Top 10 Ways Hollywood Destroys NYC

[babybackribs2314]

Top 10 Ways Hollywood Destroys New York City

Which ones are your favorites? Any other nominations?

For me, the most classic are Armageddon and Cloverfield... the Armageddon meteor shower is just priceless, and Cloverfield is actually a good movie.

[volguus zildrohar]

New York never gets destroyed in one direction in film.

Tsunamis, enormous walls of flame and the like...Times Square gets it from the south and then the Empire State Building gets it from the west and the calamity is usually coming from the east.

That's all beside the point. What's important to know is that in most disaster films Chicago would become the nation's greatest city because it would appear that aliens, monsters and asteroids are only interested in destroying the two largest US cities and nothing anywhere else (save for Paris and Hong Kong and that's only because Michael Bay would blow his own mother up for the sake of 'awesomeness').

BTW, I always liked ID4. That 'Empire State Building in the middle of Fifth Avenue' thing always made me chuckle.

[MolsonExport]

I much prefer Hollywood films that show me NYC, warts and all. Most of all, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, etc.

I hate Michael Bay films.

[iheartthed]

Washington takes it on the chin a lot too.

2012 was a little more even-handed in city destruction, wasn't it? I think I remember Rio and some others getting destroyed along with the usual suspects.

[babybackribs2314]

2012 showed lots of destruction, but NYC missed out. DC is shown flooded by a tsunami, and an aircraft carrier lands on the White House. DC also gets it in Independence Day, Mars Attacks (briefly shows NYC, the Twin Towers falling into one another... but not well), and a few others I'm sure.

Armageddon obliterates Paris and Shanghai, as well... the Asian city shown is fairly blah but pretty sure it's Shanghai.

[relnahe]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

I much prefer Hollywood films that show me NYC, warts and all. Most of all, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, etc.

I hate Michael Bay films.

70's films are my favorites for a multitude of reasons but the grit of not only the film stock but of the cities shown bring a huge smile to my face.

[Centropolis]

i thought this was going to be one of those weird contradictorian articles like listing out 10 ways that the actual neighborhood of Hollywood like (yacking radio voice) TOTALLY DESTROYS NYCcccc.

[M II A II R II K]

You can't have a disaster movie without NYC getting trashed.

[jodelli]

Originally Posted by volguus zildrohar

That's all beside the point. What's important to know is that in most disaster films Chicago would become the nation's greatest city because it would appear that aliens, monsters and asteroids are only interested in destroying the two largest US cities and nothing anywhere else (save for Paris and Hong Kong and that's only because Michael Bay would blow his own mother up for the sake of 'awesomeness').

Chicago got eaten by giant grasshoppers though, or at least a picture of the Wrigley Building did (sortta).

Originally Posted by volguus zildrohar

, I always liked ID4. That 'Empire State Building in the middle of Fifth Avenue' thing always made me chuckle.

That was strange. Plus someone mistook the Torre Latinoamericana for the ESB in a movie that had a giant scorpion walking in front of it. (actually in profile from a distance they do look similar. (Not the arthropod, the buildings)place bracket here.

[Tom Servo]

War of the Worlds should have been higher on that list.

[JDRCRASH]

^ Yeah, talk about flattening cities!

ID4 was just EPIC. And i think Chicago is mentioned as being wiped out, though they never show it.

Originally Posted by volguus zildrohar

That's all beside the point. What's important to know is that in most disaster films Chicago would become the nation's greatest city because it would appear that aliens, monsters and asteroids are only interested in destroying the two largest US cities and nothing anywhere else (save for Paris and Hong Kong and that's only because Michael Bay would blow his own mother up for the sake of 'awesomeness').

Well, Chicago was pretty banged up in Transformers 3, which of course, oddly enough, was directed by Michael Bay.

[HHH]

Originally Posted by JDRCRASH

ID4 was just EPIC. And i think Chicago is mentioned as being wiped out, though they never show it.

Agreed. My favorite movie when I was a kid. They mention Atlanta, Chicago, and Philadelphia being destroyed. And then obviously Houston, but that was from the nuclear bomb. The book also adds San Francisco as being one of the U.S. cities, I believe in the initial attack.

A few years ago I actually came across a website or forum where someone (with way too much time on their hands!) created a hypothetical list of each city destroyed in each round of attack, based on their global/military importance and the geography of where the first 36 ships had attacked.

[SHiRO]

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=121018

[Doug]

In the really crappy sic-fi movie Skyline, the military nukes LA in an attempt to take out the aliens that have invaded it. Has there ever been another movie where a city is destroyed by its own?

[Serenade]

^ Houston gets nuked in Independence Day.

[JDRCRASH]

And so does New York in Cloverfield.

[suburbanite]

Not necessarily Hollywood, but the videogame "Crysis 3" destroys NYC and turns it into an urban jungle.



from: http://www.incrysis.com/index.php?op...sk=view&id=979



from: http://www.vg247.com/2012/07/24/quic...res-new-shots/

[jd3189]

Beautiful.