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[chiarizio]

Roland Emmerich's "2012" has a lot wrong with it. I wouldn't have felt a need to let anyone else know that, except that in the "DVD extras" was a featurette about how "Emmerich is a master of detail"!?!?!?

First: Neutrinos can't "mutate". And they can't interact strongly with ordinary matter; if they do, they aren't neutrinos anymore.

Well, OK; I'm a "science nerd", and maybe most other viewers wouldn't notice and wouldn't mind if they did notice.

But, second: They're "acting like microwaves". Well, most viewers of that DVD will have experience with microwave ovens. So, how come it's boiling the water and melting the rock a mile and a third below the surface, but not cooking everything alive above the surface and boiling all the water on the surface?

Well, that was before the title, so maybe it counts as "prologue", and shouldn't be held to the same standard-of-believability and standard-of-detail that the rest of the movie should.

But, third: In the scene where John Cusack has to swim down underwater to free up the stuck gears in which one of his friends has died, another has lost his legs, and a piece of their equipment has gotten entangled; he's wearing a necktie!

The likeliest thing to happen, of course, is that he fails and everybody on his Ark dies.
But suppose he succeeds; what's the first thing those gears are probably going to do when they start rolling again? They're probably going to grab him by the necktie and either drown him or crush him, or drown him and get stuck again on his body, so everyone on his Ark dies.

Now, that should have been obvious to any "master of detail". To make the point, get Roland Emmerich to wear a necktie on the set one day, and then entangle it in a rolling camera; or did he shoot it "straight to DVD"?
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[Blake]

It was pretty goofy... during the movie, I kind of had to come up with my own explanation for why it was happening to watch the rest of it.

It turns out that the mantle layer of the Earth is acting as a giant antenna which is in resonance with a slight change in the sun's magnetic output, which is being caused by a brief stammering oscillation in the sun's core as a result of a momentary sputtering of the fusion... kind of like an old combustion vehicle- it happened that the regular tides had built up a thin layer of non-fusionable material (a rare occurrence). All of those charged particles falling and rebounding rapidly as the fusion kicks back into high gear with the break-up of that thin layer generating the extended pulse at just the right frequency to be in resonance with the (poorly conducting) mantle antenna, thus heating it up by further induction.

Or something like that.

There are ways to make it nearly believable, the writers were just too stunted to think of them.


It take a bigger plot hole than that to stop me!

The tie, though... well, there's no excuse for that.
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[Leo]

Neutrino calendars are way more dangerous than pre-Y2K chips and orgone accumulators...
I haven't seen the film. Is it as (unintentionally) funny as Independence Day by the same guy?

Let's play: What will be the next doomsday when 2012 is over?
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[Nugan]

[Leo]

[Nugan]

[kyonides]

So Nugan, you think you must be racist now? What about skinheads and neonazi?
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