With Contagion opening in theaters this weekend, we got to thinking, what are some of your favorite apocalyptic movies? Check out the top five results and let us know if you agree/disagree with your fellow film fans. and while you're at it, take a look at a few of our favorite Post-Apocalyptic Movies.
5. The Book of Eli - Denzel Washington stars in this post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
4. 2012 - John Cusak stars in an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.
3. The Day After Tomorrow - Dennis Quaid plays a climatologist who tries to figure out a way to save the world from abrupt global warming. He must get to his young son, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, in New York, which is being overwhelmed by a new ice age.
2. Armageddon - When an asteroid the size of Texas is headed for Earth, the world's best deep core drilling team, led by Bruce Willis, is sent to nuke the rock from the inside.
1. Independence Day - The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy. Fighting superior technology, man's best weapon is the will to survive along with a stirring speech by Bill Pullman and punchlines delivered with perfection by Will Smith.
