2012: Every Beginning has an End

I was watching the movie 2012 the other day and I couldn't help but be a little bemused. While on the one hand I was on the edge of my seat watching the disasters that are more than likely to be the fate of our earth, on the other hand I couldn't help but snort at the very 'invincible' fate of the hero, John Cusack, in the movie. I mean we all know the hero and the heroine simply have to survive till the very end for lord knows what reason, but do you really have to stick to the same routine even when displaying such a serious, rational, futuristic movie? It is a complete spoiler to the plot, not to mention dryly predictable.
The hero falls in and climbs out of a lava spitting pit, runs faster than the cracking earth, can hold breath under water for apparently longer than 5 minutes, jumps through a fast closing huge steel trap door, all in a span of a few of hours and of course comes out spot free.
If you want to keep him alive at least let him lose a leg for goodness sake! Let it seem realistic to the extent that we can perceive that all in all in such situations our presence of mind and luck both count just as much.
The reason movie plots have these very foreseeable characters and story line is simple. The audience needs to have at least one character that they can relate to, one who survives right till the end (even as the rest of the cast keeps reducing) one that gives hope to all those watching that 'I can be the hero too', and 'I too shall survive'. And the character not only needs to survive but also needs to survive happily, with family and kids and romance.
Ahh the romance, the one need that is somehow the first and foremost to be fulfilled. Therefore the equation of the hero and heroine.
Now while such kind of a psychological draw to the audience is understandably needed for a film maker, why would you want to mix it in a factual\scientific based movie? Where there is apparent description of reality? Keep it realistic then, harshly realistic. When you show that more than half the world is demolishing, how can you show a hero who somehow manages to survive all odds? Why give false hope or some ridiculous connecting point to people, when the actual purpose of the movie was to show them the truth that each of us probably do not want to accept.. The truth that we are destroying the earth bit by bit and it is going to come and bite us in our behinds sooner or later..
In reality today, repercussions seem to have already begun with the tsunami and earthquakes of Japan, the death of thousands. The aftershocks expected to keep coming for years to come. The added crisis of radiation leaks. The prediction of quakes in Nepal and other nations. Island nations expected to drown and disappear in one decade tops.
So, do we really have hope? I honestly think not, because we aren't the exceptions, we are all part of the majority. A majority, if not the entirety, that will be destroyed, if and when the earth comes to an end.
Accept that fact and live today for there seriously just may not be a tomorrow. The end is not what must be feared or run from, the end is what follows any beginning.
So let's respect life first because it's right here in our hands, and we shall face the end when it comes.

Until then do not waste a single moment in regret...