2012: The Worst Movie I Have Ever Seen

 

11/15/2009 2am: I just got back from watching 2012. It was arguably the worst movie I have ever seen in my life so far. I thought it insulated the audience at so many levels that it was beyond mindlessly funny. Clearly this review is not as much a complete, thought out commentary, and more of a rant – I need to get this stuff off my chest.

 

So there is this Indian scientist (with an inexplicable name – I have never heard of that name in India), who is one of the main people involved in collecting data about the end of the world. Jimi Mistry (the actor) has barely 20 lines in the movie – and 3 of them are in Hindi. His Hindi is unbelievable!!! They basically had an American (or British… I don't know this guy) play the part of an Indian scientist, and when he spoke his Hindi lines, it sounded terrible. I am amazed that they couldn't find a half-decent 2-bit Indian actor to play the role of the scientist. Why the hell do Westerners have to make movies about India with Western actors? Are our actors so bad that they can't even play Indians!!!!??

 

Then there is this scene where this woman is at the threshold of the life-saving ship, the doors about to close, and she is busy trying to get her doggie's attention hoping that it can also get into the ship and be saved from catastrophe. Did we need this 3 minute sequence to extend the 2h38m movie?

 

The President is plain lame. I didn't know Danny Glover could be so bad.

 

They did spare us some headache by not really explaining the science bit in much detail, because it wouldn't have made any sense anyways.

 

The high point of the movie was Woddy Harrelson – that man is genius in any role he plays…

 

Alright, I need to watch some sane TV before going to bed…