To go back and answer Sarte’s question about what the appeal of this kind of thing is: it’s a throw back for me. I love cheesy disaster movies when I was a kid. Towering Inferno, Earthquake, The Poseidon Adventure….wretched movies but they speak to a primal sense of awe and as horrible as this is going to be, god help me if I don’t still enjoy seeing stuff get messed up.

My patience does have limits…like I said Trannies 2 was busto, but I can’t deny I’m drawn to the wreckage here. Don’t worry, when it blows I’ll have no one to blame but myself.

Craig was already arguing with his inner 13 year old over the film.

Craig: You f***ing retard.
Inner 13 year old: You’re dead inside.

I’m not sure who won out in the end.

Just imagine the joy of watching, say, Samuel L. Jackson and Wanda Sykes cursing up a storm while they navigate the end of the world. And why are the only minorities in disaster movies always the stoic, somewhat-culpable leaders (Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact, Chiwetel Ejiofor in this one) rather than among the running, screaming masses? A strange dynamic.

This comment section is a riot, though I’m sad to see Craig’s inner-13-year-old boy’s spirit possibly be bruised.

Yeah it looks bad. But in that almost throwback 80s way it also looks like Big Dumb Fun. I can already tell I’m more likely to laugh at the movie than with it, but it still sounds entertaining. I dunno. Call me Jen Six-Neuron, I guess.

That said, my John Cusack crush is officially over. Unless there’s a scene where he holds a boombox over his head and the raw power of Peter Gabriel holds the apocalypse back.

I thought this comment was pretty funny too ->

“I was glad to see Rio got what was coming to it for taking the Olympics from Chicago.”

“I’m almost positive its clips like this that Michael Bay masturbates to.”

I love the comment threads at the AV Club, where I’m fairly certain the staff of the Onion is contributing about half the comments under various witty pseudonyms. The one for this clip is priceless.

What is the appeal of barely serviceable quality CGI disaster footage involving US landmark locations? I could understand the novelty factor the first time round but isn’t this the same old same old? I’d personally rather watch paint dry.

What I find humorous is that The History Channel runs endless programs on the subject of how 2012 will be the year in which the world ends. Where are my Hitler, Charlemagne and, er, Alexander?