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An absolute waste of money

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

I laughed so hard during this movie that I had an asthma attack. That's when it hit me the beginning scene of the Mother and Daughter watching The Ring must have ended up on the cutting room floor. Before the reason for the movie even gets near earth Mom and daughter almost die no less than 7 times. Mother nature hits them with everything from lightening storms that cause rock slides and fire to a tornado they hide out from in a house with no windows. How 2 people could have this much bad luck is beyond me but I can see why Dad left to go into space and try to take out the supernova it was prolly safer out there than anywhere near his calamity prone kin. Don't even get me started on the acting, special effects, and lighting. I should have known it was going to be bad when I saw the white lighter guy from charmed as the lead. Bad bad and worse. Only good for a laugh.

Yes, this movie would never win anything, not even a razzie award. Yes the actors will never earn enough (with movies) to own a big house in the hills of Hollywood. Yes the movie is full of clichés (like most movies, even the ones with dozens/hundreds of millions in budget). Yes the special effects are similar to those of a few decades ago. And I could go on but I really think we should cut everyone involved with this movie some slack. I do not know what the budget was but most likely enough to buy (only) a single family home and not a whole town. It must not be easy to make a movie like this with such little budget. I watched the whole movie, I was not biting my nails of with excitement or covering my face with a pillow out of fear but. I wasn't completely bored to death either. I have seen much better but I also have seen movies 'as bad' which had budgets 100x higher. I am sure everyone involved (producers / directors / writers etc.) did their best with what they had (in talent/budget) If this is their best then good for them, I am glad they were able to create this movie which I am sure most are proud of. You can not expect such movies (again the low budget) to be wonderful. Sure some movies with even lower budgets (e.g. The Blair Witch Project) made it big, but hey, there was hardly anything in that movie other then a few scared people, trees, a camera and no light, no special effects ... that was just an original idea. I think Brian Krause can do a lot better, I have seen movies with actors (paid probably 10x the budget of the movie) act worse. Do we always have to have polished diamonds, sometimes the rough ones can shine too.

While the story/subject matter are OK,the execution of the screenplay is just horrible.The acting varies greatly, from as good as the story lets them be, to NEVER MAKE ANOTHER MOVIE AGAIN! The main family members played by Brian Krause, Heather McComb and Najarra Townsend are acted well. There are other characters/actors that are just awful, such as the "Russian" Could it get any more lame? If you go into into it expecting a made for TV movie, you will be OK.To sum it up, I am not sure what they were thinking when they released this movie. It obviously has major issues with both storyline and acting. If they had just replaced a few of the actors, with ones that could, well, act then it would have MUCH better.

Sorry, just saw this despite it apparently coming out in 2009.Okay, my warning said, let me try to explain some of why. The concept is a supernova that happened in the Lyra Constellation (that is crazy in itself, as a constellation is a group of stars that look near each other from our perspective, but in reality are no where near one another -- in other words, a constellation is not a place) and we somehow get two years warning. How? No explanation (a common fault in this movie). Pappa is one of the persons conceiving of the fix to place nukes in orbit and blow them up just before the blast wave comes, thereby creating a magical shield for the planet. Well, if we can get a two year warning, why not? Acting: awful. Science: awful. Accents (actors): really awful. Story: well, most of the story was unexplained within the script. Have you heard of Snappy the Squirrel (Animaniacs)? She had a line that is worth noting here: "Thank you, Mr. Exposition." This story did a lot of telling without ever showing. Don't drop a line to say something you could have shown us.Another thing, if you've heard the term "Hang a lantern on it," this movie is a classic example. They would introduce ridiculous concepts and try to explain them away by saying it was a ridiculous concept (for example, two actors looking for a necklace they couldn't find, and they were looking in kitchen cabinets -- kitchen cabinets?. But that's okay as long as they mention they hid the necklace in an odd place, right?).The script tossed in some timely but silly elements, as well. Terrorists who were completely unexplained as to why they were there. Pappa trying to drive off in a semi-truck, but only going about 100 feet before coming to a dead end (couldn't see that far ahead, dad?). Even the title itself: 2012 appeared only in the title, nowhere else in the script.The wife and daughter were worthless, as well. They were driving from home to the air base where the husband was, and they had to drive about 50 miles, and they COULDN'T GET THERE IN THREE DAYS! At one point, the road was destroyed moments before, and somehow a road crew was able to put a sign up already that said "Road closed." One amazing department of transportation, there.One possible good thing this movie could be used for: a drinking game. Every time the wife sighs, drink a shot. You'd be plastered before the first commercial break. Be forewarned: have several shot glasses for each person, because she doesn't give a lot of recharge time in some instances.The writers did not know science, logic, or how to write a decent conversation. Do not watch this film. My girlfriend and I skimmed through the last portion of the movie, and we still want our time back.