BLASTERMIND Demolition Time

There’s few tropes movies relish more than demolishing famous landmarks, firstly because of the pure scale of the CGI spectacle, but also because it can touch on powerful nationalistic fears. For American audiences, nothing says disaster like The White House reduced to rubble, but Washington is far from the only city to be the victim of cinematic devastation. Five of the most picked on are New York, Los Angles, Paris, Las Vegas and London, with Big Ben becoming an increasingly popular tourist destination for silver screen explosions. Not to mention that 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow managed to trash pretty much the entire planet between them.

In honour of such carnage, today’s Blastermind features some of movie history’s biggest bangs, as well a few trickier firecrackers. One point for the film, one point for the landmark.

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This week’s quiz written and complied by Emma Geen

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Batman Forever , Statue of Liberty

Deep Impact , the wave just after swallowing up the Empire State Building (we’ll give you New York)

Earth Vs. Flying Saucers , Washington Monument

GI Joe: Rise of Cobra , Eiffel Tower

Cloverfield , (what’s left of) the Statue of Liberty

Flood , the House of Parliament and The London Eye (two birds with one stone!)

Godzilla munches on Tokyo Tower

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince , The Millennium Bridge

Independence Day , The White House

Mars Attacks , Easter Island

Monster Vs. Aliens , the Golden Gate Bridge

Superman II , Mount Rushmore

The Core , The Colosseum

The Day After Tomorrow , The Hollywood Sign

Star Trek , the Golden Gate Bridge

Superman 4 , the Statue Of Liberty

Transformers 2 , Pyramids of Giza

V for Vendetta , Big Ben

X-Men 3 , The Golden Gate Bridge

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), Giant’s Stadium