When films like this, Transformers etc set action scenes in cities and want to show scenes from inside an office block, couldn't they show it being deserted or at least people fleeing from the office.
The notion that you'd still be sourcing the purchase order number for that errant invoice while skyscraper sized monsters battle each other and the city is undergoing an evacuation, really is ridiculous.
"Small moves Ellie, small moves"
well in reality people choose to ignore evacuation notices all the time. Happens for Tornadoes, hurricanes and tsunamis.
People are dumb or panic and freeze. So really this scene is very accurate.
That might be in the case when there is uncertainty of a storm front actually materialising (like New York earlier this year) but when a 300ft monster has torn across Hawaii, another one has levelled Las Vegas and they are both going to meet in San Francisco, I don't think you'd be ignoring the evacuation reports or the wealth of news footage and think "I must finish off that presentation".
"Small moves Ellie, small moves"
Nobody knows what they were actually doing in the office building.
shareMaybe it was like, a really important presentation though.
shareThere's actually a good chance they got stuck in there. Muto uses EMP attacks and that shut off the power. The workers seen in the scene where the flying Muto glides by are probably some underlings ordered by their execs to remove all documents of importance. Then the monsters show up and they are just stuck.
As far as fire escapes the high rise building I work in has electronic locks. So maybe there's does also.
Just a thought.
It is illegal for a fire escape to have electronic locks without a fail-safe or manual override i.e. a door handle. No high-rise would allow this as it would be an absurd liability to overlook if a fire started and knocked out the power. Theirs.
My favorite example of this is in Independence Day when the aliens destroy LA, and some schmuck is putting away files and looks out the window just as the giant ball of fire blows the building to smithereens and his sorry ass with it.
shareThat is a good one.
There were quite a few examples in Man of Steel as well.
"Small moves Ellie, small moves"
Would it have made sense if they were FEMA/City Emergency workers making sure the buildings are evacuated? All you need is to add yellow/orange vests?
Why can't you wretched prey creatures understand that the Universe doesn't owe you anything!?
"The notion that you'd still be sourcing the purchase order number for that errant invoice while skyscraper sized monsters battle each other . . . "
You didn't meet their boss. He's the meanest man in town. Godzilla has nothing on him!
No, it is not. Search disasters and you will find accounts of people who refused to evacuate even office buildings thinking they had time to evacuate or they did not take them seriously. Look at footage on YouTube and other sites and you will see people in office buildings viewing a natural disaster happening instead of evacuating the building.
shareThere are a lot of cliches in movies. Sometimes it kills the mood for me. Tbh Godzilla was a decent movie. Shame Bryan Cranston had to go.
shareIt became repetitive and boring to see Ashley Olsen's character run from one structure to the next, just to see the surprised panic from people as the buildings collapse around them....
It reminded me of the scenes in LotR:RotK when huge rocks were being launched at Minas Tirith and it looked like city dwellers were packed in the gallery windows like sardines. Was battle-gazing an appropriate way to pass the time in Middle Earth or something?
I couldn't believe when I read his filmography that he played a toilet (no joke) in According to Jim