Soapparently Roland Emmerich (ID4, Day After Tomorrow) has created a new disaster film called 2012 (some reference to the Myan calendar or something).
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Apparently he is going for the record of the largest CGI wave ever.
Question: What are we supposed to assume could cause a wave high enough to swamp the Himalayas? The freakin moon falling out of the sky or something?
Since it’s two years after 2010, it’s obvious.
Monoliths.
I see they’ve gone with the standard black president during a world ending catastrophe approach.
Yeah, typical right-wing propagandary. “Sure Bush wasn’t the greatest president, but at least we didn’t have mountain sized tsunami waves during his administration!”
Heh, they even say to google 2012 for the “truth”. Yes, let’s make even more people paranoid about this nondescript future date.
I wonder how this movie’s going to sell in 2013 and beyond…assuming we’re still around then of course!!
Or maybe they made the reasonable assumption that we might have a black president in 2012.
Well, since I’m sure the movie is 100% rigorously accurate in its science. . .
If you could bring the Moon down to, say, 12,000 miles, you’d get a tidal effect 8,000 times as great as the normal Lunar tide. I guess that might do it.
My friends and I were chuckling over this one while watching Quantum of Solace. My thought, as is typical when anybody brings up a Massive Worldwide Government Conspiracy:
a) You seriously expect the current administration to be capable of covering up anything?
b) You seriously expect the governments of the world to be able to agree on anything, let alone perpetrate a massive fraud?
I love how they tell you to Google it–I haven’t tried it yet, but I have deep suspicions that the 2012 film site will be the first hit coming up. I hate that they replaced the Star Trek trailer with this, thought. 
Let’s see, there’s Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact… and now Danny Glover in 2012… and?
Well, there’s a character called Carl Anheuser so maybe it’s a plot similar to the one in Flushed Away except it’ll be on a Super Bowl/Roland Emmerich scale.
Hint: that ain’t just water sloshing over the Himalayas.
David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) and Wayne Palmer (D.B. Woodside) on 24 I suppose, although the Jack attack prevented any world-ending catastrophes from happening, of course.
Eight years ago I would not have believed America ready to accept a black monolith…
I’m not sure those should count. Deep Impact and 2012 are very different movies from the terrorism plots of 24. Beyond that, Palmer’s blackness was a plot point in season one, so he couldn’t have been white.
Yeah, they were only 100 feet high
You mean other than 9/11?
I would say that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard but I’ve seen Roland Emmerich movies.
It’s an image, a painting, bits on a disk: the sense of scale is arbitrary. “Largest” has no meaning in that context.
To demonstrate here is my Computer Generated Image:
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That’s a giant wave about to swamp the milky way galaxy for those of you who can’t translate hastily drawn ASCII characters. My wave is 150,000 light years high and were you to surf it your twin brother would be an old man when you got back.
So what kind of prize do I get for holding the record?
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Tommy Lister in The Fifth Element- he was President of the Federated Commonwealth, or somesuch, but hey, close enough.
James Earl Jones in The Man- a roof collapse kills the President and VP, which is sorta disastery.
Chris Rock in Head of State- the disaster, of course, being that Chris Rock is President.
Does anything bad happen in Idiocracy? I’ve only seen the beginning.
Yeah, the TV show “Ow my Balls” in Idiocracy did not become a real show here in the real world. Where’s the “Ow I just got kicked in the balls” smiley when you need it?
You’re safe. You’ve got a raft.