Cloverfield Hitting Theaters: Movies Love To Destroy New York

The mystery is set to be unravelled when Cloverfield opens on Friday. The movie, which has had a huge viral campaign is set to top the box office - but I’ve been getting a strange feeling of déjà vu. The attack on New York City.. I feel I’ve seen it somewhere before and I have - in many other movies.

Take Meteor: Impact On New York for example. Way back in 1976, before Cloverfield was born, there was a great sci-fi movie which depicted the downfall of NYC. Then there was I Am Legend, which was shot in a New York which had been rocked by a disaster.

So what do all these big blockbusters have against New York?

Well, I don’t think they have anything against the city, but because New York is so Iconic - the architecture, the culture it’s shocking to see it in a dilapidated state.

Historian Max Page has said,

“The best thing for New York might be the sight of King Kong tramping through the streets of Manhattan on his way to a fateful appointment at the top of the Empire State Building. For if there is one thing that symbolizes New York’s pre-eminence, it is that so many still want to imagine the city’s end.”

I don’t think Cloverfield could work anywhere else but New York and King Kong would look totally out of place in Florida.

I think it’s safe to say that New York City is the perfect place to be destroyed in a movie. Check out the clip from Meteor: Impact On New York - tell me you could see that working in any other city and I’ll eat my hat!

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