# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/61 "2009-10-10T13:23:40Z")
> [@Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](#): > > Congratulations, you’re better than me. Go translate some Aeschylus. : snerk : ---
**Author:** ![The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Falling_Reverend)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/62 "2009-10-10T14:44:12Z")
Man, what an utter crapfest this is going to be. Emmerich hasn’t made a decent movie since ID4. This is just playing into all the hysteria… wait, it’s starring John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Amanda Peet, and Thandie Newton? It’s got John Cusack! This movie is going to be great! Cusack vs. the end of the world! Himalayan tsunamis, LA sinking into the ocean, DC getting smashed by an aircraft carrier. I’m there opening day for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/63 "2009-10-10T14:52:07Z")
I like Cusack and Harrelson and Thandie Newton is smokin’ hot! But unless she gets naked, I definitely will not be there. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/64 "2009-10-10T19:04:40Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > If you watch [this trailer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVi_2lHBVhQ) you’ll notice that not only are the Talons in it, but so are their spaceships apparently. > > How freak’n classic is that? lol a parody trailer. They threw in some WOTW there too. Not sure which movie the exploding planet is from. “Coming (too) Soon” was also a nice touch. That would’ve been cool though, I liked the Taelons and their art direction. They kind of already did that last year with Knowing though. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/65 "2009-10-10T20:28:27Z")
People are getting too hung up on defending the genre. As I posted [a while back](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11318335&postcount=25) in another thread, there are many examples of good and bad movies within a genre. This particular movie is widely rumored to be bad _for it’s genre_. When even the run of the mill Hollywood flunky says it’s going to stink, it really is going to stink. If someone slams a movie like this, it’s not necessarily because they are a snob. Hey, they all can’t be “Ballistics: Ecks vs. Sever”. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/66 "2009-10-10T21:28:49Z")
> [@Sparky\_the\_Wonder\_Spirit](#): > > Congratulations, you’re better than me. Go translate some Aeschylus. Philistine! He reads it in the original Greek! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/67 "2009-10-10T22:00:17Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > After this, what is Emmerich gonna immaculately destroy next? His career, so that we don’t get any more of his crap? (Too much to hope for, I know…) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/68 "2009-10-11T02:49:41Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > lol a parody trailer. They threw in some WOTW there too. Not sure which movie the exploding planet is from. “Coming (too) Soon” was also a nice touch. That would’ve been cool though, I liked the Taelons and their art direction. They kind of already did that last year with Knowing though. Well damn! That sure takes the wind out of my sails. Still have to see it for the comedic value tho’. ---
**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 11, 2009, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/69 "2009-10-11T06:04:25Z")
All this movie will be is an excersize in state of the art visual effects. Luckily, I have a deep passion for visual effects. Unfortunately, stupid makes my frontal lobes melt. I usually go in hoping these two opposites cancel each other out, and I’m able to take the good with the bad, but then I remember, all before it’s too late, that _stupid_ always trumps _cool._ Kinda like Transformers 2. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090/70 "2009-10-11T06:21:34Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > All this movie will be is an excersize in state of the art visual effects. Luckily, I have a deep passion for visual effects. Unfortunately, stupid makes my frontal lobes melt. I usually go in hoping these two opposites cancel each other out, and I’m able to take the good with the bad, but then I remember, all before it’s too late, that _stupid_ always trumps _cool._ > > Kinda like Transformers 2. So watch something so stupid that your frontal lobes all melt off, and then go see the new movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-2012-looks-bad/513090.md?page=3)