2012

Watching the movie 2012 really reminded me of the recent topics we have been discussing in class. First and foremost I though the movie was ridiculous, the movie resembled “The Race to Witch Mountain.” Yes, some parts of the movie was moving and interesting, however I feel like the movie was just…bad, and not at all like everyone was raving it to be. The problem: the earth was receiving great amounts of isolation, the most ever in recorded history and somehow it caused the core of the earth to overheat. Midway through the movie the earth starts cracking and climatic spurts included magma bursting through the ground and melting buildings. The craziest part was fiery meatballs erupting from a volcano, also known as tephra, as we discussed in class. If anything, this course has given me enough surface knowledge to realize the absurdness of this movie. The ending was great tidal waves, not because the arctic was melting like you would think as the first sign of a warming earth, but because of the heat currents from the inside of the earth that caused earthquakes and movement of the plates. And the funniest part was how L.A sunk into the ocean, somehow the San Andres fault split. Crazy right??