2013 - The End of the World, The Sequel

Have you realized there are lots of end of world / apocalypse / aftermath of apocalypse type of movie this year has got to offer? And they said 2012 was supposedly the year where our world came to an end (news flash: it didn't happen). So what, this is the sequel to 2012?

It will begin with the open of Oblivion in April, where Tom Cruise lives on earth 60 years after aliens destroyed it.It also stars Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough & ex-Bond Girl Olga Kurylenko. The trailer looks interesting and visually stunning... that is until the second half where all the typical sci-fi action begins.

Then there's After Earth in June, where Will Smith and mini Will Smith wander across an abandoned earth 1000 years after cataclysmic events that made humans leaving it behind. Another visually stunning trailer, but it's from M. Night Shyamalan, don't go in with too much expectation.

Also in June, there's World War Z, an apocalyptic horror film where Brad Pitt battles the zombies. Okay, from the trailer it looks like another "War of the Worlds" with zombies replacing aliens (remember that Tom Cruise movie? I did, cause I laughed through the whole movie with the ridiculous plot and everything). Or, I would call it "Zombieland minus the laugh".

In August, we have Elysium. According to the plot summary, it is supposedly telling a story where two classes of people exist, and one of them living on an overpopulated, ruined earth. Ruined earth, see? Haven't seen the trailer yet, so no comment on it. But I don't quite fond of a bald Damon.








Unknown release date of Snowpiercer doesn't stop me from counting this in. According to the plot line, this is about "after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an Ice Age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snow Piercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine."








As if the above are not enough, I have not counted in the below for one reason or another:

(1) The Host: Yes, I realized it's not apocalyptic or ruined earth, but an earth full of human bodies containing alien souls? That's pretty much not the earth anymore.

(2) Iron Man 3, Thor 2 & Pacific Rim: There are villains or aliens trying to destroy earth, but human defends it nonetheless. I think the movie makers will not let the earth ends... not yet, not until they have extracted enough money out of it after 20 sequels being made.

(3) Hunger Games 2: It's set in the post-apocalyptic future where a rebellion against the Capitol took place75 years prior to the story, and USA is called Panem. Since this is the second installment already so I don't officially put it in the above list.

Did I miss any movie? I think I must have been, since I realized there are a lot of sci-fi movies released this year, and most of them are set in the future and when filmmakers see the future they always envision it as a ruined world after some sort of war or alien invasion. If I do miss out any, please let me know.