2012 Coming To Theaters Today!

The date is December 21st and the year is 2012. Does that date mean something to you? It Should! This is the day that our precious world as we know it will end. This is a day where it doesn’t matter if you are white, black, Hispanic or Asian. It doesn’t matter weather you are Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or athesist. Why does the world finally understand that we shouldn’t judge a person because of any of these things? The answer is simple because there is no more world.

Many beliefs float around about when the end of the world will become and it looks like the Mayans left a gift saying their peace. The Mayan calendar stops on December 21st in the year of 2012. There is widespread gossip that this is when the believed the human race on Earth would come to its end.

I’m going to be the first person to admit that I’m a big scaredy cat when it comes to the end of the world. I don’t like to think about it. Unfortunately I learned long ago that what I like doesn’t matter, my brain works on its own time and I will just listen, act and do as it says. So if I’m going to think about it anyways why not watch a movie about it. Somehow the movie The Day After Tomorrow overcame all of my roadblocks and has become one of my favorite movies of all time. Will 2012 have the same affect? Or will it follow the lines of the recent Nicolas Cage blockbuster, Knowing. Knowing was not a bad movie in any way or sense but it was only decent. It will never climb its way into my all time favorites, or the ones I watch once a year or so.

I have very high expectations for 2012 because I think it has a chance to have the right amount, of plot and action. Which forever seems to be the tug of war that directors struggle to find the right compromise on. It also has a couple of good actors for the two leads, John Cusack and Amanda Peet. A strong supporting cast includes Danny Glover, Woody Harrelson, and Oliver Platt. 2012 was directed by Roland Emmerich; who happens to be the same guy that brought us Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. I’m having faith that this movie will follow the path of those and not of another movie Emmerich directed, 10,000 B.C.

Could You Imagine Will Ferrell or John C. Reilly Being Your Step Brother?

I imagine most of you said that would be awesome. That wasn't quite the reaction we get from Will and John's characters in this movie and who can blame them. It means having to share the spotlight. Step Brothers is a 2008 film scribed by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. They had teamed up in the past on Anchorman and one of my favorite Will Ferrell movies, Talladega Nights.

The movie's plot is as simple as they come. Brennen Huff (Ferrell) is an unemployed 39 year old that still lives at home with his mother and loves every minute of living like he is 16 on a permanent summer vacation. Dale Doback (Reilly) is an unemployed 40 year old still mooching off his doctor father. Their parents fall in love and Brennen and Dale become stepbrothers. Neither of them is even close to okay with this idea and start off mortal enemies. Which of course, they later overcome to become best friends.

Now I love slapstick comedies but even those have to have some plot to them to keep me intrigued and as one can tell from that description there isn't much here to work with. However, I thought the movie was pretty good. Why this change in attitude? Although the plot lacks most of the slapstick humor hits squarely on the funny bone. Dale stays at home because he dropped out of college to join the family business. His dad is a doctor! My favorite quote of the movie has to be "right now,I don't want to kick you in the head quite as much.” After all this talk of Ferrell and Reilly I would feel I wronged her if I didn't mention Mary Steenburgen, the actress that played the mother, Nancy Huff. The second the movie started I was like there is no way she looks old enough to play a mother of a 39 year old. Well something to keep in mind while watching this film is Steenburgen was 45 years old when this movie filmed. I couldn't believe she was over 45.

I should warn everybody that this movie has an absolutely ridiculous amount of swearing in it and it has Will Ferrell who we all know doesn't like to keep his clothes on. Not that he would do anything sick like rub his testacles on a drum set or anything. Will Ferrell fans will love it and of course his haters will want to poke their eyes out. Overall, I would give this movie a 7 out of 10.