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How many of these lines or lines remarkably similar do you think will be uttered during the film 2012, which I am off to see in two minutes? List the five numbers you reckon are a sure bet and I'll get back to you with who got the closest. (Secretly looking forward to this!)

The 2012 Sweepstake Checklist

1: “We’re running out of time gentlemen.”

2: (Big map showing city about to explode) “What’s the population?” “Something - million!”

3: “Get to the helicopter!”

4: “Save as many as you can.”

5: “Go with them, don’t look back! Just go!”

6: “There’s no need to evacuate…”

7: “I can assure the public that the worst is over…”

8: “The planet is realigning itself!”

9: “It’s going to be a bad day in downtown……..”

10: (Panicked cry) “DADDY!”

11: (Joyful cry) “DADDY!”

12: (Looking out of window, hushed shocked awe) “Oh my God…”

13: “What do we tell the people?”

14: “Who will decide who lives and who dies?”

15: “HOLD ON!”

16: “Why did daddy/mummy leave,” and any penetrating question relating to separated parents raised by innocent child.

17: “THIS IS IT!”

18: “The plates of the earth float on a sea of lava, and grind against each other…”

19: “We call it the butterfly effect…”

20: The President: “What does this mean?” Advisor: “It means that Earth has something weeks/days left to live.”

21: “Hold me!” (At moment of couple facing death)

23: Over montage of building an ark/spaceship, PA voiceover: “Forty eight hours until Earth-Destruct, forty-eight hours! We must work faster!” etc.

24: “You never gave up on anything in your life, don’t give up now!”

25: “All my life, I never completed anything. Always turned away. This time, things are different…”

26: “It’s a new beginning.”

27: “What is there left?” “Hope.”

28: “Wait! Wait my baby!”

29: “Wait! I left the gas on/my wallet/my precious photos!”

30: “Hello, we’re lawyers. ARRGH!”

31: “Hello, I am Dick Cheney / Donald Rumsfeld alike. ARRGH!”

32: The dog inexplicably survives.

Good list Let us know what happens. But not in too much detail!

ha this is what I expect the whole dialogue would be.

12: (Looking out of window, hushed shocked awe) “Oh my God…”

I'll back 5 & 6, 10, 11 & 12

5, 12, 4, 27, 28

4 7 12 15 17

Rubbish list.

lacks:

33: Bloody Reavers.

5; 10; 11; 12; 29

I think you should have spoilered them.

all of the above!

That would have been my choice as well.

I reckon John Man and his entirely mediocre, white family (Mrs. John Man, John Man Junior, and John Man Junior the Girl) will put aside their generic familial problems to escape the destruction of america (except not so much that it'll change anything about their place in the world once the day is saved by the initially-derided weird scientist) and the parts of the rest of the world that go on postcards, and find themselves and their dog closer and more mediocre + white as a result. Possibly they will be saved by the noble sacrifice of a black man or an arabic type, just to prove that non-whites can be mediocre and white, too. Not to the extent that they remember his name or anything afterwards though, obviously.

Topical humour that very nearly makes an explicit mention of sex will feature twice.

I say all of the above, too. Plus "do not panic" followed by a hilariously juxtaposed scene of mass panic.

I don't think it's legal to say "Don't panic" without adding "Mr Mainwaring" after it... citation needed from legal types though.

(Does anyone actually care about spoilers for this film? I can ditch all spoilers if no one is fussed, and it IS an explodey movie following a well-trod formula...)

The answers are in!



So, who wants a spoilered review, who wants a ridiculously long unspoilered review?

was there any other dialogue in the film other than the ones you've listed?

Oh actually I bet there was a big rousing speech in the middle, ala independence day.

'If Earth thinks she can defeat us Americans, she can think again, we'll nuke the shit out of her.'

Long review. Long review! There is surely no way to spoil this film. It is the same film as everyone in the world would write in their lunchbreak if asked to write a generic hollywood apocalypse film.

"We ethnically cleansed the mayans once, and we can do it again, goddammit!"

Well I'm off to have some tasty soup, then a little L4D2. Review will come later tonight, or tomorrow. Not sure which yet.

Oooh. Suspense, eh?

Reavers, more like.

You're s'posedta put it in the form of a bingo card!

I appreciate the victory but I actually only got 4, same as Kern (in fact the same ones as Kern too).

Oops. I think my IQ may have dropped whilst watching the film.

I like how 'dog inexplicably survives' seems to be a wildcard in that bingo.

Hang on, is Bingo his name-o?

I went to see 2012 with Pete last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's the only Emmerich film I've seen since Independence Day that I've actually liked. Probably because 2012 also contains a

Also, I would like to point out that this film contains the "worst science in a film ever". Mutated Neutrinos my arse.

You want some hydrocortisone cream on that, trust me.

There speaks a man who's never seen The Core.

"The Earth has stopped spinning (!). So now we need to tunnel down to the centre of the planet (!!) and restart the Earth's core (!!!) by using nuclear bombs (!!!!)." For bonus stupidity, it also features people performing EVA walks in the Earth's mantle (!!!!!).

The Core makes Armaggeddon look like A Brief History Of Time.

Ahh, yes. But The Core runs with it rather delightfully, its the ultimate Irwin Allen film and is secretly ace. "We call it Unobtanium." Also, it's the only disaster film featuring characters I've actually genuinely liked.

I think I forced Rixondale to watch this at a meal and movie, I can't remember what he thunk.

You missed off the Big No!

DAMN.

Don't think there was one, actually. In fact, there was remarkably "NOOOOO!" moments in the film for an end of the world movie. In fact whenever Cusack and Co. were in peril it was played partly for silly laughs. Lots of kablooie, though.

Does the token Brit say something along the lines of 'Well, at least we won't have to pay for the Olympics'?

YES!

Well, sort of. In fact it has near the beginning scenes of rioting in London on the news with scrolling text saying the Olympics have been called off, and then - rather uneasily - that famous footage of the poll tax riots and that woman being trampled to death by a mounted charge.

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HAHA

Excellent.