We’re only in the 4th Q of ‘09 and I’ve seen 3 different movie trailers for the 2012 “end of the world” scenario.  How many will there be AND will any one of them be good? 

(The Day After Tomorrow sucked big time, by the way:)

someone page Ken, he might know—and have to watch them.

You’ve got to get into the spirit of the thing. This is the only time there’s ever been a 2012, and the only time there will ever be one (at least using the Western calendar). It’s a novelty, like Y2K, and if you want to cash in on the excitement, you’ve really only got the one chance. I expect at least two dozen low-budget horror flicks to come out about the subject between now and Dec. 31, 2011, and maybe two or three more big budget ones.

2012 Isn’t The End Of The World, Mayans Insist:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113714011&ft=1&f=100

“It’s a special anniversary of creation,” said David Stuart, a
specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin.
“The Maya never said the world is going to end, they never said
anything bad would happen necessarily,... they’re just recording this
future anniversary on Monument Six.” Bernal suggests that
apocalypse is “a very Western, Christian” concept projected onto the
Maya, perhaps because Western myths are “exhausted.”

Are there really 3 different movies?

I know people have been talking about that one 2012 movie, with the ads that look like another michael bay cgi orgy of destruction*, but are there really more?

Also, end-of-time was a great Tom Robbins character. That was “fierce Invalids”

*

As far as I know, there’s only one (though it probably has three trailers) and it comes from the bastion of stupidity Roland Emmerich, who gave us 10,000 BC and, yes, The Day After Tomorrow. I am certain this will be in keeping with his previous output.

JBo - 13 October 2009 12:32 PM

...Western myths are “exhausted.”

I never knew fairy tales could get tired.

mat catastrophe - 13 October 2009 04:51 PM

JBo - 13 October 2009 12:32 PM

...Western myths are “exhausted.”

I never knew fairy tales could get tired.

Agreed.

Bernal suggests that
apocalypse is “a very Western, Christian” concept projected onto the
Maya, perhaps because Western myths are “exhausted.”

But that’s the thing. it’s still a typical ‘apocalypse’ tale. although i’m not entirely sure that’s an exclusively ‘a western christian’ thing.

anyway, it doesnt seem the movie has much connection to anything the american pop-mayan 2012 jose argueles sort of interdimmensional traveler sorto f stuff, but we’ll have to wait and see.

It’s a Roland Emmerich picture. We’re talking massive property damage and a stupid plot. Don’t be expecting anything else.

Ken: Thanks for the expertise!  I swear I’ve seen more than one- maybe it was one, unmemorable trailer:) 

Also (I’m ashamed to have seen this movie) Wasn’t it the best when Quaid decided to walk from DC to NYC to find his son in the worst storm ever?!!  I’m surprised that movie didn’t win all sorts of oscars…  especially for the evil, escapee, wolves out for blood!

pfff - 13 October 2009 01:59 PM

Are there really 3 different movies?

I know people have been talking about that one 2012 movie, with the ads that look like another michael bay cgi orgy of destruction*, but are there really more?

Also, end-of-time was a great Tom Robbins character. That was “fierce Invalids”

*

I REALLY think there are! (3) Like, I said, I could be wrong but they are coming and Hollywood doesn’t exactly hear another studio is doing it and not do it… ya know? 

PS Jitterbug Perfume is a fantastic book, have you read it? (just an assumption from the Tom Robbins)

JBo:  I never said I thought the world was going to end or anything about Mayan/Western culture.  Please don’t assume anything about my knowledge of the subject, you’ll most likely be wrong.  I don’t need a lesson.  I was simply asking about movies coming out that use the theme.  That’s all!:)

What’s weird is this ..of all the end of the world mind sets..this one seems to have more believers and more validity..I saw a show on PBS last night where the folks who have been studying the West Antarctic Ice Sheet ..” Most of it could melt off with in the next decade” ..some British scientist said..

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/warnings/waterworld/

Now that means the water levels could rise as much as 20 feet..No body really knows.. nobody agrees…and those that do are keeping quiet so as to not freak the world out and turn the whole planet into some kind of hedonistic zombie paradise..  I have a feeling we really could see some real life 2012 end of the world action…I’m sure we’ll survive ..but things could definitely get sci fi weird…

richey - 15 October 2009 10:55 AM

What’s weird is this ..of all the end of the world mind sets..this one seems to have more believers and more validity..I saw a show on PBS last night where the folks who have been studying the West Antarctic Ice Sheet ..” Most of it could melt off with in the next decade” ..some British scientist said..

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/warnings/waterworld/

Now that means the water levels could rise as much as 20 feet..No body really knows.. nobody agrees…and those that do are keeping quiet so as to not freak the world out and turn the whole planet into some kind of hedonistic zombie paradise..  I have a feeling we really could see some real life 2012 end of the world action…I’m sure we’ll survive ..but things could definitely get sci fi weird…

My husband (studying geology) freaked me out by telling me that the Atlantic plate is about to shift and we’re going to be floating back to Africa!  Then he said….  By “about” he meant over the next 25-50,000 years. 

He always gets me with that one:)

That doesn’t matter ultimately, because the sun is “about” to grow larger and incinerate the earth anyway.