Hollywood Apocalypse

'I can't say I'm looking forward to the spectacle of advertising and media frenzy that is going to surround these releases.'

 I don't watch tv or see newspapers, or even hear the gossip, and I live in the middle of nowhere, so I won't see it.

But personally, I'm glad to see this subject aired, in whatever form.

It's hard not to be cynical about this, and I'm not sure what I really think of it. One hand, it's potentially opening up the idea for the global audience, but on the other its very likely going to pervert the whole thing and possibly even disarm the psychedelic/Mayan/2012 movement further by cheapening it into entertainment.

I don't really think that this whole fascination is new. Even Indiana Jones mentioned Mayans and centered around Mesoamerica and the contact of "the Other." Even in I am Legend, which occurs in 2012, I could see archtype parallels here and there. Then again, Terrence McKenna talked about increasing the devotion of the existant base of peoples, not horizontal expansion...

..and yes a lot of the mysticism surrounding 2012 will be substituted with comedy and drama. Even so, there will be references to solar energy/ radiation melting ice on earth, causing a global panic. Like ST Frequency wrote, the budget is huge. They are shooting it mostly against blue screen in Vancouver and employing somewhere around 10 special effects houses. Roland has said it will be "the disaster movie to end all disaster movies." Danny Glover plays the President. Cusack plays a mediocre author who tries to rekindle his broken relationship with his family while searching for "arks"--vessels which will hopefully save the human race in the coming waterworld. These arks will also house the most precious creations of humanity. I asked Roland about the day following 12/21/2012 and whether a new enlightenment will occur in the following days. That element of the Mayan lore is omitted and, according to Mr. Emmerich, the event is not as extreme as was initially expected. Yep yep!

Joshie2020: "2012 will be substituted with comedy..."

doesn't sound too bad! ;)

"Blockbusters" like these make some sort of sense. It seems to me that everything would be "touched by 2012", from Hollywood to higher ground, things becoming increasingly connected, increasingly absurd, increasingly profound etc.

As Wade Davis puts it, films/movies are about "writing with light the dreams of the human spirit" - so I'm not surprised to see millions of dollars and so much sensationalism brought to this topic via the "big screen".

On the other hand, a lot of other 2012ish movies, things seen on youtube etc, have a certain kind of sensationalism - what they lack in budget, perhaps they make up in frenzy.

Or, these films could look nice and quaint, in years to come.

 

(notice this Black Hole opens on December 21...)

Would be nice to see some small, subtle films on the subject though.

I just snuck into a theater last night and watched a third of Iron Man and all of Indiana Jones. Boy were those real mind-treats...the kind where they open up your skull and coat your brain with alcoholic vomit. If these 2012 movies are even nearly as clever as those two genius works I'm sure to laugh at all the wrong times as well as at the people in the audience laughing at all the right times.

Oh, and why are these 2012 movies too chicken shit to release their movies in December of 2012? Maybe because they think that something drastic might actually happen and it wouldn't matter if they made and spent millions of dollars at that time anyway.

Who here hopes that instead of an apocalypse we get a nice little mental awakening...something subtle yet poignant would do just fine. Perhaps people realizing that if they can pool the efforts of enough people to earn millions of dollars for some mindless mental middle-finger that they can earn enough money to end world hunger and build a renewable energy grid something like the GENI project would do the trick.

The World Game Institute did some studies to see what the people of the world wanted/needed to live a happy, healthy life and how much it would cost to provide that. In 1994 they came up with the figure of $252 billion. Mere chump change compared to what the world was spending on weaponry, which averaged out at around $1 trillion. ...eh, I turned 2012 into a discussion about better answers.

self-imposed gorilla ontologist

There was a time during my stint as a revolutionary "performance artist" in the L.A. Underground (whatever the hell that means), that I decided I wanted to take over Hollywood. My intention manifested in the form of moving into the house closest to the Hollywood sign with those white letters outside my bedroom window as some kind of emblematic curse. My veggie oil Mercedes then exploded, my ovarian cysts popped partly from the stress of not being able to pay rent, I didn't have time to write a single poem due to the hustle, and I was left stranded at the top of that hill where I'd sit, crippled on my patio with this cursed sign above my head. I felt like I had landed in a bad movie set and that my life was a movie, the Hollywood dream inversed into a waking nightmare. It was then that the patriarchy died inside of me, and I decided that Hollywood (if it doesn't go underwater when the glaciers melt which would be awesome), needs to be taken over from the bottom up so that its loathsome narcissistic veil may be violently ripped off once and for all.

Like the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans of old, Hollywood is a collapsed civilization that saw its climax in the 40s and 50s. Anyone who knows anything about the entertainment industry also knows that Los Angeles can only be ruled from the top- down. Aha! an added layer of complexity. Hollywood needs an artistic dictator that wants to destroy the entertrainment machine from the inside out, from the top down and from the bottom up.

That's when the fairies told me that my dreams of being a science-fiction rockstar would indeed come true, and that I would organize an entourage of like-minded performers to blow an alien-shaped hole through the zombie masses of audiences in nightclubs. I am staging an interactive shamaniacal smorgasborgasm of performance art rituals to carrier waves of music and participation of audience members encouraged to regress and become children to do fun and ungodly things in 2012 (after having earned my flame in Europe where people might be intelligent enough to realize that I perform in trance). Film in Hollywood has turned into the ultimate mind-control for American citizens. It takes something live and in-person to really shake people's brains up, something so extreme and so intense as to penetrate their desensitized frontal lobes into some modicum of free-thinking.

If you think about it, Hollywood is like a giant gas chamber, gassing out the imagination and child-like sense of wonder that might encourage anyone to become a filmmaker, a musician, a painter, etc. So it needs some Art Nazis and fake authority figures to tell people to disobey the entertrainment machine in all its soulless guises! The unfortunate thing about most human beings is that they need permission to do anything. And to give people permission, well, you need to be on top. Stay tuned for the punkrockapocalypse tour of The Bad Babysitter Project that is out to suck Hollywood security's blood in 2012!!! There IS a WAY OUT!!!!!

This saturday I was the least bit interested in going out to party, for once. The noise, music, and screams of drunken joyousness wasn't even enough to get me to go out. For the first time in years, I wanted to go to Blockbuster. Walking to Blockbuster, it was if the party world was mocking me. There was a line around the block at Element for a Fetish party. I walked past and felt humbled to see the nearly naked cyber goth chicks pinching pvc sporting "bears". Still, I was determined to not get distracted. I just wanted to spend one simple saturday, watching films. I made it to the storefront and alas, in front of me was a film entitled, "2012: Doomsday". I thought as if this film was mocking me as well. I walked in to check it out, remembering that I had seen this post on the Hollywood Apocalypse. When I returned home, I read the film summary. "On December 21, 2012 four strangers on a journey of FAITH are drawn to an ancient temple in the heart of Mexico. For the Mayans it is the last recorded day. For NASA scientists it is a cataclysmic polar shift. For the rest of us, it is Doomsday."Wow. Okay so I watched this film. Little did I know it was produced by a company known as Faith Films. I should have known better. It was one of the most craptastical flicks I have ever seen. I didn't know if it was the poor CGI, the consistently annoying proclamations of faith while dying, or the horrible acting that made me unable to even to stick it out through the end. Apparently, scientists go to the Mayan temple and find that there is a Jesus cross made of gold. A scientist takes it from the temple and the whole doomsday begins. The rivers run hot and kill the fish, volcanoes erupt, the whole shabang. So the world keeps on ending until the faith based scientists decide that the only way to save the world is by bringing Jesus' cross back to the Mayan temple. Sounds interesting? I think the people who had this film produced had the right idea, in a sense that "Doomsday" can be prevented by a little faith. I just thought it was a bit shocking to watch scientist shove a cross in an ancient Mayan temple to make Doomsday end. Not to mention it was shocking to see what horrible job these people did in creating this piece of rubbish. It makes me wonder what kind of crap Hollywood is going to come out with in the meantime. Made me wish I had actually gone out! Mer.

Maybe we should send the word out to lightworkers to boycott these films and send groups of clowns to picket the movie lines on premiere day. Really- the creeps who make these movies don't deserve our money- even if it's in the vein of "I want to see how bad this stuff is-" 'cause capitalistically speaking, it just feeds the monster. Some producer sees all the dough that was generated over 2012 Doomsday or whatever, and they seek to replicate aspects of the movie for future films. People need to take a stand and just not watch this trash if they really don't want to see stuff like this in theatres. Better to botch up the Terminator or some dumb romantic comedy/tragedy than support the complete desecration of one of the most advanced civilizations that ever lived.

I'm interested to see if this movie actually makes it past the conceptual stages and into theaters. Although very interesting that hollywood would take such a picture on, I am uncertian if it will benefit or distort the collective consciousness.The Quickining...2012

they have been playing all of the apocalyptic movies on tv too. it just seems "planned". i mean it makes sense to me if the tv is "their" main source of control to play all of these movies to get people thinking of what may happen. its just kinda humorous to me.