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[[File:2012_3398.jpg|frame|<small>But we saw it all the same.</small> ]]
''[[2012]]'' is a movie based on the prediction that the [[The End of the World as We Know It|world
▲''2012'' is a movie based on the prediction that the [[The End of the World as We Know It|world will end]] on December 21st, 2012. This prediction is itself based on the fact that the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar rolls over somewhere in the vicinity of 2012-12-21, in much the same way that [[Millennium Bug|the Gregorian calendar rolled over on 2000-01-01]].
The first trailer for the movie showcased a Tibetan monk bashing a giant bell with a log on top of a mountain in the Himalayas (this is the same mountain range as Everest, keep in mind) while various shots of water rushing and rumbling can be heard. Then, all of a sudden, ''boom'', a massive torrent of water goes '''over the mountains''' and engulfs everything.
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[[Word of God]] states that this is Emmerich's final disaster flick, so he tried as best as he could to pack enough [[Stuff Blowing Up]] and [[Monumental Damage]] into it to last a lifetime.
A [[Spin-Off]] TV series, tentatively called ''2013'' and focusing on a group of survivors, was planned. However,
Not to be confused with ''[[Series/Twenty Twelve|Twenty Twelve]]'', a [[Britcom|BBC sitcom]] about the committee preparing for the 2012 Olympic Games, or [[Rush]]'s album ''2112''.▼
▲Not to be confused with ''[[
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* [[Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene]]: Multiple, particularly the scene in Air Force One between Adrian and Laura, what's left of Washington DC and the President, and the scenes involving Jackson and his family in Yuri's plane.
* [[Acrophobic Bird]]: Justified in that Gordon just got his pilot's license and can barely fly.
* [[Aloha Hawaii]]: The characters planned to stop in Honolulu to refuel. {{spoiler|It's completely covered in lava.}}
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* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: The destruction of the Earth is caused by the heating of its core, caused by excess neutrinos being emitted by the Sun. However, since neutrinos almost never interact with matter, these are neutrinos that are "mutating into some other subatomic particle," presumably ones that can interact with matter more often. Why these new particles don't interact with the Earth's surface is unclear. Lampshaded when Adrian, listening about the neutrinos, simply declares "That's impossible". He's right.
* [[The Ark]]
* [[Artistic License Geology]]: Somewhere, a geologist is crying.
* [[Badass]]: Anybody who faces their death and doesn't run.
** The Lama Rinpoche. {{spoiler|His response to a tidal wave going to drown his ass is to ring a bell.}}
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* [[Bratty Half-Pint]]: Yuri's twins, but living through the disaster hammers that out of them.
** Also Jackson's son, whose snottiness towards his father in the first few minutes is incredibly annoying.
* [[California Collapse]]: Massive earthquakes tear up California and send it ''straight'' down.
* [[Can You Hear Me Now?]]: A cell phone that gets reception from inside {{spoiler|a metal ship buried under the Himalayas}} off in an undeveloped, rural corner of Tibet. After it has been explicitly stated that the apocalypse has knocked out nearly all communications.
* [[Car Meets House]]: Or rather, limo meets crumbling high rise.
* [[Character Filibuster]]: Adrian takes the world's leaders to school on the meaning of humanity.
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** Bizarrely, the film then starts paying attention to the laws of physics again, just in time for said pyroclastic flow to utterly disintegrate Las Vegas airport (and, implicitly, the city itself). Guess the family had some [[Plot Armor]] in that plane of theirs.
* [[Cool Boat|Cool Boats]]: {{spoiler|The Arkships}}. And the Antonov An-225, dubbed "Antonov 500" in the film, makes a pretty [[Cool Plane]] too.
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'''Yuri:''' ''(smiling proudly)'' It's Russian. <ref>It's technically (Soviet) Ukrainian, as only one model exists. An-225 is a one-off (essentially a stretched An-124 ''Ruslan'') built to carry the Buran shuttle in mid-80'es. There's a lot of talks about series production (or completing the second airframe, which was never finished), but as Antonov design bureau lacks production facilities and must rely on Russian plants, which are still in a pretty bad shape, nothing has come of it as of now.</ref> }}
* [[Death Course]]: From Kate's home to the Santa Monica Airport. And that was just the beginning.
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* [[Eureka Moment]]: Overlaps with [[Oh Crap]] with Jackson Curtis. After taking Karpov's kids to the airport, he tells our hero that he will die while they will survive the imminent apocalypse. That, and the fact that [[I Warned You|Charlie was right.]]
* [[Exact Time to Failure]]: The scientists' estimates about when the tidal waves are expected to reach the location of the Ark ships. Semi-justified in that you can calculate the time it'll take for a wave to reach the Ark, but as it's flowing over a massive landmass, it should be an estimate.
** Subverted and [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] with the actual planetary meltdown, which jumps itself up by six months and causes all the precise survival plans to collapse.
* [[Expy]]:
** The unnamed, former [[Arnold Schwarzenegger|actor-turned-California governor]] [[The Ahnold|with a thick Austrian accent]]
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** The [[Viva Las Vegas|Las Vegas]] Strip, including its fake [[Gay Paree|Eiffel Tower]], gets torn apart by an Earthquake AND a Pyroclastic cloud.
** The Washington Monument.
** [[The White House]], which gets ''crushed by an aircraft carrier''. By the carrier named after [[John F. Kennedy]], no less.
** Yellowstone National Park balloons then explodes as the caldera erupts.
** The entire city of Los Angeles. You could probably pick out the Capital Records Building getting it again if you look closely.
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* [[Most Writers Are Writers]]: Albeit unsuccessful ones. Jackson tries to pimp his book a lot.
* [[Neutral Female]]: The female characters don't really ''do'' a whole lot. They comfort the children, sometimes. And the President's daughter exists solely to be Adrian's [[Love Interest]]. Notable especially in the plane sequences. Only Yuri and Jackson ever even go up to see what's happening.
* [[Next Sunday
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Nice Job (Almost) Breaking It Hero]]: Ark 4 is almost doomed when equipment Jackson's family and the Tibetan family use to sneak aboard becomes jammed in the gate's hydraulics.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]:
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* [[Physics Goof]]: The Earth is being destroyed because solar neutrinos are "mutating" into a form that heats the interior of the Earth like a microwave oven. In reality, solar neutrinos '''do''' mutate -- they change between electron, muon, and tau flavors during their travels in a process called [[wikipedia:Neutrino oscillations|neutrino oscillation]]. However, '''none''' of these neutrino flavors is capable of interacting with the Earth's interior.
** Mocked mercilessly by Dara O'Briain in his "This is the Show".
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** Excellent example with Yellowstone. It manages an explosion probably measured in gigatons without any significant blast overpressure. Trees are flattened, but it abates within a mere mile or two - helpfully before obliterating all the major characters.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: "''Get in the fucking car!''"
* [[Product Placement]]:
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** A Chevron gas station makes a brief appearance, only to be blown up by a careening cement truck.
* [[Prophecies Are Always Right]]
* [[
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Yuri}}.
* [[Red Herring]]:
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* [[Take That]]:
** A very lazy shot at [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] ("He's an actor - he's reading from a script!"). There is a veritable myriad of [[Take That|take-thats]] in the film, but there's so many that it's kind of hard to pinpoint them all. Western civilization? Religion? Rich people? Russians?
* [[Take That, Critics!]]: A subtle one can be found in the adoration John Cusack's character's [[Sci Fi]] book gets. In the movie, the book sells barely a dozen copies because critics found its ridiculously [[
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Many times. See Dramatic Irony.
* [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]: Charlie and his prediction of the Yellowstone Caldera erupting.
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* [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]: Averted ''hard'' with {{spoiler|Tamara}}.
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: Jackson, after finding out that [[Oh Crap|the ships are in China.]]
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[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
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