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Wouldn't that just give everyone superpowers?
Yep. And one particularly sick individual has the superpower of creating GIANT waves.
They have to save SOMETHING for later trailers, and that's mostly that it's a secret superhero movie for extra summer blockbuster gravy.
Wouldn't that just give everyone superpowers?
If everyone's special, then NO ONE is special.
(Grr.)
If everyone's special, then NO ONE is special.
Fuck that, I want my superpowers!!
So instead, all non-special people will be squished. Leaving only the special people.
Um....
Why is it that I suspect the filmmakers never quite got that the magnetic poles reversing doesn't actually flip the planet like a flapjack in a skillet so Antarctica ends up facing the North Star?
Really, a complete temporary collapse of the magnetosphere could be pretty catastrophic what with all the cosmic rays and solar wind particles making it down to the surface. But I suppose "And over the next twenty years half the population died of cancer!" doesn't have quite the immediate thrill of "OMGWTF! Wave taller than Everest!"
The DVD I have out from Red Box has an early 2012 trailer that actually looks kinda cool... monks in Tibet sounding the bell of their mountaintop monastery as the giant tidal wave swells up over the Himalayas.
Oh, it's that movie! I saw that trailer in the cinema earlier this year. That Tibetan tidal wave was awesome! If totally unbelievable.
So (500) Days of Summer is hilarious and sweet and sad and lovely, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel are great, and I recommend everyone sees it whenever the hell it actually comes out.
Within its first few seconds, the trailer for 2012 identifies the Mayans as mankind's oldest civilization.
IJS, if you're finding fault with the movie's physics, I don't think you're in their target audience anyway.
The Daily Mail has a feature today claiming that Megan Fox is a thimble brain. Hard to know, coming from a gossip rag. I've never seen her interviewed.
If this is The Daily Mail from my country, I would automatically assume the opposite of anything they print. It is a vicious, hate-filled, scurrilous excuse for a newspaper. I grew up with it in my house, and the reason that, as a child, I ruled out being a journalist as a career option was because I thought that meant writing the sort of xenophobic, homophobic, everydamnthingphobic shit contained within the Daily Mail.
The DVD I have out from Red Box has an early 2012 trailer that actually looks kinda cool... monks in Tibet sounding the bell of their mountaintop monastery as the giant tidal wave swells up over the Himalayas.
When I saw this I hoped that it was The Last Airbender: The Break-Up and Kitara was really really pissed at Aang.