This is brilliant. io9's take on 2012:
2012 actually looks like it has something going for it. Not quality, of course, but shit blowing the fuck up like shit has never blown the fuck up before. It's a pity that there is a plot to it, please that will be without point. Soon there will be a time when special effects porn (click that for a great article by David Foster Wallace) will do away with attempts at story. No one cares about that.
Did anyone go to Transformers 2 to watch Shia LaBeouf chasing artifacts all over the globe? Did the audience for The Day After Tomorrow sit on the edge of their seat waiting for Jake Gyllenhaal and Dennis Quaid, as father and son, to reunite? Or, for that matter, take any environmental message home with them? Of course not. They were sitting there to watch stuff being destroyed. Roland Emmerich and his cohorts should do away with all pretence and just feature that. I would actually consider making the trek to the movies for 2012 if it were, say, forty minutes long and just features explosions, rather than intercutting those sequences with John Cusack pissing away his career. Of course the shorter length would have to mean a cheaper ticket, but it would be much more satisfying as well.
That clip's porn music has given me a hankerin' to go watch some Boogie Nights.
2012 actually looks like it has something going for it. Not quality, of course, but shit blowing the fuck up like shit has never blown the fuck up before. It's a pity that there is a plot to it, please that will be without point. Soon there will be a time when special effects porn (click that for a great article by David Foster Wallace) will do away with attempts at story. No one cares about that.
Did anyone go to Transformers 2 to watch Shia LaBeouf chasing artifacts all over the globe? Did the audience for The Day After Tomorrow sit on the edge of their seat waiting for Jake Gyllenhaal and Dennis Quaid, as father and son, to reunite? Or, for that matter, take any environmental message home with them? Of course not. They were sitting there to watch stuff being destroyed. Roland Emmerich and his cohorts should do away with all pretence and just feature that. I would actually consider making the trek to the movies for 2012 if it were, say, forty minutes long and just features explosions, rather than intercutting those sequences with John Cusack pissing away his career. Of course the shorter length would have to mean a cheaper ticket, but it would be much more satisfying as well.
That clip's porn music has given me a hankerin' to go watch some Boogie Nights.
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