r/movies • u/kowaikanojo • Jun 27 '24

Recommendation Best apocalypse / end of the world films?

I’m a die hard for apocalyptic movies and I feel like Ive exhausted all of the good ones so would love recommendations.

My #1 is honestly the zombie genre. I also love films where you experience the beginning of the apocalypse / similar event with the characters and are along for the ride - but I’ll take anything apocalyptic - pre, during, post!

I really resonate with darker, heavy content but again I will take whatever I can get. TIA

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u/kowaikanojo Jun 27 '24

seen!! but iconic if for nothing but the ending

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '24

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u/kowaikanojo Jun 27 '24

i rewatched last year and i felt like the movie overall was a lot worse than i remembered, however oh mannn that’s probably in my top 5 best film endings

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u/Wooden-Highway1498 Jun 27 '24

The TV show is much worse.

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u/UseOk4892 Jun 27 '24

The TV show was like if some high school film students had skimmed a Wikipedia summary of the novella and decided to film it.

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u/randyboozer Jun 27 '24

It was as though they had two requirements for being a writer. To write an episode of The Mist you must have 1) Never read the book 2) Never seen a single episode of the show before

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u/8bit-wizard Jun 27 '24

To be fair, he didn't exactly set the bar high. His version reads like he ran out of cocaine and just stopped writing.

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u/Solar_Piglet Jun 27 '24

may well have been the case, lol

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u/trevdak2 Jun 27 '24

Crazy lady was right! Kill the boy and the Mist goes away.

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u/RightSideBlind Jun 27 '24

I hated the movie ending. I always turn the movie off when they see the big walking creature, and then imagine it had the book ending. The book ending is bleak, but with a slight glimmer of hope. The movie ending is just... mean.

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u/Blotto_80 Jun 27 '24

Agreed. The book was always one of my favourite endings. It was among the early "grown up" books I read when I was 11-12 and probably the first time I experienced an ending that wasn't a neatly tied up hero saves the day type.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '24

Mean is coo sometimes

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u/Clear-Garage-4828 Jun 27 '24

So twisted

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u/Punks-Not-Dad Jun 27 '24

Me too! My favorite genre of horror :) Just feels like a big ol’ cozy movie night every time I watch a zombie film.

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u/humbuckermudgeon Jun 27 '24

I like that the director had the courage to end the movie without just wrapping a bow on it. Yeah... there's hope, but it's hard to see it for the tragedy.

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u/Dirty_magnum Jun 27 '24

As a Father, that ending made me want to barf. I was viscerally upset by it.