What Is your favorite END OF THE WORLD movie?

[MrScorpio]

I have a soft spot for When Worlds Collide

ANd oh yes, The original Planet of Apes series

[LadyoftheRabbits]

1. Independence Day...

The world didn't quite end, but it was pretty damn well destroyed.

[Atmashine]

26. ID4 is my favorite too.

I forgot to add: MARS ATTACKS 2nd place.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb

is my favorite by far.

[MrScorpio]

7. How could I forget that one?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

28. That's my favorite movie ever.

So, of course it's my favorite end of the world movie.

George C. Scott is genius in that film.

"Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines."

"I... I don't know exactly how to put this, sir, but are you aware of what a serious breach of security that would be? I mean, he'll see everything, he'll... he'll see the Big Board!"

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

41. "You can't fight in here. This is the war room!"

"I do not avoid women, Mandrake...but I do deny them my essence."

[Floogeldy]

3. Miracle Mile

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097889/

[Tikki]

38. Yes, yes....I second this movie.....n/t

[hyphenate]

48. Miracle Mile

was great! Too bad it didn't get as much theater time as it deserved.

[Hissyspit]

4. The Bed Sitting Room

Richard Lester directed, his follow-up to "How I Won The War," featuring John Lennon, and "Petulia."

[TheCentepedeShoes]

5. When you posted this

"When Worlds Collide" came to mind - (Hey, I'm psycho, er psychic, ask me anything) - although "Dr Strangelove" is my most favorite movie of all genres.
We were asked at a work training session to name our favorite movies, and among all the "Beaches" "Beaches" and "Beaches" was one "Dr. SL."

[Sugar Smack]

6. The Day After.

What's wrong with me? :popcorn:

[hyphenate]

49. A very chilling one

that was excellently presented.

[SoCalDem]

8. On the Beach is the best one..(maybe the first nuclear one)

I saw it as a kid during th "Cuban Missile Crisis".. we were in lockdown on our airforce base.. full alert...and planes took off round the clock.. as a nervous pre-teen, I wasn't sure I would make it to my teens :scared:

[maveric]

25. I liked the Gregory Peck version better than the Armand Assante one.

Anthony Perkins was also in that great film.
Scared the hell out of me.

[SoCalDem]

32. There was a remake? I have only seen the Fred Astaire, Gregory Peck

Tony Perkins, Ava Gardner one.. a true classic...and understated too.. It's a "thinking person's" movie..

of course, modern people have never seen a shade pull like that and probably only have seen coke bottles at a museum :)

[CanuckAmok]

35. Don't bother with the remake.

As usual, the original trumps the homage.

[terrya]

9. "Testament"

With Jane Alexander.

It captured the horrors of nuclear war more powerfully than any movie I've seen (including "The Day After")

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. Hell of a film

Alexander was outstanding. :thumbsup:

Imagine having to sew your own kid into a sheet to bury her. :scared:

I've heard the British "Threads" was just as gritty, but I haven't seen it. Should check Netflix for it right now.

Edit: Kevin Costner was in "Testament." I think it was his first film role.

[CanuckAmok]

36. "Threads" is good, too. Makes "The Day After" look like "Marty".

:scared:

[peekaloo]

10. On the Beach

[Skittles]

15. ditto

I suspect many selecting otherwise have never seen it

[Fox Mulder]

11. Independence Day

[datasuspect]

12. the omega man

that was back when chuck heston was A-list in hollywood.

[unpossibles]

13. Delicatessan (French movie - brilliant)

by the Amelie & City of Lost Children crew.


also:
Mad Max
Planet of the Apes series
Omega Man
Hell Comes To Frogtown
Dawn of the Dead (I think it counts - and I prefer the original)


I love a lot of these kinds of movies actually - does that say something about me?? Heck, I even enjoyed Water World on some level, as awful as it was...

[nytemare]

40. Have you seen "A Very Long Engagement" yet?

That is a good one. I got Delicatessen a couple of weeks ago. The director sticks to the same actors.

:D

[unpossibles]

45. no, but if it's not already on my greencine list

it will be.

thanks.

[nytemare]

46. You will enjoy, it has Audrey Tautou.

And the guy that starred in Delicatessen, and as the angry customer in Amelie is in it too.

[Random_Australian]

14. Neon Genesis Evangelion - The End Of Evangelion.

Made after the creator had a mental breakdown, it is the single weirdest and best thing I have ever seen.

Only makes sense if you had seen the series though.

[Ohio Joe]

16. 12 Monkeys

I also realy like Romero's "Dead" movies.

[Ramsey]

17. On the Beach

In 1964, nuclear war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair.

With Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner

[YankeyMCC]

18. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

:)

[Patiod]

19. "Last Night" (with Sandra Oh) is really haunting

Shouldn't watch when you're depressed - about the last 6 hours of the world, when everyone knows it's been coming for a while. With an odd cameo by Geneiveve Bujold.

[MorningGlow]

20. Fantastic movie!

Loved the way everybody dealt with the impending--what was it? an asteroid impact or something? (Plus loved the way they never actually explained it!)

[CanuckAmok]

34. DINGDINGDING!

Yes!

One of the most tender movies ever. Beyond the impending violence, there's such a display of human frailty.

Love it.

[terrya]

51. Man, how did I forget this great film?

I love "Last Night". A superb character driven story. Sandra Oh (from "Grey's Anatomy") is especially wonderful. I liked the fact that it's never explained why the world will end...like you said, it's a given that it will end in 6 hours (although one clue was the fact that it was bright daylight at 11PM in the movie)

[Hissyspit]

21. 5 - (1951) probably the very first serious nuclear end of the world drama

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043539/

[ChickMagic]

22. On the Beach

No doubt. I like Planet of the Apes too (the original).

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. The Thing.

[Atmashine]

29. The black and white or color one?

[Rabrrrrrr]

30. The color one.

Sadly, I don't remember how the other one ended! It's been 25 years since seeing it!

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. 'The Day the Earth Caught Fire'

and "When Worlds Collide."

[bikebloke]

31. The Quiet Earth

A good Kiwi flick.

[Common Sense Party]

33. Gigli

At least, I was PRAYING for the world to end.

[CanuckAmok]

37. total fun --> the remake of Dawn of the Dead.

Cheesy Canadian production, with Sarah Polley and Ving Rhames. It also features cameos by Tom Savini and Ken Foree (the "star" of the original version).

Love it.

So does Maddox:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=dawn_rules

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

39. Donnie Darko.

True story: I caught that late one night while suffering from insomnia. I saw it was coming on at twelve and, since I'd heard it was a neat little sci-fi movie, decided to catch the first fifeteen minutes of it. So I finally get to bed at around three AM. And for awhile I'm just lying there asleep thinking about the movie when there's an enormous explosion and the whole house shakes and I can hear people's car alarms going off miles down the road.

There was an article in the paper about it a few days later, some people think it was the sonic boom from a meteorite, others think it was a freak bolt of lightning. I don't think it was the latter.

[MrScorpio]

42. Close to it

Fail Safe

Serious Shit

[A HERETIC I AM]

43. "A Boy and His Dog"

with none other than Don Johnson!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072730/

A little surreal...but arent they all?

[cobalt1999]

44. I can't believe no one has said "An Inconvient Truth"

[El Fuego]

47. "12 Monkeys"

Also a favorite movie overall.

[unpossibles]

50. good call. I love that movie n/t

[LanternWaste]

52. The Stand (Stephen King mini-series)

One of the three or four books of his that I didn't feel guilty reading and a damn fun watch on the small screen...

Trivia: It was the first Stephen King novel adapted for the screen after King was able to reclaim all pre- and post-production creative rights to his work.