Apocalypse when?: May 21 and other doomsday dates on film - Los Angeles Times

Got plans for May 21, 2011? Cancel 'em!

According to Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping of the Family Radio organization, Saturday is the first day of the "end of days," leading to the final, absolute, this-is-really-it, end-of-the-world doomsday on Oct. 21, 2011. Keep both dates free.

Of course, many people don't take predictions like this very seriously. Maybe it's because they've grown up watching the end of the world predicted every other year on film. It's not so long ago that Judgment Day was going to happen on Aug. 29, 1997. (As predicted by that prophet James Cameron in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day"). That date was later revised to July 25, 2004, in "Terminator 3," and finally to April 21, 2011, in "Terminator: Salvation."

None of these Judgment Days has happened. Here are some other cinematic Judgment Days that didn't make the translation to reality.

--Patrick Kevin Day, Jevon Phillips and Noelene Clark