My Issues with 2012

First of all, how is John Cusack the luckiest man alive? Somehow he magically escapes every single time an earthquake creates a giant chasm in the ground? Is that even possible? How does he crawl out of the earth after the giant fireball explodes in Yellowstone? That doesn't even make sense. And why didn't he just take all the damn maps and search through them in the airplane instead of trying to figure out which one Woody Harrelson told him about which was really just a picture of China? How brutal was it to watch John and Amanda take a minute to make love right before John had to go into the gears of the giant ark? Really brutal. Especially since Tamara magically died even though her compartment should have filled up after the one holding Auntie An Mei from The Joy Luck Club and Amanda Peet. How did John Cusack get enough strength to pull a drill out of the gears of the ark? Shouldn't the gears have crushed the drill? That didn't make sense.

Interestingly, the cracks only miraculously missed our heroes and no animals or children were shown dying in the movie. But then, there would have been an uproar about animal or child cruelty as everyone is always concerned for their well-being. But we love watching hot chicks die in movies.

On a more environmental writing note, it was nice to see that the movie ended with what would realistically happen - the oceans would recede and land would surface again. It wouldn't have made sense for the oceans to stay overflowing since there is only so much water. It's not overflowing, it's just displaced.

All in all the special effects were decent, the action sequences were ridiculous, the luck of the pointless protagonist was ridiculous and the acting and writing were terrible.

The only realistic parts about the movie were the amount of destruction, Oliver Platt's corruption (but in truth, realistic agenda), and the fact that the government would take priceless artifacts and rich people over old so-and-so living by himself down the street with his 6 cats.

P.S. Who was surprised the little dog survived? I hope no one, because of course it was going to.