I love apocalyptic movies, especially the ones that don't cheat in the end and have everything turn out fine.

When Bruce Willis saved the planet in "Armageddon," it was still a planet in which Paris had pretty much been vaporized and Shanghai had suffered massive damage. When Dennis Quaid saved his son in "The Day After Tomorrow," it was in a world in which most of the United States was completely frozen over.

One movie that wasn't much until the end -- Nicolas Cage's "Knowing" earlier this year -- almost completely redeemed itself in the last five minutes by completely wiping out the planet.

<img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-124" title="tomorrow" src="http://mikerappaport.net/onevoice/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/tomorrow-299x300.jpg" alt="tomorrow" width="299" height="300" /> That's why I'm really looking forward to seeing "2012." Apparently there's no miracle happy ending, and it's just a matter of whether John Cusack can save himself and his family, not the entire planet.

These are actually the kind of movies I enjoy watching again and again. "Day After Tomorrow" isn't a great movie by any stretch of the imagination, but I have probably watched it at least eight or 10 times. In fact, when I finally picked up a Blu-Ray player after the prices had dropped, the first movie I watched on it was "Day After Tomorrow."

I wrote earlier that I wasn't going to movies all that often anymore. Heck, with the quality of the picture I'm seeing right now, I don't know if I'll ever go to the movies again. Once I get a couple of speakers hooked up to maximize the sound, I may never leave the house.

And this is only on a 20-inch television sitting on my desk next to the computer.

Imagine if I ever get a really big television.