Beautiful CGI effects in a very bad movie.

Rating: 4/10 (15 November 2009)

I just had to post about this movie. I saw it last night with some friends in the largest theater in our area...and it was packed.
This movie contains some of the best special effects I've yet seen in a movie. HOWEVER, it doesn't make up for the fact that it's so utterly wasted in this film. The plot is silly - it tries to make you care about characters that, quite frankly, you will never care about. The science behind this movie is nonexistent...there are numerous scenes of people running away from explosions! The synchronicity of the events that take place seem to be there to belittle the audience's intelligence; it's like various characters are casting magic spells to make what they said instantly ironic.
After the movie was over, in our crowded theater ONE person started clapping his hands. No one joined him. To be honest, if people were gonna clap I was certainly gonna boo.
SPOILER AHEAD! When Harrelson's character is standing in Yellowstone as it blows up, he's there like 5 minutes talking about how "awesome" it is. I guess Emmerich doesn't realize if Yellowstone erupts, it's not just a little tiny area shooting lava balls out. Then Cusak's character is literally running away from the explosion and it is RIGHT BEHIND HIM. (Are people still so in love with running away from explosions?) And then the main cast is trying to outrun the pyroclastic flow from the Yellowstone eruption in a prop plane, and somehow they go faster than the cloud (even though they got caught in it!!!!)