When it comes to bringing out the awkward and uncomfortable and skeeved out in interview subjects, no one touches MTV Movies Blog. It’s been a while since we’ve had one of these, but Steven Seagal was probably my favorite.  This week they spoke to John Cusack and Amanda Peet.  While Peet comes off down to Earth and eminently cuddleable, John Cusack IS IN NO MOOD FOR YOUR SH*T, BUDDY.  I realize they’re on the tour for 2012 so he’s already on the defensive, but he treats the interviewer’s cardboard boombox prop from Say Anything as if it’s a live rattlesnake.

Granted, there doesn’t seem to be any actual question other than, “Hey, check out this boombox,” but still, Cusack acts like he suspects he’s being made fun of and all this is highly irregular.  Hey, John. This is 2012 we’re talking.  No one’s gonna ask you about your character. “Tell us about Jack Curtis. Why’s he always running from supervolcanoes?”    He comes off like a prick when all he really had to do was smile and play along.  Next time, and this goes for Cusack and all actors on silly press tours out there, just ask yourself one simple question: What would Paul Rudd do?

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(It’s just not the same without Yakety Sax)

2012 is already looking like the front runner for winter’s best comedy, and here’s a subway ad for it in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.  (I hear the tunnels are where Blanka from Street Fighter hides).  Anyway, pretty cool.  It’s funny, Roland Emmerich didn’t blow up any Muslim landmarks in his movie because he was worried about them getting mad, yet he blew off the famous Brazilian Jesus’ arms in the trailer and they let him put a giant subway ad there.  Gosh, I can’t imagine there’s any correlation between the number of hot, scantily clad women that live in a place and the number of touchy, pissed off a-holes there.

[via SciFiSquad]

This is a little video called Raising 2012, made by this guy.  The one great thing to come out of 2012 being so terrible is how much random people on the internet have been able to improve it with simple editing choices.  See also: 2012 without FX, 2012 – the Disaster Porn trailer for examples.  This time around, the only change was to sub in some music from Raising Arizona, and yet… it’s SO MUCH BETTER!  I also would’ve accepted “Yakety Sax.”  In fact, and I’m just gonna lay this out there because it’s my dream, close your eyes and imagine:  Greasy Sax Man playing “Yakety Sax” in the top right corner of the trailer, greenscreen vignette-style, like those old sign language translators.  Oh wouldn’t it… beee niiiiice….

UPDATE: Now with more Yakety Sax (bottom video)
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This is a screencap from the latest 2012 clip to hit the web (watch it below).  The great thing about Roland Emmerich is that even within scenes of carnage on a global scale, he doesn’t forget the little things. “Oh my God, the western seaboard is on fire and falling into the ocean!  AND MY SHOE’S UNTIED!”

He also doesn’t seem to care how blatant his product placement is.  Not only is there this closeup of the Bentley logo, it’s accompanied by a “ting!” sound effect like it’s the tooth sparkle in an old Colgate ad.  “Hooray, save us from disaster, magic car!”

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Roland Emmerich’s epic disaster porn comedy 2012 has a new trailer, and GRR, CALIFORNIA’S STILL GOING DOWN!  And so is the Jesus statue in Brazil, and the Himalayas, and Mecca, and anything else I can remember from geography!  Save us, John Cusack, by bellowing like a constipated moose!  Anyway, it’s basically the same footage we saw in the five minute clip they released the other day, so I’m not really sure what the point of this was.  Then again, I’m not really sure how a plane can take off only to fly underneath a subway car either.  Planes usually go up, don’t they?  Chaos reigns!  Down is the new up!  The Mayans decreed it!

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