I’m trying to collect clips from all the movie scenes in which the Golden Gate Bridge is destroyed. The first is from the Japanese film of 1957 entitled “Battle in Outer Space,” released in the US in 1959, in which the evil Natalians destroy the bridge with a “space torpedo.” It’s a few seconds into the trailer.
And this is a colorized version of the famous scene in It Came from Beneath the sea.
And in this more recent clip from X-Men Last Stand, Magneto rips the bridge from its foundations and levitates it over to Alcatraz.
Can anybody think of any others? How many times must we rebuild the thing?
Addendum: Some additions based upon your suggestions.
Megashark vs. Giant Octopus
More below the fold.
Monsters vs. Aliens – as noted, the bridge isn’t destroyed, but banged up a little. I can’t find the scene in its entirety, but some clips are about 40 seconds into this one.
And The Core has what looks like a pretty awesome scene, but I can only find the clips on the trailer.
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May 28, 2011 at 9:12 am
Random Guy
I think one of the star trek movies? Either destroyed or about to be…wasn’t federation headquarters in SF? Fuggin “federation” going around playing space cop.
May 28, 2011 at 9:51 am
Fred
DAMN YOU, Eric! You scared the crap out of me. I read the title of this post and thought it was a scoop on something that really happened.
Whew! Seriously, you gave me a start.
May 28, 2011 at 10:01 am
suzy blah blah
holy sh&t!
May 28, 2011 at 10:57 am
suzy blah blah
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvciIVcn33c&w=560&h=349%5D
May 28, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Jim Ferguson
Monsters v. Aliens – it was ripped up pretty good but not totally destroyed.
May 28, 2011 at 2:31 pm
pathetic actually
How about San Francisco, a 1930′s(??) film about the big quake? Who could forget Terminator–Salvation? And then there’s well-beloved 2009 flick Mega Shark v Giant Octopus, with F. Lamas, Jr. There’s also a movie that has folks drilling to the earth’s core that I think has a melting GG Bridge scene.
May 28, 2011 at 4:03 pm
WTF
The Core, The Book of Eli, 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow. Do they have to be “Sci-Fi” monsters?
May 28, 2011 at 5:14 pm
Eric Kirk
Sorry Fred! Don’t believe it if you hear a radio broadcast of an alien invasion either.
RG – I don’t think the bridge was actually destroyed. It came close, but the whales arrived just in time to talk the alien probe down.
Suzy, that’s a great one! There’s an even funnier scene from that movie that someone posted some time back.
Pathetic Actually – the GGB was built three decades later, tut that was a great movie.
Jim – good choice. I’ll see if I can find that one.
WTF, I don’t know about the first two choices, but I don’t remember the GGB in The Day After Tomorrow. I remember tornadoes in LA and a tidal wave in NYC. But I’ll have a look.
And someone offline suggests that Battle in Outer Space was actually the first movie which depicts a battle between space ships actually in outer space. It may well be. War of the Worlds, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, and even the old battles in the first Flash Gordon series of the 30s all took place within planetary atmospheres.
May 28, 2011 at 5:30 pm
suzy blah blah
Eric! You scared the crap out of me.
LOL! As sophisticated and jaded as she thinks she is, Suzy did a little start too, with so many earthquakes and tornadoes all over the news … I thought it was one of your better headlines.
May 28, 2011 at 6:05 pm
WTF
May 28, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Anonymous
I was wondering what the propriety is regarding posting movie clips like this – isn’t youtube deleting stuff like this constantly to avoid copyright infringement?
Not trying to say anyone is doing anything wrong, I’m just curious, and as Eric is an attorney, I’d like to hear his thoughts.
May 28, 2011 at 8:12 pm
Eric Kirk
Anonymous 6:61 – Youtube deletes upon any request by the owner. Sometimes they ask simply to eliminate the embed function to make sure the usage elsewhere isn’t improper. But it’s all arguably covered by the fair use doctrine, except where individuals have attempted to upload an entire movie or work.
Wikipedia does a pretty good summary of the fair use doctrine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
May 29, 2011 at 10:46 pm
Anonymous
Battle in Outer Space (titled In Japan “The Great Space War”) was actually a very thoughtful science fiction movie and the first to depict actual fighting in space between space ships. And the rocket ship infrastructure looked very much like the actual infrastructure for real space rockets a decade later. It was actually a sequel to an earlier film, and for the second film the humans had advanced weapons reverse engineered from the first invading aliens.
By the way the only two cities destroyed in the movie were American cities San Francisco and New York City. Revenge?