Remember how, when I wrote about The Haunting of Winchester House, how GREAT I thought it was that The Asylum was finally getting out of the mockbuster trend and no longer Asylumizing movies?
Sadly, that’s all gone as The Asylum releases 2012 Supernova, which is pretty much taking on 2012. The only problem is that, of course, The Asylum doesn’t have anywhere NEAR the cash required to make those kind of special effects.
The plot, though, is actually pretty interesting–two hundred years ago, a star exploded and launched an enormous wave of radiation. Sadly, two hundred years ago was apparently during the War of 1812, because it’s about to hit in much-popularized 2012. So now a group of scientists is out to launch a whole load of nukes into the upper atmosphere so they can augment the Earth’s natural anti-radiation shielding.
I’ll admit, though, that The Asylum clearly does the best it can with what it has to work with. What baffles me, though, is that they try to take on this monster projects with the most minimalist budgets you can imagine. It’s like trying to eat a Ho-Ho the size of a Buick, and doing it with a knife and fork.
The result, however, of trying to load a bunch of AA batteries in a space designed for a Diehard is that the whole thing has this vaguely repetitive feel in which a simulated disaster happens, then we react to that disaster, then another one happens, and so on and so forth without much in the way of an overarching plotline to hold it all together.
There will be plenty of thrills here–watching people try to escape from things blowing up and whatnot–but are these thrills going to be enough to hold the overall picture together? Well, that’s your call, in the end.
The Screenhead Ten Scale, meanwhile, isn’t so impressed and thus hands the newest Asylum knockoff a fair enough five out of ten. it clearly tried, but it just couldn’t tackle what it set out to try.
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November 3 2009 @ 8:38 pm
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wowthissucks said
November 5 2009 @ 5:36 pm
horrible, horrible movie not even worth watching to see how horrible it is
Stephen Owen said
November 6 2009 @ 7:28 am
having watched this extremely laughable pile of cow dung, I was flabbergasted at how low budget this film must have been!
There were just a small bunch of actors throughout the whole of the film, and the film was predictable all the way through.
A definate ‘dont waste your time watching’ film.
Yigga Mesh said
November 7 2009 @ 9:06 am
Awesome flick. It kept me on the edge of my seat and I went back for a second viewing. I’ve added this to my top 10 best films of all time.
Shannon said
November 7 2009 @ 11:37 pm
We had a blast watching this movie! It was so terrible and so obviously named and released in an effort to fool people into thinking they were getting the much advertised 2012. The movie is so bad you have to laugh at it. We fast forwarded through most of it and laughed and laughed. Don’t waste any money on it, just borrow it from fools like us that fell for their ploy but realized what was up while watching the previews, all by the same lousy production company.
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Nobby2Shoes said
November 16 2009 @ 2:52 pm
Buy this DVD as a Christmas Present for people you really detest – i.e. your boss! An abysmal film that only Edward D Wood could emulate blindfolded!