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Thanks for coming to see 2012 with the YAS

By Young Aus Skeptic Admin

22
Nov. 09

On Friday a small group of us went to see 2012 at Melbourne Central. I would just like to say thank you to everyone who came, and even though it was only a small group we still managed to meet new people and have a fantastic discussion and a great time!

We will be doing more of this in the future so stay tuned and please feel free to email in with suggestions!

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8 Responses to “Thanks for coming to see 2012 with the YAS”

  1. 1
    Jason Ball says:
    November 22nd, 2009 at 11:32 pm

    What did you think of the movie?

  2. 2
    ZenonC says:
    November 22nd, 2009 at 11:43 pm

    2012 is one of the most stupid movies I have ever seen, hands down.

    That being said, it was a pretty cool roller-​​coaster, and if I ragged on it for being unrealistic, i’d deny myself the right to enjoy the next transformers movie.

    I am glad that they didn’t spend too long on the mayan prediction stuff too. The fact that the movie doesn’t take itself to seriously makes it easier to digest as well.

  3. 3
    Daniel Carabellese says:
    November 23rd, 2009 at 12:09 am

    There has to be some kind of YAS event when the convention is on. Pub, cinema, dinner, anything like that. That way visiting skeptics, such as myself, can intrude.

  4. 4
    Richard says:
    November 23rd, 2009 at 12:23 am

    :(

    Would have loved to see it. Sadly, I was otherwise occupied…

  5. 5
    Jason Ball says:
    November 23rd, 2009 at 3:12 am

    It was very anti-​​religion.

    http://​www​.guardian​.co​.uk/​f​i​l​m​/​2​0​0​9​/​n​o​v​/​0​3​/​r​o​l​a​n​d​-​e​m​m​e​r​i​c​h​-​2​0​1​2​-​k​aaba

    “The movie depicts a global doomsday event supposedly predicted by the Mayans more than a thousand years ago – in order to highlight his opposition to organised religion, the director decided to use CGI to destroy the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. For good measure, he also blew up the Sistine chapel and St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, plus, on a secular note, the White House (again).”

    The ending was very Humanistic as well.

  6. 6
    Luke Weston says:
    November 23rd, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    Roland Emmerich is certainly a very liberal guy who isn’t afraid to butt heads with conservatives, so it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise.

  7. 7
    Young Aus Skeptic Admin says:
    November 24th, 2009 at 12:19 am

    It may have been anti-​​religious, but it was definitely fail science most of the way through.

  8. 8
    Luke Weston says:
    November 25th, 2009 at 12:38 am

    Worst neutrino physics ever.

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