2012 got it wrong

I'm speaking of the film of course. I don't think the world's end has anything to do with volcanoes erupting, solar flares expanding, polar ice caps melting, tidal waves flooding over the land. No, I'm pretty sure we're meant to bring the end on ourselves through politics.

I think there may have been a couple of films spouting a theory like that, but I can't think of them at the moment which is sad because I think a movie of the like should be instantly memorable which means (as I'm not remembering it) that it wasn't memorable and therefore has thus far not been done right.

Once again, am I missing something? Is there perhaps a movie I've neglected to see that has delved into this territory?

They absolutely got it wrong. It's going to be zombies. Idiots.

That new show coming out Revolution is probably the most realistic thing I've seen that looks like it could be our apocalypse.

I don't get the big deal with zombies. They move slowly and are easily defeated, so any outbreak could easily be quarantined or completely stopped within hours.

Robot apocalypse is what you've gotta worry about since eventually someone's gonna make some kind of robot that doesn't conform to the 3 laws.

If politics includes war (which, as Clausewitz says, is the continuation of politics by other means*), then there are plenty of films that include humanity smurfing itself over with politics. Dr. Strangelove is possibly the best, and certainly the funniest. Others include Failsafe, The Day After, and On the Beach.

Robot apocalypses, of course, are represented in the Terminator films, although some of these are better than others.

*Lenin, of course, memorably turned this famous quote around, and said that politics is the continuation of war by other means. Foucault said the same thing.

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Originally Posted by Denmark

I don't get the big deal with zombies. They move slowly and are easily defeated, so any outbreak could easily be quarantined or completely stopped within hours.

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The concept of Zombies originatd in Zambia where people use drugs to fake people's deaths and erase their memories and then turn thme into mindless drones for their personal uses like drug trafficking and prostitution. I learned that from a movie a bout a snake and rainbows or somethign.

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Robot apocalypse is what you've gotta worry about since eventually someone's gonna make some kind of robot that doesn't conform to the 3 laws.

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We're more likely to suffer a pocalypse at the hands of aliens than we are to be attacked by robots anytime soon. Robots are stupid.