2012..

Arrite, now let's talk about 2012. Yeah, big budget movie, directed by Roland Emmerich, the King of Disaster movies and casting John Cusack. Now I won't say the movie is an overhyped pile of bull-crap, it's got mind-blowing, bottle-poppin special effects that'll blow your head off. That's the awesome part about the movie. The other boring part is the easily predictable storyline. As the name suggests, the world has an expiry date and it lasts till 2012, and we all know everyone tries to make it through safely and as usual the protagonist survives at the end. Why couldn't it have been a little different? Take Knowing for instance, good start, bad finish but it made perfect sense. The world is going to end, every soul on earth is a goner except the kid who goes on holiday with the celestial beings. 2012 is a movie which has all sorts of disasters - earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis, and well - it's like the makers don't care about anything but the effects and the effort was not wasted.. As in any other disaster film, the protagonist Jack Curtis tries to ride smooth with his wife, while the world around him is falling apart. Only thing different here is that the President isn't an old arrogant gas-bag and he's all noble and "good" and is willing to die with his folk. Overall, the movie is all "Bang", "Boom", "Pow"s , a few smooches and more "Bang"s, funny part is that the heroes escape from each disaster without a scratch. Are you kidding me? Basically, the makers want to show off the special effects, they have a small story - 2012, and they magically add a earthquake here, and oh, a tsunami there whenever they're bored, with ease. But the special effects are enough to blow your head off.

So 2012, made it through with it's special effects. Upcoming disaster movies will have to do something different to save the genre. Come on, people!! It's already half-dead!!