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Stomping all over the city that never sleeps is nothing new. The Big Apple has taken quite a few cinematic hits over the years.
Nicolas Cages new movie Knowing is once again putting a fictional New York in the path of destruction. Check out our review here. Being one of the most iconic cities in the world means that Manhattan is ripe for filmmakers looking to make a visceral impact. After all, what could be more gasp-inducing than torching the Empire State Building? Or flooding Grand Central Station? Or stomping all over the Brooklyn Bridge? New York has always been a prime target for disaster, and even after real disasters have toppled some of its towers, filmmakers still cant stay away.
20. Independence Day (1996)
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Despite some geographical inaccuracy (the Empire State Building does not straddle an North-South street), serial New Yorkabuser Roland Emmerich certainly makes his point anyway. When the hovering alien spacecraft get the go sign, Gregory Johnsons iconic design gets lit up like a Roman candle, and Manhattan learns the hard way that not all tourists want to pose for pictures in Times Square and catch a matinee of Legally Blonde.
19. The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
19-the-day-after-tomorrow
Emmerich again. This time, severe changes in the Earths climate cause New York to get flooded like a cheap Chevy, and then frozen solid. Why this also causes giant werewolves to appear is cause for debate (we choose the bad CGI argument), but this was one circumstance where New Yorkers actually would have preferred the snow turn to a slushy gray muck like it usually does ten seconds after a blizzard.
18. Godzilla (1998)
18-godzilla-1998
OK, Emmerich, we get it. You like to see New York decimated. Fine. This time, the German director unleashes a giant lizard in the city so nice they named it twice, and a great many recognizable landmarks suffer as a result. Were not sure if that ending. Godzilla is finally stopped by the criss-crossing cables of the Brooklyn Bridge was meant to be a subtle joke for Manhattanites who equate moving to Brooklyn with death, but we like to think it is, anyway.
17. Men in Black II (2002)
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To think, the MIBs spend so much time covering their tracks and erasing memories and yet, if you told the average N.Y. commuter that giant, subway-car-sized space slugs lived in the tunnels, they probably wouldnt bat an eye. They have seen far more disturbing things inside a subway car. MIB2 is relatively gentle on the big city, though, and even its predecessor saved most of its destructiveness for Queens where, lets be honest, no ones really going to notice.
16. Superman II (1980)
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When Tim Burton made Batmans Gotham City, he made it so that it didnt resemble any other city the audience knew of (well, maybe some areas of Berlin). Richard Donner, however, wanted people to buy his location as Metropolis even though THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING is sticking up right in the middle of midtown. Thats like painting wings on an elephant and calling it an eagle. When Supes throws down with General Zod and his flunkies, theres no mistaking that its Times Square feeling the brunt of the super-fisticuffs.
15. Q (1982)
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Its an old New York joke that you can tell who the tourists are because they are the only ones looking up. New Yorkers dont need to gawk at their skyscrapers, making Qs conceit that a giant winged serpent could nest atop the Empire State Building without anyone noticing until it starts eating people utterly believable. Hindered by 1982 special effects, the movie opts for mystery over large-scale carnage, but thinking of monumental buildings as home to man-eating monstrosities is disturbing enough.
14. When Worlds Collide (1951)
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Before Roland Emmerich got the notion to turn Manhattans cavernous streets into a log flume, legendary sci-fi producer George Pal busted out the miniatures and the garden hose in When Worlds Collide. The tale of a rogue planet on a collision course with Earth (see? The title isnt a metaphor), the end is not a pleasant one for New York. It gets flooded with enough seawater to drown everything save the cockroaches.
13. Deep Impact (1998)
13-deep-impact
Before Roland Emmerich got the notion to turn Manhattans cavernous streets into a log flume, but after George Pal did the exact same thing, director Mimi Lederaw, forget it. Meteor. Hits earth. New York floods. Lets move on.
12. The Warriors (1979)
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Not all destruction has to be an extinction-level event. In The Warriors, the Big Apple is rotting from the inside the generally good, hard-working, no-nonsense New Yorkers who are the citys heart and soul have been chased to the periphery and replaced by elaborately-dressed and ultra-violent gangs. These clown-faced crooks have the run of the entire island (and the surrounding boroughs), and civilians are hardly seen at all, which leads to the chilling conclusion that unless you pick a clan, youre pretty much a walking ghost.
11. Planet of the Apes (1968)
11-planet-apes
After all the hunting, capturing, escaping, and laying on of stinking paws, Charlton Heston wanders down a desolate stretch of beach to discoverthe Statue of Liberty! All this time, hes been among ape-men who have built a civilization on the ruins of what was once New York. Well, OK, it could have been New Jersey. But still we blew it up! Damn us all to hell!
10. Escape from New York (1981)
10-escape-new-york
In John Carpenters dystopian thriller, New Yorks crime rate gets so uncontrollably bad the U.S. government decides to simply wall it up and let it exist as a giant prison. While this scenario doesnt look too kindly on New York, the films production doesnt look too kindly on another city: East St. Louis. Unable to find a N.Y. location suitably burned-out, run-down, and pathetic enough to convince as a city-prison, Carpenter had to film nearly all of Escapes exteriors in the sad sack Illinois city.
9. The Siege (1998)
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Taking a much more grounded tact that some of the other films listed here, The Siege preyed on our worst real life fears rampant terror attacks in major cities several years before 9/11, and showed us a devastated Manhattan under martial law. It kind of makes giant lizards and supervillains seem kind of cozy and safe, doesnt it?
8. 2019: After the Fall of New York (1983)
after-fall-new-york
An Italian cheapie knock-off of Escape from New York, 2019 envisions a nuclear-decimated New York inhabited by radioactive freaks and monsters. Luckily for the filmmakers, the post-apocalypse setting allowed for much of the action to take place in nondescript parking lots and empty patched of desert, rather than, say, having to hire the manpower to shut down large portions of Fifth Avenue. All the saved money is on the screen, folks.
7. Ghostbusters (1984)/Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
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Look, having the worlds only paranormal janitors based in Tribeca is bound to bring some undesirables into your neighborhood. First, large sections of the Upper West Side get stomped on (and ultimately covered in charred marshmallow), then a river of slime underneath the city streets conjure up a vengeful spirit from the past. The Ghostbusters means of disposal may not be tidy they wreck as much of Manhattan as the ghoulies but at least they do something. Nobody steps on a church in their town.
6. Armageddon (1998)
6-armageddon-1998
Michael Bay might have gone the hackneyed New York landmark destruction route, but give him some credit for at least picking two slightly lesser-used landmarks. In illustrating a meteor showers path of destruction, Bay shows the Chrysler Building and Grand Central Station getting torn apart by hunks of space rock in addition to several taxi cabs near a 53rd Street Station, which is in that trendy N.Y. neighborhood known as Obvious Studio Backlot.
5. King Kong (2005)
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Forget Mel Brooks, a thousand chorus dancers, or a Stephen Sondheim song remember the simple days when all you needed to open on Broadway was a big ape in chains? Once Kong got out, however, things go very bad for 1930s Times Square. Cars are thrown, buildings crushed, and Central Parks frozen ponds subject to inhuman levels of sentimentality. The Empire State Building, despite being the location for the final showdown, gets by with a few dings and scratches. The streets below, however
4. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
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Like Emmerichs The Day After Tomorrow, the Earths fragile ecosystem is to blame for New Yorks eventual flooding and destruction but unlike Emmerich, Steven Spielberg only shows us the aftermath, not the disaster. And like Planet of the Apes, the Statue of Liberty is used as the chilling reminder of what once was (her torch barely peaking out above sea level is eerie in much the same way her beach-logged torso was in Apes).
3. War of the Worlds (2005)
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Perhaps realizing he missed an opportunity with A.I., Spielberg made up for it by piling on the N.Y. decimation in his remake of War of the Worlds. From the vantage point of Bayonne, New Jersey, we see bridges twisting like licorice and entire swaths of the city getting ripped apart. The entire Eastern seaboard feels the brunt of the alien attack, so for once New York isnt unfairly singled out for termination.
2. I Am Legend (2007)
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There is nothing more chilling than the sight of a New York City completely devoid of people. Its somehow more unnatural and more disturbing than an alien invasion, giant meteor, or epic tsunami. People surrender their desire for piece and quiet the minute they sign the rental agreement on a N.Y. apartment, so the idea that there could be more vegetation than people on Fifth Avenue is tough to swallow. New Yorkers being wholesale turned into vampires isnt any easier.
1. Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)
1-sex-and-city-movieWithout a doubt, the combined forces of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda have been more devastating to life in New York than anything dreamed up by Roland Emmerich or Michael Bay. As a cable series, Sex turned New Yorks way of life upside down convincing millions of Midwest dreamers that they could afford a one-bedroom Manhattan apartment by writing a single newspaper column every four months, that they could subsist entirely on Cosmos and pastries, and that they would magically have enough free time and disposable income to lunch with the girls in between Manolo Blahnik shopping sprees. Utterly devastating.
from: premiere.com
Stomping all over the city that never sleeps is nothing new. The Big Apple has taken quite a few cinematic hits over the years.
Nicolas Cages new movie Knowing is once again putting a fictional New York in the path of destruction. Check out our review here. Being one of the most iconic cities in the world means that Manhattan is ripe for filmmakers looking to make a visceral impact. After all, what could be more gasp-inducing than torching the Empire State Building? Or flooding Grand Central Station? Or stomping all over the Brooklyn Bridge? New York has always been a prime target for disaster, and even after real disasters have toppled some of its towers, filmmakers still cant stay away.
20. Independence Day (1996)
independence-day
Despite some geographical inaccuracy (the Empire State Building does not straddle an North-South street), serial New Yorkabuser Roland Emmerich certainly makes his point anyway. When the hovering alien spacecraft get the go sign, Gregory Johnsons iconic design gets lit up like a Roman candle, and Manhattan learns the hard way that not all tourists want to pose for pictures in Times Square and catch a matinee of Legally Blonde.
19. The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
19-the-day-after-tomorrow
Emmerich again. This time, severe changes in the Earths climate cause New York to get flooded like a cheap Chevy, and then frozen solid. Why this also causes giant werewolves to appear is cause for debate (we choose the bad CGI argument), but this was one circumstance where New Yorkers actually would have preferred the snow turn to a slushy gray muck like it usually does ten seconds after a blizzard.
18. Godzilla (1998)
18-godzilla-1998
OK, Emmerich, we get it. You like to see New York decimated. Fine. This time, the German director unleashes a giant lizard in the city so nice they named it twice, and a great many recognizable landmarks suffer as a result. Were not sure if that ending. Godzilla is finally stopped by the criss-crossing cables of the Brooklyn Bridge was meant to be a subtle joke for Manhattanites who equate moving to Brooklyn with death, but we like to think it is, anyway.
17. Men in Black II (2002)
17-men-black
To think, the MIBs spend so much time covering their tracks and erasing memories and yet, if you told the average N.Y. commuter that giant, subway-car-sized space slugs lived in the tunnels, they probably wouldnt bat an eye. They have seen far more disturbing things inside a subway car. MIB2 is relatively gentle on the big city, though, and even its predecessor saved most of its destructiveness for Queens where, lets be honest, no ones really going to notice.
16. Superman II (1980)
16-superman-ii
When Tim Burton made Batmans Gotham City, he made it so that it didnt resemble any other city the audience knew of (well, maybe some areas of Berlin). Richard Donner, however, wanted people to buy his location as Metropolis even though THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING is sticking up right in the middle of midtown. Thats like painting wings on an elephant and calling it an eagle. When Supes throws down with General Zod and his flunkies, theres no mistaking that its Times Square feeling the brunt of the super-fisticuffs.
15. Q (1982)
15-q-1982
Its an old New York joke that you can tell who the tourists are because they are the only ones looking up. New Yorkers dont need to gawk at their skyscrapers, making Qs conceit that a giant winged serpent could nest atop the Empire State Building without anyone noticing until it starts eating people utterly believable. Hindered by 1982 special effects, the movie opts for mystery over large-scale carnage, but thinking of monumental buildings as home to man-eating monstrosities is disturbing enough.
14. When Worlds Collide (1951)
14-when-worlds-collide
Before Roland Emmerich got the notion to turn Manhattans cavernous streets into a log flume, legendary sci-fi producer George Pal busted out the miniatures and the garden hose in When Worlds Collide. The tale of a rogue planet on a collision course with Earth (see? The title isnt a metaphor), the end is not a pleasant one for New York. It gets flooded with enough seawater to drown everything save the cockroaches.
13. Deep Impact (1998)
13-deep-impact
Before Roland Emmerich got the notion to turn Manhattans cavernous streets into a log flume, but after George Pal did the exact same thing, director Mimi Lederaw, forget it. Meteor. Hits earth. New York floods. Lets move on.
12. The Warriors (1979)
12-warriors
Not all destruction has to be an extinction-level event. In The Warriors, the Big Apple is rotting from the inside the generally good, hard-working, no-nonsense New Yorkers who are the citys heart and soul have been chased to the periphery and replaced by elaborately-dressed and ultra-violent gangs. These clown-faced crooks have the run of the entire island (and the surrounding boroughs), and civilians are hardly seen at all, which leads to the chilling conclusion that unless you pick a clan, youre pretty much a walking ghost.
11. Planet of the Apes (1968)
11-planet-apes
After all the hunting, capturing, escaping, and laying on of stinking paws, Charlton Heston wanders down a desolate stretch of beach to discoverthe Statue of Liberty! All this time, hes been among ape-men who have built a civilization on the ruins of what was once New York. Well, OK, it could have been New Jersey. But still we blew it up! Damn us all to hell!
10. Escape from New York (1981)
10-escape-new-york
In John Carpenters dystopian thriller, New Yorks crime rate gets so uncontrollably bad the U.S. government decides to simply wall it up and let it exist as a giant prison. While this scenario doesnt look too kindly on New York, the films production doesnt look too kindly on another city: East St. Louis. Unable to find a N.Y. location suitably burned-out, run-down, and pathetic enough to convince as a city-prison, Carpenter had to film nearly all of Escapes exteriors in the sad sack Illinois city.
9. The Siege (1998)
9-the-siege-1998
Taking a much more grounded tact that some of the other films listed here, The Siege preyed on our worst real life fears rampant terror attacks in major cities several years before 9/11, and showed us a devastated Manhattan under martial law. It kind of makes giant lizards and supervillains seem kind of cozy and safe, doesnt it?
8. 2019: After the Fall of New York (1983)
after-fall-new-york
An Italian cheapie knock-off of Escape from New York, 2019 envisions a nuclear-decimated New York inhabited by radioactive freaks and monsters. Luckily for the filmmakers, the post-apocalypse setting allowed for much of the action to take place in nondescript parking lots and empty patched of desert, rather than, say, having to hire the manpower to shut down large portions of Fifth Avenue. All the saved money is on the screen, folks.
7. Ghostbusters (1984)/Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
7-ghostbusters
Look, having the worlds only paranormal janitors based in Tribeca is bound to bring some undesirables into your neighborhood. First, large sections of the Upper West Side get stomped on (and ultimately covered in charred marshmallow), then a river of slime underneath the city streets conjure up a vengeful spirit from the past. The Ghostbusters means of disposal may not be tidy they wreck as much of Manhattan as the ghoulies but at least they do something. Nobody steps on a church in their town.
6. Armageddon (1998)
6-armageddon-1998
Michael Bay might have gone the hackneyed New York landmark destruction route, but give him some credit for at least picking two slightly lesser-used landmarks. In illustrating a meteor showers path of destruction, Bay shows the Chrysler Building and Grand Central Station getting torn apart by hunks of space rock in addition to several taxi cabs near a 53rd Street Station, which is in that trendy N.Y. neighborhood known as Obvious Studio Backlot.
5. King Kong (2005)
5-king-kong-2005
Forget Mel Brooks, a thousand chorus dancers, or a Stephen Sondheim song remember the simple days when all you needed to open on Broadway was a big ape in chains? Once Kong got out, however, things go very bad for 1930s Times Square. Cars are thrown, buildings crushed, and Central Parks frozen ponds subject to inhuman levels of sentimentality. The Empire State Building, despite being the location for the final showdown, gets by with a few dings and scratches. The streets below, however
4. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
4-ai-artificial-intelligence-2001
Like Emmerichs The Day After Tomorrow, the Earths fragile ecosystem is to blame for New Yorks eventual flooding and destruction but unlike Emmerich, Steven Spielberg only shows us the aftermath, not the disaster. And like Planet of the Apes, the Statue of Liberty is used as the chilling reminder of what once was (her torch barely peaking out above sea level is eerie in much the same way her beach-logged torso was in Apes).
3. War of the Worlds (2005)
3war-worlds
Perhaps realizing he missed an opportunity with A.I., Spielberg made up for it by piling on the N.Y. decimation in his remake of War of the Worlds. From the vantage point of Bayonne, New Jersey, we see bridges twisting like licorice and entire swaths of the city getting ripped apart. The entire Eastern seaboard feels the brunt of the alien attack, so for once New York isnt unfairly singled out for termination.
2. I Am Legend (2007)
2-legend
There is nothing more chilling than the sight of a New York City completely devoid of people. Its somehow more unnatural and more disturbing than an alien invasion, giant meteor, or epic tsunami. People surrender their desire for piece and quiet the minute they sign the rental agreement on a N.Y. apartment, so the idea that there could be more vegetation than people on Fifth Avenue is tough to swallow. New Yorkers being wholesale turned into vampires isnt any easier.
1. Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)
1-sex-and-city-movieWithout a doubt, the combined forces of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda have been more devastating to life in New York than anything dreamed up by Roland Emmerich or Michael Bay. As a cable series, Sex turned New Yorks way of life upside down convincing millions of Midwest dreamers that they could afford a one-bedroom Manhattan apartment by writing a single newspaper column every four months, that they could subsist entirely on Cosmos and pastries, and that they would magically have enough free time and disposable income to lunch with the girls in between Manolo Blahnik shopping sprees. Utterly devastating.
from: premiere.com
I hurt another friend last night so today I'm getting a cold shoulder, sigh I guess I was kissing on this guy, well not just a guy I always had a crush on him, I'm not one to randomly make out with people at a bar. Now I feel horrible bc drinks caused me to to be a lttle forthcoming and I disrespected a friend who liked me.... aaaauuuuggghhhh
shit now people are going to talk, I remember everything from last night I just didn't think I was that bad now I'm hanging my head in shame
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paddywhack:
i have done the same thing. i dont mean to do shit like that, but i am an idiot and shit happens. usually at the worst time.
greendemon71:
you take care of your self that's all that matters !!!!!! God bless , & I hope you feel better !!!!!!! 