Destroyers of worlds
The age of mega-budget actioners is well underway. As the capabilities of speci൩al effects transport movies to bigger and better flights of fancy, the boundaries of sheer spectacle are being pushed further to the brink. If its not subaquatic monsters, villainous aliens or irresponsible superheroes causing destruction on a mass scale, then its good ole mother nature.
With this weeks release of San Andreas, starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson as a pilot who goes tet-a-tet with a seismic catastrophe, nows as good a time as any to cast your mind back ovꦐer🦂 the greatest scenes in movie history that are enough to make town planners weep.
Chicago - Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (2011)
The destruction: Theres no Transformers movie complete without a sequence dedic🎃ated to mass, over-the-top, city-wide carnage. And what better way to demonstrate the wrath of the Decepticons than by witnessing them trounce the Windy City? The villainous brigade of 'bots destroy Chicago using an advanced arsenal of weapons.
New York - The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
The destruction: Roland Emmerichs disaster flicks of the noughties placed the b🅠lame for their catastrophic events on mankinds ignorance toward climate chan☂ge. As a result the planet is struck by hideous weather patterns, which includes New York City getting hit by a gigantic tidal wave. Drying off might take a while.
Disaster highlight: A ꦿbus driver notices throngs of people clambering across cars. He turns to his rear view mirror - which as we know is a no-no in movies - and spies a colossal tidal wave washing down the street.
Tokyo - Godzilla (1954)
The destruction: In the first outing for Japans biggest cinematic export, Godzilla tears apart his hometown block-by-blockಞ. Stomping across the city he takes the occasional pause to derail trains while breathing jets of fiery radiation onto horde🌄s of panicked citizens.
Disaster highlight: Godzilla casually g🌄nawing on a string of train carriages as if theyre toothpꦛicks.
Los Angeles - 2012 (2009)
The destruction: Los An🀅geles is decimated by a double-pronged attack from mother nature, described as a geological AND meteorological super-disaster. Due to the planets rising temperatღure - and other factors - a polar shift occurs. This involves crust displacement (nothing to do with losing a sandwich) and basically the whole of Los Angeles is split in two by a throbbing earthquake. Then California slides into the ocean.
Disaster highlight: John Cusacks sci-fi writer-chauffeur hustles his family into 🗹his stretc﷽hed limo to they careen across Los Angeles. The baked streets crack and swallow the city while the path of the quakes destruction is in hot pursuit of their car.
