Whilst randomly strolling the YouTubes, Boyfriend and I decided it needed to be a Disaster Movie Night. OK, I asked. Some chicks like true crime, I like seeing the various ways the world ends. What can ya do?
We went for Deep Impact, which I'm pretty sure I've seen once, but years ago and 2012, which was new to me. Tommy Lee Jones and John Cusack. Those are good choices if you don't feel like asking "Hey, you wanna watch The Rock fly around in a helicopter saving his family in San Andreas? Again?"...
Tommy Lee Jones was full on Two Face Country Boy in his usual Tommy Lee Jones style. But I've got questions. How are concrete barriers gonna stop lava? How did that bus not go splode-y? Why would a geologist straddle a crack in the ground when they know 7 fucking people baked to death in that tunnel? Why, oh, why does Germany just happen to have a news crew in LA back in the day when we were waaaaaaay less global and there aren't any German news channels in LA?
But..... You know.... Logic rarely enters some movies and disbelief is king. Fun flick. Lots of liquid hot magma and it kind of made me regret that of all the years I spent in LA, I only set out to go to the tar pits once and then when I got lost attempting it, I never bothered to try again..
Now onto Cusack. I love Cusack. And this flick came with bonus Osric Chau. Monk Osric Chau, even. From prophet to Sam Winchester to Monk. Makes sense.
2012 came before 2012. And before 2020. And it was so hard to hear the line that 400,000 people would be saved when in this past year, that number represents the bulk of the number of people we lost in this country alone. I can't wrap my head around that math. It's hard. And sometimes real life takes me entirely too far out of a movie.
But I got back in. It helps that Oliver Platt pulled off giant douche so well. The action is great, hell, the limo driving scene in the beginning was worth the entire watch.
Disaster movies are weird. Like, I know I shouldn't want to watch the world come to an end in new and exciting ways, but I do. Perhaps living through more than one "omg we're so fucked" moment in my lifetime makes me need to see the moments we haven't had to face. Maybe I just like the giant explosions. Who knows. But for whatever reason, I'm pretty happy I made the random "hey you wanna watch a disaster movie" comment.
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