PLEASE MAKE IT END
2012: Craptastic Plastic
SERIOUSLY, PEOPLE? You spent $65 million on opening weekend to see this movie?
I guess Michael Caine was right: some people really do just like to watch the world burn.
2012, the newest in the disaster-porn filmography of Roland Emmerich, is about the world coming to an end because of a myth-come-to-life about the Mayan Calendar.
I don't know much about calendars, let alone Mayan ones, but if the world is going to end, I hope it's more interesting and less CGI filled than the movie representing it.
Emmerich finds a way to hide half-an-hour of story in three hours of computer generated disasters.
The story: John Cusack stars as a divorced dad who is trying to save his wife, kids and his wife's second husband as the world comes to an end. That's it.
Add unnecessary CGI, forgettable secondary cast members and you have the whole film.
I guess this movie was a natural progression for Emmerich though.
First it was aliens who failed to destroy humanity; then it was global warming. The only thing left for him to do is just to blow the Earth up. Really, all that was missing was a heavy metal love ballad sung by Aerosmith.
This movie is part of the craptastic cinema we’ve gotten this year. The audiences are basically starved for entertainment that isn’t a sequel or bio-pic about Michael Jackson.
This flick drained any sense of hope from the audience and you all spent $65 million to go see it.
I guess it makes sense: there's nothing else out to see, and at least it isn’t New Moon.
Marc Sakol understands the kindness in strangers, which is why he abandons hope of actually getting to know people. He spends his time falling head first into video games, watching every movie ever made and writing for his blog Sarcasm Not Included.
