2012

I've just watched 2012. If you're looking for an action film, this should be a good choice for you. If you're like me - someone who lets his mind get into analysing why certain things were done in a certain manner, you'd be rather irritated during your movie.

Here are somethings that just made the movie too much of an action film and too little of a logical one.

Posters: Cars were lined up neat and nice on the freeway on both directions even though the whole road has collapsed leaving a HUGE canyon between the road and the city. With the minutes it take for all the buildings to collapse crumble and fall into the canyon, noone on the freeway actually swerved or did a U-turn trying to escape the collapse. They probably left their car and ran figuring they were faster than their vehicles.

Lead character: (out of many I'll pick one) While the roads were collapsing, he had to look for a map in a section where there were a pile of other maps and papers. And this was done in a camper van while the rest of his team waited in a plane for him to get the map. Wouldn't you just grab the whole lot (it wasn't a lot) and get onto the plane then look for it there?

Leaving an aircraft in a car: The aircraft was not yet in a landing speed when the car had to leave the plane. The car "jumped" off the plane. The plane was probably still travelling at 200mph when the car lept off the plane. Which meant that the car (facing the wrong way of the momentum) had to be travelling in reverse gear at close to 200mph for it to be safe. Nothing happened to the car. I would like to know the gear ratio of that reverse gear.

Scientist's best friend: While the whole of India was being tsunami-fied and all land communication was wiped out, his was still able to use his mobile phone to call his friend to say his last words. I want to know which telco he's using. I'm buying shares. It survives not only the financial crisis but the apocalypse.

Not a wise choice: You have the world's leaders with you on board. People with a track record of great leadership, brains and so on... With less than 15 minutes to go before the impact of the tsunami, would you open the gates allowing others on board, with the knowledge that the procedure might not be completed in 15 minutes which would then result in the wipe-out of the human race? It is better to have 50% on board than risk losing everyone. Yes, some of you may think I'm evil. But I would open the gates if in another situation, we had 30 minutes.

Still more to go... but I'm lazy to type 'em all...

Till next time...