{"id":860,"date":"2009-12-04T15:58:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T23:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=860"},"modified":"2009-12-25T11:55:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T19:55:32","slug":"2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2009\/12\/2012\/","title":{"rendered":"2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"10\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"140\" width=\"96\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/2012.jpg\">\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<b>2012<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/><i>John Cusack<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><br \/>\n<\/font>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Disaster is a well understood and typically formulaic genre.  The special effects are the main draw.  Audience wants realism: scary scenes that fool the brain into believing.  Next the plot must <i>could<\/i> happen.  Lastly, there should be a battle between the bests and worsts of human kind.  These elements limit the artistic creativity; the special effects usually dwarf the rest of the budget and leave little for anything else.<\/p>\n<p><i>2012<\/i> is a pretty good movie, considering its genre.  If you enjoyed <i>Transformer 2<\/i>, you should go see this one.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the ancient Mayan prediction of the end is real or not is irrelevant.  We saw our world totally destroyed in front of our eyes and cliff-hang with our main characters at every turn of their misfortunes and near escapes from death.<\/p>\n<p>The plot follow the old Noah&#8217;s Ark concept and has some ludicrous points: Chinese get to to construct that Arks because of their manufacturing prowess, they drove to Yellowstone, from LA, in a limo, and, lastly, what kind of engine cannot turn on because a stupid door was jammed?<\/p>\n<p>I was impressed that Chinese characters spoke Tibetan, instead of Mandarin.  (I cannot evaluate the authenticity.)   The special effects seem more impressive in the teasers, but were still good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 John Cusack Disaster is a well understood and typically formulaic genre. The special effects are the main draw. Audience wants realism: scary scenes that fool the brain into believing. Next the plot must could happen. Lastly, there should be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2009\/12\/2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}