Kudos to director Roland Emmerich for coming up with a new way to destroy the world in his new disaster flick 2012: solar flares that cause the Earth's crust to boil (or something), sending continents crumbling into the ocean and tsunamis crashing down on landmarks.
Never mind that it makes zero sense it's all just an excuse for some serious special effects.
Movies have explored many ways of destroying the world: while apocalyptic solar flares are a relatively new development, other disasters include climate change, giant fireballs from space, and gold old alien invasion.
Discover more ways that filmmakers have destroyed the world in our world-shattering gallery!
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