Besides the laughable doomsday fad this kind of movie nourishes, there are many things wrong with it besides 2012 idiocy.

The movie comes off as so desperate, unoriginal and hastily thrown together that it’s almost criminal. It has earned the most disgusted “UGH!” from me I’ve ever uttered in quite some time.

… so very, very trashy.

It’s just plain awesome.

Attention Sony Pictures: no amount of clever marketing will save this from being a terrible film, so please stop insulting us in the meantime.

That’s because the fiasco when 2000 hit (then 2001, 2002, 2003 etc ad nauseum) still leaves a lasting embarrassment for them. When it didn’t happen in 2000, they then figured “OMG! We were using the wrong calendar!” or “OMG, we forgot about zero not existing back when revelations was written!”. We’re still here. I’m not ruling out a renewed attempt to shoehorn 2012 to fit revelations but a lot of religious people are confused. I know of a few that were “losing their faith” as a result of fire and brimstone not raining down from the skies when all the religious “experts” they knew swore on the bible that in fact we were finished.

I’m a little bit surprised that there aren’t more people trying to find some connection between 2012 and the Book of Revelation. Maybe there are, and they’re just not very high profile yet. (There is a show that one of the cable networks runs from time to time featuring some guy who used the I Ching to validate the 2012 date, in sort of a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of woo.)

@AJ #62 – I was at a work event and during the social gathering part, someone I was supposed to “make nice” with, told me the same thing about the earth moving to the center of the galaxy. Only he said “center of the Universe.” When I explained to him that there is no “center of the Universe” and the reasons why not, and then starting to launch into the way that the Bg Bang works, he interrupted me and said “But the universe they showed has spiral arms.”

I said, “Oh, you mean the center of the galaxy.” He said that the earth is going to rush to the black hole at the center of the galaxy in 2012. I asked if he knows that the solar system is 26,000 ly from the center of the galaxy, and how he expected the earth to travel that far that fast.

He changed the subject.”

……… gaaaah!

Before I saw it, I was awakened in the few hours by my 4 year old.
“I’m scared.”
“Everything’s fine. Go back to sleep.”
“But I’m scared of Big Foot.”
Big Foot! There was a movie out and they put the ad for it on a show fit for little kids.
I was about mad enough to call the head of the TV station and explain how inappropriate it was. I figured he deserved to be woken in the middle of the night!