Considering the record number of hats James Franco is wearing nowadays—author, director, film critic, college professor, and NASCAR grand marshal are just a few of his many side jobs—it only seems appropriate that he’d have something to do with a cataclysmic event that will surely end in world annihilation. Which is the simple explanation of the plot of This is the End, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's latest big-screen collaboration, where a Franco house party ends in an apocalypse. 

But Franco isn't the only A-lister who knows how to handle the end of days in stride. From fast cars to fast women, these are The 25 Best Ways Characters in Movies Have Spent Their Last Days.

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