'2012': A worthwhile ending of the world
Phillip Fairbrother
Issue date: 11/18/09 Section: Arts & Entertainment
This movie is a must-see for anyone that loves a good destruction film. Rather than preaching about global warming, this film gives movie-goers the sense that our end is inevitable: There's nothing we can do about it. The question then is how do we act in this situation? In trying to save our lives, do we lose our humanity? Like most everything these days, the film has an economical undertone. Anyone that plans on being on the ships that offer the only option for survival has to shell out one billion dollars per seat. This leaves anyone that isn't disgustingly wealthy out of luck.
Over all, the movie is worthwhile and entertaining. 2012 pulled in $225 million globally and $65 million domestically during its opening weekend, giving Hollywood a head start as it heads toward Thanksgiving weekend (which is typically one of the busiest weekends in movie theaters).
"It feels totally like summer," says Paul Dergarabedian, who is a box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. "This proves that if you put a summer movie anywhere in the release schedule, you can sometimes get summer numbers."
Over all, the movie is worthwhile and entertaining. 2012 pulled in $225 million globally and $65 million domestically during its opening weekend, giving Hollywood a head start as it heads toward Thanksgiving weekend (which is typically one of the busiest weekends in movie theaters).
"It feels totally like summer," says Paul Dergarabedian, who is a box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. "This proves that if you put a summer movie anywhere in the release schedule, you can sometimes get summer numbers."
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Jim Radtke
posted 11/18/09 @ 2:01 PM MST
This was such a horrible movie. Yes the graphics were "cool," but the storyline sucked, the actors sucked and the writing sucked. I am glad that I didn't pay to watch this movie, save yourself from this crap and get it from the $5 Walmart Movie bin in a couple years. (Continued…)
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