"The Mayans Warned Us"...

dudalb · 20th October 2009, 12:04 PM

The latest line being used in ads to sell "2012" the upcoming Roland Emmerich POS film.
From the man who brought us "Day After Tommorow" and "10'000 BC". A real promoter of solid science is Roland Emmerich.

Safe-Keeper · 20th October 2009, 12:08 PM

Pardon me for being arrogant, but I find it truly amazing how many people seriously believe something this stupid.

dudalb · 20th October 2009, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper

Pardon me for being arrogant, but I find it truly amazing how many people seriously believe something this stupid.

Agreed. And Emmerich is adding fuel to the fire. Besides, the guy is a crappy filmmaker.

Aepervius · 20th October 2009, 01:24 PM

The day after tommorow was not TOO bad. it was distracting. I expect this film might also be distracting for the hour or two you watch it, as long as you can cut away the woo , and see the film for the distraction only.

Vortigern99 · 20th October 2009, 01:37 PM

The movie is clearly a work of fantasy/sci-fi fiction; the ad slogans are playing with the currently popular "2012" myth/meme, but they're not pretending that the story is based on anything real or scientific. It's all in good fun for the sake of another dumb*** disaster picture.

Almo · 20th October 2009, 01:39 PM

I don't care when films do stuff like this when they're clearly fiction. I really liked The Gift even though I don't believe in ESP. Expelled, however...

Marduk · 20th October 2009, 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper

Pardon me for being arrogant, but I find it truly amazing how many people seriously believe something this stupid.

I bet you hated Independance day

hey wait, Safe Keeper,
weren't you in Ghostbusters

fromdownunder · 20th October 2009, 02:00 PM

There are times when I will happily go to the pictures, and check my coat, hat, and brain at the door, and simply enjoy 2 hours of utter crap.

Just call it a time out.

Norm

Marduk · 20th October 2009, 02:01 PM

Originally Posted by dudalb

The Mayans Warned Us

unfortunately
noone warned them

dudalb · 20th October 2009, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by Marduk

unfortunately
noone warned them
http://images.blockbuster.com/is/amg...21150pjg6s.jpg

Actually no one warned the Mayans about the Toltecs. Maya as a dominate power and culture were history a couple of hundred years before the Spanish showed up. They got pretty much devestated by the Toltecs and Proto Aztecs from the North.

Marduk · 20th October 2009, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by dudalb

Actually no one warned the Mayans about the Toltecs. Maya as a dominate power and culture were history a couple of hundred years before the Spanish showed up. They got pretty much devestated by the Toltecs and Proto Aztecs from the North.

humour needs to be historically accurate now ?

dammit
I didn't get that memo

Senex · 20th October 2009, 06:14 PM

"The Mayans Warned Us"...

What does that really mean? You should have maxed your credit cards out, not worried about long term damage to your liver and engaged in unsafe sex because there was no long term price to pay after December 2012?

Hell, I did that every day before Mayan prophesy came to my preview movie screen.

The Mayan's prophesy turned out to be behind the Senex life style.

I'm always ahead of the curve

Alan · 22nd October 2009, 04:14 PM

Originally Posted by Vortigern99

The movie is clearly a work of fantasy/sci-fi fiction; the ad slogans are playing with the currently popular "2012" myth/meme, but they're not pretending that the story is based on anything real or scientific. It's all in good fun for the sake of another dumb*** disaster picture.

I remember seeing a card in a trailer for it that said something along the lines of "Science has proven it".

Tumblehome · 23rd October 2009, 02:40 AM

I don't suppose the movie portrays ancient Mayan society as too dumb to live within its means and failing catostrophically. That would detract from the image of them as wise enough to predict the end of the world a thousand years into the future.

daSkeptic · 23rd October 2009, 03:22 AM

Originally Posted by dudalb

A real promoter of solid science fiction is Roland Emmerich.

Fixed it for you.

Graham2001 · 23rd October 2009, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper

Pardon me for being arrogant, but I find it truly amazing how many people seriously believe something this stupid.

I wonder how many people fell for this claim about the 1980 film Hangar 18

Quote:

This film was produced by Sunn Classic Pictures, the leading "four-wall" distributor of documentaries. Although this was a straight science fiction film, Sunn's TV spots promoted it as if it were another of their documentaries that would "reveal the truth about UFOs" even though the space shuttle which was used in the film had not yet had its first launch.

IMDB

imjohn · 23rd October 2009, 10:26 PM

If sacrificing your fellow man to the sun isn't a sign of an advanced civilization, I don't know what is.

MattusMaximus · 23rd October 2009, 10:51 PM

The thing about this stupid claim is that the Mayans have done nothing of the kind, it's just some dumb fantasy dreamed up by delusional New Agers. In fact, modern day Mayans think all of this 2012 business is a bunch of crap. I blogged about this in much more detail here.

Moochie · 24th October 2009, 01:04 PM

Originally Posted by Vortigern99

The movie is clearly a work of fantasy/sci-fi fiction; the ad slogans are playing with the currently popular "2012" myth/meme, but they're not pretending that the story is based on anything real or scientific. It's all in good fun for the sake of another dumb*** disaster picture.

Yep. Good way to put it, Vortigern99.

M.

Moochie · 24th October 2009, 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by fromdownunder

There are times when I will happily go to the pictures, and check my coat, hat, and brain at the door, and simply enjoy 2 hours of utter crap.

Just call it a time out.

Norm

Yep, and we all need one now and again. I found the movie, The Sixth Sense, positively intriguing. And Willis's performance wasn't all that bad, either.

M.

Moochie · 24th October 2009, 01:10 PM

Originally Posted by Senex

"The Mayans Warned Us"...

What does that really mean? You should have maxed your credit cards out, not worried about long term damage to your liver and engaged in unsafe sex because there was no long term price to pay after December 2012?

Hell, I did that every day before Mayan prophesy came to my preview movie screen.

The Mayan's prophesy turned out to be behind the Senex life style.

I'm always ahead of the curve

Maxed-out credit card: Check

Long-term damage to liver: Check

Engaged in unsafe sex: What's "sex"?

M

George152 · 24th October 2009, 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by Moochie

Maxed-out credit card: Check

Long-term damage to liver: Check

Engaged in unsafe sex: What's "sex"?

M

Ever notice how these harbingers of doom never sell all their possessions at cost to we less credulous types ?

MattusMaximus · 24th October 2009, 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by George152

Ever notice how these harbingers of doom never sell all their possessions at cost to we less credulous types ?

Sell? Screw that... I want them to give me all of their stuff for free.

Earthborn · 24th October 2009, 08:26 PM

You can say whatever you want about the Mayans, but you can't deny that they had a highly accurate calendar. That means we ignore their predictions at our own peril.

fromdownunder · 24th October 2009, 08:31 PM

Originally Posted by Moochie

Yep, and we all need one now and again. I found the movie, The Sixth Sense, positively intriguing. And Willis's performance wasn't all that bad, either.

M.

I was actually thinking of the most recent Star Trek reboot when I posted.

Norm

rjh01 · 24th October 2009, 10:16 PM

I wonder how well this movie will sell in 2013? That is on DVDs.

Sex is a number between five and seven.

TheSkepticCanuck · 24th October 2009, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by Earthborn

You can say whatever you want about the Mayans, but you can't deny that they had a highly accurate calendar. That means we ignore their predictions at our own peril.

We have a highly accurate calendar too. It corrects itself when necessary and everything. However, I have it on good authority that the Earth did not come to an end at the end of any of them. We just go to the store and buy a new one. I could be pedantic and make one that was good for thousands of years, but I would hope that no one was stupid enough to think that when that calendar ended, it meant that I thought that the world was going to end on that date. I would more likely mean that it was time to start again at the beginning, or possibly get a new calendar from whomever was making them at the time. Maybe the Mayans planned to make an updated calendar when the current one ran out, to take into account whatever they had managed to learn since making the old one. Maybe add in any new holidays that were created in the meantime.

Pixel42 · 25th October 2009, 01:37 AM

Originally Posted by Earthborn

You can say whatever you want about the Mayans, but you can't deny that they had a highly accurate calendar. That means we ignore their predictions at our own peril.

I love The Onion.

Lensman · 25th October 2009, 07:50 AM

I watched the movie - now my brain needs to be scrubbed with bleach & a wire brush.

I wasn't expecting anything but a movie with some good SFX - it didn't even have that!

dudalb · 25th October 2009, 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by Lensman

I watched the movie - now my brain needs to be scrubbed with bleach & a wire brush.

I wasn't expecting anything but a movie with some good SFX - it didn't even have that!

It does not open for a another few weeks, so I presume you saw it on at a preview or you got a pass for a showing for critics (not that hard if you are good buddies with a film critic for a major paper).

As you needing your brain scrubbed....that it was a Roland Emmerich film should have told you you would walk away dirty.

foco · 25th October 2009, 09:55 PM

If the Mayans could really prophesize, then why couldn't they forsee Cortez?

the_eye · 26th October 2009, 05:48 AM

Their is no substantial proof that the Mayans believed that the world is going too end in 2012. More likely the Calendar would be set back to zero.

The Drain · 26th October 2009, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by Lensman

...a movie with some good SFX..

Is that similar to unsafe SFX?

Dragonrock · 26th October 2009, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by Lensman

I watched the movie - now my brain needs to be scrubbed with bleach & a wire brush.

I wasn't expecting anything but a movie with some good SFX - it didn't even have that!

You mean it isn't even good disaster porn?

Lensman · 26th October 2009, 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by Dragonrock

You mean it isn't even good disaster porn?

Not even as "good" as something off the Sci-Fi (SyFy) Channel!

Originally Posted by The Drain

Is that similar to unsafe SFX?

Not even in the same continent, let alone ballpark!

The woo was poorly done too.

Bikewer · 26th October 2009, 06:05 PM

Looks like the date may be a bit off, according to a Slashdot article:

http://science.slashdot.org/story/09...-2220?from=rss

Nosi · 26th October 2009, 06:12 PM

I predict I will go to Taco Bell on December 31 2012. There will be a disaster.

dudalb · 26th October 2009, 06:58 PM

Originally Posted by Lensman

Not even as "good" as something off the Sci-Fi (SyFy) Channel!

Not even in the same continent, let alone ballpark!

The woo was poorly done too.

I looked at your spoiler, and just about collapsed laughing.
I knew that Emmrich had no respect for history..."The Patriot" with it's numerous mistakes and fakery showed that...but what you said in the spoiler is so freaking off base it's drop dead funny.

Pixel42 · 27th October 2009, 01:55 AM

Originally Posted by Lensman

The woo was poorly done too.

Should be a popular film in Utah

The Drain · 27th October 2009, 08:36 AM

Is anybody else resisting the temptation to look behind Lensman's Spoiler/Hide?

I don't want to ruin my enjoyment of what I'm sure will be a fascinating and intelligent docudrama.

So here's what I think Lensman might be hiding from those of us who haven't had the privilege of seeing this fine film yet: 1) In a last-minute intervention, the hero's Special Holistic Intuitive Team saves the day by hitting Mexico and removing the present day Mayan Threat.

Am I close? Any other suggestions?

20th October 2009, 12:04 PM	#1
dudalb Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 14,444	"The Mayans Warned Us"... The latest line being used in ads to sell "2012" the upcoming Roland Emmerich POS film. From the man who brought us "Day After Tommorow" and "10'000 BC". A real promoter of solid science is Roland Emmerich.

20th October 2009, 12:08 PM	#2
Safe-Keeper Illuminator Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Bergen, Norway Posts: 4,373	Pardon me for being arrogant, but I find it truly amazing how many people seriously believe something this stupid.
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20th October 2009, 01:24 PM	#4
Aepervius Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,391	The day after tommorow was not TOO bad. it was distracting. I expect this film might also be distracting for the hour or two you watch it, as long as you can cut away the woo , and see the film for the distraction only.
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20th October 2009, 01:37 PM	#5
Vortigern99 Graduate Poster Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 1,028	The movie is clearly a work of fantasy/sci-fi fiction; the ad slogans are playing with the currently popular "2012" myth/meme, but they're not pretending that the story is based on anything real or scientific. It's all in good fun for the sake of another dumb*** disaster picture.
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20th October 2009, 01:39 PM	#6
Almo Masterblazer Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Montreal, Quebec Posts: 3,048	I don't care when films do stuff like this when they're clearly fiction. I really liked The Gift even though I don't believe in ESP. Expelled, however...
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20th October 2009, 12:54 PM	#3
dudalb Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 14,444	Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper Pardon me for being arrogant, but I find it truly amazing how many people seriously believe something this stupid. Agreed. And Emmerich is adding fuel to the fire. Besides, the guy is a crappy filmmaker.

20th October 2009, 01:48 PM	#7
Marduk Dragon Killer Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Newbury, Berkshire Posts: 3,073	Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper Pardon me for being arrogant, but I find it truly amazing how many people seriously believe something this stupid. I bet you hated Independance day hey wait, Safe Keeper, weren't you in Ghostbusters
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20th October 2009, 02:00 PM	#8
fromdownunder Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,527	There are times when I will happily go to the pictures, and check my coat, hat, and brain at the door, and simply enjoy 2 hours of utter crap. Just call it a time out. Norm

20th October 2009, 02:01 PM	#9
Marduk Dragon Killer Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Newbury, Berkshire Posts: 3,073	Originally Posted by dudalb The Mayans Warned Us unfortunately noone warned them
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20th October 2009, 02:39 PM	#10
dudalb Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 14,444	Originally Posted by Marduk unfortunately noone warned them http://images.blockbuster.com/is/amg...21150pjg6s.jpg Actually no one warned the Mayans about the Toltecs. Maya as a dominate power and culture were history a couple of hundred years before the Spanish showed up. They got pretty much devestated by the Toltecs and Proto Aztecs from the North.

20th October 2009, 02:41 PM	#11
Marduk Dragon Killer Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Newbury, Berkshire Posts: 3,073	Originally Posted by dudalb Actually no one warned the Mayans about the Toltecs. Maya as a dominate power and culture were history a couple of hundred years before the Spanish showed up. They got pretty much devestated by the Toltecs and Proto Aztecs from the North. humour needs to be historically accurate now ? dammit I didn't get that memo
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20th October 2009, 06:14 PM	#12
Senex Graduate Poster Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: An autobody repair shop in Connecticut Posts: 1,835	"The Mayans Warned Us"... What does that really mean? You should have maxed your credit cards out, not worried about long term damage to your liver and engaged in unsafe sex because there was no long term price to pay after December 2012? Hell, I did that every day before Mayan prophesy came to my preview movie screen. The Mayan's prophesy turned out to be behind the Senex life style. I'm always ahead of the curve
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22nd October 2009, 04:14 PM	#13
Alan Critical Thinker Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 366	Originally Posted by Vortigern99 The movie is clearly a work of fantasy/sci-fi fiction; the ad slogans are playing with the currently popular "2012" myth/meme, but they're not pretending that the story is based on anything real or scientific. It's all in good fun for the sake of another dumb*** disaster picture. I remember seeing a card in a trailer for it that said something along the lines of "Science has proven it".

23rd October 2009, 02:40 AM	#14
Tumblehome Graduate Poster Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Beside the point Posts: 1,100	I don't suppose the movie portrays ancient Mayan society as too dumb to live within its means and failing catostrophically. That would detract from the image of them as wise enough to predict the end of the world a thousand years into the future.

23rd October 2009, 03:22 AM	#15
daSkeptic Muse Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Bellingham, WA ... under the cheese counter at Haggen Posts: 712	Originally Posted by dudalb A real promoter of solid science fiction is Roland Emmerich. Fixed it for you.
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23rd October 2009, 09:15 AM	#16
Graham2001 Critical Thinker Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Perth, Western Australia Posts: 337	Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper Pardon me for being arrogant, but I find it truly amazing how many people seriously believe something this stupid. I wonder how many people fell for this claim about the 1980 film Hangar 18 Quote: This film was produced by Sunn Classic Pictures, the leading "four-wall" distributor of documentaries. Although this was a straight science fiction film, Sunn's TV spots promoted it as if it were another of their documentaries that would "reveal the truth about UFOs" even though the space shuttle which was used in the film had not yet had its first launch. IMDB
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23rd October 2009, 10:26 PM	#17
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23rd October 2009, 10:51 PM	#18
MattusMaximus Intellectual Gladiator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the midst of a vast, beautiful & uncaring universe Posts: 7,123	The thing about this stupid claim is that the Mayans have done nothing of the kind, it's just some dumb fantasy dreamed up by delusional New Agers. In fact, modern day Mayans think all of this 2012 business is a bunch of crap. I blogged about this in much more detail here.
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24th October 2009, 01:04 PM	#19
Moochie Philosopher Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 5,371	Originally Posted by Vortigern99 The movie is clearly a work of fantasy/sci-fi fiction; the ad slogans are playing with the currently popular "2012" myth/meme, but they're not pretending that the story is based on anything real or scientific. It's all in good fun for the sake of another dumb*** disaster picture. Yep. Good way to put it, Vortigern99. M.
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24th October 2009, 01:07 PM	#20
Moochie Philosopher Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 5,371	Originally Posted by fromdownunder There are times when I will happily go to the pictures, and check my coat, hat, and brain at the door, and simply enjoy 2 hours of utter crap. Just call it a time out. Norm Yep, and we all need one now and again. I found the movie, The Sixth Sense, positively intriguing. And Willis's performance wasn't all that bad, either. M.
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24th October 2009, 01:10 PM	#21
Moochie Philosopher Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 5,371	Originally Posted by Senex "The Mayans Warned Us"... What does that really mean? You should have maxed your credit cards out, not worried about long term damage to your liver and engaged in unsafe sex because there was no long term price to pay after December 2012? Hell, I did that every day before Mayan prophesy came to my preview movie screen. The Mayan's prophesy turned out to be behind the Senex life style. I'm always ahead of the curve Maxed-out credit card: Check Long-term damage to liver: Check Engaged in unsafe sex: What's "sex"? M
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24th October 2009, 02:22 PM	#22
George152 Critical Thinker Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Hamilton New Zealand Posts: 375	Originally Posted by Moochie Maxed-out credit card: Check Long-term damage to liver: Check Engaged in unsafe sex: What's "sex"? M Ever notice how these harbingers of doom never sell all their possessions at cost to we less credulous types ?
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24th October 2009, 08:12 PM	#23
MattusMaximus Intellectual Gladiator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the midst of a vast, beautiful & uncaring universe Posts: 7,123	Originally Posted by George152 Ever notice how these harbingers of doom never sell all their possessions at cost to we less credulous types ? Sell? Screw that... I want them to give me all of their stuff for free.
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24th October 2009, 08:26 PM	#24
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24th October 2009, 08:31 PM	#25
fromdownunder Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,527	Originally Posted by Moochie Yep, and we all need one now and again. I found the movie, The Sixth Sense, positively intriguing. And Willis's performance wasn't all that bad, either. M. I was actually thinking of the most recent Star Trek reboot when I posted. Norm

24th October 2009, 10:16 PM	#26
rjh01 Fire Warden Tagger Join Date: May 2005 Location: Planet Earth Posts: 9,810	I wonder how well this movie will sell in 2013? That is on DVDs. Sex is a number between five and seven.

24th October 2009, 10:25 PM	#27
TheSkepticCanuck Scholar Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Ottawa, Ontario Posts: 117	Originally Posted by Earthborn You can say whatever you want about the Mayans, but you can't deny that they had a highly accurate calendar. That means we ignore their predictions at our own peril. We have a highly accurate calendar too. It corrects itself when necessary and everything. However, I have it on good authority that the Earth did not come to an end at the end of any of them. We just go to the store and buy a new one. I could be pedantic and make one that was good for thousands of years, but I would hope that no one was stupid enough to think that when that calendar ended, it meant that I thought that the world was going to end on that date. I would more likely mean that it was time to start again at the beginning, or possibly get a new calendar from whomever was making them at the time. Maybe the Mayans planned to make an updated calendar when the current one ran out, to take into account whatever they had managed to learn since making the old one. Maybe add in any new holidays that were created in the meantime.
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25th October 2009, 01:37 AM	#28
Pixel42 Graduate Poster Join Date: May 2004 Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 1,345	Originally Posted by Earthborn You can say whatever you want about the Mayans, but you can't deny that they had a highly accurate calendar. That means we ignore their predictions at our own peril. I love The Onion.

25th October 2009, 07:50 AM	#29
Lensman Graduate Poster Join Date: May 2007 Location: Caerphilly Posts: 1,112	I watched the movie - now my brain needs to be scrubbed with bleach & a wire brush. I wasn't expecting anything but a movie with some good SFX - it didn't even have that!
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25th October 2009, 04:56 PM	#30
dudalb Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 14,444	Originally Posted by Lensman I watched the movie - now my brain needs to be scrubbed with bleach & a wire brush. I wasn't expecting anything but a movie with some good SFX - it didn't even have that! It does not open for a another few weeks, so I presume you saw it on at a preview or you got a pass for a showing for critics (not that hard if you are good buddies with a film critic for a major paper). As you needing your brain scrubbed....that it was a Roland Emmerich film should have told you you would walk away dirty.

25th October 2009, 09:55 PM	#31
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26th October 2009, 05:48 AM	#32
the_eye Scholar Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Australia Posts: 55	Their is no substantial proof that the Mayans believed that the world is going too end in 2012. More likely the Calendar would be set back to zero.

26th October 2009, 09:46 AM	#33
The Drain Master Poster Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Atlantic - up there in the top right corner Posts: 2,017	Originally Posted by Lensman ...a movie with some good SFX.. Is that similar to unsafe SFX?
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26th October 2009, 12:37 PM	#34
Dragonrock Militant Elvisian Tacoist Join Date: May 2002 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 8,098	Originally Posted by Lensman I watched the movie - now my brain needs to be scrubbed with bleach & a wire brush. I wasn't expecting anything but a movie with some good SFX - it didn't even have that! You mean it isn't even good disaster porn?
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26th October 2009, 05:21 PM	#35
Lensman Graduate Poster Join Date: May 2007 Location: Caerphilly Posts: 1,112	Originally Posted by Dragonrock You mean it isn't even good disaster porn? Not even as "good" as something off the Sci-Fi (SyFy) Channel! Originally Posted by The Drain Is that similar to unsafe SFX? Not even in the same continent, let alone ballpark! The woo was poorly done too. Christians in 5th/6th Century Mezzo-America!!!!!!!!!
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