I know what sticklers you all are about language usage so I wanted to clue you in on the standard usage of Maya/Mayan. According to Linda Schele, a world renowned Mayanist, the adjective Mayan is used to refer exclusively to the language. So it is the Maya people, Maya culture, Maya art, Maya ruins and the Mayan language. If you want to sound like you know what you are talking about, use Mayan only when referring to the language, everything else is Maya.

Now, about the end of days, 2012. “In the past it has been assumed that since 13.0.0.0.0 will occur again in the Maya calendar on December 23, 2012, the Maya era, and the world with it, will end on that day. This is a misconception, however: the Maya projected events forward to October 15 and 23, 4772, and there is evidence that they perceived this creation to have a minimum cycle of slightly under 142 nonillion years (Schele 1986). It is, therefore, not surprising that Omar and Pablo and their families don’t know anything about the end of times occurring December 2012 because they are still looking forward to celebrating in 4772.

From the trailers, the movie is just way beyond belief. I am able to suspend disbelief and enjoy movies but I’m not totally brain dead. It just looks so silly that I will not be able to go for fear of laughing myself sick at all the narrow escapes that are just so totally unbelievable.

Trailers without pity 2012.. Nice :)