Jodi and I love to pick movies apart after watching them, especially if the movies themselves are thought-provoking. This is spoiler-heavy, though, so only join me below the fold if you’ve seen The Prestige, with Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman. If you haven’t yet, it’s only two bucks to get it from Blockbuster for the night. It’s about stage magicians trying to outdo one another and climaxes in an utterly mindbending way.
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Phil Plait, as usual, calls it like it is — the upcoming movie 2012, which was built to capitalize on credulous folks’ sincere magical-thinking-based beliefs that a Mayan clock “rollover” is equivalent to the end of the world, is nothing more than disaster porn. Worse, it’s like a disaster porn movie from the 70s, in the same vein as The Towering Inferno, only with a ginormous budget.
So some enterprising individuals remixed the trailer footage we have available to us and built it to look exactly as it would if it were indeed from the 1970s.
httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW2qxFkcLM0
Bloody genius.
Oh, and how do you figure this American take on a worldwide calamity will play itself out and still have a pseudo-hopeful ending? Why, with a space-ark, of course!
I admit I’ll probably watch this. I’ll be gritting my teeth through the whole thing, but the special effects look spectacular. Anyway, who doesn’t want to turn off their brains and watch a good porn movie now and then?
This looks incredible. I must see it.
Also, it’s about time I add more categories for Geekery and Movies.
I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to watch a CG film as much as I want to watch this one. It has everything I love: post-apocalyptic desperate struggle for survival, airships, killer action sequences, and… animated dolls? I didn’t even know I loved that!
Hat tip Jodi, who got it from The Steampunk Home
Also, I have no idea how to categorize this. I don’t have a Movies category, as I don’t normally care enough about movies to blog about them. Since it’s CG, it’ll go under Computers for now.
