Hollywood Mega Budgets Are Making Film Audiences Wacko. Look At All The Weird Responses.

Rating: 7/10 (16 April 2010)

Look everybody. YOU ARE ACTING WEIRD. The only person who made any sense reviewing this film was Andrew Donaldson from China who said it was a diverting "roller coaster ride" type movie, nothing more and certainly not the "worst movie ever". I thought he was right to criticize that "worst movie ever" club. For one thing saying something is the worst EVER is hyperbole and superfluous. I mean EVER. I just saw 'Voyage To The Planet Of Prehistoric Women' the other night and that was a lot worse.
People are never satisfied that's true, but the Hollywood mega budget turns audiences into scary demons that just want more and more and are never satisfied and are ridiculously over critical. This movie must have cost well over 100 million and some people still thought it wasn't enough. What are you looking for exactly? Personally I try to stay away from any movie that is over-hyped, cost too much money to make and is the movie that EVERYONE must see in droves. Those are all bad omens. If everyone goes to see something mindlessly in droves it's because they are the products of Hollywood Executives marketing. Executives ruin the artistic side of everything.OR DIDN'T YOU KNOW? Never bet all your money on just one horse. DIVERSIFY MORE. Just because everyone wants to see it doesn't mean it's good. Mass taste can make some very bad, soul destroying decisions.
As for 2012 as a movie? The disaster flick has come a long way since the seventies and people should appreciate that. 2012 was much more imaginative than the disaster fare of yesteryear. This film probably had more in common with fifties SciFi like 'When Worlds Collide' than it did with actual disaster flicks. Even the remake of the 'Posiedon Adventure' was superior to the original.
I don't even like big budget films so I don't know why I should be defending them, but if people don't either learn to diversify their taste amongst lower budget fare or at least enjoy the Hollywood behemoths they(yes they)the audience create, they damn themselves, the rest of us, and future generations to one big messy headache of cultural confusion.
I also enjoy reading the reviews of people online more than I do reading professional critics, but unless everyone can follow Andrew Donaldson's example and be more thoughtful instead of sooo rash, I'll have to go back to reading the newspaper critics again. Oh God no.