# Movies in which the Statue of Liberty catches hell **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2007, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037 "2007-02-21T00:41:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/1 "2007-02-21T00:41:32Z")
This weekend I saw the trailer for [Resident Evil: Extinction](http://movies.ign.com/objects/605/605467.html) in which, once again, the Statue of Liberty is shown in ruins. (Admittedly this time’s it’s actually the Las Vegas repro of the S.o.L., but it’s still the same look.) The most famous of course is _Planet of the Apes_, but the statue also catches hell in _Independence Day_ and in the trailer of another movie I can’t remember she’s seen up to her waist in snow and ice. Are there any other movies where Lady Liberty gets molested? (Also, what’s the movie where she’s frozen in the trailer?) ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/2 "2007-02-21T00:43:16Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] (Also, what’s the movie where she’s frozen in the trailer?) [/QUOTE] _The Day After Tomorrow_. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/3 "2007-02-21T00:47:21Z")
[QUOTE=Autumn Almanac] _The Day After Tomorrow_. [/QUOTE] She was so tough in that movie. She took a tidal surge wave that hit about at her shoulders, and didn’t even wiggle. Lady Liberty is the Rambo of hollow copper women. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/4 "2007-02-21T00:47:44Z")
_Batman Forever_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/5 "2007-02-21T01:08:50Z")
**Deep Impact**. IIRC her head and neck went bouncing up Wall Street, underwater. ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/6 "2007-02-21T01:11:34Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Are there any other movies where Lady Liberty gets molested? [/QUOTE] In the so-gawdawful-I-can’t-believe-I’m-outing-myself-as-having-seen-it-enough-times-to-remember-this _Ghostbusters 2_, Missus Liberty is filled with “positively-charged” slime and forced to listen to “Your love is liftin’ me higher” until she walks to downtown Manhattan and melts the negative-slime crust over the museum so the Ghostbusters can break in and save Dana Barrett. …what? ---
**Author:** ![lokij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@lokij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lokij)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/7 "2007-02-21T01:14:59Z")
The X- Men, she gets penetrated by Wolverine. Ghostbusters II… sprayed with goo and made to dance. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/8 "2007-02-21T01:30:28Z")
If TV is allowed, the first episode of Futurama features the Statue of Liberty. Her torch has been replaced by a travel tube. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/9 "2007-02-21T01:46:44Z")
\*\*Escape From New York \*\* seems a likely candidate for this… does anybody remember if there was a “Liberty” shot in that film? ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/10 "2007-02-21T01:57:14Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] The most famous of course is _Planet of the Apes_, [/QUOTE] I’m not sure I accept your premise re: _Planet of the Apes;_ she’d been through the wringer, but we can presume the rest of New York is much worse for wear, if it even still exists. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/11 "2007-02-21T02:06:07Z")
In **Judge Dredd** , the Statue of Liberty stands in the eternal shadow of the much larger totalitarian edifice, Justice Central. She’s also covered with grafitti, and I believe the movie depicts a top-secret cloning facility inside her head. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/12 "2007-02-21T02:14:36Z")
National Lampoons European Vacation ---
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I don’t remember the specific scene, but isn’t she underwater in **A.I.**? Not taking hell, unless you count men the size of ants fighting on her, my favorite Lady Liberty presence in a movie is 1985’s **Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins** , filmed while the statue was being renovated so that it’s surrounded by scaffolding. I’m so glad that was filmed to preserve that moment in history in celluloid. That scaffolding was _cool-looking_. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a decent picture, which surprised me. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/14 "2007-02-21T03:53:31Z")
[QUOTE=NailBunny] In the so-gawdawful-I-can’t-believe-I’m-outing-myself-as-having-seen-it-enough-times-to-remember-this _Ghostbusters 2_, Missus Liberty is filled with “positively-charged” slime and forced to listen to “Your love is liftin’ me higher” until she walks to downtown Manhattan and melts the negative-slime crust over the museum so the Ghostbusters can break in and save Dana Barrett. [/QUOTE] Yeah, that’s how I remember it. I mean, uhh, that’s how I remember it being described to me. …what? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/15 "2007-02-21T03:56:44Z")
In the never-produced Sam Hamm script for _Watchmen_, the opening scene of the movie was a group of terrorists blowing up the Statue of Liberty (with the “heroes” bungling an attempt to stop them). ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/16 "2007-02-21T03:59:56Z")
Don’t forget _Madagascar_. You burned it all up! Darn you! Darn you all to HECK! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/17 "2007-02-21T05:04:16Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] In the never-produced Sam Hamm script for _Watchmen_, the opening scene of the movie was a group of terrorists blowing up the Statue of Liberty (with the “heroes” bungling an attempt to stop them). [/QUOTE] That reminds me: in the video game _Deus Ex_, the first level a bunch of terrorists have taken hostages at the Statue of Liberty Memorial. There’s a memorial because the original Statue of Liberty was blown up by terrorists several years prior. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037/18 "2007-02-21T05:29:05Z")
GI Joe: The Movie begins with GI Joe fighting forces of Cobra on, over, and around the Statue of Liberty on what appears to be the 4th of July, whilst the Joes foil a plot by Cobra to blow up the Statue of Liberty during what appears to be a July 4th celebration. Which might actually be the only act of terrorism I can recall Cobra actually trying to carry out, as opposed to general world domination type things. ---
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[QUOTE=NailBunny] In the so-gawdawful-I-can’t-believe-I’m-outing-myself-as-having-seen-it-enough-times-to-remember-this _Ghostbusters 2_, Missus Liberty is filled with “positively-charged” slime and forced to listen to “Your love is liftin’ me higher” until she walks to downtown Manhattan and melts the negative-slime crust over the museum so the Ghostbusters can break in and save Dana Barrett. …what? [/QUOTE] I have no shame for my love for all things Ghostbusters. I had a proton pack as a child, and wish I still had one. “Kinda makes you wonder, doesn’t it.” “Wonder what?” “If she’s naked under that toga. She is French, you know.” ---
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[QUOTE=The Scrivener] \*\*Escape From New York \*\* seems a likely candidate for this… does anybody remember if there was a “Liberty” shot in that film? [/QUOTE] The Statue of Liberty is in the opening shots, but it appears intact. However, in irony so thick you can cut it with a knife, her island has been renamed to “Liberty Island Security Control”, and is the headquarters of the police who monitor New York. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-catches-hell/393037.md?page=2)