Dharma-Burger! The infamous “2012″ monk returns
For months now, this forthcoming film has been getting mentions (and some grief) in the buddhablogosphere: One City called it “sure to be stupid,” and its trailer has been being passed around for its use of a Tibetan monk as the harbinger of doomsday.
Its new poster brings the monk back; he’s becoming an unlikely logo for a blockbuster film.
And here, again, is that trailer.
(Thanks for the heads-up, Danny.)
So: what do you think?
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September 7th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
And I’d say they deserve all the flack they get.
Dharmabuger, indeed…
September 9th, 2009 at 7:26 am
Regardless, the wave that comes crashing over the mountains looks pretty damn cool.
September 9th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Sigh…
September 11th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Oh for the love of Buddha! Enough with Buddhists being depicted as holders of all the great mysteries. Unless their’s some inner circle, which I don’t know about. Ha!!
Besides, I thought it was the Mayans who warned us of this? Buddhists, Mayan Pagans…eh, what’s the difference? It seems at least that’s what Hollywood thinks.
Good old Hollywood. They can always be counted on to get it WRONG.
September 11th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
there’s I mean.
September 15th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
That’s true Jamie.
September 16th, 2009 at 8:59 am
I wonder what the karmic implications for destroying a CGI monastery are?
September 16th, 2009 at 11:24 am
It’s silly yup. I just read it as the last height of land, the Himalayas, the locals running to sound the alarm; a simplistic penny arcade scenario, but where did all that water come from? I mean it’s cascading over 25+ thousand foot mountains! You know, above sea level? Did Gawd leave his bathtub running? Again?! Sheesh.
September 21st, 2009 at 9:00 am
The clip is pretty retarded. It’s cold as hell at that height and somehow the ice turns into water? I can tell whoever wrote that scene obviously has never left Hollywood and the only mountains they are familiar with are probably made of coke! LOL