Thread of Fictionally Destroyed Cities

BoiseAirport · #1 Posted **Nov 30, 2006, 9:53 AM**

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.)

Anthony

jmellaw · #2 Posted **Nov 30, 2006, 2:23 PM**

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

Trantor · #3 Posted **Dec 1, 2006, 5:44 PM**

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 · #4 Posted **Dec 1, 2006, 6:43 PM**

Wigs · #5 Posted **Dec 1, 2006, 6:49 PM**

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 · #6 Posted **Dec 1, 2006, 8:28 PM**

mdiederi · #7 Posted **Dec 1, 2006, 8:32 PM**

marcus · #8 Posted **Dec 1, 2006, 9:47 PM**

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

LSyd · #9 Posted **Dec 1, 2006, 10:12 PM**

GIANT SPACE ROBOT DESTROY NASHVILLE!!!

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

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shappy · #10 Posted **Dec 1, 2006, 10:18 PM**

Toronto's new City Hall filling in for the headquarters of a bio company in Resident Evil:

Complex01 · #11 Posted **Dec 1, 2006, 11:04 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by mdiederi

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JManc · #12 Posted **Dec 1, 2006, 11:36 PM**

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

paris was toast in armageddon:

Trantor · #13 Posted **Dec 2, 2006, 4:09 AM**

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

BoiseAirport · #14 Posted **Dec 2, 2006, 4:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by Trantor

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

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 · #15 Posted **Dec 2, 2006, 9:05 AM**

Tsunami!
HUGE tsunami bearing down on a city (which one is that?)!

City (NYC??) getting washed big time.

Tornado!
LA getting hit by something much more associated with Texas or Oklahoma.

Volcano!
Lava floods the streets of LA in Volcano.

Eruption column seen from the town in Dante's Peak.

Nuclear war!
'Shroom cloud over a city.

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.

Nuclear winter. If you look closely enough, you can see not one, but at least three skeletons.

Asteroid/meteorite impact!
The Chrysler Building gets knocked down in Armageddon.

What would happen if a Tunguska*-type event occured over Los Angeles.

*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 · #16 Posted **Dec 2, 2006, 9:17 AM**

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 · #17 Posted **Dec 2, 2006, 9:25 AM**

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.