Top row, from left: 'The Day After Tomorrow,' 'The Fruit Hunters' and 'How to Blow Up a Pipeline'; midle row, from left: 'Paradise,' 'Hell,' 'Princess Mononoke'; bottom row, from left: 'Snowpiercer,' 'Melancholia' and 'Project Hail Mary' Courtesy Everett Collection (5); Eye Steel Film; Disney/Ser Baffo; Courtesy of Paramount Pictures; Studio Ghibli Aside from artificial intelligence (and OK, maybe zombies), perhaps no other factor has been more cinematically responsible for the end of human...