# Movies in which the Statue of Liberty is destroyed or ruined **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 31, 2014, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232 "2014-01-31T20:47:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/1 "2014-01-31T20:47:04Z")
[Oblivion](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483013/?ref_=nv_sr_1). Brief shot of Statue of Liberty’s ruined arm. Your turn. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/2 "2014-01-31T20:53:25Z")
Planet of the Apes ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/3 "2014-01-31T20:55:46Z")
Cloverfield. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/4 "2014-01-31T21:09:04Z")
Deep Impact. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/5 "2014-01-31T21:15:52Z")
A.I. Independence Day Deep Impact ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/6 "2014-01-31T21:16:09Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > Planet of the Apes It was far from destroyed, and actually in impossibly good shape considering how thin the copper skin really is compared to the hardened concrete buildings that are apparently gone without a trace. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/7 "2014-01-31T21:21:26Z")
I don’t recall whether the Statue of Liberty appeared in Escape from New York, but she sure took a beating in the [movie poster](http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/statue-of-liberty/statue-of-liberty-ruins10.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/8 "2014-01-31T21:43:23Z")
Gotham has its own Statue of Liberty in **Batman Forever** , at least until Two Face’s helicopter gives it a face-lift by crashing into it. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/9 "2014-01-31T21:44:43Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > I don’t recall whether the Statue of Liberty appeared in Escape from New York, but she sure took a beating in the [movie poster](http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/statue-of-liberty/statue-of-liberty-ruins10.jpg). Yeah, Liberty Island is an HQ for the prison in the film, so she’s fine. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/10 "2014-01-31T22:22:03Z")
Don’t recall if it was “ruined”, but in the (first) “X-Men”, it at least got a bunch of holes poked into it. And I think it got a little chewed up when Magneto’s machine blows up. Debatable: “Ghostbusters 2” (“she” was walking and moving, yet there were never any hinges or joints designed for this - at least “ruined” in my book) ---
**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:** [January 31, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/11 "2014-01-31T23:42:47Z")
In the original script for _The Watchmen_, it was a botched hostage rescue at the Statue of Liberty (which resulted in its destruction) that led to the government crackdown on masked vigilantes. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/12 "2014-02-01T00:09:14Z")
Day After Tomorrow. Hit by giant tsunami. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/13 "2014-02-01T00:29:32Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > It was far from destroyed, and actually in impossibly good shape considering how thin the copper skin really is compared to the hardened concrete buildings that are apparently gone without a trace. Well… assuming the whole movies takes place in what is now southeastern New York which has undergone significant climate change to the point where the mainland extends to what is now Liberty Island (and it must be more than just the recessing of the Atlantic Ocean, since the statue is partly buried)… …I kinda lost my train of thought, there. If you were close enough to the Statue of Liberty to identify it as such, could you not see the buildings of Manhattan, or their remains? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/14 "2014-02-01T00:42:22Z")
In **Children Of Men** they show it being destroyed in an ad by a nuclear terrorist attack ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/15 "2014-02-01T00:53:52Z")
The Statue of Liberty gets it in the comic books, too: [Kamandi #1](http://thefifthbranch.com/images/oldies/kamandi1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/16 "2014-02-01T01:15:41Z")
Spaceballs ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/17 "2014-02-01T02:52:22Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > In **Children Of Men** they show it being destroyed in an ad by a nuclear terrorist attack Really? I don’t remember that at all … ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/18 "2014-02-01T04:57:05Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well… assuming the whole movies takes place in what is now southeastern New York which has undergone significant climate change to the point where the mainland extends to what is now Liberty Island (and it must be more than just the recessing of the Atlantic Ocean, since the statue is partly buried)… > > …I kinda lost my train of thought, there. If you were close enough to the Statue of Liberty to identify it as such, could you not see the buildings of Manhattan, or their remains? Yes, but don’t forget, he’d been finding evidence of a vanished Human civilisation throughout the movie. It’s just that he didn’t know where he was until he found that one specific structure he recognised. The first sequel actually does show a lot of ruined skyscrapers around the statue. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/19 "2014-02-01T05:01:34Z")
The torch gets bent in “European Vacation” ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232/20 "2014-02-01T07:48:03Z")
It had a big hole in it in _Judge Dredd_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-the-statue-of-liberty-is-destroyed-or-ruined/680232.md?page=2)