In the movie Are We There Yet, Ice Cube takes a bunch of kids in his new vehicle. He tells them he doesn't want a scratch on it. Over the course of the movie, the vehicle slowly gets destroyed, much to his chagrin. I believe the same thing happens to Jackie Gleason's car in one of the Smokey and the Bandit movies.

In Its a Mad, Mad, Mad World, Jonathan Winters fights with some one and slowly destroys the gas station he is in.

I am not saying these scenes are wankable, but I like them. Whatever is in me that gets aroused by seeing women go from clean to destroyed enjoys this aspect of some comedies. Am I alone? Are there any other examples?

Destruction in general seems a pretty huge thing really - youtubers are doing very well out of it (hydraulic press channel etc)

I was thinking of the molten hot steel ball vs various substances, or the guy that pours liquid hot aluminum into fruit. Destruction, catabolism, these things are very primal in nature and understandable. Nothing weird here, power can be arousing. This is why BDSM, and more unfortunately rape are such big things.

If destruction of buildings/structures is your thing, then go watch The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit again, and especially the second and third Hobbit movies, as there's loads of it.

If you like that then good for you, although I must admit I find Peter Jackson's logic-defying Law of Infinite Destruction quite tiresome.

Take the bit in the second Hobbit, where Bilbo's in Smaug's lair - every time the dragon so much as twitches he knocks out another dozen columns, and this happens over and over and over. So how come the entire mountain doesn't come crashing down on their heads halfway through the scene? Or the part in the third one, where an Ogre punches the wall of a castle the good guys are defending, and a huge section disintegrates. We keep returning to the castle as the battle continues, and see the goodies valiantly defending it. Er, no they're not, because if the Ogre had kept up that rate of destruction then after - what, an hour, absolute max? - there wouldn't be a single stone left standing.

Right, got that off my chest

(Although don't get me started on the CGI stunts in those movies.... All those ludicrous feats of acrobatics that a human stunt performer, no matter how many wires or how careful the editing, couldn't possibly perform, that kill your suspension of disbelief.)

True, and everyone has their individual tolerance for disbelief, although in the context of an adaptation of a fantasy book I'm happy to go along with that.

My point was specifically about stunts. Take the free-running sequence that opens "Casino Royale" and had Daniel Craig fighting a guy on a steel girder hundreds of feet in the air. That doubtless involved stunt doubles for the long shots, and in close ones the girder was only about two feet off the ground while all the crash mats were carefully kept out of shot. It's all fake, but I still happily suspend my disbelief because the point is it looks as if it could be real.

With CGI stunts film-makers can portray stunts that can't possibly be real, and so my suspension of disbelief is destroyed. The second Hobbit movie has a sequence where some elves are ambushed by orcs while sailing down a river. Orlando Bloom's gravity-defying contribution, as he fights and shoots off arrows while doing a range of absurd acrobatics that I doubt even a performing flea could manage, is ludicrous.

The first CGI stunt I was sure I was watching came in "Van Helsing", when Kate Beckinsale's character is dropped by a flying harpy from hundreds of feet up in the air - I don't care how big the air-mattress beneath them is, they don't drop stunt performers from that height! I've hated CGI stunts ever since.

Technically speaking it's not magic, he's something akin to an angelic being. And the "human" on the wires is supposed to be an "elf"

If you want to see Peter Jackson's humble beginnings, go look up a HORRIBLE movie called "Bad Taste".