OK...I meant the movie, not the end of the world. Just watched it yesterday (an hour after watching A Christmas Carol XD). To be honest, I AM a little nervous about the whole end-of-the-world thing. 12/12/2012 -- it's exactly a week after my 22nd birthday. I didn't imagine the apocalypse to be like how it's portrayed in 2012 the movie. I imagined it to be, like, the whole planet just vanished, gone, just like the other unknown stars in the universe. It will become dust and the dust will give birth to another new star. Lol~ Astronomy was my favourite chapter in my general science textbook back in high school.
The movie is good! As expected from the director of The Day After Tomorrow (it's one of my favourites). There were quite a number of scenes that I almost (ALMOST) cried. Haha~ I'm not exactly the type to cry out loud on movies. The scene on an estrange father calling his son right before his son and his family were killed really did touch my heart, even though they didn't get to talk over the phone at all. And there's one particular scene that made me and the other audiences in the cinema to REALLY laughed out loud -- the car scene. "Engine, start," said the damn-f**king-selfish-rich-Russian calmly to the car when Jackson (John Cusack) couldn't start the engine and everyone in the car were screaming and shouting in panic. My god! I really didn't expect such a funny scene at the midst of a matter-of-life-and-death scene. Whoever put that line in is a GENIUS.
There's a scene that shows Dr Helmsley complaining about how wide the rooms on the ships are that they could fit at least 10 people in each. It really does show how spoiled the rich people are. Prioritising their comfort and high class living instead of the lives of their fellow, poorer humans. Seriously, their money worth nothing more than a piece of paper in that kind of situation. "The moment we stop fighting for each other, that's the moment we lose our humanity."
The way the Russian millionaire's girlfriend (Tamara, I think), Sasha, Gordon and the US President die, Emmerich successfully brought out the feeling and the impact of their deaths, IMO.
I think the movie shows how Roland Emmerich imagined the end of the world to be, obviously. It's sort of like Noah's Ark, except there were 3-4 arks (or ships) instead of just one XD, and they're made in China. Haha... I give it a full 10 stars.
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