[BoiseAirport]

As morbid as it may sound, I've always found it interesting to see photos of cities in ruins, or being destroyed, and as such, to celebrate such occurances in movies, I've decided to make a photo thread that I hope to see people contribute to that shows cities being destroyed or cities already in ruins, be them fictional cities or real cities. So here is a large compilation of these types of photos.

RULE: No real disaster photos (such as 9/11, Oklahoma City bombing, etc.)

http://www.gothamist.com/attachments/garth/2005_11_20_disasterstrikes.jpg
http://images.countingdown.com/images/countdowns/movies/28925/1011/892695_thumb.jpg
http://www.timeaxismedia.com/portfolio/TidalWave.jpg
http://see.msfc.nasa.gov/sparkman/Images/Deep%20Impact.gif
http://www.chabad.org/media/images/78/uGfj786297.jpg
http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/images/cap016003.jpg
http://static.highend3d.com/galleryimages/663/screen.jpg
http://www.cineclub.de/images/2004/05/the-day-after-tomorrow-2.jpg
http://ffmedia.ign.com/filmforce/image/article/519/519498/the-day-after-tomorrow-
http://www.worth1000.com/entries/10500/10556_w.jpg
http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas/wp-content/bigben_350x160.jpg
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/sf/films/deepmpct/wave.jpg

Anthony

[jmellaw]

Need pictures of Independence Day, showing destruction of Los Angeles, New York and Washington

[Trantor]

well, Buenos Aires is hit by a meteor (launched by the Bugs) in Starship Troopers. But no footage is shown... just some reporter with fires on her background AFTER the metor struck.


this is not an image... but its worth to check out. Awesome and very realistic video of Belo Horizonte (Brazil) being hit by meteor shower, includes hi-rise being destroyed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ7aX78cs78

not so realistic but funny amateur video of asteroid hitting Rio de Janeiro (the guy in the beginning the black guy says "what a beautiful day, the birds singing, the butterflies flying... holy shit man, whats that?? A fucking asteroid!!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQb9eM9fFJQ


insane mage destroying a mountain in Rio de Janeiro
"Ah, its a beautiful day to practice my spells... AHA! I found a good target!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZthSpM1E_w

[joeindt]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8e/Godzilla_%281954%2C_Extras%29.jpg

[WIGS]

umm, I believe the thread title is Thread of "Fictionally Destroyed" Cities.
some of you obviously don't realize that with the WWII photos.

[mdiederi]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/WarOfTheWorlds_273.jpg

[mdiederi]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/godzilla-destruction.jpg

[marcus]

los angeles was destroyied in "the day after tommorow" but, I don't have any pictures

[LSyd]

GIANT SPACE ROBOT DESTROY NASHVILLE!!! (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7589046875292866869&q=nashville)

amusing short, cheap movie showing Nashville being destroyed by a space monster and the fight against it.

-

[shappy]

Toronto's new City Hall filling in for the headquarters of a bio company in Resident Evil:
http://www.blogto.com/archives/movie-sightings-2.jpg

[Complex01]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/godzilla-destruction.jpg


I LOVED watching Godzilla as a kid. I use to and still think hes the coolest. Even though he was bad, he was also good. That new movie did him no justice...


:drunk:

[JManc]

houston was nuked in independence day. the aliens were like: "stupid humans...they just blew up their own city."

paris was toast in armageddon:

http://www.vfxhq.com/1998/stills/armageddon/paris_big.jpg

[Trantor]

where are those gargoyles located? In the top of a fictional Art Deco skyscraper???? Seems to be as high as the Eiffel Tower!!

[BoiseAirport]

where are those gargoyles located? In the top of a fictional Art Deco skyscraper???? Seems to be as high as the Eiffel Tower!!

:sly: :koko: :haha: Wow! You're right, I've never noticed that! I know of no building in Paris at that locatioon that high containing gargoyles. I mean, just look at how tall it is relative to the ground! I'd love to hear what building it is.

Also, a real asteroid wouldn't make a nuclear type explosion like it did. Just take out the fire and explosion, and that'd be MUCH more realistic. But it'd also be more boring, so I just think of it as an acceptable movie mistake.

Anthony

[CanadianCentaur]

Tsunami!
HUGE tsunami bearing down on a city (which one is that?)!
http://www.jeffsweather.com/weatherlog/archives/tidalwave.jpg
City (NYC??) getting washed big time.
http://www.philebrity.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/tidalwave.jpg

Tornado!
LA getting hit by something much more associated with Texas or Oklahoma.
http://www.foxhome.com/dayaftertomorrow/wallpapers/images/03-800.jpg

Volcano!
Lava floods the streets of LA in Volcano.
http://www.kinoweb.de/film97/Volcano/pix/vo1.jpg
Eruption column seen from the town in Dante's Peak.
http://mark.technolope.org/cfd_cg/stills/rear_2.jpg

Nuclear war!
'Shroom cloud over a city.
http://www.illuminati-news.com/graphics/nuclear-attack.jpg
Tactical nuke going off over RAF Finningley near Sheffield, England in the movie Threads, which I find especially haunting. I read somewhere that when making the film, the simulated explosion was realistic enough that the locals thought the real thing occured - and got the film crew in trouble with the authorities.
http://www.newprophecy.net/Threads_Nuke.jpg
Nuclear winter. If you look closely enough, you can see not one, but at least three skeletons.
http://warzone2100.strategyplanet.gamespy.com/eyecandy/fmv/Nuclear%20Winter.jpg

Asteroid/meteorite impact!
The Chrysler Building gets knocked down in Armageddon.
http://www.monesi.com/sergio/movies/sep98/armageddon2.jpg
What would happen if a Tunguska*-type event occured over Los Angeles.
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/8126/lablastrm0.jpg

*In 1908, a comet or an asteroid apparently exploded over the Siberian region of Tunguska with a force equal to that of a 12 megaton nuclear airburst. The explosion likely occured due to the buildup of so much kinetic energy during entry into the atmosphere that the the asteroid or comet couldn't hold itself together anymore and...BOOM.

[Comrade Reynolds]

SuperVolcano, a made for TV movie that aired on the Discovery Channel, showed both Salt Lake City and Denver getting destroyed by it. Too bad I have no photos.

[bmfarley]

I don't have images or know where to locate them... but I always like the following:

Planet of the Apes original movie whereas at the our hero character, Charlton Heston, while riding off on his horse with his mute gf, happen upon the Statue of Liberty half buried in sand along the beach.

There's another Planet of the Apes scene in the tv series whereas our characters are in run-down San Francisco and get stuck in a BART station.

In Logan's Run, I think, our characters escape an underground facility and end ou in Washington DC and in the Capital building. A guy with cats is living inside.

In 12 Monkey's, Brad Pitt (?) is in a destroyed future snow covered Philidelpia.

[mSeattle]

Why don't the suburbs ever get destoyed?

[TWAK]

Why don't the suburbs ever get destoyed?
who would want to destroy perfection? ;)
Paris from Alien: Resurrection DC
http://www.fantascienza.com/magazine/imgbank/ARTICOLI/paris.jpg

[fflint]

Tsunami!
HUGE tsunami bearing down on a city (which one is that?)!
http://www.jeffsweather.com/weatherlog/archives/tidalwave.jpg

That's San Francisco, circa 1986.

[M II A II R II K]

It doesn't show a city as a whole, but it captures the mood.
http://mushroom.nosox.org/b3ta/tidalwave.jpg


Looks like that image was taken on 9/11 as one of the towers were collapsing.

[jeremy_haak]

Also, a real asteroid wouldn't make a nuclear type explosion like it did. Just take out the fire and explosion, and that'd be MUCH more realistic. But it'd also be more boring, so I just think of it as an acceptable movie mistake.

Anthony

Actually a real asteroid would very likely make a nuclear type explosion. The Tunguska Event in Russia is believed to be the result of an asteroid or comet that exploded roughly 6-10 km above the ground, producing a blast pattern very similar to those shown to result from nuclear bombs (which are usually set to detonate high in the air). In Tunguska's case, it is believed the explosion was roughly 10-20 megatons, equivalent to the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated by the US.

Since the 1950s, atmospheric monitoring has confirmed that meteoroid air blasts are actually quite common, though usually at a smaller scale. Apparently a 10m meteoroid can and regularly does produce a 20 kiloton explosion, roughly equivalent to Little Boy over Hiroshima.

Edit: corrected megaton to kiloton... oops

[fever]

In Atomic Train a nuclear weapon was detonated by Capilano Lake and blew up Denver.

http://img.tesco.com/pi/entertainment/DVD/LF/694362_DV_L_F.jpg

[Trantor]

@Canadian Centaur: I am pretty sure this is the Chrisler Building, not the ESB...
http://www.monesi.com/sergio/movies/sep98/armageddon2.jpg

[CanadianCentaur]

@Canadian Centaur: I am pretty sure this is the Chrisler Building, not the ESB...
http://www.monesi.com/sergio/movies/sep98/armageddon2.jpg

You're right - It is the Chrsyler Building! I stand corrected.

[mSeattle]

Looks like that image was taken on 9/11 as one of the towers were collapsing.

I thought something about that scene seemed familiar.

[mSeattle]

Comoneymaker from Denver happily shared this with the Northwest Forum a couple of weeks ago. ;) Seattle...

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2006/145/932462_20060526_screen001.jpg

[Upward]

First of all, I don't find these types of images interesting ever since 9/11. The one of the crumbling Chrysler building is especially offensive to me. This stuff just isn't "cool" after seeing the horror of the real thing.



Regarding the discussion of whether a meteorite impact would look like a nuclear explosion, it's my understanding that it would. In fact, it could BE a nuclear explosion. Supposedly, the energy released by a large impact would create so much heat that it could induce nuclear fusion. Fusion is what makes the really huge explosions in hydrogen bombs. They use a fission reaction to achieve the extreme level of heat. The fission bombs dropped by the US in WWII had yields in the 20 kt range, NOT 20 megatons. The only bombs that powerful are h-bombs, in which a Hiroshima-sized bomb is just the trigger for a fusion reaction one hundred times stronger.

Why don't the suburbs ever get destoyed?

It's part of a Hollywood conspiracy, funded by WalMart, Applebee's, and General Motors, to make cities look dangerous to make more people want to move to the suburbs.

;)

Or, maybe because it's a lot more interesting/shocking to see the destruction of large buildings and familiar landmarks, rather than anonymous suburbia.

Also, in the case of movies involving an attack (rather than a natural disaster), the attacking force would want to concentrate on the area with the highest population density. For the same reason as above, attacks on the iconic parts of a civilization are also more psychologically damaging to the population. These reasons are unfortunately why we see real attacks, like 9/11, targeting the urban areas we love.

Lastly, cities just tend to be the location of movies far more often than suburbs. When a movie is set in a city, but not in the downtown area, it tends to be in an older area of detached housing. About the only time you see new car-dependent lookalike sprawl as the setting of a movie is when the anonymity and sterility of the location is a prominent theme in the movie.

[EventHorizon]

Here's New York from the movie 'A.I.'

Humans are extinct and the descendants of human-created artificial beings have inherited the earth.

They are excavating The City which is under hundreds of meters of ice.

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k148/MRM80/PDVD_001.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k148/MRM80/PDVD_003.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k148/MRM80/PDVD_008.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k148/MRM80/PDVD_014.jpg

[CanadianCentaur]

I chose to remove the third tsunami pic in my post, mainly because it's not only semi-fictional (it has been pointed out that the fleeing people scene may actually be from the 9/11 attacks), but some here may find 9/11 still too painful, given how it's been just five years since. So...I apologize for any unintential harm.

[Stephenapolis]

The source (movie, etc.) should be posted along with the images. Most of them I do know, but some have made me even more curious. I guess I am also morbid about these things too.

[Touray]

Here are some great pics of seattle destroyed.

http://www.surrealmirage.com/images/TimWistrom/TIMEOUT.JPG


http://www.surrealmirage.com/images/TimWistrom/NewBeginning.jpg


http://www.surrealmirage.com/images/TimWistrom/DOWNTOWN.JPG

http://www.surrealmirage.com/images/TimWistrom/UrbanRenewal.jpg

http://www.surrealmirage.com/images/TimWistrom/DenofAntiquity.jpg

http://www.surrealmirage.com/images/TimWistrom/orcasisland.jpg

[James Bond Agent 007]

^
I was looking for some of those yesterday but forgot the artist's name. Thanks for finding them!

[Stephenapolis]

Nuclear war!
'Shroom cloud over a city.
http://www.illuminati-news.com/graphics/nuclear-attack.jpg
Tactical nuke going off over RAF Finningley near Sheffield, England in the movie Threads, which I find especially haunting. I read somewhere that when making the film, the simulated explosion was realistic enough that the locals thought the real thing occured - and got the film crew in trouble with the authorities.

Threads was an awesome movie. It is what "The Day After" should have been like. Speaking of it. Anybody have a screen shot of Jason Robards overlooking the remnants of KC.

[Lost Island]

Why don't the suburbs ever get destoyed?

Because we are essentially forms of Tupperware and asbestos, therefore INdestructable.

[JManc]

the gargoyles in paris are really there but not that close to the eifell tower and not that high up:

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/875688/2/istockphoto_875688_naughty_thoughts.jpg

also, KC got nuked by the russians. this movie scared the ever lovin' shit out of me and every other kid in america when it came out:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0001WTVUW.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1124905960_.jpg

[Trantor]

Here's New York from the movie 'A.I.'

Humans are extinct and the descendants of human-created artificial beings have inherited the earth.

They are excavating The City which is under hundreds of meters of ice.


Are you sure??

From what I had understood of the film, both humans and robots had ceased to exist. It were ALIENS who were excavating Earth, to know more about the lost civilization of humans.

[yumiko ^.^]

http://www.philebrity.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/tidalwave.jpg
I still don't understand why climate change would result in a sudden giant tidal wave

[Stephenapolis]

^
Because it isn't a tidal wave. It is a storm surge. Still a surge of the magnitutde they portray is ridiculous.

[latennisguy]

Heres L.A. being destroyed by some crazy scientologist:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b43/samceb/downtownunderattack2-1.jpg

and by the Governator:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b43/samceb/downtownunderattack3-1.jpg

Villaraigosa to the rescue!!:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b43/samceb/downtownunderattack.jpg

[mSeattle]

^
I was looking for some of those yesterday but forgot the artist's name. Thanks for finding them!

Me too. Touray, how did you find these? What's the artist's name?

[williamphilapa]

Philadelphia -- 12 Monkeys

http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/2095/phillylf3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Touray]

Me too. Touray, how did you find these? What's the artist's name?

The artist name is Tim Wistrom. He has great paintings =)

[BoiseAirport]

http://www.philebrity.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/tidalwave.jpg
I still don't understand why climate change would result in a sudden giant tidal wave

I think what they were trying to potray was that a huge chuck of ice sank in the caps, and as a result the oceans rose. The scale, as one said, was pretty out there.

But it made for some damn good entertainment :haha:

Anthony

[EventHorizon]

Are you sure??

From what I had understood of the film, both humans and robots had ceased to exist. It were ALIENS who were excavating Earth, to know more about the lost civilization of humans.


I think that's a common misconception... that they were aliens. They weren't. They were decedents of older 'mechas' (robots). At some point before humans became extinct, the robots had been created so advanced as to be able to reproduce themselves.
Humans eventually became extinct -- leaving the robots to "evolve".
As they became more sentient, they began to question their existence.
Finding David was important to them because he was "an original", as they called him in the film, and he actually knew humans... their creators/gods.
;)

[BoiseAirport]

EDIT....nvm, red x's galore.

Anthony

[Magnus1]

Even though the buildings remain intact...

I would consider a city overrun with homicidal infected persons to be destroyed.

London
28 days later.

i love this flick
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2585/200328dayslaterphoto005ex3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3379/2829264vh2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7741/2825264ly8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[EventHorizon]

Pittsburgh from the 'Inspector Gadget' film.

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k148/MRM80/vlcsnap-334119.jpg

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k148/MRM80/vlcsnap-334423.jpg

[Owlhorn]

I think what they were trying to potray was that a huge chuck of ice sank in the caps, and as a result the oceans rose. The scale, as one said, was pretty out there.

But it made for some damn good entertainment :haha:

Anthony

chunk of ice? I believe the entirety of the polar ice caps was melting, hence the crazy rise in sea level, which changed the weather completely. The currents that brought warm water/winds northward were now flowing differently, and the jetstream plummeted southward. This was followed by the beggining of an ice age(Hence people fleeing to Mexico). NYC ended up like it was in AI. The new ice cap was forming much farther south. I think the scale was fine. It was the short time period that was ridiculous.

[Trantor]

It is impossible for the sea to rise the way it did on that movie unless due to earthquase caused tsunamis or some meteor falling.

[NEWNANGuy]

there are a few great shots of L.A. in ruins after the big quake in "Earthquake" from the 70's. someone had mentioned some shots of KC from "The Day After". i have seen both The Day After and Threads. they were both great in their own right. i think DAT was better at special effects and the disaster itself. but Thread was much better about how it truly effects society....truly gruesome when the 3rd generation girl gives birth to that mutilation that is supposed to be her baby. and by that point in time everyone is partially mentally retarded because of all the radiation. truly terrifying. but from a disaster movie standpoint, it was AWESOME

[BoiseAirport]

chunk of ice? I believe the entirety of the polar ice caps was melting, hence the crazy rise in sea level, which changed the weather completely. The currents that brought warm water/winds northward were now flowing differently, and the jetstream plummeted southward. This was followed by the beggining of an ice age(Hence people fleeing to Mexico). NYC ended up like it was in AI. The new ice cap was forming much farther south. I think the scale was fine. It was the short time period that was ridiculous.

That's actually what I was trying to say. When I meant scale, I meant the ice caps would probably not drop into the ocean enough to cause a tidal wave of that size in that time period. Essentially we're on different trains on the same track.

Anthony

[BoiseAirport]

God I wish I could find it online, but on a Discovery Channel show they aired a long time ago called "Three Minutes to Impact" it had a clip of Tokyo being destroyed by a tsunami...the effects from what I remember were superb, and the big monstrous choirs in the background for music as well as the editing...god it was so perfect. I soooo wish I could find it.

Anthony

[Sacdelicious]

It is impossible for the sea to rise the way it did on that movie unless due to earthquase caused tsunamis or some meteor falling.

Incorrect. Remember New Orleans? The storm surge recorded during the storm there was 30 ft tall at the highest places. The record recorded storm surge was 43 feet tall.

Weather can indeed make an impressive wave if the conditions are met.

[Boquillas]

where are those gargoyles located? In the top of a fictional Art Deco skyscraper???? Seems to be as high as the Eiffel Tower!!

Actually, only half as high. If it were as high as the Eiffel Tower, the top of the tower would be flush with the horizon line. Sorry, a little linear perspective rule there;)

[volguus zildrohar]

I realize we're supposed to be looking at these images in kind of a bubble but it's most definitely a lot less interesting seeing this kind of stuff after we've been subjected to the real thing.

[TheFutureIsNow]

I used to be obsessed with disaster movies until 9/11, so i collected nearly disaster movie ever made, from meteor (60's) to asteroid (1997 miniseries), and even a movie called "Gorgo" from the 1960's, where a godzilla-like monster destroys london, and has good sfx for the 60's. I also have the aftershock miniseries from 1997 on Vhs and a very obscure tv movie about an earthquake hitting LA, made in 1992. I would put some photos from the movies, but i don't know how to screencap.

[Vashon118]

I would put some photos from the movies, but i don't know how to screencap.

Are you viewing these from your computer? If so, then pause the movie at whatever point you wish to do a screencap and then hit the Print Scr key. Then open whatever image editing program you use and create a new document and then paste the screencap via Ctrl-V (or whatever the paste command is for the image editor).

[ethereal_reality]

New York City in Cloverfield.


http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/2118/111cloverfield2ac1xj9.jpg


http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/6088/111cloverfield3b1aya7.jpg


http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/241/111cloverfield03co4.jpg

[ethereal_reality]

and the iconic image from Cloverfield.


http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/2973/111clovrfieldfh5.jpg

since ms. liberty's head comes barreling down the street....
and comes to a standstill in front of the film's stars.


http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/4220/111cloverfieldlibheadxo4.jpg

[City_boy12]

http://images.countingdown.com/images/countdowns/movies/28925/1011/892695_thumb.jpg

Great thread! I love this type of photos too! Anyway, what movie is this from?

[hagbard]

How did this get missed?

http://www.core77.com/blog/images/Independence%20Day.jpg

[Eigenwelt]

First of all not a single photo in this entire thread has followed the rules and been properly credited. Whole thread should be deleted.

Secondly, I am not of the school that is offended by fictional destruction just because I have witnessed it in reality. What does offend me is that virtually every photo posted here lacked a city name or the movie it came from. Regardless if I knew most of them, thats just laziness and stupidity on the posters part.

And finally...

New York City in Cloverfield.
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/2118/111cloverfield2ac1xj9.jpg

Am I the only person to realize that by the time the cloverfield monster got that far into the island it's wake in the harbor would have dissapated? I found this photo so annoying in the pre-release ad campaigns that I boycotted the movie because of it.

[Patrick]

^what a sourpuss!

I found this photo so annoying in the pre-release ad campaigns that I boycotted the movie because of it.

:haha:

ANYWHO.

All pictures from http://www.jimusnr.com/

Los Angeles destroyed in the 1974 classic Earthquake.

http://www.jimusnr.com/q17.JPG

http://www.jimusnr.com/Q19.jpg

http://www.jimusnr.com/matte1.JPG

http://www.jimusnr.com/Q25.jpg

http://www.jimusnr.com/Q43.jpg

http://www.jimusnr.com/q48a.JPG

http://www.jimusnr.com/q53a.JPG

I'm sure we all remember LA getting nuked in Terminator 2 in 1992.

http://www.jimusnr.com/te3.jpg

http://www.jimusnr.com/te5.jpg

New York City engulfed by a tidal wave in 1998's Deep Impact.

http://www.jimusnr.com/di7.jpg

http://www.jimusnr.com/di12.jpg

http://www.jimusnr.com/di8.jpg

http://www.jimusnr.com/di9.jpg

http://www.jimusnr.com/di11.jpg

1998's Armageddon's creepy 9/11 premonition.

http://www.jimusnr.com/arm5.jpg

[SuburbanNation]

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/artman/uploads/escape02.jpg
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/artman/uploads/escape02.jpg
http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/0559f266-0bc8-4e10-ba09-7e85d47a0fcc.jpg
http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/0559f266-0bc8-4e10-ba09-7e85d47a0fcc.jpg
http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/7a8f4290-4c62-4a4f-95f7-b90c3339a379.jpg
http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/7a8f4290-4c62-4a4f-95f7-b90c3339a379.jpg
http://www.americanhockeyfan.com/uploaded_images/1EscapeFromNewYork-734444-763819.jpg
http://www.americanhockeyfan.com/uploaded_images/1EscapeFromNewYork-734444-763819.jpg

heres kurt russel in an actually partially destroyed st. louis in escape from new york.

beat that!

http://www.pbase.com/citylover/image/71602913/original.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/citylover/image/71602913/original.jpg

[initiald]

Great thread! I love this type of photos too! Anyway, what movie is this from?

Reign of Fire. Dragons destroy modern day London.

[Zerton]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/174/465001761_545a804add_o.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/174/465001761_545a804add_o.jpg

http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/images/ai-artificialintelligence31.jpg

http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/images/ai-artificialintelligence32.jpg

I used to put in AI and skip forward to the part where they fly over New York.


.

[Exodus]

I LOVED watching Godzilla as a kid. I use to and still think hes the coolest. Even though he was bad, he was also good. That new movie did him no justice...


:drunk:
Godzilla was a female. Must have been that time of month ;)

[texcolo]

I couldn't find a still photo, but someone (Dallascaper) put a 5 minute video of Dallas getting smacked by an asteroid in the TV movie... Asteroid.

At a 1:20 into it there's a great shot of the Reunion Tower getting smacked.
Lots of DART light rail foo as well...

Y1LOUhasaFg

[ethereal_reality]

Wasn't there a movie in the 1980s that had a flying dragon
living in the top of the Chrysler Building?

Anyone have any pics of that?

[Tony]

:sly: :koko: :haha: Wow! You're right, I've never noticed that! I know of no building in Paris at that locatioon that high containing gargoyles. I mean, just look at how tall it is relative to the ground! I'd love to hear what building it is.


Geez... they're gargoyles on Notre Dame. A simple google search for "gargoyles Notre Dame" will show similar views.

[Metro-One]

If you go back to the top of this page the older movie model cities look much more realistic than the modern movie CG still shots.

[Cirrus]

I've been looking for a screencap of the scene in Waterworld where they swim through the ruined city (supposedly Denver), but can't find one.

[Swede]

Stockholm destroyed in a fictional movie :P
x_1o4apmI-0

btw - on the newsticker it says "president obama[...]". when was it made? over 9 months ago :D

[Aleks]

Fallout Three:

http://xspblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/fallout3__5_.jpg
link. (http://gamegirl.blogfaction.com/article/105175/fallout-3-final-thoughts/legacy/)

http://www.wallpaperez.net/wallpaper/games/Fallout-3-ruins-1009.jpg
link. (http://www.wallpaperez.net/games/Fallout-3-ruins-1009.html)

[LMich]

Not any destroyed, but does anyone have any photos of Star War's plant Coruscant above the atmosphere (out in space) showing the night side of the planet?

[Caernavon]

Wasn't there a movie in the 1980s that had a flying dragon
living in the top of the Chrysler Building?

Anyone have any pics of that?

No caps, but the movie you're thinking of was "Q".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084556/

Fantastic idea for a thread. I still think the wave destroying NYC in Deep Impact is the scariest special effect I've ever seen at the movies.

[muppet]

London destroyed in Flood

http://www.screenhead.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/floodminiseries.jpg
www.screenhead.com
http://www.rerisk.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/07//wp-content/uploads/LondonFlood.jpg
www.rerisk.net
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2008/05/06/TheFloodA460.jpg
http://static.guim.co.uk
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_03/londonflood1ES2707_800x477.jpg
www.dailymail.co.uk
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_03/londonflood2ES2707_800x416.jpg
www.dailymail.co.uk


Trailer

v/aUWlmED6m5s&hl=en&fs=1

[muppet]

London bomb attack

(actually this scene is real, this view greeted millions of Londoners one morning in 2007...

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11/smokelondon_450x250.jpg
www.metro.co.uk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/images/2007/11/12/fire_view_highgate_440x330.jpg
www.bbc.co.uk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/images/2007/11/12/pavel_krobot_330x440.jpg
www.bbc.co.uk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/images/2007/11/12/pavel_krobot_deptford_440x330.jpg
www.bbc.co.uk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/images/2007/11/12/tivyjones_300x400.jpg
www.bbc.co.uk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/images/2007/11/12/charlie_300x400.jpg
www.bbc.co.uk
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/11/13/london3_wideweb__470x304,0.jpg
www.theage.com.au
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11_02/fireEPA_468x353.jpg
www.dailymail.co.uk
http://sfist.com/attachments/SFist_Brock/smoky_london.jpg http://www.building.co.uk/Pictures/316xAny/d/s/j/london_fire_2.jpg
http://sfist.com

...from a warehouse fire)

[muppet]

The sinking of Japan

http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/882/sinkingofjapanhdtvrex26qi9.jpg

http://www.realflow.com/img/cs/nihon/nihon02.jpg

amazing scene here:

http://www.realflow.com/img/cs/nihon/mov01.htm


and here:

v/NeJ6Cftc-E8&hl=en&fs=1

[muppet]

The Great Tokyo Earthquake, simulation film:

v/hlkCyjwD4-I&hl=en&fs=1

[muppet]

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w202/speedytouch/london-ruin.jpg