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The first trailer has been released for the apocalyptic flick 2012, starring John Cusack and Woody Harrelson--and I'm so very disappointed.

It looks as though it's just going to be a rehash of 2004's CGI-overloaded The Day After Tomorrow. Maybe I should have been tipped off by the fact that both movies are directed by Roland Emmerich. There are many theories about what a 2012 apocalypse will look like and so many different and interesting directions the movie could have gone. My favorite one is the global-conscious shift pondered in the book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck. His book book doesn't just paint the typical end of the physical world picture via massive tidal waves, earthquakes and meteors destroying the physical world.

The book's publisher explains it best, saying Pinchbeck "sees that humanity is precariously balanced between greater self-potential and environmental disaster. The Mayan calendar's 'end date' of 2012 seems to define our present age: It heralds the end of one way of existence and the return of another, bringing an unimaginably ancient--yet, to us, wholly new--way of living."

This was the kind of movie I was hoping to get from Hollywood when they finally decided to tackle the 2012 theory--a daring film that might inspire hope and have a real message along with the high quality production only they can provide. Instead it looks like it will be exactly what I've come to expect from the movie industry these days--yet another expensively CGI-ed movie featuring big-name actors like all the others we've seen so many times before.