The real laser would be a lot like that.
In Superman III, Evil Supes straightens the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Logan’s Run had an abandoned plant overgrown Washington DC
I’ve enjoyed all of these examples, as I do love scenes of epic destruction(in the movies, not IRL!) However, I probably didn’t express my thoughts well. I’m asking about scenes where we / the characters discover the change/ destruction after whatever the cause is. So, for instance, my example in the OP is of characters who look upon the usual view of the Irish coast, only to come back to the same spot and freak out to find the scenic vista no longer exists and all that can be seen is hills and forest, with no sign of the coast.
Another example is from *The Endless (*great movie btw), where a character is standing in the road, looking all around him. He looks one way, continues looking around, then looks back and suddenly there’s a big ass mountain on the landscape that wasn’t there before. It’s a subtle wtf, and we see him kind of stagger at the shock of it.
Maybe there aren’t that many instances of this kind of thing, in which case, keep the clips of mass destruction coming.
Yep, that’s a pretty good example. The special effects are rather primitive but that’s the idea.
The Golden Gate Bridge and the Palace of Fine Arts are both there.
Speaking of the Golden Gate Bridge, it has fallen victim to both Godzilla (2014) and a plus-sized octopus (in It Came From Beneath The Sea)
And appropriated as a causeway to Alcatraz by Magneto in an X-Men movie.
Not a movie scene, but there’s an episode of The Last Man on Earth where the characters arrive in post-apocalyptic San Francisco and discover that the entire city has burned to the ground. Flash back to the title character setting off an entire factory’s worth of fireworks two years earlier and then driving away…
The Brooklyn Bridge has fallen to the American version of Godzilla (1998) and, ten years later, to the bigger monster in Cloverfield (2008). It also got blasted in the Will Smith I Am Legend (2007). As noted (and shown) above, it got washed away in the mega-tsunami in Deep Impact (also 1998)
Which is strange when you think about it because whatever caused the founders of Logan’s city to withdraw from the outside world, it was almost certainly not a nuclear war.
Speaking of Futurama…
>Madison Square Garden has shockingly been rebuilt as a CUBE!!!
It’s pretty much the premise if the series. The Atlanta one also has one of my favorite lines from the show. A lovely mermaid is showing Fry around her underwater kingdom and they spot some wildlife.
Mermaid: Do you have sea lions on the surface?
Fry: Yep, we call them landsea lions.
I worry what it will be in another 1000 years.
Madison Tesseract Garden.
Make sure it is stable in three dimensions!
A Tesseract
Just don’t have it designed by Quintus Teal.
The founders were deserting national guard troops tired of taking orders from demented old men. That’s why they offed people at 30.