For most of my life I’ve been a fan of end-of-the-world movies, but now that the end times are surely upon us, the genre feels particularly apropos. Not that I especially want to watch them right now — these days, I’m preferring old musicals with cheery melodies and lots of tap dancing. But I’m glad I did watch the end of the world flicks when they came out. They’ve given me good preparation for global disasters of all kinds including asteroids, Planet X, aliens, nuclear wars, fascist pod people, smart computers, zombie epidemics, and generic apocalypses from A to Z.
Admittedly, coronavirus would probably make a pretty static end-of-the-world movie given that most of the participants are just locking themselves in their homes trying not to catch coronavirus. Nevertheless, if someone wanted to make a disaster film out of it, they could.
