Not only does it show you how INsignificant you are as a human being among zillions of others, but it bluntly explains how your destiny is nothing different than an ant's that is about to be crushed by a smelly depleted boot worn by a power-sick maniac! I will try to hold my frustration a bit and explain rationally... the movie and the concept!
Please imagine -for a silly split second- that the 2012 concept is real, and please add on that my energy to go watch the so-called 'mother of all disaster movies' (*****); with the whole presumption that I am about to watch what might really happen if the world was to end in a time that is very near. Then, you would understand my extreme frustration to see how commercial this movie is. It is just another stupid action movie with I don’t know how much effort put on effects and disastrous scenes (bravo…really) but still, the script and the plot are just so damn plain.
Watch out Bruce Willis… John Cusack is giving you a harsh warning "I can do die hard with the world actually ending alright?!!!"
I mean, I know..i shouldve lowered my expectations a bit, it IS an action movie. Although I doubt that in case of a disaster I would just KNOW that I WILL be able to get the map from the car and still survive a fall from the grand canyon; or keep on flying my car over deadly ditches, or keep on managing to fly planes with a minor character who will be crushed so I get to be reunited with my ex-wife, or manage to stay underwater for 15 minutes (with my amphibian son) to save a whole Noah's arc. Give me a ****ing break.
It is a HUMAN TRAGEDY that was absolutely demonstrated in a weak commercial script. The idea of power versus survival should've been the main dilemma to be discussed since naturally that's what would happen in case of such disaster. All I'm saying is, the writers should've scratched their brains a little more. A lot more!
This is a movie that is asking us to enjoy the fact for a moment through the shallow rationale of a possible doom, rather than invite us to think deeply of humanity and its weight to those who have power over our destinies. The least the movie could have done, is shock us; with the truth of a question: what would you do if it happened to you? The movie has failed to do either.
After such frustration I will have to make such comparison; remember when you watched Titanic for the first time (never mind how much the idea got so romanticized) but remember how you just felt it was real even with all the effects, how you thought that this rose or other people who survived had an indescribable experience, and how you where so emotionally affected by all the stories of different characters in the movie; even if they said only one line, but they were all emotional and explicable? Why not this one? Why not 2012 be a movie plot that actually explains the emotions and tragedies of actual people and NOT the family of john Cusack??!!!
For the sake of being just, I would applaud to the effects' people, and to the poor guy Gordon, who was so close to being one of fake millionaires and the top survivors of humanity…!
Frustrated…so frustrated..!
"added 15 minutes later": would the world leader (the American president) really adopt the 'I will die with my ship' crap??!! Hell no! He is a leader for crying out loud; the leader who abandons his people after doomsday is NOT a leader! Something to think of, Danny Glover!
3 comments:
Well... I agree with you that it was not as deep as it should be. But regarding the content, and your frustration about humans being only numbers, it is sadly true. If this is really going to happen, a selected few, who are believed to owe “the perfect genes” will be chosen, and the others will be squashed like bugs by the force of nature. This thing, if it happens is larger than the individual's control, so the people with power at our present time will decide the future for the entire human race.
The ugly truth about life.
"I have seen the movie yesterday and didn't like it that much. It seemed pretty fake to me like, the hundreds of meteors falling out of the sky just when they were talking about the end of the world! Though if you dont look at how silly some parts are the movie would be a good one to pick in the cinema near you. Roland's "The Day After Tomorrow" is still MY favorite and I highly recommend it. "
believe it or not r4i i havent seen the day after tomorrow yet! but it will definitely be on my 'to-watch' list..
that's exactly what bothered me during watching 2012..it had such a powerful plot but it was -as i see it- misued..thanx for your opinion :)
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