The new disaster movie to end all disaster movies known as 2012 enters theaters this weekend with John Cusack in the hero role. This film involves crashing aircraft carriers, tidal waves and the destruction of New York, California and the White House. It looks relentless and John Cusack looks like he's going to do his best to stop whatever is causing this worldwide annihilation... or at least avoid getting killed in the process. But while this is Cusack's first proper disaster flick, there are other movies he's made that turned out to be massive disasters of a different sort. Some might have even been considered career suicide. He's lucky he survived.

Tags: 1408, 2012, America's Sweethearts, Identity, John Cusack, Must Love Dogs, Pushing Tin, Road to Wellville

Another movie about the end of the world from the makers of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow? This time based on the Mayan calendar, which predicts said event will happen in three years' time? We call bullshit. Our resident movie vloggers, Omar and Pablo Gallaga, have asked their family members -- all of whom are descended from Mayans -- and none of them seem to know anything about this. See what the brothers have to say about Roland Emmerich's fear-mongering, John Cusack's taste in scripts and the repeated destruction of the White House in the latest installment of Trailers Without Pity, embedded below for your safety.

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John Cusack has signed on to star in another numerically named movie. This time it's not about a creepy hotel room that messes with his head, but about the "end days of human civilization." The title 2012 refers to the year this whole apocalyptic shindig is supposed to go down, as predicted by the ancient Mayan calendar. Those guys were such pessimists. I wouldn't start worrying until 2014 at the earliest.

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Some of you may be familiar with the old trivia that the Mayan calendar ends in the year 2012 (on December 12th, to be exact) and that many predict the world's end will come with it. It's not a new theory -- scientists have been studying it since the beginning of the last century -- so it 's a bit of a surprise that it's taken this long for someone to make an apocalyptic movie based on the premise. Roland Emmerich, the director behind the tragically bad 10,000 BC is in preproduction on, wait for it... 2012.

Tags: 10000 B.C., 2012, Amanda Peet, John Cusack, Roland Emmerich