On the topic of 2012, I think it was one of Roland Emmerich’s more enjoyable films. But, much like his other films, it comes off like a B-film that got a massive budget.
I put it in the same tier as Independence Day and Godzilla 98. Abobe Day After Tomorrow and Resurgence, but below Stargate.
Tangent below about TV scifi:
For the record, I’m a fan of SG-1 and Atlantis and the associated films, but have yet to see the later stuff like SGU. Stargate has been in turmoil ever since, SG-1 has had like 4 attempts that were killed because of new CEOs/parent companies coming in and killing projects to show they mean business. Now the current 11th or 12th revival attempt is an entirely new continuity that either reboots SG-1 or starts a new story. I wouldn’t mind either, I really enjoyed the tech ladder element of SG-1, wouldn’t mind seeing a new series with that storyline again - hard to believe no one has done it yet with I, Robot… that was the original tech ladder series, basically starting out with early positronic brain robots and then expanding through the solar system, ending with the first star ships.
SG-1 hit the first star ships about midway through the series, and by the end colonies around the Milky Way and starting in another galaxy (Pegasus), and had ridiculously powerful battle cruisers, and was part of a Milky Way Galaxy alliance waging war against an intergalactic empire ruled by inter-dimensional aliens. SGU (from what I understand) is an odyssey across galaxies in a starship - there were a few series like that around the 90s and the 00s (Voyager, Farscape, and BSG being the major ones, BSG merging elements of Exodus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy and other mythologies).
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