But apart from the entertainment value of seeing the world torn apart, I'm hoping people will continue flocking to theaters because it will inoculate them against anxiety when the real year 2012 comes along. Most of you will laugh at the whole Mayan prophecy/end of the world deal, and I'm certainly far from taking it seriously myself. But there are plenty of people out there who, come 2012, could very well be full of worry and upset that the world is about end.
What I appreciate about 2012 the movie is that for just about anyone, having experienced the whole fun but absurd spectacle, it becomes even harder to see the Mayan calendar's running out as a genuine existential threat to life on earth. The thing is just too much of a cartoon -- however enjoyable, in the way that a roller coast ride is enjoyable, it may be. Everyone who sees the movie is rendered secure from panic two years down the road. So see it!
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The "archaic wisdom of tribal cultures" usually consists of some local botanicals plus a load of new-age platitudes foisted onto the inhabitants of a paradisal fantasy world that never existed. What 2012 will herald is the arrival one year later of 2013.
Well said David.
The carry further the film tsunami analogy it is better if the crest of the tidal wave of 2012 paranoia peaks now and then subsides to a mere ripple before the usual annual solstice in late 2012.
Yes the movie inadvertently does us a welcome service by innoculating society against the unthinking and fearful. Not bad escapist entertainment either if it is seen as just another movie and not taken too seriously.
Unfortunately as evidence by your first responder Hail (or should that be Heil?)there is no innoculation against blind bigotry and ignorance.
All the best.
There is the same worry that preceded the advent of the new millenium by predicting all sorts of terrible things happening. Remember the Millenium Bug? I think the Aztecs just ran out of stone tablets and went for a cuppa.
Well i liked the movie so much, i would appreciate all the team of 2012, they have done a great job in fact. How good their imagination power is that they think so fast and direct it to the public with so much of ease. I would say do watch it. n don't miss it.
cartucho r4i
It would be nice to think that people go to this movie and realize that it is just entertainment. However, I think it is naive to think it will have any inoculating effect on belief in a 2012 doomsday. Yeah, most people will find this a fun film with no deadly message but, those that are already convinced that 2012 is real will see this as a vindication and those who have never heard of this "prophecy" might begin to wonder if it is true. Vampires are a complete fabrication, yet some people believe they exist due to their frequent portrayals by Hollywood and fiction.
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