10 Most Gratuitous Citywide Destructions In Movie History

6. San Francisco - Godzilla, 2014

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If The Golden City got duly hammered in San Andreas, then it got utterly trampled on in Gareth Edwards' bold stylistic reinvention of Toho's most famous kaiju, as the titular beast squares off with two MUTOs in the Chinatown area, all while Aaron Taylor-Johnson leads a HALO jump to disable a nuclear warhead at the heart of the battle.

Shrouded in smoke and fire, it's one of the most visually distinct devastations of a city to take place on the screen in recent years, cloaked in shadow and brimstone as it keeps a relatively intimate eye on the struggle between the titans above as they tumble into buildings and leave further wreckage in their path.

(Follow-up King of the Monsters made a less-than-successful stab at recreating similar visual conditions around Boston, one of the lesser-wrecked cities in American cinematic history.)

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