 Antara says: "But there's one place that Emmerich wanted to demolish but didn't: the Kaaba, the cube-shaped structure located in the center of Mecca. It's the focus of prayers and the site of the Hajj, the biggest, most important pilgrimage in Islam. "Well, I wanted to do that, I have to admit," the filmmaker told scifiwire.com. "But my co-writer Harald [Kloser] said, 'I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie.' And he was right." Then I won't buy it  good. WOW! At the same time incredible,....and sadly, somehow not at all surprising! — Comment removed by moderator — propoganda lives, whoever is propogating - the film, the religious wars, or us. once we claim the moral highground - we can frame anything to prove our own beliefs, to ourselves. i cant say I will see 2012 because its stupid, but now i guess I will not see 2012 because of conspiracy theories. maybe the mayans started al quaeda.... I won't see it in a theater because I agree with chara - it's stupid. The Mayan calendar is merely entering a new cycle, not the end of the world, and it's no more apocalyptic than taking down last year's calendar and putting up the next, or dropping the ball in Times Square. It seems to me that this is just a bunch of feeble-minded millenialists who, disappointed that the world didn't end in 2000 (or 2001 or 1997) along the lines of Christian mythology are scouring the world for other myths to exploit their fearmongering value. I, for one, hope to live to see 1 January 2013 so I can have a laugh. When it comes out on DVD and gets to my public library, I'll probably take it out since a) I... Typo apology: "Rolan" = "Roland" Sometimes a movie is just a movie. With all the 2012ers rattling on about the apocalypse, eventually someone was going to make a film about it. Do you really believe this is Al Qaeda propaganda? I saw another site trying to call it Jewish propaganda too, I just had to laugh. This is the same guy that made the Patriot (which I really liked) and is also openly gay. Why on earth would he promote Al Qaeda??? On his wiki, it also stated he has an artwork of "a Photoshopped image of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a homoerotic pose", and that he is "a producer of The 1 Second Film, a non-profit project intended to raise money for women's rights in the developing world." Hardly the Al Qaed... There is a difference between actively promoting a cause and avoiding becoming a target (ask Theo van Gogh). You're right, of course, Sahara. Martin Gardner published a scathing denounciation of Close Encounters; my reaction was that the movie wasn't necessarily set in the real world, but in a fictional world where such events could occur. What really annoys me are the scads of "documentaries" on History Channel, NatGeo Channel and so forth, that actually treat this as real. There are more than enough gullible idiots out there ready to swallow it. |
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