Earthquakes, volcanos, floods and even asteroids. Each one has been the focal point or even the villain, if you will of many successful disaster movies. Dante's Peak, Volcano, The Day After Tomorrow, Armageddon and Deep Impact each had been a spectacle bigger than the next.

The only way to top the kind of destruction seen in those movies would be the end of the world itself. Something explored almost gleefully in the movie 2012.