Which is the sillier movie? 2012 by an unintentional mile!
I cannot believe how ridiculous the movie was. Okay, I guess I can after these guys made Independence Day and then Day After Tomorrow. Looks like the Queen finally survives one of these movies, despite far worse odds. Indeed, not only is the Average American dead by the end of this movie (or the middle), but more than 99% of humanity. But, in the end, that is ok, because the cute kids lived and so did the dog.
Just a few points of extreme stupidity:
- Why would they need to sell tickets? If the world is ending in a year or two, you can always pay for the arks via deficit spending.
- Oliver Platt's character has no clear title (wiki says he was chief of staff, but that position has no authority). If the President, VP, Speaker of the House and a few cabinet secretaries are not around, well, there has be to be a bunch of other secretaries in last flight out of DC.
- Things seem to be hunky dory a month after the end of the world as we knew it. The crust has stabilized. But, Mrs. Spew demanded to know, what happened to that super-hot core that started all of this (due to neutrinos sped up by solar activity).
- Best part: from wiki:
North Korea has reportedly banned possession or viewing of the film. The year 2012 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of the nation's founder, Kim Il Sung, and has been designated by the North Korean government as "the year for opening the grand gates to becoming a rising superpower".
Is HTTB a great movie? Certainly not. Hangover outclasses it (well, sort of) in terms of laugh-out-loud jokes per minute, and Zombieland was more fun as well. There are not fantastic cameo moments here although Billy Zabka is close. But a highly amusing movie, especially to those who grew up in the 80's. Moreover, its happy ending is far more believable than 2012's. And the average American at the end of HTTB is still alive. I can understand why John Cusack chose to make HTTB--to play off of his past. Why he made 2012? I am not sure, because the millions he earned are not going to be enough to buy a seat on the ark.
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Let the record show that Mrs. Spew was going to stop watching the movie (something that I hardly ever do,) but that Spew convinced me that having invested this much time in it, that I had to stay and see how bad the ending was. And it was bad. The stupidest thing in the whole movie was that they apparently could not start the engine of the ark ship unless the big loading door was completely closed (it was stuck.) This is possibly the most moronic design idea ever spawned in movies, but then again, I have not seen The Core.
My guess is that Cusack did the movie because it was a kind of movie that he had never done before, plus the pay. And he was good in it. He always gives a good performance. (As was Woody as the nutball underground radio guy.) But it was much more fun to watch him in HTTM, doing all his old character tricks from the 1980's movies and making fun of them at the same time. And Chevy Chase was good too. My only complaint was that I would have liked less 1990's style gags -- vomiting, Rob's bare butt -- and even more 80's cheese.
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