Is the 2012 Trailer Anti Catholic?

cmr ^ | November 12, 2009 | Matthew Archbold

[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 .

[svcw]

Great graphics.

[NYer]

The sign of the Cross is because there is no visual for the viewer to know that people are praying.

I think this picture would have accomplished the same effect.

or even this photo ...

And finally its just a movie.

Movies influence people through visual statements. Emmerich is a a coward as are the people who support his films.

[Boogieman]

I hate to knock any place of worship, but I can’t resist this joke...

If that is the Greater 1st Baptist, what’s the Lesser 1st Baptist, a toolshed?

[visualops]

this has happened before, it will happen again

LOL and he can't even be original in his plot twists.

All of this has happened before, and will happen again

[Tennessee Nana]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Several major Catholic buildings, statues etc destroyed...

No, nein, neit, zero, zilch Moslem buildings, statues, etc desytoyed...

Now why would you ask that ???

Actually, in the movie “2011”, all the moslem holey places were destroyed...

Why there was a big holey for hundreds of miles where Mecca had been...

In “2012”, the remain 2 Moslems prayed bowing to a picture of the holey dust...

[fwdude]

There isn’t a movie made today that isn’t rife with political correctness and pop-culture vanity. I’ll pass - on all of them.

[mware]

There is one brief glimpse of what looked like Mecca to me.

It just showed a lot of people praying, no destruction.

From what I understand the director hates all religions but for safety reason (his own I presume) did not show the destruction of any Islamic sites.

[mware]

0:31 second into the trailer they show people praying in Mecca.

[wmileo]

This director has lived a shallow and uneventful life to make a movie of this subject without a frame of reference.

He and his family should have been kidnapped by Islamofacists and forced to live under Sharia Law. Then after enough time had elapsed for him to experience a fully rounded 'education', the United States Military along with Nuns from Catholic Charities should rescue him and his family.

'Developing Perspective'!!! It's not just a job. It's an adventure!!

[wmileo]

If aliens bent on our destruction arrived, they would treat OBAMA as a 'Friendly Human' alone with the rest of the Socialists.

I, being a non diversified American would call them Collaborators!

'THE DUCK I Says'

[anglian]

“Emmerich reveals fear of fatwa axed 2012 scene,” by Ben Child in the Guardian, November 3 (thanks to all who sent this in):

He blew up the Empire State Building and the White House in Independence Day, sent a giant monster careering through the heart of Manhattan in Godzilla and destroyed the famous Hollywood sign in The Day After Tomorrow. But it seems there are places even Roland Emmerich will not go - the German film-maker has revealed he abandoned plans to obliterate Islam’s holiest site on the big screen for fear of attracting a fatwa.
For his latest disaster movie, 2012, the 53-year-old director had wanted to demolish the Kaaba, the iconic cube-shaped structure in the Grand Mosque in Mecca that Muslims the world over turn towards every day when they pray and which they circle seven times during the hajj pilgrimage....

“I wanted to do that, I have to admit,” Emmerich told scifiwire.com. “But my co-writer Harald [Kloser] said I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie. And he was right.

“We have to all, in the western world, think about this. You can actually let Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have ... a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is.

“So it’s just something which I kind of didn’t [think] was [an] important element, anyway, in the film, so I kind of left it out.”

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/11/disaster-flick-filmmaker-decides-to-destroy-christ-statue-rather-than-mecca-in-new-film-for-fear-of.html

[anglian]

“Arab” is not the point. “Muslim” is. Here the original link. “Emmerich reveals fear of fatwa axed 2012 scene” Roland Emmerich, the director had wanted to depict the destruction of Islam’s holiest site, but was persuaded not to. http://scifiwire.com/2009/11/5-best-things-2012s-direc.php

[steve-b]

If you can’t see a movie for free or steal a TV show by downloading it, don’t watch it.

So, which part of the Magisterium supports interpreting "Thou shalt not steal" to read "Thou shalt steal"?

[B-Chan]

It doesn’t. Stealing is wrong. I do wrong things all the time, for which I must pay. Please don’t blame the Church for my refusal to behave as a good Christian.

[a fool in paradise]

“I for one welcome our new ant overlords.”

[wmileo]

"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."

Does this mean that Danny Glover is finally dead???