2012 The Movie and 2012 Hype.

[venomx]

I can't wait for this, It really looks amazing! What do you think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyCCd8MCcZY
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OMG! I dont like the looks of that!!! below ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKbEI8pDz0A&feature=related
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I just hope this doesn't happen for real though! ...

Does the Maya calendar really predict an apocalypse or is this just hype like the "y2k bug"?

What's your opinion about the upcoming movie? What's your opinion about the 2012 hype?

[3mnkids]

I think it looks amazing. Im not buying the 2012 hype, IMO its crazy nonsense.

[Jim H]

God damn I'm sick of apocalypse crap.  People have been saying the world would end basically every year of my entire life.  ENOUGH.




The movie looks like crap too.

[venomx]

I don't believe this will happen for real in our lifetime, but I still want to see the movie.

I'm sure apocalypse predictions date back to the beginning of time. It's always something. But it is a sad fact that Earth won't be here forever. So I guess a real apocalypse must happen someday/somehow, but probably not in our lifetime.

Our sun's supernova perhaps? ... Yeah, like that really cheered me up. :(

But I do agree with you Jim, I don't like hearing our world is coming to end, it's hard enof right? I just wanted to know what others think about the 2012 hype and the movie ...

[SkullBat308]

Movie looks good(sucker for a disaster pic), but the 2012, end of the world stuff is just mystical, pseudo-science woohaa.

[peter johnson]

No!!  No!! Nooooohhh .. It's totally Trueeeeee!!!! . . .

Only because I genuinely ejoy crap Apocalyse films . .. .

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[Caronte]

Why does Rolan Emmerich like destroy the world so much?? godzilla, the day after tomorrow, independence day...I think the movie will be only FX, but I will probably see it. The 2012 "apocalypse" is ANOTHER non-sense prophecy.

[GrindcoreManiac]

i think the hype for this movie is a bit ridiculous and it's gonna turn out to suck probably. kinda like how they hyped the day after tomorrow and the new king kong. they both ended up turning out disappointing and kinda dumb.

[Jack]

I used to like those melodramatic disaster movies from the '70s, but the new ones don't do anything at all for me.  Usually I would LIKE to see the characters die, and I really think I've seen enough CGI to last me a lifetime at this point. 

[Monster Jungle X-Ray]

The odds of any us actually living in the "end times" as predicted by many religions, or ancient civilizations while possible is highly unlikely. People went berzerk in the year 999 thinking the world was going to end, this is nothing new. On May 5th 2000 there was a major planetary alignment that some thought would send the Earth into a pole shift. Of course this did not occur, and many margaritas were consumed on that day.

South American cultures in particular believe the world ran in cycles of time, and the Aztecs sacrificed people to the gods to prevent the end of the epoch they lived in from occurring. The other end of the spectrum is the Mayan calender running out does mark a change in the earth, but not of an apocalyptic sort. The New Age of Aquarius, hippies and crystals for everyone. 

As for the movie... the last Roland Emmerich film I saw in the theater was Godzilla, and I still have not forgotten, or forgiven him for that blight on celluloid.

[kakihara]

december 21, 2012. the more that you look into the facts, the more interesting (or scary) it becomes. Ill try not to go into so much detail on this one; its amazing how accurate the mayan calender is, more accurate than our own, how can a bunch of primitives create something like that, let alone even understand it. its also strange how it goes on for a few thousand years and just stops. though there will be some kind of super planetary allignment, from what ive read, everything is supposed to allign in our end of the galaxy. its never happened as long as humans have been on the earth.  Its got alot of scientists nervouse about what will happen, but well see. Im curious myself, weve got about 3 years to do some living.

[Rev. Powell]

The other end of the spectrum is the Mayan calender running out does mark a change in the earth, but not of an apocalyptic sort. The New Age of Aquarius, hippies and crystals for everyone. 

Great, where am I going to store my very own hippie?

[Fausto]

The other end of the spectrum is the Mayan calender running out does mark a change in the earth, but not of an apocalyptic sort. The New Age of Aquarius, hippies and crystals for everyone. 

Great, where am I going to store my very own hippie?

Just stick 'em in the closet with some pot, he'll be fine.

[venomx]

You know what makes me nervous? Pole shift hypothesis!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_shift_hypothesis

[Saucerman]

I recently took a Mesoamerican history class taught by a professor who'd specialized his career into study of the Mayans. 

The Mayans had a pretty good understanding of astronomy, and were hardly "a bunch of primitives." 

The Mayan Calendar Stone in question marks the end of the current Bak'tun, or set of thirteen K'tuns, each K'tun being a 52 year cycle.  When this Bak'tun ends...it starts over! Look at one of our calendars -- does the world end on December 31st? It's the same principle.