In addition to the trailers, check out some of the movie publicity sites: This Is The End from some dude named Charlie Frost -- I'm pretty sure Sony Pictures dreamed him up -- but he's even on Twitter, The IHC or Institute for Human Continuity, whose mission is to prepare the world for 2012, and Farewell Atlantis, the title of the novel by Jackson Curtis, the character played by John Cusack in 2012.
Saturday, August 1, 2009
2012 the movie
The one trailer I've seen in theaters so far for the movie 2012 looks impressive -- a tsunami engulfs the Himalayas and overwhelms a monk who's sounded the alarm -- all caused by Planet X, also known as Nemesis or Niburu (the Destroyer). so I'm anxious to learn what's caused this catastrophe Clearly, Mr. Monk didn't need to bother since nobody would be left to hear or heed his warning. The full trailer at the official site is spectacular. Roland Emmerich, the genius director of two other mega-death movies, Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, turns his attention to the powerful Mayan prophecy that the world will end on December 21, 2012. Now if the ancient Mayans had somehow synchronized their timekeeping efforts with the Western world’s calendar and had the world ending on December 20, 2012 (get it, 20122012 as some people might express the date), I might have been a believer, but then again, maybe all the big disasters are happening on December 20 and the world officially ends on December 21, 2012. The 2012 movie premieres on November 13, 2009. Watch the full trailer and a teaser trail on the official site.
In addition to the trailers, check out some of the movie publicity sites: This Is The End from some dude named Charlie Frost -- I'm pretty sure Sony Pictures dreamed him up -- but he's even on Twitter, The IHC or Institute for Human Continuity, whose mission is to prepare the world for 2012, and Farewell Atlantis, the title of the novel by Jackson Curtis, the character played by John Cusack in 2012.
In addition to the trailers, check out some of the movie publicity sites: This Is The End from some dude named Charlie Frost -- I'm pretty sure Sony Pictures dreamed him up -- but he's even on Twitter, The IHC or Institute for Human Continuity, whose mission is to prepare the world for 2012, and Farewell Atlantis, the title of the novel by Jackson Curtis, the character played by John Cusack in 2012.
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Hello, I stopped by to click your SV badge, it let me click and answer the question but when I hit next all I got was a white page, so I don't know if it's counting my clicks or not (I've had this happen before so I'll try back in a day or two). As for the who 2012 thing....The Mayans have 3 calendars (all of which are circular). The first one is something like 280 days or so, the second is about 50 or so, and the last one is the long count which I believe is 5000 yrs. On December 21, 2012 they don't end they just start over. Our solar system lines up with some dark spot of the galaxy, spilling evil onto the earth, and like the Mayans before us we will have to play that weird game (where you put a ball through those hoops with out using your hands) and we will have to win if we want to survive. (I've been practicing).
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ReplyDeleteAs far as the Mayan calendar goes, yes, you are right, there are three timekeeping systems they used. The Long Count calendar, according to Michael D. Coe (Breaking the Maya Code, 1992, paperback, p. 62), is "given in a day-to-day count, which began in the year 3114 BC, and which will end (perhaps with a bang) in AD 2012."
According to Linda Schele (A Forest of Kings, 1990, paperback, p. 82, emphasis added), however, "the zero day of this era-based calendar fell on 13.0.0.0.0 of the Long Count .... In our calendar, their zero corresponds to August 11, 3114 B.C. ... In the near future Maya time also approaches one of its great benchmarks. December 23, 2012, which will be 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ahau 3 Kankin, the day when the 13 baktuns will end and the Long Count cycles return to the symmetry of the beginning. The Maya, however, did not conceive this to be the end of this creation, as many have suggested. Pascal, the great king of Palenque, predicted in his inscriptions that the eightieth Calendar Round anniversary of his accession will be celebrated eight days after the first eight-thousand-year cycle in the Maya calendar ends. In our time system, this cycle will end on October 15, 4772."
So, no worries, time and the world will continue long after December 21 or 23, 2012, just as it had existed long before 3114 BC.