I have not, but based off of the previews of destruction scenes it's pretty easy to see how a comparison could be drawn.
In some respects though, it almost looks like too much. I suppose that may be because my minds eye watches the Great Cataclysm and notices more subtle things that mark the end of mankind's age of dominance. Though there is nothing wrong with utter and total destruction!
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Iron Manticore wrote:Anyone else see this movie and think "Great Cataclysm?"
The movie kinda takes it to the extreme.
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Re: 2012
I watched it Monday night and all I could think of was where's NEMA in all of this
I liked it. If I knew anything about video editing, I would use a big portion of this movie to make a homemade Rifts movie.
I liked it. If I knew anything about video editing, I would use a big portion of this movie to make a homemade Rifts movie.
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Iron Manticore wrote:jedi078 wrote:Iron Manticore wrote:Anyone else see this movie and think "Great Cataclysm?"
The movie kinda takes it to the extreme.
Wait...what?!? Are you kidding? You must be...
The Great Cataclysm...the event that wiped out 80-90% of the world's population, that destroyed civilization as we know it...the 80-year winter in Russia, the Yellowstone Super Volcano, the rising of Atlantis, etc., etc., in Rifts Earth....was not extreme? The only thing missing from 2012 was the release of hundreds if not thousands of nuclear weapons, and the orbital weapons satellites firing on targets (which also occurred on Rifts Earth, if I'm not mistaken).
Where did you read that the Great Cataclysm was a picnic?
What I am saying is that the events depicted in 2012 are more extreme then in the Great Cataclysm depicted in Rifts
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The great Cataclysm to me is a combination of 2012 and The Day After Tommorrow....along with taking into account Life After People, Aftermath: Population Zero and other movies like Reign of Fire nad Terminator Salvation.
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it was very unrealistic. cool but unrealistic. the little plane caught in the ash cloud would have choke out and crashed. they did say the entire world minus africa was covered int the water and it was receeding faster then anticpated.
the problem with this show was this cycle has happen many times in the earths history and the dinosuars were not wiped out durning one of these cycles process. the cosmic alignment is not enough to destroy the earth on any scale.
the problem with this show was this cycle has happen many times in the earths history and the dinosuars were not wiped out durning one of these cycles process. the cosmic alignment is not enough to destroy the earth on any scale.
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I thought Yawn...not again...sigh...