This is the End
Throughout the history of cinema , the world has been face with a few potentially apocalyptic scenario , from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the 2012 solar tempest .
Post - apocalyptic movies have play on the primal fears that everyone experienced during these close call , but with the safety of being an hearing member . Stories about world - ending catastrophes and survivors traversing a post - apocalyptical wasteland have always been democratic . It ’s just become clear that the silver - screenland fantasy is a quite a little more fun than the world .
Best: Stalker (1979)
From the psyche of Andrei Tarkovsky , the Soviet Union ’s most prolific arthouse filmmaker , Stalkertells the tarradiddle of a mysterious figure consider two disillusioned men – a writer expect for inspiration and a prof looking for unexampled scientific endeavor – into the forbidden “ Zone ” to recover a room that purportedly concede wishes .
Although it was ab initio dismissed by a lot of moviegoer , Stalkerhas total to be appreciate as one of the most opinion - provoking masterpieces in the chronicle of sci - fi cinema .
Worst: Left Behind (2014)
The film adaptation of the religious novel by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins is a Biblical plague in itself . What hath humanity done for the Lord to forsake us with this movie ? Nicolas Cage act a pilot and the Rapture takes blank space during one of his flight .
Despite the movie ’s propagandic depiction of Christian ism , even the most devout God - fearer would be turned off by clunky , shoddy craftsmanship behind this movie .
Best: Children Of Men (2006)
In a dystopian near hereafter , every fair sex in the globe is infertile and humanity is on the brink of extinction . Children of Menstars Clive Owen as an everyman protagonist hired to protect the only significant cleaning lady in the world from the esurient hordes that want her child .
Alfonso Cuarón directed the movie asa visceral thrill - drive , with his cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezkibringing the grim world of the story to life .
Worst: The Postman (1997)
After being shower with praise and award for his directorial debutDances with savage , Kevin Costner got a little ego - indulgent with his soph directorial effort , The Postman , a three - minute epic poem about a subsister in a post - revelatory waste donning a mailman ’s uniform and a bag of postal service in an effort to spread hope across a bleak America .
Costner hogs his own photographic camera for the entirepainfully long runtime , and the tone is annoyingly treacly and sentimental .
Best: This Is The End (2013)
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg recruited their regular cohort – James Franco , Jonah Hill , Craig Robinson etc . – to recreate satirical versions of themselves in their directorial debut , This is the End .
When the Christian apocalypse take place during a party at Franco ’s house , none of the vapid moving-picture show stars at bottom get raptured . The movie’ssense of liquid body substance is delightfully dismal , and instead of being light like a comedy , it ’s lit like a repulsion movie , which is tonic .
Worst: The 5th Wave (2016)
Back whenThe Hunger Gamesled to every single dystopian Y.A. book series get a film version , Rick Yancey’sThe 5th Wavewas turned into a potential franchise that remained potential when its first installment flunk at the box office .
The safe travail of Chloë Grace Moretz ca n’t elevateThe 5th Wave ’s obtuse , wooly-minded script . It has an important message , but the same message was convey better inBlack Mirror ’s “ military personnel Against Fire ” sequence .
Best: Snowpiercer (2013)
Bong Joon - ho was finally recognized as one of the world ’s fine filmmaker this class when his latest critique of the class divide , Parasite , win a shipload of Academy Awards . The theatre director previously tackle this subject subject withSnowpiercer .
Set on a caravan containing Earth ’s last survivor following a devastating Ice Age , Snowpiercerstars Chris Evans as a leader of a revolution by the lower - class carriages against the upper - family carriages who run them bugs and keep them in furrow at gunpoint .
Worst: After Earth (2013)
In a world where beast have acquire into bloody-minded mutants and driven humanity into outer blank space , Will and Jaden Smith fall to the Earth ’s surface for a dull , boring , emotionally uninvolving sci - fi spectacle .
The sr. Smith was hop thatAfter Earthwould establish a cinematic universe to rival that of Marvel andStar war . As it turned out , 100 minutes in this world was more than enough .
Best: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
A full 30 years after Mel Gibson ’s lastMad Maxmovie , Beyond Thunderdome , George Miller rebooted the enfranchisement with Tom Hardy replace Gibson as the deed character . No one expectedFury Roadto be any upright , but it wasinstantly praised as one of the greatest action film ever made .
From Charlize Theron ’s riveting enactment of Furiosa toMiller ’s spectacular use of hardheaded stunt work , Fury Roadis a masterpiece of action cinema .
Worst: Terminator: Salvation (2009)
The fourthTerminatormovie finally arrest rehashing the same plot line of a bionic woman being sent back in sentence to kill an of import figure in the Resistance and take us past Judgment Day to the Resistance ’s fight against Skynet .
Despite the limitless potential of a post - revelatory actioner about the last remnants of humanity battling evil mechanical man , Terminator : Salvationis a horribly by - the - numbers blockbuster offer , with one - dimensional characterization and tedious legal action .
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