Comments on: Cities Attacked in Movies

By: chicken

chicken — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:40:08 +0000

toronto canada? !!!!

By: Catbytes

Catbytes — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:02:55 +0000

No need to destroy Australia. It’s a post apocalyptic. Mad Max types keep EVERYTHING blown up there. He’ll probably knock your server out any time now. You DO have an armed armored vehicle in the garage, right?

On the other hand, if you chose the red pill, be sure to keep a phone handy.

By: Catbytes

Catbytes — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:37 +0000

new york is a state not a city????

where are you from anyway? have you been on a talent show recently?

By: Catbytes

Catbytes — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:42:10 +0000

don’t forget Lunar Base!

…. ya.. just a base but it’s usually the best the moon has to offer.

oh oh! and Mars Attacks… Las Vegas!

By: Gastornis

Gastornis — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:31:45 +0000

東京：ゴジラ！実行するには!!!!!!!!!!!!!生活をしたい場合

By: stick2012

stick2012 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:44:44 +0000

Very true

By: Your Mother

Your Mother — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:44:31 +0000

San Francisco, too. Remember the new Star Trek?

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:15:00 +0000

In Independence Day w/ Will Smith it was all of those cities. I love aliens!

By: Andizzle35

Andizzle35 — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:05:22 +0000

Tokyo is actually represented by the background

By: KurisuMurei

KurisuMurei — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:38:40 +0000

Aside from the obvious “Uh oh, where’s Tokyo?!”, yeah. Whenever a nationwide/global attack comes from some outside force, humanity’s first instinct should be ‘escape from New York.’ Next is ‘escape from Los Angeles.’

By: Black Blaze

Black Blaze — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:28:40 +0000

Gotham is based off of New York, dumbass.

By: Black Blaze

Black Blaze — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:25:13 +0000

That is so true. In almost every disaster movie, I see NY getting attacked/destroyed.

And I LIVe in NY. >:(

By: RaptorJesus

RaptorJesus — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:48:44 +0000

1? There are 28 Godzilla movies, plus the horrible remake, plus one coming in 2014.

By: Andizzle35

Andizzle35 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:55:39 +0000

That was ONE damn movie.

By: Andizzle35

Andizzle35 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:55:07 +0000

I meant U.S cities.

Yeah, And Movies Attacking NY:
-Cloverfield
-Watchmen
-King Kong
-Every Spider-man
-War of the Worlds was Boston, Right?
-I’ll fill the screen by the time i’m done.

By: mike hunt

mike hunt — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:51:57 +0000

yea new york is a state not a city

By: Mia

Mia — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:58:33 +0000

Miami is there but Tokyo is not. Crazyyyy person.

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:14:37 +0000

I agree with those below me Tokyo wins hands down. perhaps you should rename the graph to “US Cities attacked in movies”

By: Dragonstar

Dragonstar — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:18:40 +0000

What about Tokyo?

By: Mick

Mick — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:45:29 +0000

It’s cuz you’re all jealous of the best city in the world. duh

By: anon

anon — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:09:51 +0000

they often also destroy the golden gate bridge in apocalyptic or otherwise epic movies. X-men? The core?

By: Amelia

Amelia — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:30:02 +0000

Def Tokyo, maybe Moscow and Paris. Are we talking monster movies, alien movies, or war movies?

By: TheRealWazzar

TheRealWazzar — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:35:57 +0000

Hehe, here I was thinking, Who would attack Canberra? It’s too much of a hole already!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:08:30 +0000

Tokyo. Godzilla motherf*cker!

By: Basara

Basara — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:42:22 +0000

There’s a special addendum to the Rule of French Warfare, actually listed on the Albino black sheep page that the search above hops to -

The French CAN win, but must be led by someone not a French male.

France’s only successes of note in the last 2000 years, were under a woman (Jeanne d’Arc) and a Corsican.

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:55:45 +0000

LOL i live in NY!!!!!

By: dawg

dawg — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:09:54 +0000

That’s technically not Tokyo. Rather Tokyo-3 is built on what is now Hakone.

By: wantfastcars

wantfastcars — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:46:56 +0000

Yeah seriously, Tokyo didn’t make that graph? Someone hasn’t ever heard of Godzilla…

By: philip

philip — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:03:42 +0000

I curse your face for stealing my thoughts about cursing someone’s face before I had the thought before I even had them.

By: go go

go go — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:48:41 +0000

earthquakes and natural disasters don’t count, silly, unless they’re caused by, for example: Gozlilla (or Gojira for you purists), Leviathan, aliens, Japanese balloon bombs, the US Navy, Michael Bay and/or Arnold Schwarzenegger. And then you have to pull a Kurt Rusell and, you know, escape.

By: tooaussie

tooaussie — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:43:06 +0000

just have to the only australian city ever been attacked is darwin which only bombed a bit as an afterthought anyway

By: go go

go go — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:42:34 +0000

we can’t forget Monster Island, can we?

By: Tourist

Tourist — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:35:21 +0000

Thank you for backing up my pessimism, Orion.

But now I think about it, sometimes being “right” or “wrong” isn’t the point. Life is complicated. Charts are simple. Try to express life in charts, and you’re gonna have problems with over-simplification or leaving important stuff out. We all know this, that’s why we laugh at this website so much.

For this particular chart-maker, I prescribe a Netflix list of classic monster movies, with popcorn and good friends, because their education in that area is obviously lacking. And for anybody who thinks movies = real life, a long walk in a good park, museum or library.

I’m gonna pack up my wordiness and take my inner curmudgeon out for a walk in the sunshine now.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:06:26 +0000

I too think this graph is referring to US cities only.

Clearly there are many other options if the rest of the world is included.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:24:51 +0000

Actually, it seems LA gets attacked A LOT more… Or actually, decimated a whole lot more. Especially in those ‘end of the world’ movies.

By: ai

ai — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:57:56 +0000

In certian anime’s Tokyo is nicknames matchstick city. Oh, and Godzilla

By: Radioheadrocks

Radioheadrocks — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:13:42 +0000

Japan in general gets destroyed by monsters all the time. Gojira, Rodan, Varan, Gamera, Frankenstein(Yes, Frankenstein) and a ton of others.

By: Nubify

Nubify — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:11:40 +0000

No we’re mean. Period.

By: Radioheadrocks

Radioheadrocks — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:11:24 +0000

The Lost World (1925) FTW. Brontosaurus vs London.

By: Radioheadrocks

Radioheadrocks — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:09:59 +0000

You also got attacked by Zilla in Godzilla Final Wars.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:58:35 +0000

my guess is because everyone seems to hate new york city. i don´t really know why. everyone tells me the people are so mean there. seems fine to me.

By: Jamsta

Jamsta — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:49:27 +0000

Dude gimme some of that pie!

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:52:48 +0000

New York is the setting in 95% of all movies – that’s totally true. I’ve been saying that for the longest time and people call me crazy. I knew I wasn’t alone.

By: stephen

stephen — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:15:41 +0000

ummmmm… Tokyo, much

By: Scieran

Scieran — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:14:12 +0000

Didn’t you hear? Lerwick’s where they’re going to set the inevitable Aquaman movie, with all of it’s awes-
Ok, I can’t keep a straight face even while typing that

By: OrionRed

OrionRed — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:10:18 +0000

sounds right to me…

By: Terri

Terri — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:54:08 +0000

Well, of course NYC gets attacked all the time! Everybody wants their… um, that stuff in NYC that’s… uhh, everybody wants stuff in NYC.

By: bethamphetamine

bethamphetamine — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:30:55 +0000

I love disaster movies – Australia is usually largely ignored so we’re safe! We occasionally get some trouble over Sydney (Independence Day and Meteor are two that spring to mind. Canberra never gets a mention despite being the nation’s capital) but I live 1300kms from there so not too fussed. Also, we’d be sitting pretty in Day After Tomorrow – maybe a slight cool change and that’s it!

By: TheQuestion

TheQuestion — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:27:40 +0000

Not just Tokyo, but London isn’t on here either.

By: Tourist

Tourist — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:23:08 +0000

One guy: Napoleon. But he was Corsican.