2012 Page #10

Synopsis: Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis are trying to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.
Director(s): Roland Emmerich
Production: Sony Pictures/Columbia
  5 wins & 21 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
49
Rotten Tomatoes:
40%
PG-13
Year:
2009
158 min
$166,112,167
Website
5,020 Views


Anheuser.

Anheuser convinced

the other heads of state to launch.

Mr. Anheuser.

We have to stop this madness.

Make sure the other bridges

can see me.

- What do you think you're doing?

- I know what I'm doing. Turn it on.

Ladies and gentlemen,

this Dr. Adrian Helmsley...

...chief science advisor

to the late President Wilson.

Could you please turn up the volume,

Mr. Hoffmann?

We've all been forced

to make difficult decisions...

...to save our human civilization.

But to be human

means to care for each other...

...and civilization means

to work together to create a better life.

If that's true,

then there's nothing human...

...and nothing civilized

about what we're doing here.

Dr. Helmsley's passion is admirable.

But I will remind you that we have very

limited resources and limited time.

Ask yourselves, can we really stand by

and watch these people die?

I read a quote two days ago.

The author is probably dead by now,

but he said:

"The moment we stop fighting

for each other...

...that's the moment

that we lose our humanity. "

To save the human race...

...we have an obligation

to stick to this plan...

...which every nation on this flotilla

has signed up for.

- We have to let these people in!

- They're in God's hands now.

Officer, you turn that off.

That is an order. Turn it off!

Don't you dare touch that button.

Have you completely

lost your mind?

Look at the clock.

We have barely 15 minutes left.

Do you wanna be responsible

for the extinction of the human race?

Can you handle that, Adrian?

There's a young astrophysicist

from India...

- ... who's the reason we're all here.

- Oh, for God's sake.

He's the one who discovered it all.

He connected all the dots.

We all owe him our lives.

I just learned

that he was killed with his family...

...in a tsunami in eastern India.

He was my friend.

And he died in vain.

Everybody out there

has died in vain...

...if we start our future

with an act of cruelty.

What will you tell your children?

What will they tell theirs?

If my father were here,

he would open the gates.

The people of Russia...

...along with China...

...and Japan, agree.

Open the gates.

The United Kingdom,

Spain, France, Canada, Germany...

...and I believe I may also speak

for the Italian prime minister...

...we vote to let these people

come in.

Captain Michaels.

Please.

This is the captain.

in a few moments,

we will open the gates...

...and get you people in.

Please step back

and clear the platform.

P-yew, it stinks.

- They are opening the gates!

- Go! Go!

Climb! Don't look down! Climb! Go!

Noah! Noah!

Get down!

Ow!

Mom. Mom, something happened.

Hold on! Hold on!

Hold on!

Gordon, hold on, goddamn it!

Give me your hand!

Give me your hand!

- Reach for it!

- Help!

- Reach for it! Gordon!

- Please... please.... please...

Gordon! Gordon!

Gordon!

No!

God.

Pull me up.

Come on!

What's wrong with the gate?

Looks like it didn't run the full cycle.

We're checking, captain.

Hold it.

Hold it, people.

Four minutes to impact.

Go to the lower deck. Let's go.

- We are loaded, captain.

- Well, then let's lock it up. Now.

Oleg. Grab my hand.

Oleg.

No, no.

Papa! Papa!

Papa!

- Something's jamming the hydraulics.

- Then get it out, for Chris sake.

I can't fire up the engines

till we get a good seal on that gate.

Captain, we have a breach

in the zoological bay.

- Can you zoom in?

- Yeah.

I know those kids.

What is happening?

What's going on?

Where did they come from?

There.

Through the hydraulic chamber.

Captain,

I think we found the problem.

- Who are these people?

- No, wait.

He's injured.

Something must have gone wrong.

Something must have gone wrong?

Something must have gone...?

Are you kidding me?

Of course something went wrong!

You know,

congratulations to both of you.

Might of gotten us killed, but as long

as your conscience is clean.

Let's get a team down there. I'll meet

them at the hydraulics chamber.

- You know your way?

- Yeah.

- Let's go!

- One minute to impact.

Captain,

Cho Ming Airfield's been hit.

Put me on emergency com,

Mr. Taylor.

Aye. You're on, captain.

This is the captain speaking.

We expect to be impacted

by water shortly.

- We need to go this way.

- All new passengers:

- Hit the deck, brace yourselves.

- Okay, let's go!

Excuse me. Excuse us. Excuse us.

Brace yourselves!

Coming through, excuse me.

All stations, prepare for impact.

Come on, boys. Go, go, go!

This way! Let's go! Go, go!

Collision pressure

just below 80 pascal, captain.

on bow sensors, captain.

- All right, track Dr. Helmsley.

- There.

Come on.

- I got you!

- Get out of the way!

- We have to get through here.

- Excuse me.

Tenzin, almost there.

Nima, what happened?

Tamara. Will you take the kids

to the stairs, please?

- Which way?

- We can't get there.

Water has penetrated the stern.

The rear of the ship is starting to seal

itself up one compartment at a time!

Wherw's Gordon?

No?

No.

We gotta go back. We gotta go back!

We need to go back!

- No! Lilly!

- Mommy!

- Lilly!

- Help, Daddy!

Run, Lilly! Run!

Lilly, run! Go, go!

Go over, Lilly.

Caesar. Lilly, take him.

Mommy!

Oh, no.

Sir, is there another way

to the hydraulics chamber?

- Where does this ladder go?

- To the zoological bay!

Okay, okay, let's go.

Professor...

...it's Air Force One.

- The mid-ship anchor is hit.

- We're destabilizing.

The bow anchor's giving in.

Captain,

the turbine's not responding.

So override it. Hit the override button

and start the engines.

We can't start the engine

until we close that gate.

Help me! Help!

Tamara!

- You okay?

- My mommy's in there. Help her.

We'll get to your mommy.

They're doing everything they can.

- Can we talk to them?

- I'm gonna try and connect us.

- We have to stop the bleeding.

- Mom, how about my belt?

Mr. Curtis! Jackson!

Hey!

Help! Hey!

it's Adrian Helmsley.

We met at Yellowstone.

That's great!

Open the goddamn door!

Your daughter is with me!

- Lilly!

- Lilly!

- Where's Noah?

- I'm right here, Lil.

impact warning.

Thirty degrees west.

Forty-five degrees east.

Target elevation, 29,035 feet.

Twenty-nine thousand feet?

What the hell is at 29,000 feet?

We're headed straight

for the north face...

...of Mount Everest, Mr. Anheuser.

And if we can't start our engines,

we will not survive the impact.

Jackson, you're sealed off.

We can't get to you!

There's something blocking

the hydraulics.

If you can't get it out,

none of us are gonna make it.

Dr. Helmsley, look at this.

it is completely submerged

down there.

There'd be no way to get any air.

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Roland Emmerich

Roland Emmerich (German: [ˈʁoːlant ˈɛməʁɪç]; born November 10, 1955) is a German film director, screenwriter, and producer, widely known for his disaster films. His films, most of which are English-language Hollywood productions, have made more than $3 billion worldwide, including just over $1 billion in the United States, making him the country's 11th-highest-grossing director of all time. He began his work in the film industry by directing the film The Noah's Ark Principle (1984) as part of his university thesis and also co-founded Centropolis Entertainment in 1985 with his sister. He is a collector of art and an active campaigner for the LGBT community, and is openly gay. He is also a campaigner for awareness of global warming and human rights. more…

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