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Anti-Catholic '2012' is a disaster movie in every sense


Disaster: John Cusack may have buried his career with '2012'
Disaster: John Cusack may have buried his career with '2012'

As he makes his way across the world and eventually the Himalayas, Cusack and ex-wife and family in tow meets all the predictable adventures. . stealing planes here, meeting Russian oligarchs there, Chinese helicopter pilots over there.

Emmerich can certainly direct special effects but not actors. That much is clear from this movie which is so formulaic that it is as predictable as a tuna sandwich and just about as exciting.

John Cusack is a fine actor who has plumbed the depths here. Tom McCarthy as his ex-wife's new love interest conveniently gets bumped off which is good news for him and his career.

Roland Emmerich has made the same movie over and over again. The definition of madness is said to be doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.

In this case that doesn't happen. An F minus all around.


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ColemanKapp on November 13,2009 | 07:01AM Why is this Irish news? Coleman, its not Irish news. Apparently it is Anti Catholic news...according to the "critic".
Well, let me tell you what I think. I saw the movie yesterday, and found it a great deal of fun. What do you expect from a disaster movie?? Obviously the script is going to be hokey...this movie was totally about the special effects. No one could have gone in to see it and expect it to be based on the truth. It's ridiculous for you to think so and bash it from that standpoint. As I read your article before I went to see the movie, I looked specifically for the "anti-Catholic" theme. I didn't find it. The whole world was falling down, so of course that would include St Peters. And places in Japan. And the US. I think your anti Catholic rant is way overboard.
This isn't the kind of movie I'm likely to be interested in, but Metacritic gives it a 51 rating based on what 30 critics say. These are 30 critics that we might have actually heard of, and two of them give it a perfect score. I don't know what group Mr. Buzz works for, but he seems to come with an antipathy for anything that Mr. Emmerich cares to produce. I searched for these reviews for the name Brady without success, so why do you think anyone would pay attention to your movie reviews?
Are you joking with the article??? Can we not just look at 2012 as a scfi movie and enjoy it for what it is? The last two articles on this movie remind me of how right wingers search the bible to find proof that God hates gays. Basically, you can always find what you're looking for (if you twist it's meaning)...and it seems that Irish Central is searching for evidence that the movie is anti Catholic. I doubt that the director or John Cusack ever gave it a thought, so lets move on to more important news...and not made up sensationalism!
I posted a good comment on this film and it got censored, so no more!
Buzz Brady was not breast fed by his mother, some other bitch, a wolf perhaps. Oh and his father must have been distant, to say the least. He criticizes Emmerich for things he sees lacking in 2012, that would have no place in a mindless fantasy flight such as this anyway! Then he berates Mr. Cusack for being in the movie as if trying to make a little money for that kind crap is somehow evil today! My God man it's nice to strut and sway across the stage and spout Hamlet and Enemy of the People, if you can bloody well get paid for it! Let Mr. Cusack laugh on the way to bank sometime OK? Oh and by the way Mr. Buzz light head, boy Anthropologist, the Catholic Church made sure that as many Mayan books as they could find were destroyed, most of the the real experts admit they don't know if this Baktou is the end of one age and beginning of the next, or the "End of Days" as so many other prophets, along with many the Mayans believe it is! "No man may know the day or hour" says nothing about the month or year. It's out of our hands anyway, so laugh Buzzy, laugh!
Why is this Irish news?
 




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