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2012: Supernova

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This Movie was so bad that it doesn't deserve the 1 star I had to give it. If this movie had been made in the early 50s, there could maybe be some excuse for it. But it wasn't, and there is no excuse for making such a bad movie. I have seen science fiction made in the 50s that was much better than this. The other reviewers have already said everything that needs to be said. Don't waste your time or money.

Bobby

Plan 9 From Outer Space now has a rival for the worst movie ever made. This movie is so bad that it actually may be worth watching for a laugh. There are so many glaring inconsistencies in plot, location, setting, time-line, and background that it is hard to believe it was not done on purpose. One example (and this should not be classified as a spoiler - nothing could spoil this movie any worse): the main character is shown on a space station one second before he blows it up with 8 nuclear bombs on board, and the inexplicably shows up alive after the event??? How many telephone poles can crash down on a car to necessitate searches for new vehicles? Roads are totally empty until the plot needs more vehicles, and then suddenly there are a lot of cars. The area has been devastated, but in a scene from high on a launchpad, the area and traffic in the background shows normal everyday life. Pathetic special effects are laughable. It appears the director had taken the script into the bathroom with him and mistakenly exchanged it with the toilet paper he had used.

This movie was absolute trash. I didn't bother buying the movie. I just watched it online, and it wasn't even worth watching online. The acting was poor and so was the character's. Whoever made this movie should be ashamed of themself's. Please don't waste your time watching this movie. Your not going to find anything good in this movie.

The box claims this event is caused by a star in a "nearby galaxy" going supernova when the movie claims it was from the constellation Lyra. Stars go supernova all the time. All they do is light up the sky for a while due to light passing through gasses near said star. However in this scenario of really bad science, the radiation comes to us in waves, ignoring dissipation through the inverse square law. Even if it did get here, it would could not cause earthquakes, or lightning, or tornadoes, at least without being powerful enough to destroy all life first. I am also confused by the idea that exploding atomic weapons by the magnetosphere would somehow enhance it. Perhaps this is some left over bad science from the movie "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea." Curse you Michael Ansara! While driving his family to the base in a black GMC SUV, the Bruce Krause is encountered by an identical SUV which pulls up along side of him and shoots at his head point blank with an automatic weapon. Bruce verves off the road into the desert. The vehicle is unmarked by the gunshot. After driving through bad desert, he comes back on the highway in front of the other SUV! They give chase shooting all the way. The family runs away on foot, only to get met by guys with bad Iranian accents. They get killed in a nick of time.

Bruce gets separated from his family. At the base he meets a Chinese scientist who develops an accent as the story moves along and a man with a bozo hair-do with a bad Russian accent. While they are attempting to save the planet, there is someone in his group that is trying to stop the doctor from doing so. Meanwhile the wife and daughter are back at home searching for a necklace in the kitchen of all places. They attempt to meet with their husband at the base, but have to dodge lightening used from "Beneath the Planet of the Apes." They decide it is safer to leave the insulated vehicle with 4 rubber tires and run through an open field, dodging lightning. They eventually get aided by a farmer who looks like Tor Johnson (I am required to make 1 Tor Johnson reference every 100 reviews) and he happens to like young teenage girls (who doesn't?). Mom drives his pick-up truck after she knocks out Toj like an expert NASCAR driver and they decide to try to make it to a cave instead, although the cave seems further away than the base.

For some reason atomic missiles just can't be launched into space and exploded, they must first go into a space station and launched from there. When the space station goes out, our international trio of scientist head to the space station. Bruce is in the station when it explodes, yet we see him later with his family. There was no Flash Gordon moment when we go back and see his escape. If this ruined it for you. Good. You don't need to watch this movie unless stoned to the bejesus.

Plug: A star did go supernova about 10,000 years ago or so near the foot of Pegasus. This area was well lighted at night for several 1000 years and was known as the night time sun. It was here in Greek mythology that Apollo's chariot was taken and the sun driven across the night sky. According to "On Earth as it is in Heaven, The Cosmic Roots of the Bible," (available on the Amazon in Kindle too) it was at this spot where Joshua stopped the sun in the sky.

Geez...all I can say is that all the "1-star" reviews are absolutely correct! This is one of the worst movies I ever seen. Poor effect, poor scripts, lousy acting,.....you name it, all are here! Probably this is the Director's first "trial" movie?? Oh please...

This is about the worst movie I have ever seen--terrible acting..terrible special effects and bad camera work. I kept expecting the robots from Mystery Science Theatre 3000 so pop up. This movie was made for them to make fun of. When there was an earthquake someone just stood and shook the camera and the actors fell back and forth against the walls. I thought this was made in the 70s the sets were so bad and the special effects were a joke. Their computer screen at the military base or whatever it was looked like the original pong game. The dialogue was hilareous it was so stupid. DONT RENT IT AND DONT BUY IT>

I just regret I did not listen to the comments from the fellow reviewers below, but as a hard die sci-fi went ahead anyway. In a nutshell, this is a really bad bad movie, from any angle you look at it. Lousy plot, mediocre acting and directing, poor special effects, using lots of old NASA clips from the Space Shuttle, and so rudimentary that any TV series from the late 70s has better SFX than this flick. I really think that despite the low budget, nowadays there is no excuse for making such a lousy movie (and Moon demonstrates that a good movie does not necessarily requires a fat budget). And by the way, the 2012 addition to the title is just a marketing hook trying to take advantage of the 2012 phenomena hype.

In summary, do not waste your time and money watching this movie. Together with Impact, Meteor, Polar Storm, and Meteor Apocalypse, 2012: Supernova will be remembered among the worst sci-fi of 2009.

Yikes ! Some movies are so bad they're worth watching, maybe in an altered state. Starship Troopers was like that. Of course, it also had Denise Richards, which made up for a lot. Then there are other movies that are just horrible from start to finish and nothing (not even the special effects) can save them. This is one of those. So bad I had to fast forward through much of it, and even at double and triple speed the ending did not come soon enough. One of those films where you actually hope everyone dies in the end, and that the Earth is destroyed, so that people's lives and energy will never be wasted making trash like this again. A complete failure - you'd be better off watching mold grow on the old broccoli in your refrigerator drawer.

The acting is far below that of a B movie. The scientific inaccuracy is far too great to support any suspension of disbelief.

This lackluster end-of-the-world film won't give you any thrills.

Doomsday 2012 is all the rage.

As a society, we go from one end-of-the-world scenario to another - and Hollywood happily obliges these fixations with films that attempt to prick our deepest doomsday fears.

2012 Supernova is one of the few that attempts to scare audiences with a fictional account of what could be a real-life scenario on Dec. 21, 2012 - the day the Mayan calendar ends.

As far as end-of-the-world films go, 2012 Supernova isn't terrible, but it's not great, either. It focuses on one family only; most films have three or four story lines that gradually merge. Focusing on this family is just too much.

Brian Krause plays an astrophysicist who has been tracking a star that has become unstable in another galaxy. The star explodes and sends a pulse across space, destroying everything in its path with some major radiation.

While he tries to find a solution with Chinese and Russian scientists, he sends his wife, Laura, (Heather McComb) and daughter to find shelter at a nearby military base. Of course, it isn't that easy. The women have to travel in strange natural disasters caused by the star pulse's ripples.

In many scenes the mother and daughter are driving vehicles and trying not to panic. They nearly get caught in a landslide, flattened by rocks, swept up by a Twister-like tornado and get raped by a nasty backwoods guy.

Their plight gets old fast - and isn't really all that interesting. It wore on my nerves after a while. However, I really liked McComb's acting.

There is someone working against the scientists to make sure the pulse isn't stopped and Earth is destroyed. There are some good red herrings, but I figured out who it was fairly easily based on body language and lines. The astrophysicist goes into space on a death mission to save Earth.

2012 Supernova is okay, but not exactly a must-have. There is definite cheese with the lines and the acting, though you can expect that with any doomsday cinema - even the films with top-billed actors.

I will say, though, that this film doesn't seem as bad as (I remember) The Day After Tomorrow.

The DVD includes a blooper reel and a featurette called "Making of 2012: Supernova," which is interesting.

2012 Supernova has potential, but it isn't a must-watch. If you are desperate for a fictional fix of doomsday craziness, it might whet your appetite, but it will still leave you hungry for something more.