The end of the world is coming!

Rating: 2/10 (4 March 2010)

I've devised a new rating system. No more 1 through 10, but rather how many "Oh, brother" outbursts a movie receives. 2012, about what will happen when the world ends, got so many "Oh, brother" I lost count. First off, at 2 1/2 hours this movie is at least 60 minutes too long. Of course we have to have our resident villain (Platt) and our resident hero (Cusack). Now toss in every disaster movie ever foisted on the public, and of course a lot of special F/X (and really not that spectacular), and you get this movie, in and of itself its own major disaster. If you are scientifically minded, or just logical, you're going to exceed 100 "Oh, brother" in the first hour. If we had to see one more car or plane out-running some natural disaster we were going to squeal for mercy. And yes, we could have stopped watching this flick, but it was on our Movie Club List. Question: If the world is going to end, who do you stock the Ark with? Older, or obscenely wealthy (like money is going to be worth anything in a new world?), people who cannot procreate or contribute anything, or young, healthy people with knowledge and skills needed to start a new world? Glad to hear that this is this directors last time doing a disaster movie. Nothing like NOT going out with a bang.