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Joined: Sep 13 2008
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Nov 06 2009 12:30 am |
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A movie is being made off of the doomsday theory of 2012.
I have a feeling this will only push the paranoia to a new level |
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Sexton Hardcastle
Title: The Supreme Element
Joined: Apr 01 2006
Location: Maine
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Nov 06 2009 12:39 am |
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I saw previews for this when I saw Zombieland and people in the theater were literally laughing at it. It looks ridiculously over the top and horrible...and not in a good way. |
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SoldierHawk
Title: SydLexia Security Chief
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
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Nov 06 2009 12:47 am |
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Yeah, it looks like a lot of special effects porn and not much else. I'll wait and see what Ebert and co say about it, but I have a feeling my first impression was the right one. |
"It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.” -Wesley Wyndham-Pryce
“The greatest strength is gentleness.” -Cherokee proverb
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Berserk007
Title: Freelance Skull Grinder
Joined: Aug 21 2009
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Nov 06 2009 12:56 am |
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Looks to be one giant CG jerk-off, really though I don't think this is going to change anyone's mind about 2012. I have no doubt that one day we will either blow ourselves up, or die out any number of ways, but I refuse to believe in the Aztec forecast, I mean if they were so insightful / mystic / whatever..you think they would have had enough brains to keep far away from Cortez and his men.
Fear can sell though, so it will not surprise me if this does amazingly well, but really it's based on the same fear YTK generated, as shitty a movie as it was at least " The Day After Tomorrow " had some scientific merit to it. Ultimately though the movie will do well, disaster movies make good date movies. |
For my confession they burned me with fire and found I was for endurance made. - The Arabian Nights
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jerknut
Joined: Sep 18 2009
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Nov 06 2009 08:32 am |
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Looks to be one giant CG jerk-off, really though I don't think this is going to change anyone's mind about 2012. I have no doubt that one day we will either blow ourselves up, or die out any number of ways, but I refuse to believe in the Aztec forecast, I mean if they were so insightful / mystic / whatever..you think they would have had enough brains to keep far away from Cortez and his men.
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The most hilarious thing about these conspiracy people is that the Aztecs weren't responsible for their own intelligence (and thus were killed by Cortez easily). They were, according to these um... "interesting" people, visited by a race of reptilian aliens who shared their technology with humans in exchange for worship. These reptilians impregnated some human women which created a hybrid human-reptilian race. These people reptiles then formed the free masons and now rule the world. 2012 is when the aliens are supposed to come back and battle with God's army. That's right, they're also nephilim. Amazing story.  |
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username
Title: master of my domain
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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Nov 06 2009 11:55 am |
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2012 is mayans.
maya cosmogenesis. thats the book every one of these theories and movies and essays and what not is based about |
| Rocky Balboa wrote: |
| You know where southpaw comes from? I'll tell ya. A long time ago there was this guy, maybe a couple a hundred years ago, he was fighting around, I think it was around Philadelphia, and his arm -- he was left-handed -- and his arm was facing toward New Jersey, you see? And that's south. So then naturally they call him south paw. You see? South paw, south Jersey, South Camden, south paw. You know what I mean? |
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Rydog
Title: Dragon Slayer
Joined: Aug 11 2009
Location: Massachusetts
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Nov 06 2009 11:58 am |
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2012 is mayans.
maya cosmogenesis. thats the book every one of these theories and movies and essays and what not is based about |
You correct that alot.
And I'll pass on this movie, I'll watch it when it is on loop on TNT. |
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joshwoodzell
Title: Dumpster Diver
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Millboro, VA
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Nov 06 2009 12:02 pm |
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It's a disaster movie and nothing more. I'm sure I'll enjoy it on DVD while highly intoxicated. |
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Knyte
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: In your mom.
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Nov 06 2009 12:18 pm |
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So, you make a movie about the end of the world, what's next?
That's right, a sequel!
They are already working on a Made for TV sequel to 2012. |
 
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SpraCoalee
Title: Pariah at Sydlexia
Joined: Feb 10 2009
Location: Chicago Area
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Nov 06 2009 07:07 pm |
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So basically it's a combination of these movies:
Armageddon
Deep Impact
The Core
The Day After Tommorow
Earthquake
Volcano
Rollerball (After all that tom-fuckery happens.)
Wow, this movie is gonna suck. |
I said, "Next," goddamn it! This is not the DMV!
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Eddie_Hyde
Title: The Quantum Mechanist
Joined: Apr 13 2009
Location: Gulag
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Nov 06 2009 07:35 pm |
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I'm not even gonna bother registering my disgust with the boards, it looks that fucking awful. |
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AtmanRyu
Title: The Wandering Dragon
Joined: Jun 25 2009
Location: Atlanta, GA
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Nov 06 2009 09:56 pm |
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I like disaster movies in general, since it's a guilty pleasure for me, plus I'm a colossal sadist when it comes to people dying and the world crumbling.
With that said, I will go see it, but I won't defend it from the obvious backlash.
And as a side note, not even the Mayans' descendants believe 2012 will be the end of the world. |
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Eddie_Hyde
Title: The Quantum Mechanist
Joined: Apr 13 2009
Location: Gulag
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Nov 07 2009 02:43 am |
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Most people don't read more than 5 minutes into the issue, so most people don't know that the Mayan calender restarts in 2016. Also, why the fuck would alignment of the planets cause earthquakes. That's just stupid bullshit ARGGGHHHH!  |
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username
Title: master of my domain
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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Nov 07 2009 03:28 am |
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i thought it restarted in 2028. eh, ultimately it dont matter |
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| You know where southpaw comes from? I'll tell ya. A long time ago there was this guy, maybe a couple a hundred years ago, he was fighting around, I think it was around Philadelphia, and his arm -- he was left-handed -- and his arm was facing toward New Jersey, you see? And that's south. So then naturally they call him south paw. You see? South paw, south Jersey, South Camden, south paw. You know what I mean? |
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Ermac
Title: A WinRAR is You
Joined: Aug 04 2008
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Nov 07 2009 08:53 am |
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Doddsino
Title: F for Fake
Joined: Oct 01 2009
Location: Iowa
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Nov 07 2009 03:35 pm |
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Even if Christopher Nolan directed this, and it got the ravest reviews imaginable, I'd probably pass on it, due to the History Channel's oversaturation of the damn theory.
Also the preview I saw for it was fucking stupid, all the cars on all the roads around John Cusack are collapsing and falling, yet he somehow KNOWS to chose the one road that doesn't collapse. |
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Greg the White
Joined: Apr 09 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
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Nov 07 2009 04:53 pm |
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| Even if Christopher Nolan directed this, and it got the ravest reviews imaginable, I'd probably pass on it, due to the History Channel's oversaturation of the damn theory. |
It's only getting worse. I saw a "documentary" on what war will be like on the moon. |
I am a loser, I am Satan, I am Jesus Christ.
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Blackout
Title: jerk
Joined: Sep 01 2007
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Nov 08 2009 02:33 am |
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| It's only getting worse. I saw a "documentary" on what war will be like on the moon. |
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username
Title: master of my domain
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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Nov 08 2009 02:35 am |
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| Also the preview I saw for it was fucking stupid, all the cars on all the roads around John Cusack are collapsing and falling, yet he somehow KNOWS to chose the one road that doesn't collapse. |
well, if he picked the wrong road, then it would be a multi-million dollar 30 minute movie. |
| Rocky Balboa wrote: |
| You know where southpaw comes from? I'll tell ya. A long time ago there was this guy, maybe a couple a hundred years ago, he was fighting around, I think it was around Philadelphia, and his arm -- he was left-handed -- and his arm was facing toward New Jersey, you see? And that's south. So then naturally they call him south paw. You see? South paw, south Jersey, South Camden, south paw. You know what I mean? |
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Doddsino
Title: F for Fake
Joined: Oct 01 2009
Location: Iowa
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Nov 08 2009 02:39 am |
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It would've had a much better ending too. With John Cusack fucking dying...wondering how his film career had gone to shit since High Fidelity.
Also it's apparently a fucking Earthquake...how does everything in God's Grey Earth collapse around them, but this one lone road is perfectly intact.
If I ever meet Roland Emmerich, I'm going to rub my fucking nutsack on his face. |
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username
Title: master of my domain
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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Nov 08 2009 02:43 am |
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| If I ever meet Roland Emmerich, I'm going to rub my fucking nutsack on his face. |
gay.
now is it gay that you rubbed your sac on him, or that he got rubbed on?
reminds of a convo my buddy was telling me about this other forum he frequents. apparently someone posted a pick of a guy snorting coke off another guys wang. the discussion was to determine who was gayer, the snortee or the snorter. |
| Rocky Balboa wrote: |
| You know where southpaw comes from? I'll tell ya. A long time ago there was this guy, maybe a couple a hundred years ago, he was fighting around, I think it was around Philadelphia, and his arm -- he was left-handed -- and his arm was facing toward New Jersey, you see? And that's south. So then naturally they call him south paw. You see? South paw, south Jersey, South Camden, south paw. You know what I mean? |
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Blackout
Title: jerk
Joined: Sep 01 2007
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Nov 08 2009 02:48 am |
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Whoever took the picture |
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username
Title: master of my domain
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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Nov 08 2009 02:50 am |
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| Whoever took the picture |
that was one of my initial thoughts, but what if it was a camera set on a timer? |
| Rocky Balboa wrote: |
| You know where southpaw comes from? I'll tell ya. A long time ago there was this guy, maybe a couple a hundred years ago, he was fighting around, I think it was around Philadelphia, and his arm -- he was left-handed -- and his arm was facing toward New Jersey, you see? And that's south. So then naturally they call him south paw. You see? South paw, south Jersey, South Camden, south paw. You know what I mean? |
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sidewaydriver
Title: Rock Lobster
Joined: May 11 2008
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Nov 08 2009 02:51 am |
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username
Title: master of my domain
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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Nov 08 2009 02:52 am |
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i always thought father time was a dirty old man, like herbert on family guy. |
| Rocky Balboa wrote: |
| You know where southpaw comes from? I'll tell ya. A long time ago there was this guy, maybe a couple a hundred years ago, he was fighting around, I think it was around Philadelphia, and his arm -- he was left-handed -- and his arm was facing toward New Jersey, you see? And that's south. So then naturally they call him south paw. You see? South paw, south Jersey, South Camden, south paw. You know what I mean? |
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