{"id":493,"date":"2009-06-30T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/06\/just-in-time-for-the-christmas-holidays.html"},"modified":"2009-06-30T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T07:44:00","slug":"just-in-time-for-the-christmas-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/06\/just-in-time-for-the-christmas-holidays.html","title":{"rendered":"Just in time for the Christmas holidays&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;what may be the most spectacularly depressing movie of all time!<\/p>\n<p>Really. <\/p>\n<p>Roland Emmerich &#8212; who obliterated much of the world in &#8220;Independence Day,&#8221; and then went back to do it again with &#8220;The Day After Tomorrow&#8221; &#8212; turns his dark imagination toward the End of Days and post-9\/11 angst with something called &#8220;2012.&#8221;  The trailer, below, is a stunner.  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