It’s the end of the world as we know it…

In theaters Friday: Jack Reacher, On the Road, This is 40
New on Blu-ray: Premium Rush, Sleepwalk with Me, Total Recall, Trouble with the Curve

…And who feels fine?

The Mayan calendar “ends” at midnight on Dec. 21, and you could do worse than curling up with a bowl of popcorn and one of these global disaster movies. They’ll bring the ‘splosions. You bring the snarky commentary.

2012 (2009). No one gives a passing thought to the Earth’s crust—though the planet’s mantle seems to get inordinate play—until it gets way too hot, and caves in, and destroys everything, and John Cusack gets paranoid. Eye roll moment #39: The Earth’s poles actually shift, placing the South Pole somewhere near Wisconsin, according the film’s resident know-it-all, Prof. West.

The Road (2009). The highbrow entry in this group, if by highbrow you mean Cormac McCarthy’s story of a father and son setting out in search of food in a post-apocalyptic landscape peopled with ravenous gangs and cannibals. Walking Dead, you’re welcome. Out-of-context excerpt from a too long-winded McCarthyism: “Each day is more gray than the one before. It is cold and growing colder as the world slowly dies.”

The Day After Tomorrow (2004). Jake Gyllenhaal gets seriously snowed in in Manhattan for this An Inconvenient Truth prequel. People like to rip director Roland Emmerich for his seemingly insatiable destruction lust, but that’s just because he’s German. Right? Redundant forshadowing: “I think we are on the verge of a major climate shift!”

Deep Impact (1998). This was way back when Tea Leoni got lead roles in movies and casting a black actor as the president made headlines. Hello, Morgan Freeman! This comet’s a-comin’ tale is sort of a thinking man’s doom movie (if that thinking man is the guy who also wrote Ghost and Stuart Little 2) for examining how humanity might actually react to the threat of the end of the world. Hint: Pettiness, like Twinkies, will survive anything. The POTUS and a career-minded reporter argue over scoops.

Armageddon (1998). The other cataclysmic asteroid flick from 1998. This one had Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi and Ben Affleck—checking in for his extended stay in actor jail—as off shore drillers shot into space to nuke an asteroid before it plows into Earth. It’s the size of Texas, sir! Fun Fact: About this incredibly likely premise, Affleck, fresh off his Oscar win for writing Good Will Hunting, asked director Michael Bay if he thought it would be easier for NASA to train astronauts to drill rather than training drillers to be astronauts. Bay told Affleck to shut up.

Independence Day (1996). Will Smith at his early peak, chomping cigars and trash talking alien invaders pre-Men in Black, and Jeff Goldblum re-animating his Jurassic Park shtick. Egregious and over-wrought affront to both Dylan Thomas and Thomas Jefferson: Bill Pullman’s President Whitmore telling a group of rag tag fighter pilots, “We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: ‘We will not go quietly into the night!’ We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!”

To get in the mood for Friday, see if you can survive this supercut of 38 apocalyptic movies: