Corona | Coming Attractions

Critics of Roland Emmerich's 2012 movie have already panned it as "disaster porn" based solely on the footage seen in the two trailers. These detractors do seem to have a point; has there been any other film in the history of filmmaking that's shown the end of the world in such a spectacular way? Not even at the height of the 1970s and that era's stream of disaster flicks like The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, The Day the Earth Caught Fire and every other Irwin Allen produced feature was there as much civilization mayhem as seen in the 2012 previews.

A YouTube account called JoinROACH celebrates those films of yesterday and their connection to Emmerich's latest disaster movie by creating a mock trailer for 2012 as if it were coming out circa 1975 and playing at your local grindhouse theater. With its cheesy music and leading graphics one can't help but get the impression that the ghost of Irwin Allen would approve of it.