God Please save us from this movie!

Rating: 2/10 (19 July 2010)

HUGE John Cusack fan but this movie is such a dog! Saw this in theater awhile back and was just showing on Stars so had to post a few completely unbelievable parts of this movie...
1. The three plane escapes 2 of which are by someone who has had a few lessons... doubt they covered dodging flying subways or diving through falling skyscrapers in those first few lessons.
2. Making Oliver Platt's character to be some menacing douche that is like Marie Antoinette... let them eat cake. He sacrificed his mother to save someone but the geologist is constantly attacking him for trying to do his job... SAVE HUMANITY! I was so hoping he would toss that bitchy little geologist off the ship.. In the end the geologist almost caused the death of all humanity... but oh no the man in charge is the bad guy!
3. Would the President's daughter really be so completely oblivious to politics and the real world to believe that governments don't do bad things sometimes for the greater good. Like I don't know keeping secrets and protecting humanity's survival
4. This portrayal of the geologist and the presidents daughter as being righteous about so many people dying... hello your not gonna fit 10 billion people in 4 ships. Darwinism survival of the fittest maybe you should learn it.
5. The President dies in what can only be a suicidal and cowardly act... hello who will lead the survivors. No president would go down with the ship without having clear leadership left behind. Definitely not a leader... just unbelievable.
6. Africa survives untouched.... really.
7. There's a big fence and warning signs but hey lets take the kids over to a completely evaporated lake bed with hot sulfurous steam bubbling out... oh that's safe!
8. The Sistine Chapel ceiling cracks right between the fingers...hmmm
9. In the grocery "I feel like something is coming between us" oh look a large crack appears between them.
10. Tamara and Gordan buy it in the end saving several other characters.... reaction by them oh sad move on. Hello your husband just died tears???
11. The JFK aircraft carrier takes out the white house.... was that necessary... really?
12. Whole thing about Jackson being a failed writer had absolutely nothing to do with story line but yet is droned on and on. This would have made sense if what he wrote was even about the subject at hand but wtf???
13. Russian dude doesn't save his girlfriend... smart guy would go oh my options will be limited soon... better take her along cause she's hot and im not!
14. The Russian pilot needlessly sacrifices himself... another character killed off and added nothing to the storyline by it.
15. The plane escaping Yellowstone.... flies through dense volcanic ash and engines don't stall... NOT!
16. The crazy guy on a hill in Yellowstone is broadcasting brilliant and has the SECRET MAP... how convenient! Oh wait that whole issue is really unnecessary because we go to the Russian to take us there. But NO lets go to the most unstable part of the US and needlessly risk your kids life for a map that you never use.
I could go one endlessly but in short this movie promised a lot but instead tried to create interesting characters by writing a need for them to be in the movie then really needlessly killing them off... Charlie, Tamara, Sasha.
The mishmash of politicians and scientists whose characters are really STUPID and get everything wrong and make all the wrong decisions. The politicians are just and righteous but in next frame are sinister and menacing. The scientists are so smart and know everything are continually wrong in every other frame.
This movie could have been a lot but never was. Lets hope if the world ends in 2012... that this movie isn't saved! Better luck on next movie John!