I hope that wasn't to imply that the creators didn't think much of Christian belief but rather that the big Jesus statue in Argentina(?) is a prominent, well-known landmark. And we all know destruction is more exciting if important landmarks are involved.

That's a good point, Warrior. The Christ the Redeemer statue and the Vatican are readily recognizable landmarks. Their destruction doesn't automatically mean the filmmakers are opposed to Christianity - a Tibetan temple (likely Buddhist), for example, is destroyed by a flood late in the movie.

I just saw the movie "Sarah's Choice" (Rebecca St. James, Brad Stine) yesterday and it is fantastic! very powerful for girls of all ages.....I loved it! it was very well done and when it was over I was crying!

That's a good point, Warrior. The Christ the Redeemer statue and the Vatican are readily recognizable landmarks. Their destruction doesn't automatically mean the filmmakers are opposed to Christianity - a Tibetan temple (likely Buddhist), for example, is destroyed by a flood late in the movie.

I agree to a point, my friend. The Christ the Redeemer statue is a very distinctive landmark and to show it falling apart is supposed to evoke a feeling rather than being a blatant attack on Christianity. However...acting out of a sense of self-preservation (or cowardice, depending upon one's viewpoint) Roland Emmerich said the following as to why no Muslim landmarks were shown being destroyed in his end of the world movie.

"Well, I wanted to do that, I have to admit ... but my co-writer Harald 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." (full article here)

I guess I can't really blame the guy. We've dealt with abuse of our beliefs and God throughout history but one Danish cartoonist draws a satirical cartoon of Mohammed a few years ago and the Islamic world went ballistic, including the usual death threats and promises of fatwa.

Ah well...that's the world we live in. Still I'd like very much to see the film...I haven't yet and I've heard reports it's a special effects laden extravaganza.

^I guess that's true

Libby: I jsut saw that movie yesterday too! I loved it- I was bawling all through the end! It was really great

I rented 2012 yesterday. I will say it is one of the better of the End of the World genre movies, but has quite a few very unrealistic things (nearly all related to plane escapes).

I thought 2012 was an okay movie, but not one I'll ever want to see again.

@Avra:

P.S."Brooklyn!"

I just saw the movie "In The Blink Of An Eye" (David A.R. White) yesterday and it was awesome! totally worth seeing if anyone gets a chance!

I ahve to watch that movie soon- we own it . I also want to watch Saving God.

My brother saw Saving God last year and said it was really good! I might see it but I am not sure.

It looks interesting and a friend just lent it to us so I'll probably be watching it soon

I finally got to seeing Driving Miss Daisy for the first time and I gotta say it's a very good movie. Nice and easily told, but with alot to tell. Wonderfully acted by both leads. All around a great movie, definitely recommended.

^^Liberty Hoffman reccomended that movie to me, but I haven't seen it yet.

Good to see this thread on the first page again!

I was going to add some comments re 2012 -as I just saw it last week and am still processing it in my head.

I didn't actually notice the lack of Muslim-symbols-being-destroyed; but I did notice the prominence of Christian symbols being totalled and did wonder where the filmaker was going with that or what he was trying to say there. Reading comments from that article posted on the previous page, I can understand why they chose not to depict Islamic destruction, if I was a neutral filmaker I wouldn't bother getting a large religious group angsty either.

The film as a whole suffered from one too many deux ex machinas but was still very gripping (I realised this when I had to pause it halfway and go pick up my sister from the shops!) and I was desperate to know how it would end -which is probably a positive thing for a movie to be able to do, ha. The characters were very well developed and I felt terrible when the

Whilst I appreciated the shout out to conspiracy theorists such as Crazy-Yellowstone-Man being not so crazy or ignorant as the average onlooker would suppose, I didn't appreciate the calm way in which some of the leading protagonists (Really Smart African Scientist Man & Really Pretty Art Loving President's Daughter) dismissed the fate of the curate of the Louvre and other 'accidents' which they realised were taking place and being instigated by their own government -they were deemed as necessary evils. I think that whole any-means-to-an-end-no-matter-how-evil theology was paradoxically aligned with the whole we're the good guys who need to survive to secure the future of the human race thing.

Highlights of the film included the awesome Chinese Elderly Lady and the Tibetan Tea Pouring Monk with Cool Analogies characters. Also the fact that John Cusack played the leading role was a big plus (I like his acting alot!) I also especially enjoyed that at the end of the film

Lowlights included having most countries mentioned/portrayed except Australia and New Zealand -they weren't even part of the group of leaders in the Arks! That was a little sad for me; what happened to them?!

In other film news I recently re-watched the Spongebob Square Pants movie at the demands of my little sister, highlights included Patrick the Starfish and the appearance of David Hasselhoff.

Also, StudyMate my dad mentioned that

. So while the director destroyed a lot of Christian places (which, I think, was mainly because they are prominent places that everyone would recognize), he redeemed it some in someway by choosing that country.

And yeah, there were a lot of close calls that were most times unrealistic. The death I was most upset about was

P.S."Brooklyn!"