The giant Rio statue of Christ crumbles, as does the Vatican, but don't worry...

"No Islamic landmarks were harmed in the making of 2012":

"Well, I wanted to do [include the destruction of Mecca], I have to admit ... but my co-writer Harald said I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie.

And he was right. ... We have to all ... in the Western world ... think about this. You can actually ... let ... Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have ... a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is.