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2012
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Submitted by Daniel on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 11:30
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Is it un-healthy to say I'm glad to be done with this one? well... ok, i wont say it. I''ll just say I can't stand the real 2012 movie. I realize it's supposed to be a fun-don't-take-it-seriously flick, but still, I hate it. 2012 is full of scenes scripted entirely around showing a specific cg occurance. For instance when the water is flooding towards the ark and some dude in the moment of fear has the completely necessary thought to say to his buddy out loud, "dude, that's airforce one!" as air force one of all planes tumbles at them. That sort of junk makes me so furious that somewhere someone thought people are too dumb to understand which plane is the presidents, maybe not too dumb to actually recognize it, but just in case we're going to verbally tell you what it is right as it passes the screen.. "Ooooh, that planes called air force one! a-heuk! I thought it was called whitehouse with wangs! Kew kew!"Anyway, I should talk about the short. So 2012 was a challenge. There is about 15 characters in the movie and most of their only purpose is to explain why the earth is about to knock over some specific landmark. The only "story" if you can call it that is the family. The un-invited-luckiest-family to ever exist really. So we decided to focus on them more than the other stories. The challenge came with what do we do? they should die like 15 times in this movie, but we always kill off the good guys in our shorts. How do we make it different and not completely predictable? Well, we decided to just point out the absurdity of the entire plot and then just foil their plan right at the begining, because lets be honest, that family would never make it to an airport much less past the freeway if the whole city was caving in. Credits are as usual. Steph, Bryan, and Me.Building the collapsing shots was the most difficult part of this short. And the water. I don't have any fancy particle plugins for AfterEffects, so creating debris and sparks or smoke and stuff is really complicated. most of the buildings in the backgrounds are adjusted artwork from the spiderman 3 short. I just cleaned them up a little and broke them apart. The "slideshow" section artwork for the middle took a while to create, but it's meant to feel more hoaky, so it wasn't nearly as time consuming as the other shots. That's about all of the exciting info I can muster on this one. Like I said, my brain kind of went to mush trying to actually contain the logic of this picture, so I'm glad to be past it and actually thinking about movies I care for. That's the downside of having a vote on worst of 2009 I guess huh. :) maybe next year we can refine the logic of our categories.
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2012
There were many ways I was wondering how you were going to do this one, but I guess that was probably the best way to go about it.However, I instead of explaining the whole plot another funny way would have been during the volcano eruption when Jackson steals the van and trys to outrun and it did that crap-fest scene where he manages to jump across the collapsing road IN A VAN. Instead he should have just immediatley fell off.Also how you do the after the credits scene, instead of the Woody Harrelson guy, it should have Kanye West saying "Yo 2012 you're beautiful and all and im going to let you finish, but The Core was one of the best disaster movies of ALL TIME.
Squashed by a kiddo
Squashed by a kiddo doughnut. Ouch!I loved how guy was out of breath after explaing the escape plan. He clearly thought it through alot.This short had me laughing after the credits rolled. Great job
somthing i thought wouldve been funny
I enjoyed the 2012 animation and it was really funny but, I thought that you were going to show the dudes on the ark like Oliver Platt and the world leaders then one says:"Oh hell we forgot the toilet paper" or somthing.
I approve
When I first saw this short I wasn't as happy as I was for the ones before this. Usually you guys don't go with the obvious choice, but then, as I saw it again, I realized the genius. This movie was so terrible, and so unrealistic that there couldn't possibly have been anything else to point out. The fact that you went through the entire plot of the movie, step by step, was genius in itself.So while the ending wasn't as funny, the plot was so rediculous it made it funny!
I'm kind of mad at you
I'm kind of mad at you guys for making this short and reminding me of the 3 hours of my life that the film micturated all over. but, it was funny and the animation was great as usual. NickelCrew.net
you're right
you're right it was a waste but i did like the part when he said the plan to them LOL
Back to the motherland
I was hoping for some kind of reference about the end of the movie when they stated that Africa's flooding had already subsided and it might have never flooded to begin with.
A bit late here....
Nicely done there (Kiddo donuts!!!!) "yeah lets just doggie paddle..."
I never did see 2012
I never did see the actual 2012 - and I don't plan to, even though sometimes I've made sure to see a movie before I watch the HISHE version. But I got the gist enough to enjoy the short. Nice work! I liked this moment:
Thanks for sticking it out and making this, even though you disliked the movie along with everyone else!Hey -- did anyone else get an ad for FEMA's disaster preparedness kit before the short - that was hilarious.
I'm just amazed
I still can't get over the fact that any movie studio actually ok'd a script/plot where the heroes had to escape via last second plane ride three seperate and very similar times. By the 2nd takeoff there was no suspense left cause you have to figure that If they are going to have Jackson survive having the earth swallow him and the winnepago whole and then just spit him out unharmed, then the plane he's on will probably survive the takeoff from yellowstone. I imagine the producer and writter had the following conversation:Producer: So they have to fly away at the last second three times?Writter: Yeah, we are getting a buy 2 get 1 free discount on Airplane CGI, plus i'm not a very good writter.Producer: Don't worry about it, I'm only making this movie because I get turned on by watching massive natural disasters and human suffering. Speaking of which, do you think we could add in a scene where we just clumsily kill off a likeable charachter in an almost haphazard kind of way.Writter: Do you want the scene to have a lot of heart and emotion that reinforces the urgentness of the characters life and death struggle and makes the audience doubt their preconceived notions of the sterotypical hollywood happy ending.Producer: Nah, we both know your not good enough to pull that off, just write it as if the actor suddenly realized he had another movie to shoot and we had to hastily write him out of the movie.Writter: Duce Ex Machina here we come. Oh, and one other huge problem I have with that movie: nothing would have stoped those giant gears. Even if the power tool was made out of an uncrushable adamantium, wouldn't you design your end of the world humanity saving ark to have back up and redundant systems in place just in case if , i don't know, ANYTHING went wrong.
2012 laughs!
HA!HA! thumbs for kiddo donghnunt smash! go dog!