Tuesday, June 8, 2010

"The Master of the Modern Epic"

Eager for some fun, mindless disaster entertainment, K. and I watched 2012 this weekend. While the SFX, when they finally came, were pretty engaging, as a whole the movie is quite possibly the worst movie of all time. As Kelly said about 40 minutes into the movie, I just don't care about any of these people. This is mainly due to the fact that the characters aren't given personalities, just a bunch of clichés to spout. John Cusack, the only actor that could have pulled this piece of crap out of the morass, just looks bored throughout the entire thing.
I’ve already devoted too many words to it, but I do want to add that the DVD case promoted a "Special Feature!" about the director Roland Emmerich entitled "The Master of the Modern Epic." Now I know that there’s really nothing special about these stupid DVD features beyond cynical corporate marketing, but that claim is so false as to be false advertising.
In short: Stay away. Far away.

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