Alright, 2012 is THE ultimate,the HUGEST movie-making could ever be,but hey,haven't we heard it before too?For me,its jus another disaster movie.For one more time,Uncle Sam saves the world...well,not really.
With 2012,not the whole world this time,but a select few, chosen by a skewed Darwinian theory,survival-of-the-richest,manage to overcome the human race from getting wiped out.Agreed that its hard not to get tempted to redo your succesful formula and Roland Emmerich visibly struggles to keep this baby of his, one-up above 'Independence Day' and 'Day after tomorrow'.
Working backwards, this is how the movie would have been conceptualised-
So, the future-is-scary doesn't really scare you,'coz its way too far to worry about? Mr Emmerich's corollary suggests if we can't take the technology any farther,we'll bring the doomsday closer,simple.Its just 3 years to live? There comes another pop-corn bag.
So what if the sight of NewYork and DC being taken down doesn't arouse no one no more? Roland will venture out and bring to you the rejunevated sorry-saga,from Vegas to Vatican. Of course, its ridiculous why would someone watching the movie wonder when in Vatican ceilings crack before the floors do.
Well, how do you show a really,really huge tide?Naah,not that;they have already done it in 'The Abyss'.So, Emmerich plans to fill up the seas so much ......,SO MUCH, that the Mt Everest drowns. Hello......yes, its possible,ok!!Right Mr Ahem-erich?
But there ought to be signature of a movie-maker...isn't that lost?I may be wishfully trying to draw a affinity(where isn't none), but Roland continues to associate India to his disaster-sagas in '2012' too, though he sadfully ends up submerging the entire sub-continent.
So what if John Cusack is no match for Will Smith's charm, Mr.Emmerich's failure-in-life but right-place-at-right-time,accidental-hero is good enough to take on an approaching tremor in a caravan,takes his family across the globe and manages to get a town-sized modern-day Noah's Arc moving,single-handedly.Big deal?
'2012' brings with it,for one more time, CGI taken to new heights, but that's about it. The characters are way too hazy to leave a mark, the plot is too overused to prevent a yawn, the HUGEness is too nothing-new to seem big.
My 17$ could have been better spent.
P.S - Back to the Future is a 1985 science fiction adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Steven Spielberg.
With 2012,not the whole world this time,but a select few, chosen by a skewed Darwinian theory,survival-of-the-richest,manage to overcome the human race from getting wiped out.Agreed that its hard not to get tempted to redo your succesful formula and Roland Emmerich visibly struggles to keep this baby of his, one-up above 'Independence Day' and 'Day after tomorrow'.
Working backwards, this is how the movie would have been conceptualised-
So, the future-is-scary doesn't really scare you,'coz its way too far to worry about? Mr Emmerich's corollary suggests if we can't take the technology any farther,we'll bring the doomsday closer,simple.Its just 3 years to live? There comes another pop-corn bag.
So what if the sight of NewYork and DC being taken down doesn't arouse no one no more? Roland will venture out and bring to you the rejunevated sorry-saga,from Vegas to Vatican. Of course, its ridiculous why would someone watching the movie wonder when in Vatican ceilings crack before the floors do.
Well, how do you show a really,really huge tide?Naah,not that;they have already done it in 'The Abyss'.So, Emmerich plans to fill up the seas so much ......,SO MUCH, that the Mt Everest drowns. Hello......yes, its possible,ok!!Right Mr Ahem-erich?
But there ought to be signature of a movie-maker...isn't that lost?I may be wishfully trying to draw a affinity(where isn't none), but Roland continues to associate India to his disaster-sagas in '2012' too, though he sadfully ends up submerging the entire sub-continent.
So what if John Cusack is no match for Will Smith's charm, Mr.Emmerich's failure-in-life but right-place-at-right-time,accidental-hero is good enough to take on an approaching tremor in a caravan,takes his family across the globe and manages to get a town-sized modern-day Noah's Arc moving,single-handedly.Big deal?
'2012' brings with it,for one more time, CGI taken to new heights, but that's about it. The characters are way too hazy to leave a mark, the plot is too overused to prevent a yawn, the HUGEness is too nothing-new to seem big.
My 17$ could have been better spent.
P.S - Back to the Future is a 1985 science fiction adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Steven Spielberg.
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