Word: doomsdayers
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...Americans are invited to experience the end of the world as we know it on the silver screen every year. This year is no exception—the highly touted apocalyptic vision “2012,” hitting theaters soon, puts a Mesoamerican twist on the conventional doomsday script. Yet though “2012” promises little in the way of a groundbreaking storyline, it promises nevertheless to be a box office hit—for, like all disaster movies, it portrays some of our culture’s most pressing philosophical concerns through its apocalyptic...
...admitted sucker for these sorts of movies, I choose to believe that Americans devour them year after year because they continue to capture our imaginations in the same way a skilled raconteur could millennia ago. Doomsday prophecies are a part of nearly every society on the globe; whether they involve Mayan calendars, judgment days, or doctors named Strangelove, people love to speculate about how such a complex and diverse ecosystem as Earth could suddenly succumb to the powers that...
Musing over the prospect of a doomsday forces us to consider the possible parameters of such an event. Would we want to know the exact date, or live in blissful ignorance until the day of reckoning? If the former, how would we prioritize our lives accordingly? If we survive the catastrophe, what would we do with our lives? And would we want to survive it anyway...
...that he minds doomsday predictions. "I like seeing those stories because this tells me that there are [still] so many unbelievers out there," said O'Neill, who has been visiting China for 20 years. "There will [then] be plenty of people to realize the power of recovery, and more importantly as it relates to China, to start to recognize what is quite simply the most important economic story of our generation and quite possibly our children...
...that stuff blows up great. With 2012 seemingly headed for a $500 million worldwide take (which it will need to earn back its gigantic budget), Emmerich will underline his status as the most successful openly gay director of all time. (Read the Techland interview: "Emmerich: 2012 Is My Last Doomsday Film...