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Title: 2012 Doomsday review
Post by: Kosh on February 24, 2008, 05:04:13 am
I came across this on the internet and I must say, even for one of those christian end of the world movies, it's horrible. Bad acting, cheesy sfx, and bad dialogue are three reasons to endlessly make jokes about this movie. Where's MST3K when you need it?


EDIT: also forgot to mention the cheesy soundtrack, half of which sounded like it was ripped off from other movies. Also the actors are kind of ugly.......
Title: Re: 2012 Doomsday review
Post by: Prophet on February 24, 2008, 06:20:21 am
And so you thought it would be a jolly good idea to introduce this "title" to us, which we propably would have never even hear about otherwise?

There something special in this that makes it worth mentioning?
Title: Re: 2012 Doomsday review
Post by: Kosh on February 24, 2008, 07:46:48 am
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There something special in this that makes it worth mentioning?


It's one of the worst movies ever.
Title: Re: 2012 Doomsday review
Post by: Mefustae on February 24, 2008, 05:02:59 pm
Thankyou for bringing it to our attention. It shall be noted.
Title: Re: 2012 Doomsday review
Post by: Dark Hunter on February 24, 2008, 05:11:00 pm
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There something special in this that makes it worth mentioning?


It's one of the worst movies ever.

Worse than Battlefield Earth? :doubt:
Title: Re: 2012 Doomsday review
Post by: NGTM-1R on February 24, 2008, 05:18:25 pm
Manos.

'nuff said.
Title: Re: 2012 Doomsday review
Post by: Hellstryker on February 25, 2008, 04:07:50 pm
I came across this on the internet and I must say, even for one of those christian end of the world movies, it's horrible. Bad acting, cheesy sfx, and bad dialogue are three reasons to endlessly make jokes about this movie. Where's MST3K when you need it?


EDIT: also forgot to mention the cheesy soundtrack, half of which sounded like it was ripped off from other movies. Also the actors are kind of ugly.......

One of my moms best friends actually believes in this ****... needless to say she pops pills... we have until at least 2060 and thats provided we dont have bases on the moon and or mars
Title: Re: 2012 Doomsday review
Post by: Kosh on February 25, 2008, 08:05:51 pm
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One of my moms best friends actually believes in this ****... needless to say she pops pills... we have until at least 2060 and thats provided we dont have bases on the moon and or mars


I read somewhere that a fairly large percentage of Americans believe that it will happen in their lifetimes and actually welcome it so she's in good company.
Title: Re: 2012 Doomsday review
Post by: IceFire on February 25, 2008, 08:58:00 pm
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One of my moms best friends actually believes in this ****... needless to say she pops pills... we have until at least 2060 and thats provided we dont have bases on the moon and or mars


I read somewhere that a fairly large percentage of Americans believe that it will happen in their lifetimes and actually welcome it so she's in good company.
Thats truly scary.  What is wrong with people?
Title: Re: 2012 Doomsday review
Post by: Polpolion on February 25, 2008, 09:21:12 pm
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One of my moms best friends actually believes in this ****... needless to say she pops pills... we have until at least 2060 and thats provided we dont have bases on the moon and or mars


I read somewhere that a fairly large percentage of Americans believe that it will happen in their lifetimes and actually welcome it so she's in good company.

I'll be shocked when you define "fairly large" and it turns out larger than 15%.
Title: Re: 2012 Doomsday review
Post by: achtung on February 25, 2008, 09:32:37 pm
By "fairly large percentage" he probably means "Christian crazies."
Title: Re: 2012 Doomsday review
Post by: Polpolion on February 25, 2008, 09:38:30 pm
Which is why I'm not surprised. :p

I "dislike" people with "extreme religious devotion". But not enough to go and actually do anything other than complain about them on the internet. :nervous:
Title: Re: 2012 Doomsday review
Post by: Kosh on February 25, 2008, 11:35:27 pm
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One of my moms best friends actually believes in this ****... needless to say she pops pills... we have until at least 2060 and thats provided we dont have bases on the moon and or mars


I read somewhere that a fairly large percentage of Americans believe that it will happen in their lifetimes and actually welcome it so she's in good company.

I'll be shocked when you define "fairly large" and it turns out larger than 15%.

Here's my source if anyone is interested:

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And why not? There's a constituency for it. A 2002 TIME/CNN poll found that 59 percent of Americans believe that the prophecies found in the Book of Revelation are going to come true. Nearly one-quarter think the Bible predicted the 9/11 attacks. Drive across the country with your radio tuned to the more than 1,600 Christian radio stations or in the motel turn some of the 250 Christian TV stations and you can hear some of this end-time gospel. And you will come to understand why people under the spell of such potent prophecies cannot be expected, as Grist puts it, "to worry about the environment. Why care about the earth when the droughts, floods, famine and pestilence brought by ecological collapse are signs of the apocalypse foretold in the Bible? Why care about global climate change when you and yours will be rescued in the rapture? And why care about converting from oil to solar when the same God who performed the miracle of the loaves and fishes can whip up a few billion barrels of light crude with a word?"

From Bill Moyers accepting the Harvard Medical School Global Environment Citizen Award, full article below:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/120504G.shtml


Basically America is a massively powerful country with a deathwish. Really scary stuff.....
Title: Re: 2012 Doomsday review
Post by: Polpolion on February 26, 2008, 11:23:45 am
From what that article says, I'm willing to bet that the "Americans" were surveyed as they walked into church...

Either way, I can guarantee you that that survey isn't an accurate portrayal of Americans.
Title: Re: 2012 Doomsday review
Post by: Kosh on February 26, 2008, 07:57:09 pm
This was the article he was referencing:

http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020701/story.html


How do you think it isn't accurate?
Title: Re: 2012 Doomsday review
Post by: NGTM-1R on February 26, 2008, 08:44:30 pm
Why should I? I'm taking a stats class and I can tell you how easy it is to screw up, intentionally or otherwise, this kind of thing. Welcome to voluntary response bias, Kosh.