Jeff & Konnor's Blog

2012. Just about what you'd expect from the director of the preposterous The Day After Tomorrow. Take all the disaster movie cliches you know, and multiply them in scale (but not by intelligence) by ten. Throw in a few lame speeches about the nature of humanity, and don't be afraid to use the same plot devices more than once. For example, if the main characters manage to take off from an airport in Los Angeles just as the runway crumbles and falls into the Earth beneath them, feel free to have the very same thing happen to the same characters in Yellowstone. And again in Las Vegas. If the characters find themselves in cars rather than airplanes, copy the device with highways instead of runways. That all said, 2012, while by no means good, works a bit better than The Day After Tomorrow, if only because riding out super-tsunami floods in an impervious Chinese-built "ark" makes slightly more sense than surviving a global-warming induced super-freeze by hiding in a library.

P.S. The Mayan calendar does not predict the end of the world in 2012, any more than our calendar predicts the end of the world every December 31 when our calendar cycle ends.