St. Louis Destroyed This weekend I picked up a DVD out of the $5 bin at K-Mart, called Sci-Fi Collector's Set. It was four films on two, two-sided discs. OK, can't complain about movies that cost a buck and a quarter each - and you don't expect too much from films made for TV and DVD. What really made me get the thing was one of the movies The Black Hole was set in St. Louis. BTW, this set was so cheesy that they messed up the cover art by putting another city being consumed by a black hole and St. Louis being consumed by Supernova. However, I don't think I've ever seen St. Louis destroyed in a movie. It's usually New York, LA, San Francisco, London or Tokyo. The premise was that there was an atomic collider under St. Louis and the location shot for this was the very modern Planetarium at Forest Park (built when I was a teenager). They not only did location shots but looks like they actually filmed on location in the city. After the black hole formed and took down the planetarium, they all moved to the Soldiers Memorial in Downtown St. Louis. These shots were actually filmed in the Soldiers Memorial. So, there were some special effects shots - blurry TV news coverage - of the Old Courthouse becoming history along with Busch Stadium and eventually the Arch. (I saw the arch being built - I don't think it would flake apart like they showed. Those aren't tiles on the surface, it is made of stainless steel triangle sections) Of course there was no explanation how the black hole got from Forest Park to the Arch without sucking down the Soldiers Memorial. Obviously they didn't plan for people in St. Louis to see their city destroyed.
