Every morning I’m lucky enough to leave my Manhattan apartment only to see a wondrous view of the Empire State Building and the neighborhood bum Read the full post.
Jan 15
2008
12:45 PM ET
Hey, 'Cloverfield'! Leave New York City alone!
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t3hdow, congratulations! That was EXACTLY the typical response I expected from someone in the industry who likely stands to cash in on movies like CLOVERFIELD and TRANSFORMERS! Thank you for keeping predictability alive and well.
I’ll quit going to see NYC disaster movies the moment that the majority of New Yorkers quit yapping about how they live in the greatest city in the world that no one else could possibly touch.
I’ll take my Minneapolis any day, where I still get to have a great arts and culture scene with a cost of living that people can actually afford. I don’t have to worry about running into Donald Trump either.
I, for one, would like to see a big monster stomp all over Atlanta.
Wait, are we talking about movies?
Atlanta is one of those cities that gets destroyed in passing. They mention that it’s destroyed, generally with Denver and Houston, but they never show it. Top examples are Independence Day and Deep Impact.
I for one would like to see a movie in which the entire middle of the country sank into the deepest depths of the earth, leaving just the Northeast and the West Coast. New Orleans, Chicago, Savannah, and Disney World miraculous survive. As does the Green Bay area so that the Packers can survive to beat those evil Patriots.
Exactly what I was going to say, JMC. See also season 2 of 24 (it was Marietta, a suburb of Atlanta, but the same thing applies). Atlanta seems to always be used as some kind of appetizer for the terrorists/aliens/asteroid, to show that, oooh, they’re starting to get serious. “Oh my gosh! They got Atlanta! It won’t be long before a city that we really care about gets attacked.”
I’ve always felt like the city who gets ignored for big name movies is Chicago. The city has a downtown with an elevated train, several tall skyscrapers and plenty of bystanders walking around at night even in below zero weather. That screams for Godzilla to blow it up!
What adds insult to injury Ep is when they film in Chicago and say it’s New York(as in the extended El Train sequence in Spider-Man 2).
Well congrats to you too, Eric F.; for completely misunderstanding me.
I’m far from unsentimental and don’t treat any New Yorker with ill will that lived in the city during 9-11. Hoerver, I for one, am tired of the media shoving down everyone’s throat about 9-11, like it should be turned into a national holiday or something. That’s the opposite of what we should be doing. If that’s the case, then what’s not stopping us from ridiculing any reference towards Pearl Harbor (the last attack on the US before 9-11), since it could be deemed offensive towards the families of the victims? Over protecting the event in such a way isn’t retaining its importance like you suggest, but oversaturating it to the point of irritation. Yes, we should never forget the attacks, but not everyone wants to recall Sept. 11th with tragedy.
I really hope you’re not trivializing my stance on 9-11 because you think I’m a studio plant. If you honestly think I’m that shallow, I’m truly worried about you.
Yeah, Fatima, Minneapolis is great – you don’t run into anyone there in the winter, except in the airport bathroom stalls
I used to live in NJ and i love watching shows where the world ends. i really enjoy it when it’s somewhere i’ve been to or am close to. My mother feels the same way you do and she says it to me all the time but i truely enjoy watching NYC fall.it’s just cool to watch the things i’ve seen with my own eyes before get destroyed. Anyway what other city has a huge statue of a woman? NYC is the largerest city in America, so if the movie took place in Indianapolis (it’s a small city)they wouldn’t have a lot of buildings to knock down or blow up. i really think they always pick NYC b/c it’s something that everyone can recognize and know first hand what that is exactly. If I Am Legend took place in LA i wouldn’t know what the hell is going on. NYC has it all, that’s why everyone put it in the movies
oh yes, one sex starved senator sums up my entire city.
I don’t know why I said senator. must have been the lure of the alliteration
I don’t know Cetta. Maybe I’m just a geek, but I get a kick out of seeing any place I’ve been on film, even if it’s not being destroyed. I got into Early Edition just for the Chicago background. The most agregious case of this was watching Dumb and Dumberer for the less than thirty seconds of Marietta’s town square in the chase sequence (Sup Carl!).
t3hdow, my only response to your defensive insecurities is this – if we’re going to compare 9-11 vs. Pearl Harbor, then I believe TIME is also a factor here. As far as I know (and I could very well be wrong), the first film to vividly depict the PH attacks was TORA!TORA!TORA! That film and the accompanying graphic movie poster came out in 1970, twenty-nine years after the event. CLOVERFIELD and its tasteless movie poster comes out a mere seven years after the event. So, although no one has ever accused me of being overly sensitive, after only seven years, the 9-11 wounds are still very fresh for many. The poster could have easily depicted a shot of the Empire State Building instead of downtown Manhattan. That image would have been much less “in-your-face” regarding the 9-11 events. That’s all I have to say on this subject. I’m moving on now.