It just goes to show how many disaster movies we’ve had when in an effort to make a poster featuring the destruction of a world landmark that we haven’t seen getting buggered before, 2012 ends up showing Rio’s Christ The Reedemer statue getting washed away. It’s not that it isn’t a good landmark, but it’s just not what you’d expect. It’d make more sense if the Mayans (the fact their calendar ‘runs out’ in 2012 is a major part of the movie) had lived in Brazil, but they didn’t.
Maybe the makers just don’t like Christianity, as they destroy St Peter’s in Rome in the trailer.
The Christ the Redeemer poster is just one of three new apocaplitic promo images for Roland Emmerich upcoming super-disaster flick, the others featuring a battleship crushing the White House and Los Angeles being literally ripped in two.
BTW, yesterday we wondered why the world was ending in 2012 (in the movies at least), and apparently it’s because of all the planets lining up in orbit, which causes some sort of solar event and general everything getting majorly screwed, which allows for an amalgamation of every disaster movie that’s gone before, from earthquake and tidal waves to meteors and the Earth’s crust ripping.
Take a look at the new posters below. 2012 is out in cinemas on November 13th. From the ridiculous amount of destruction in the trailers, we can’t wait.
