OOOOoooohhh, If he eats the Golden Gate bridge, maybe Detective Callahan could come our of retirement to fight him! Then it would be dinosaur vs dinosaur!
Ach, I fell for a variation of the myth mentioned in the beginning of your wiki link. Someone told me it was meant to resemble a firefigters hose nozzle to memorialize firefighters who died helping people int aftermath of the quake.
I have never seen any of the original Godzilla oeuvre, as the thought of it makes my brain want to escape through my ears. However, I can’t figure out why people hated the Roland Emmerich version so much. It seemed to me to be the only way to update the character.
It was really heavily promoted at the time, I think part of the hate was a backlash from over-advertizing what turned out to be a fairly mediocre movie.
Godzilla is a monster. A mountain of flesh & hate, driven by rage, with his “fight or flight switch” locked permanently on “fight”.
All of our courage, weapons & achievements mean nothing to him, & we are swept aside like bugs.
The “godzilla” in the US movie was merely a hunted animal.
Wan.
Feeble.
Sickly.
And not the one, true Godzilla, King of the monsters.
Niiiice…
SF did get leveled by an atomic octopus.
Giant atomic grasshoppers lay waste to Chicago.
(Don’t mess with me…I know my giant atomic monster movies.)
Pshaw! – trivially easy. Even MST3K did that one.
Try this:
OK, that is pretty obscure.
Monster A Go-Go actually took place around Chicago, too…but then, of course, there was no monster.
I didn’t like the Godzilla was a girl part and then all the baby 'zillas took away the focus from Godzilla.
I thought the best part of the movie was the Taco Bell tie in with the chihuahua saying “Here leezard, leezard, leezard”, you could even get little plush chihuahuas that said that at Taco Bell.
Guys, I live in SF. We’ve got the Golden Gate Bridge, and that’s it. Alcatraz isn’t that visually distinctive (though certainly recognizable as a name), the pyramid isn’t that well known, and Lombard Street is only interesting for one block. As already pointed out, there is no earthquake memorial tower thingy, and if you mean Coit Tower, I don’t think it’s that famous.
Anyway, I think Los Angeles works better. Godzilla comes ashore in Long Beach, destroying the Queen Mary, drives a swath through Compton (ooh, gangstas!), downtown LA, and Hollywood (OMG the sign!), then gets turned around and driven to Rancho La Brea, where he gets stuck in the famous tar pits (OK, the one open tar pit isn’t big enough to hold him, but it would be poignant, the destructive force of nature that can only be vanquished by nature itself!)