# Holy hell 2012 looks bad **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090 "2009-10-08T18:50:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/1 "2009-10-08T18:50:31Z")
The studio is pushing it big - I’m seeing commercials and trailers for it everywhere. What I haven’t seen yet is one single reason I would want to see it. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/2 "2009-10-08T18:52:52Z")
I have every intention of seeing it opening weekend. It’s disaster porn at its greatest. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/3 "2009-10-08T18:58:00Z")
Yeah, this looks amazing. This could be “lets outrun the cold front” level of awesome. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/4 "2009-10-08T19:06:06Z")
After this, what is Emmerich gonna immaculately destroy next? The Solar System? But yeh, Roland Emmerich likes to make epic pap. Remarkably, he outdoes himself with every movie and makes the next one even worse than the one before. I’m beginning to believe he is a bottomless abyss of awfulness. So you there opening night! ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/5 "2009-10-08T19:07:39Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > The studio is pushing it big - I’m seeing commercials and trailers for it everywhere. What I haven’t seen yet is one single reason I would want to see it. Half of California sliding into the ocean isn’t enough? An airplane flying into two giant skyscrapers, which are simultaneously collapsing, isn’t enough? Man, are you jaded! ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/6 "2009-10-08T19:19:06Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > I have every intention of seeing it opening weekend. It’s disaster porn at its greatest. Exactly. I’m not going to see it for the acting or the writing… I’m going to see it 'cause shit gets blowed up real good. ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/7 "2009-10-08T19:21:27Z")
Are you KIDDING me? Have you not seen the bit in the trailer where a tsunami smashes the USS John F. Kennedy into the White House? How could any thinking being not immediately want to see more? ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/8 "2009-10-08T19:26:44Z")
Just go buy a bunch of Lego, build a city, and smash it. There, way more satisfying. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/9 "2009-10-08T19:27:13Z")
It’s just lucky for John Cusack that the world falls apart at almost exactly the maximum speed of a limousine driving through a disintegrating Los Angeles. If the mechanics of the end times weren’t so carefully calibrated the movie would have ended early. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/10 "2009-10-08T19:28:56Z")
Watching a tsunami crest the Himalayas is going to be one great popcorn moment for me. I am SO there. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/11 "2009-10-08T19:31:11Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > It’s just lucky for John Cusack that the world falls apart at almost exactly the maximum speed of a limousine driving through a disintegrating Los Angeles. > > If the mechanics of the end times weren’t so carefully calibrated the movie would have ended early. Then he hires a pilot too stupid to climb above the level of buildings? More stupid in the trailer I saw than in all of Armageddon. And that’s a lot of stupid. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/12 "2009-10-08T19:35:03Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > The studio is pushing it big - I’m seeing commercials and trailers for it everywhere. What I haven’t seen yet is one single reason I would want to see it. Go for the destruction, [stay for the bongos](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW2qxFkcLM0)! ---
**Author:** ![Haunted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/898d66/32.png) [@Haunted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/13 "2009-10-08T19:37:46Z")
Everything is gonna get destroyed in a big way. Awesome. It’s going to be so awesome. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/14 "2009-10-08T19:47:46Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > Go for the destruction, [stay for the bongos](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW2qxFkcLM0)! Works for me ! I got a hard on and sweaty palms just seeing that tidbit ! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/15 "2009-10-08T19:47:53Z")
Is Emmerich the new Irwin Allen? ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/16 "2009-10-08T19:52:44Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Just go buy a bunch of Lego, build a city, and smash it. There, way more satisfying. As a kid, I tried that- but even with gasoline, the fireballs were too small. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky_the_Wonder_Spirit)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/17 "2009-10-08T19:59:24Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Just go buy a bunch of Lego, build a city, and smash it. There, way more satisfying. Even if they did make movie-screen-sized Legos, they wouldn’t fit in my back yard. Also TSUNAMI. Over the HIMALAYAS. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/18 "2009-10-08T20:00:50Z")
you know, I love StraightDopeSnark, I truly do, but I want to come on board flatly and dully agreeing with the original post. this looks like the biggest bunch of tripe shit on celluloid evar. I like to see things blown up real good with the rest of you, hey, but I have my limits. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/19 "2009-10-08T20:18:42Z")
Not only does the earth magically cave away mere feet behind Cusack’s limo - presumably pausing for the driver to take lefts and rights - it must pause, allowing the passengers to board a private aircraft, before resuming its ability to crumble away just feet behind them, now at takeoff speeds. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/20 "2009-10-08T20:18:52Z")
We’ll see. There’s always an audience for empty thrills, but if everyone who expressed excitement about motherfucking **Snakes on a Plane** had actually made it to a motherfucking theater, it wouldn’t have finished somewhere between **Deck the Halls** and **She’s the Man** in domestic box office. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090.md?page=2)