10 More Disturbing Movie Moments You Never Noticed
8. Central Park Lake Evaporates - Knowing
The Nicolas Cage-starring apocalyptic thriller Knowing may be a pretty so-so affair for the most part, but it at least demonstrates the courage of its convictions when the vast majority of life on Earth is wiped out by a solar flare at the end, save for those children rescued from the planet by a fleet of extraterrestrial angels.
The climactic montage shows the surface of Earth being brutally vaporised, New York City's skyscrapers reduced to dust and rubble in fractions of a second.
But if you look closely, the film's VFX artists actually put a stunning amount of work into capturing even the most minor - yet enormously horrifying - details.
Case in point, as the flare obliterates Central Park, for a few seconds it's possible to spot the park's iconic lake being near-instantly evaporated by the flames, presumably leaving only a dry crater behind.
Props to the VFX team for daring to go into forensic detail to show how horribly Mother Nature could totally wreck the planet if she wanted to.