Sunday, March 7, 2010

Lazy Weekend; 2012 Mini Movie Review


While we got a few chores and errands done, I've been largely off line and lazy. I did watch three of four (five?) of the Sunday politics shows. Yawn. Can we not go a single freakin' week without Mitch (Shelley the turtle) McConnell? Really? Anyway, nothing noteworthy there.

We picked up the movie 2012 on Blu-ray, and watched that this afternoon. As Hollywood blockbusters go, it does not disappoint. You must turn off your brain, just as you must in movies like Speed, Independence Day (a Mac-compatible space ship? Really?) or The Day After Tomorrow.
We're following a family from the beginning, just as the world starts to crumble. So it wouldn't make any sense if they got wiped out in the first reel. But the number of times this family (and star John Cusack) nearly meet their doom and survive by a hair's breadth stretches credulity. I lost count after four.

The film is action packed, to be sure. It has stunning special effects--literally the destruction of just about everything on the planet--which is what I bought the movie for. But the plot does hang together better than most movies of the type. It is head-and-shoulders above the nearly as eye-popping but brain dead War of the Worlds (Tom Cruise version), for instance. If you want sci-fi with a story you can sink your teeth and brain into, get District 9. If you just want to have fun, you could do a lot worse than 2012. Just don't think about it too hard.

Recommended.


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