Carl Anheuser was RIGHT
I wanna focus on Carl Anheuser for a moment. Its clear from the start that they wanna make him the jerk of the movie... They paint him that way several times throughout the film. However, when the black scientist and the presidents daughter start giving him grief about the passengers of the boats and Carl Anheuser stops and says "so what, life's not fair?" and then he tells them they can give up their seats to Chinese workers if they want. Does that happen? HELL NO! haha
Lets inject some real life here, shall we? We are a selfish and child like race and if this were really happening there would have been blood in the streets. As for the cargo door on the ark being jammed open, well, in real life I highly doubt they would have cleared the obstruction in that gearing mechanism -the ship would have flooded and everyone would've died. Again, Carl Anheuser was RIGHT! Only because it was a movie did the people survive at all. Then again in real life how many times would Cusack and company have 'bought the farm' before they got to China? As I was watching this I wasn't rooting for the scientist and his little guilt speech. I was looking at the reality of this situation and opening that door was suicide! They didn't have enough time to get all those people in there and secured before those waves hit.
We went from a race of billions to probably less than 50,000 in just a few days time. Preserving what was left of us was paramount. Then again, considering all the rich people on board, I would LOVE to see their lives after they landed in Africa. haha To see Queen Elizabeth digging a ditch for her new outhouse behind the 2 room shack she calls home would probably be poetic justice to most Britain's.
R E S I S T A N C E IS F U T I L E !