The 2012.

I was really excited to see the new Twilight last night. Chris had free tickets to go up to the Norwood cinemas and my vote was on New Moon. My second vote was to see 2012, and due to Andrew not wanting to see New Moon and Chris and Brett never seeing the first one, we ended up seeing 2012. The whole idea of 2012 really interests me, I mean I don’t really know much about it, as far as I knew before the movie, according to whoever said it first, the world is going to end in 2012 due to all these natural disasters. After seeing the movie, I learnt nothing about what is going to happen, except that it won’t make for a good movie. The opening scene from 2012 is was like a montage showing the events from 2009 to 2012, and then the rest of the movie is set in 2012. The main character is John Cusack; the same guy that played the main character in that other movie that had just a number for its title, 1408. He plays an author who somehow, when shit goes down, gains Jason Bourne powers and can do anything.

I was really expecting this movie to be a realistic view of what they think will happen in 2012, but it turns out it is just two and a half hours of Jason Bourne, I mean John Cusack driving away from erupting volcanoes, tidal waves, earthquakes and falling rocks and shit, and yes, this movie does go for over two and a half hours. It is crap, I don’t know how to explain it but there were just too many things severely wrong with this movie for me to have enjoyed it at all. You know how in movies they kill of characters that you have gotten attached to along the course of the movie and then they put on some sad music and try and make you cry? In 2012, they introduce a character and before you even learn their name, they kill them off, play some sad music and try to make you cry... the guy didn’t even have a name as far as I was concerned, watching the tidal wave kill him made me laugh because the guy was such a shit actor, not cry.

What did make me sad was that I found Watchmen on DVD for fifteen dollars at Big W yesterday, so I bought it. I love that movie, and I was going to watch that last night with my parents who haven’t seen it but I think they should because it’s great. In 2012, the actress that plays John Cusack’s ex wife looks like Silk Spectre II from watchmen, so every time John Cusack’s character’s ex wife was shown on screen I thought to myself, ‘man I wish I was at home, watching Watchmen instead of watching this crap.’

I was hoping to walk out of the cinema with some kind of an insight on what they think is going to happen in 2012, because it is just one of those things that I am curious about, but instead I walked out knowing that unless you have Jason Bourne driving, running and plane flying abilities, you are going to be fucked when 2012 hits. You’ll just wake up in the morning, feeling like P-Diddy, and then you will get fucked up, like that guy who fell off the boat and nearly made me cry of laughter. When I woke up this morning, P-Diddyness aside, I walked over to mum and before I said good morning I just said to her ‘yeah, so don’t see 2012’. As I sit here and think about the possibility of the world ending in a few years, it makes me happy to think that, well if I am still alive in a few years, that I have reached the end of the world, I mean surviving would be great as well but think about it, do you really want to survive, if it means being with John Cusack and his Silk Spectre II looking ex wife for the rest of your life?