It's Not The End Of The World
Here's an article in the Daily Mail mocking the latest from Roland Emmerich, 2012. The movie is premised on the false belief that the Mayan calendar predicts total destruction in the year of the title:
It looks [based on the trailer] as if the CGI experts have been given a completely free hand designing this apocalypse - with the net result that the trailer borders on laughable....[W]e're likely to see every kind of disaster imaginable, all crammed into one big turkey of a film created by a director reknowned for his overboard use of effects.
A strange complaint. Of course it's over the top. Isn't that the whole point of disaster porn?
And speaking of disaster, the Mail should get better editors--at least ones who know how to spell "renowned."
posted by LAGuy @ 12:25 AM
2 Comments:
"False belief" in the sense that the Mayan calendar does not actually predict that or in the sense that all religious end of the world mumbo jumbo is a false belief?
I was worried I wasn't clear. I rephrased the sentence a couple times but I guess I didn't do a good enough job.
I mean "false belief" in that the Mayan calendar predicts no such thing, but people who don't understand the Mayans (but will believe any mumbo-jumbo if you dress it up right) do.
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