4. 2012 (2009)
Nothing calms the distressed viewer like a good laugh. On December 21 of this year when people worldwide waited to see if the supposed Mayan prediction of the end of the world came true on its set day, many friends of mine watched the film 2012 in the days honor. The humor certainly settled some hesitant, superstitious people; too bad the movie wasnt meant to be funny. The horrendously constructed characters, bad dialogue, unconvincing developments, and so forth sent this movie hurtling into mayhem, but not the kind desired of the action sci-fi plot. Believability and retention of attention crumble away at an earthquakes strength like that crumbling the city in the movie poster. The poster is intriguing in how hopeless, wasted, and insignificant it makes individual victims in those high-rises out to be in the face of catastrophe, but the movie unappealingly matches those same dismal descriptions. 2012's poster evokes thrill and fear regarding a predicted worldwide disaster, but even viewers couldn't predict the real disaster to face them in the movie: its dialogue, which, like the poster city, sinks quickly.
