How have movies gotten something wrong about your home town?

Kitsune · Post by **Kitsune** » 2003-06-06 10:42pm

Well, the only scene that I have seen that is suppose to be were I live and it is California and we do not have any decommissioned old ww2 submarines left around here either. They also used my area for a series of made for tv martial arts movies and was suppose to be california (I cannot remember the name)

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-06-06 10:47pm

Kitsune wrote:Well, the only scene that I have seen that is suppose to be were I live and it is California and we do not have any decommissioned old ww2 submarines left around here either. They also used my area for a series of made for tv martial arts movies and was suppose to be california (I cannot remember the name)

Where are you? There is a decommissioned sub in San Francisco.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-06-06 11:01pm

And in the movie Drumline, which takes place close to where I live, the lead character's breath is visible on an August morning. August in Georgia is hot as hell, it doesn't start getting really cold till the middle of November.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-06-06 11:06pm

Frank Hipper wrote:
Robert Treder wrote: I think Men At Work (that garbageman movie with Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez) depicts it in this manner, among others.
They never claimed it as being in S.F., IIRC.
It was, however, filmed in Redondo Bch. and Hermosa Bch., and while not my hometowns, I did go to High School at Redondo. That movie makes me homesick as hell, I have vivid memories of almost every place onscreen. They even call The Esplenade by the right name.

IIRC, they made a reference to the South Bay or to San Jose or something. Regardless, that movie is horrible (though I'll excuse you for liking it for nostalgic reasons).

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2003-06-07 12:37am

As far as I can tell, pittsburgh has never been over run by the Living dead or having a large bumber of red necks in the back country. We do have crazy steel workers though.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-06-07 06:54am

Robert Treder wrote:IIRC, they made a reference to the South Bay or to San Jose or something. Regardless, that movie is horrible (though I'll excuse you for liking it for nostalgic reasons).

You are correct, Redondo and Hermosa are both South Bay cities, as L.A. has a South Bay also.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2003-06-07 07:31am

Helsinki is not Moscow, even though quite a few movies claim otherwise, and there is no such thing as 'Helsinki syndrome', even though Die Hard I claims that there is (it's really the 'Stockholm syndrome').

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-06-07 10:18am

Sliding Doors

No one tlaks to nobody on the tube.

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2003-06-07 10:42am

The only film my hometown of Hartlepool has been in is Blade Runner, and it was only used for some skyline shots of the old steelworks as far as I know.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-06-07 02:49pm

Gandalf wrote:Australians do not speak the way they do in the movies.

That's all I could think of.

Hillbillies only speak like that when we want to annoy tourists.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-06-07 06:55pm

LadyTevar wrote:
Gandalf wrote:Australians do not speak the way they do in the movies.

That's all I could think of.
Hillbillies only speak like that when we want to annoy tourists.

No one talks like Dick van Dyke!

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 2003-06-07 06:56pm

Contrary to the X-Files, a Federal Building was NOT blown up in Dallas.

Also, San Diego never had a T-Rex running wild.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2003-06-07 07:23pm

Lonestar wrote:Also, San Diego never had a T-Rex running wild.

Grrrrr, that pissed me off so much! It was pretty damn pointless. And the cops ran away?!

But that's another thread (and I'm pretty sure it was, actually). Hijack over, move along.

Yogi · Post by **Yogi** » 2003-06-07 08:54pm

My home town was in Hawaii. Honestly, I've stopped counting.

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-06-08 07:29am

Kelly Antilles wrote:There are no evil children trying to take over the town... oh wait... yes there are. (Actually, Children of the Corn 2 was just made where I live. They didn't name the town the same.)

Bull Durham: mostly accurate. Although, you can't take busses on the Parkway and some of the filming of the bus rides was there.

Maximum Overdrive: That's Wilmington, NC. The road where they filmed all the truck scenes was a brand new highway that hadn't even opened up.

Ah! Dawson's Creek: Filmed in and around Wilmington, NC. No where NEAR where they were supposed to be.

Were any GOOD movies made nearby?

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-06-08 05:12pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:Ah! Dawson's Creek: Filmed in and around Wilmington, NC. No where NEAR where they were supposed to be.

Is there really a town called Dawson's Creek?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-06-08 08:17pm

Stockton:
It's not the Deep south/Chain Gangs (Cool Han Luke)
UOP is NOT Harvard or Yale (Indiana Jones films)

Humbolt:
Actually unemployeed Logger rednecks outnumber the Potsmoking/growing hippies. The latter actually do have income, the former do not, and supply the income for some of the latter.

Yosemite:
Gorgonites have not moved into the Park (At least that I know of)
We have no Ewoks (thanks George)
No Dinosaurs (Thanks world weekly news)
Mel Gibson is not a regular Visitor (Mavrick)

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-06-08 09:58pm

Lonestar wrote:Contrary to the X-Files, a Federal Building was NOT blown up in Dallas.

Also, San Diego never had a T-Rex running wild.

Alcatraz does not have still working furnaces underneath. And its never been bombed by F-18's.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-06-08 10:17pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote:
Lonestar wrote:Contrary to the X-Files, a Federal Building was NOT blown up in Dallas.

Also, San Diego never had a T-Rex running wild.
Alcatraz does not have still working furnaces underneath. And its never been bombed by F-18's.

And NYC was never attacked by
- Aliens
- Giant French lizards
- Big Gorillas

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-06-08 10:24pm

Gandalf wrote:
TrailerParkJawa wrote:
Lonestar wrote:Contrary to the X-Files, a Federal Building was NOT blown up in Dallas.

Also, San Diego never had a T-Rex running wild.
Alcatraz does not have still working furnaces underneath. And its never been bombed by F-18's.
And NYC was never attacked by
- Aliens
- Giant French lizards
- Big Gorillas

Or bombed by asteriods.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-06-08 10:27pm

Montcalm wrote:
Gandalf wrote: And NYC was never attacked by
- Aliens
- Giant French lizards
- Big Gorillas
Or bombed by asteriods.

Or a big marshmallow man.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2003-06-08 10:28pm

The Pegasus statue in St. Petersburg, as shown in "Golden Eye". It exists only in the filmmakers' imagination.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-06-08 10:56pm

Kitsune wrote:Well, the only scene that I have seen that is suppose to be were I live and it is California and we do not have any decommissioned old ww2 submarines left around here either.

What movie? They filmed a some movie or other which featured the USS Silversides in it. Never found out what movie. Might be it.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2003-06-08 11:27pm

Captain Lennox wrote:Hmm, I'd say New Orleans was overgenerlized. You'd assume from that everyone there is a college student or a gay guy on the Real World...go figure. The only other thing is that they assume all cajuns live in swamp. Not true, most of us only go there to get drunk on weekends.

That isn't the half of it.

Movie makers still assume that half the populace speaks French. The French language was effectively extinct in New Orleans by 1948. The predominating foreign language found here today is Spanish.

Contemporary movie makers can't tell the difference between Cajuns and Creoles —which is what native New Orlenians actually are.

White New Orleanians, as we are in the Deep South, are portrayed as speaking in a low Alabama drawl; that is whenever any accent at all is attempted by the actors in a movie or we're not merely speaking our default-language, French.

New Orleans geography is twisted enough in the Real World —what with our river's West Bank actually lying south of the city, North-South streets actually running east-to-west or diagonally, and Uptown lying below Downtown. Movies manage to fuck up what little sense our geography makes beyond any hope of rational ken. The swamp is always a 2-5 minute drive out of town, which hasn't been true for eighty years (territory where the local voodoo "cults" allegedly live in as opposed to the Bywater or Tremé neighbourhoods with their small Spiritualist churches).

The only thing you will get by following the street directions given at the beginning of A Streetcar Named Desire is Hopelessly Lost.

Oh, and the weather for Mardi Gras is always a crapshoot and the Perpetually-Sunny-yet-Pleasant-Mild-Spring carnival weather of the movies is never guaranteed for any period of time between Twelfth Night (Jan. 6) and the latest possible Shrove Tuesday date of March 4. Neither do we have jazz funerals spontaneously breaking out in the French Quarter on any given day of the week.

Movie makers don't understand these things. We could try setting them straight, but I fear the only way they'd believe any native on these matters is if we spoke to them slowly. In French.

Rubberanvil · Post by **Rubberanvil** » 2003-06-09 03:16am

FaxModem1 wrote:Texas is not a huge desert with a bunch of hicks who wear cowboy hats and don't have a good vocabulary.

San Antonio, TX (my hometown) gets it pretty bad with every Alamo movie Hollywood makes.