Quick Review: 2012

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel...well, not exactly fine, but I survived. After seeing "2012" director Roland Emmerich create so much devastation in movies like "The Day After Tomorrow" and "Independence Day" we pretty much know what to expect here: death and destruction on a massive scale, hokey dialogue, lots of cliches, bad characters who mostly get what's coming to them, good characters (both lucky and plucky) who mostly survive, and a hideous song in the soundtrack (in this one it's "Time For Miracles" by Adam Lambert). The highlight for me (besides all the destruction, of course) was Woody Harrelson in a small role as a conspiracy nut whose ravings about how the Mayans predicted coming disaster help persuade a not-too-successful writer (John Cusack) just in time to rescue his kids, his ex-wife and her boyfriend as massive earthquakes begin destroying California. It doesn't seem like the type of movie John Cusack should star in, but we all have to make a living, I guess. Essentially, I've seen worse. And Roland Emmerich is openly gay according to his Wikipedia page, so there's that. My grade: C-plus.