Well it didn't happen

Rating: 5/10 (21 December 2012)

This is one of those "starring special effects" disaster movies that uses impressive visuals to hide a corny plot. Amanda Peet and John Cusak are likable enough in their characters for the audience to root for them. I liked the nod to 50 Cent in naming Cusak's character Jackson Curtis. Of course as of about 10 minutes ago 11:11 Zulu time on the 21st of December, 2012 has passed without incident, rendering countless new age books obsolete and leaving doomsday enthusiasts with a good supply of canned goods and bottled water. With that behind us I look forward to the next movie based on a future date that is predicted to bring with it dire consequences: 03:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, 19 January 2038 when all 32 bit Unix based systems crash. I'm sure Hollywood will be able to totally misunderstand what that means and make a movie with lots of explosions in it, but that is just over 25 years away. I'm sure we can just be complacent like in the 1970's when no one was addressing the Y2K problem.