I was just watching the trailer for the 2012 movie and thought it bore a close similarity to the book by Greg Bear called “The Forge of God.” I always thought that book would be cool to make into a movie and this almost looks like it was adapted from it. Did anyone else here read that book and see the trailer? Do you get the same vibe?
And now that this movie has been made, I don’t know if “The Forge of God” could be made into a movie without people thinking it ripped off 2012.
My wife and I haven’t been this excited by a movie trailer in years. When we saw the carrier crash into the White House, we looked at each other and said “We are so there!”
Well, I always thought “The Forge of God” would be a cool movie because it involves destruction on a global scale and I’m kind of torn on this movie because I envision a lot of what happened in the book the way it looks in the movie but it’s NOT “The Forge of God.” So, I kind of want to see it, but I kind of wish it had been “The Forge of God” destroying the world.
It lost me at “From the people who made The Day After Tomorrow”.
Right, as Smeghead has pointed out, you do realize this is from the same guy that not only made The Day After Tomorrow, but Independence Day, Godzilla, and 10,000 BC. (I feel like I’m missing one?)
Anyway, expect kickass, glorious, epic VFX and distruction, but a plot that will kill more braincells than a lifetime on pot, and characters that are cartoons of real people, to an almost insulting degree.
They’re going to destroy New York again, aren’t they? Sigh.
In a similar vein- the upcoming NBC series Day One. I loves me some disaster porn. Heck, I even liked Knowing, for the same reason.
Star Gate
Universal Soldier
The Patriot
While Roland Emmerich is the answer for people who find Michael Bay a bit too highbrow, I’m sure I can be entertained by 2 hours of CGI destruction.
At least Emmerich’s movies are competently edited. Transformers 2 was possibly the worst-edited big-budget film in history.
But has anyone here read “The Forge of God” and seen any similarity?
Says you, but Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, and Lockheed Martin got their money’s worth in displaying their wares. The film is a Christmas mail order catalog of the U.S. military arsenal.
The similarity is superficial at best. The film clearly lacks the subtext of Earth being just another pawn in a galactic war of extermination. The film is just disaster porn based upon a sophomoric pretext that the Mayans had some special knowledge about the end of the world.
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