Before watching the movie:

I pointedly stayed away from this movie. I didn’t want anything to do with the 2012 doomsaying because it was a load of bunk and hucksters were coming out of the walls to scare and fleece people, so I certainly didn’t want to touch the big blockbuster movie profiting off of that hype. Anything cosmological being cited was clearly nonsense or overblown, and the much-touted Mayan calendar was almost certainly a case of “plotting out thousands of years in the future is good enough for now”. But I think twelve years (15 years since release) is enough time to put some emotional distance in place.

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