It's the end of the world.....

Since I am on SPRING BREAK! I have been watching some movies (after I've had enough fun at the beach of course). I decided to have a theme for all my movies and I chose movies dealing with the Apocalypse (either during or after said event). I then got to thinking, "what is the best apocalyptic movie out there?" I did a google search and quickly found out that there is a difference between apocalypse movies (majority of movie takes place right before said event or during) and post-apocalyptic movies (majority of movie takes place after said event). Many of the sci-fi nerds in the blog-o-sphere are offended if you do not make the distinction. For the sake of my argument I am lumping them both together.

In general the top choices are usually a combination of:

• Planet of the Apes
• 12 Monkeys
  
• Mad Max Series
• The Omega Man
• Escape from New York

My personal top list is:

• Children of Men (has an interesting premise on how the world would end, also has a cool 30 minute explosion scene at the end shot with just one moving camera)
• 12 Monkeys (really interesting, and confuisng in a way that makes you think)
• I am Legend (which is the same story as The Omega Man, just updated and I think Will Smith does a good job of portraying what it would be like to be the last human alive and how you would go nuts)
• Planet of the Apes (Damn you Dirty Apes!!, actually all of them in series are interesting. The remake was god-awful)
• 28 Days Later (cool and intense)
• Look out next year for The Road- best apocalypse book may become best movie.
  

Worst:

• Waterworld
• The Postman (Waterworld on land)

All in all I think science fiction movies revolving around the apocalypse are cool movies; they have action and explosions but also have an interesting plot that makes you think while watching them.