it appears that disaster movies run a periodic cycle in Hollywood...
every few years, the movie industry to introduce new ways of devastation...
new prophecies of a new doom...
what is different lately, is that while in the past, earth can easily be saved by the sacrificial efforts of an individual or a team...
now Hollywood is taking a more realistic approach...
u see they realised that one person or a team can't save everyone...
so they have twitched things a little...
earth is pretty much screwed...
what that one person or a team can do is to save a sufficient portion of the human race so that we won't be extinct...
2012 is the latest disaster offering...
it centers on the latest hype...
the year 2012...
apparently, 2012 is the ultimate doom for all humans...
not without "strong" arguments...
u see...
centuries ago...
the advanced civilisation of Maya developed their own set of cultures and science...
among these things is the Mayan calender...
which despite having run until today, would end in December 2012...
at which, the calender would not start afresh like other calenders...
but would end...
so this is the ultimate end date...
of course, one calender is hard good justification...
alot of the doom-sayers' claims are also based on this astronomic phenomenon that would happen around the same time...
in 2012...
the planets of the Solar system will align themselves in a straight line...
scientists have said that this alignment would bring a strong magnetic effect among others...
which could possibly be devastating...
in the movie however...
it was the energy from the sun's eruption that causes the core of the earth to start to rise in temperature...
this raise in temperature in turns trigger drastic movements of earth's plates...
and the earth is screwed...
right from the start, i am not a big fan of disaster movies...
simply because their plots are usually so predictable...
this is the same...
but in terms of effects...
this movie probably has one of the more spectacular ones...
what did not work for this movie though...
is the storyline...
ok...
fair enough...
disaster movies do not really have a strong storyline anyway...
but here...
it appears that the movie maker was trying to squeeze in every cliche of the genre to the movie...
and action sequence were intentionally calligraphed just to display its wonderful effects...
it kind of make u feel u are watching a video game more than a movie...
which is good if u are just in to see something cool...
but not cool if u want to have a movie experience...
plus...
there is seriously something wrong with the dialogues...
very often u are feed with conversations where u feel everything do not make sense at all...
it probably was best summed up at the Tibetan scene...
where a follower tried to ask his master for some guidance...
and instead of blowing our minds with a good deep answer...
the master just smoked through using another cliche analogy...
this happens alot in the movie...
and definitely deters u from feeling any attachment to them...
i must be frank though...
i enjoyed the movie...
but it kind of sucked because ever so often i am reminded that the scenes and dialogues do not make any sense at all...
maybe my friend was right...
i should not have thought so much...
maybe that way...
i would have enjoy it more...
and give it more than just a 2 out of 5
good quote from the movie though:...
"its disgusting to know that all those crazy people holding the signboards have been right all along"...
when that really happens u know u are seriously screwed...
spoilers ahead~!...
