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1. #THE BAY 2012 BLURAY MOVIE#
2. #THE BAY 2012 BLURAY DRIVER#
3. #THE BAY 2012 BLURAY UPGRADE#
4. #THE BAY 2012 BLURAY FULL#

There are plenty of green screen shots / in car shots, and pure CG moments which have a very heavily processed feel, which goes beyond even the bronzed feel to the overall colour scheme.

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Unsurprisingly, some turn out wildly better than others, with the entire second half of the movie (and extended closing sequence) looking the best, whilst the first half - and most notably the limo sequence and parts of the first flying setpiece - not holding up quite as well.

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And, honestly, who comes to epic Emmerich for anything other than epic mayhem, which this really does deliver, particularly when it hits its unexpectedly impressive final act, stretching the runtime but also dialling the chaos up to 11 to round out one of the defining modern disaster movies.Ī decent upgrade over a decade-old Blu-ray presentation which was no slouch in the first placeĢ012 had a pretty hefty $200M budget which, back in 2009, was not insignificant, but it was also a ridiculous 158 minutes in length, with a slew of heavy effects sequences that needed to be serviced. flying cars sequence looks more Train to Busan: Peninsula than Fate of the Furious) so you need to be extra-forgiving on a rewatch, although thankfully the final act still stands up and looks stunning. The explosions, eruptions and all-round chaos provide superb entertainment, but you have to get past the GTA-level video game effects sequences (the limo vs. Really, though, the disaster is the star, and that's handled on a suitably epic scale, even if - 12 years later - the effects don't always hold up. Probably one of John Cusack's biggest movies, the ensemble affair pulls in a typically earnest Chiwetel Ejiofor (whose on-screen dad does the best acting in the whole movie), a wasted Thandie Newton (compare her here to her tremendous work in Westworld), Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt and a manic Woody Harrelson (is there any other?), whilst Danny Glover makes for an uncharacteristically dedicated President. Sure, the characters are wafer-thin, but the fact that Emmerich even tries to paint some characters here should only be taken as a plus, with an all-star cast game for some ridiculous calamity, remaining poker faced through the disastrous chaos.

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Volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis - a great flood to end all floods - it plays out as a succession of escape sequences from increasingly effects-laden natural disasters (Cusack's writer/limo driver driving through an earthquake, then running away from an eruption and flying through basically the end of the world in increasingly big planes - and that's before we even get to the boats).

He'd dabbled with aliens blasting up the White House in Independence Day, had Godzilla trampling through New York, and froze the planet in The Day After Tomorrow, but 2012 has the whole lot wrapped into one - and a whole lot more. One of the defining modern disaster moviesĢ012, in some ways, is the pinnacle of Emmerich's disaster oeuvre. When the earth's core starts to destabilise, the Mayan prophecy appears to be proven true, with the world given but days to put into action a plan that Governments have thankfully had in store for years - to put a lucky few hundred onto vast arks that will hopefully be able to ride out the storm. 2012 is a poster-boy for thin characterisation and ridiculous running/driving/flying away from explosions/earthquakes/tsunamis, but few going into this disaster blockbuster by THE disaster movie director would have any right to expect anything else and, if nothing else, it certainly gets the job done in decimating the planet spectacularly.

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Disaster movie maestro Roland Emmerich delivers a greatest hits effort here with his epic 2012, which can't really be faulted for doing exactly what it says on the tin, and provides a pretty effective experience in 4K with Atmos.Īfter Independence Day, Godzilla and The Day After Tomorrow, Emmerich had pretty-much secured his reputation as the go-to filmmaker for blockbusters about blowing famous monuments up, shooting for full apocalypse here, and basically hitting the mark.