Learn more at honda.com slash CRV. At Chipotle, we also have a playlist. Guacamole as it's being hand-mashed. The sizzle of adobe chicken on the grill.

Starting point is 00:00:51 The chopping of onions and cilantro. We call our playlist, real. Order now. Chipotle, for real. This week's video is sponsored by Acorns, the money app that makes it simple and cheap to make small yet significant investments. Aaron. John. Do you have anything to tell the people before we hop into this?

Starting point is 00:01:13 Remember the 2012? We survived the end of the Mayan calendar. We survived the end of the Mayan calendar. made it to the end of the world and we began anew, how do you feel? Oh, man, I feel good. I feel renewed. I feel fresh. I feel like you should give this five stars on Apple and Spotify because we're about to get into it. Also, you should go to rejagnation shop.com. That's what? Let's get some teas like these. Gosea portrait and other shirts and a whole bunch of other shirts. It wasn't in a piece.

Starting point is 00:01:59 Ha, ha, ha. Who? Amanda Pete was his wife, his ex-wife. I was like, I know I know that face. I knew Amanda Pete. Fandy Newton or Tandy Newton. I don't know if the age is either or not. Before she switched back to Tandyway.

Starting point is 00:02:13 Because now she's Tandyway Newton, yeah. Really? Yeah. No more recent credits, yeah. I'd not know that. Wow. That's pretty cool. Wow.

Starting point is 00:02:19 Okay. So, we both went into this blind. I know anything about 2012. And now that I've seen it, what a ride. What a ride. What a ride. It was a good time. It was big.

Starting point is 00:02:31 It was explosive. Morgan Lilly. Shadows of Morgan Lily. She's been in stuff. Yeah. Oh, see, I liked it. I liked it more than I thought I would. It had a lot more heart than I thought the movie would have.

Starting point is 00:02:42 Yeah. That visuals were incredible. And all the characters were surprisingly human. You know, I thought we were going to go into this with these steady sort of set archetypes. And it kind of blurred the lines between that and had a lot like a something of a message. you know, about humanity kind of banning together what people do in desperate times and, you know, how we kind of overcome the odds of being in the end of the world. And I think that at the end of the day, this was had a lot more heart than I thought it would have.

Starting point is 00:03:16 And I think it was going for that epic feeling kind of akin to an independence day about, you know, the thriving heart of the human spirit. do I think it executed it as well? No, there's a bit of some things that were like I don't know that I believe that But you know what? You gotta suspend some disbelief With every movie This movie required a little bit more than most

Starting point is 00:03:40 But you know what? At the end of the day We had a good time We had a good time with this one I would definitely watch us again with some friends Drinking some stuff Laughing at some ridiculous things But you know It didn't

Starting point is 00:03:54 The amount of heart the movie had kind of justified the experience and I'm someone who likes my heart, likes my characters while also being coupled with the big plots and the action. I think, you know, with the inundation of information, it was like a, not harder for me to get into, but I was like, okay, this is very exposition heavy, but once we got into the character stuff, once we got into the destruction, I was like, okay, I'm in, this is crazy. Patrick Hogue. Sorry, not the same one that we know, but there's a guy in the

Starting point is 00:04:24 credit is called Patrick Hogue, so I'm going to take this opportunity to shout up. Patrick Hogue, continue. Shot him out. But yeah, I had fun with this one, and it was not what I was expecting, but good time nonetheless. Johnny Boyle, what did you think? I actually have a question. Yes. Not as iconic, certainly, as an Independence Day. However, you recently, as of shooting this, saw the day after tomorrow. Yes. I believe it's also an Emmerich joint. It is. Which do you prefer between these two, 2012, and the day after tomorrow? I would say 2012. I'd say I like this one more than Day after tomorrow and I think solely for the fact that we

Starting point is 00:04:59 those phone calls man phone calls really did it the phone calls were legitimate no I feel like the relationships were stronger in this one I feel like that I felt the devastation a little bit more and I feel like it had that thing that I like about Independence Day where it is these different characters in different parts of the world

Starting point is 00:05:16 that have these different connector points and yeah ultimately had like a strong a couple of strong leader figures within it and And I don't think, even though the Day of For Tomorrow was an ensemble cast, I felt like this felt like, even though the stakes were different or the threat itself was different, had that same sort of triumphant at the end of the day. We have survived the onslaught that has been put against us or put before us. And yeah, I think I definitely enjoyed that more.

Starting point is 00:05:53 Have you seen Dave for Tomorrow? I have. I saw it once, I think, in the theaters, and then I reviewed it when you guys did the video. So it's marginally fresh in my mind. And yeah, I would say this movie certainly, it's like that movie is like inclement weather and this is more like semi-cosmic, but still pretty physical circumstance. So in a way, it almost feels like they're two similarly minded movies or just like the kind of disaster you're experiencing feels like it's in some. way similar but this feels yeah like a more polished smoother version in terms of the balance between the destruction and the disaster with the characters and the circumstances like i thought this is a long movie it is and once you get to the arcs you know use it's one of those movies it's long in a way we're like i don't begrudge it because once you get to a certain point you're

Starting point is 00:06:50 like i get it we have to do a certain amount of things before this is done and of course course to drive home the overwhelming devastation you kind of have to make things go too long or at least I could see why that would be justifiable in making things be a little bit thick in terms of what you're taking in and even despite it again feeling like a five or six act movie in some ways like yeah it didn't it didn't get boring or drag but there are times toward the end where you're like yeah we got to get through these things we got to clear these obstacles and it's all effective like yeah it's not quite as tight and iconic as an independence day and certainly you know you have the benefit of aliens in that movie but for something that

Starting point is 00:07:32 yeah wants to take this cultural moment that we were all sort of engaging with at the time of like oh is the world going to end in 2012 the Mayan calendar ah uh you know as a movie that takes that and runs with it i thought it was relatively conscientious in the way that it hid the ground running, but yeah, I don't know, it felt kind of like one of those moments where you're like, yeah, Roland Emmerich by now is kind of an expert at this stuff. He's done this a bunch of times

Starting point is 00:07:59 and this felt like, for the most part, it had a good balance of character stuff or just characterization amid all of the plotting and all of the chaos and all of the world hopping. And it's like, you know, you have a couple people who feel like your mainer characters like John Cusack or Chua Tella Geo4,

Starting point is 00:08:18 but it does feel like an ensemble and like the cutting around is interesting and I thought that yeah I've seen other stuff and even other stuff by Roland Emmerich where the characters feel way more heightened or cartoony and I yeah I really liked that they bothered to have

Starting point is 00:08:34 characterizations that didn't feel solely trite like even the shitty Russian guy is like kind of a real guy though like you get it and you get why he would be petty in the ways that he's being petty the boyfriend, the Gordon character, doesn't suck. Like, they have a believable kind of tension

Starting point is 00:08:53 and, you know, them making the effort to kind of get to know each other or make, you know, peace with the situation I thought was a nice touch. Chihuahua Tjiafore and his dad was a nice touch. You know, the president. Like, there are characters who you'll forget about for a while. But even that, I'm not so bothered by in a movie like this because, again, there's so much going on and there are certain characters that are obviously more important than others.

Starting point is 00:09:18 And even, you know, the cell of, like, washed up writer slash cracked wheelman, John Cusack can, like, navigate through, you know, any of these situations by the skin of his teeth. Like, the movie does a good job selling that stuff to you, even if it is, like, you know, insane. And it's also a movie where, like, early on, there are moments where, like, yeah, you can tell, like, some of destruction is, destruction is entirely CG. Right. And there are moments where you can tell that. that, but for when this was made and for what they're depicting, I thought the effects for the most part were great. And it's one of those scenarios where for what they were doing and the mass scale of destruction they were depicting, I'm like, yeah, you need the CG to be able to depict this. So even if there are times where he's driving through the city, you're like, yes, this is a CG car, this is a CG everything.

Starting point is 00:10:12 Even that stuff didn't take me out or clash or feel like, oh, this hasn't aged well. and so like it's one of those instances where like even if you can tell the effects have aged they still feel groundbreaking for the time or at least like top of the line for the time and what a great cast like they this is another kind of movie where they gave everybody just enough in the script I feel like to work with everything got at least a little bit of an interesting circumstance like again their family dynamic and like the weird sort of mixture it becomes when it's you got you know Gordon and Jackson and their whole thing, but then you've got, you know, the Russian, you've got Yuri and Tamara and their kids and blah, blah, and like all that stuff, yeah, like all the clashing of people and the clashing of ideologies and the chaos kind of red, and even Oliver Platt's character, you know, despicable or unlikable. He's not despicable. He's just unlikable in a way that makes sense, but yeah, is in the wrong spirit for humanity. You know, I like that theme of, you know, we got to try and work for each other, not just, you know, save our own asses or get selfish and lose our heads about it. And I thought, you know, it did a nice job of depicting what probably would be a lot of the response or the attempt to corral a situation like this, but also bringing it back around to, you know, taking the risk in order to save lives and, you know, bolster and grow, you know, the endeavor of humanity or to at least, you know, salvage that and remember I like that thing about like you know society a culture

Starting point is 00:11:52 a society is you know people coming together to make life better for each other and that's what we got to try and remember even in this even in the face of you know world destruction yeah that's what you would would hope for the world right

Starting point is 00:12:06 yeah we have stuff like like international relations and like just caring for one another like the old passion like caring for your your neighbor you know no matter what you look like where you come from and all the other factors that make us different together we are still unified and have that common we all bleed the same blood and i like the fact that these roman emrick movies tend to be about that unity and yeah he is not michael bay he makes

Starting point is 00:12:38 movies on the scale of michael bay uh no and and he proceeds you know the height of michael bay but i feel Like, you know, they operate on similar levels of awe, inspiring spectacle, and devastating destruction. But I feel like Michael Bay movies, there's, like, a much greater sense of contempt for humanity, whereas Roland Emmerich movies, I feel like, have a much more hopeful view on humanity, or at least a more compassion. Like, for sure, definitely. Even in other Roland Emmerich joints where, you know, characters are a bit more flatter cartoon-like, I feel like there is a general eye on. You know, there's a general benevolence toward humanity rather than like a, you know, glee in the suffering. Yeah, you know, like Roland Emmerich is a master of this stuff for a reason. And even if this movie isn't like heavily regarded as like one of the best, you know, big spectacle action movies of all time.

Starting point is 00:13:35 Like this, I think this definitely hits the mark it's supposed to hit. So wait, Michael Bay made Armageddon, right? Yes. And then Roland Emick made Deep Impact. Did he? I'm pretty sure I just saw it on the thing right there. Did Roland Emmerich make Deep Impact? Wow.

Starting point is 00:13:54 Oh, wait, wait, no, no, no, no, Mimi Leder made Deep Impact. I don't even know who. No, what's up? Deep Impact is a movie. I saw that growing up when those two movies were out, and I probably haven't seen it since then. Yeah, I can recognize some similarities between a movie like. that in a movie kind of like this or like Armageddon obviously those movies came up at the same

Starting point is 00:14:18 time so there is an obvious comparison there and I feel the yeah because there is this like thematic thing about him having its ensemble cast and kind of having it be a external threat about humanity coming to base

Starting point is 00:14:34 its own mortality and not going quietly into the night or whatever yeah yeah like one it's like there's two things you know you're going to get from rolling average movie It's one, the utter destruction of popular monument and then the prevailing nature of the human spirit. And that's what you're going to get at the end of the day with these movies. But I think the execution of those things and its success varies from project to project.

Starting point is 00:15:07 And I think something like Independence Day is like the peak of that. I think the day after tomorrow is like more middle of the road. And I feel like this fits in somewhere nicely in between those. And I really enjoyed this one. Is it a little long? Yes. Is there some disbelief that you got to suspend? Definitely.

Starting point is 00:15:26 But, you know, it's entertaining. And yeah, you can't fault in its own internal logic. Exactly. And I would, you know, if they were to revive and to have like a special series of blockbusters or roll in Amher movies, even specifically. to bring back for something like a 40x or a D-box this would definitely be a top one I would go back to rewatch for ladies and gentlemen I'm excited to shout out today's sponsor because it is an app that I have been using since before we partnered with them which just makes my job easy and I just get to share with you something I really do love and that is the acorns app because money's involved I researched them extensively to make sure like they've got to be legit right you can find so many positive reviews on them there's one person here they themselves gave me a very positive testimony about how it helped get them out of a bind once that they were in and I can say that

Starting point is 00:16:14 you know I don't want to actually show my but I have the app just as evidence because one of my favorite things about it is how easy they make it for investing that's something that I think is really important it's really hard to get ahead in life for something like me who doesn't have a 401k who really does need to invest money so that way I don't have to just work for money but have money grow for me have money work for me it's an absolutely amazing start best part is you don't need a lot of money to do it you can literally start with your spare change. They make it easy to automatically start saving and investing

Starting point is 00:16:44 for you, your future, your retirement, your kids, whatever it may be that you want to invest money for. Like I say, you don't need a lot of money. You don't even really need expertise, which is the best part. Acorns recommends an expert built portfolio that fits you and your money goals. Then automatically invest the money for it. So it takes a lot of this stressful decision-making fatigue out of the process. I just love how I can let it do its thing and then I can just check with my half like a month later a couple months later see how they're awesome dollar round up or whatever my money investments i've gone into literally it's just awesome to see it grow plus now you can open an acorns later IRA and get up to a 3% match on new contributions so it's extra money for your

Starting point is 00:17:23 retirement cannot stress it enough it's made investing especially at as a jumping off point super easy super stress free super straightforward it's all about small steps today making a big impact on your future because from acorns muddy oaks do grow grow your roke so you're so you're You can head at acorns.com slash rejects or download the Acorns app and start saving and investing for your future. There's a link in the description box and pin comment. A little disclaimer too, I got to say because this is, you know, finances involved. Payton on client endorsement. Compensation provides incentive to positively promote Acorns. Investing involves risk. Acorns advisor LLC and SEC, registered investment advisor, view important disclosures

Starting point is 00:17:54 at acorns.com slash rejects. I highly recommend this app, so please go ahead, download it. Thank you again. Yeah, and I feel like this is a movie I would indicate when, I feel like I should make a list like this is the kind of movie i would indicate in a conversation about how like you don't need to make one of these movies like the deepest thing ever but like a little characterization and a little like care for how you write the characters goes a long way you know just enough for us to sprinkle a little bit of care you know yeah it's like it's written just enough in the characterization for the actors to again take that run with it and shine and two you know

Starting point is 00:18:33 this movie had slightly less of that peripheral magic I might associate with a Roland Emmerich movie in the sense that you did lose Gordon you did lose Tamara, Tamara, whatever her name was. Like you lost people. Yeah, and you lost dad, you know, like you lost

Starting point is 00:18:49 a lot of people who you might expect to magically make it somehow and that lends a bit more weight and so there's a little bit of both. You know, people scrape past the odds and do the impossible thing, but also some people don't make it in ways that are kind of believable, again, within the internal logic of the movie.

Starting point is 00:19:07 So, yeah, it's an example of a movie I would point to and go, like, this is mostly focused on what we're all here for, which is like, you know, the crazy spectacle of this what-if scenario. But it's got just enough care put into everything else that it's like it's a real movie. And it's not like mad deep, but it's got a few themes. And it's got some fun and interesting character. Like Woody Harrelson, I thought, was really well used and like a perfect. casting great wig on him and and like moments like that leave an impact where you're like oh yeah this

Starting point is 00:19:38 guy is like a strong presence and then he gets devoured up by the you know erupting volcano there and you're like yeah you know and that adds to the stakes into the just unsettling nature of it all and you really did feel the scope and the scale and yeah this was this was really well done like yeah I'm not necessarily sure I'm going to like put it on again tomorrow but like as far as big blockbuster disaster movies go I thought it was pretty good Like, this is better, actually, than I thought it would be. Like, I thought this would be more silly, and I would enjoy it more for, like, the camp of it, which is certainly there. But, like, this was, like, kind of horrifying in all the right ways, surprisingly touching it moments.

Starting point is 00:20:21 And I liked a lot of the people and the cast and the characters, again, even if we aren't getting, like, mad deep with them, the family stuff. The kids were really good. And, like, this is the kind of movie where, you know, the child performance. performances don't have to be amazing, but like, this is a low key. I was like, I really believe them, both of them. Like, they're great. And I'm not even really focused on the fact that these are child actors. I'm just kind of in the moment, in the scene. And that's great. And even like the little things, like, he meets Chihuatl Egya for in the beginning. And he's like, oh, I've read your book. I love your book. And, like, they don't really ever see each other

Starting point is 00:20:53 in person again until, you know, ostensibly the end. And then he's, you know, giving his book to Tanny Newton. It's like, there's so many little threads like that. clearly somebody put care and I would love to go back and look at the Roland Emmerich movies writing credits now because I'm like I wonder if that's him if that's partly him because he's on the script for this and I feel like I associate

Starting point is 00:21:15 again I think that distinction is apt it's like you know he's on Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich represent kind of two points on a line for me in terms of how these kinds of movies get made and what the spirits feel like and I mean certainly they both revel in action

Starting point is 00:21:31 and destruction but Roland Memoric movies just make me feel so much less sleazy, and like, even when they are dire of circumstance, like a movie like this is, there's still like a good nature underneath them and like a fun underneath it all that, I don't know, kind of resonates outwardly to me, but I don't know, I guess that's just how I respond spiritually to this guy's work. But yeah, it's better than I expected. I like this movie, actually. Let's read a little trivia before we. GTFO. The great disasters of the Galactic Alignment in 2012 were supposed to have occurred on December 21st, the day of the solstice. The filmmakers decided to move those events up a few months to midsummer.

Starting point is 00:22:15 This relieved them having to decorate the sets for the winter holidays. They didn't want to make it a surprise Christmas movie. That would have been a funny layer to have. Shane Black's 2012. Oh, here's a thick boy, but I guess it's relevant. The doomsday

Starting point is 00:22:31 theory arose from a non-mobile. Maya Western idea, not a Mayan one. Wow. And I've heard a lot of people say, it's not actually, well, the whole Mayan calendar thing wasn't them predicting

Starting point is 00:22:42 the end of time. I feel like it's just they needed to make another calendar. They just need a new calendar. But anyway, Mayas insist that the world would not end in 2012. The Mayas had a talent

Starting point is 00:22:51 for astronomy, and enthusiasts found a series of astronomical alignments, they said, coincided in 2012. Once every 640,000 years, the sun lines up with the center of the Milky Way galaxy,

Starting point is 00:23:03 on the winter solstice, the sun's lowest point on the horizon. The last time that happened was on December 21st, 2012. The same day, the Maya calendar expired. The modern doomsday myth was bolstered by several ostensibly scientific reasons for a disaster, including a pole shift, the return of planet X, what the hell is that? Or some sci-fi shit, or the Sun's sinister counterpart nemesis, a galactic planetary or other celestial alignment global warming global cooling a massive solar flare or a new ice age none had any basis in real science for example the galactic alignment between the sun and the earth and galactic center

Starting point is 00:23:43 happens every december oh good the best alignment was reached in the 1990s and was accompanied by its own set of doomsday theories alignments since that have been increasingly poor yeah wowies follow the tracks the film was banned in north korea because 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth first great leader Il Sung Kim several people were arrested for watching pirating copies of the film that's wild let's

Starting point is 00:24:12 go when Jackson read a plane he gives the pilot his watch is a payment tells the pilot it was given to him by his editor when he thought he was going to be someone and what it's worth and that it's worth something the watch is a classic pilot mark 16 and sells for at least

Starting point is 00:24:28 $3,000 so that guy swapped his plane for $3,000 bucks. I have a feeling the plane was worth slightly more. The character of Charlie Frost seems loosely based on volcanologist David Johnston and Harry Glicken, my favorite volcanologists.

Starting point is 00:24:44 Johnston was killed in, oh, RIP, in the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, he was able to broadcast Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it as a warning before he died. Glicken was killed by a pyroclast flow on Mount

Starting point is 00:24:59 Unzen in Japan in 1991 he was so eccentric and disorganized that the u.s geological survey only offered him temporary positions despite his incredibly thorough research on mount st ellens that is wild and i gotta imagine on this earth there are probably a handful of kooky scientists out there i do wonder what kind of pirate radio that character had because it a broadcasted very far and b i'm like they're trying to kill people who are spreading the word i guess they're just banking on the fact that like no one believes them no one's going to believe you because you're crazy so you don't have to die whatever i like if the signal is that good they must be able to pick it up the government

Starting point is 00:25:41 whoever's paying attention out there uh but anyway we'll do a couple spoiler facts too originally harry helmsley blue mancuma uh was to have survived in the film as dad in the end he calls his son adrian she would tell a geofor alive and well from his cruise ship which was merely run aground by the tsunami rather than capsized and sunk. Also, Adrian finally got so fed up with Carl Anheiser, Oliver Platt, and his cold reasoning that he knocks him down. Both scenes were filmed, but deleted from the movie. They were added as bonus material on the Blu-ray edition.

Starting point is 00:26:18 You know, I'm going to go on a limb and say, actually probably solid choices, not to include those, even though I am sad that Dad didn't live. in the theatrical version of the movie that would have been really nice to have him but I feel like in a way it's almost more impactful the way this went down if the stakes are made real

Starting point is 00:26:41 by stuff like that and as much as I wanted to see him Decc Oliver Platt it probably plays better that he didn't like he would have been it wouldn't have ruined anything but I feel just like as the character I'm like spiritually it's probably the right choice

Starting point is 00:26:57 like we get it we all want to punch it It would have been gratifying, but I understand. In the film, a Pope is shown to die in a massive earthquake. The original script called for it to represent Pope Benedict the 16th, but the filmmakers felt it would be too offensive, so the Pope was only shown from behind. Ironically, Pope Benedict's 16th ended up abdicating only two months after the presumed setting of the apocalypse events because he knew that shit was coming.

Starting point is 00:27:23 He was getting out of here. Yeah, body count, let's go. 6.4 to 7.6 billion. Unclear if the African continent flooded or not. They said it didn't. Said it didn't. Africa was good. Spoilers. Africa was good.

Starting point is 00:27:38 That's right. We're all going. Yep. If tickets for the arcs cost $1 billion per person, less than 2,100 families in the world would be able to afford it. At one point, Carl claims they can save around 400,000 people in the arcs. It means most passages of the arcs were politicians, scientists, doctors, technicians, or useful people, and not millionaires, as most people think,

Starting point is 00:27:59 or billionaires as it should be. The film contains various references to the biblical flood. For example, Jackson's son is named Noah. Oh, I should have clocked that. Damn. Damn, we are idiots. Didn't think about it. The cruise ship where Adrian's father, Harry performs, is called Genesis.

Starting point is 00:28:18 Ah, that pinged in my brain, and I should have to cut that too. Yeah, it also did. Yeah. And humanity is saved by the use of arcs. which is the most obvious one. Yeah, not too bad. What do we got? Do we got any other good ones?

Starting point is 00:28:34 When Adrian arrives at the copper mine near the start of the movie, car hits a puddle and capsizes a toy boat. This is foreshadowing the capsizing of the boat on which Adrian's father works. Look out now. During the destruction of the Sistine Chapel, the cracks forming of the roof,

Starting point is 00:28:49 formed directly between God and Adam in the creation of Adam, symbolized two aspects related to the Bible. The transition between the first and second chronicles of life specifically breaking the connection between humans and God and the God's reversal of creation of humanity

Starting point is 00:29:07 in Genesis 6 through 9. Roland Emmerich getting biblical. At one point, the president of the United States says his wife suggested a lottery so people had a chance to board the arcs. This is a clear reference to deep impact another

Starting point is 00:29:24 doomsday movie. Well done. You brought that up. During the destruction of L.A., Gordon's Porsche Cayman falls into the earth after getting pushed by Jackson's limo upon fleeing from the Curtis 50-cent Jackson residence. This foreshadows Gordon's own death as he falls into the gears later in the film. Wow. See, that's the thing. You don't have to necessarily make high art in terms of what you're going for thematically

Starting point is 00:29:50 to, like, make something that's really well-tuned still. shit like that all these little foreshadowings like that's classic cinema to me like threads like that that happened through the movie that you might miss but you can look back on and go oh it makes sense like it's good like even a movie like this when you put that kind of care into it like that's i feel like the depth people are asking for when you like you see one of these that's flat or something like that and people go like turn your brain off i'm like you shouldn't necessarily have to or turn it necessarily have to or turn you your brain off in the right way. Wisconsin is referenced three times at the start of the movie. The old woman insists that she and her husband moved back to Wisconsin when Dr. Helmsley and Mr. Anheiser discovered the magnetic poles have shifted.

Starting point is 00:30:36 And at the end, when Laura finishes, farewell Atlantis, because Cusack saw it coming. We were all going to be Wisconsin's in the end. Final fact, when Yellowstone begins to explode, Jackson 50 Cent Curtis and his daughter jump into the Winnebago

Starting point is 00:30:52 and race back to Cessna, When the RV jumps the fissure on the runway, the right axle breaks or bends rendering it impossible to make the steering maneuver that follows. That's one thing my dad used to point out to be in movies all the time is whenever a car takes a jump, and you guys have probably, you know,

Starting point is 00:31:09 heard me say this, but like so many movies, you will see the car land and the front end completely, like, buckle. You'll see, like, the joint where the hood meets the windshield, like completely crunch upward. And then in the next shot, like the car's fine, and you're like, yes, that car that just made the landing is not any more drivable. Like, you would not be able to drive that.

Starting point is 00:31:29 And they have a new car now in this next shot. So, you know, oh, and some theaters apparently started the film at 2012 on the 24-hour clock, which is 812 p.m. So that's pretty fun. Anyway, you have anything else to tell the people before we go out into the world? Oh, no. 2012 was a fun time. I'm sure it scared the crap out of people. People that watched it when it came out, and Roland Emrick, you are interesting for doing that.

Starting point is 00:31:58 That's true. That'd be, this was a strike while the iron is hot kind of thing. Like, part of me is, like, how long before, because I think this actually came out in 2012. So, like, how long before, they started the movie in 2009, but this movie dropped in 2012. So I'm like, when did they start writing this? Because when did the whole, like, oh, do the buying calendar, 2012? Like, when did that get really popular in culture to the point? that they would be like we got to i mean like i hope it came out the day that they predicted the day

Starting point is 00:32:28 was going to oh god if only i feel like it probably came out during the summer it probably coincided with what they changed the day to not december 21st or whatever but uh but uh uh yeah the what were we take it back so no i was saying that like yeah it was an interesting choice to drop it on 2012 and no that's right yeah i'm like because this is the kind of concept where like you can imagine a thousand indie horror movies be like oh we got to use this 2012 concept well the iron's hot while it's still

Starting point is 00:33:01 before or almost or is 2012 so like something like this that would take so much time and resource to shoot yeah I'm like how far ahead did you plan this because when it came out I was like damn perfect timing you know I didn't see it but perfect timing

Starting point is 00:33:16 anyway gang what's your favorite role in Emmerich Joint where would you rank 2012 among the Roland Emmerich joints. Would you rank it number 12? Would you rank it number 2? Would you rank it number 20? Leave it in the comments and we'll catch you for the next disaster movie. Hug your loved ones.

Your Ad Here

The Reel Rejects - 2012 MOVIE REVIEW!! (2009) FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

There aren't comments yet for this episode. Click on any sentence in the transcript to leave a comment.