10 Film Endings With Disturbing Implications You Totally Missed

Whoever heard of an apocalypse with a happy ending? No matter how hard The Day After Tomorrow tries to sell the concept, it's fantasy and a contradiction in terms.

Roland Emmerich's disaster flick ends with the superstorm dissipating, Jack and Sam's groups making it through the ordeal and the US president vowing to send helicopters to pick up the other survivors. Meanwhile, the Earth is now pollution free.

Suddenly, it doesn't seem like the cataclysmic climate shift was such a bad thing, but humanity's hardship is only just beginning.

Let's not pull punches in the assessment of the disaster - most of the upper hemisphere is frozen solid, several billion people are dead, entire nations are gone and the world's agriculture has been rocked by a crippling blow.

There are survivors, sure, but how are they going to feed them all in this brave new world? Good luck with that.

And that's before we even consider what's going to happen when all of that ice starts to thaw...