This clip skewering Roland Emmerich’s “2012” (and zero-brained, herculean blockbusters of that ilk) has been making the rounds and possibly fairly old, but a) we forgot to post it, and b) after this relatively terrible summer of movies it feels even more relevant. So better late then never, especially since it’s so on-the-money. “Run away from plot! Run away from character!” the trailer boasts over wah-wah blaxploitation-like funk. It basically — and rightfully so — mocks the absurdity and ridiculousness of these over-the-top disaster porn spectacles that popcorn munchers and “low-thread-count” joe-jobbers (to coin a Jeff Wells phrase) seem to eat up.
Apparently it was created by Garrison Dean for io9.com. If you haven’t seen it already, give it a whirl. It’s funny stuff.