What we did today.

9 Responses to What we did today.

1. DBW says:

   November 17, 2009 at 11:40 am

   Was it as asinine as the commercials seem to imply?

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2. red says:

   November 17, 2009 at 11:45 am

   Oh, it was a piece of GARBAGE.

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3. bp says:

   November 17, 2009 at 2:25 pm

   Garbage worth seeing for the sheer garbagosity of the thing?

   Or garbage not worth ten bucks?

   -bp

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4. red says:

   November 17, 2009 at 2:31 pm

   bp – I’ll see anything where the world is destroyed. Some cool special effects – but I found myself laughing rather than horrified. Bloated script – no reason for it to be that long – rolling my eyes at the dialogue – truly AWFUL stuff – but again, I love end-of-world dramas, and if you do too then I would say definitely go see it!

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5. red says:

   November 17, 2009 at 2:35 pm

   But yeah: garbage. It actually is rather a DEAD movie, even with all the action. I didn’t feel much tension, or stress – maybe a couple of moments, but that’s way too little for a movie that is basically 6 hours long. I was definitely looking at my watch. So that’s a bummer.

   The destruction of LA was cool, and I also liked seeing the ocean waters lapping up against the Himalayas – that was a very cool effect.

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6. Mark says:

   November 17, 2009 at 6:31 pm

   I usually find that if I go into a movie knowing beforehand that the script is “garbage” I can still enjoy it for the action and special effects. Not sure exactly where that “line” is, but even at that I still sometimes find myself “watching my watch” or quietly chastising the director under my breath if there isn’t at least some attempt to make storyline believable (Hey… I even liked the Matrix movies!).

   Not really the same thing but I remember reading the reviews and talking to people about “Pulp Fiction” before I saw it for the first time. Best advice I received was from a friend who told me “just go see it without expectation… don’t back yourself into a corner by attempting to have everything make sense… just go watch the movie and let yourself be entertained!” GREAT advice not just for Pulp Fiction but for basically every movie I’ve watched sense!

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7. nightfly says:

   November 17, 2009 at 6:33 pm

   My standing joke about 2012 is that it should end with someone finally translating a lost section of the Mayan calendar. Our battered heroes gather close together as our translator (Jeff Goldblum) hoarsley whispers…

   “Be sure… to… order… your 2013… calendar.”

   On the bright side, Mike Nelson will never run out of new material for his Rifftrax project.

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8. red says:

   November 18, 2009 at 12:29 am

   Mark – to me, the script was too bad for me to just “enjoy the special effects”. There weren’t enough special effects to keep my mind from wandering. The movie felt lazy. Very very lazy.

   I like all kinds of movies, and like I said – disaster movies are a special love of mine. I see them all. I thought this one was just – lazy.

   I didn’t go in expecting anything else. I’m not disappointed or anything. I knew it would suck. I had no expectations – just wanted to see giant tidal waves destroying everything – so in that I was satisfied. For a moment or two

   And Woody Harrelson is terrific – but it seems like he’s in a differnet movie. I loved his line: “download my blog….”

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9. Ken says:

   November 19, 2009 at 8:35 am

   Reminds me of a line from a review of Independence Day: “Sometimes cheese is Camembert….sometimes it’s Velveeta.”

   For what it’s worth, I thought Independence Day was close to Camembert, Armageddon was something like passable grocery-store-brand Cheddar, and Mission to Mars was Velveeta.

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