Why the cheese and Hollywood shine-ola?

Rating: 7/10 (22 November 2009)

This should be in a film-making text book for how to let a lousy script wreck your $200 million dollar movie.
Why all the "soapy" situations? Cheesy dialogue? Silly contrived metaphors? UN-NECESSARY! This movie could have worked on so many more levels, but the burden of its script was too much and it was 20 minutes too long. It seemed like every time the story was building up some real tension we'd stop to have a mother/daughter; father/son; brother/sister; author/apocalypse-loving; bimbo/dog bonding moment! Seriously?
Makes me sad, because the movie almost worked. Visually stunning, great sound, strong cast, cool idea...but, alas, no!