'2012: Special Edition' - High-Def Digest Review

[wyattest30]

Nope. over there, they're called Georogists.

Wow! This came from a STAFF of this site? Man I thought we're all grown ups here but I guess not.

[LordoftheRingsEE]

Cochise, I agree with you. 2012 doesn´t have a great quality video. I think the people that works writing about the movies in Blu-ray should be more, much more EXIGENTES (this is in Portuguese ... I am a brasilian!).

I think 2012 SUCKS big time! Is that closer to French, English, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Argentinian, or Brazilian? And I ain't talkin' 'bout the video quality here (mostly CGI crap anyway), I'm talkin' 'bout the film itself.

What da ya think?

* By the way, I'm French myself. And I got very good friends from Brazil. So say Hi to them from me, would you? Thanks.

[LordoftheRingsEE]

Wow! This came from a STAFF of this site? Man I thought we're all grown ups here but I guess not.

That was simply a joke.

[chris gerhard]

I was really looking forward to this release but Sony does it again:
"On another side note, there are a variety of characters speaking in foreign languages throughout '2012'. Unfortunately, the subtitles accompanying the narrative are not contained within the image proper. As result, this makes the movie unsafe for viewing on Constant Image Height projection screens."

Does no one at Sony have a Home Theater setup with true widescreen?

Literally NO excuse for this. How can we possibly have more advanced setups than the people authoring these discs? Just stupid.

I don't have a CIH screen and much prefer what Sony has done here to putting subtitles in the widscreen image. Are there players that can fix the subtitle issue for the small group that uses CIH?

Chris

[ToddS]

Wow! This came from a STAFF of this site? Man I thought we're all grown ups here but I guess not.

It is actually pretty representative of the maturity level of this site from a STAFF perspective from my experience, atleast in general

[bembol]

I finally got my copy from CH.

I'm surprised HDD gave this a 4/5 for The Movie Itself. IMO it's a 2/5.

What I hate about Ronal Emmerich is that he always tries to be dramatic, like the scenes with the Father Son/Daughter and especially the to Old Friends at the Cruise Ship wasn't necessary. All these fillers never work, this could've been cut down 45 minutes.

This is his best End of the World/Destruction and the BD is Reference, that's why I picked it up. I had Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow on BD but later sold/traded it. Let's see how long this last. LOL

[LordoftheRingsEE]

I'm wondering... Is it truly going to happen?

[Area51]

I'm surprised HDD gave this a 4/5 for The Movie Itself. IMO it's a 2/5.

I agree. Most of it came off as over-the-top stupid. PQ is amazing though.

[ungood]

Nope. over there, they're called Georogists.

yikes, i'm surprised you don't know that that's supposed to be a Japanese joke, since it's the Japanese that do not have the L sound in their language (the Chinese do), unless you think that Chinese and Japanese are the same?

*cue that one scene in King of the Hill when Hank asks the Laotian guy if he's Chinese or Japanese

regarding 2012, i thought that scene that showed what happened to Hawai'i was hilarious!

[LordoftheRingsEE]

regarding 2012, i thought that scene that showed what happened to Hawai'i was hilarious!

I tought it was quite sad myself (all those people dying under water!).

[ungood]

I tought it was quite sad myself (all those people dying under water!).

i can understand that, but i do live in hawai'i and with my twisted sense of humour, there's a lot of irony to seeing the island covered in lava (i guess it's an inside joke kinda thing)

[filmfan]

I think 2012 SUCKS big time! Is that closer to French, English, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Argentinian, or Brazilian? And I ain't talkin' 'bout the video quality here (mostly CGI crap anyway), I'm talkin' 'bout the film itself.

What da ya think?

* By the way, I'm French myself. And I got very good friends from Brazil. So say Hi to them from me, would you? Thanks.

Even if I did like the movie, the over use of mickey mouse looking CGi and a terribly unnatural teal/green filter used throughout the move made it very disappointing to watch. Glad I only rented it. Just can't understand how some are calling this disc reference quality unless the new standard of reference quality is measured to be a poor looking video game. . Actually thought most of video was substandard and shot too soft. If you want reference quality, have a look at Moonraker and Zulu.

[RoadLizard]

Even if I did like the movie, the over use of mickey mouse looking CGi and a terribly unnatural teal/green filter used throughout the move made it very disappointing to watch. Glad I only rented it. Just can't understand how some are calling this disc reference quality unless the new standard of reference quality is measured to be a poor looking video game. . Actually thought most of video was substandard and shot too soft. If you want reference quality, have a look at Moonraker and Zulu.

Agreed - and the film sucked on top of all that. What a waste.

[Peter Galbavy]

Still not as bad as Jumper.