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It's too ironic that we have in the last two weeks a book released that calls for the elimination of the Muslim faith then the shooting at fort Hood and then the seizure of mosques and now a super sensationalized movie aimed at desensitizing and planting the seed for a large scale human cull.
As I have been saying for the last ten years... fu(

king amazing!

I read the NY Times review now this one and I am left wondering if all the supposed "intellectuals" have forgotten why box office films are made?

To treat the mass for two hours of (fill in the blank according to your preference) fun, escape, enlightenment, horror, whatever the reason you enjoy films.

Roland Emmerich, according to the Times, should stop producing for his niche market because they all have incredible special effects and have huge price tags with equal box office support.

You're right. It's not an artsy. It doesn't tease the jaded into a moment of fantasy exploration. Too intelligent and too jaded to give way to fun filled fantasy at the box office. Besides, as the film deals with the end of the world, there are spiritual overtones that includes the dreaded religion Christianity and no sex. What kind of movie is that?

And still it is a thrill ride with great special effects and for the us, the less than mass who enjoy films for fun, will go, probably twice and buy the DVD as we know the home sales will hit by Christmas.

(And no I didn't attend the junket.)

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I read the NY Times review and now this one and I am left wondering if all the supposed "intellectuals" have forgotten why box office films are made?

To treat the mass for two hours of (fill in the blank according to your preference) fun, escape, enlightenment, horror, whatever the reason you enjoy films.

Roland Emmerich, according to the Times, should stop producing for his niche market because they all have incredible special effects and huge price tags with equal box office support.

You're right. It's not artsy. It doesn't tease the jaded into a moment of fantasy exploration. To intelligent and to jaded to give way to fun filled fantasy at the box office. Besides, as the film deals with the end-of-the-world, there are spiritual overtones that includes the dreaded religion Christianity and no sex. What kind of movie is that?

And still it is a thrill ride with great special effects and for the rest of us, the less than mass who enjoy films for fun, we'll go, probably twice and buy the DVD as we know the home sales will hit by Christmas and it will be a great stocking stuffer.

(And no I didn't attend the junket.)

Film critics are highfalutin, egotistical hypocrites that think their opinions count more than yours or mine. Yeah, I wish Emmerich had better taste in scripts, but it is just a dumb movie. And $260M kept a lot of people employed for quite some time. Sure, the 'stars' are overpaid, but think of all the computer graphics, artists, production designers, set dressers and production assistants, not to mention the trucker divers, craft services, best boy, grips & gaffers that got to eat for the year.

My wife and I are going to go see it, and I'll bet we'll like it (We liked the remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and critics panned that one, too.

So to all the film critics, stop confusing art with entertainment. Art my be entertaining, and occasionally entertainment is art. But most of the time, they are 2 different universes, and here's to them!

This was a terrific disaster movie! I loved it. If I want serious, I can read Proust or the Political Tea Leaves. I knew what the movie was about before I went to see it and enjoyed it so much I ate all my popcorn before the first big disaster was over.

Was it trying to make some sort of twisted, conviluted political statement? Sure, but who cares - Go and ENJOY!!

I saw it yesterday at a matinee, and when it ended people applauded and were buzzing exiting the movie. It's a little over two hours of simply amazing special effects depicting the end of the world as predicted by the Mayans and thrilling escape scenes that are immensely entertaining. This is a movie whose worth will be defined by the box office, not the critics. Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" loved the Coen Brother's latest piece of drek, a "Serious Man", which is one of the worst films of the year. He has zero credibility as a critic.

Gotta give it to cloney, he beat them out of money again.

Film is dead. It reached its peak in the 1960s with innovative newcomers like Truffaut, Godard, and Herzog. Most of what is seen nowdays is a hybrid and therefore no longer a motion picture properly speaking. Few character-driven films with non-formulaic plots manage to find the financing, and where an innocuous special effect is in order, these filmmakers sometimes cannot afford them: Industrial Light and Magic does not come cheap. When everyone and his brother has a video or DVD camera, anyone can call himself a filmmaker, but his equipment and his mindset are not matched to that title.

I suspect this is a film I personally would hate, but its reviews are far better than this story implies. Go check Metacritic. I was surprised by the number of respected critics giving it very high scores.

I was thinking of going to see this film today. I actually liked this is it. But i almost didn't go and see this is it, cause of the critics, and it was worth seeing on the big screen. It isn't worth getting the extra butter though for the popcorn.

The year of the FREEMASON is 2013 once in a life time,are you ready ,The beginning of the masonic numbers is 13 and the end of the degrees is 33 so they start in degrees with 13 and end in 33 the highest degree a freemason can get.
If you add 20 13=33 do you see the beginning and end 13=33 ,They are absolutely freaks about numbers and Bush43 was freak about the number 13, lets not put it past these tyrants and powermongers to do something stupid like Bush43 and his secret society war Iraq, Just remember what I just wrote , and God be with us all

After seeing this film I think it should win awards for the best special effects and the worst dialog. Who would be having an Oprah-esque relationship talk when the world is ending? But the end of the world is something to see especially for Californians. The audience broke out into applause after some of the spectacular escape scenes and people groaned through the ridiculous interpersonal scenes. The world leaders' survival plans and most of the science based elements were interesting and believable. Unfortunately the script writers never met a single human and have no idea how they behave in a crisis even after 9/11 as a template. A far better apocalyptic film was the much underrated film "Knowing" released earlier this year. It deals with the apocalypse in a deeper mystical way with fewer special effects but with a lot of style. The reactions from people are believable and Beethoven's music was perfect. See both and decide for yourself how the world will end.

Any moron could have seen that this would be a big overrated bomb. But Americans will keep lapping it up as long as Hollywood keeps dishing it out.

Listen dahlings, I just can't wait to see this film. I nearly wet my pants watching the preview, all that death and destruction, and the scale, monumental widescreen apocalyptic end of the world. It's just like reading the Book Of Revelations in the Bible. So bobbikins, the Christians don't need to watch the Muslim shrines to blow up, that doesn't fall into the platter of this film. The political implications would subtract from the bombardment to the ears and eyes. Besides all that film-flam take this tip from Tierra and the new bumper sticker on my BMW: "When the RAPTURE comes, can I have your house?"