We watched 2012 last night because, the little woman said, “I couldn’t find anything else that looked good.” We watched it and, in fact, enjoyed it, even though it was just a replaying of a story that has been told who knows how many times before.
Really, there was nothing original about it. It contained the same plot and many of the clichés you would expect in an end of the world story, or for that matter, many Hollywood productions these days: the good guy who has generally failed at everything, especially his marriage, and the kid who resents him; the crazy comic-relief guy; the cold-hearted politician; the scientist with a superior conscience; evil bourgeoisie who trample over the proletariat; an absurd number of in-the-nick-of-time, flames-licking-at-your-back-pockets moments.
On the positive side, it was a fairly high-quality production, and not at all cheesy like, say, Independence Day (basically the same story, plus aliens). As in Independence Day, the cherry on top is the character-of-questionable-sanity. Woody Harrelson delivers an hilarious performance as a conspiracy theorist radio host who just happens to be right this time. Also worth noting is that the apocalypse, in this case, is not the fault of evil capitalist environmental rapists. Someone in Hollywood slipped up on that one.
This is one you can watch with your family (if you haven’t already — hey, I never claimed to be cutting edge). It’s rated PG-13 for “intense disaster sequences and some language.” There was some profanity, but it was not gratuitously (i.e. fashionably) obscene.
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#1 || 10·03·25··19:37 || David
Have to respectfully disagree on the family-friendliness of this one. One f-word and at least five blasphemies.
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