This just shows how completely oblivious the producer of the film is to persons of the Christian religion. This guy, sounds like a wimp to me, as he is picking on non violent peaceful people, to get across a point.

At the rate America is going, it’s not long before it falls right to peices.

As for the ‘blowing up’ of our beliefs etc… I actually think the movie solidified what the bible says will happen to mankind as we know it. JMHO

That said, narratively speaking, the director of 2012 went way way out of his way to send the subliminal message that the huge crowd praying when the Sistine Chapel was obliterated, was praying to the wrong, non-existent or non-caring entity.

The movie did go out of its way to do absurd timing on special effects getaways by the lovable characters, which was okay with me, but regardless of whether the director handled it the way he did with the praying Christians, or even if Godzilla stepped on the Chapel and the people, it was a definite negative statement about Christianity while protecting another chosen religious symbol. To me, that either could be taken as ensuring global sales while assuming American audiences would “weather” the religious feedback storm, or, but to me, too much expense and emphasis was placed upon what happened to the Christians.

The FDA rules over pharmaceutical advertising using the words “fair balance” when a brand is compared to another brand, and in creative license within the entertainment industry, Independence Day used fair balance with a focus on global buildings as in the aliens wanted everyone snuffed out, as exemplified in the Area 51 scene where the alien comes out and communicates that.

To me, 2012 went the extra yard to ridicule the praying Christians. I’m not Catholic, Godzilla and aliens are fun, but I was offended immediately in the movie theater when I gathered that in global distribution, nations that hate Americans and Christians elsewhere, will love that scene just as much as they might have taken extra pleasure in seeing The White House being zapped in Independence Day.

For fair balance, they need to either be unafraid to wipe out other religious entities in the same tone, or, do the Sistine shot a la ID4 and just focus on the building, and not focusing on how praying people in Rome were obliterated without help from a God.

Other films such as Twister, Key Largo, etc. focus on how the characters deal with the elements without making any religious statement on whether praying will or will not help, it’s entertainment, but 2012 in my opinion is absolutely doing exactly what you noted in your blog, Caridad.

I liked it simply because I’ll go see anything John Cusack is in, and it’s a good thing it ended the way it did, because if it didn’t, that would have riled me up.

But in sports, the proverbial saying is “not in our house”, as in not in our arena. This isn’t Gladiator showing injustice in old Rome, this is post 9-11, the movie theaters in the US are “our house”, and Hollywood is well known for having different endings and having options for scenes depending upon the media outlet. In support of what you and others went through in NY, I support you in that the entertainment industry either needs to emphasize fair balance, otherwise, it’s coming into “our house” and making a statement, and the director is worthy of a Madison Square Garden, Wachovia Center, Staples Center-like not in our house boo.

I don’t care what he blows up–Christian, Muslim or Jewish. By depicting destruction as a slick spasm of “gee-whiz!” CGI moments divorced from human emotion, it distances the viewer from the true terror that real people of all faiths (or no faiths) face–whether it’s from a bomb, an air strike, an earthquake or a tsunami.

Um, how does one get rid of a fatwa?
Are there fatwa busters out there somewhere????