Tangled Up In Wires

Last night I saw 2012 and, in lieu of a proper review, here’s a list of questions I had after seeing it (spoilers, obviously to follow):

If John Cusack’s book only had 500 copies printed, then why did it have such a professional looking printing and cover (seriously, that was some Random House level work)?

Was Amanda Peet’s character lobotomized prior to the beginning of the movie?

Did no one explain to the President that building a new society after the apocalypse would require charismatic leaders with the ability to bring people together and that his political experience and leadership might actually be extremely important?

How much money was spent on the series of scenes on the cruise ship? Why would anyone agree to spend that money on those scenes? I probably could have made an entire movie for the price of all that stuff?

Did anyone else notice the film’s great act of humanity is saving a bunch of insanely wealthy people who had already bought tickets for an ark? That’s not compassion, its merely good business practice.

Let’s say you’re the head of state of a country who is dealing with getting a ship FILLED WITH THE ENTIRE REMAINING POPULATION OF YOUR COUNTRY. Are you going to stop what you’re doing and listen to some guy who you have neither seen nor heard of before?

Why couldn’t the boats move if the gates didn’t close? Did no one think this was a major design flaw that needed fixing? Wouldn’t you want to make the boat as easy to function as possible?

Why did the ark’s gates, which had to function properly or ALL OF HUMANITY WOULD POTENTIALLY DIE, rely upon every gear turning correctly with no backup system or secondary protocol.

Why did the Russian woman’s compartment have more water than the one with Amanda Peet and John Cusack, even though that one was closer to the flooding?

What, exactly, made what John Cusack’s mission to grab the wire a suicide mission, since there was an air pocket and he was clearly able to escape anyway?

Why do we care that John Cusack and family survive when almost everyone they’ve ever known or seen or interacted with is dead?