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Is the 2012 Trailer Anti Catholic?
cmr ^ | November 12, 2009 | Matthew Archbold

Posted on 11/13/2009 10:27:18 AM PST by NYer

I'm a movie guy. I love going to the movies. Don't get there often but I still check out all the trailers online and plot strategy to get out of the house for those movies I really want to see.

So I just saw the trailer to the new movie 2012. When I first clicked on it my first thought was aren't we all getting tired of big budget disaster porn but then I paid attention to what I was seeing in the preview and something seemed a little...well you decide:


At the 20 second mark we've got the arms of the Jesus the Redeemer statue in Rio De Janiero falling off and then the whole thing falling over completely.

34 seconds in you see like fifty thousand people with candles standing in St. Peter's Square looking up at the Pope who's looking down at them.

36 seconds in you've got a crowd of people all making the sign of the cross.

Then you get about 12 or so seconds of regular old fireballs from the sky type mayhem.

50 seconds there's an image of St. Peter's Basilica toppling.

52 seconds cut to Cardinals inside praying only to look up at the art on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to see it breaking apart and presumably crushing them.

54 seconds Those people who were praying with candles outside are now screaming and running. Why? Because the dome of St. Peter's is crashing down on top of them and then rolling over them crushing a few thousand people as it rolls essentially on top of the camera blacking everything out.

(Holy metaphor alert Batman!)

The rest of the trailer is just regular old mayhem and the White House getting destroyed. And at the end it says, "Find out the Truth."

And I'm just sitting there thinking "I think somebody's got a problem with Catholicism." I mean, that makes Ron Howard looks pretty nice by comparison. But then I thought maybe it's just because Catholics have the big iconic architecture and imagery. I mean what would Protestant mayhem look like anyway? Rick Warren falling over on top of someone.

I don't like to jump to conclusions so I Googled Roland Emmerich, the director, who, according to numerous sources is openly gay and an activist liberal. But hey, it's Hollywood, who isn't?

I wondered if this guy has some sort of distaste for things Catholic. And darn it but what do I find? I warn you this is kinda weird.

In a closet in his house, Mr. Emmerich has a statue of Pope John Paul II laughing while reading his own obituary. That's right. Pope John Paul II. In a closet. Laughing while reading his own obituary. You don't believe me, right? Well, look below.



And then it gets a little weirder. I'm not kidding.
According to the Guardian:
Mao and Lenin fill the length of the 25ft living room wall; an old master-style painting of the Crucifixion shows Jesus sporting a Wham T-shirt; in the guest bathroom is a portrait of Saddam Hussein
I always just thought Roland Emmerich was a mediocre director of bad movies with a ginormous budget. That's still true. But now he's a mediocre director of bad movies that I'm not going to see.

Watch the movie trailer .... here .


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: 2012; antichristian; boycotthollywood; hollyweird; homosexualagenda; liberalbigot; rolandemmerich; vatican; whiners
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1 posted on 11/13/2009 10:27:20 AM PST by NYer
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Ping!


2 posted on 11/13/2009 10:28:27 AM PST by NYer ( "One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone"- Benedict XVI)
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To: NYer

All I know is that Danny Glover plays the president, so the casting was perfect.


3 posted on 11/13/2009 10:30:00 AM PST by WrightOnTarget
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To: NYer

Easily recognizable land marks.
The sign of the Cross is because there is no visual for the viewer to know that people are praying.
And finally its just a movie.


4 posted on 11/13/2009 10:32:49 AM PST by svcw (The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. GW)
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To: NYer; wagglebee

Roland has said that he is against organized religion. This makes him a bigot.

He has also said that he considered having the destruction of the muslims big rock in his film but reconsidered when advised that he may have a fatwa against his life.

So he is an anti-Christian bigot and a flaming coward to boot.

Boycott him AND the studio.

The fact that they fill the trailer with shots of his attacks on Christianity is not an “accident”. Even if you do not attend the film, you are still likely to be subjected to the trailer on tv and in the theaters.

Boycott the studio too.


5 posted on 11/13/2009 10:33:11 AM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: NYer

—I know I won’t be going to see it because as reported here on FR last week, the producer didn’t put in Mecca being destroyed because he was afraid of Islamic retaliation-—


6 posted on 11/13/2009 10:33:47 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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To: svcw

Birth of A Nation was just a movie.
The Eternal Jew was just a movie.


7 posted on 11/13/2009 10:35:08 AM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: NYer

Emmerich’s movies are boring for anyone with an IQ above room temperature.


8 posted on 11/13/2009 10:35:43 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Godspeed, T, on your fourth tour of duty in Iraq.)
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To: NYer
128 seconds you have Jihadest's building schools for girls so they can obtain an education ...
9 posted on 11/13/2009 10:35:49 AM PST by Scythian
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To: NYer

Outrageous! What cowards these bastards are. Try showing Mohammed’s face on the silver screen and see the cinemas go up in flames and be prepared to read the obituaries of the producers and actors.


10 posted on 11/13/2009 10:37:16 AM PST by Steelfish
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To: a fool in paradise

Correct.


11 posted on 11/13/2009 10:37:44 AM PST by svcw (The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. GW)
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To: NYer

I seldom if ever see anything coming out of Hollywood that shows Christians in a good light.

You will occasionally, occasionally see a movie that has a good message but any movie that has any explicitly Christian character in it, that character is usually a negative one. Lampooned if you’re lucky, but usually he turns out to be the serial killer or child molester or backstabbing sell-out in the story. I can’t remember the last time I saw a movie in which an explicitly Christian character was the good guy.

Its not just about Catholics, although Catholics make a good target, they’ve got all the cool and well-known icons that Hollywood loves to use and abuse, it makes for easy cinematic symbolism. So Catholics become Hollywood’s proxy for Christianity in general. But they don’t like any of us. I’m getting to the point that I don’t like any of them, either.


12 posted on 11/13/2009 10:38:32 AM PST by marron
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To: a fool in paradise

People tend to forget those movies when they want to make a point.


13 posted on 11/13/2009 10:39:55 AM PST by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: Steelfish; NYer
Outrageous! What cowards these bastards are. Try showing Mohammed’s face on the silver screen and see the cinemas go up in flames and be prepared to read the obituaries of the producers and actors.

"...the movie hasn’t been so much written as plotted on a graph — complete with national landmarks and religious icons torn to bits. No Muslim symbols, though; as Emmerich has honestly and gracelessly admitted, he dislikes all religions, but gave Islam a pass for fear of a fatwa on his head."
- '2012' movie review: Roland Emmerich ends the world ... again

14 posted on 11/13/2009 10:40:57 AM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Good point!


15 posted on 11/13/2009 10:41:27 AM PST by vladimir998 (Some public school grads actually believe BIGETOUS is a word)
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To: rellimpank

We as Catholics are the majority which is probably why they used the Catholics to represent in this movie. Quite frankly this could happen in 2012 does indeed happen. I am kinda impressed that they care about our religion to even speak about it. Islam religon would not be used because NOBODY would identity with it and who would understand what was going on if they were trying to show their religion. It would be so stupid to use Islam a religion nobody knows.


16 posted on 11/13/2009 10:41:40 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: NYer
Can you name a single influential person in the entertainment industry who is not anti-Catholic and anti-Christian? Try to identify a single movie in the last 5 years which does not have a homosexual, substance abuser, Scientologist or leftist as director or in a major acting role.
18 posted on 11/13/2009 10:43:48 AM PST by detective
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To: svcw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0gQu9475Vw&feature=related


19 posted on 11/13/2009 10:45:03 AM PST by vladimir998 (Some public school grads actually believe BIGETOUS is a word)
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To: svcw
And finally its just a movie.

And a bad one, to boot. Why, even the Kansas City (Falling) Star had a blurb that said basically that you end up rooting for the apocalypse over the characters. That coming from a paper that never met a liberal person or idea it wouldn't endorse.

20 posted on 11/13/2009 10:45:25 AM PST by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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