5 Sci-Fi Movies Where The Earth Is Destroyed
Science fiction is often the genre that holds the most optimistic musings of mankind as it looks towards our future and what it may hold. Much more often, however, it's home to the greatest nightmares of the artist's mind as they consider the certain doom that lies ahead.
As most people know, the first sci-fi story was probably Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, but as the concept grew and became larger in scale, the fate of the Earth became a common topic. Whether comedic or horrific, action-packed or tragic, there are countless ways people can imagine their home planet being obliterated. Spoilers ahead for every film mentioned, but the end of the Earth isn't always the end of the story.
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Douglas Adams' iconic work of sci-fi absurdism remains one of the most influential texts in modern pop culture. It's been directly adapted to radio plays, video games, and TV shows, but in 2005, it finally became a feature film. Every sci-fi fan knows the basic outline of the story. Mild-mannered human Arthur Dent is brought on a spectacular journey throughout the universe by his alien friend Ford Prefect.
On the way, they meet bizarre creatures, brilliant automatons, endless incalculable rules of engagement, and learn everything they can about the depths of space. Dent's journey begins when Prefect alerts him to the upcoming destruction of the planet Earth. As it happens, the Earth is unceremoniously annihilated to make way for an interstellar bypass highway. Here, the global destruction is very early in the plot and an extremely minor detail of the story. One of the more uplifting takes on the sudden end of the world.
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