That's cool about Wakita and the Twister production, but that one seems more like a net positive rather than something being destroyed. Nice that it worked out that way.
I don’t think the video’s about net positives lol… just the most valuable things that were destroyed, and I’d say taking down a few blocks of a town is pretty destructive - regardless of whether you build it back up again.
@@Vikanuck it's not, which is why my comment insinuated this instance maybe doesn't belong on the list. That and the fact the tornado destroyed the buildings, the film crew just bought up already wrecked places, used them to shoot the movie, and then replaced them.
What about the Brachs candy factory in The Dark Knight? Similar to the Casino in Con Air, it was going to be destroyed anyway, but Christopher Nolan convinced the owners to let him do it. He decorated the outside to look like a hospital and had the explosives set up. It was part of why the film had one of the largest budgets in film history at the time.
". . . something like birds or frogs that has no business being terrifying . . ." Simon has obviously never encountered Spitting Cobra Chickens in the wild (AKA Branta canadensis, AKA Canada Goose).
To be fair, even though the Furious series only destroyed up refurbished junk cars ---- the fact that those junk cars were refurbished and rebuilt meant that they were now worth something
Into the Storm was filmed at the middle school I went to. I heard they destroyed the school so bad they had to replace almost everything. Nathan Kress was in that movie.
Number #1 whould be a whole drilling platform at Lake Peigneur plus a whole lake dissapearing under the salt mines below (yes and everything else in the lake too)
@@gabrielv1856 i know that one thanks to the Science Channel. I dont remember for sure, but didnt the water levels rise back up after that leaving it as a saltwater lake?
@@aceundead4750 yes, thats true, i forgot that! The channel that conected the lake with the sea reverted its course turning the lake into a salt water lake (plus all salt in the mine). Still, hard to win against a drill platform, boats and a lot of stuff going through the sinkhole.
@@gabrielv1856 this reminds me that Corvette lovers probably think the time a sinkhole swallowed an entire show room of brand new Corvettes is worse lol
You could also include the Lamborghini Miura from the opening sequence from The Italian Job. Back in the 60's, it would have cost more to build a reasonable facsimile of the iconic sports car than to wreck a real one.$20k then is nearly $20million now.
I remember the angst among my high school buddies over the destruction at the end of a chase of the Triumph Trophy TR6 motorcycle ridden by Steve McQueen (actually his double) in The Great Escape. Of course sensitivities about cost were different in 1963.
Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes was filmed right here in my second home town, San Diego, California. A friend of a friend of mine was a extra in the film.🍅🍅🍅🍅😱😱😱😱
The Bridge st Remagen (1969). For WWII movie producers had permission to blow up parts of town of Most, Czechoslovakia-- and did, spectacularly. (Filming was delayed when crew was chased out of Czechoslovakia by 1968 Russian invasion.). Cardboard acting but real tanks and exploading buildings.
In the recent movie Tenet the scene where a 747 crashes into a terminal was done with a real 747. They decided that getting a bunch of models to look right would cost more than a 747.
Wasn't the bus/plane collision in Speed real, which is why there are like 80 cuts of the impact in the movie since they were determined to get their money's worth?
If you want an amazing "special effect" from the silent era of film, look up the flood scene from Metropolis. It took three weeks to shoot, with hundreds of real (apparently very poor and malnourished) children in freezing water, and the set was basically destroyed. There are rumours people died during process, but I've never seen any evidence of it... though it did take a toll on the health of the everyone involved.
Maybe not the most expensive thing destroyed on film: In the Burning Of Atlanta scene in Gone With The Wind, the burning buildings were old sets that MGM needed to get rid of.
The Twister one reminded me about when War of the Worlds was filmed here in my town. The production team liked the design of one service station that was a few blocks from the bridge which was blown up (via CGI) in the film, and the best location for it was right on the Junior division Little League field. So they negotiated with the Little League, paved over the field, built a replica of the service station, blew that up for the film, tore up the concrete and asphalt, and built a brand-new high-quality field for the Little League to use in time for next summer's season. Sadly, the Little League does not use the field anymore and it's been turned back over to the city and no longer is a baseball field. :(
I'm 90% sure that all those Fast and Furious cars are fakes they build themselves. Simon has so many channels that fact checking has gone out the window. I really should stop watching.
You guys chose the movie The General. The exact same thing happened in Bridge On The River Kwai. David Lean the director said "One Take"! I forgot the number of cameras were used but they were hidden all over the jungle.
Should make a list of movie scenes that were not intentional or accidental BUT kept in the film. 1978's CONVOY this did occur. When a truck over turned and crashed on its side (driver was ok).
How about the blowing up, in slow motion, of a house and its contents at the end of the 1970's film Zabriski Point? I have never seen this film on TV, but it made a big impression on me when I saw it in the cinema. It was so beautiful.
There's a story about the gas station in the desert destroyed for "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". Yes, it was built expressly to be demolished for the film, on property belonging to the film's composer Jimmy Van Heusen, who assumed his business manager had leased a portion of his property for an actual filling station. A week after he saw it there, he returned home after the scene had been filmed and saw the smashed-up set and panicked, thinking he might be sued by someone injured in the imagined disaster that had taken place.
5:10 this is why you might as well use a relatively cheap ($1k from Best Buy) 4k camera 1 step or 2 above those in smartphones. After editing and post production 99% of the cinema audience won't be able to tell what camera was used, let alone once it's made in Blu-ray versions. There, $299k saved if it gets broken.
In 1994's movie Clear and Present Danger, The drug lord mansion destroyed by the missile was a real brick-and-mortar residence in Mexico purchased by the filmmakers from a divorcée who had unpleasant memories of the place. The filmmakers bought the mansion and destroyed it. The divorcée kept the land and presumably built a new house after clearing out the rubble.
In the 1990's Boeing was in the process of getting the 777 airplane certified. They wanted to demonstrate the strength of new material making up the wings and body of the plane. They created an airplane and added load till it broke. They filmed it and it cost over one billion dollars. I have seen the film.
I'd have thought the Helicopter crash that killed Vic Morrow and the 2 kids during the Twilight Zone filming would have made the list before Killer Tomatoes.
Number 3 isn't entirely true unfortunately. The F&F production didn't get 6 real Lycans, but 1 (maybe 2) real ones and the rest were just shells. The guy who led the build team for those movies did a couple of interviews in which he explains all this. A British UA-camr bought one of the bodies, which he made a bunch of videos about. Can't remember his name, but it's all on UA-cam.
Not to sound morbid, but I'd put the helicopter accident in "Twilight Zone: The Movie" where an adult and two children were actually killed as the most expensive.
7:16 How can one assess that value? Isn’t Banksy’s artwork worth its perceived value because it’s done in secret and on public fixtures? I feel like having one created for a film and having it being created to be featured and destroyed in a feature film gives it different value than a typical Banksy.
Jessica Biel is from Ely, MN. Lemme tell ya, these Iron Range girls can SHOOT. They're better than any man I know. And that Lyken is a fake car. It only ever existed as a carbon fiber shell on wheels. There was no powertrain or much of anything else. Someone paid an exorbitant amount for a fake car lol
Here's a neat fact: Laverne Sands, owner of Sands Hotels, Sands of Time Antiques and Sands Mortuaries was one of my 'uncles' growing up after dad left.
What about the Blues Brothers? The end chase destroyed tons of police cars (or cars made to look like police cars). With inflation, it's probably an expensive chase.
Another famous "they were going to destroy it anyway" scene was in "Tora Tora Tora" when a Japanese pilot crashed his plane into a hanger. The Navy wanted it gone, and the film producers were happy to help by blowing it up in one take.
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You can't talk about destruction of things in a movie without mentioning The Blues Brothers!
The auto budget alone...
“He broke my watch!”
"Unnecessary use of violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers, has been approved."
Turns out Simon CAN talk about destruction in movies without mentioning The Blues Brothers…
That's cool about Wakita and the Twister production, but that one seems more like a net positive rather than something being destroyed. Nice that it worked out that way.
Since the movie made half a billion, you'd hope they'd at least give back a little
I don’t think the video’s about net positives lol… just the most valuable things that were destroyed, and I’d say taking down a few blocks of a town is pretty destructive - regardless of whether you build it back up again.
@@Vikanuck it's not, which is why my comment insinuated this instance maybe doesn't belong on the list. That and the fact the tornado destroyed the buildings, the film crew just bought up already wrecked places, used them to shoot the movie, and then replaced them.
What about the Brachs candy factory in The Dark Knight? Similar to the Casino in Con Air, it was going to be destroyed anyway, but Christopher Nolan convinced the owners to let him do it.
He decorated the outside to look like a hospital and had the explosives set up.
It was part of why the film had one of the largest budgets in film history at the time.
Didn't he also destroy a plane in Inception? (not sure how much that cost though)
I hope Will Smith’s career makes the list 🤞
". . . something like birds or frogs that has no business being terrifying . . ." Simon has obviously never encountered Spitting Cobra Chickens in the wild (AKA Branta canadensis, AKA Canada Goose).
To be fair, even though the Furious series only destroyed up refurbished junk cars ---- the fact that those junk cars were refurbished and rebuilt meant that they were now worth something
Into the Storm was filmed at the middle school I went to. I heard they destroyed the school so bad they had to replace almost everything. Nathan Kress was in that movie.
Michael Bay blowing up a multimillion dollar mansion like that sounds perfectly in line with his specific credo for films: MICHAEL BAY EXPLOSIOONS!!!!
Think we'll get a top ten list of things swallowed by sinkholes? Or has that happened already? It's tough to keep track
Number #1 whould be a whole drilling platform at Lake Peigneur plus a whole lake dissapearing under the salt mines below (yes and everything else in the lake too)
@@gabrielv1856 i know that one thanks to the Science Channel. I dont remember for sure, but didnt the water levels rise back up after that leaving it as a saltwater lake?
@@aceundead4750 yes, thats true, i forgot that! The channel that conected the lake with the sea reverted its course turning the lake into a salt water lake (plus all salt in the mine). Still, hard to win against a drill platform, boats and a lot of stuff going through the sinkhole.
@@aceundead4750 now that im thinking... a sinkhole in a town may win. It depends how you measure the damage... not sure
@@gabrielv1856 this reminds me that Corvette lovers probably think the time a sinkhole swallowed an entire show room of brand new Corvettes is worse lol
You could also include the Lamborghini Miura from the opening sequence from The Italian Job. Back in the 60's, it would have cost more to build a reasonable facsimile of the iconic sports car than to wreck a real one.$20k then is nearly $20million now.
£20 million? I think not..
@@pmb75 $ not £. Auction value passed $5m 18 months ago. Private sale of a car with provenance rumoured to pass $10m before Christmas. Now.......
No
@@paulrobinson3649 ne 20 k is still not close to 20 million
It’s actually more like $200,000. 20mil is wayyyyy of the mark
We don’t even get a hey before he hits us with the sponsor 😂
I remember the angst among my high school buddies over the destruction at the end of a chase of the Triumph Trophy TR6 motorcycle ridden by Steve McQueen (actually his double) in The Great Escape. Of course sensitivities about cost were different in 1963.
Most expensive thing ever destroyed on film...
Kevin Costner's career in Waterworld 😂
5:11 Let’s hope the shot at least made the final cut.
Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes was filmed right here in my second home town, San Diego, California. A friend of a friend of mine was a extra in the film.🍅🍅🍅🍅😱😱😱😱
Why is the 7 planet destroying stunt in “The Force Awakens” absent!?
The Bridge st Remagen (1969). For WWII movie producers had permission to blow up parts of town of Most, Czechoslovakia-- and did, spectacularly. (Filming was delayed when crew was chased out of Czechoslovakia by 1968 Russian invasion.). Cardboard acting but real tanks and exploading buildings.
In the recent movie Tenet the scene where a 747 crashes into a terminal was done with a real 747. They decided that getting a bunch of models to look right would cost more than a 747.
I was curious if russells guitar smash would be in the list. It escalated quickly.
OMFG! Just take a closer look (and a second one, and a third) of that Twister poster. I can't see it in an innocent way ever again... 😂
I played slots at the Sands in 94'!!
5:57 Whats funny is it kinda looks like a miniature
What about the set of Walnut Grove from Little House on the Prairie. They actually blew up all of the buildings.
Attack of the killer tomatoes was a cartoon as well
Ancients of MU!
I like how you say killah tomahtoes
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Wesley snipes eyes opening while on the table were CGI, scary.
Still in the Keeps ad, wondering what number Kurt Russell destroying the Martin guitar is at…
That didn’t take long.
B:T- Ryan Reynolds BOD!
The Landmark Hotel in Mars Attacks
The building at the start of Lethal Weapon 3
the building at the end of Lethal weapon 3
i think the films of hiroshima and nagasaki atomic bombing may be the most expensive things destroyed on film. not to mention how many died.
Jessica Biel may have destroyed a lens but I will bet you a dollar she didn't destroy the camera.
It's sad all the old casinos are gone.
Wasn't the bus/plane collision in Speed real, which is why there are like 80 cuts of the impact in the movie since they were determined to get their money's worth?
If you want an amazing "special effect" from the silent era of film, look up the flood scene from Metropolis. It took three weeks to shoot, with hundreds of real (apparently very poor and malnourished) children in freezing water, and the set was basically destroyed. There are rumours people died during process, but I've never seen any evidence of it... though it did take a toll on the health of the everyone involved.
Just looked this up. WOW. I can't believe it was made before the great depression and World War 2.
Was already expecting the guitar that Kurt Russell destroyed would be here, and there it was.
How come the Death Star wasn't mentioned? Surely it was worth more than a mansion...
The Star Wars galaxy is quite tiny. The Death Star is less than the size of a human.
Yeah fit for one insane crater face.
only worth Imperial Credits... and they are worthless in the outer rim, just ask Watto. So the Death Star is worthless, from a certain point of view.
It's not moon
Why even have the one of kind guitar on set you’re literally asking for it
Maybe not the most expensive thing destroyed on film:
In the Burning Of Atlanta scene in Gone With The Wind, the burning buildings were old sets that MGM needed to get rid of.
Including the massive gate that held.King Kong back. Obvious when you know what you're looking for.
The Twister one reminded me about when War of the Worlds was filmed here in my town. The production team liked the design of one service station that was a few blocks from the bridge which was blown up (via CGI) in the film, and the best location for it was right on the Junior division Little League field. So they negotiated with the Little League, paved over the field, built a replica of the service station, blew that up for the film, tore up the concrete and asphalt, and built a brand-new high-quality field for the Little League to use in time for next summer's season.
Sadly, the Little League does not use the field anymore and it's been turned back over to the city and no longer is a baseball field. :(
That was amazing what the twister production did for wakita
Buster Keaton was insane. He has some of the craziest stunts on film.
£10,000,000 for a Banky, 10 million for a rip off of Blek Le Rat.
Art is a scam.
Banksy is and will forever be overrated. Boring art at it's finest. Nonsubjective fact.
I thought the most expensive thing ever destroyed on film was Kevin Costner's career after Water World.
Waterworld wasn't THAT bad... I think the real blow was The Postman.
You what?
Waterworld made its money back and was liked by almost everyone.
Budget overuns aren't an actors fault.
@@magnuskallas Best review I ever read "The Postman is a love letter to Kevin Costner, from Kevin Costner, second class"
The lens was destroyed, not the Whole camera…🤦♂️🤷🏻♂️🤣🤣
I'm 90% sure that all those Fast and Furious cars are fakes they build themselves.
Simon has so many channels that fact checking has gone out the window. I really should stop watching.
You guys chose the movie The General. The exact same thing happened in Bridge On The River Kwai. David Lean the director said "One Take"! I forgot the number of cameras were used but they were hidden all over the jungle.
Regarding number 1; if they were going to smash a prop, why would they have needed to have the original anyway. Makes no sense at all.
Should make a list of movie scenes that were not intentional or accidental BUT kept in the film. 1978's CONVOY this did occur. When a truck over turned and crashed on its side (driver was ok).
How about the blowing up, in slow motion, of a house and its contents at the end of the 1970's film Zabriski Point? I have never seen this film on TV, but it made a big impression on me when I saw it in the cinema. It was so beautiful.
There's a story about the gas station in the desert destroyed for "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". Yes, it was built expressly to be demolished for the film, on property belonging to the film's composer Jimmy Van Heusen, who assumed his business manager had leased a portion of his property for an actual filling station. A week after he saw it there, he returned home after the scene had been filmed and saw the smashed-up set and panicked, thinking he might be sued by someone injured in the imagined disaster that had taken place.
Love that movie!!
I just gotta point out... that even a "dilapidated" rust bucket 1970 Dodge Charger pulls in $30,000+ these days.
How about the shopping mall in "The Blues Brothers" @ $25M!
Well that makes it even worse that Sergeant Angel hadn't seen Bad Boys II.
5:10 this is why you might as well use a relatively cheap ($1k from Best Buy) 4k camera 1 step or 2 above those in smartphones. After editing and post production 99% of the cinema audience won't be able to tell what camera was used, let alone once it's made in Blu-ray versions. There, $299k saved if it gets broken.
the real cost is in the lens. that's the super expensive part. that's the over footlong part in front that most people think is the camera.
In 1994's movie Clear and Present Danger, The drug lord mansion destroyed by the missile was a real brick-and-mortar residence in Mexico purchased by the filmmakers from a divorcée who had unpleasant memories of the place. The filmmakers bought the mansion and destroyed it. The divorcée kept the land and presumably built a new house after clearing out the rubble.
fast and furious = the stupidest movie franchise ever. says a lot about our society.
True...totally worthless movies.
In the 1990's Boeing was in the process of getting the 777 airplane certified. They wanted to demonstrate the strength of new material making up the wings and body of the plane. They created an airplane and added load till it broke. They filmed it and it cost over one billion dollars. I have seen the film.
hiroshima and nagasaki. 2 cities 150,000 people caught on film.
I love how he’s been making the same promotion for keeps hairproducts for over 2 years
The Rousch Mustang was accidently destroyed in *2 Fast 2 Furious* .
I'd have thought the Helicopter crash that killed Vic Morrow and the 2 kids during the Twilight Zone filming would have made the list before Killer Tomatoes.
To be fair, the film of the actual crash was never in the movie. And there was no planned helicopter crash scene.
@@NurmYokai yes your correct, my mistake. It was an accident not on purpose.
Keeps don’t work save your money! Huge scam
Number 3 isn't entirely true unfortunately. The F&F production didn't get 6 real Lycans, but 1 (maybe 2) real ones and the rest were just shells. The guy who led the build team for those movies did a couple of interviews in which he explains all this.
A British UA-camr bought one of the bodies, which he made a bunch of videos about. Can't remember his name, but it's all on UA-cam.
Sam hard bought it and sold it to Ed from vinwiki who then sold it to genius garage who has rebuilt it
@@shotbystoobot Yes, that was it! I could not remember for the life of me how I knew about this.
Not to sound morbid, but I'd put the helicopter accident in "Twilight Zone: The Movie" where an adult and two children were actually killed as the most expensive.
The most expensive movie shot of all time is in Morbius. Which shot that is, is up to you. 😂
Lethal Weapon 4 demolished an entire building by imploding it.
Hosting Tom Cruise destroyed the credibility of the ISS. 🤣🤣🤣
EDIT: I looked but apparently there is no garden gnome emoji. 🤣
Probably this is my favourite video so far.
7:16 How can one assess that value?
Isn’t Banksy’s artwork worth its perceived value because it’s done in secret and on public fixtures?
I feel like having one created for a film and having it being created to be featured and destroyed in a feature film gives it different value than a typical Banksy.
Jessica Biel is from Ely, MN. Lemme tell ya, these Iron Range girls can SHOOT. They're better than any man I know. And that Lyken is a fake car. It only ever existed as a carbon fiber shell on wheels. There was no powertrain or much of anything else. Someone paid an exorbitant amount for a fake car lol
Here's a neat fact:
Laverne Sands, owner of Sands Hotels, Sands of Time Antiques and Sands Mortuaries was one of my 'uncles' growing up after dad left.
What about the Blues Brothers? The end chase destroyed tons of police cars (or cars made to look like police cars). With inflation, it's probably an expensive chase.
An antique Martin? Ooooh dear... i mean, why even bother using a genuine antique anyway? The museum deserved all it got, stupid decision.
Right, graffiti on the side of a building is worth 10,000,000. Especially when it was made just for the TV show.
Another famous "they were going to destroy it anyway" scene was in "Tora Tora Tora" when a Japanese pilot crashed his plane into a hanger. The Navy wanted it gone, and the film producers were happy to help by blowing it up in one take.
At the end of the movie Hooper, they blew up an entire hospital. Obviously, it was going to be demolished anyway, but I'd say it counts.
Christopher Nolan destroyed an aeroplane for Tenet. Who knows what he is going to do for Oppenheimer...
So, most of this is BS. I doubt the camera was destroyed. The mansion was going to be torn down anyway. The Sands was also getting torn down.....
9:29 I can’t believe someone would pay $16.5 million for a house just to destroy it.
Damn Im glad Im the third guy talked about in the start of video sponsor. In my 50s and still have all my hair. and only the beard and Stacxhe have started to gray. lol.
Forget movies, the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are on film...
The office block in Terminator 2. That was real. Over $100 million from memory.
Strangely enough the KLF in later life have regretted burning the money
4:09 I’m just sitting here trying to consider how much damage a hail storm could do to houses.
The Train, as they crashed multiple real trains and blew up a railroad yard to simulation a bombing raid. Great movie.
The cars from F&F wasn't real cars
body's
Some pretty expensive stuff got destroyed filming my sex tape. Serves me right for shooting at a museum.
So the movie literally was a blockbuster in Wakita 😅
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World wrecked a lot of what were used cars at the time, but classics now.
Tavarish and Sam Hard have been involved with saving a few of the Fast and Furious cars.
A $25m jet was blown up for Dan August tv series (Burt Reynolds).
Sheeeeeeeeesh
You dont have to be like me? But I do wana be like you. Bald is the new not bald...so have that social norm !
In the killer tomato theme song it's pronounced toe may toe.
The look on Jessica's face starting at 5:05 is priceless
Simon is distantly related to the Norris, he was 55 by the time he was 25, @ age 13 .
the dukes of hazard ruined a boatload of dodges
pretty cool and interesting stuff .