Hey, you like to see shit blow up? Hundreds of thousand of people dying horrible tragic deaths? Bodies flying across the movie screen on fire while Tommy Lee Jones does something heroic to try and stop it? Well I know I do. But alas the disaster movie genre will soon be no more. Unlike the countless times the Empire State building has been blown up in films like “Independence Day” and “Deep Impact”, the genre of disaster movies will not be standing for next summers wave. Roland Emmerich will kill it dead. He’s the guy responsible for “The Day After Tomorrow”, “10,000 B.C.” “Godzilla” and “Independence Day”. Oh yeah, and “Stargate”, not a disaster movie, but awesome none the less.

We’ve all seen disaster movies come and go through the years. Starting in 1970’s with classics like “Airport”, “Earthquake” and “The Towering Inferno”. I love me some Charlton Heston. In the 1980’s there weren’t too many new ones though, all the ideas that Hollywood had were used up in the previous decade and the technology wasn’t good enough to really expand on the genre. Fast forward to the mid 90’s. Now enter CGI, and we get and a revival of summer blockbusters where shit blows up and Will Smith says something witty and millions of white folk laugh at his big ‘ol ears Asteroids get covered with “Armageddon” and “Deep Impact”, Alien destruction with “War of The Worlds” “Independence Day” and “The Day The Earth Stood Still”. But there will always be alien invader movies like “Signs” and “The Invasion”, so no worries there. “Volcano” and “Dante’s Peak” deal with, well volcanoes. Let us not forget “Twister”,and “The Day after Tomorrow”. We’ve even got plants attacking us in “The Happening” It seems everything is covered.

So this December the grandaddy of all blow ‘em up movies will be unleashed upon the world. 2012 will be using the well known myth that on December 21st, 2012 the end of the world will be upon us. But other theories it may include are, a pole shift, the “return” of Planet X or the Sun’s sinister counterpart Nemesis, a galactic, planetary, or other celestial alignment, global warming, global cooling, a massive solar flare, a new ice age, and so on. Sweet I hope John Cusack kicks all those reptilian humanoid asses! But anyway, complete and total destruction of the Earth. I’m talking entire cities falling into the ocean type destruction. There will be no Bruce Willis saving us from this clusterfuck. So not only will 2012 utterly annihilate the planet and every Flavor of Love watching, Facebook posting fucktard out there, but the disaster movie genre as well. What the hell kind of movie is going to top it? Basically 2012 took every disaster possible, put it in a fax machine, sent it to Roland Emmerich and said, ok go! But make sure Adam Lambert can sing a song about it so we can make a music video. I mean nothing will be able to come out after this. In era where we’re over saturated with overproduced loud music, fast moving graphics in advertising and an overall narrative overload from millions of YouTube videos and Facebook posts, we constantly need more to be entertained. Well maybe 2012 will be a good thing. After most of us got sick of Transformers after the sequel had nothing but loud noises and CGI, 2012 may finish off our senses once and for all. Maybe America will be fed up with the summer disaster blockbuster and want a drastic change like, MORE FUCKING STORY!! We’re already seeing smarter “end of the world” movies starting with “Children of Men” and more recently “District 9″ and Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”. As much of a fan of stuff blowing up as one can be, there is a limit and I think 2012 will reach it. Well at least until they do it all over again in 3-D. Yes, I can’t wait! No, I mean damn, here we go again…