2012 : a must watch load of tosh!!

A very good movie. It is worth every penny that you'd pay to go watch it in a theatre. Definitely not one of those movies that one would prefer watchin on the television or a computer screen - even if you had the ultra-powerful 600-watt Creative MegaWorks THX 6.1 650 speaker system at home!! There is an innate fascination hidden in the magnanimity of watchin the world crumble, the earth split, volcanoes erupt, and tidal waves toss casually over the entire Indian sub-continent! If you are an emotional eater, you might as well pamper yourself with three large buckets of popcorn unless you want to start biting your nails!! The movie gets your eyeballs glued to the screen from the word go. It takes half an eternity for the intermission to come along, not that the 'break' gives much of a break because when you come back you merely continue hurtling towards the end-of-the-world.

However, the movie is not something that'll get you fretting. For those Christians who might've heard the occasional sermon, it most definitely will seem like a clever make-over of Noah's Ark with liberal doses of climate change broo-ha-ha thrown in. The deviation from the Biblical story lies in the fact that there are three arks instead of one.. the arks are built by the Chinese instead of God-led perfection... the animals are airlifted to the ark unlike the conventional story where they walked right in... the one righteous man and his blood relatives are conveniently substituted for a million 'deserving' people... and of course, the odd twist wherein a blonde female drowns to death even after making it into one of the arks (although for some reason her dog survives)!!

I fail to understand whether it is an oversight, or mere stupidity that the end of the Mayan calendar is equated with the Rapture!! Surely the Armageddon or the Final Judgement would have made a better parallel (although it would be just as ridiculous if not more!!). For those Christians even bothering to wonder whether there might be an inkling of truth in the matter, let me remind you to look at the Rainbow the next time it comes around!! As for those of you who aren't Christian yet, here's a little bit of logic I borrowed from my professor in college - if the Mayan predictions and prophecies were really true, wouldn't you figure that they would have found a way to keep their civilization upright until now instead of fading away into extinction?

The movie, however, does provoke a few thoughts. It is a stark reminder of the pathetic state our world is in; how fragile the earth has become, thanks to us humans! We sure have done a brilliant job of taking care of this planet gifted to us by God! Another thought that hits me is that although the movie seems a bit overdone, this is merely an appetizer compared to what is bound to happen post-Rapture during the Tribulation!! It almost seems like a reminder from heaven that we ought to get our act together, to work on our lives with fear and trembling, lest we and our frenz join the hordes who tremble with fear when this fate befalls the world!! For those of us who have already pondered on these thoughts - Hope Lingers!