I just saw a trailer for a summer 2013 movie and yet again the Golden Gate Bridge buys the farm.
Dang, how many times has that bridge come down? Without even trying hard I can name at least ten.
It was even done in black and white, some old movie with a giant octopus.
I tried doing an IMDB search but the word combos I was coming up with didn’t seem to work.
I think the trailer you saw was for Del Toro’s upcoming Pacific Rim.
The Eiffel Tower takes a lot of hits, too.
Gotta give the poor Statue of Liberty a break every once and a while
Top 10 Golden Gate fates in movies:
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Magneto redirecting the bridge to Alcatraz annoyed me for a number of reasons, not least of which is why bother bridging to Alcatraz, as opposed to just dropping the bridge on Alcatraz, killing everybody there and eliminating the need for the pointless mutant battle.
I would like to point out that the Star Trek franchise has very carefully avoided destroying the bridge on either of the times that out-of-control space debris went into the drink right next to it. So there.
Also, in Futurama, a piece of it is missing, so it is classified as a “hoverbridge”.
Meanwhile, supposedly the roadway did come close to collapsing during a rather strong storm (one of very few times the bridge was closed), but was saved in part because of girders welded underneath the roadway decades earlier for stability in case of an earthquake.
The official(?) GGB website links to another list.
Nobody ever destroys the Bay Bridge, despite having twice the daily traffic. Although I guess attacking the Marin commuters is attacking America’s pocketbooks. I guess because (the top) just looks like another silver suspension bridge. The BB was damaged in William Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy and became a makeshift refugee city. IIRC the actual transportation part was taken over by a nano-chunnel, or something like that.
Nobody besides an actual earthquake, that is. Well, damage, not destroy true.
I wonder how many people outside the Bay Area even know the Bay Bridge exists.
It’s mentioned as being destroyed in Nevil Shute’s On the Beach, when a U.S. sub is trying see how badly the city was hit in World War III and can’t enter the harbor. I forget if the 1959 movie showed that explicitly.
The bridge isn’t destroyed, but sustains damage in the recent Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Also in the last Roger Moore Bond movie, A View to a Kill.
In an obscure movie called Ground Zero, it almost happens. Well, the movie ends as the nuclear device is about to go BOOM!
All right, two out of three.
Here’s the GGB’s destruction in the 2004 TV miniseries 10.5, which GIGObuster referred to: - YouTube
Tom Cruise’s character operates a similar crane in the War of the Worlds remake.
