Ahh.. If it isn’t another big-budget disaster movie. Lots of explosions, earthquake, flood (a huge one!), cars hitting one another and flipping over in the middle of the road, volcanic explosions, buildings crashing down, etc.. Of course as usual, the main characters are able to get away without any injuries whatsoever.
To be honest with you, I knew this movie was gonna be pretty bad when I saw the trailer for the first time. I mean, I knew the plot was gonna be the same as Independence Day, The Core, Deep Impact and Armageddon (OK I kinda like the last one though because it had a great soundtrack and Liv Tyler was pretty hot in that movie). Amanda Peet looked pretty damn old and Woody Harrelson was literally annoying in the movie. He was playing as an underground radio dj who broadcasted his show from his trailer, and his show revolved around how the world was going to end in 2012. Stupid thing was, when the mountains started erupting, do you know what he did? He carried all his broadcasting instruments with him and he went all the way up the hill and started broadcasting from there – telling everyone how beautiful it was to see the ground started shaking and cracking, the mountains started erupting and lava spilling out of them, etc. Seriously.. WTF?!
Not to mention, when everyone clearly knew the world was ending and the great flood was coming to wipe them out, the US President – instead of evacuating to some high-tech vessel which was supposedly built to save humanity (only a handful was allowed to come on board; they charged 1 billion Euros/person for civilians and FREE for government officials) chose to remain in his post, the White House. Come one, dude… The great flood was coming and you decided to do something heroic by refusing to abandon your post and chose to stay with your people? Meanwhile, all the other presidents were happily to come on board on their own vessels.. Aww come on, Mr. President!
As usual, all the main characters – in the midst of explosions, earthquake and great flood, they were able to escape and remain uninjured throughout the entire movie, aaaaand had a chance to get on board without paying 1 billion Euros. Pftttt.. That’s just so Hollywood.
IndoDONKEY Alert!
Amir said
January 12 2010 @ 9:32 AM
Bro, 2012 was just a movie to see Earth get destroyed. No one watches it for the story.