If you could choose, what city would you like to see crushed by a giant monster?

[belfastboy]

I binged it. Looks very german to me, in the sense of "very dull and boring".

They have a very good football team!

 

[belfastboy]

First, thank you for binging it (I am trying to make "to bing" a verb).

Second, it is a once proud steel city, now in its fading stage. Once advertised itself as "the Sheffield of Canada".

Bing Sheffield, or watch The Full Monty, and you get it.

Also a hotbed of Mafia in Canada. A Mafia boss was just hit in nearby Burlington, Ontario, my hometown.

You can bing that Too!

I kinda like Hamilton....now Burlington, that is a whole other matter!

 

[belfastboy]

Portland, Oregon

Yep, even the VooDoo Donuts are waaaay over rated!

 

[MisterCairo]

In all my naval travels, there is but one port I would not like to visit again. El Ferrol Spain.

Birthplace and childhood home of Francisco Franco, it had little to offer in the way of culture, and they roll up the sidewalks from noon till 9 pm.

Not sure I would want it crushed by a monster, but I would not shed tears should one do so.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Having produced Franco, I submit they already had their quota of monsters.

Other than that though, it sounds like the Spanish equivalent of my town. Coronavirus made little difference in our local night life, because there isn't any.

 

[1961MJS]

Hi
I can't BELIEVE that I haven't seen this in the years I've been around here. I've been to NYC and DC Once, and I'm done. No sense unleashing a monster on NYC, just turn the power off for 4 days and poof, nobody living there. I vote for DC. Well over 10 years ago we had a discussion at work about Oh My, what if the terrorists nuke DC? Within 3 minutes it had turned to Oh my, what the the terrorists DON'T nuke DC?

There's a LOT of LA to not like, but it's a nice vacation place. if you don't live there you can afford to take a couple of weeks off and go on vacation there. I assumed that the 29 and 32 year old kids would like Venice Beach and Santa Monica, nope, they liked Huntington Beach having lunch with all of my 55 year old plus friends from work and want to go back THERE. We went to Porto's twice. Cuban Bakery. They though that LA's walk of fame was a mess, to quote the kid "If were just going to the carnival, we could have gone to Hutchinson to the State Fair." They liked the Getty and the Tar Pits.

Later

 

[Zombie_61]

...There's a LOT of LA to not like, but it's a nice vacation place. if you don't live there you can afford to take a couple of weeks off and go on vacation there. I assumed that the 29 and 32 year old kids would like Venice Beach and Santa Monica, nope, they liked Huntington Beach having lunch with all of my 55 year old plus friends from work and want to go back THERE. We went to Porto's twice. Cuban Bakery. They though that LA's walk of fame was a mess, to quote the kid "If were just going to the carnival, we could have gone to Hutchinson to the State Fair." They liked the Getty and the Tar Pits...

I've lived in the Los Angeles area of southern California for 59 years, and I can't argue a single word. Spot on!

 

[Salty O'Rourke]

Baltimore. I would have said Gary, Indiana, but from the looks of it some creature has already stomped the, uh, stuffing out of it.

 

[Trenchfriend]

They are jokes on the net about Bridgeport (Connecticut).

But what's so special about it? I mean, there are many rotten industrial cities in the world.

 

[Harp]

They are jokes on the net about Bridgeport (Connecticut).

But what's so special about it? I mean, there are many rotten industrial cities in the world.

Bridgeport criminal/homicide rate is attributed urban gangs; whatever other economic dynamic, ancillary.

 

[DocRedfield]

I live in Phoenix, which is a town (somewhat rare, but) always fun to see in Hollywood (or otherwise) movies - wouldn't mind seeing it destroyed in film just for giggles. We got to see Sedona, AZ get torn up for a few seconds in GODZILLA - KING OF THE MONSTERS at least...
Speaking of movie monsters, if any of you are interested, a buddy of mine and I have started a YouTube series entitled RAIDERS OF THE LOST GENRE, taking on Dinosaur and Lost World pictures from the silent era on up to modern blockbusters. Obviously, some of the movies are classic era, and I invite you to see the fun we're having with them....
CAUTION: Occasional Language

ENJOY!

 

[Worf]

When I was a kid growing up in NYC, I was up late somehow one night. Sick or something I suppose. And there in glorious Black and White was "SHE". The plot made no sense and I couldn't finish watching it (my parents eventually woke up and forced me to bed at gunpoint) but one thing stayed with me for the rest of my life... (wait for it....). You guessed it, an almost nekid Ursula Andres.... double wow. I can't believe nature made something so.... amazing! I was well grown and gone before I saw the whole film in color, sigh... she haunts me still....

Worf

 

[Harp]

When I was a kid growing up in NYC, I was up late somehow one night. Sick or something I suppose. And there in glorious Black and White was "SHE". The plot made no sense and I couldn't finish watching it (my parents eventually woke up and forced me to bed at gunpoint) but one thing stayed with me for the rest of my life... (wait for it....). You guessed it, an almost nekid Ursula Andres.... double wow. I can't believe nature made something so.... amazing! I was well grown and gone before I saw the whole film in color, sigh... she haunts me still....

Worf

Always got a thrill with Ursula. She starred opposite George Peppard in The Blue Max; and of course was a Bond girl,
other treats of recent and not so recent vintage. She was married to John Derek, as was Bo Derek; whom I once
found myself with inside Blackstone's, a tiny bookshop wedged inside Chicago's O'Hare Airport Terminal Three,
and Bo was alone, engrossed in some table book display. Confess, a cop outside told me she was inside, so I
ducked quickly thereto this holy-of-holies literary sanctuary to attempt a chaste, pure as driven snow converse.
Bo was a scant four feet away and I set for approach when a clerk approached and asked if she might be of
assistance...I inquired if Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables was available (knowing that it was not,
since I had been in Blackstone's a year ago), Bo sauntered off further, beyond polite casual distance.
The moment had been utterly ruined.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Metropolitan Area Tokyo, nah, away with that. Not human, unhealthy.

 

[Bushman]

Metropolitan Area Tokyo, nah, away with that. Not human, unhealthy.

To be fair, it's been done:

 

[MisterCairo]

Always got a thrill with Ursula. She starred opposite George Peppard in The Blue Max; and of course was a Bond girl,
other treats of recent and not so recent vintage. She was married to John Derek, as was Bo Derek; whom I once
found myself with inside Blackstone's, a tiny bookshop wedged inside Chicago's O'Hare Airport Terminal Three,
and Bo was alone, engrossed in some table book display. Confess, a cop outside told me she was inside, so I
ducked quickly thereto this holy-of-holies literary sanctuary to attempt a chaste, pure as driven snow converse.
Bo was a scant four feet away and I set for approach when a clerk approached and asked if she might be of
assistance...I inquired if Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables was available (knowing that it was not,
since I had been in Blackstone's a year ago), Bo sauntered off further, beyond polite casual distance.
The moment had been utterly ruined.

Small world- I have Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables. Folio Society's edition.

 

[MisterCairo]

East Hastings part of Vancouver, BC. Generally regarded as THE WORST neighbourhood in North America.

Recall North America includes Haiti.

 

[belfastboy]

East Hastings part of Vancouver, BC. Generally regarded as THE WORST neighbourhood in North America.

Recall North America includes Haiti.

A woman I know visited Vancouver from the UK about 10 years ago from Britain. She walked downtown from Victoria Drive along Hastings Street passing Main St into the downtown core. I met her for dinner that evening.

She told me..."I have travelled the world including many parts of Africa and other parts of the 3rd world and have never seen such human devastation as I witnessed today. I am shocked and I don't shock easily." This was a decade ago and it is so much worse today than back then. Back then we did not have the homeless camps on the edge of downtown, a small town of 300 homeless in a city park living in tents and makeshift shelters.

 

[Worf]

East Hastings part of Vancouver, BC. Generally regarded as THE WORST neighbourhood in North America.

Recall North America includes Haiti.

SPEW!!!! Now THAT was a good un'!

Worf

 

[Haversack]

My wife is the fan of Japanese monster movies rather than I. However, I remember having a fair bit of fun back in the mid '80s with a game for the Commodore 64 titled Crush, Crumble, and Chomp. In it you played a variety of classic movie giant monsters, (e.g. Godzilla, Mothra, King Kong, the Blob, etc. with the serial numbers filed off), in your choice of Manhattan, Washington D.C., the San Francisco Bay Area, and of course, Tokyo. You could also design your own monster shopping from a menu of attributes and powers. You had to pretty diligent in your destruction as sooner or later the mad scientist would show up with his secret weapon which would slowly weaken you to the point where the army could finish you off. I always like designing a sea serpent for the Bay Area. I would first take out all the bridges, (they offend the water below, after all), then the power plants, and then all the high rise buildings before swimming out to the open ocean through the now unobstructed Golden Gate.