Anyway, onto the movie 2012 (IMDB)... here's what we want from a disaster flick, a.k.a. Deep Impact 2 (Sorry, there was no disaster in the more entertaining Armageddon besides Ben Affleck's unfortunate acting):
- Impossible disaster: check
- Impossible solution: check
- Urgency: check
- Close to zero chance of success: check
- Earthquakes that wipe out continents: check
- Tsunamis about the height of the ocean: check
- Rich assholes: check
- Scheming politicians: check
- Humorous crazy white dude: check
- White kids in distraught: check
- White parents in distraught: check
- White folks running: check
- White folks keep making impossible escapes: check
- Pet needs to be saved: check
- People dying: check
- Minorities getting screwed: check
- White and black hero: check
- Black president: check
- Tenuous relationships that need to be resolved through disaster because they just can't do that when times are normal: check
- So UK cancels the London Olympics due to incoming disaster... and it's snowing in DC... right
- US chief scientists asks "what's at 29,000 feet"? You don't know Mount Everest!? Besides, wouldn't Noah's Arc measure in metrics (meters) instead of feet?
- Speaking of units, India use Celsius, not Fahrenheit
- Danny Glover as a black president. Morgan Freeman should always be the black president (oh, and he will be in Invictus, movie I really look forward to)
3 comments:
it does snow in DC!!! =D
btw when i watched in theatre there were people leaving in the middle of the movie cos the disasters were too disturbing....
I love your comment about relationship that can only be ironed out through disasters. We have way too many movies to show that kind of impossibilities.
But likewise, I actually enjoyed the movie and didn't realize it was super long until getting out of the theater at 1am.
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