Bethany Brings Us Top Five Examples of Armageddon Porn

by Ernie on 23/11/09 at 10:38 am

Bethany writes: In her 1965 essay “The Imagination of Disaster,” Susan Sontag claims that science fiction films are not about science—they are about disaster: “In the films it is by means of images and sounds . . . that one can participate in the fantasy of living through one’s own death and more, the death of cities, the destruction of humanity itself.” The essay appears in her famous book Against Interpretation. Her essay holds true today—even moreso than it did 45 years ago. Here are a few recent examples of films that celebrate the destruction of the earth (and our heroes’ survival beyond).”

5. Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds (2005).

4. 2012 (2009), the destruction movie du jour, by Roland Emmerich, who has made a career of destroying the world, or at least a few cities, in films such as The Day after Tomorrow (2004), Independence Day (1996), and Godzilla (1998).

3. Cloverfield (2008).

2. Terminator: Salvation (2009), and all the other Terminator movies fit this too, with each showing at least a scene or two of post-apocalyptic earth.

1. Transformers (2007), by Michael Bay, who also played with destroying the world in Armageddon (1998), a movie that came out at the same time as Deep Impact (1998), a similar destruction-by-large-object-from-the-skies movie.

Extra: Wall-E (2008), which features a post-destruction earth.

And the recent Star Trek (2009), which features the destruction of Vulcan and the almost-destruction of Earth. Earth is almost destroyed in many Star Treks.