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Viggo Mortenson and newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee in director John Hillcoat's The Road.
The word “epic” gets thrown around a lot these days. People use it to describe offensive smells, memorable nights of binge-drinking, or to describe someone’s failure to do something, most commonly on the Internet. (See: Epic Fail)
You want epic? Take a look at this.
Director Roland Emmerich must not like American cities. After all, this will be the fourth time he has laid siege to them through the use of horrifyingly-convincing CGI effects in doomsday movies like Independence Day, Godzilla, and The Day After Tomorrow. That scene with the giant slab of urban sprawl slipping into the ocean? Yeah, that’s Los Angeles falling victim to the mythical “Big One”, the massive earthquake that geologists have long theorized will strike Southern California at any time. That’s just one of the toys which Emmerich has decided to use in 2012, an action-thriller starring John Cusack due out in November of this year. Among the other things you’ll find in the movie: Super-volcanoes that rain chunks of molten lava around the American Northwest, tsunamis that make the one in Deep Impact look like a ripple in a kiddie pool, and something destructive having to do with a celestial object known mysteriously as Planet X.
On a similar note, consider the movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road, starring Viggo Mortenson and Charlize Theron. Check out the trailer here.
Fans of the book may cry foul at the action-packed nature of the trailer, as the book is a much more subdued doomsday story. Nevertheless, the trailer seems to promise a particularly intriguing film that may stick with audiences due to its potentially emotional impact. And with the talents of Mortenson and Theron (and hopefully those from the upcoming youngster Kodi Smit-McPhee), The Road, due out in October, may prove a fitting adaptation of the book.
The world may look somewhat bleak right now, but there’s always room for movies, especially those that feature the end of the world and serve as a reminder that hey, things aren’t really that bad.
Advice to San Diegans? This autumn, settle for nothing less than IMAX when you buy a ticket to both of these visually-spectacular juggernauts. The impressive IMAX auditorium at the Edwards 18 in Mira Mesa certainly packs a punch. Unfortunately though, you’ll have to brave the fatiguing parking lot that's fraught with almost as many dangers as the apocalypse itself.
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