Miscellaneous Movie Musings

DisneyDaniel · 07-06-2009, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex

Finally a summer action movie I can get behind.

Now, that's funny! The real movie trailer for the 2012 film portrays it as a serious disaster movie, so it naturally lends itself for some major spoofing!

Alex · 07-06-2009, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by DisneyDaniel

Now, that's funny! The real movie trailer for the 2012 film portrays it as a serious disaster movie, so it naturally lends itself for some major spoofing!

I've got to love that an overly serious summer disaster movie starts with a pretty stupid factual error in referring to the Mayans as "mankind's earliest civilization."

It wasn't even the first "great" civilization since the Egyptian pharaohs had been going for about a thousand years by the time the Mayans were starting out.

Stupid to care, but helps establish the expectation bar.

JWBear · 07-06-2009, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex

I've got to love that an overly serious summer disaster movie starts with a pretty stupid factual error in referring to the Mayans as "mankind's earliest civilization."

It wasn't even the first "great" civilization since the Egyptian pharaohs had been going for about a thousand years by the time the Mayans were starting out.

Stupid to care, but helps establish the expectation bar.

Yeah... But sh!t gets destroyed, man!

alphabassettgrrl · 07-06-2009, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

2012 would indeed be better if played for laughs, but I'm sure that's how it will be taken in any event. Gonna have to plunk down $22 for that, because ePiC DiSASteR on that scale has to be seen on the biggest IMAX 3-D screen available.

Ok, I'm with you here.

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Originally Posted by Alex

I've got to love that an overly serious summer disaster movie starts with a pretty stupid factual error in referring to the Mayans as "mankind's earliest civilization."

It wasn't even the first "great" civilization since the Egyptian pharaohs had been going for about a thousand years by the time the Mayans were starting out.

Stupid to care, but helps establish the expectation bar.

Yeah, I prefer factual accuracy in my movies as well. If they don't want to deal with accuracy, don't make a movie based on things that can be fact-checked.