We're the ones who will survive.

With the space program attempting to travel to Mars, 21st century scientists were tasked with warming up the planet so that humans could survive on its surface. They came up with an efficient and cost effective plan of sending cockroaches and mold to the surface so that the mold would absorb the sunlight and the insect corpses would serve as a food source for the mold. It is now the year 2577 and the first manned ship to Mars has landed on the planet and the six crew members are ready for their mission. But what they find are giant mutated humanoid cockroaches with incredible physical strengt
In Terra Formars, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “martian insect war”. The story fights on E8/E13 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing colonization, survival, bioengineering, conflict, evolution.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Blackout (2019)E8/E13 · rare rung · colonization, survival
Battle for Terra (2007)E8/E13 · rare rung · colonization, survival
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)E8/E13 · rare rung · evolution
Pixels (2015)E8/E13 · rare rung · survival
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)E8/E13 · rare rung · survival
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)E8/E13 · rare rung · survivalThe same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Mimic (1997)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
Shaun of the Dead (2004)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Army of the Dead (2021)alters at E6 · same rung · looseOther films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Super Mario Bros. (1993)consciousness in animals · dinosaur metropolis
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)consciousness in animals · ape‑dominated Earth
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)consciousness in animals · post‑apocalyptic ape empire
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)consciousness in animals · ape‑dominated post‑apocalypse
March of the Penguins (2005)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic arctic adventure
Walking with Dinosaurs (2013)consciousness in animals · dinosaur herdThe same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)consciousness in aliens · colonization, conflict
Titan A.E. (2000)consciousness in aliens · colonization, conflict
Alien: Covenant (2017)consciousness in machines · colonization, survival
Automata (2014)consciousness in machines · evolution, survival
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)consciousness in monsters · conflict, survival
Underworld: Awakening (2012)consciousness in monsters · survival