Full Cast And Crew Starring: Amanda Peet, Danny Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor, John Cusack Directed by: Roland Emmerich Producer: Roland Emmerich, Larry J. Franco, Harald Kloser Music Director: Harald Kloser Release Date: 12th November 2009 Language: English Genre: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller Local Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing International Banner : Centropolis Entertainment, Farewell Productions, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)
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The 2012 movie is brought to us by master of disaster Roland Emmerich, director of ID4, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow and 10,000 B.C. The preview is trying to sell us on effects awesomeness. Let’s strip away the bulls**t and see it for what it is – a likely sign of the moviepocalypse.
Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. “2012″ is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.
2012: Doomsday is a drama starring Dale Midkiff as Dr. Frank Richards, Cliff De Young as Lloyd, Ami Dolenz as Susan, and Danae Nason as Sarah. Lloyd has discovered the world is about to be subjected to an extreme climate change due to a gravitational pull by a black hole. But in reality
the extreme climate change is an ancient prophecy that is about to be fulfilled. Warning: My movie review contains plot spoilers.
2012: Doomsday is extremely boring. I rented it because I thought it was going to be an action packed natural disaster destruction movie. I guess I should have paid more attention to the box cover because the movie is a Modern Christian retelling of the rapture which isn’t necessarily bad if it wouldn’t have been so boring. I actually like Christian movies. I really enjoyed the Left Behind series but 2012: Doomsday is just so boring and not at all comparable to other great Christian movies.
The movie flips around between three central groups. Dr. Frank Richards has found a golden crucifix that he must use to unlock a room in an ancient temple. His ex-wife accompanies him but dies along the way. Sarah is a missionary in Mexico who escorts a pregnant woman to the temple. She is accompanied by Alex, a photographer, but he dies along the way too. Susan is a paramedic in California who is drawn to the Mexico because of childhood dreams so she travels to Mexico with her mother. Her mother disappears along the way, assumed to be taken the Rapture. Lloyd drives to Mexico to find his daughter Sarah and picks up Susan along the way. So they all meet each other, reach the temple, and accomplish their goal of seeing the pregnant woman’s baby born. The movie never technically says the baby is “Jesus” but it sure implies it. That is my main gripe with the plot. Jesus doesn’t need to be reborn again. He has already been born once and that is enough. Wouldn’t that make the baby the antichrist? I think the writer needs to read Revelations again.
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There is some 2012 millenarianism growing out there proposing that cataclysmic or transformative events will occur in the year 2012. A lot of this talk centers on what some people see as a “prediction” made by the Mayan people that comes at the end-date of their Long Count calendar. That count of 5,125 years ends on December 21 or 23,2012 (as best we can calculate). Online, this discussion has become a cultural meme with interpretations of legends, scriptures, numerological constructions and prophecies.2012film
I have written about it twice before here – once, a general piece this past January and a follow up on the calendar itself in March.
What brings me back to it now is the promotional materials I have been seeing this summer for a new movie “based” on all this.
2012 is an upcoming American science fiction schedule for release in mid-November. The film is directed by Roland Emmerich who also did Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. If you have seen either of those films, you can guess that in the new one December 2012 will not be transformative but disastrous.
In the film, a global cataclysm will occur leading to the end of the world. Add to that a US government agency (the “Institute for Human Continuity”) which is taking the Noah’s ark approach to this by trying to build ships to ensure the survival of the human race.
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section of the Mayan glyphs carved into La Mojarra Stela 1
I can’t fault Hollywood for choosing the dark side of the two hypotheses based on the ancient Mayan calendar that ends around the2012 northern hemisphere winter solstice. I suppose that the “dawning of a new age” sounds very “new age” and probably doesn’t suggest blockbuster special effects.
But there is that side in all the 2012 speculation too. The antidote to the doomsday interpretation is that Earth and its people will undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation which will begin with that solstice.
The idea that a global “consciousness shift” has been promoted by a number of authors. Frank Waters wrote about it back in 1975 when it was definitely not a pop meme. He connected it with Native American Hopi prophecies in Mexico Mystique: The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness (which I believe is out of print). Other books that addressed this before all the buzz include The Transformative Vision: Reflections on the Nature and History of Human Expression, The Mayan Factor and Harmonic Convergence.
Daniel Pinchbeck gave it a new age injection by linking it to beliefs about crop circles, alien abduction, and personal revelations in the popular2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. He is definitely on the shift-in-consciousness side of this.
Is there any science to this meme? If you believe that it is possible that there will be in 2012 a geomagnetic reversal which could be triggered by a massive solar flare, that sounds like science. This would be a flare with energy equal to 100 billion atomic bombs.
Any proof? Supporters point to observations that the Earth’s magnetic field is weakening, which indicates an impending reversal of the north and south magnetic poles. There are scientists who believe the Earth is overdue for a geomagnetic reversal, and has been for a long time, even since the time of the Mayans, because the last reversal was 780,000 years ago.
Scientists critical of this view say that a geomagnetic reversal would take up to 5,000 years to complete and do not start on any particular date. NASA expects a particularly strong solar maximum sometime between 2010 and2012 but aren’t predicting that it will lead to a geomagnetic reversal. What may happen with a solar maximum is a lot of screwed up satellite and cellular phone communications.
Or, you can take my wife’s approach that December 2012 will be like the big Y2K scare and that the results will be not a bang, not even a whimper but that our GPS might not work for awhile and we won’t get any text messages – which is not all bad.
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How to Live Beyond 2012 (the Movie)
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Thanks to Kim for passing along this email from Sony Pictures. They’re getting all cute and J.J. Abramsey for that 2012 movie, and have set up a site that explains (with visuals!) how the triple-threat of solar flares, crystal displacement, and Planet X will destroy Earth. I knew we shouldn’t have displaced those crystals in 2011:
IHC – Institute for Human Continuity
Greetings,
Thank you for registering for the lottery and for your interest in survival and the Institute for Human Continuity. As a holder of a lottery number, I wanted to inform you of the launch of the comprehensive website for the Institute for Human Continuity where you can find out more information regarding the IHC lottery and what to do concerning survival.
The information contained on the site represents the culmination of years of thinking by the world’s most prominent people and outlines the ambitious initiatives the institute is developing in its efforts to preserve mankind beyond2012.
In the weeks ahead, we will continue to update the site with new findings and valuable information. So please be sure to visit the site regularly to stay informed.
We need your help to insure a future beyond 2012.
Sincerely,
Dr. Sorën Ulfert, PhD
Communications Director
The Institute for Human Continuity
Twitter: sorenulfert
Email: s.ulfert@TheIHC.com
A lottery for survival is a cute idea, but let’s face it, if humanity is ever faced with extinction, it won’t be a chance drawing that determines who carries on our species. It’s all going to come down to who’s invested in personal rocket crafts, which I assume will be only the Japanese. They’ll probably be driving to work in personal rocket crafts by 2012, so try to get a Japanese businessman as a pen pal now if you don’t want to be human fuel.
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