Yes.
In more ways than one.
Very nice of that pyroclastic flow that was so speedily chasing the car down the mountain to wait twiddling its thumbs for the predictable rescue scene to take place before resuming at the same pace a minute later....
Also, the courteous nature of all the other million or so hazards that should have killed the main characters over and over in their avoidance of whatever car/plane they so happened to be in...
Jesus, that family shouldnt have even made it out of their street, let alone onto the plane and all the subsequent escapes.
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Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Yep that was ridiculous. Even by summer blockbuster standards.
I've not seen 2012 yet, but just from watching TVspots and trailers i can see that it's going to suffer heavily from "main character exclusion" syndrome. Same as every other "Disaster Movie" with a main character and their family, where they just so happen to survive every fate that has befallen the rest of the planet because "they just can" suggesting some superhuman reaction to forthcoming events.
Then, when the "world ending" decides to slow down for 2minutes, the main character finds their family and the world is suddenly saved. The main film i'm sodomizing here is "The Day After Tomorrow" - though they could've shortened it to, "Not Monday, Wednesday" - mainly because it seemed "relatively" believable (i use relatively extremely loosely in this context). Extreme weather poles, polar shift, electromagnetic storms and general disaster...then the ending, "My son is alive, THE WORLD IS SAVED" America is the only superpower that is able to address the entire world for some bizarre reason - even though according to the fictional-facts layed down throughout the film the vast majority of USA northen and mid-states would've been wiped out due to extreme weather - the President is giving a speech to the world, and the weather dies down...BOLLOCKS.