tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post3443720205755493601..comments2024-03-14T19:14:03.059-05:00Comments on Acidemic - Film: Secrets of 2012, or the "The Day of a Million Relapses"Erich Kuerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-61795225393500361812010-04-09T14:08:30.923-05:002010-04-09T14:08:30.923-05:00Well Ivan, I appreciate it that you love this film...Well Ivan, I appreciate it that you love this film, it can't do no harm and you're right in presuming some of the class issue stuff is intentional, as is the disconnect of "damnit, a child needs her father" hysteria vs. the reality of mass death, as when Danny Glover tries to bully an ER worker to find some girl's missing father when he's trying to save a dying man and the earth is cracking all around. A president is supposed to have a better idea of triage than that. <br /><br />And Simon, you mustn't forget Cusak wrote that stupid novel about how "somehow everyone has relatives in Wisconsin" which based on those words alone is enough to make you sick. But in a country where parental guilt-hysteria is taken as holy gospel, it makes sense that a spastic Jar Jar of a father would get to come on board. I just don't understand why these ships didn't go up into space, and if they're just big boats, why not have 700 submarines all ready to go? It don't make no sense, and JD as you so ably compare it with Martian Child, which I didn't see but saw the horrible preview for like three times, I can still sympathize, as even in the short preview you can see just how much revolting baby talk sincerity Cusak brings to his hollywood fathering.Erich Kuerstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-37002182794923125482010-04-05T10:34:46.772-05:002010-04-05T10:34:46.772-05:00EK:
Wow, I just love all the ink a flick like “201...EK:<br />Wow, I just love all the ink a flick like “2012” can generate!<br /><br />As for me, I stand by the flick, not only because its exquisitely crafted scenes of mega-destruction satisfy some obdurate nihilism hardwired into my reptile brain (“Blow that shit up reeeeeeeeeeal good!”), but because--and this may be so subjective as to be alienating to others--I think the film is a sick joke of the highest order, with the gag-inducing punch-line that only the super-rich will survive. And not just survive the apocalypse, but survive everything, unscathed and with a nice bedroom. <br /><br />The movie goes through the trouble of letting us see all those bodies fall to their doom (Mr. Lime’s little dots, indeed) just to reiterate “That’s you, audience, that’s you up on the screen being DOOMED. Routinely.”<br /><br />Which is why there’s all that ridiculous and often pathetic “family dramedy” garbage on the screen, including a urine joke as the capper, because a message this bitter needs a sugar coating. (Isn’t that moppet’s hat obsession adorable?) I just took this cutesy junk to be protective camouflage to keep it under the radar of those who want no mention of class and class warfare in American movies. <br /><br />By many accounts, Mr. Emmerich’s politics are a bizarre mish-mash (much like his art) and maybe “2012” is his attempted comment on the current economic meltdown?<br /><br />Maybe I’m looking too hard, but I love it when a B-movie (albeit one with an A+++ budget) gets this sort of going-over. <br /><br />Thanks!<br />IvanIvanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16443946766217092846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-25754416674997192772010-04-05T09:01:03.037-05:002010-04-05T09:01:03.037-05:00Interesting comparison at the end there with TITAN...Interesting comparison at the end there with TITANIC.<br /><br />And what's up with MARTIAN CHILD reunion? Cusack, Amanda Peet AND Oliver Platt all in the same film together again? I guess Anjelica Huston was busy.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08164105442273577128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-62620881702886115262010-04-04T18:23:58.647-05:002010-04-04T18:23:58.647-05:00Really interesting write-up, I think. I would'...Really interesting write-up, I think. I would've been happier if someone useful ended up on the boat, not just Cusack. I mean, the one guy in his group, the doctor/pilot boyfriend of Amanda Peet for some reason, who could conceivably help someone with more than the power of love, gets axed.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08085105568601878075noreply@blogger.com