'2012': Roland Emmerich Destroys the World Again and This Time He Means It
In '2012' John Cusack plays a failed science fiction writer who has to fight, along with his estranged family, to survive the end of the world. Along the way his character has to survive every matter of peril that director Roland Emmerich throws at him.
Some spoilers may follow.
Here John Cusack is roaring down the streets of LA as the entire state of California crumbles beneath him. There John Cusack is escaping Yellowstone as the caldara explodes. Another time John Cusack has to drive a car down the ramp of a rapidly moving cargo plane in the middle of Tibet. Yet another time John Cusack has to hold his breath a really long time under water while he fixes something upon which a third of what is left of the human race is dependant for its survival.
Along the way we meet Woody Harrelson as a crazy late night radio talk show host, Danny Glover as an older, wiser version of Barack Obama, Star Trek's Thandie Newton as his brainy daughter, Firefly's Chiwetel Ejiofor as a scientist, Star Trek's John Billingsley as another scientist, and Oliver Platt as a fatter version of Rahm Emmanuel. There is a Russian Mafioso, Amanda Peet, her new husband, two old guys (including a really old George Segal) on a cruise ship, a Tibetan monk, his factory worker brother, a French art expert, a Russian pilot, a Russian mistress, several children, and seven billion people, most of whom die in a spectacular manner.
Of course with this kind of film, '2012' is not really about people, but about destruction on an epic scale. A number of landmarks, including St. Peter's basilica, get trashed as the Earth begins to move in an alarming fashion. The entire state of Hawaii is set on fire. The Himalayas are inundated by a flood.
Some spoilers may follow.
Here John Cusack is roaring down the streets of LA as the entire state of California crumbles beneath him. There John Cusack is escaping Yellowstone as the caldara explodes. Another time John Cusack has to drive a car down the ramp of a rapidly moving cargo plane in the middle of Tibet. Yet another time John Cusack has to hold his breath a really long time under water while he fixes something upon which a third of what is left of the human race is dependant for its survival.
Along the way we meet Woody Harrelson as a crazy late night radio talk show host, Danny Glover as an older, wiser version of Barack Obama, Star Trek's Thandie Newton as his brainy daughter, Firefly's Chiwetel Ejiofor as a scientist, Star Trek's John Billingsley as another scientist, and Oliver Platt as a fatter version of Rahm Emmanuel. There is a Russian Mafioso, Amanda Peet, her new husband, two old guys (including a really old George Segal) on a cruise ship, a Tibetan monk, his factory worker brother, a French art expert, a Russian pilot, a Russian mistress, several children, and seven billion people, most of whom die in a spectacular manner.
Of course with this kind of film, '2012' is not really about people, but about destruction on an epic scale. A number of landmarks, including St. Peter's basilica, get trashed as the Earth begins to move in an alarming fashion. The entire state of Hawaii is set on fire. The Himalayas are inundated by a flood.
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Plumedserpent
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11/15/2009
con't>>> Mayan facts. Books available in Barnes & Noble bookstores and online bookstores. Read andd prepare while you can for it is going to happen and time is short. I write under the pen of E. J. Clark...thanks.
Plumedserpent
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11/15/2009
2012 is not a hoax. Roland Emmerich's 2012 movie pretty much depicts what is to happen although the cause of the cataclysm is wrong. Roland Emmerich unknowingly has done a great public service by making public awareness of 2012. It is going to happen. The ancient Maya were not the only ones who knew about 2012 as most of the ancient world did from 3,000 BC up till the 1800s when the knowledge was lost. Washington DC was laid out to reflect 2012 as a reminder to visitors. Monuments carved in stone were left world wide to warn our generation of 2012. Christ taught it in the Bible but few today have understood it. The ancient world understood 2012 very well; the modern world, lest of all the modern Maya, lack the knowledge and understanding thereof and are stumbling in the dark looking for answers to 2012. I am a Mayan expert. Read my non-fiction 2012 trilogy, The Ark of Millions of Years, the most comprehensive 2012 books in the world based on scientific, historical, biblical, and
Etznab
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11/15/2009
"2012: Time for Change" projects a radical alternative to apocalyptic doom and gloom. Directed by Emmy Award nominee Joao Amorim, the film follows journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, author of the bestselling 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, on a quest for a new paradigm that integrates the archaic wisdom of tribal cultures with the scientific method. As conscious agents of evolution, we can redesign post-industrial society on ecological principles to make a world that works for all. Rather than breakdown and barbarism, 2012 will herald the birth of a regenerative planetary culture, where collaboration replaces competition, where exploration of psyche and spirit becomes the new cutting edge, replacing the sterile materialism that has pushed our world to the brink.
Interviews with design scientists, anthropologists, physicists such as Dean Radin, Barbara Marx Hubbard, John Todd and Paul Stamets and celebrities such as Sting, Ellen Page and Gilberto Gil.
http://www.2012timeforchange.com/
Nice article, Mark. Thanks for the information. Will be seeing this today with the family.
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