Enjoy disaster movie for free

Nov 5 2009 by Alistair Watson, West Lothian Courier

IT has been a while since the Earth was under threat from some apocalyptic disaster.

A few years ago the cinema was packed with end-of-world flicks such as Deep Impact, Armageddon and The Day After Tomorrow.

And the genre is being spectacularly revisited in 2012 the latest blockbuster to hit the screens at Livingston’s Vue Cinemas.

And readers are today being given a chance to view the film for free.

The film tells the story of a world facing up to the fact that life will end on December 21, 2012 as predicted in the ancient Mayan calendar and now confirmed by scientists as fact.

But as the fateful date looms ever closer and tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and typhoons begin to cause devastating destruction, desperate efforts are made across the world to try to prevent or prepare for what is now becoming the inevitable disaster.

Jackson Curtis (played by John Cusack), a divorced writer and researcher trying to survive the cataclysm with his daughter, draws on his knowledge of ancient writings to keep them and others who have managed to survive alive.

Directed by Roland Emmerich, the man behind Independence Day, the film is sure to be a smash at the box office when it opens.

2012 is released on Friday, November 13 and has been given a 12A certificate.

The Courier, in conjunction with Vue Cinemas in Livingston, are offering readers the chance to see this blockbuster in our latest competition.

One lucky reader will win a pair of tickets to see this blockbuster of a film by answering this simple question:

Who is the famous director of 2012?

Send your answer on a postcard with your name, address and daytime telephone number to: 2012 Movie Competition, West Lothian Courier, 20/22 King Street, Bathgate, EH48 1AX.

Your entry should arrive at the Courier office no later than Wednesday, November 11, 2009.

The usual S&UN competition rules will apply for the contest.

To book tickets for the Vue Cinema, which is located at the Livingston Designer Outlet, contact the ticket box office on 08712 240 240.

All entrants are asked to note that winning tickets are only for the film showing stated and must be claimed in person at Vue Cinema, Livingston, within seven days of notification of the prize.

SMASH HIT: the end of the world is nigh in 2012 and now readers of the Courier are being given the chance to see the film at the Vue Cinemas in LIvingston .