With all the mixed reviews I am seeing for 2012, I am still surprised to see the $225Million it has taken in at the boxoffice worldwide this weekend ($65m US).
Perhaps the puzzling legend of the actual end of the world made people curious enough to take it in?
The Movie Fanatic breaks it down:
Twitter users rate it at 69%, while IMDb users have given the movie a weighted average vote of 6.7 / 10. Almost identical right? Rotten Tomatoes, on the other hand, shows a 39% rating, with the following concensus: Roland Emmerich’s 2012 provides plenty of visual thrills, but lacks a strong enough script to support its massive scope and inflated length.
But with such a wide spread of ratings compared to its impressive boxoffice take on its first weekend (clearing its estimated $200m budget) I am very curious to see who went to see this and how they liked it.
There is a lot of comments on this site that are bashing the film, lessening the anticipation of the movie for those readers. Yet a lot of people on my Twitter and Facebook who went to see it this weekend were mostly impressed with it complaining only about its near 3 hour run time (including trailers).
Did you see 2012 this weekend? Did you like it? Was it brainless visual eyecandy fun?
