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MOVIE REVIEW: 2012 (2009)

The movie reviewed here is definitely NOT for children, and probably not for most other people either.

2012
2012
  • GENRE: Action, Science Fiction Disaster
  • ACTORS: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, Woody Harrelson, Chin Han, Patrick Bauchau, Thomas McCarthy
  • RATING: PG-13
  • PARENTAL NOTE: I believe the movie makers think this movie is suitable for older children. I do not. Limited bad language. Extreme violence, though individuals are not shown being killed, except at a distance. Movie portrays mass killing.
  • INTENDED AUDIENCE: Intended for older teens and adults. Many people will be put off by depiction of mass killings.
  • GENERAL PLOT: (No spoilers) This film shows the full power of the Sun1 unleashed against the planet Earth. Guess which one wins. Oh, and the human race is inconveniently caught in the middle of this cosmic battle of Biblical proportions. All of this was supposedly predicted a few centuries back in the Mayan calendar.

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  1. More precisely, a rare alignment of the Sun and the rest of the solar system ↩
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UF Students Get Serious with Anti-Zombie Training

ACTUAL TRAINING VIDEO for the inevitable battle: zombies vs. humans

OK. As suggested by a blOg reader, this is a follow up for the April 8th post about “Dancing zombies documented at University of Florida!” First, let me say that we did things differently when I was a student at UF and–though I hesitate to state the obvious–this was a few years back. In particular, we wasted what precious free time we had doing things like watching horror movies at the midnight movies or drinking beer. Frankly, it never occurred to me that I ought to be training for what many people see as the inevitable collapse of human civilization at the filthy hands of a murderous zombie hoard. The scenes shown in this video are from an actual training exercise. No real zombies are shown. No zombies were killed or injured in the making of this video. Continue reading “UF Students Get Serious with Anti-Zombie Training”

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