Trailerwow.

I've not walked away from a trailer and felt blown away by special effects in a long time, but it's happened. I was left that way by a trailer the other day - "2012", the new film by Roland Emmerich - by not only the complete believability of the things I was seeing on screen, but the brazen scale of what had been put together for me to ogle at.

For it to be the latest film behind the re-ruining of "Godzilla", the similarly building-flattening "Independence Day", and the extra gloomy "The Day After Tomorrow", you'd have to say that Roland Emmerich is good at keeping a theme going. The trailer's right below me here, so check out the 2009 version of the end of the world, popularly predicted to be actually occur in 2012. It's pretty impressive, even though I have full confidence in it being a comically awful film, like the rest of his tales, but watch out for the early signs of a lack of creativity; Swiping the design of the ships from classic Battlestar Galactica, and going back to rival disaster film "Deep Impact" to use another elder african-american statesman as U.S. president. Nice effects though. Really feels like it's getting better now.