films that make you go "what if..." (10 titles)

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Armageddon

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• Armageddon on DVD (1998)
  Starring: Bruce Willis,  Billy Bob Thornton,  Liv Tyler
  Director: Michael Bay
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  NASA's executive director discovers that the Earth has only eighteen days before it is obliterated by a meteor the size of Texas. He has only one option - to drop a handful of rougheck oil drillers onto the asteroid and get them to drop a nuclear warhead into its core...
  
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Signs

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• Signs on DVD (2002)
  Starring: Joaquin Phoenix,  Mel Gibson,  Cherry Jones
  Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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  It's contaminated. That's what pint-sized Bo (Abigail Breslin) says about every glass of water that she tries to drink, then rejects. This is just one in a long list of strange occurrences that are changing the lives of the Hess family. Things go awry when Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) and his brother, ..read more »
  
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28 Days Later

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• 28 Days Later on DVD (2002)
  Starring: Cillian Murphy,  Megan Burns,  Noah Huntley
  Director: Danny Boyle
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  TRAINSPOTTING director Danny Boyle returns to edgy form and reinvents the science-fiction/horror genre with this apocalyptic tale of viral infection and Darwinian survival. A fatal virus is unleashed on the British public following the liberation of infected chimps from a research laboratory by ..read more »
  
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Deep Impact

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• Deep Impact on DVD (1998)
  Starring: Robert Duvall,  Tea Leoni,  Vanessa Redgrave
  Director: Mimi Leder
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  A fourteen-year-old amateur astronomer, an ambitious newswoman, and a former astronaut all find themselves at the forefront of catastrophe when it is discovered that a comet is on a fatal collision course with the Earth. In the time leading up to the disaster, they find themselves searching for ..read more »
  
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The Day After Tomorrow

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• The Day After Tomorrow on DVD (2004)
  Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Jake Gyllenhaal,  Emmy Rossum
  Director: Roland Emmerich
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  Scientists talk about the planet being threatened by a possible climatological disaster. In this big budget feature the threat becomes a reality in quick time. The planet's oceans become cooler sparking deadly storms. A new ice age begins.
  
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Volcano

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• Volcano on DVD (1997)
  Starring: Tommy Lee Jones,  Anne Heche,  Gabby Hoffman
  Director: Mick Jackson
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  When an earthquake triggers a giant burst of lava from the La Brea Tar Pits, sending great spews of lava all over various Los Angeles neighborhoods and causing all manner of flaming magma mayhem, dedicated Emergency Management director Mike Roark rushes to the rescue, with help from a plucky ..read more »
  
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Independence Day

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• Independence Day on DVD (1996)
  Starring: Will Smith,  Bill Pullman,  Mary McDonnell
  Director: Roland Emmerich
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  With a $71 million budget and mind-blowing special effects, INDEPENDENCE DAY is a grand, high-tech throwback to such films of the 1950s as THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and WAR OF THE WORLDS. Here, aliens, in numerous gargantuan spaceships, arrive without warning and hover over the world's most ..read more »
  
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Jurassic Park

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• Jurassic Park on DVD (1993)
  Starring: Richard Attenborough,  Sam Neill,  Bob Peck
  Director: Steven Spielberg
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  Steven Spielberg directed this blockbuster thriller based on the popular book by Michael Crichton. Millionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) asks two dinosaur experts (Laura Dern and Sam Neill) to act as consultants on his entrepreneurial endeavor--an amusement park with DNA-cloned live ..read more »
  
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War Of The Worlds

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• War Of The Worlds on DVD (2005)
  Starring: Tom Cruise,  Justin Chatwin,  Dakota Fanning
  Director: Steven Spielberg
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  While Martian war machines appear across the globe, the horror of the assault is depicted through the eyes of one American family who refuse to give up the fight for survival. Steven Spielberg retells H. G. Wells' seminal science fiction classic.
  
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I Am Legend

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• I Am Legend on DVD (2007)
  Starring: Will Smith,  Salli Richardson,  Paradox Pollack
  Director: Francis Lawrence
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  Richard Matheson's classic chiller gets its third adaptation (after THE OMEGA MAN and THE LAST MAN ON EARTH) with this film from director Francis Lawrence (CONSTANTINE). Will Smith plays Robert Neville, the last survivor in a post-apocalyptic New York, but there's still danger left on the city streets.
  
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