Done subtly (at first) in the second Ace Ventura movie.Behind the scenes, the little countertop is actually to hide a gimbal mounting point for the bridge set that made the bad vibrations a practical effect instead of employing the old standby Screen Shake. A mere moment after the cup shatters on the floor, alarms start sounding. At the beginning of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Captain Sulu's teacup rattles off the counter top in front of his captain's chair and shatters as his ship, the Excelsior, is buffeted by the fore-shockwave of the Praxis explosion. In Rogue One, the blind Chirrut is the first to notice the approaching AT-ACTs on Scarif thanks to their heavy footfalls.In Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Han realizes the 'cave' he and the others are hiding in is something much worse when firing his blaster around causes it to shake.In Independence Day, the mother ship erases Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's footprints from the moon with this method, and the smaller city destroyers create vibrations strong enough to be mistaken as an earthquake by the characters.In Shin Godzilla, tiles are shown rattling and falling off a traditional Japanese home as Godzilla passes.Then Joe realizes that it can't be an earthquake because A) none of the other plants in the region are reporting tremors, B) the vibrations are too concentrated and regular for an earthquake, and C) the vibrations are slowly but surely increasing in strength. In Godzilla (2014), Joe and Sandra Brody are rather worried about the earthquake that seems to have hit the Janjira nuclear plant.In Godzilla (1998), GINO is making cars shake with each step during its first foray in New York.Also subverted when the approaching rumbles turned out to be Burt Gummer arriving in a heavy truck loaded with weaponry.What's even better is that the camera shot is set up so that the audience fully expects it as well, waiting for the giant inserted-by-special-effects monster to come lumbering around the corner of the building. until a little beast about half their size hops into view. As the movement gets more violent, and the heroes assume the monster just out of view has to be huge to be making it, so they point their guns higher and higher. Subverted delightfully in Tremors 2: Aftershocks, with sheets of metal instead of water.The first movie runs on this all the way long, as vibrations signal the approaching subterranean monsters.A prime example is the close-up shot on the coffee cup in the Paris level with Cobb and Ariadne. Inception: Throughout the dreams, vibrating objects or ripples in fluids are indicating the arrival of kicks. Notably does not happen at the end to be fair, the main characters were probably a bit distracted by the Velociraptors trying to eat them to notice that the ground is shaking a little. It later recurs when Malcolm notices rippling in a puddle formed by the tyrannosaur's footsteps. Jurassic Park (1993) has a much-parodied scene where ripples in a glass of water foretold the arrival of the Tyrannosaurus rex.
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