I like a good disaster movie. A lot of the science fiction movies I loved as a kid (and still do) were really just disaster movies with aliens in them. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers has some fantastic scenes of Washington, DC being destroyed by the titular flying saucers.
This was essentially remade in the 90s as Independence Day which features a fantastic shot of a saucer blowing up the White House.
So I really don’t mind seeing national monuments blown up in the service of a good story. This weekend a new disaster movie is opening. It’s called Civil War and the premise of this one is that America has divided into several different partisan factions. A tyrannical president in Washington is on the verge of being destroyed by a coalition of…
