The 10 Most Creative Ways Movies Have Ended the World

10. Everyone Kills Themselves The Happening Cant stress enough the whole movie doesnt pan out aspect to this list. The Happening was probably the defining moment of M. Night Shyamalans career in that it had every terrible element of his previous films rolled up into one muddled plot. It was the make or break moment when we could all just nod our heads and say, Yep, okay, I think Im done with this guy.
That being said there was one element to this film that was pretty damn neat, and that was the means in which everyone was being taken out. Everyone in the film kills themselves in the quickest and often brutal ways available. While what science the movie offers as to why this happens in questionable at best, theres something pretty damn spooky about seeing a guy willingly allow himself to be torn to shreds by tigers, or lay himself down in the path of a lawnmower. And while the plants are trying to kill us angle kind of left the audience laughing as we watched Mark Wahlberg run from the wind like a kid playing imaginary land, there are certain fungi out there that will actually make insects lose their mind. Had this movie been written by someone besides Shyamalan it probably could have actually held water (something that can be said for pretty much all his modern films).

9. Bureaucratic Aliens The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy By far the most insulting mass extinction on this list, in The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy earth is laid to waste by aliens however not for the reasons youd normally expect. In this case they dont want our resources or have any feelings of aggression towards us but are rather just following orders. This is probably way worse when you think about it; being murdered out of passion is one thing, being murdered out of indifference and procedure on the other hand is just terrible. As explained in the film, the planet must go to make way for a hyperspatial bypass so its not really even for a huge cause, but rather convenience.
What makes this all especially surprising is how quick the whole thing goes down. In most movies about aliens taking over the planet Independence Day, War Of The Worlds, The Day The Earth Stood Still there is some amount of foreplay leading up to out global demise. We have time to cope with the fact that aliens exist, then usually attempt to make contact, then learn that the aliens are bad, and finally come to terms with the fact that the aliens want to destroy us all. In this film, however, we learn that other life exists in space in the same 30 seconds we learn that said life is about to kill us all its just so much in so little time. And then when it happens! No fireballs, no lasers, not even an explosion! Earth is there one second and then, poof gone! What an asshole way to take out a planet!

8. We Run Out Of Babies Children Of Men What a drag. Suddenly being blinked out of the solar system by aliens isnt such a bad fate; we could be forced to watch our race slowly die off over many years. This is the planetary equivalent of starving to death as every lady on the planet has, for some unknown reason, become infertile. Suddenly we have no reason as a race to progress, creating the ultimate depression. Really freaking lame. We literally have to just sit around, most likely drunk, and wait for the last one to go. This is why in this scenario there is actually an over-the-counter suicide pill, which of course is a clear sign that things are going to shit.

As if that werent horrible enough it appears that were also doing a bang up job of annihilating each other as well. According to the film, the only stable nation left is the UK, and even they are rounding people up into camps. Yeesh cant help but to wonder just what the hell went down in the States one of the few things the movie tells us is that New York City was nuked at some point, so that sucks. Seriously, fictional earth people, you find out that there will be no more babies and the first thing you do is go ape-shit on each other with nukes? Yeah great idea.

7. A Giant Ball Of Evil The Fifth Element

Just a big ol ball of death nothing too specific here. No need to explain what the evil is, or why it has targeted earth, or why Milla Jovovich is the only one who can kill it. Keeping it simple: big scary ball in space wants to kills us every five thousand years and Bruce Willis needs to stop it. Fair enough its not like we need any explanation; the film was perfectly awesome as is but if this was a real life scenario it would be pretty damn irritating to watch all the leaders of the world shrug when asked what exactly was going down. And when its all over were treated to a brand new moon in the form of the dead evil ball looming like a few miles over earth that cant be good for the tides. This has to be the best Bruce Willis action film maybe the second best (The Last Boy Scout exists after all). The reason why is that, while Die Hard is fantastic, its sort of what we expect from Willis when it comes to action some grizzled cop making smart-ass remarks while stopping terrorists. But in this film we get to see that same blunt attitude, only in the future and wearing ridiculous orange tank tops. Its John McClane in space. How cool is that? Also Gary Oldman holy shit Gary Oldman why is this one of his best performances? Hes an amazing actor in everything, and yet this is the role that I cant get out of my head. Fun fact: both Bruce Williss character and Gary Oldmans, while being enemies in this film, dont actually ever meet.

6. Super Smart Monkeys Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes To me the assumption of the original Planet Of The Apes film was that the moment when almost all of mankind was wiped out and the moment that apes became really smart and took over were two

different moments. Like we blew it up like the maniacs that we are, and then like 100 years later apes started talking, then like 100 more years later we found ourselves chained up in cages. The idea that the two events werent related is pretty awkward but as the new film has shown us, its way more awkward the other way around. In like, a single day apes become super smart and mankind begins to dwindle in numbers really like one day it all starts! Imagine the newscaster explaining that! What makes it all even more irritating is that for the rest of the world it isnt something that can been seen coming its just one lab in San Francisco that nobody knows about that suddenly dooms us all in the primate slavery. Hell its not even the lab; it all really comes down to one dude, James Francos dumbass character, who single-handedly created and super smart ape uprising crossed with a deadly virus. Thanks, asshole! With any luck the last breaths of civilization were spent kicking the crap out of that guy.

5. Everyone Is Pecked To Death The Birds I really wanted to go with Birdemic just to piss everyone off but I just couldnt bring myself to actually do it. The movie never really says for certain that were witnessing a bird apocalypse, but it never says otherwise either. The concept seems like it would be only a matter of time; those little buggers are great in numbers up there in the sky, and who knows what they might be plotting. It only makes sense that one day they would swoop down upon us and take over after all, they can fly and we cant thats a pretty excellent advantage they have.
Whats great about this film is that out of all of Alfred Hitchcocks more notable work, this is the only one thats really out there in concept. Like films like Psycho and Rope and Lifeboat all deal with the horrors made possible by mankind murder and lying and insanity. This is the only film where Hitchcock decided to go another route and show us the unspeakable terror that could come from birds (of all animals). Its a bit random when you think about it.

4. Earth Is Eaten Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer

Being food is probably one of the less appealing on this list but at the same time, at least it serves a purpose. Its like getting chased by a bear in the woods worst-case scenario you get to feed a hungry bear. People die much more meaningless deaths than making a bear happy for a day, right?

So in the case of Earth being gobbled up by this Galactus fellow, its nice to at the very least go out with some kind of function. We can only hope that we made a good meal in the process the planet certainly looks tasty compared to the crap around us. Were probably delicious. Were moist and plenty meaty but also probably good for you with all those minerals and plant life. How could you really blame anyone for wanting a bite? I can see maybe the inside of the planet being a little bland, like a muffin or something, but of course you could just eat the skin and move on. Its interesting that after this film they never made any more Fantastic Fours maybe because a giant cloud just ate like 20% of the planet and then exploded like a few miles away that cant be good for the climate. Chances are everyone died like a few years after this movie ended.

3. God Is Proven Fallible Dogma Leave it to Catholic doctrine to blink everyone out of existence. The idea for this is pretty neat two angels condemned to spend eternity on Earth have found a loophole that will cleanse them of all sins and allow them to ascend back to Heaven, all they have to do is walk through an archway and die. Sounds easy enough. However by doing this they will have proven Gods fallibility in that they have successfully defied his powers and by doing this they will effectively undo all that he has done, aka the universe.
Its kind of like in Minority Report where if they prove one case in which pre-crime is wrong then they prove that every case could be wrong thus shutting it all down. Only instead of Max von Sydow, its God, who probably looks a lot like Max von Sydow. This would sure suck because there would be no warning, no pain, and nothing afterward. It seems like the no pain thing would be good until you keep in mind that all youd be left with was nothingness. Pure nothingness no awareness, no sense of time, and the tedium would be so infinite that you couldnt even call it tedium. It would be like playing poker online.

2. Everyone Goes Nuts In The Mouth Of Madness

First off, every movie should end with a shot of Sam Neill watching the entire movie over again while eating popcorn and laughing like a crazy. I dont care if he was in the film or not, its just a way better way to end any film.

It is a tad tricky to pin down just what in the hell goes down in this film, which follows Sam Neill investigating the disappearance of a popular horror novelist by the name of Sutter Cane as well as attempting to retrieve the manuscript for Canes final novel. The result is just just loony toons as Neills character faces off with all the type of crazy shenanigans one might expect from a film directed by John Carpenter. When it is all said and done it becomes very clear that Canes book should never see the light of day, as it appears to be the source of great misfortune. By great misfortune I mean a hellish metaworld where insane monsters rip people apart. In the end there is no telling what is reality and what is fantasy as the book ends up not only being published, but contains the exact same plotline as the film we just watched. The result is the world being overrun with mutant creatures and mass suicide and murder. So, in terms of the world, not good. First youd be hearing about this new book everyone loves, then it would become a movie with Sam Neill in it then youd start getting a little sick of hearing about it, then everyone would die. Basically, Jurassic Park if it made everyone go crazy and turn into monsters and stuff.

1. Freaking Dragons! Reign Of Fire

Seriously, dragons? Can you imagine how the media would deal with that one? First off all, were not talking about dinosaurs here; dragons dont exist. They just dont. And its not like the Loch Ness Monster where dragons can even be debated or seen as a hoax or a myth. Theyve pretty much been fictional creatures from the start so you can probably imagine how odd things would get if they just started showing up, right? Like what are the odds? It would like Santa showing up, and not just any Santa jolly fat, magic flying Santa. Thats the thing the dragons show up in this film and they are exactly what folklore described them as like there was no mistranslation over the years. Just big ol dragons, flying around like assholes blowing fire at us. What a stupid problem to suddenly have. And then there would be years of hearing about the war on dragons on the news the whole world would suddenly shut down until they figured out this whole dragon problem. Forget T.V. and movies

 forget international wars or elections it would just be years of, How the hell do we take care of these freaking dragons? Theyre burning everything! People would be walking down whats left of the streets in a daze, wondering just how in only a few years time they went from working at a law firm to ducking giant dragons every 30 seconds. Its an awkward transition is my point here. And in the end we will have lost the whole time hoping to God that a bunch of ogres dont also show up and start wrecking the place.