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

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

@@_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

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!

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.

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.

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.

Yeah😂

😂😂😂

Thats a nice April Fool’s prank

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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

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

Yeah, the President was trying to comfort a child he found when the tsunami killed him and the others

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.

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

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.

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

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

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)

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!

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 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!

He and Tamara They forgot about both of them

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?

That, my friend, is what we call "foreshadowing"

You nevet drank Billy beer have you ?

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 ;)

@@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.

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.

Hey, we're the same age then :D And yeah... times is fucked up

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

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.

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

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

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

Same

I thought you died in 1941

@@Wolfof1918 He respawned

My sister was angry that the world DIDNT end.

switch 41 o 14

“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.

Stopp 😭😭

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

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!

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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 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!"

What about stoics?

Lots of people were stoic about it. Didnt you see the movie

the poster with this on it was pretty cool

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...

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.

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

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.

@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

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.

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

Pretty much

Yup

That’s me

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

Batman? They would give Game of Thrones' Arya Stark a run for her money!

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

A better premise would be the magnetic field flipping. I learned that from a psychics channel so it's gotta be true 😏

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.

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 KZfaq'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

the other half of the reason was that one of my previous, and probably my earliest childhood obsession was John Cusack. to this day i have no idea where that one came from lol

😂