An Editorial

November 29, 2009

I know it’s late in the week, but I’ll do it: here’s my counter point to the 2012 movie review “End of the world is, well, kind of a drag.” The only drag I see in this review is its writer, Roger Moore. First rule in watching a science fiction/fantasy movie is “It’s only a movie.” Stating that, you can dump Mr. Moore’s take on 2012 and move on to some serious critique. The previews of 2012 did not lie. The film is a special effects’ rollercoaster ride. Despite the excellent human theme content, you get your money’s worth, hands down. In other words . . . It’s all CGI hell breaking loose!
The viewers are not as stupid as Mr. Moore would have you believe. They get it. They know it’s an action movie; they’re not staunch believers of the Apocalypse’s Hour three years from now.
Mr. Moore runs down the movie director’s list of past achievements, bunching them up with other B movies. The fact is that all of Roland Emmerich’s films are above “B” rating. They may stretch the reality and audaciousness of our patience and intelligence, but Emmerich does not do it for pennies per movie. His themes and production quality are brought up with the same courtesy and value for what we pay to see in a science fiction film. But of his take on 2012, director Emmerich adds more than the high quality special effects: moral consciousness.
In the final hour of our existence on earth, human beings will overcome their sense of egocentrism and cynicism and learn, or rediscover, what it is to be human, or more directly, why should we as a specie continue.