Bad movie, worse implication.

I saw a bad movie last week. A really profoundly bad movie, all the way around. It's called "2012", and it's an end-of-times kind of movie about a massive solar flare that threatens to end life on earth: scientists determine that neutrinos released during the flare have "mutated into microwaves" which are heating the earth's molten core, which in turn destabilizes the earth's crust and (through gratuitously applied CGI) cause all kinds of mayhem for mankind, including huge sinkholes, big earthquakes and massive tsunamis that threaten to engulf our land masses for extended periods.

The movie begins with our scientist heros making the discovery and reporting it dutifully to some bigshots in Washington DC who immediately escalate the news to the President. At this point, a kind of alert goes out to the world's rich and powerful who all immediately begin vying for seats on one of a handful of "arcs" that have been built for just such an occasion. The expected struggles regarding the morality of such a system, as well as the desperate dealings of those trying to get onto the arcs, play out against the over-the-top CGI renditions of the end of the world.

At the beginning of the movie, I found it hard to suspend disbelief because the science was so ridiculous. I won't bother going over it all, but like many movies predicated on something sciency-sounding, it was painful to listen to.

In the end though, I found it even more unbelievable that politicians would not only listen to scientists about urgent issues facing humanity, but that they would actually act on the information.

Is that cynical? Or perhaps a reflection of reality?