When Prophecy Fails... Again.

Rating: 4/10 (20 December 2010)

Ever since Festinger created the term 'Cognitive Dissonance' after a religious cult believed the World would end on 21st December 1954, very little has changed: There were idiotic people then who believed the World would end then and there are idiotic people now who stupidly believe that the World will end on 21st December 2012. Now, don't get me wrong, the action and the special effects were astounding but the moral message behind the film was completely uncalled for. That's right. The message that we will all die a horrible death on the 21st of December 2012 lingers about for around 158 minutes in this lame excuse for a film, and I'm actually surprised to see how many people have fallen for this prediction. Now, that's not to say that you're an idiot if you are easily influenced by messages such as these. I can at the very least admit that I felt quite wary at first when I heard all about the Mayan prophecies but it came to a point where a group (*ahem*- CULT -*ahem*) promised us that aliens would visit our planet, that's where I stopped believing in this prediction. If only others would follow my example: NASA have actually received emails from teenagers who are questioning what will happen in 2012, and are even considering suicide as not to witness the end of the World. Honestly, when will people learn? Emmerich, your disaster movies are eye-boggling but is it really necessary to question our moral standards? To questions our sanity levels? It really is ethnically wrong that you are forcing these young people to believe that we will all die on this particular day, whilst you make a profit. All I want to say is if you believe in this prediction then why not believe in fairies or unicorns? Pardon my sarcastic laugh - lol. If you want to believe this prediction and waste your time planning your travelling to many continents of the World as the characters did in the movie, then be my guest. Just don't act surprised when everybody laughs at you. The World ISN'T coming to an end. Let's face facts, people.