
There is no debate that sci-fi is one of the most popular movie genres. With stories that use science as a basis for pushing humanity and society into new and sometimes terrifying territory, it’s a genre that captivates and thrills while also posing deep, serious questions at the same time. But even within the sci-fi […] There is no debate that sci-fi is one of the most popular movie genres. With stories that use science as a basis for pushing humanity and society into new and sometimes terrifying territory, it’s a genre that captivates and thrills while also posing deep, serious questions at the same time. But even within the sci-fi genre, there are little niches that might just be even more popular and thought-provoking. That includes the apocalyptic disaster genre. The frequent “what if
There is no debate that sci-fi is one of the most popular movie genres. With stories that use science as a basis for pushing humanity and society into new and sometimes terrifying territory, it’s a genre that captivates and thrills while also posing deep, serious questions at the same time. But even within the sci-fi […] There is no debate that sci-fi is one of the most popular movie genres. With stories that use science as a basis for pushing humanity and society into new and sometimes terrifying territory, it’s a genre that captivates and thrills while also posing deep, serious questions at the same time. But even within the sci-fi genre, there are little niches that might just be even more popular and thought-provoking. That includes the apocalyptic disaster genre. The frequent “what if” element of things goi Directed by Godzilla filmmaker Roland Emmerich, 2012 was released in 2009 and is based on a fairly simple premise: what if the whole Mayan calendar “prediction” that the world would end in 2012 is actually right? In the film, that means that the world begins to undergo catastrophic disasters including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and megatsunamis as a herald of the end of the world. The film specifically follows a sci-fi novelist working as a chauffeur named Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) and Most apocalyptic fiction, be it movies, books, or television series, adheres to a few of the same tropes and themes. The biggest usually involves government betrayal in that there’s knowledge about t