2012

Ok..my old blog is definitely dead cos my life is boring and there's nothing much to talk about so yeah..i've decided to change the objective of this blog to be more of a personal movie review blog since i catch a movie in the theaters at least once a week. Been catching a movie once every week for almost a year now..so might as well do something to remember them all. This week i'll be reviewing two movies..

(Minimal spoilers)

First of:


So I caught this movie on Saturday morning (14/11/09) at 12.30am at Lido Shaw House Hall 1 which is 'the biggest digital hall' in Singapore. I've always been interested in the 2012 phenomena and did research on it way before most of the public knew about it through the movie. There is a lot of of different speculation on how the world is going to "end" in 2012 such as an alien planet passing earth's orbit and causing the earth to stop rotating for three days, solar flares from the sun, aliens coming to destroy us.....it goes on and on.

Anyway, this movie focuses on the solar flare from the sun version of the world ending. Suffice it to say, the movie starts with an ominous tone and builds from there. Even with the knowledge that the world is going to end, it still had me guessing what was going to happen next. How the different characters would react to the different situations around them, although I thought that the protagonist and his family seem to be the luckiest people on earth with everything going their way.

The theater was big, the seats were good and spacious and the sound quality was excellent. My seat literally shook and vibrated with all the destruction going on on screen. That just added to the experience. However, don't go into this movie expecting an excellent story and superb acting. This is an end of the world movie after all so just enjoy the effects and destruction. I have to give credit to two spectacular scenes where John Cusack's character and his family escape the destruction in a limousine and later in a small plane. The movie is unintentionally funny when it tries to be serious and the actors are just pawns to something that is bigger than all of them. Oh yeah, the movie is 2 hrs 30mins so be prepared to go to the toilet before it starts and bring a cushion to sit on.

Overall I would say this movie deserves a watch at least once in the theater for its effects but not worth a second watch.

Rating - 7/10.

2012