Comments on: New 2012 trailer, with more wrongness

By: chita

chita — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:11:00 +0000

I dont want to die. I really like to live. Im just so scared, I do believe in this Im just so scared by what I saw.

By: Curt

Curt — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:23:14 +0000

How about that release date ! Not much time for them to recoup the movie budget
If the wolrd ends on the Dec. 21st. ha ha ha………..

By: StarKing

StarKing — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:00:28 +0000

Can you imagine how famous the person would be who correctly predicted the end of the world?
Except of course for one minor detail…

By: Disastrous commercial | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Disastrous commercial | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:11:20 +0000

[...] thing is: it’s made up. Fiction. It’s viral advertising for the movie 2012 which comes out later this year. I’ve been getting tons of mails from people who have seen [...]

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:08:13 +0000

I personally love disaster flicks since I first saw Earthquake in Sensoround. WOOT!

Yes. The science is all wrong. But so is assuming the end of the world would happen in 2000 or 1900 or 1800… everyone ‘feels’ something will happen at the end of a calendar.

So…whip people into a frenzy and sell more tickets!!! I’ll be in line.

Oh…and…as for an end of the world plot (and even looking at Independence Day), check out Arthur C. Clarke’s “Childhood’s End.”

Genius work.

Hope you have fun at the ComicCon this year!

By: 2012: It’s Disastrously Funny – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks

2012: It’s Disastrously Funny – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:37:29 +0000

[...] seen director Roland Emmerich’s “The Day After Tomorrow.” Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy has already delved into some of the wrongness in the second “2012″ [...]

By: Frank B. Chavez III

Frank B. Chavez III — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:26:06 +0000

Not only is this movie ignorant about science it is ignorant about Mayan culture. The Maya, like other Mesoamerican cultures had a cyclical view of time. Their calendars didn’t end, they reset themselves and started counting the days again. That was the Maya’s whole raison d’etre — in their belief system the gods made man in order to keep track of time. The Maya Long Count calendar (which was probably actually invented by the Olmecs) had the audacity to keep track of huge amounts of time — centuries and millennia rather than just days and months. Not that the Maya wouldn’t have placed importance on the end of one cycle of the Long Count; it probably wouldn’t have been the mush headed nonsense the new agers are obsessed with. Real Mayan prophecies rarely dealt with far future events but rather with things in the immediate future. For instance the prophecy known as the Cuceb deals with the Maya’s hoped for delivery from the Itza, Mexicanized invaders who conquered the Yucatan in the Post Classical period.