It’s the end of the world as we know it, but you should mostly feel okay about it. Want to know why 2012 may not be the worst disaster-porn film ever? Let Brett, Ellen and our legion of webcammers explain why that is.
On this week’s episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show, we review 2012, Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Messenger; John Woo gives us his Five Favorite Films and “Ellen” Fox helps us learn the Confessions of a Serial Vampire Dater.
Click on to find out which webcammer made it onto the show and their full review for 2012, Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Messenger.
We like your webcam reviews for the show. But sometimes, just sometimes, we believe that a film can best be reviewed by your reaction. Especially the kind that comes upon walking out of a dark theater, in which you have to explain yourself.
Now, we want you do that very explanation with your face!
Take a photo of yourself, upload it to Current and you could be on this Thursday’s show.
Maybe you saw 2012 this weekend (and if you did, submit a review for the show.) Maybe you became enamored with Charlie Frost (Woody Harrleson) and his conspiracy theories in the park.
Maybe you want more of Charlie. Well, the viral advertising team figured you may take a shine to this wondrous crackpot whose videos appear to be Harrleson just cracking wise with the scope of the material. But you can check out his channel here.
What’s shaking, you sinister cinephiles? Forgive the alliteration, but we just want to make sure you’re well advised of your screening options this weekend when it comes to the main releases and two limited.
You already know what DVDs are out, but let’s take a peek at the feature films in wide and limited release.
Perhaps the earlier works of Roland Emmerich could’ve foreshadowed his taste for disaster with Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and today with 2012. But that isn’t the case.
It’s a little known fact that Emmerich is a devout student of the disaster film clairvoyant, Filmstradamus! And yes, it may be yet another notch in the old Erlich family tree, but still important! Watch on, dear viewer, as Filmstradamus predicts everything from destruction of monuments to why New York is always getting destroyed.
John Cuscak wants to check out the numbers.
1. I saw the preview of 2012 on Monday, which was way over in Westwood.
2. I didn’t know shit about Roland Emmerich. Isn’t he the German guy who wrote that Oprah book “The Power of Now”? No, that’s Eckhart Tolle. He’s boring. This is the German guy who made Independence Day.
3. Writer/director Emmerich’s movie is about how in 2012, just as the Mayans predicted, all the planets will line up causing the tectonic plates to shift and blah blah blah…. LET’S SEE SOME PANTIES DROPPIN’!!!!
A metaphor can be crushing–literally.
2012 is about CGI eventually killing everyone. Pirate Radio’s about the ability to base things on “true events” and then shoving a bunch of classic rock tunes on a soundtrack “together for the first time!” And don’t get me started on what Fantastic Mr. Fox means. Did I screw up the definition of metaphor?
Oh well. That’s why we have the Top 5 Worst Movie Metaphors, to make sure we never mis use these terms or film tropes.
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