End of the world movies.

[josh patrick]

Ever think sometimes that the minutes, hours and days are getting longer and longer and time just seems to be slowing to a standstill? Well, according to Dr. Joseph R. Kopeski, (by way of the Weekly World News) that isn’t just a side-effect of a long work week, a dull school lecture, or a broadcast of the Academy Awards. “No”, says Joe. The fact is, we are slowing down. Yes, the whole darn planet. And unless something can be done to give our cosmic rip cord a good yank, the home world’s rotation is just gonna keep tapering off until we stop dead as a UPN sitcom. Not that the majority will have to worry about the results of that terrible terminus. The good news, according to Dr. Joe, is that what with all the floods, fires, earthquakes, assorted other earth changes and mass starvation that’ll happen in the interim, most of us will be long dead by the time the Jan. deadline rolls around. Ah, hope springs eternal!

So, why do we keep making movies about the end of the world, do we really think we can really comprehend what the end will be like, wheter time stops or and asteroid hits I will be laughing all the way! So as time time slowing comes to and end what is your favorite end of the world movie?

[Fearless Freep]

I think there have been so many end-of-the-world movies on so many subjects that when it finally happens, a lot of people are going to be saying "This is just like that movie,..."

[systemcr4sh]

World Weekly News isn't that reliable of a source is it?
Whats next, topics about BAT BOY? or ALLIGATOR man?

[raj]

I want to know who the space alien is going to support in the next election.  And does Bat Boy prefer Chelsea Clinton or the Bush twins.  Inquiring minds want to know.

[josh patrick]

its still interesting no matter who it comes from!

[Dano]

They make movies about the end of the world because it's the ultimate stake.  Best movie where the world actually ended: Dr. Strangelove.

[peter johnson]

Strangelove is indeed an almost perfect picture.
I love the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" BBC - TV series, though not technically a movie.
"On The Beach" is flawed, though has its moments.
How about "When Worlds Collide"?  -- dated, sure, but has real cinematic tension & great great special effects for its day --
Even though the world doesn't actually end, it comes damn close, & this is my all-time favorite end-of-the-world film & my all-time favorite cheap science-fiction film:
"Five Million Years to Earth (in Britain:  "Quatermass and The Pit")" (Hammer, 1965)).  See it today!!!
peter johnson

[Squishy]

I'd label "End of the World" as the worst. A VERY low point in Christopher Lee's career (this was around the time he was making "Starship Invasions" and such awful, awful crap), the climactic moment involves a painted papier-mache ball gettin' blowed up, after about five minutes of disaster footage lifted from other movies--some decades old! Everything prior to this special-effects "bonanza" is pointless, patently silly, and astonishingly boring. Look: if your budget is only seven dollars, you have to aim a little bit lower than that.

Best one: "Planet of the Apes." You just don't KNOW it's an "end-of-the-world" movie until the very end. (Screw any sequels, TV spin-offs, and especially remakes, even if the whole planet didn't completely cash out until later.)