This clip skewering Roland Emmerich’s “2012” (and zero-brained, herculean blockbusters of that ilk) has been making the rounds and possibly fairly old, but a) we forgot to post it, and b) after this relatively terrible summer of movies it feels even more relevant. So better late then never, especially since it’s so on-the-money. “Run away from plot! Run away from character!” the trailer boasts over wah-wah blaxploitation-like funk. It basically — and rightfully so — mocks the absurdity and ridiculousness of these over-the-top disaster porn spectacles that popcorn munchers and “low-thread-count” joe-jobbers (to coin a Jeff Wells phrase) seem to eat up.
Apparently it was created by Garrison Dean for io9.com. If you haven’t seen it already, give it a whirl. It’s funny stuff.
Great video, laughed a bunch during it. And great song choice!
I was just wondering though, is the dislike you guys show towards Emmerich and his so-called "disaster porn" also applicable to the genre of disaster movies? I was just wondering to myself about this and, hey, there wasn't enough space to ask about this on Twitter.
I'm not a fan of this genre for obvious reasons written in the post. It's just spectacle meant to make money, nothing more.
That's just as much for the "classics" as it is for the newer disaster films, yeah?
Not sure what you're asking.
This is old.
But 2012 would make for an entertaining 3D film, probably more so than Avatar. And trailers suggest this film does unfortunately have a something bearing semblance to plot and character, which prevents it from being an intriguing attempt at idiocratic avant-garde.