2012 (2009)
Another movie that got pretty much everything wrong: Roland Emmerich’s 2012. Made in 2009, it predicted that within three years the world would come to a cartoonishly catastrophic end and that John Cusack would somehow be one of the only people to survive. In the film, a solar flare unnaturally heats the Earth’s core, leading to an assortment of ecological calamities—including catastrophic flooding, earthquakes, and asteroids for some reason. A thinly veiled parable about climate change, the film does its best to be a thinking man’s action movie, even though it’s really just an excuse to watch shit explode.
While weather-related disaster has been predicted for years, it didn’t cause the world to end in 2012. Yet. We should be worried about climate change. I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that Emmerich’s other disaster pic Moonfall—where the moon falls out of the sky—is also not an accurate reflection of things to come.
