Sometimes we need more than effects!

Rating: 5/10 (15 November 2009)

This movie had the potential of being a really well done movie..but after seeing it this weekend, its just a another remake of "The Poseiden Adventure, lines from Jaws "we gonna need a bigger plane instead of boat", Speed, RV jump...overall Independence day but we know what for that???same director right. I am a big fan of John Cusack and this is a comeback make him more rich movies..I like him on the screen and as an actor. It was very lengthy and just lingered on...it took you on an visual effects roller coaster but when the ride was over then came, but just a lot too late was the seriousness of selfishness, some who had the money and those who didn't and would have been left which is in general America at its fineness...so the effects ride was a high only to come crashing down to a more important somber subtext.
Thandie Newton..her role was not needed at all...I have never seen her in a kissing or love scene with a non white leading character, (and don't say Crash, Matt Dillon was up her skirt, not Terrence Howard!) so I am sure this role was new for her too...and just think her mom is African! Danny Glover...like him very much too..we could have done without the "ash white face on Mr. Glover" may have be realistic but it just looked like old 30s typecast films.I also found an error in the President's name...during the movie he was Wilson but in the end when the Geologist was begging the Captain to allow all on the "Ark", he said President Obama or something similar..big flaw...and of course seeing John Cusack escape all the turmoil and perils was just a bit tooo unreal. And the same old hasbeen ex husband and wife seeing or married to a more upscale and wealthy suitor...bland!!!!...
Woody Harrelson had the move important role in the whole movie and he role was big dill pickle!..if he hadn't not explained how we came to 2012 in his cartoon..we would not know why 2012....but the major inaccuracy in the movie is the world will not end with water or flooding ever again, Noah obeyed God and God promised in Genesis to never to destroy mankind with flooding ever again..it should be fire the next go round...so the fireballs made more sense....
Oh and I couldn't end without saying and Cusack's son helping his father to get the door latch shut under water for how long???? and then when Cusack fixed the problem, the boy "under" water yells "Dad!!"...wide open mouth, under water ..holding his breath for a good 30 mns or more it seemed....how unreal...
So as we know, no need to discuss, criticize or complain at this point, it will make mucho money and only because all have heard and receive a taste of the effects in the trailer and secondly all are still trying to guess when the world will end....