When you dont know where to start, fall back on reality by consensus.
Mainstream Mayanist scholars argue that the idea that the Long Count calendar ends in 2012 misrepresents Maya history. To the modern Maya, 2012 is largely irrelevant, and classic Maya sources on the subject are scarce and contradictory, suggesting that there was little if any universal agreement among them about what, if anything, the date might mean.
Certain predictions about how the world could end in 2012 (alignment with a black hole, collision with a rogue planet, polar shifts) have been rejected as pseudoscience by the scientific community.
And laughed at by much of the public at large. But start babbling about fantasy fiction from Revelations, and see just how irrational otherwise sane people can get.
Mayan elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun and Mexican archaeologist Guillermo Bernal both note that apocalypse is a Western concept that has little or nothing to do with Mayan beliefs. Bernal believes that such ideas have been foisted on the Maya by Westerners because their own myths are exhausted.
*LOL*.
i have such a fondness for reclusive, justifiably-irritated pagans.
Mayan archaeologist Jose Huchm complains that If I went to some Mayan-speaking communities and asked people what is going to happen in 2012, they wouldnt have any idea. That the world is going to end? They wouldnt believe you. We have real concerns these days, like rain.
Because unlike fundamentalist christians, they have common sense, and dont dictate policy decisions of everyday life out of a fairy tale book.
And now those relative few get the hot light treatment thanks to a bad popcorn movie. One which the director made a careful choice to destroy, well, almost everything.
In his previous movies, Emmerich has destroyed many landmark buildings. The Empire State Building in Independence Day, The Chrysler Building and Madison Square Gardens in Godzilla and The Hollywood Sign and The Capitol Records building in The Day After Tomorrow. In 2012, he destroyed The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, St. Peters Basilica in the Vatican, Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, the Argentine Congress building in Buenos Aires, the Washington Monument and The White House.
However he refused to destroy the Kaaba, the Islamic holy site, for fear of fatwa by Islamic extremists.
Chickenshit.
id make a let freedom ring joke, but the nationalities are wrong.
And how bad is this movie?
To fully understand what went wrong here we have to go back 11 years to the summer of 1998.
One film chronicled the end of the world and the race to save our species from extinction. DEEP IMPACT was a science fiction drama about coming to grips with our own fragile nature and our inability to save ourselves.
The other movie, ARMAGEDDON, was distinctly more Merican, in which the USAs best and brightest realize the only way to save the Earth is to strap a rocket to the
ass of a bunch of surly, drunken rednecks and blast them into space with a shit ton of nookular weapons so they can blow that shit up real good.
Watching Roland Emmerich try to remake DEEP IMPACT is kind of like watching a monkey try to
fuck a football. He just cant figure it out. And fumble and twist and turn though he might, the end result is always the same, with everyone involved leaving frustrated and ultimately disappointed. Its not a movie, its the proof of concept for a shitty videogame destined for the $14.99 shelf. There is nothing remotely movie-like about this film except that it was projected on a very large screen and no one was handed a controller.
It is a rapid fire staccato of carnage that you become completely inured to within the first five minutes of it happening. He even goes so far as to steal a few
Titanic gags, trying to make amusing light of the terrible things happening to people. You might giggle when someone plummets from a building to their death. But thats the extent of your emotional attachment.
Seriously, by the third time John Cusack tries to outrun something youve seen pretty much everything this movie has to offer.
Sometimes, pure, unbridled negativity in a movie review is exactly whats called for. Because if youve wasted your money on it, the only satisfaction you have left is, in the words of one poster, reading a review that puts its foot in the movies ass.
And, *sigh*.
Because my boyfriend and i will be in line tomorrow to see this orgiastic, monolithic-budgeted pile of a celluloid train wreck, like good and obedient little mouth-breathers.
Cause after all, the splosions an such.
If im lucky, itll disorient and detach me from my own life just long enough to not know whats going on in the real world. At least for a bladder-bursting 2 hours and 40 minutes.
i already spend a lot of time asking what in the hell is going on in my life.
At least for once itll be directed at something harmless.
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