We managed to watch through this thing last night; the more popular 2012 being laughably silly, I went into this with a certain mindset, expecting something of a suckfest—and that worked out beneath and beyond my expectations.
The film itself, inasmuch as that's what it was, had the problems I'd expected: subpar acting, effects, editing, concept, and so on; the lack of basic research [to the degree that the Maya predicted anything, it was based on an astronomical event which took place—by our calendar—in 1998] was sorta required, or they'd never have bothered making this thing; not that I'd necessarily hate seeing a film based on 21st December 2012 coming and going eventlessly, possibly with characters noting that the calendars disagree by fourteen years and that the Maya actually continued on with their mapping through 13th October 4772—I suppose that could be a decent comedy of sorts.
As to the theological insanity: that was simply annoying and eventually predictable; we'd worked out that the film was going to abandon its little ID4 spoof in favour of a LeftBehind spoof long before any TrueBelievers[tm] started poofing off to points unevidenced; the film's parody of atheism [anyone else getting tired of the accusation that atheists believe in a deity, but hate the thing?] was among the worst I've seen. Which leads to the question itself....
Personally, I have no more or less contempt for christworshippers than I have for any theists. That said, to the extent that I bash them over Odinworshippers, it's because I tend to wait for theists to come to me before I get into any bashing; if anyone still believes that Odin killed Ymir and built the universe into his head, they're not pretending that in public where I get to hear about it. Just in case, to any Odinworshippers out there: heh; grow up.
—Gremlin
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