There's a small but notable family of films in which he workd as humanity defines it ends and everyone dies.
The grandaddy of them and arguably the best is of course "On the beach". That movie gave me horrors when I was a kid.
More recently we had movies where humanity didn't end itself but was ended by astronomical phenomena like "melanochia" and "these final hours".
So, anyone want to discuss any end of the world movies?
Nicholas Meyer's frightening The Day After :buggedout:
There was a dreadful scifi movie a few years ago where aliens sucked up all the people into giant spaceships and processed them as food.
SKYLINE I think it was called. Totally depressing pic.
Quote from: indianasmith on February 03, 2019, 09:53:14 AM
There was a dreadful scifi movie a few years ago where aliens sucked up all the people into giant spaceships and processed them as food.
SKYLINE I think it was called. Totally depressing pic.
I noticed a follow up to that one. Not bothered picking it up though.
TESTAMENT (1983) was pretty bleak
The Cabin in the Woods :teddyr:
BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES (1970) which is my favorite Apes sequel.
Quote from: Trevor on February 03, 2019, 05:07:36 AM
Nicholas Meyer's frightening The Day After :buggedout:
Quote from: The Burgomaster on February 06, 2019, 06:46:16 PM
TESTAMENT (1983) was pretty bleak
Yeah-but the world didn't end. People were still alive.
Both great films! But we were still here.
In WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (1951) the whole planet is destroyed-except for a rocket ship full of people who land on another planet.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 11, 2019, 09:59:05 PM
In WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (1951) the whole planet is destroyed-except for a rocket ship full of people who land on another planet.
I grew up loving that movie!
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 11, 2019, 10:14:40 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 11, 2019, 09:59:05 PM
In WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (1951) the whole planet is destroyed-except for a rocket ship full of people who land on another planet.
I grew up loving that movie!
I like it too.
The last people on Earth die in a dinosaur/atom bomb footage holocaust in ROBOT MONSTER (1953)!
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 10, 2019, 07:59:58 PM
BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES (1970) which is my favorite Apes sequel.
Yeah, that one was pretty messed up, but the concept was very cool. Not sure how they got past that ending to make sequels, maybe they pitched it as a possible future of Earth, or it took place on an alternate timeline. As a kid, I had the comic adaptation and vinyl record (which I still have), but I never got to see it until years later. It's funny how my parents would buy me comic adaptations of movies I was too young to see!
Quote from: indianasmith on February 03, 2019, 09:53:14 AM
There was a dreadful scifi movie a few years ago where aliens sucked up all the people into giant spaceships and processed them as food.
SKYLINE I think it was called. Totally depressing pic.
Skyline looked so cool in the trailers but turned out to be quite disappointing. The bizarre thing was at the end, where the main guy's mind inhabits the body of an alien, so it was
kind of a hopeful ending?
It was surprising to see a sequel/reboot of Skyline, as it performed badly at the box office and was a bad movie overall. I haven't seen it, but the Indonesian action star Iko Uwais (The Raid) appears in it.
The Divide (2011). From what I remember it was a world ender. It's kind of a brutal movie if you watch it.
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaLpieSNIfk#)
S.N.U.B. The few survivors of a nuclear war are picked off one by one in a nuclear bunker. I should review that film some time just so you can see how nuts the officer in charge drives me.
Knowing (2009)
In the ending, the world gets destroyed and only a boy and a girl (and two bunnies) survive, in a weird religious themed scene. I've heard it's just propaganda for scientology but I'm not into that stuff to say for sure.
It starts pretty good, but at like half an hour in it goes downhill with no breaks. The idiotic ending with aliens is so bad that it will make you hate Nicholas Cage even more. The movie seriously looks as if three different people wrote the script and just smashed it together.
Favorites parts:
* A plane crashes, one survivor just runs away engulfed in flames, and Nicholas says "hey!" to him. I laughed for like five minutes after this.
* The cellphone that can't make a call because there's no signal yet the signal icon is to the top.
* The stones, a plot line that got abandoned halfway and never made any kind of sense.
A trainwreck of a movie.
Knowing, Invasion from Inner Earth, & End of the World (1977) come to mind.
No one mentioned DR. STRANGELOVE?
There could have been some survivors, but it doesn't seem likely.
The Martian Chronicles
Earth is destroyed in a nuclear war, most of humanity kinda breaks down after that, so there's no one really left to rebuild on Mars. If I remember the end right the main character moves to a Martian city with his family to become Martian.
Are we talking about movies where everyone's dead, or is it okay for a small group to survive? (Children, like in Knowing, two people like in End of the World?)
@Gabriel Knight - yeah, Knowing definitely makes this list. And it's an odd one, for sure. The symbolism of the chlidren with bunnies is really odd and unexplained - there are some Illuminati conspiracy type videos which suggest that Knowing is some kind of MK Ultra/Monarch/New World Order thing. It's just odd. I enjoyed it for the most part, until it got to the angels with rabbits thing. Then it made no sense at all.
Rabbits are a symbol of fertility.
Quote from: Archivist on February 13, 2019, 07:26:56 PM
@Gabriel Knight - yeah, Knowing definitely makes this list. And it's an odd one, for sure. The symbolism of the chlidren with bunnies is really odd and unexplained - there are some Illuminati conspiracy type videos which suggest that Knowing is some kind of MK Ultra/Monarch/New World Order thing. It's just odd. I enjoyed it for the most part, until it got to the angels with rabbits thing. Then it made no sense at all.
There's a review in IMDB that makes pretty convincing conections with Scientology, and it wouldn't be very surprising since that cult has taken plenty of Hollywood stars already.
Every time a Tommy Wiseau movie is shown :wink: