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Nov. 16 2009 - 7:03 pm | 7 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments

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At the end of that movie (which was otherwise great if you like disaster movies, which I do) my friend yells out “What!? The emotional climax of your movie is that a little girl no longer pees herself? Why would you want to send everybody home angry!”

But I don’t think that Huggies ruined the movie any more than the corpse of Danny Glover ruined the movie, or how all of the characters were immune to hypothermia while swimming about in a Tibetan tsunami. By which I mean to say that movies like this are always ruined, but still fun.

What bears further discussion though is what does it say about me (and you) that we spent most of the movie totally agreeing with Oliver Platt? There were various points when I thought “when Platt just shoots Ejiofor in the face, should I cheer, or just nod silently in agreement.”

Elie Mystal

On: 2012: The Year Product Placement Will Destroy All Integrity in Movies


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