Kelly Monster

So I guess the world is going to end in 2012 according to the Mayans. But don’t worry, if you have a life jacket, you may just survive.

I decided to see 2012 not because of the preview because judging by that it looked like just your average end of the world movie.

I decided to see it because of this man.

John Cusack stole my heart in Say Anything and he has been conning me into seeing his movies for years. Maybe he is the same in every movie, but maybe I just love John Cusack.

Another reason I love to see disaster movies, is because they are campy, and ridiculous. You remember Armageddon.

The plot of this movie is pretty simple. The Mayans predicted that the world would end in 2012, and it does. They show a lot of scientific diagrams in this movie showing the earth’s crust deteriorating, and complete chaos in the earth’s crust.

What I found strange though is that all this craziness that was happening in the center of the earth didn’t destroy the planet. I know, weird, right? It just turned into a planet full of water.

Now I like Sci-Fi, and I was really hoping that the center of the earth would just turn into a giant black hole and suck all of mankind into another dimension. Now that is a movie I would pay to go see.

In this movie the whole earth just sort of gets kinda soggy. A little like this movie’s plot. The earth just floods and some people (I stress some because most of the earth is just taken out by a giant tidal wave) find shelter on giant arks that the Chinese built because I guess they listened to the Mayans. And Noah.

Of course there is a love story, because the world can’t end without someone realizing that the best years of their life was spent with that old college sweetheart. This love story is a love triangle that is conveniently resolved when one of the characters dies. Jackson and Kate Curtis (John Cusack and Amanda Peet) struggle to keep their family together and somehow find safety while Kate’s new boyfriend Curtis tags along.

Okay so this movie wasn’t the greatest, but I do enjoy watching a lot of explosions, and this movie was full of them. I also felt like I was going to explode by the end of the movie because I made the mistake of buying a large Coke to watch it with. This is always my downfall. I was hoping the Butterfinger and popcorn I had bought would absorb most of the liquid but no dice.

This movie actually comforted me, people always make the end of the world sound so bad, but this movie made it seem manageable. People who climb to the top of Mount Everest are really the safest, the mountain  was the only thing not completely submerged in water by the end. Yeah, it’s really that tall.

I went into this movie knowing what to expect so I enjoyed it. Sometimes there is nothing like a good disaster movie to lift your spirits.

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