12 Facts About 2012

Gordon Terry

2012 looks like a HUGE a waste of time and money (to me) . . .
and that's a fact.

Nov 2 - 07:40 AM

Max Chittock

2012. Oh, 2012. 2012, 2012, 2012. I've seen it advertised everywhere, and the special effects, epic song and horrible rip-offs are just forcing me to see it, no matter how wrong and anti-Hollywood it will be...

I think the 2012 hype is damaging everyone's brains, and hopefully I'll be a survivor of the mental retardation plague...

Nov 2 - 07:52 AM

Bob Cool Guy

Fact #13: It sucks

Nov 2 - 08:06 AM

william thresher

"German" accent? Isn't Arnold Austrian?

Nov 2 - 08:11 AM

Martha Boatright

"no one disputes the fact that their sophisticated 'Long Count' calendar comes to a crashing halt on December 21, 2012."

I dispute it. Almost every Mayanist in the world disputes it. The Long Count measures time from the supposed start of the world; what comes to an end in December of 2012 is the 12th bak'tun, a period of a little under 400 years. It's more like an odometer rolling around than an end. Mayan monuments list dates for times later than 2012. The Mayan number system is based on 20, so we won't "run out" of bak'tuns for more than a thousand years - and some Mayan monuments use an even larger measurement, a pik'tun, so there are potentially dates even further in the future.

The whole end of the world scenario is a Western, Christian idea grafted onto a Mayan cosmology. What's more, the ties to "quetzalcoatl" and a shift in the earth's crust (major earthquakes) are actually related to the AZTECS, not the Mayans - and the Aztecs anticipated the world ending already. Don't spread this stupid misinformation any further than it already has been. The Mayans DID NOT believe the world would end in 2012.

Nov 2 - 08:16 AM

Paul Manzione

"That's the problem with our world. If you would destroy Mecca, I would have a fatwa on my head. So we stayed away from it."

But killing Christians is OK because we won't fly planes into buildings killing thousands of civilians.

So cowardly Roland...screw the radical muslims...I say we show Mecca being overrun by pigs.

Nov 2 - 08:29 AM

Johan Dogh

Does anyone really care about the "facts" concerning the Mayan calendar? It's a disaster flick. The only thing you really need for a good disaster flick is a just "premise" about something bad and then let the whole thing unfold an enjoy the mayhem.

What if..
A high rise caught fire = Towering Inferno
The pilot/co-pilot were incapacitated = Airport
Global warming caused an ice age = Day After Tomorrow
Nuclear testing created a large lizard = Godzilla

So who cares if there is a calendar, a prophecy, the actual biological means of radiation making lizards grow or whether global warming is real. All we want is to see arrogant modern man beat by something he can't control. Just to bring him down a few notches right? So I say destroy a lot of stuff and kill lots of people in interesting ways and you'll have a winner. Oh and I suppose a plot and some dialog would good too. :)

Nov 2 - 08:37 AM

Andrew Whitefield

Believing that the world will end in 2012 has been a preposterous creation in western civilization. As pointed out before, the calendar just ends on that date it doesn't mean the Mayans predicted the end of the world. The next ring of dates either was not made or was destroyed and lost in history.

All of the hype and promotion around this film just makes me think its going to be really awful. Emmerich hasn't made a good film since The Patriot.

Nov 2 - 08:55 AM

Chris Cavalli

So where do we go from here? He's apparently destroying the entire planet in this one. I suppose his next movie will involve all of the plantes in our solar system spinning out of orbit and colliding all at once creating a space cloud so big it extinguishes the sun. Will there be any survivors? Was it Dick Cheney's fault again? Will Algore steal scenes from that movie and put them in his next movie and pretend they're actually real footage?

Nov 2 - 09:00 AM

Josh McCrohan

This movie looks like complete and utter crap. Godzilla anyone? Because that's all I can think of when I watch the trailer for this film.

As for the real 2012 apocalypse, if the would really does end in 2012, all I can say is it's about damn time, we're long overdue for a global apocalypse.

Nov 2 - 09:11 AM

David Blandino

Actually, I think Gordon's posts are improving. This might be his best.

Nov 2 - 09:18 AM

Tanner Kish

0-10% on the Tomatometer most likely. Will probably be worse than Godzilla.

Nov 2 - 09:37 AM

Jared King

Why would anyone want to see this? Did anyone see the trailer? It looks awful. Maybe so-bad-it's-good awful. But, maybe not.

Nov 2 - 09:45 AM

Joe Utichi

vashfanatic - we absolutely didn't insist that the Mayans predicted the end of the world in this piece. We don't do that in the intro and we don't do it in the quote you'd picked out. If anything I'd argue the piece goes to lengths to dispute the notion that there was an apocalyptic prediction within the calendar, whether or not it goes into academic detail about the circumstances surrounding the movie's concept.

Nov 2 - 09:52 AM

Joe Utichi

Per your information I've changed the line to read, "but their sophisticated 'Long Count' calendar does comes to the end of a cycle on December 21, 2012." Inasmuch as this is a piece about a Hollywood movie, I think that's as much detail as we can reasonably go into.

Nov 2 - 10:05 AM

Greg Guro

Product Placement for this HORRIBLE looking movie should be interesting. . .

Nov 2 - 11:10 AM

jj l

Decisively, no, the Mayans didn't predict the end of the world in 2012. It's all psuedo-science and new age mysticism that perpetuates that notion.

Nov 2 - 11:12 AM

jj l

Even if the Mayans did predict the end of the world, why would anyone trust something so old, from a race that essentially no longer exists? Their world effectively ended a long time ago.

Nov 2 - 11:14 AM

Dave J

2012, Armageddon, Deep Impact, Daylights, The Day After Tomorrow, maybe even Twister, I wonder how many more movies like this are we gonna get!!! Until one of them is not going to make any money!!! This one could do well if this new generation didn't see these other disaster flicks.

Nov 2 - 11:15 AM

Doug Ray

Fact: Another 'disaster' movie has already been in theatres this year.

Fact: Said movie was a huge box office success.

Fact: Said movie was also critical bomb and had no redeeming qualities about it whatsoever.

Fact: This shows Americans are bloody stupid and pay to see **** being blown up and destroyed while lesser known, quality movies flounder.

Nov 2 - 11:25 AM