It looks like a cool movie. I have read some into the 2012 theories and if they happen to be true it does not sound like there is too much we can do about it. So I don't even care. Like this planet is better off with us or something. 

That's entertainment.

When Earth ends it won't be anywhere near as entertaining. I'm pretty sure we, humans, will have been long dead and gone by the time the sun swallows Earth. I'll be watching this when it comes out

I do agree with you though, peppermint. It's really cheesy and possibly harmful to cash in on peoples' fears like this. There's no question on what the intent of this movie is. They might act like it's about prevention, spreading information, or even "entertainment," but it's not. The screenwriters knew there was a buzz on the internet about this date and noticed how scared people are. I almost want to avoid it in protest since these apocalyptic movies are so easily manipulative and limited of imagination, but I'm a sucker for this genre and they know it. Don't get me wrong, the first, oh...100 of these types of movies were probably warranted, but Hollywood has been milking the shit out of this type of movie for a while now. It's kind of like how they're bringing back awesome characters from the past to squeeze a few more pennies out of peoples' pockets (despite possibly ruining the integrity of the franchise).

Ah hem...

 This type of movie sells ticket's and it plays on fear,nothing new here. I'm more concerned about the impact of Global Warming and the effect that is being felt right now ( in the southern Oceans,they have already evacuated the Island of Carteret near Paupa New Guinea) and as the water rises there will be over 300 million environmental refuges.And yet hardly anyone has noticed this disaster.All of these Bullshit movies doesn't help either,people waste their time in movie theaters getting dumbed down even further.Its sad. 

Money is money. Why shouldn't they make this movie, knowing very well that it would sell?

If not for the line "Find out the truth" in the end, it would be perfectly fine.

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Dude? The internet called for you and it wants it's instantly verifiable facts back. Also, the 21^st century agrees.

Seriously, the vote to authorize the war was 297/133 in the house and 77/23 in the senate.

Something can be "boring" and dangerous at the same time. I am sure like many "predictions" of "the end" that have been made in the past, this will pass too. BUT, only if we treat it as the seriously dangerous delusion it is.

There are things humanity cant control. We cant control meteors or comets or gamma rays hitting us. Meteors we have a better shot at, IF we knock of this selfish tribalism and focus on it. But the ride will end, no doubt. But humanity's problem is that it has an attitude that truth only exists when their tribe is the alpha male.

I would treat these consperiacies as serious because those who believe them have and can rise to power. Not in the sense that consperacies are real, but just like god belief, people treat them as if they were real.

Dude, the consent was based off of faulty information. In other words, while many in the Senate and House of Representatives opposed the war initially (uhm, hello, it was a violation of international law via the UN), the President lied (claiming basically "oops" ) on the two main points listed in the resolution which was the housing of weapons of mass destruction and ties to Al Qaeda. If a body of Politic is coerced into doing something by threat of National Security when such a threat is not only incorrect but found later to be known about (a lie), you honestly think the President didn't will this War into happening? The U.N. Security Council did not authorize the invasion but war was declared, anyway. If you're going to make the argument that the United States is above the UN (which would be unfortunate) than it should leave the United Nations and face the consequences of the Coalition which might have a different say, next time.

Note: I am NOT a liberal. I'm very much conservative. I just don't agree with injustice. The War with Iraq was just a waste of money and lives, and claiming ignorance in the aftermath isn't good enough. If a country is that ignorant in it's information, it should have its rights of declaring war stripped by the international community. This has a lot to do with why I didn't vote for McCain, because he claimed multiple times that we would not leave Iraq until we "won." Absolutist bullshit like that should not be tolerated.

Well I didn't vote for obama or mccain, but so far obama has not done anything different than mccain would have. I just don't trust any of them when they make money from both sides of the war. 

Granted, Caribou Barbie probably cost McCain the election. I would have preferred pretty much anyone to her. For that matter, McCain would not have been my first choice. Some combination of Huckabe / Romney would have been more to my liking on fiscal grounds. However, they are both religious nut jobs but one must take what is offered.

For the record though, given that we still have the PATRIOT act in effect, I am glad that Hillary lost.

"Re-Arming"? With what, exactly? The scrap metal he managed to salvage from the burnt out wreckage that he was left with after the 1st Persian Gulf war?

He was not 're-arming'. To quote your beloved magicians, that's Bullshit. Nobody was selling Hussein weapons; what he had was what he had purchased from you guys during the Iran/Iraq conflict. He was also not in any position to go on the offensive any time in the foreseeable future; the Ba'athists had essentially zero regional allies and considerably divided support in Iraq itself.

The only sensible reason given for the attack (nuclear arms build-up) was a total fabrication; the rest of the 'reasons' were piss-poor excuses ("Saddam was killing Iraqis!" "...Oh? And what are you doing, now that you're occupying the country?" "...Shuddup.&quot. The actual reasons are now just plain obvious: securing oil reserves and flexing the sadistic urge to put bullet holes in arabs. 

I intend to watch it. Prepared for the sad ending where Humanity somehow survives the apocalypse......again.....

This also bothered me greatly. The mayans were still hunting and gathering when great cities were being built in Mesopotamia, India and China.

Yeah. Not like anyone was talking about that during the first Iraq war:

My wife's family lives in Wasilla, and knows the Palin family. She is just as dumb as she appears. She's entirely incoherent when speaking, just as he is on TV. She also appears to suffer from narcissistic personality disorder to a greater degree than G. W. Bush.

The strange thing is, I suspect she'll be able to warp reality to her own POV. I can imagine millions of disillusioned soccer moms lining up to vote for her in 3 years. That's what scares me most about 2012.

And I'm definitely going to see this movie. It looks like it'll be one long candy-bar of a visual treat, with terrible dialogue, excruciating camera work, and lots and lots of simulated explosions.

To be fair, they couldn't have migrated later than about ten thousand years ago via the Bering bridge, and there's evidence of human habitation in the area dating to around 14,000 years ago.  It's not like they were rowing boats to Alaska when Hammurabi laid down the law. 

Still, when the trailer starts off with something that's simply untrue, and then goes on with hand-wringing eschatological hysteria, it pisses me off.

 I don't think it's been mentioned here, but in an interview with the director of the film (I believe) he stated that he actually doesn't believe in any of the 2012 hype but merely made a film based off people's real conspiracies because it, essentially, would make money.

At least the guy was honest!

Maybe not rescue but they did a Bullshit ep. on it a week or so ago.

At least they found a Mayan and asked about it. She never heard of it.

Myself I think people claiming to still be real Mayans today are like those who claim to be witches from the Celts, idiots in their own right.

Just for fun I double click the time in the bottom right to bring up the calender to see where it ends. Apprently it goes to 2099 and then goes back to 1980. What does this mean? On new years evil 2099 the world will be sent back in time to 1980. Its true, the calender says so.

And if none of those turned out to be "correct", we would just keep guessing until we hit something that looks borderline plausible. Well, at least borderline plausible to a complete cretin, that way we would convince Americans. Your reasoning is unparalleled - with you on our side, reality will never hold us back again!

War is always and automatically a bad thing, but some times it's necessary? Then it must be good some times for something, since otherwise it would not be necessary for anything in particular. Also, people hate war and try to avoid it, yet it's continuously fought. Must be because it's necessary all the time, and therefore good for something all the time. It must be necessary beacause of all those invented correct reasons you mentioned earlier.

On the other hand, you might just be full of shit that has been compressed into you during the 7PM news and a random presidential monologue.

You are right.. We should consider nuking half the world; imagine how big conflicts we can avoid with that kind of a war. We are lucky to have few bright minds like yours among us. The fewer the better.