He Outran a Volcano in a Winnebago

[shipperx]

How bad is summer television when I'm sitting here watching 2012.

OMG this movie is so bad! John Cusack outruns a freaking volcano in a motorhome! (A little twin prop plane does so as well) Yellowstone blows up and the camera focuses on... Woody Harrelson's buttcrack! Bwha! Plus adorable kids and a King Charles Spaniel in mortal danger. Viewer, you must submit!

(BTW, how is there enough water on the planet to submerge Mt. Everest? Did something increase the total volume of water on the earth?)

And I really thought Cusak's ex-wife was going to announce that she was pregnant at the end. She really needed to be pregnant at the end. LOL.

This movie is so ridiculously bad, it's like SyFy made it. :D

Comments

[cindergal.livejournal.com]

First 2012, then Hot Tub Time Machine. John Cusack, WTH?

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

M-O-N-E-Y

[jerrymcl89.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Hot Tub Time Machine, so I don't know how bad it might be. But I can see how it might have seemed like a good idea in concept - John Cusack time-travelling to the golden age of John Cusack movies, etc.

Actors are allowed to take a certain number of roles for the money. I'd assume that was what 2012 was.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

It actually had reasonably good reviews... as a ridiculous but funny movie. Not having seen it I can't say. I will say 2012 is ridiculously funny! :)

[killerweasel.livejournal.com]

You forgot outruns an EARTHQUAKE in a LIMO.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting for the next unbelievably stupid thing to happen!

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

Ha! That's funny. I'm watching Dante's Peak.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

'Cause you can totally outrun a volcano with a canoe and a pick-up truck. :)

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

Heeeeee!

[sp23.livejournal.com]

Hey, don't bad mouth Dante's Peak! I ♥ that movie HARD! LOL

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Dude, I know! I remember bursting out laughing when they miraculously saved the dog! Grandma can die, but cute dogs must be saved! It's a law! LOL!

It was awesome.

[sockmonkeyhere.livejournal.com]

Oooh, and after Grandma wades through the acid bath water, everyone hugs her...and mysteriously are not burned by her wet acid-soaked clothes and body.

*hearts*

[molliemole.livejournal.com]

Well, now, be fair. Is it really any more ludicrous than outrunning a giant cratering hellmouth in a schoolbus?

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Hee! But it doesn't even have "it's freaky demonic magic!" as an excuse. LOL!

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

I *loved* 2012! We even went to see it in the theater... and you're right, it's so ridiculously awful! I described it as Disaster Porn... because it really did touch on practically every disaster movie trope known to man.

As for the water submerging Mt. Everest... IIRC, it was just a giant wave, wasn't it? So no extra water, just a lot of currently existing water in one spot.

We really need to get that movie on Blu-Ray.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

But they were floating around looking for dry land, so everything was submerged at once. And I kind of got the impression that the entire Asian continent had lowered in elevation which...huh. Not sure how that happened! LOL! :)

[sp23.livejournal.com]

Oh, dude, I have not yet watched that. That sounds like The Day After Tomorrow bad. I saw that movie in the theater and LOL'd when the Japanese guy got conked on the head with the giant hail stone. *g*

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

It's exactly that bad. It reminded me of Independence Day, another movie where I burst out laughing at completely inappropriate moments.

[silverusagi]

My sister and I have started watching bad movies for fun. Maybe this is one we should check out...

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely. You can spend your time placing bets on when each character will inevitably die and in what ludicrous way they will do so! :)

And I'm convinced that somewhere there's a deleted scene of the ex-wife announcing she's pregnant. Dude! The set up is right there! TWICE!

[missus-grace.livejournal.com]

Yes, all of this. But I cannot stop watching it.

And the hell? Amanda Peet's boyfriend is ground to death in the giant hydraulics and 20 minutes later she tells Cusak she loves him and gives him a sloppy kiss.

Huh.

I finally stopped watching it for the 8th time after I dreamed it was my family in mortal peril and I left my darling baby behind to save myself. Not cool, subconscious, not cool.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

That's why I'm saying there must be a deleted scene somewhere on a cutting room floor of her announcing that she's pregnant.

1) They have boyfriend wanting to make a baby early on.
2) They have boyfriend telling Cusak that all he'd wanted was to have a family and how lucky Cusak was.
3) They had Cusak's son say how great the boyfriend was.
4) They made Cusak appreciate soon-to-be-dead boyfriend.

So I thought for sure there would be an announcement at the end that she was pregnant with dead boyfriend's son that Cusak would lovingly raise as his own. Very Pearl Harbor (another terrible movie that I've watched this week.)

[jnb71976.livejournal.com]

I rented 2012 on a lark - and had as much fun with it as you did! I laughed so hard. I was completely annoyed that the women in it were incapable of doing ANYTHING to forward the plot. They just stood around and cried and yelled and looked helpless while JOHN CUSAK, ACTION HERO ran around saving the day. It was awesome.