# "It's the end of the world as we know it..." **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 14, 2018, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344 "2018-09-14T16:42:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/1 "2018-09-14T16:42:45Z")
…and I feel like talking about movies where it actually happens(no _Armageddon_ near-misses, please). My favorite happens to be titled [_End Of The World_(1977)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_the_World_(1977_film)), starring Christopher Lee and Christopher Lee. Never has so much been destroyed on so minuscule a budget. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/2 "2018-09-14T16:55:02Z")
“After The Dark” sort of fits. Which would be my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/3 "2018-09-14T16:58:02Z")
One I saw recently is an Australian movie called [_These Final Hours_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/These_Final_Hours). ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/4 "2018-09-14T16:58:20Z")
I confess to a love that has no explanation for _2012_. :o ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/5 "2018-09-14T17:01:19Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > “After The Dark” sort of fits. Which would be my favorite. It’s a classroom setting working out “what-if” doomsday scenario. In the end, nothing is destroyed except a relationship or two. Not seeing how it fits. ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/6 "2018-09-14T17:04:16Z")
Would ‘Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’ work? How about ‘Titan AE’? ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/7 "2018-09-14T17:09:35Z")
[Melancholia](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527186/) - the movie ends before the actual destruction, but it’s inevitable as the credits roll. [Seeking a Friend for the End of the World](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1307068/) - also ends before the actual destruction, and it’s also inevitable as the credits roll. Named after a line in the Chris Cornell song “Preaching the End of the World.” ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/8 "2018-09-14T17:11:12Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > It’s a classroom setting working out “what-if” doomsday scenario. In the end, nothing is destroyed except a relationship or two. Not seeing how it fits. I said it _sort of fits_. You don’t see any parallels whatsoever? ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/9 "2018-09-14T17:15:12Z")
_Knowing_ with Nicolas Cage, it got very poor reviews but I liked it. Though my habit of watching movies knowing as little as possible about them beforehand may have helped. To the OP, does the world destroying catastrophe have to happen in the movie or can it be set afterwards, because in _The Road_ the world has very much been destroyed. That is one bleak movie, while an apocalypse like the one in _Mad Max_ seems kind of fun in a violent, anarchistic, sort of way the scenario of _The Road_ is not one anyone would want to live in. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/10 "2018-09-14T17:15:20Z")
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - I assume no link is necessary. [Knowing](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448011/) ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/11 "2018-09-14T17:24:47Z")
> [@SirRay](#): > > Would ‘Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’ work? We have a winner! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/12 "2018-09-14T17:50:22Z")
It’s not clear whether the OP is talking about the destruction of Earth as a planet, or the total end of humanity. In _On The Beach_ humanity, and possibly all life, is eradicated after a nuclear holocaust, but the Earth is not destroyed. In _When Worlds Collide_, Earth is destroyed but humans survive. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/13 "2018-09-14T17:55:08Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > It’s not clear whether the OP is talking about the destruction of Earth as a planet, or the total end of humanity. > > In _On The Beach_ humanity, and possibly all life, is eradicated after a nuclear holocaust, but the Earth is not destroyed. > > In _When Worlds Collide_, Earth is destroyed but humans survive. Any situation where we don’t get to take up residence on the planet because we have ceased to exist and/or the Earth has ceased to exist. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/14 "2018-09-14T17:56:29Z")
> [@SirRay](#): > > Would ‘Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’ work? Although Earth is destroyed, like _When Worlds Collide_ a few humans survive. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/15 "2018-09-14T18:01:42Z")
I’ve raved about the 2001 J-Horror film _Pulse_ here before. The dead, having overpopulated deadworld, figure out how to come back to the world of the living through the internet. Suicide becomes endemic and the real live people have to go underground. Slow, dreamy, and spooky movie. Be sure to have lots of red tape on hand. (It keeps the dead people out) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/16 "2018-09-14T18:54:10Z")
In _The Cabin in the Woods_ humanity is destroyed at the end by the Elder Gods. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/17 "2018-09-14T18:55:36Z")
[When Worlds Collide.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Worlds_Collide_%281951_film%29) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/18 "2018-09-14T18:59:44Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > In _The Cabin in the Woods_ humanity is destroyed at the end by the Elder Gods. Another of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/19 "2018-09-14T19:04:48Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > [When Worlds Collide.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Worlds_Collide_%281951_film%29) Already mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344/20 "2018-09-14T19:09:34Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Already mentioned. It’s _When Worlds Collide_-maybe he was referring to the _other_ world in the title? 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/821344.md?page=2)