re: #18 freetoken

There was a spate of such apocalyptic movies, each as ludicrous as the last one, between 1999 and 2012. Quite a few played on the millennialism being pushed by the Fundies, but also the “alternative histories” promulgated by the woo-woo fringe, If it wasn’t a ginormous earthquake, it was a climatic disaster, a supervolcano, an immense solar flare, an asteroid strike, or some other “act of God.” Any actual science was thrown out as unnecessary to the plot, which generally had billions die while a select few manage to survive.

I watch these kind of flicks just so I can debunk them for friends (or students) who take them as documentaries, and not complete fantasies.