![]() ![]() ![]() We were assailed by super-monkeys created by our own scientific irresponsibility, in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. We've endured a Contagion from Steven Soderbergh, in which the world is rapidly depopulated by a seemingly unstoppable airborne virus. The big screen might as well be graffiti on a subway wall: "The End Is Near." And if we haven't seen the world's end out our windows, we're seeing it all the time at the movies. Hope could be found only in dreams, in the notion of a mysterious consolation beyond this doomed dimension.Ī few years and several apocalyptic movies later, a movie called 2012 arrived: A tsunami of special effects enabling a tsunami of natural disasters that plunged the world into chaos. ![]() In the Coen Brothers' celebrated adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel, a rising tide of evil in the world rendered the Western myth of the gunslinging hero useless. This fatalistic prophecy was delivered to a troubled Texas sheriff in No Country for Old Men, the film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2007. Photo by Grove Hill Productions, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. Web Feature Posted FebruAt World's End: The Age of the Apocalypse Movie By Jeffrey Overstreet ( vision of pending doom drives Curtis (Michael Shannon) to seek shelter for his family in Take Shelter. ![]()
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