2012: Supernova
- kinetic
- cold
- epic-stakes
Neutral, breathless, measured action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Two hundred years ago a supernova exploded somewhere in the Lyra constellation. Now the lethal burst of radiation is headed straight for Earth, and time is swiftly running out. The only thing standing between humanity and complete devastation is astrophysicist Dr. Kelvin (Brian Krause), who heads up a project to save the planet.
Our read · 2012: Supernova (2009) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · disaster entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of 2012
What watching it is actually like.
“You enjoy cheap direct-to-video disaster sci-fi with scientists racing to save Earth.”
Skip it tonight — You require convincing effects, science or strong acting in end-of-world movies.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
Eight films that read most like this one.
Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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