Top 10 Movies That Destroy San Francisco
In the movies, in every possible way, directors are trying to make damage as much as possible, destroy lot of cars or buildings, bridges and other structures. Destruction of San Francisco is the main idea in this post. This was This is attempted in many movies, but below is the list of top 10, most successful movies with this subject!
In this kind of films, the main attention is dedicated to destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge, which was destroyed in many creative ways by film directors. If you know a movie that deals with the same subject in the lead role, share this with us!
2. Dirty Harry (1971)
Dirty Harry is filmed in 1971 and it’s American crime film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the Dirty Harry series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department Inspector “Dirty” Harry Callahan.
Dirty Harry was a box office success and set the style for a whole genre of police films. The film was followed by four sequels: Magnum Force in 1973, The Enforcer in 1976, Sudden Impact in 1983 (directed by Eastwood himself), and The Dead Pool in 1988.
3. Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)
An alien named Gallaxhar detects the quantonium radiation emanating from Earth and deploys a gigantic robotic probe to find it and extract it from its source, Susan. After a botched attempt by the Presidentto make peaceful first contact with the robot, it begins destroying everything in sight, resisting all conventional military force used against it. Arriving in San Francisco, Susan is chased by the robot across the city to the Golden Gate Bridge, where the monsters are able to defeat the robot, and to save bridge.
4. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
In a desperate quest to possess the cure for the X-Men’s mutant power forces, the Golden Gate Bridge is re-routed to Alcatraz, now being used as the site of a major pharmaceutical manufacturing plant. The troops guarding Alcatraz are armed with cure weapons while Magneto moves the Golden Gate Bridge to allow his army to reach the island.Neither monument is safe for long.
5. A View to a Kill (1985)
007 goes to San Francisco and investigates an oil rig owned by Zorin.The Golden Gate Bridge is once again a focal point for action. Zorin tries to kill Bond by flying him into the Golden Gate Bridge, but Bond manages to moor the airship to the bridge framework, stopping it from moving.
Improbable but true, Grace Jones saves Silicon Valley…
8. The Core (2003)
After a series of strange events over the world connected by variances in the Earth’s electromagnetic field, experts learn that the rotation of Earth’s molten core is slowing down, leading eventually to the collapse of the electromagnetic fieldThe three develop a top-secret plan with the United States government to bore into the Earth’s core and plant a series of nuclear charges at precise points to restart the core’s motion and restore the field.
Meanwhile, on the surface, a patch of unfiltered sunlight over San Francisco melts the Golden Gate Bridge.
