There’s a new commercial on the block for the Nissan Qashqai and it’s called “Urbanproof”. The ad is a parody of the legendary Sony Balls ad. It’s currently running on this site and you can see it here as well.

To tie in with the launch of the ad,? we’ve compiled a list that celebrates the simple thrill of destroying things for kicks. We all like to smash things up and directors are no different. Cities, forests and even planets have all been destroyed to boost cinema ticket sales. The new ad for Nissan Qashqai replaces Sony’s rubber balls with bowling balls and, okay, you’d have a tough job trying to destroy a whole town with those.

So with that, we’ve put together a Top 10 of the most brilliant acts of wilful destruction which, of course, dear reader, you’re more than welcome to disagree with in the comments.

10. The Day The Earth Caught Fire is a nuclear holocaust film which sees some explosive experiments by stupid humans going so wrong that Earth is sent spinning into the sun. Everyone sweats. Loads.

9. Cloverfield is a film with a monster in it. You know what monsters like doing? Breaking stuff. Brooklyn Bridge gets whupped and the Statue of Liberty gets her head smashed clean off!

8. The aliens in War of the Worlds pretty much spied on mankind because, typically, we were all too self-centred to even notice they were there. We were all sitting around reading stupid blogs and clicking endless links on Wikipedia. To teach us a lesson, the aliens went mental and decided to break a load of our stuff… stuff like massive bridges and human’s faces.

7. Aliens once again decided to wreck a load of our stuff just to show us how ace their laser beams are compared to our puny slingshots and crude hand-gestures in Independence Day where, very famously, they blew up the White House like a toddler stamping on a sand-castle.

6. In Predator, Arnie shows us what a hard man him and his mates are when they get all their bullets and take it out on some poor defenceless trees. TAKE THAT FOLIAGE!

5. The Sex and the City films are, without doubt, the single most destructive thing ever carried out on Western civilisation. Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda sound like the names of characters when the truth of the matter is, they are the names of four dirty bombs.

4. How trivial do you want to be with massive exploding destruction? Well, Darth Vader’s nonchalance in Star Wars is immense when the Death Star blows up an entire planet (Alderaan) for a laugh. KER-BLAM! Gone. Lets go smoke some tabs in the canteen.

3. Godzilla is the daddy of wrecking entire cities for a laugh. Even his nerdy cousin in the Chewits commercials tried his hand at snapping a few roofs off. Godzilla has appeared ‘As Himself’ in roughly 40,000 films and one thing he clearly loves to do is drag his feet when walking through built-up areas. That means millions dead. Fantastic.

2. In Zabriskie Point, we see the beautiful need to blow stuff up in real life, over and over for no reason at all. Michelangelo Antonioni decides to blow anything he can get his hands on sky-high. In this Pink Floyd soundtracked 1970 film a luxury pad gets exploded. Then a TV. Then some clothes. Then loads of books. Then everything else including his mum. Probably.

1. In Dark Knight, we see one of the most fun acts of needless destruction when the Joker blows up hospital. Okay, that doesn’t sound like too much fun for those blown up for no reason, but y’know, they were sick anyway so he was probably doing them a favour really.

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