One of my favorite things to do in LA is to grab the standard movie crew and hit a midnight show at the Arclight (I mean here’s my extra dollar for assigned seats thank you very much. Who wants to stand next to a rank hardcore comic fan who’s sat on the concrete since 6pm? Not me thanks.) and last night was an adventure. 2012, the new action end of the world movie from Roland Emmerich, was fun ride on the repent train. Special affects were pretty great but you will really enjoy them if you live in any of the cities that get jacked (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Las Vegas, Beijing, Delhi) because it looks so real that you’re going to check the next time you hit the highway. I suppose you can do anything with lots of money (thus my chief argument against Yankee haters) but you’re supposed to do anything with lots of money. If you’ve got the budget, why wouldn’t you go all the way and do/get the best? Will these special effects change my life? No but they really did make me squirm a bit which is kind of hard to do unless we’re talking insects and then well, I’m cheap.
There are the two classic storylines that run parallel (yes, I know I’m not practicing my art of being an audience member here but I had enough space in my head to do this critique because the script was just eh unlike the visuals which were DAMN!) - your A line which is that the earth’s core is heating up so that the crust of the earth can shift and make Wisconsin the new South Pole. Bamn. Then there’s the B line which is John Cusack trying to get his dysfunctional family (including his wife’s new beau and a couple of other stragglers) on the big ship so they can live even though they don’t have the one billion euros it costs for the ticket. Shenanigans ensue. Danny Glover does not play old Obama but he does play a black president which is still fun to see because we’ve spent a helluva long time not seeing anything other than white guys (we can get a woman every now and then and hopefully that will increase soon cause that’s fun too - scare the hell out of those teabaggers is what I say - sidebar: if they are so scared then how come they’re going to see movies that make a lot of money with all kind of liberal messaging? They have to be going because these movies are making plus twenty million a weekend and that can’t be ALL dems and liberals…sidebar done).
Anyways, yes there’s some stuff about what being human is when there’s a crisis and preventing anarchy during natural disasters. I have to say it totally made me think about how to prepare if I see a big tidal wave coming towards me and the BF. I assumed for a long time death would come with a last minute calm but hell I’m sure I’d scream and totally waste my moments that should be spent saying “I love you” and “I’m at peace with my path.” Maybe I’ll compromise and scream those things. Anyways, you’ve kind of seen this movie if you’ve seen “The Day After Tomorrow” but it’s got a slightly different twist and different people so if you don’t have anything to do for two hours and forty-five minutes, just go along for the ride.
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