21 Disaster Movies That Are Totally Survivable

Even though the actual event would make us very cross, we sure love movies about the end of the world. It lets us imagine that we would be a hero, fighting to defeat the enemy or at least save as many lives from it as possible, instead of a dumb, screaming pair of soiled underpants. A lot of the time, though, we don’t put much thought into the apocalyptic scenarios that grace the screen. We get to “shambling hordes/monsters/bad weather destroying humanity” and just kind of stop there, but those things would actually be pretty easy to deal with.

For example, “xenomorphs are really scary in isolated places but seem like a pretty solvable problem if you aren’t stuck with limited resources and people somewhere where they have been festering,” Redditor brainwarts told r/movies. “The monsters from A Quiet Place also seem really easy to defeat with technology that exists today and is easily accessible. I have no doubt they’d devastate the population initially, but they wouldn’t end the world.”

They then asked, “What movie threats, be they monsters or whatever else, actually are way less scary when you think through the scenario?” And their fellow Redditors happily played hero for the day, pointing out all kinds of supposed end-of-the-world threats they could overcome.