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[[File:2012_3398.jpg|frame|<small>But we saw it all the same.</small> ]]
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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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* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: The movie seems to forget that in pyroclastic flows, the heat kills people long before the ash cloud touches them. Of course, they ''do'' stay barely ahead of the flow itself. While that's already testing of the [[Suspension of Disbelief]], if they were all the way in the cloud, they'd be dead. They do very briefly get caught inside of the flow in an airplane, which makes even less sense, since airplanes generally don't run well ''in clouds of superheated ash''.
** 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]]
{{quote|'''Noah:''' Now that's a big plane.
'''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.
* [[Death of the Hypotenuse]]: {{spoiler|Poor Gordon.}}
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* [[Pair the Spares]]: Subverted. It looks like {{spoiler|Gordon and Tamara will get together}} but they both die instead.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Yuri is a massive [[Smug Snake]] throughout the entire film, {{spoiler|abandoning the rest of the party, including his girlfriend, in the Himalayas}}, but {{spoiler|selflessly gives his life to save his sons}}.
* [[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'''
** Mocked mercilessly by Dara O'Briain in his "This is the Show".
{{quote|'''Dara:''' [The scientist] might as well have gone "the electrons... are ''angry''". Or "the light from the sun..." *sniffs* "it's gone off."}}
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