Jun 18 2009'2012' Trailer: The Day All This Random, Terrible Stuff Happens
Roland Emmerich, director of such regular-people-and-a-few-government-people-coping-with-apocalyptic-events films as Independence Day, Godzilla, and The Day after Tomorrow, has a new regular-people-and-a-few-government-people-coping-with-apocalyptic-events film coming out this November, and this time the danger is more real, and more vague than ever. It's not monsters, aliens, nor global warming or cooling--this time it's just crazy shit happening, dudes!:
God, why did Doomsday have to take out the Sistine Chapel?? That's probably one of our best chapels! Do something, President Danny Glover!
I'm not a big Emmerich fan, but I have to admit, this should probably win some awards for Most Awesome & Convincing Flooding, Fiery Crashing, and Everything Generally Going to Shit Effects.


Reader Comments
1. chadtvu - June 18, 2009 3:36 PM
i would watch this.
first
2. Sithlord - June 18, 2009 3:38 PM
looks decent... i'd second that "i'd watch this".....you know..cause i'm second
3. jim - June 18, 2009 3:40 PM
i would watch it second after u ^^
4. Nick - June 18, 2009 3:53 PM
Y'know, this may not be the best movie, but I'm going to buy this. 'Cause if it looks this good on YOUTUBE, goddamn will it look good on Blu-ray on my TV.
5. Beer Baron - June 18, 2009 3:59 PM
Cusack's driving the same RV that Randy Quaid drove in Independence Day!
6. Eric - June 18, 2009 3:59 PM
I feel like I've been there and done that already, and it was called The Deep Independence Day After Tomorrow.
7. xharper - June 18, 2009 4:09 PM
Finally. A Waterworld prequel. Will the genius of Hollywood never cease?
8. Kevin - June 18, 2009 4:12 PM
Wow, this looks like shit.
When will people realize that Roland Emmerich has been making the same movie for over 15 years? With the exception of the surprisingly good Stargate, this CGI obsessed kraut sucks dick.
9. jp - June 18, 2009 4:30 PM
Does 1000 BC mean anything to y'all? I think thats what it was called...didnt even watch it LOLOLOL
10. Trey - June 18, 2009 4:32 PM
You do all realize that the year 2012 is when Skynet goes online....or Zombies attack...
...either way we're all screwed.
11. PecanCtMichael - June 18, 2009 4:37 PM
I get the impression that we've just seen all the good parts of the movie (in the trailer). The remaining two hours will be character development for the twenty-odd people that we saw when the world WASN'T falling apart. It happened in ID4...
12. pedoguy - June 18, 2009 4:59 PM
I almost rather watch a Uwe Boll film...
13. well thats nice - June 18, 2009 6:05 PM
bet this was the CGI guys wet dreams.
Though might be entertaining.
14. ahha - June 18, 2009 6:28 PM
Do you think Emmerich is that guy at the party that won't stop talking about the same damn crazy shit all the time? In his case, The world is going to end when... And, the whole time his hot wife is banging some less ridiculously obsessed with nonsense dude in the bathroom.
This movie looks like poo. I might watch it late at night, if I am really drunk and can't find porn.
15. Hal - June 18, 2009 6:46 PM
I really hope this rips of the low budget parody film DISTASTER! where a meteorite with a mega tornado, tidal wave and giant earthquake all on it are on a collision course with the earth. That would be about right. In this case - pretty sure giant crystals under the earth are responsible party. NEXT plez.
16. My Name is Weepeel - June 18, 2009 6:49 PM
Was that freakin' Danny Glover!?!
17. poopstain - June 18, 2009 6:59 PM
So, it's basically an Asylum Pictures film with a larger budget...
18. zoloft - June 18, 2009 7:14 PM
God dammit now people are going to keep asking us astronomers about the stupid fucking mayan calendar.
19. JFreezy - June 18, 2009 7:59 PM
Damn! This guy likes to kill us!! LOL@6!
20. Mark Farson - June 18, 2009 8:51 PM
Wow, it's always raining when John Cusack's around. This time it's meteorites instead of water, but it is still raining something.
21. rob - June 18, 2009 9:13 PM
Roland always has such a delicate touch
22. gink - June 18, 2009 9:43 PM
disaster porn is making a comeback.
23. Russell - June 18, 2009 10:53 PM
thought it was gonna be cheesy at first, but i guess the modern-day-noahs-ark route might be interesting...
..then again, it might just be seeing things get blown up in HQ that makes this look so cool
24. frank - June 18, 2009 10:55 PM
Meh. I'll just buy a plane and wait 3 1/2 years to watch the real thing happen.
25. Matt - June 19, 2009 12:03 AM
Trey...I believe the original timeframe for Skynet going online was 1997...before "McG" fucked everything up.
26. rik - June 19, 2009 2:15 AM
Oooooh, you unbelievable snobist, elitist, stuck up bunch of cry babies!
"i'm above this simplistic CGI action nonsens blah blah blah"
Who do you think cares how terrible you think Emmerich and/or his eccessive use of CGI is?? Believe me, you're opinion is not interesting to anyone! Just see a trailer like this for what it is meant to be: Simplistic popcorn entertainment. Remember what that word meant? ENTERTAINMENT! If you want to find deep character studies or a life changing experience OBVIOUSLY you shouldn't clic on a trailer like this let alone take the effort to write your "oh please look how grown up my opinion is"
I'ts pathetic really.
27. Markus - June 19, 2009 2:45 AM
The earliest civilization?? What about the Egyptians ... for example? The Aztecs came much later.
The graphics look really cool but the story will soooooooooo suck. Like always in these movies.
And a flying giraffe? lol
28. Pat - June 19, 2009 8:51 AM
Dude, I love Emmerich. Sit down and turn your brain off for two hours. What more could you want?
29. Judy - June 19, 2009 9:41 AM
That has Vir from B5 and The Operative from Serenity!
... I am such a huge nerd.
30. potato_owl - June 19, 2009 9:44 AM
I can't believe this!!! London was really looking forward to hosting the Olympics, and now they've been CANCELED! Well, I am not going to be the one to break the news, Boris Johnson will go mad if we don't get our wiff-waff.
31. NastyBedazzler - June 19, 2009 10:01 AM
I was going to say this is going to be stupid.
Then I was going to go on to insult the director's other movie, Day After Tomorrow, and say it was the worst movie I've ever seen.
But then towards the end of the trailer I saw the Assassin from kickass movie Serenity and since decided I might give this a chance... as a download.
32. Jeff - June 19, 2009 1:39 PM
How many times is this guy going to make the same crappy disaster movie with zero story and plastic characters?
33. sanspants - June 19, 2009 1:46 PM
first civilization = Mesopotamians. I don't think the Mayans were even the first civilization in the western hemisphere..
34. ashleigh - June 19, 2009 3:16 PM
so...is it lame that i was upset that they showed the uss jfk carrier crumbling in the water because that ship was decommissioned a couple of years ago? like...that's my major complaint.
1 new life, please.
35. Cash - June 19, 2009 3:31 PM
I find it poetic that JFK takes out the Obama white house. We can only hope he was in the oval office when these two legacies came to a crashing conclusion.
36. proteon - June 19, 2009 4:31 PM
I for one am not afraid that the pyramids were built in a manner that to this day escapes our understanding so that they may line up to perfection with certain stellar bodies on an exact date in 2012. It is a pure coincidence that these structures were erected - coincidence that they would illustrate a time and date to exactness thousands of years in the future; that we have no understanding of how this could have been so positively dwarfs the idea that they were warning us about something. Especially a polar realignment.
Back to work ya scumbags.
37. killswitch - June 19, 2009 6:32 PM
LOL! If you watch it from the point of view that that little private jet is causing all the destruction, you can have a bit of a laugh! Someone just shoot down that plane!
38. Peanut - June 19, 2009 10:16 PM
Wait wait wait wait wait. Did I just see a flying giraffe?
39. lololol - June 20, 2009 3:39 AM
1:36.............FSCK FLYING PIGS
40. ShytPickle - June 20, 2009 10:08 AM
The effects certainly seem like updated versions of Day After Tomorrow. I am intrigued about the scale of this and actually seeing the entire planet demolished might be fun. The use of 2012 and the whole Mayan calender thing is not even close to being a good premise for this. They should have gone with polar shift causing the Moon to break apart or something more scientific. The Mayan calendar doesn't predict anything really. The Dec 2012 date is merely a change of age, just as many others that have come to pass, and their civilization was likely destroyed before the next age could be carved into stone. Like a said: not a good premise for this type of film.
41. DieBeck - June 20, 2009 12:21 PM
Academic research does not indicate that the Maya attached any apocalyptic significance to the year 2012: the date for the end of their world lay unimaginable aeons of time in the future. Scholars cite the Mayan inscription Coba Stela 1, which features the date 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0. In Mayan mythology, this date represents the age of the previous world at its ending and the beginning of the current one, which corresponds to the Western date 11 August 3114 BC. Because the Mayan calendar is cyclical, the above dating will also, of necessity, mark the end of the present Long Count cycle and the beginning of the next. With each column equal to twenty times its predecessor, this date lies some 41,341,049,999,999,999,999,999,994,879 years in the future, or 3 quintillion times the scientifically accepted age of the universe.
42. Ananana - June 20, 2009 1:36 PM
Why can't you people see that the Mayans just GOT BORED from making a calendar?? They later moved on to pottery and scrapbooking.
43. Alexnoes - June 20, 2009 3:17 PM
@ananana
Either that of they were killed off by Spanish Conquistadors when they began colonizing America.
WHO THE FUCK KNOWS, LET'S STOP BEING PARANOID.
This movie could be called Swine-Flu for all I cared about that one too.
44. bjork - June 20, 2009 5:19 PM
fake.
45. Jonjon - June 21, 2009 2:21 AM
I bet the Giraffe was like "Lollololololol"
Anyways, I'll just watch the movie because it'll make millions of dollars anyways, and will be cool just watching everything Fall apart. xD
46. Darth - June 21, 2009 4:38 PM
Impressive,a lot of folks like these kinds of movies.Looking forward!
47. Galtacticus - June 21, 2009 4:48 PM
The music in this "2012" trailer reminds me a bit on "Gangs of New York",coincidence? Click on me,it starts at 1:57.
48. hartwell30 - June 22, 2009 12:40 PM
@Cash.
You are a hateful sack of shit and I hope an aircraft carrier lands on you, fucknuts.
49. Artie Lange - June 22, 2009 2:48 PM
John Cusack in black? weird...
50. jimmyhoffascorpse - June 22, 2009 9:12 PM
This guy spends so much money making a monumental piece of crap.
Not only a monumental one, but one that will be outdated 4 years afters it's made. It's just ridiculous i don't know how he keeps getting away with it.
We could be spending this money on curing cancer or giving aid to war torn countries or better yet BY MAKING A DECENT FUCKING FILM.
51. CrackedPepper - June 23, 2009 2:37 AM
Ok, we all know Roland Emmerich isn't a great director, but he makes fun movies, albeit the same one over and over. The characters are always one-dimensional, the plots riddled with holes, and the script simply a string of one-liners and special effects.
But Independence Day was the Muh-fuggin sheet. There's no denying that his films are fun to watch. C'mon people, who doesn't want to watch the entire world simply crumble in front of you? Who cares that it's for some arbitrary reason?
52. Fish Man - June 24, 2009 3:32 PM
is it me or does this look like a mash-up of the day after tommorrow and the knowing? you know, with the two kids and two adults, the crazy apocalyptic events, the warnings from the past, the saving the animals. anyone else see a correlation here?
53. Crappola - June 24, 2009 6:33 PM
eh... I'll wait for the real thing to happen.
54. Chase - June 28, 2009 1:56 AM
Well said #26 Rik! Some people are just such crybabies about movies they haven't even seen yet. They don't know how to just let loose and have fun. Stop being so anal and just have some fun! Then maybe you won't be so miserable, wasting your lives online trying and failing to be self-righteous with your "opinions". Waste your energy to comment on things you DO like cause no one wants to hear your crybaby "opinions" about a popcorn disaster film.
55. Chase - June 28, 2009 1:58 AM
Oh yeah, this 2012 looks awesome and I cannot wait to see it!
56. 59hearse - June 30, 2009 2:48 AM
I actually look forward to movies about the destruction of humanity, because the truth is that the only explosions of our lives usually happen into a tissue a foot from our keyboard. Proof being the majority of the comment are left in PM hours or just after midnight. No one is out slaying beavers and blowing shit up. These movies are an escape that does not need very much focus, due to lack of deep plot, but is a hell of a lot less placid than the blow up sheep with the lipstick. Shit I dropped my Jergen's.
57. Bobeyo - July 2, 2009 5:02 PM
Let's see... every one of this guy's movies that I've seen were worthless pieces of trash, so yeah, I think I'll skip this too.
Did you HEAR the way that guy said "Are mish-in is to in-shure the continooidy of are speesheez." ??? He sounded like a freaking retard. No amount of special effects is worth hearing that line again, much less all of the other cliche crap in the film.
58. freeyourmind00 - July 4, 2009 3:57 AM
looks like War of the Worlds minus the aliens and adding natural disasters...
hm. not interested.
59. Combaz - July 7, 2009 1:50 AM
Is it just me or do the ships they're building to ensure the "continuity of the species" look a LOT like a Battlestar from the old Galactica series?
60. Forlourned - July 8, 2009 1:50 PM
Cash sez: "I find it poetic that JFK takes out the Obama white house. We can only hope he was in the oval office when these two legacies came to a crashing conclusion."
Except that mr glover is aping the cowardly teleprez and fleeing in the Air Force One that was being smashed into goo in this cine-Turd trailer. I wait for the youtube of his watery demise. that is a keeper!
Screw the concept of 'Natural Disasters' here, it's all mans fault for polluting the air with CO2! Because of that the lawns are growing out of control! Trees are getting bigger! Weeds are popping up in all the cracks in the concrete!!!! Green things are EVERYWHERE!!! Mother earth is choking on the Greeen! Lady Gaia is not pleased and must rid the world of us nasty humans who pollute the ground and air with CO2 by taking a big ass piss on us all!
-IT IS 2012!-
...it took over 30+ years to out-date 2001. This director one up Stanley by out-dating himself in less then THREE!
61. Forlourned - July 8, 2009 1:54 PM
And what the hells the deal with the rolling top of the church?! The dome is supported by gravity vertically. Set on the side and it COLLAPSES!!
62. Dad - July 8, 2009 2:28 PM
I am disapoint
63. duketrik - August 16, 2009 6:13 PM
Just another feel-good-about-the-end-of-civilization movie... I'll wait for the DVD
64. stanisha - August 18, 2009 5:42 PM
OMG is it real