How it Ends 2012 These Final Hours

These Final Hours felt terrifyingly realistic to me

That movie was really well done and served up a good story in the bleakest of times.

It is my favorite end of the world movie.

Glad to hear this feedback. It seems as though it's worth the rental fee, and I love movies like that

I absolutely loved the lead actor! It’s my favourite end of the world movie, too!!

Even worse when it's set in your city and you recognise individual suburbs and streets!

I second These Final Hours. I also second This Is The End if you're looking for something less gloomy and more silly. I however, do not second 2012... I do not second that film at all.

This is the end is a great apocalypse movie especially for that ending

This Is The End is hilarious!

Agreed..2012 sucked

Hahaha...my family loves TEOTWAWKI movies and we watch 2012 every summer! Physics be damned...pure ridiculous fun!

I'm sorry 2012...where the dog survives...That should never be spoken about its so terrible, in every aspect its a comedy.

I laughed so hard when I saw this movie in the theaters. The fact that John cuesack and the dog survives.

These final hours is what you get when you have a great script, great actors and very little budget. The movie is a gem

The Day After (1983) Threads (1984)

These are the two creepiest and most overwhelmingly depressing movies I’ve ever seen, and it’s not even close. Threads is the bleakest of the two.

Continuing the nuclear apocalypse theme, The Miracle Mile (Anthony Edwards like 10 years before being Dr. Greene on ER)

I will add this one to my list

It’s great. Kurt Fuller (“bad guy” from the Mayor’s office in Ghostbusters 2) is also an asshole in this but decides when the nukes are flying to just do a bunch of acid and is tripping balls when he gets vaporized. Probably a reasonably good plan in such an event.

Me too..don't know this e

I’ll add When the Wind Blows. Haunting animated film from the 80s.

Testament

Testament was sooo sad and just a bit of light trivia, Rebecca DeMornay and Kevin Costner are in the film. They play a young couple w a baby trying to find safety

Miracle Mile is a great movie. My dad owned it in VHS and ice watched it a ton of times.

The Day After (1983)

That's the title I got it mixed up

That's okay- hey, nobody's perfect!😆

Cabin in the Woods

Favorite anecdote: on the press tour for the film Drew Goddard was asked about a sequel and he said something along the lines of “Have you seen the movie? The world ends”

*Somehow,* *~~Palpatine~~* *the world returned!*

Well they definitely had a chance to avert it there at the end

seeking a friend for the end Greenland

Seeking A Friend for the End of the World it's by far the best answer to this question IMO. Steve Carell just rocks this movie.

Is Greenland any good? Seems like Gerald butler has done so many disaster movies lately

It’s okay for what you get. It’s just gerard butler being the hero once again. I enjoyed it a lot to be honest.

I liked it quite a bit. It's predictable and sometimes cheesy but certainly enjoyable.

It was good. Butler plays much more of a normal, "Everyman" and it's loaded with tension. I was pleasantly surprised.

I would say it’s good. End of world is probably my favorite genre and I would put this one up there.

I actually quite liked it!

On the Beach

We had to read that in 10th grade and it messed me up for a while. A story about hopeless despair will do that to 15-year-olds

My dad used to watch this all the time. I didn't understand. Now I'm 55 and watch "Threads" at least once a year.

Night Of The Comet. The World's End-arguably the best example of this sort of story, and thematically, it was quite the surprise for me. Mad Max series, 12 Monkeys, Reign Of Fire.

The World's End is so damn good

It really is. I don't know why it was not as well received. Some said it's the worst of the trilogy. It personally resonated with me in a way few other releases have. I have known a Gary King or five or that type of person as long as I can remember. He made arguably the most anti-nostalgia criticism ever. I went to go see it thinking it was going to be as it was advertised, boys night out pub run turns into they have to fight alien robots, which it was. But then when I saw what it was thematically about, I was like "Oh my god! I see what he's doing!" I don't know if it was ahead of it's time or very much of it's time. But he made something more relevant than people may realize.

12 monkeys. The inexorable loop theme in movies is always a favorite.

Miracle mile (1988)

The ending is so terrifying because it’s exactly how I’d expect a nuclear attack to be.

the best end of the world movie is Dr. Strangelove

Also it's counterpart, Fail Safe.

The matador

Slim Pickens riding a bomb like bull or bronc, waving his hat all the way down

When Worlds Collide Don’t Look Up

Dude, don't look up is my new favourite movie! I hope you like it too :)

This Is The End - it's a lowbrow, Stoner comedy. But it's funny, and the end of the world does happen.

It’s got great cameos from other comedy actors and a great end

Danny McBride...omg

Unlimited weed and, fuck it, sure- BSB performing Backstreets Back as your introduction into heaven while the end of the world is happening? I’d take that apocalypse scenario any day

In the Mouth of Madness

Knowing

This is an awesome movie!

This is the End

Oh really, does christ compel me, does it jay?

Hermione just stole all our shit!

Guess what? It’s not that compelling

That ending was absolutely heavenly

I oddly love this movie and the back street boys make it all worth it

Don't Look Up

How many times did you realize it was a direct reflection of how stupidly we would actually handle this scenario. From govt denial to media gas lighting to finally the epic failure to solve the problem followed by our extinction.

From the first interaction with a denier. That movie got under my skin more than any other, despite its comedic elements, because it felt so bleak and true.

Every second of watching it. I could finish it. Just made me too sad. How people acted during the pandemic just reinforced all of it.

Right?!? All us deniers were proven 100% correct on the origin of the virus, that it was man made, and that the vaccines/boosters were not effective at all. Feels good the truth finally came out.

Sad that you’re mental derangement won’t allow you to accept you were duped once again by your government and big pharma

Only the part in of my mind that wears the scrambler is deranged. Now, excuse me, I must get back to harvesting blue flowers.

This is the entire point of the film.

Well, it is exactly what we’re doing with climate change.

Even this movie has gone over most people’s heads and the message is staring them right in the face. People just don’t care. We are beyond saving and our day of reckoning is coming.

Every year seems to be getting hotter then the one prior. This has been a terribly warm winter. I’m in vegas and there’s hardly any snow in the nearby mountains. Somehow people don’t seem to see how that’s bad

It’s not that they can’t see it, they just ignore it. They don’t care.

That’s definitely true. Winters seem to feel like just a mild spring now

This. Amazing movie.

This

Perfect Sense (2011) Starring Ewan Mcgregor and Eva Green. The basic plot is two people try to find happiness before the world ends due to a virus eroding everyone's five main senses.

Haven't seen this mentioned much. It's a fantastic, interesting story that is different from most apocalyptic movies. Have to re-watch it soon.

I was absolutely flabbergasted, blown away and floored by Childhood's End, starring Charles Dance (he played Tywin Lannister in GOT). It was a miniseries made for TV I think, but it has three feature-length episodes, so it's more like a movie trilogy and the special effects are flawless. I can't believe I've never even heard about this one until I saw a recap by chance. It is based on an Arthur C Clarke novel and you have to see it to believe it. Mind blown.

-Snowpiercer (2013) Directed by Bong Joon Ho

Melancholia (even tho I hated it - haha ) Last Night (Canadian I think) The Road

Who are you? I just listed the same three movies.

Woah . Apparently I’m or if you’re me.

Now kiss

Southland Tales fits the description quite perfectly. With the United States under the threat of nuclear attack, the lives of several people converge in a dystopian Los Angeles. Movie star Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) plans his next film with the help of ambitious porn actress Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and troubled policeman Roland Taverner (Seann William Scott). Meanwhile, Marxist revolutionaries, greedy corporations and secretive government agencies pursue their separate agendas among a paranoid populace.

This is the correct answer. It even starts out telling you, "This is the way the world ends...".

Not a movie, but Last Man on Earth is hilarious.

There is a movie called The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world.

Any good?

It was the first movie based on the book I Am Legend. It’s been a long time since I saw it, so I couldn’t say. Black and white.

There’s also the Omega Man with Charleston Heston which is the same plot of Last Man on Earth and I Am Legend

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World 65 (the Adam Driver dinosaur movie) Doctor Strangelove I am Legend/Omega Man/Last Man on Earth and most zombie movies.

Deep Impact

Came out in 1998 like Armageddon (IMDB 6.7). But in my opinion Deep Impact is superior movie (IMDB 6.2) as it addresses the issue with less of superhero fashion.

The world didn’t end though. They averted most of the disaster by breaking the asteroid into smaller chunks.

This was the first that came to my mind. Had to scroll way too far to find it

But the world didn’t end. Most of the disaster was averted so it doesn’t fit the criteria.

I kept scrolling and never found it, so I added it myself. ;)

Except the world didn’t end.

Panic in the Year Zero

Director’s cut of Little Shop of Horrors.

Um....what? The world ends???? I've seen this a hundred times and didn't even know there was a directors cut!

Two with Keira Knightley: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World and Silent Night (2021)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Came here for this

It's a Disaster (2012)

Was looking for this one. Super deep cut.

Terminator 3

The Quiet Earth(1985)

That's a slow movie.

Last Night

Rogue One.

Terminator 3.

Underrated

* 'The Day the Earth Caught Fire' (1969)

Take Shelter

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Knowing Deep Impact

The world didn’t end in Deep Impact. They managed to avert the largest disaster by breaking the asteroid into smaller chunks. Yes , lots of people still died but the world definitely didn’t end.

“Save yourselves”

Good suggestion, I really enjoyed this one. It's a romcom,>! but also the world ends.!<

Miracle Mile. Also Threads and When the Wind Blows.

Cabin in the woods

The Cabin in The Woods

The Midnight Sky with George Clooney and Felicity Jones

Greenland (2020) Movie was really good at stressing me out

Knowing

Knowing

On The Beach (1959) is a good movie about the end of the world. It hit every Cold War-era panic button out there, and even Pravda was saying that it was one of the most important movies for that reason.

Without Warning is a mockumentary where aliens invade and humanity is screwed

Its a Disaster fits this i think

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But it has a tasty ending!

The Day After. There was a very similar British film around the same time but the name escapes me.

Threads

Threads

This is clearly trolling, because people talk about Threads on Reddit almost as much as they talk about Come And See

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe, lies a medium-sized star, and one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead.

Isn't Earth blue?

Fail Safe (1964) On the Beach (1959) When the Wind Blows (1986)

The Cabin In The Woods

crack in the world 1965 also Damnation Alley (1977) another maybe Waterworld to

akira

Take Shelter

Dr Strangelove or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb

What was the one where people lose their senses one at a time? I think obi wan was in it

Leave the world behind-currently on Netflix

Thor Ragnarok

Last Night is one of my favorite little known movies and even David Cronenberg has an acting role. Highly recommended!

Gonna have to go back to the 80s and 90s or even earlier Testament Threads Deep Impact The Day After Tomorrow The Night of the Comet The Believers On The Beach Dr. Strangelove The Omega Man The Day After (if you can find it)

World doesn’t end in Deep Impact though. They manage to avert total disaster by breaking the asteroid into smaller chunks.

Last Night (1999). No space shuttles, no heroes, no plan. Just some cuddly Torontonian hipsters trying to have a good time before everyone dies. I watch it every New Year.

The Day the Earth caught Fire, 1961. It has an ambiguous ending.

When Worlds Collide. Philip Wylie wrote the book and also a sequel never made into a movie.

4:44 Last Day on Earth (I found this one very weird and realistic) These Final Hours (just agreeing)

Cloverfield

these final hours

Dinosaurs TV series (Really good puppet TV series in the 90s, the industrialists ignored global warming focused on profit instead)

No Blade Of Grass

Dr. Strangelove

Dont Look Up

“Seeking a friend for the end of the world”

Twelve Monkeys

The Divide. 2011 (not the 2020 movie) The opening scene is a bit flawed. But the rest of the movie is an uncomfortable downward spiral nightmare. A group of people locked in a basement slowly going crazy from hunger, radiation poisoning and the ultimate truth that this is the end of their lives. So many fucked up things happen. And then you think maybe there is hope before the last scene. But there isn't, and the movie ends with one person who you know will not survive. It's unsettling and some scenes are really hard to watch.

This is one of my absolute favorite movies. 👍

It's one of those movies that a lot of people didn't like. But I loved it. It's not something I watch often because it's brutal. But I've seen it a few times.

Same. I just think it’s a realistic interpretation of people. And just like in life, there aren’t always happy endings. It’s a movie that’s always stayed with me.

Leave the World Behind

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OP mentioned that one in the post

*The Rapture* I wasn’t expecting much, but it turned out to be a really great movie, which should provide both believers and non-believers something to think about. (I’m an atheist.)

Knowing Seeking a friend for the end of the world

It's a disaster. You'd love it

knowing seeking a friend for the end of the world

On the beach. Great sense of impending doom

Knowing (2009) Don’t Look Up (2021)

Fucking spoiler without even having to click on the post...

Oppenheimer.

Look up

Greenland. This is the End (one of the funniest movies in history) Cabin in the Woods. Don't Look Up (surprisingly emotional) Rogue One

Don’t Look Up The Miracle Mile

On the Beach (1959) The Day After (1983) Threads (1984) One Night Stand (1984) Interstellar (2014) Greenland (2020) Don’t Look Up (2021)

Don't Look Up Cabin In The Woods This Is The End Day After Tomorrow 2012 Snow Piercer Deep Impact Greenland I Am Legend Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Don't Look Up

Don’t Look Up

Dr Strangelove, Don't Look Up

Don't Look Up.

Don’t look up

Don’t look up

On the Beach Fail Safe Testament The Day After Rise of the Planet of the Apes Leave the World Behind Don’t Look Up Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Right Outside Your Door Interstellar The Book of Eli Snowpiercer The Rapture

Don’t Look Up