It's The End of the World as we Know it! (Again)
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Roland Emmerich does not like planet Earth, it's official. No single director has trashed this planet as much as him. Whether it comes from annoying aliens wanting to blast the place up, or a freak snow storm slash super freeze from hell, he loves to kick the crap out of our small insignificant blue green planet.
Emmerich, who is kind of like a more successful version of Uwe Boll, is up to his old Armageddon tricks again with the forthcoming B-'mega'-movie 2012, where on the 12th December 2012, according to the ancient Mayans, the world will, erm, end...
With Mr Emmerich involved the world is not just going to end, oh no, he's got his SPIF-X kit out and he is going to shake this planet to the core. Giant waves, massive earthquakes, huge volcanos, meteors, lions, tigers, oh my!!
The teaser appeared last year with a massive wave wiping out the Himalayas, now the trailer has appeared and gives us a bit more spectacular stuff to whet our appetite.
Along for the destruction derby ride are John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Woody Harrelson and our own Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton.
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The End of the World?
How is the world going to end this time, I hear you ask? Well according to the ancient Mayan calender 12/12/12 is the end of all things, why? Either they ran out of crayons or they all died out, according to Mel Gibson's Apocolypto.
Apparently there are a whole load of weird things scheduled to happen, the kind of stuff that will freeze you to the bone, such as Boyzone reforming or Katie Price going a month without being on the front page of some lads mag or celeb gossip rag, either way it's bad.
There are tonnes and tonnes of conspiracies and scientific explanations on what, if anything, is going to happen. Trust me, just google '2012' or 'Mayan Calender' and you'll see.
The shape of this destruction comes in all forms; from the Earth just exploding and/or the sun exploding to a rogue planet 'Planet X' on a collisiion course with us are just a few of this planet's possible exit strategies, but none, it is sad to say, come in the form of a large stay puff marshmallow man.
We only have three odd years left but when it does come, at least we'll know how many gold's we've won, what Iron Man 2 will be like and, more importantly, we'll have learned what happens at the end of Lost!!
Now this is not the only end of the world movie that a certain Woody Harrelson is in. He is also a kick ass zombie killer in forthcoming zom-com Zombieland, where the world is taken over by Zombies.
More tongue in (through maybe?) cheek than any of Romero's flix and veering way into Shaun of the Dead-land and concerns a bunch of survivors fleeing across the U S of A and end up getting trapped in an amusement park. Cue lots of zombie guts, heads, rams and legs flying.
Along side Woody there is the guy from Cursed, the cute kid from Little Miss Sunshine, the sexy Lindsay Lohan clone from Superbad and Seth Rogen's girlfriend in Pineapple Express, they are also joined by that bloke from Groundhog Day and Ghostbusters, yes, Bill Murray everyone...
The trailer definitely takes the piss out of the Zombie genre with enough smacks, whacks, blasts and shots to keep the pissed up, peanut eating occupants of The Winchester Pub busy for a while.
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2012 will be out November while Zombieland is out in October
If you can't wait until October click here for some Zombie Smashing Fun...