10 Disaster Films Even More Crapocalyptic Than 2012
6. It's Great To Be Alive (1933)
A remake of the 1924 silent film The Last Man On Earth, this musical sci-fi comedy has the world's men wiped out by the plague "masculitis" that even an Albert Einstein impersonator is unable to cure. The only dude survivor is a young aviator who avoids succumbing because he conveniently crash lands on a Pacific Island. When he's returned to civilization, he finds he's to be auctioned off to the highest lady bidder by a Chicago gangsteress! Unfortunately, clips from this one are scarcer than recognizable human emotions in 2012, so instead, please enjoy a montage honoring the late It's Great To Be Alive star Gloria Stuart, who'd return to the disaster genre in 1997's Titanic.
5. End Of The World (1977)
Long after his Hammer heyday and a couple of decades before Lord Of The Rings and Star Wars returned him to the spotlight, Christopher Lee played a priest who's actually on alien on Earth to orchestrate the apocalypse because meddling humans are threatening to pollute the universe. Complete with stock footage earthquakes, ETs returning home via teleportation and a planetary explosion climax, this is When Worlds Collide meets End Of Days. Happily, if you've a spare 90 minutes or so, you can watch the whole thing now, free and legal. Good luck with that!
4. Yosei Gorasu (aka Gorath) 1962
Having had first-hand experience with real-life Armageddon-type experiences, Japanese filmmakers spent a lot of time in the 1950s and '60s reinterpreting America's atomic experiments via giant dino-lizards, massive moths and Neptune Men. But Gorath -- aka Yosei Gorasu -- takes the yellowcake by piling every disaster scenario Roland Emmerich would ever toy with into one movie. So alien cells become a giant monster just as a burning planet races towards Earth. To counter the threat, brainiacs shift the Earth's orbit, which only makes the beast stronger, while also producing tsunamis and fiery conditions.
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You finally really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! Goddamn you all to hell!
Aw, I liked "Knowing." And not in a so-bad-it's-good kind of way. Thought it was legitimately suspenseful and did a good job of going from "There's no way this is going to happen..." to "Wait, this is happening!"
I will agree the New Agey finale -- for the children! -- was a bit of a letdown. And The Strangers were an obvious lift from Proyas' own "Dark City." (Does it count when you rip yourself off?) But really, seriously... you were *laughing*?
The aliens prancing around in the basement right next to Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds was definitely one of those moments.
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Sorry, Ciscoman, but yes, by the bunnies, I was mightily amused. I think Nic Cage recounting how he was doing a spot of leaf-blowing (at 4am) when he heard of his wife's demise was what first triggered the giggles. As I was in a screening with a more reverent audience, I bit my knuckles so as not to disturb my fellow filmgoers.
Yea, have to say really didn't like Knowing. Good idea ruined by the stupid concept of creationism. Have to say though, laughed when I saw the pedo aliens....
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