2012: The Most Disaster-est Disaster Movie Ever
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 มิ.ย. 2024
- There was once a prediction that the world would end in 2012. And then it didn't. But hey we got this movie out of the whole thing. One where the world really does end for the fun of it.
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00:00 Intro
2:16 Why Giant Boats
4:50 Okay Now the Plot
9:56 China Adventures - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
“Every poor person is dead” fucking killed me please talk about the other films
If you think about it, the passengers are comprised mostly of politicians and businessmen rather than farmers and engineers. These guys are so fucked when they reach the land.
@@littlen8279 better home that native African are willing to help
@@meruthesuccubus3416 like they'll let them help
they'll instead show up to africa, say "hey guys, we're here now" spend all their time in south africa, try and take over the rest of the continent, and multiple civil wars, revolutions, uprisings, and war crimes will happen. soon, africans are now the minority of their own home. now this all may seem bad, but god obviously intended it, as upon hearing that all the rich people will survive, he let them do it with no resistance at all
@@jockeyfield1954 7umm ok
As much as I love the aesthetic and editing Cody and Tyler Franklin do for their videos and what laughter it brings me,on a less light note, I remember when I first watched a movie how when a certain Indian scientist like character called John Cusacks and plainly told him ~'..we didn't make it..' right as he was holding his children in the midst of a crowd as they were going to get hit by a tidal wave (I think), I was actually crying or on the verge of it
The most interesting part of 2012 it’s the weirdly passive aggressive plot line about how the new dad is somehow worse than the lead - seriously it’s pretty clear the writer of the movie had gone thorough a nasty divorce and was not taking it well.
It doesn't even work, because Gordon hard carries by saving the whole family twice with his "amateur" piloting skills (okay, one was in conjunction with the russian pilot, but the point still stands). They could have made him a traitorous coward arsehole, but nah, they made him the pretty chill co-hero of the movie, they can't even do the execution of their bad idea right
I swear moonfall had that same plot point with the main dad and his wife and son.
@@csabaweisz8791 I mean maybe it's not intending to totally pass judgment on either of them?
@@csabaweisz8791 unceremoniously killing him off was the only way the movie could end and Cusack's character still pretend to be relevant. A doctor/pilot who genuinely loves his step kids? He'd be one of the hottest commodities in the new world. Cusack is the failed author/limo driver who nearly got them all killed.
well Emmerich hasn't been married and has only had 2 boyfriends in his life
The most unrealistic part about this movie is how everyone just automatically listens to the scientist instead of choosing to listen to a different scientist with a more palatable message.
@@_zigger_Neil DeGrasse Tyson and other Black scientists would like a word with you
Yes
@@DriedJizzSockwhat did they say😂
@@narusuke413 Some racist shit about black scientists being unrealistic as far as memory can remember
@@DriedJizzSock it said their channel location is in Niger which is literally in Africa lol
I was on vacation in Mexico November 2012. A tour guide who was also a history professor told us that mayans never predicted the end of the world. Their calender is cyclical and 2012 was just when the calender restarted.
It'd be (loosely) like saying the world ends on December 31st because that's the last day we have on ours.
Heard the same thing, funny how quickly things get misconstrued haha
Thank the History Channel for that misconception 😂
Yeah, that's true, 2012 wasn't the last year of the world, it was just how far they got, though here's what I don't get:
Mayans are in the Americas, half the world away from Europe & the Middle East, so how & why is their calendar aligned with the death of Christ?
Or did we just align it with the death of Christ & it's actually a different number like 3113 or something?
Edit: 9 months & I finally noticed a mistake, thanks theonebman7581 & Otrousuariomas-rt9dy
@@dr.virus1295>South America
Bruh
Well put!
2012 makes me nostalgic for a time when a year was the scariest thing to be afraid of.
Turns out the Mayans were wrong by 10 years
Who'd have thought?
@@theonebman7581 still, for a civilization reliant mostly on stone tools, not a bad margin of error
I remember talking about this film with my younger cousins, wondering if the trailer was real
What about Y2K
@@spazzohawk9591 Only worry I can remember about that was onboard computers malfunctioning and planes falling out of the sky. Don't go flying that year little me thought.
I'll never forget the happy optimistic scene at the end of the movie where everyone's celebrating making it through the end of the world over the graves of eight billion of their fellow humans
World hunger and overpopulation are solved and now the rate of homeless people is reduced to 0 so I don’t see a problem
@@ontasbulent5709 bro you sound like thanos
@@ontasbulent5709 YAY MY FRIENDS FAMILY ARE ALL DEAD!
@@ontasbulent5709 real social Darwinism hours
@@ontasbulent5709 Not sure if it solves overpopulation and world hunger if most of the arable and habitable land is also underwater.
I love the ending scene where it's like
"99% of the population is dead, but hey at least we made it out alive and all's well that ends well yeah?"
This is akin to the 50s movie, "When Worlds Collide."
No, the worst thing in the ending scene is when the girl says she doesn’t need to wear Pull-ups anymore.
Everyone’s got to die sometime. Also I know like maybe 1% of the population. Why should I care about the other 99%.
"Also my boyfriend is dead but thats ok cause my ex husband is here"
@@Randomvideos3200 he’s not so much dead as, say, lubricating the gears of progress.
"Every poor person is dead"
This was literally my thought when I saw this movie back in the day.
Not yet, but give it time. They're heading to Africa to finish the rest of them off, and the world can venture forth into a bright, glorious future.
Africans are not there, as in the film it is mentioned that Africa rose and was not hit by tsunamis
oh, that reminds me of a crazy comic book series, "DC-eased", where the DC universe sufferers something like a Zombie Apocalypse, and a bunch of rich people set up a bunker for themselves.
"i can't believe they actually managed to keep their Class system going during this apocalypse!" a superhero said...
Imagine the shit show trying to get them to not only cooperate to rebuild but to actually do any real labour yeah, I think I'd have just taken the easy way out.
*"We're going straight into Mount Everest!"*
What a ridiculous movie... It's great.
Bro that's just Waterworld.
@@warmachine5835 LMFAOOOO
How is that ridiculous? The world is flooded. The ship floats into Everest. I don’t understand why you contrarians make fun of things that makes logical sense
I would agree if it didn't take itself so damn seriously.
@@tanner201x8 yeah no it sounds ridiculous regardless.
Correction: the Mayan calander doesn't predict the end of the world at 2012. That's just the point where they stopped calculating further, because that was already a few thousand years in advance and who needs to be able to plan that far ahead?
Plus if the Mayans predicted the end of the world, then how come they didn't predicted the Spanish conquistadors?
@@kittykittybangbang9367 point
@@kittykittybangbang9367 Good point
@@kittykittybangbang9367 because nobody expects the Spanish -Inquisition- Conquistadors
They had longer units of time, but rarely used them for the reasons you said. 2012 was just the end of one cycle and the start of a new one.
2012 is one of those movies you show your kids and tell them you survived this
Yeah😂
😂😂😂
Thats a nice April Fool’s prank
When the movie ended my wife looked at me and said “They’re just going to start fighting over who’s in charge.” She nailed human nature pretty well.
Well, she's right I guess :D
@@LughtMonkinda yes. All passangers were bunch of random billioneres, politicians, religioness leaders , etc. Yeah no wonder there is no sequel
its in womens nature...doesnt surprise me
It's insane that Woody Harrelson was just on set in Yellowstone that day in his own trailer, talk about method acting.
Dedication to the craft
Little known fact woody first wanted to actually blow Yellowstone sadly director stopped him such a dedicated artist 💪
@@shivanshna7618 LOL
lol
@@shivanshna7618 Roland Emmerich directed this movie... of it was possible to Kablewy Yellowstone. He would have.
Is it me or Gordon had the most unfortunate death ever? I mean he went through the whole sequence of earthquakes, the eruption, the plane running out and just when he was at the arc he gets crushed by the gears of the gates, and nobody even mentions about him at the end.
Poor dude :(
I agree…
It’s a warning against dating single mothers
I thought that it was very off-putting when I was 12. It felt like one of the writers had some kind of fantasy about this scenario.
And the Russian oligarch’s wife drowns and they don’t even care about that either and just never mention her again 💀
His own wife doesn't care.
I am glad I am not the only one who was bothered by how Gordon died a horrible death and was just plain forgotten about. Like holy crap, he was actually a good dude and actually began to form a respectful relationship with Jackson, that scene was just necessarily cruel.
Yeah he got owned
Sorry son, the cliche must be honored properly. You sleep with the protagonist's woman, you're a target for pigeons.
True
And he literally saved everyone. Had it not been for him, they'd be all dead in Los Angeles.
truth. i rlly want to like this but...
I like how literally every one of these films ever made has a male protagonist who is divorced, and estranged from his child who is being parented by a rich douchebag step dad, and after saving them all, his family realizes how great he is and returns to him. Also, the wife is usually a nurse, and the kid usually has asthma and constantly sucks on an inhaler. Such a specific wish fulfillment fantasy that spawned a whole section of Blockbuster shelves.
I mean now that you mention it, yes. I didn’t notice at the time though, I was a kid and just liked watching diasters.
yep, i didn’t norice it until later. But When i was a teenager i just loved the disasters.
The inhaler bit is so true and i never noticed it before, the kid always has some kind of pre existing medical condition that only the dad can help
I hate this trope with a passion lol.
@@iainanderson7276 lol fr
Why do all these disaster films always have the main character be a middle-aged divorced dad?
Simple, you need that drama for them to reunite with the family
Director’s projection.
@@zephyr8072 especially if its Speilberg.
To pad the runtime with pointless side plots.
Who else watches these
6:15 I'd love to see a parody of disaster films where one guy manages to convince everyone that the world is ending, but he's dead wrong and the whole movie is a comedy of errors as the whole world panics while a few sane people try to get them to realize that the guy is clearly off his rocker.
Honestly, that isn't too far-fetched. I doubt they could convince the whole world, but if they convince enough people, you've basically got yourself something of a doomsday cult.
May I recommend the episode of South Park "World War Zimmerman". It has Cartman being pretty much like that.
@@belovedkyman "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" is also pretty much like that
Oh so, like Evan Almighty 😁
So basically Don't look up, but the other way around?
The only characters I legitimately felt sorry for were Tamara (the oligarch's girlfriend), Sasha (the pilot), and Gordon. Tamara drowned alone, and nobody gave a shit, just like Gordon.
Oh shit, tamara didn't even get mentioned that she died
Well shit
tamara drowning seriously traumatized me as a kid oooff
And she really only died trying to save the little girl. Cuz she could have made it over herself if she wasn't worried about their daughter
@@Htx.lunatic No good deed goes unpunished.
I'm 99% convinced this movie also was made to show off what was a brand new destruction sim at the time
Yes
This movie is just the perspective of the AI in a destruction simulator that some dude is playing and is testing every destruction option at once
@@tropicalbreeze1164 GrayStillPlays be like:
@@tropicalbreeze1164let’s game it out be like:
@@tropicalbreeze1164like building stuff in city’s skylines and just sinking and flooding and creating volcanoes everywhere
Such a stupidly entertaining movie that was perfect for the teenage boy I was, though looking back it's hilariously fucked up how only the elite and rich got to survive
They tried to "remedy" that part a tiny-winy little bit by "graciously letting in" the chinese shipworkers into the bays, but even that only happened, because they had to open the bay doors to unclog the hinge mechanism. Most of them most likely died of hunger in the empty lower deck, because the elites sure as hell won't let them eat the precious supply
They even throw in the idea that they should've held a lottery for who got to go on the boats. Relying on equally random chance rather than a money competition.
It's sadly a realistic outcome in this scenario
@@csabaweisz8791 Snowpiercer on boats
epic capitalism moment
Fun fact, I turned 12 on 21/12/12, and my cousin played "it's the end of the world as we know it" at my party. It wasn't that fun though cause my family was part of a doomsday cult so I was half convinced that the world actually was going to end. Fun times
Gotta wonder how they felt waking up the next morning and Jack shit happened
@@blurry_face_exe60 Probably really stupid
How did they reacted when
You know
The world didn’t ended?
@@LucasBR702 The fun thing about doomsday cults is that there's always another doomsday. So what if the date you predicted passed with not so much as an earthquake? NEXT time will be the one. Also the cult didn't rely on the whole 2012 thing as a definite end, it was mostly my 12 year old self seeing the whole buzz around 2012 combined my conviction that the world was going to end and interpreting it as 'this will probably be the end'. Stay away from cults kids 🙃
Lmao
Gordon's death traumatized me as a kid. I happened to walk into a room at the very moment Tenzin was getting his legs crushed, it was probably the first time I was seeing death/gore in a live-action movie, and that image stayed with me for AGES. It looks so goofy seeing it now I'm legitimately mad at the movie for making kid me so upset.
I understand. Don't ever let a little kid watch "Gray Lady Down"
Lol yeah. I feel like every kid has that one scene that haunted them for way longer than it should have. Mine was the “Large Marge” scene from pee wee’s big adventure or whatever that movie was called. Scared me so bad I refused to watch anything but cartoons for months.
i had that with the woman drowning cause i would just stare at the screen and my dad was like OK lets get you out of here u can go to bed lool
same for me with that part in Indiana jones arch of the covenant were they all get fucking melted
The wood chipper scene from Rumble in the Bronx (I’m old)
One of the memorable moments I had from this movie was when Yuri Karpov (The Russian Oligarch) punched a guard and told a bunch of survivors to follow him towards the ark, at the end he sacrifices himself to throw his sons onto the ark's platform.
“We’re going to try and survive the apocalypse so we’ll keep the rich people who have little to no practical skills and leave behind all the Chinese engineers and labourers who built these arks in the first place and would be vital in building new cities for us.”
- The big brained New World Order.
Most realistic part of the movie in my opinion
They seem like the definition of "I'll throw money at my problems if something happens" and throws it at *everything* that goes wrong.
Ship is sinking? Huck the extra weight out the window.
Engine is failing? Use money as fuel.
Food shortage? Eat money.
Hunting for food? Use money to pay someone to hunt.
Planting food? Plant a money tree.
Greenland actually put your premise into practice but I gotta agree with the previous reply that this is unironically realistic with what would happen
@@HistoryMonarch1999 I never accused the real world of making sense either.
I mean what else would they do?
The part where the stepdad-just-there-for-family-drama and the bratty russian pilot wrangle a motherfracking An-225 Mriya (full of luxury cars of course) up from a ditch in an angle only WW1 biplanes could fly up (even them barely) is such a dumb, but also such an awesome scene that describes the whole movie so well
(Also, there is a possibility that 2012 was a flashpoint, after which humanity slowly falls down and crumble, and we don't even get the gratification of going out in an instant. Either that, or the death of Harambe in 2016, I am not 100% sure which)
Edit: RIP Mriya, you were too beautiful for this world
While I agree the death of Harambe marked civilization’s decline, the movie Cats accelerated that process.
Harambe's death was the flash point, BUT..!!! IF THE BENGALS WIN THE SUPER BOWL THE CURSE WILL BE UNDONE!! THE PROPHECY FORTELLS!!!!
Plenty of planes could pull that climb. Just not a jetliner.
Weird how many people feel that way.
2012 was the instigation of the end, Harambe's death was the flashpoint.
I cannot begin to state how much I absolute hate this timeline.
I was always disturbed how quickly they got over the stepdads death.
The stepdad died???
@@j-id2zt You see? Nobody even remembers the poor man!
Well yeah, the writer had to fulfill his revenge fantasy somehow lol. Its a really odd trope which comes up a lot in Emerich movies.
@@A-ii5dp Roland Emerich go divorced and had another man raising his kids? That explains it!
I’d like to see a disaster movie parody where the protagonist convinces everyone that the world is going to end only to be wrong, and so the “disaster” in the disaster movie isn’t a world ending event, but it’s every nation in the world hunting down the protagonist for making a world wide panic.
We could make one and call it The Day After Fouchy.
Reminds me of Harold Camping.
Old coot ruined so many people's lives. 😢
@@heathb4319 I wanna shake you around and hear what kind of noise your head will make when the smooth m&m that you call a brain bounces around in there.
@@DolphinsAreWeird ...please explain why i am wrong.
We were played by world leaders and that government paid lying doctor they put all over the news as the science. All while 35,000 other ACTUAL immunologist and virologist petitioned the world governments to stop what they were doing because that is the opposite of what you should do...to save lives.
And they were shunned and shut out by the media and truly evil people behind the scenes.
The F-ouchie wars ;)
I watched the movie and realized a lot of bears died. That actually made me cry.
NOT THE BEARS
OH GOD NOT THE BEARS
world: ends
scientists: this isnt good for the bear population
Bears > humans
Change my mind.
@@theonebman7581 NOT THE BEES!
Hey, remember when Jackson Curtis caught up to a plane on his own two feet, as the plane was taking off?
Hey, remember when the US President tried to calm everyone down by quoting Bible verses often associated with death?
Hey, remember when the ship almost ran into Mount Everest?
I remember. Those were good times.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Which verse did he cite lmao. I do not remember that at all
@@jerry250ify He starts quoting Psalm 23 but the power cuts out because of Yellowstone ash cloud
@@mihajlo961x Don’t speak for me
“Did he even get a funeral, or is his corpse stuck between the gears?”
Smiles
“Anyway”
Every disaster movie has
1.A broken protagonist
2.His wife/ex wife/ gf/ son/ daughter needs saving
3.protagonist having extraordinary skill like flying plane/jumping 10ft high in sky/driving like formula one driver etc
4.Asthmatic/diabetic son/daughter whose medicine can only be found on the other side of the planet
5.A lunatic guy who always yells"end is coming "
6.some asian to smart to be true guy.
7.A brilliant scientist whose warnings no body heeds!
8. 20/30 min of CGI shot
9. Main protagonist's best friend who dies protecting them...
10. Add more....
"And his children begin to love Scott more than their own father"
The only realistic part of the movie, I mean who could resist Scott the Woz?
Nobody, he owns Sonic Jam!
Ehy man, one dumb question, where did you get your profile image? the black horned smiling face with red eyes
@@RealRexRiplash And Donkey Kong Barrel Blast!
@@infinitespace2520 AND SONIC 2 WITH A LINE!
Scott himself, he needs that V card
Gonna tell my kids I survived 2012, and show them the movie to which they’ll say “no you didn’t, it’s a movie” and to which I will answer with your mom
Lmao got em
Tell them surviving 2012 was cakewalk compared to 2020.
@@alexanderrobins7497 the year we're we tried not to die of boredom and depression
Bonus: get their mother and cool "Uncle Jack” to come in and confirm it.
you really are a loving father. :D
I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around the fact that all that 2012 stuff was over 11 years ago now . I still remember my friend Eric and I driving around in my car in mid to late 2012, joking about the end of the world being eminent, like it was just yesterday. Saw this movie in theaters, too. Hell, at the mention of Y2K...I remember that too.. think I was in 6th grade.
Hey, we're the same age then :D And yeah... times is fucked up
My favorite part of this movie is a guy fanatically yelling “why didn’t we listen to the Mayans? Why didn’t we listen to the Mayans!”
Didn’t this guy also do a disaster movie where a global freezing event chases Jake Gyllenhaal down the hallway of a library and he slams the door and it stops global freezing from getting him ?
“We didn’t listen! We didn’t listen!”
Yes he did, it's the day After tomorrow
That one ALSO has a flood, although this one was localized in New York or something. Some other city had all their water just go to New York to create an ice mountain as tall as the Statue of Liberty.
Literally South Park level dialogue.
@@samiamrg7 Not really localized. A massive supercell was engulfing much of the planetary surface as it crept towards the equator. Basically the entire Northern Hemisphere was iced by the end of the film.
I just love how unapologetic this movie is to the fact that if you weren't a rich guy who had certain connections or just a lucky guy who knew some rich asshole oligarch, you were pretty much f*cked from the start. And at the end everyone is just celebrating, while the main protagonist has now a chance to bang his wife again. Great morals all around. This movie is a wet dream of rich people and dead beat dads, lmao
Its literally just "the american dream" the movie. They even get to colonize africa as a reward for being rich.
@@raze_ even as a white dude myself...I can't help but cringe at the fact that basically yeah.....it's going to be mainly white people who repopulate the world and just get rid other cultures and pretend it never existed DX
@@raze_ libtard
@@raze_ based
Don't despair if your wife leaves you. Her new boyfriend could get crushed between giant cogwheels!
10:56 Honestly, if the guy in the tower was an FAA agent, that's probably the most realistic scene of the movie. Like _scarily_ accurate. Even as the world is coming to an end around them, they'd STILL find a reason to yell at a pilot.
Sun explodes sending the ISS into class A airspace
"Possible pilot deviation I have a phone number for you to call"
This is the comment I was looking for. Yes, their commitment to their job is HUGE (so he would stay at the tower), but their commitment to yelling at pilots? Even greater
Man knows he ain’t gonna have another chance at yelling at pilots. He died doing what he loved.
I'm guessing he was just so focused with doing his job, he simply didn't notice the cloud of destruction behind him engulfing the tower.
Thinking that scene honestly he could heard that destruction and see things are crumbling.
More likely i think he is on a mindset of if i am going to die here. I am going to try to take all of those with me to die.
But yes they do sure love to do there job while everyone around them is fleeing from possible death.
The dangers of Y2K were real. They were just prevented because people actually made the required fixes to the various digital systems.
It's the sad thing about preventing disasters: If you fail, people will blame you. If you succeed, people will think you did nothing.
Same with MERS, the hole in the ozone layer, and acid rain.
@@stevenschnepp576 yeah, I've seen people using the last two as examples of "scientists are just alarmists" arguments. So frustrating.
@@iruns1246 sadly it seems that anytime there is a serious situation but measures get taken to avoid it, people will call it fake. i mean people will even call it fake if measures arent taken properly and a whole lot of people still die, but just none that they personally know
I used to read ozone layer breaking everywhere. There was a comic about it too. But now it's just... Disappear? I read that they've succeeded fixing it, but it was at 1980-1990 ish,
I read that book in 2005-2015 ish. Where it all went
@@3takoyakis The hole is still there, but it's healing slowly.
You just don't see it in the news anymore since they can't sensationalize it, as with most good things that happen.
The most painful part about this movie is seeing all the beautiful architectural historical landmarks get destroyed
imagine considering a old cathedral that was built by oppression of other religions and slaves being destroyed worse than billions of people dying
Humans matter more than stone and concrete, i would trade every historical building in the world to save several million people, although some really big big cathedrals and some brutalist buildings in this disaster would probably still be around because africa has a LOT of brutalism. people need to stop idolizing old architecture over everything else aswell, cathedrals are usually the nicest buildings in European city but no old building in Chicago compares to the beauty of the sears tower, most art deco buildings look better than most cathedrals anyway and they aren't super historical or old
also doesen't help most architectural purists are really hatefull of anything built after 1850 or anyone who isin't a conservative?, how many of them hate LGBTQ? more than you think
@@circleinforthecube5170I agree that human lives are more important, but bro never once mentioned cathedrals and you just made this political for absolutely no reason at all. You clearly have some big beef with religion and cathedrals, but you do realize those aren't the only historical buildings that exist, right? We're talking worldwide not just Europe and it has nothing to do with conservatives or the modern American political sphere in general. Just kind of a weird thing to bring up, im sure you just wanted to rant about it and used this innocuous comment as an outlet.
@@circleinforthecube5170 is everything alright at home
Remember when everyone was scared into thinking this would really happen? Good times…
I remember being one of them. A dumb 3rd grader scared out of his mind about it the whole year leading up. Thinking I wouldn’t get to see Christmas of 2012. Knowing it couldn’t be true…but what if it is? Oh, fuck, what if it is true?
I remember watching the follow-up movie and being afraid that I’d see a glacier in the horizon. I lived in Albuquerque.
@@thaddeuskyle572 i was 7 😭
I was 8 and I told my mom to book a trip to the Himalayas on the 21/12
It was funny but annoying because in High School all I would hear was paranoid idots & edgelords talking about the end.
Worrying about that was 10X better then how it is now
So if Africa was barely effected by the "apocalypse", doesn't that mean that the whole ships thing was pointless from the start? And how exactly Russia, a massive, mostly landlocked country, was destroyed? And what stopped China from just stealing these ships by force at the very end and using them to save their own people?
Better yet why didn't they just save more people by just building a bunch of smaller submarines and using existing submarines for cheaper because the arch just seemed like submarines
@@geth7112 normal subs cant hold a lot of people
@@Ooog__ but still it just seems like submarines are what you need to survive this apocalypse
It’s not like that point makes any sense regardless as Africa would still be screwed over by massive earthquakes and, you know, Yellowstone exploding. Which would blanket the entire world in ash for hundreds of years.
But evidently the 3 year old who wrote this forgot that part.
Russia is a “mostly landlocked country”. either the person commenting is hella dumb or hella into geopolitics. no in between
Can't lie the movie still holds up pretty well. Visually I mean. The CGI was done pretty good
Much better than the movies nowadays.
2012 (2009) was literally about the end of world on earth and I was a kid but I did really enjoyed it because my parents invited me to watch with them thanks 2012 I had a blast so far
This was one of those nightmare fuel movies for me as a kid, with the San Andreas earthquake terrifying me as a kid because of the sheer scale and more onscreen casualties. It legit made me a bit worried for 2012 when I was in middle school, thinking that the East Coast would have its own San Andreas-level disaster. My folks have the movie on Blu-Ray, and watching it nowadays I can appreciate the wild aspects of the film and it just about being one of the peaks of the disaster genre ironically or unironically, especially with Emmerich at the helm.
I remember that year. I bought a beer called “The last beer of 2012.” My friends and I drank and it sucked. I was like, “I’m gonna die knowing I drank the shittiest beer of my life.”
That, my friend, is what we call "foreshadowing"
You nevet drank Billy beer have you ?
Even as a kid I was confused by how little everyone cared about Gordon‘s death
i hated gordon when i watched this movie i was literally 5
@@pookieschmookietookie exactly everyone hates Gordon
@@pookieschmookietookie In every time I watch to this movie, I always wish that Carl (the White House Chief)dies instead Gordon, or the president, or even the crazy man. That man is x1000 worse than any character.
Because he gets reincarnated as Comissioner Gordon from The Dark Knight
@@trevorphilips9065 what? That's not Gary Oldman lol
Bro , I will never forget what they did to me , i was 11 back then when they say it was the end of the world.
I was crying and my parents saying this movie is the last movie i would watch.
Stopp 😭😭
Gotta love an area-of-effect disaster with pinpoint accuracy in order to not hit the main characters.
By far my favourite moment in the movie"
"The neutrinos have mutated"
Here I was thinking that basic subatomic particles suddenly changing properties would collapse every known natural law. Silly me.
@@mrb692 The way they phrase the exposition, it's really really dumb.
But I stand corrected.
@@Emanon... Oh god yeah, 2012 is not in any way grounded in science. I just thought it was interesting that the idea of suddenly changing subatomic particles wasn’t *strictly* disallowed by the laws of physics
Hah that was my exact thought.
'If the neutrinos are now heating up the core, wouldn't the surface of the planet already be cooked?'
Vacuum decay.
@@mrb692 Nothing is "strictly impossible" in that sense.
I remember trembling with fear thinking the world was going to end when I was still a kid, on my sister's birthday, December 21, 2012. Until midnight, I didn't feel safe.
Same
I thought you died in 1941
@@Wolfof1918 He respawned
My sister was angry that the world DIDNT end.
switch 41 o 14
I was 12 at that time and I still remember how scared I was of this event. In Germany, the tv station N24, usually rather good for showing some credible documentaries (as far as I was concerned anyway), was showing a lot of these documentaries about prophecies from Nostradamus and the Apocalypse in the Bible and how the world may look after we're gone and that always scared the shit out of me. It only took heavy wind or some kind of stronger than usual storm to scare me in the evening. Truly a fucked up time and I will always remember this when talking about this movie.
Funny thing is, Gordon's death isn't even the most mean-spirited one in the whole movie. I recall a female recurring character having a drowning death that was dark, but it gets shoved off rather easily, too.
Don't forget the billionaires wife. That one was sad. She definitely didn't deserve it
I felt for her, that pilot Sasha and Gordon; they deserved better!
@@LordSkella
Gordon and the Russian lady should have survived
"Not married, and probably never will."
nah she a goldigger
Innocent bystander#435 had the saddest death
"YOU DON'T HAVE CLEARANCE YOU MUST ABORT"
He said, as the world is ending.
Yes we do have clearance Clarance.
What's our vector Victor?
@@akuljamwal3085 ah Freeman's Mind reference.
@@vincegalila7211 Airplane reference
@@itsmmt305 I am serious... and don't call me Shirley
Dude died doing what he loved
Idk why but when I saw this in highschool me and my siblings got really emotionally attached to the handsome blonde pilot who flies the Russian plane and when he inevitably goes over the edge of the cliff and dies like the bamf he was, we all cried out "NO, not Sasha??!!" That's one of my core memories from this batshit movie. RIP Sasha, you'll always be remembered.
Man, I just found this channel yesterday and I'm simply loving it. Amazing video editing and humour, while explaining what is actually going on. Peak youtube content.
2012 for me was a terrifying movie, I'm actually petrified about the end of the world and no matter how stupid it ends in a movie its spooks the shit out of me, just the amount of death and destruction can keep me up at night.
When the end of the world comes there will be nothing you can do to stop it, darkness will swallow the world whole, and the only thing possibly waiting for us beyond the void is death no one can run, because there will be no where to run. You will be forced to come to the realization that everyone and everything you love, want and need will be nothing very soon
@A Maybe it's false for you if you're immortal.
I remember when i was like 10, my dad and my brother wanted to watch 2012 with me. I had zero experience of destruction movies and I had no idea of the world ending concept. I was just not ready for this movie. I remember I was terrified and crying when I saw the clip where they were driving away from the destruction. It made me literally nausaus.
I had nights where I coudln't sleep and my mind was nonstop on the concept that we're all gonna die someday.
I'm 21 today and I still have fond memories of this movie.
Thank you dad for this.
i feel like they made it so stupid so people wouldn’t think it was real but my stupid ass still was scared.
I was in the same boat this movie freaked me out bad as a kid
The airtraffic control guy is literally the definition of dedicated to the job.
Rest in piece billions of extras.
Its ridiculous lol!!!
@@zephyrr108 I love you ❤
Yeah and no one (including Cody!!) even mentions the nice sexy Indian family who help uncover doomsday and die because they all just kinda forgot to evacuate them. Oops - moving on and let’s never mention them again!
the "don't want to break continuity" at 2:53 f*cking destroyed me man
A decade later, and I'm still waiting on Yellowstone to take me out lol
I’ll never forget where the dad literally ran fast enough to jump on a plane trying to take off
I don't even think that's possible and somehow one of the fireballs doesn't squash him despite multiple of them hitting the ground
Mans never skipped leg day
@@mason8467 he's the inventor of leg day
And the ex wife was able to take him one arm
@@thesamejackalsniperthatkil117 bro invented walking
The longer you described the process behind how the director of this film ended up developing its premise, the more it felt like this film was just a particularly vivid fever dream that everyone on the planet experienced simultaneously.
I havnt read the original Fingerprints of the Gods but his later books on the subject never mention continental drift or Antarctica in pretty much any way; his main thesis is that because sea levels were 400ft lower during the ice age than now that we don't have a good idea where people were living at that time since so much land is under water now.
I believe 10,000BC was supposed to be more closely based on Hancock's work than 2012.
@@YukikazehaloGraham handcock is nuts
@@Yukikazehalo Graham Hancock is an odd one...
Him: 9:22 "what's still pretty special to this day" *a fucking train crashes*
metro actually, and somehow explodes in a conveniently placed flammable tank
I know Graham Hancock wrote about it in his book, but Earth Crust Displacement Theory is from Charles Hapgood's book The Earth's Shifting Crust (1958). Though other scientists have had similar ideas (there's a lot of weird prehistoric events that are difficult to explain with existing theories), and specifically Hapgood's ideas appear to be what the film is using, since he goes into the whole 5000 year cycle.
And another author in the 1870's seems to have originated the earliest version of a polar shift theory, after studying Mayan records, which brings us back to the 2012 thing for the film.
That limo LA scene was 11/10, and actually holds up pretty fucking well imo
The movie is the pinnacle of modern disaster media, and I love it
The scene with waves coming over the Himalayan mountains and the monk ringing the bell was pretty cool, only a Tibetan monk could be so stoic in a moment like that
What about stoics?
Lots of people were stoic about it. Didnt you see the movie
the poster with this on it was pretty cool
Im glad I found this channel. Such a great opportunity to revisit old movies without watching the whole dang thing.
I don’t know how to fully explain why all of your videos are extremely amusing but they are. Splendid
I find it amazing that from all the particles they could choose, they picked the ones (neutrinos) that basically don't interact with matter at all.
For illustration: each and every second, 100 trillion neutrinos pass through you. But in your entire lifetime about 2 or 3 neutrinos will actually interact with your body.
The Core was a documentary by comparison.
Neutrinos may not 'interact,' but an increase in them flying at earth does indeed indicate the cosmic radiation picking up and that heats the earth's core (they just skipped explaining why the increase of neutrinos was connected to the coming disaster). That heating up--somewhat exactly like what's happening now--is what encouraged the magma movement, earthquakes, and crustal movements.
The neutrinos...ARE EVOLVING
I love comedian Dara O'Briain's take on the whole thing.
"The Latinos… are angry!"
Never forget that Roland Emmerich said on record he didn’t like two monsters fighting at the end of a movie, before making the 90’s American Godzilla movie.
Two monsters didn’t fight in that movie, it was just Zilla vs the US military.
@@pmpowalisz Two monsters fighting, yes.
@@RTDice11 The US military is a weapon, or tool, not a monster!
@@pmpowalisz
Oh they're tools alright.
@@kjj26k The US military is the most effective military in the world. Afghanistan only fell to the Taliban because trump pulled the US military’s air, logistical, and advisory support of the Afghan military. Without that support the Afghan military could not function, and no one bothered to rearrange it to where it could. Biden in his worst decision making of his presidency decided to go against the advice of the US military brass and mostly continue with trump’s bs pull out plan.
I NEED Cody to talk about The Da Vinci Code and its sequels. SPECIFICALLY Angels&Demons. Oh my god his reaction would be gold.
I love the fact that this movie is still being streamed in my country once in a while, a whole decade after 2012!
The first time I heard of 2012 being the "end of the world", I was told by someone looking at their watch saying, "The world was supposed to end a minute ago." My confusion was written on my face 😂
@TheGlassesPro yeah it was a craze in 2018
@TheGlassesPro I've never heard of tat until now
Yeah I just laughed in the car on the date the world was ‘supposed’ to end
I remember when this movie and Final Destination were my worst fears ever. Good times.
I loved those movies, but man Final Desination made me a bit paranoid when I was a kid.
Saw and Final Destination sparked my interest in horror films when I used to watch them with my cousins. None of them really scared me, until I saw The Grudge.
Bro I remember watching Final destination 3 the night before going to my towns theme park, safe to say I was scared SHITLESS the entire day
@@whoareyoutoaccuseme6588 The Grudge had me scared of dark corners and closets for weeks!
When I watched 2012 as a kid, the scene where Yellowstone exploded always terrified me.
Roland Emmerich is my family's favorite director, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
So many fond memories of playing his movies and doing basically anything but watching them. (They are really good as background entertainment. Or as a a reliable movie to watch when you don't know what to watch.)
My history teacher made the 2012/Mayan prophecy a whole semester. The weird part is the only thing I remember from that class is looking forward to the movie lol I have no idea how often he did that but I took the class back in '08. Damn I'm old
A better premise would be the magnetic field flipping. I learned that from a psychics channel so it's gotta be true 😏
I remember my mum bought what she thought was 2012 on DVD but was actually 2012: Doomsday, a knock off. The worst cataclysmic event that they show is that it begins snowing in South America. The 4 different protags somehow make it to a Mayan temple where the one gives birth to…. the second coming of Christ. I think that one needs a review video now!
Knocking off a biblical movie (since 2012 is KINDA biblical) but they needed to one up them, so let give birth to CHRIST hah.
This the kind of movie you watch high as a kite with your friends LMAOO
Maybe not on this channel, but you could try wit Brandon Tenold
oh my god, i’m not even joking, you just solved a decade long search of a movie for me. I’ve been trying SO fucking hard these past years to find this exact movie and you just gave me the title. I remembered the birth at the end and no website could give me the title. now i feel at peace. thank you
@@cyberstasis158 happy to bring you closure friend
“Oh 2012, I loved that movie!”
“…Why?”
“I HAVE NO IDEA!!!”
Pretty much
Yup
That’s me
I love how finding your videos are feeding my disaster movie obsession
I've been binging you videos all night. You're honestly the absolute funniest video essay-ist out there. Most other channels I can just listen to in the background, but something about your edits & cuts to your deadpan avatar make me actually laugh & cough sometimes. Great stuff, I'm so glad I found your channel
They should have told the guys in the air traffic control tower "Ok, we'll abort. We're going to circle around and land again." Just to make them feel satisfied that they accomplished their goal in their last moments.
I know this video is old, but I want to say, since you made the comparison: unlike 2012, Y2K wasn't completely unfounded. There were legitimate concerns, which were resolved by developers working very hard. They did their jobs well enough that everyone remembers it as a joke now, but I think it's important to acknowledge them.
The eternal curse of IT.
If you do your job everyone thinks you don't do anything because nothing happens.
@@lars7935 "When you do your job right, people will think you haven't done anything at all" - Abraham Lincoln, probably
Yep, I've heard stories of countless IT people working mad overtime to fix countless PC's to make the transition from 1999 to 2000 painless.
The 32 bit integer limit is coming up soon
@@cyrus2395 god from futurama, actually
This movie was basically me using all weather mods in Cyberpunk 2077 to break the game.
The day before Dec 21, 2012. The 20th day.
I ask my Doc, "If the end of the world is tomorrow, then do I have to come in for my next cancer apointment tomorrow?" he answered back with a smile he said,
"No and Yes". adding "No, to the end of the world and Yes, you will keep your date. Ok.." "Yes sir." that was 10yrs ago. Still here.
Thank you Dr. Duncan. Rob63...
Ah the Good Old days when everyone thought the world was gonna explode in 2012 because some ancient people apparently said so
Aztecs most likely stopped there, because that was all the years they could scribe on a nice average round stone, and didn't find it practical to follow it beyond that (guess what, they were right, they got annihilated long before that). Kind of like how some computer programs can't display behind certain dates, because it would overflow the bits it was relocated to display times (or how TH-cam's current ID system could only hold a certain amount of videos before the inevitable expansion). Just because a data carrying medium has an end, that doesn't mean the whole Earth mysteriously combusts after the overflow
I remember telling people that dumb prophesy would be like believing the world will end on the 31st of December every year since that is when most calendars end. I guess it is a good thing calendars keep getting created.
@@csabaweisz8791 if you think about it 2012 is just Y2K 2.0
@@wtfbros5110 More like Y2K beta version.
I wish it did
I think the plot with Africa being the only non-flooded continent has nothing to do with the garden of eden.
If you look at the international conferences in this movie where all the leaders debate on how the could save humanity, there wasn't a single african country present. A reference to the fact that many people from the rich countries think of Africa as a bunch of poor, uncultured countries, not worth seing them as an important part of humanity. None of the people in this movie who built all these massive ships thought about saving something of the african culture. They were all fine with leaving them to die.
And then, in the end, the african countries will be the only ones with intact infrastructure so when the survivors finally reach their destination, they have to ask kindly for help and give their lives and future in the hands of those people who they thought to be worthless.
Interesting🤔
And they would probably s-tab them in the back as well....leading to neo-c-olinisation
I don't really think the filmmakers were thinking that deeply tbh. I think they were like 'haha isn't it ironic' and then gave zero thought to the implications after the fact
@@JeanPaulBeaubier this is the likeliest explanation. The original commenter made a good point, tho
Africa the birthplace of mankind.
“2012 begins in 2009” greatest line of all time
2:01 One of the best scenes in a movie or a trailer. I love this shot.
I'm glad someone points out how the survivors of the disaster are really a bunch of bastards, since the beginning of the movies shows the efforts to which they covered up the fact the world was going to end from the general public, going so far as to car-bomb a journalist who was going to warn the world of the impending disaster.
Sure, there's the argument that it would just cause chaos and prevent even 1 ark from being built, but I think the combined efforts of the whole population trying to do something about it would still result in more survivors than just focusing on sheltering a select few.
In hindsight, it's hard to feel sympathy for the people who actively took measures to save themselves and simultaneously screw over everyone else, but at the end of the movie, it seems they will have to become farmers and hard laborers themselves, so I guess there's that as karma(?)
Given their mentality, they probably would try to turn Africa into a slave continent before some revolt kills the overlords.
I think they will all die off realistically. Too little knowledge on what to do to live.
@@gianttacogod although it’s a completely different disaster, I agree with that logic based on the Stand by Stephen King. In the immediate aftermath of the post apocalypse caused by a pandemic that wipes out most of the population, most people don’t die because of infection, but rather lack of survival skills or just problems that aren’t prevalent in a modern society. A character dies of a heart attack, another one dies because of the misuse of a weapon. A character literally dies because his appendix bursts and none of his fellow survivors know how to operate on him and hospitals no longer exist. In fact at the end of the book it’s largely hinted that any post-apocalyptic society is doomed to fail as the remaining bastion of American civilization in Colorado begins to adopt the same traits of older nations, basically reigniting social issues that were lost during humanity’s fall. It’s an interesting perspective because even though humanity is to stubborn to die off, we’ll still find ways to hurt ourselves.
@@BostonMBrand never read that book only heard of it but from what I heard it seems to have the road effect that humanity has but I might be wrong
I think that because the entire African continent was spared that they could just move the whole world population there for a few weeks. Scramble up a few thousand planes and fly people there in groups. Find them a nice hotel to stay at. And when everything is back to normal everybody can go back to the new marshland they used to call home.
It's a better idea than to let billions of people die.
12:35 Best Line - "Did the poor man even get a funeral or is his corpse still stuck between the gears?..."
If you think of this movie as happening in some sort of alternate timeline where world actually got destroyed in back in 2012 and all of your memories and events from that period on never took place then that wouldn't age this film at all, it would frighten you even more.
me and my dad bond over this movie still to this day, it’s so ridiculously over the top and entertaining but learning about the actual inspiration for this movie makes so much sense now lmao
I was 9 years old in 2012. My family spent new years in church. Strangely, I remember accepting that I was gonna die, that I had a good life. It was only until I told my cousin & she told my mom that I was informed it was all a big lie. As everyone around me laughed, I felt a _huge_ weight I didn't know I had lift off my shoulders. Like God was giving me another chance to live.
I wish I could face death like a champ like I did when I was a kid. 💀 I kind of hate apocalyptic rumors now.
I heard the world's ending next friday
@@gordonf5553 Its already Saturday my guy. Although I wish it happened so that I no longer need to do my math homework.
@@gordonf5553 can confirm, i am dead
But it wasn't gonna happen during new year's. It was on the 21st of december, so by new year's you would've already been dead.
@@voxelbandit now,the chances are high,nuclear threat
Honestly, I always loved how gloriously absurd Roland Emmerich's films are. I actually discovered this video right after I watched it again. 2012 is by far his magnum opus of destruction and probably rivals Independence Day as his most epic film. Also like ID4, the effects STILL look incredible. It may have dated itself with the subject matter, but it works as the disaster movie TO END ALL DISASTER MOVIES.
Also, I thought the serious and dramatic parts really worked. The parts where the Jazz musician and the President valiantly face their own demises was heartbreaking.
Part of the reason ID4’s effects are still so good is because they were almost entirely practical/miniatures, down to the dogfight scenes. Probably the last major movie to use old school effects before the big CG push.
Honestly I agree. It look damn impressive for 2008
How has it taken me so long to find the channel?! Subscribed!
There is something so funny about the line '2012 begins in 2009'
Honestly even as a kid I had a hard time figuring out whether this movie was a meta joke on disaster movies or legit.
For me it initially felt like it wanted to be a serious disaster movie on paper, but that, between writers, actors, editors and directors, not a danged soul was willing to try, so it came out... uneven in tone.
The plane at 11:06 was actually destroyed in Ukraine like 4 days ago. It was the biggest plane in the world and it was owned by Ukraine and was destroyed during the Russian invasion.
That’s funny, thing cheats death then gets karma a decade later
@ThelastTiger idk I tried to make a joke
...you really think they can't make more? That they don't have more. You poor little troll.
@ThelastTiger Wait, the world DIDN'T end in 2012?!
@@ea.fitz216 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I just watched the entire movie just so I can watch this video. I would've never watched the movie if it wasn't for this channel. So yeah, thanks Cody.
Bro I'm rewatching your videos over and over again. We need you to come online