Shortly after Paramount released Deep Impact, Disney’s Touchstone studios brought out this similarly themed film to movie theaters. The film is so full of bad movie science that NASA screens it for potential managers, testing candidates on how many scientific inaccuracies they can find. If you can find 168 issues, you get an A.
Cinematic Visions of the Apocalypse
From movies about nuclear holocaust to films of flesh-eating zombies, here is a selection that may help prepare you for the end of the world
Armageddon, 1998
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Goodbye Earth
- The Last Man on Earth, 1964
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964
- Escape from New York, 1981
- The Road Warrior, 1981
- Delicatessen, 1991
- 12 Monkeys, 1995
- Independence Day, 1996
- The Postman, 1997
- Waterworld, 1995
- Deep Impact, 1998
- Armageddon, 1998
- 28 Days Later, 2002
- Reign of Fire, 2002
- The Day After Tomorrow, 2004
- An Inconvenient Truth, 2006
- Children of Men, 2006
- I Am Legend, 2007
- Zombieland, 2009
- Melancholia, 2011
- The Hunger Games, 2012