2012: Surprisingly good. I mean, overblown, overlong, and prey to that disaster movie tendency to introduce waaaaaay too many complications at the climax, as if the END OF THE WORLD isn't dramatic enough by itself, but: great acting (Chiwetel Ejiofor! Look at you, with your major part in a giant blockbuster just a few years after Serenity! I will learn how to pronounce your name soon, I promise), a few surprising story choices, and the fucking SPECIAL EFFECTS, YOU GUYS. They were phenomenal. All that destruction was just beautifully and very convincingly rendered, without ever the slightest sense of Movie Fakeness.
I expected mindless silly fun, and was quite surprised by how much I got pulled into the movie. There are a few sequences that manage to be intensely suspenseful even though you know they're not gonna kill the lead characters off an hour into the movie, and I came to like some of the characters very much. There's plenty wrong with it - I'm really glad I'm not a scientist, because I strongly suspect that a lot of the science was bullshit, as per usual in these kinds of movies - but if you're undecided because it's not your kind of movie, go see it. It's not my kind of movie, either, but it surprised me by being a lot better and a little more substantial than I thought it would be. And go see it in the theater. It's a very visual movie, as you might expect, and I just can't believe that it could be half as breathtaking on your TV at home.
(Just make sure your bladder is completely empty before it starts and don't drink any diuretics before or during the show, because JEEEEESUS. I thought I was going to DIE.)
Now I'm just gonna go over here and stare at my Doctor Who download while it takes its sweet goddamn time. I always forget how long these take on the day they come out.
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