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2012: awed yet not

Posted on | November 19, 2009 | No Comments

 

Question: What is the sum of adding a caffeine-powered and over creative CGI artist with a sleep-deprived, and de-motivated scriptwriter? Answer: 2012. Yes, you read it right. You get the movie, 2012.

 

This is another movie (the other one was Transformer 2) where my wife and I had to leave our little boy under the care of our trusty neighbor just so we can watch what the movie is all about and if it does stand up to the hype it has stirred. The movie, just as its trailer promised, have spectacular destruction effects of biblical proportion, but, its story didn’t do justice to my months of anticipation as I find it lacking sense and substance. 2012′s special effects appear as if it was made ahead of the storyline and that everything in the movie plot was created as an after thought (and needless to say, acting as a result is mediocre to fair).

 

However impressed I was with the special effects doesn’t mean though that it comes without obvious flaws. One just can’t help but spot at least a couple of annoying details that its producers desperately tried to pass off thinking that delivering an end-of-the-world movie will make one just sit back, relax (or panic in this case) and take it for what it is. They’re wrong. Gone are the days when audience will believe that the world will end just because something beneath the earth has ran amuck. People nowadays are now keener than before – thanks to Hollywood over-exposure and Mythbusters TV series. So it really would have been great if the producers have included details that should have come logically based on the premise that the earth’s core has become super hot. Like, why were there no simultaneous exploding volcanoes to imply an overheated core. Or why was it that despite the unfathomable gaping cracks, the other side of the globe wasn’t shown as feeling at least some sort of tremor. Likewise, if this whole thing was indeed based on the Mayans, it would have been striking if it was explained (through its Tzolk’in calendar) in part how their civilization, no matter how primitive, arrived at such accurate prediction. And so on and so forth. And more whys and more ifs.

 

Of course, it would have been in vain if the 2.5-hour movie didn’t conjure some kind of reflection on its audiences. For sure everyone inside the cinema started to think about the whole thing in between scenes. It is just inevitable to think what will it be really like if this unprecedented scale of destruction happens all of a sudden – like tomorrow. How will I react? Should I just stay put or take chances by driving waywardly over road fissures and collapsing structures; besides breaking traffic rules will be the least of my worries and jumping the car over a crevasse won’t matter anymore. Who will I save first? Who will save me? Where will I get one billion euro to be among those lucky beings inside the modern Noah’s ark? Will I go for REM’s It’s the end of the world or The Killer’s Everything will be alright as my last-day-on-earth song? Now isn’t that just tough. Anyway, if the Mayans are right, we still have 3 more years to go…let’s just hope they’re wrong so we can have another movie to laugh at come 2013. But what if they’re indeed really right…

 

 

Picture credit: 2012′s Official movie site

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mood: 2/10 Honks! (The hot peppermint mocha coffee I had inside the cinema was great.)

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