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How Long Is An Io Remote

2012

I'll say it now: if the alleged Mayan prophecy about the end of the world next venture - December 21, 2012 - is true, we have only one request, as good sentenced to death: give us a better script. For that film, which should represent it, the eponymous 2012, is so full of platitudes and carelessness, as to suggest that the apocalypse is the inevitable punishment for the stupidity of the dialogue. The work in question, as is known, is the third (and hopefully last) signed Roland Emmerich disaster, after the aliens punched by Will Smith in Independence Day and ice in abundance Dawn the next day. Here the excuse is simple: no monsters or sconquassi climate, but an old and healthy earthquake, fulfillment of the original prediction (which the director, very concerned, yes and no dedicated the opening credits), with an attached scientific disquisition on how the whole : neutrinos crazed, carried by a whim of the sun, melt the earth's crust, swallowing continents, cities and civilizations without distinction.
In truth, we would have settled for a normal Big One, perhaps with its epicenter in Hollywood. It would have been more consistent, given the usual plot of fire, fearful commotion earthquakes and subsequent tsunami, which wrecked well as the potential credibility (?) Of the plot. The world's governments are in fact warned for some years of catastrophe, so much so that in secret preparing huge tombs (Noah has nothing to do, he can not use the computer) to save what remains of humanity. To climb, and this is where the novelty, you must have specific skills: political power, tons of money, important relationships. Quality, as you can imagine, that will make named the new species. Since U.S. production, however, the regurgitation idealist is just around the corner: the protagonist, a scientist provident dell'inghippo withheld from the upper echelons, will be able to make the ugliest house on board the last surviving group of penniless , touching the heads of state with a pistolotto on universal brotherhood.
Within undertakings is not enough, we play well the only valid character: an environmentalist with millenarian disorders, played with alarming participation by Woody Harrelson, which broadcasts live from an improvised radio station of his exciting tales Yellowstone the end of the world (including the direct own). He will awaken the mind of the hero of the moment-by-case, a imbolsito John Cusack in the role of a failed science fiction writer, divorced and disliked by the children (all taken from the new mother's partner), which is the driver to pull living. Party Perfect, among other things, Brendan Fraser, there were puppets, or Nicholas Cage, there had been money.
We will save the family driving the car in the streets shaken from the craters, receiving aid from its upcoming successor to the marriage bed, a skilled aircraft pilot boats. Almost a shame, then, that he has to die, like other positive characters of boundary: the benevolent father of the protagonist, singer on a ship, his fellow researcher, who first discovered the solar disturbances, and even the president of the United States, Danny Glover is a very brave, faithful and purposeful, who prefers to remain with their compatriots rather than embarking on survival. Very much like Obama, or the idea we have of him, not that that part had been assigned to Morgan Freeman a few years earlier, in the only disaster-movie that poses some questions, or Deep Impact.
manifestly unnecessary, then, the final molasses: the researcher who wins the love of the daughter of Glover, who takes over the Cusack family, taking advantage of the tragic death of his rival in love. The scenario, in homage to the atmosphere Legoland from dominating the whole, is an inverted world where the continents were flooded, torn or moved, and you start to count the years from scratch. Only instead of the cross is a bag of popcorn.

Sidenotes:

- the emblematic opening sequence, set in an underground laboratory in the torrid Indian. An elderly scientist, exhausted from the heat, welcomes all to the screen of a foot bath of ice water. A little 'porn never hurts;
- Excellent figure of the employer to Cusack, a contractor (and / or the Mafia) and acids with two Russian intolerable brats in tow, to fool the poor driver because, unlike her, rich enough to survive. In fact in the end likely to remain on foot, taking on board the one sacrifice of his father. Fortuna undeserved;
- imponderable nell'apnea the qualities of the writer. After the ark stranded by their own gullibility, unlock the boat (and the fate of the world) while remaining under water for about half an hour. Stuff to embarrass Pellizzari;
- Commending the treatment given to the Italian head of state, who chooses, as the American counterpart, to remain at home to pray. Will eventually crushed by the Pope and the faithful, the landslide of the dome of St. Peter, like saying that religion must always give due weight;
- Unacceptable, however, the bad taste of the die Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel, just where the finger of God is going to touch that man. More than iconoclasm, obscenity is cheap;
- Brilliant, if nothing else, the delirious home movie plots Harrelson, a bric-a-brac which Einstein very pop in his tongue and the history of mankind is reduced to scribble some allegorical. On closer inspection, the only time animation of the film.

INFORMATION

2012

In a sentence: "I feel that something is separating us." Following the crater.
Sconsigliatissimo: those who think that behind the effects (more special or not) should still be a cause. That is a screenplay.
Rating: KKKK

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