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PostPosted: 20:49 - 28 Oct 2009    Post subject: 2012 movie. Reply with quote
Looks good.

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The only thing i dislike about these disaster movies are the endings, always a happy one.

Should be good, even tho it is a PG.
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PostPosted: 21:29 - 28 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Seen a few trailer for this - the effects look good.

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The only thing i dislike about these disaster movies are the endings, always a happy one.


You can guarantee it can't you? I went to see Independence Day when it came out... promising start and then it turned to utter wank after the halfway point.
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Misc wrote:
The only thing i dislike about these disaster movies are the endings, always a happy one.

Should be good, even tho it is a PG.


'Knowing' had a pretty miserable ending, every fvcker bar a handful of kids died. On the entire planet.
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Looks like it's going to rely on huge budget special effects and a very weak storyline and actors to me, like most disaster movies. I would'nt get excitied, wait for it to be on TV, maybe in 2012.

Another way to tell a crap movie is an amazing looking trailer, shown you the entire budget already to get you to watch it as reviews certainly won't once it's out.

What probably will be good, is Avatar.
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PostPosted: 11:17 - 29 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
I cant wait for the 22nd Dec 2012 and we can prove all these fucktards wrong!
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What I'd like to know is exactly what 'they' mean by "The Mayan calander ends on 23rd dec 2012! Ooer!"

What the fvck does that mean? The world ends on that date? Or they ran out of stone-cutting tools? Or just got fvcking bored cutting a never-ending series of dates into said stones? What's the most advanced date we have printed anywhere in our world currently? I suppose archeologists of the future will look at that and go "Ooer, look, they stopped writing/printing dates on that date, must mean the world will end then..."

What is actually the case is archeologists have found loads of stones from the Mayan culture with dates on them, the most recent of which is dec 23rd 2012, with a half-legible fragment of something big supposed to be happening on that date. Who's to say there aren't more, as yet undiscovered, stones with dates more recent than that cut into them?

Or do 'they' mean the Mayan system of time was such it couldn't accomodate a date further than dec 23rd 2012? So maybe they figured "Lots of time left in which to work out a new system that'll take us past that point, when we need it...which won't be until 2012..."

The "event" they speak of would appear to be nothing more than the astronomical one, which occurs every 26,000 years (all the planets and the sun lining up with the centre of our galaxy at the same time as they're in it's eliptical plane). Supposedly this is going to cause catastrophic effects of one sort and/or another, which tie in to ancient legends of previous catastrophes, which coincidentally could have taken place around 26,000 years ago (sinking of Atlantis, the great flood etc). Certainly it does seem almost sure that something very big and bad happened in human pre-history.

But blah blah, it'll either be another big bag of fvckall, or something extremely damaging but survivable (solar flares knocking out electricity, satellites etc) or something majorly catastrophic (huge earthquakes and tsunami etc). Could be interesting, but if nothing happens at all I reckon it'll be the end of predictions for the rest of human time.
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PostPosted: 14:54 - 29 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
It actually means its the end of a "cycle" apparently it just starts again. Its already ened twice before. Its jus coincidence that it hapens to be on the same date as something else and everyones gone nuts about it!
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PostPosted: 16:19 - 29 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
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It actually means its the end of a "cycle" apparently it just starts again. Its already ened twice before. Its jus coincidence that it hapens to be on the same date as something else and everyones gone nuts about it!


Hardly "coincidence", considering the fragment that explicitly outlined some sort of huge bad event on the date in question.

It may well be that the history of the preceding 26,000 years was better known to the Mayans than it is to us. We actually know next to fvckall. We're still taught the Sphinx and Pyramids are no more than 5000 years old, when the Sphinx has wear on it caused by torrential rain over a very long period of time that last featured in that area over 20,000 years ago.
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PostPosted: 16:35 - 29 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
We'll just have to wait and see, tell you what if something does happen on the 21st Dec 2012, I'll eat my hat on the 22nd Wink
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PostPosted: 16:38 - 29 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hetzer wrote:
What I'd like to know is exactly what 'they' mean by "The Mayan calander ends on 23rd dec 2012! Ooer!"

What the fvck does that mean? The world ends on that date? Or they ran out of stone-cutting tools? Or just got fvcking bored cutting a never-ending series of dates into said stones? What's the most advanced date we have printed anywhere in our world currently? I suppose archeologists of the future will look at that and go "Ooer, look, they stopped writing/printing dates on that date, must mean the world will end then..."

What is actually the case is archeologists have found loads of stones from the Mayan culture with dates on them, the most recent of which is dec 23rd 2012, with a half-legible fragment of something big supposed to be happening on that date. Who's to say there aren't more, as yet undiscovered, stones with dates more recent than that cut into them?

Or do 'they' mean the Mayan system of time was such it couldn't accomodate a date further than dec 23rd 2012? So maybe they figured "Lots of time left in which to work out a new system that'll take us past that point, when we need it...which won't be until 2012..."

The "event" they speak of would appear to be nothing more than the astronomical one, which occurs every 26,000 years (all the planets and the sun lining up with the centre of our galaxy at the same time as they're in it's eliptical plane). Supposedly this is going to cause catastrophic effects of one sort and/or another, which tie in to ancient legends of previous catastrophes, which coincidentally could have taken place around 26,000 years ago (sinking of Atlantis, the great flood etc). Certainly it does seem almost sure that something very big and bad happened in human pre-history.

But blah blah, it'll either be another big bag of fvckall, or something extremely damaging but survivable (solar flares knocking out electricity, satellites etc) or something majorly catastrophic (huge earthquakes and tsunami etc). Could be interesting, but if nothing happens at all I reckon it'll be the end of predictions for the rest of human time.


You might be interested in the "Novelty Theory" put forward by Terence McKenna inspired by his use of DMT. The arseholes on wikipedia have packaged it all together under "2012 phenomenon" thereby reducing it to a fucking paragraph when before it had a whole page dedicated to it which was rather in-depth. Read around the net anyway, he basically came up with the same date, and this was several years before they discovered the mayan calendar IIRC, so it's intriguing if nothing else.

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PostPosted: 16:55 - 29 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
GhostRider wrote:
Hetzer wrote:
What I'd like to know is exactly what 'they' mean by "The Mayan calander ends on 23rd dec 2012! Ooer!"

What the fvck does that mean? The world ends on that date? Or they ran out of stone-cutting tools? Or just got fvcking bored cutting a never-ending series of dates into said stones? What's the most advanced date we have printed anywhere in our world currently? I suppose archeologists of the future will look at that and go "Ooer, look, they stopped writing/printing dates on that date, must mean the world will end then..."

What is actually the case is archeologists have found loads of stones from the Mayan culture with dates on them, the most recent of which is dec 23rd 2012, with a half-legible fragment of something big supposed to be happening on that date. Who's to say there aren't more, as yet undiscovered, stones with dates more recent than that cut into them?

Or do 'they' mean the Mayan system of time was such it couldn't accomodate a date further than dec 23rd 2012? So maybe they figured "Lots of time left in which to work out a new system that'll take us past that point, when we need it...which won't be until 2012..."

The "event" they speak of would appear to be nothing more than the astronomical one, which occurs every 26,000 years (all the planets and the sun lining up with the centre of our galaxy at the same time as they're in it's eliptical plane). Supposedly this is going to cause catastrophic effects of one sort and/or another, which tie in to ancient legends of previous catastrophes, which coincidentally could have taken place around 26,000 years ago (sinking of Atlantis, the great flood etc). Certainly it does seem almost sure that something very big and bad happened in human pre-history.

But blah blah, it'll either be another big bag of fvckall, or something extremely damaging but survivable (solar flares knocking out electricity, satellites etc) or something majorly catastrophic (huge earthquakes and tsunami etc). Could be interesting, but if nothing happens at all I reckon it'll be the end of predictions for the rest of human time.


You might be interested in the "Novelty Theory" put forward by Terence McKenna inspired by his use of DMT. The arseholes on wikipedia have packaged it all together under "2012 phenomenon" thereby reducing it to a fucking paragraph when before it had a whole page dedicated to it which was rather in-depth. Read around the net anyway, he basically came up with the same date, and this was several years before they discovered the mayan calendar IIRC, so it's intriguing if nothing else.

GhostRider


I had a quick read elsewhere, seems he calculates various events into his time-wave schedule, most of which don't quite fit and most of which are just events, no more or less significant than others that don't fit into his time-wave schedule.

Crap, in other words.
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PostPosted: 17:47 - 29 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hetzer wrote:
What I'd like to know is exactly what 'they' mean by "The Mayan calander ends on 23rd dec 2012! Ooer!"

What the fvck does that mean? The world ends on that date?

You're a non-beliver?

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=158161 - "2012 just around the corner"

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=1940669#1940669 - "I think the govts and associated scum have already figured there's something to the 2012 prediction"

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=1928697#1928697 - "There is some serious scientific evidence to support a forthcoming event. There's a vortex (safe-zone) somewhere on an island off the UK coast, he's going to give me the location soon as he's looked it up in his records."
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PostPosted: 18:01 - 29 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ste wrote:
Hetzer wrote:
What I'd like to know is exactly what 'they' mean by "The Mayan calander ends on 23rd dec 2012! Ooer!"

What the fvck does that mean? The world ends on that date?

You're a non-beliver?

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=158161 - "2012 just around the corner"

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=1940669#1940669 - "I think the govts and associated scum have already figured there's something to the 2012 prediction"

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=1928697#1928697 - "There is some serious scientific evidence to support a forthcoming event. There's a vortex (safe-zone) somewhere on an island off the UK coast, he's going to give me the location soon as he's looked it up in his records."


At this point I'm pretty open-minded either way. The lack of any momentous event in recorded history makes believing in anything out of the ordinary hard to accept but there has to be (another) first time.
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PostPosted: 22:44 - 29 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Phoenix wrote:
Looks like it's going to rely on huge budget special effects and a very weak storyline and actors to me, like most disaster movies. I would'nt get excitied, wait for it to be on TV, maybe in 2012.


The problem is that a film which lives by its special effects really has to be seen in the cinema to appreciate those effects. Just ordered an unlimited cinema pass, so I'll no doubt see it when it's released.

Phoenix wrote:
What probably will be good, is Avatar.


The only thing that puts me off this is that around 60% of the film is going to be CGI. Anyway, the new full-length trailer has just been released:
https://www.firstshowing.net/2009/10/29/epic-full-length-trailer-for-james-camerons-avatar-in-hd/
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2012 is all a load of bollocks. Nothing will happen.


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The last series of planetary configurations or perhaps more accurately called multiple planetary conjunctions occurred in the year 2000. Did the Earth tilt over? No. Did tidal forces trigger earthquakes? No. Did the polar ice caps melt? No. Were you even be able to see the conjunctions? Not really.

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PostPosted: 15:53 - 03 Nov 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
dafyddjohndavies wrote:
2012 is all a load of bollocks. Nothing will happen.


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Dr. Donald Luttermoser
East Tennessee State University: First of all, it is impossible for all the planets to form a straight line out from the Sun (or viewed superimposed on each other in the sky) because each planetary orbit is tilted slightly (and sometimes not slight at all in the case of Pluto) with respect to the Earth's orbit (whose plane we trace out on the night sky as a line completely around the sky and is called the ecliptic). These zealots confuse the term planetary alignment with the more accurate words that should be used, planetary configuration or a loose grouping of the planets in the sky. Actually the event that occurred in 1983 was that the planets (all eight of them -- we are on the ninth, Earth) would be within 96° of each other in the sky -- not in a straight line as most people would misinterpret with the term alignment. To have all of the planets on the same side of the Sun and virtually all within the same quadrant (i.e., 90°) happens approximately once every 200 years -- rare as far as humans are concerned, but not rare as far as the solar system is concerned.

The last series of planetary configurations or perhaps more accurately called multiple planetary conjunctions occurred in the year 2000. Did the Earth tilt over? No. Did tidal forces trigger earthquakes? No. Did the polar ice caps melt? No. Were you even be able to see the conjunctions? Not really.


Every 200 years, sure. But how often at the same time as the solar-system hits dead-centre on the galaxy's eliptical-plane? Once every 26,000 years.

One wouldn't assume that would make any difference, but what do we know?
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Whatever happens I want a front row seat !! Would be pretty cool if we all got wiped out together. There wouldn't be any need to fear death as there would be nothing worth living for.

Bring on the waves.... I think I'm going to learn to surf.
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Misc wrote:
The only thing i dislike about these disaster movies are the endings, always a happy one.

Should be good, even tho it is a PG.


that one with nicolas cage didnt end happy, we all died, incnerated by solar storm.

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Just went to see it and it was quite good. Storyline pretty laughable and basically did the different takes on the same theme (escaping danger in a plane) a fair few times. Got a bit heroicy towards the end and to me it looked as thought the shooting was a bit more low-budgety looking rather than high res panoramic shots.

Still I like explosions and human woe and what not so I thought it was good on that front. Some pretty cool effects but ultimately let down by being to happy and ignoring some real life effects. For instance, when a supervolcano like Yellowstone blows its top, theres is worldwide ash coverage for months and months let alone clear skies after 3 weeks.

I'd still reccomend seeing it.
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Anyone got a link for somewhere I can watch it? I'm not going to the cinema, it costs money Laughing
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Anyone got a link for somewhere I can watch it? I'm not going to the cinema, it costs money Laughing


cinema is a rip off now its like 7 quid+ in some places you can get the dvd for 9 and its not that hard to buy a projector and sound surround
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Well I'll watch it, for one thing and one thing (well person) only... Very Happy
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My girlfriend lives in Singapore, she saw 2012 on wednesday, she said it was excellent, we are going to see it together next week when I go to see her Thumbs Up
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Yeah I wanted to download it but I resisted the temptation cos I know that disaster films need a proper system to get the full effect.

I saw Knowing first in the cinema then on DVD at home a bit later on.

Stuff like plane crashes is waay better on the big screen than anything I could rustle up at home. To be honest tho, I dont go that often so paying 6.50 is something I dont mind.
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