Note- if you see reports about another mission to destroy a killer asteroid, the black President is probably not Barack Obama.
I say ‘probably’ because hey, you never know!
The fat white guy is Annheuser. Hey! Doesn’t he look a lot like Oliver Platt?
Adrian Helmsley is the Science Advisor. He’s black but doesn’t resemble any actor I know.
But President Thomas Wilson? I thought sure his name was Barack Obama! And I sure don’t remember him looking that much like Danny Glover!
What’s this about canned tuna? I like canned tuna. I switched to whole white albacore because someone told me it was classier but I think I miss the fishier pink kind I grew up with. I better go hoard some canned tuna. The pink fishy kind, not the whole white albacore because it may be classier but it doesn’t remind me of home and my mom’s cooking. Hmm, three cans a week times how many weeks is it until 2012? but what will I eat the other four days? I don’t want to get sick of tuna but what else is so proteiny and canned? Spam? My mom never really cooked Spam.
Whoops, you’re right. There’s a picture of him with the names Helmsley and Wilson underneath, and I mistook that for a photo caption. I’m glad to see the proud tradition of African-American movie presidents hasn’t been interrupted by the election of an African-American real president. But Annheuser is certainly no Rahm Emanuel.
Apparently the actor who plays Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor? Did his parents smash their fists on the keyboard?) has worked a lot, but I never heard of him. He was in the Firefly movie though so a lot of Dopers should recognize him.
He was in Children of Men, which was anti-contraceptive propaganda!
Notably in Dirty Pretty Things.
Hey guys, just increasing your awareness.
there are these things called ARG’s (alternate reality games) where people tell a story using reality as it’s medium, this is a prime example, rather then trying to scare people and make them think it’s real, it is appealing to be an exciting plot and problem solving experience for the ARG community, the more realistic it seems, the more fun it is.
Here’s an example, some people go into a haunted house at a theme park, and they enjoy it, they know it isnt real, they know it’s fake, but the more real it seems the more they get a bit scared, and when they walk out, the more they like it. 
It’s all a game, funded by the release of the movie, and sony believes that the more people that play, well, they’ll prolly go see the movie too, because the participated in this.
Maybe i shouldn’t be open minded here, it seems like the culture of this board is to talk crap about everything that is hoax-y so you can feel superior to the people who play along with it. :dubious:
but if you don’t completely hate this message, check out the wiki about arg’s
Psst. Nobody here really thought it was a hoax. But thanks for setting our minds at ease.
He was very memorable as Lolain Kinky Boots.
I think canned albacore is a scam. It only tastes slightly better than regular tuna (and not any better at all in a sandwich) but it’s twice the price! Fuck albacore.
They’re not the only ones: a lot of fiction as well as other media are focusing on the idea that the world will end in 2012, due to the fact that the Mayan Calendar ends on December 21, 2012- which makes a lot of people assume that the Mayans believe the world would end on that date.
Of course it’s just to sell movie tickets to the gullible. You might even say the producers saw c-notes glittering in the dorks near the Annhauser State.
Any movie that showed what really is going to happen in 2012 would be a lot more boring than this one, and unlike the movie that IS getting released, I wouldn’t go see it. Then again if the 2012 election has a surprise ending, like Sarah Palin getting elected POTUS, then that one might be worth seeing, too.
What can I say? This movie looks really stupid, but I’m a sucker for shit getting destroyed.
And this looks like the mother of all disaster movies. An aircraft carrier getting pushed by a tsunami into the white house. How fucking cool is that? I know this movie will be just astoundingly bad, but c’mon. Lloyd Dobler driving an RV that’s getting pelted with asteroids or rocks spewed from an exploding super volcano (not sure which)and later driving a luxury sedan out of the back of a crashing plane onto a glacier. That’s some top notch mess making.
Oh, and fuck Sony for doing that thing what’s making people angrified and all that.
Don’t forget The Whole Ten Yards. The movie that has the dubious pleasure of being the least wanted sequel of all time.
Attention all planets of the Solar Federation: We have assumed control.
We have assumed control.
Did I see that right in the trailer? Some bullshit about how it was predicted by “the earliest civilization”? The Mayans started around 2000-600 BC, depending on where you start. They followed the Olmecs. Sumeria, sometimes considered the first culture, was like 6000 BC. The Mayans were nowhere near the first culture.
I wish I had written this. Muchas kudos to you.
Sorry, but you’re 100 years too early. 
The Mayans didn’t believe that at all; it’s more like the universe would “shut down and reboot” on that day. And besides, they were four years off – the universe already reset itself on October 23, 2008. Were you there? Did you feel it? My ears are still ringing from the time/space disruption, especially since I was trapped in a wormhole at the time.
When I saw the ads for Cloverfield I totally thought that New York was under attack by a giant monster.