Netflix original production Don’t Look Up, released in December 2021, attracted great attention with its subject as well as the performance of actors such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. In the movie Don’t Look Up, which also has Oscar nominations in many branches, there are actually a few basic issues; social media laxity, the end of the world, and unfortunately scientists are no longer taken seriously.
The subject of the movie Don’t Look Up is actually not very new, because there are countless stories that talk about the end of the world for many years, and because scientists do not listen in each of these stories, preventable disasters bring our end. Let’s take a closer look at films like Don’t Look Up, which are based on many different disaster scenarios, and see the action-packed stories of these films.
Movies like Don’t Look Up:
- gravity
- Source Code
- Independence Day
- Armageddon
- Name Astra
- The Day After Tomorrow
- 2012
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Geostorm
- Lucy in the Sky
Dark, endless space: Gravity
- Year: 2013
- Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Cast: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris
- Director: Alfonso Cuarón
- IMDb: 7.7
Dr. Ryan Stone and Matt Kowalsky are two astronauts on a space mission. While on a spacewalk, their vehicle is destroyed by an object hitting it. The two astronauts are now alone in the vacuum of space. As time passes, they lose their composure because their oxygen is rapidly depleted. Every second of the Gravity movie, which tells about a struggle to survive in the endless space, is full of excitement.
Wake up and try again: Source Code
- Year: 2011
- Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery
- Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga
- Director: Duncan Jones
- IMDb: 7.5
In Source Code, Captain Colter Stevens wakes up on a high-speed train with a completely different identity. The train explodes and Colter finds himself in a control center. Colter has a definite mission to prevent this train from exploding, with consequences for the entire world if it explodes. Even if he dies and resurrects in the same spot over and over again, his race with time continues. Every second of this seemingly simple mission is an action-packed adventure.
Hello world, we are enemies: Independence Day
- Year: 1996
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Cast: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum
- Director: Roland Emmerich
- IMDb: 7.0
On July 2, all communication systems on the planet collapse and spaceships thought to be meteors first land on Earth. Only a scientist named David Levinson understands that aliens have come for the purpose of attack. On the 3rd of July, an attack really starts and people flock to Area 51. On July 4, it is decided to respond. That day will be the day of the liberation war for humanity.
A difficult but not impossible mission: Armageddon
- Year: 1998
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Cast: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck
- Director: Michael Bay
- IMDb: 6.7
One day during standard observations, NASA engineers notice that a meteor is coming towards Earth. As a result of the investigations, it is understood that this meteorite is the size of a state and will destroy the Earth. The only solution is to split this meteor in two and make it move away from our planet by passing it on both sides. Fulfilling this unprecedented task is much more difficult than previously thought.
An astronaut whose father was lost in space: Ad Astra
- Year: 2019
- Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
- Cast: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga
- Director: James Gray
- IMDb: 6.5
Roy McBride’s father went on a mission to search for life in space years ago and hasn’t returned. Growing up and becoming an astronaut, Roy McBride embarks on a mission outside the Solar System to both find his father and prevent an Earth-threatening disaster. What they learn during this task causes us to question the place of man in the whole universe once again.
The ice age is coming, soon: The Day After Tomorrow
- Year: 2004
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, Emmy Rossum
- Director: Roland Emmerich
- IMDb: 6.4
More than 10,000 years ago, the last ice age on Earth occurred. No one expected it to happen again today, but climate expert Jack Hall in The Day After Tomorrow saw a glacier rupture. It was realized too late that weeks of rain would actually herald a new ice age, and humanity awoke to an ice-covered planet in as little as one day.
We got over it cheap: 2012
- Year: 2009
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Cast: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet
- Director: Roland Emmerich
- IMDb: 5.8
The Mayans, who founded one of the most ancient civilizations thousands of years ago, developed a calendar system similar to the one we use today. However, there was a problem with this system and there was talk of a deadline in 2012. This date, on which many people, especially scientists, have studied, was treated as if it were real in the 2012 movie, and a chain of disasters emerged that made us all nervous.
Friend or Foe: The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Year: 2008
- Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
- Cast: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates
- Director: Scott Derrickson
- IMDb: 5.5
A remake of the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still, disaster awaits our Earth, and the only person who knows how dangerous it is is Dr. He is a scientist named Helen Benson. The scientist begins to see the deadly consequences much more clearly when he encounters Klaatu, an alien who has come to the planet. But how to explain to other people that the alien is not an enemy?
Man-made disaster: Geostorm
- Year: 2017
- Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Cast: Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish
- Director: Dean Devlin
- IMDb: 5.3
In order to prevent many disasters befalling our world due to global climate change, all heads of state come together and establish a complex satellite system. At first everything is going well. However, human intervention in the unique order of nature always opens the way for another problem. Humanity will now try to prevent a disaster created by its own hand.
The effects of space are more dangerous than we think: Lucy in the Sky
- Year: 2019
- Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
- Cast: Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Zazie Beetz
- Director: Noah Hawley
- IMDb: 4.9
Many people dream of being an astronaut floating in space, but this endless space creates a strange effect on people. In the movie Lucy in the Sky, we follow the story of a married woman astronaut who has an affair with another astronaut. The perception of reality of our character, who returned to Earth after spending a long time in space, has changed and his view of his life has become completely different.
We listed the films like Netflix’s Don’t Look Up, which attracted attention with their performance and critical subject, and briefly talked about the stories these films presented to the audience. Of course, this list could have been much longer. You can share the movies you want to be on our list in the comments.
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