How have movies gotten something wrong about your home town?

Shadow WarChief · Post by **Shadow WarChief** » 2003-06-05 11:23pm

Most of us live in or near cities in which a number of movies have been produced. What are a few of the most glaring factual mistakes that the filmers have made that only denizens of your area would notice?

I'll start off
In "The Rock", the jets take too long to reach Alcatraz after going under the bridge. Even taking the super slow motion into account, it shouldn't have taken them more than a few second to completely drown the island in plasma

Star Trek IV: The Alameda aquarium where the whales were held was actually the Montery Bay aquarium

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-06-05 11:32pm

Movies that show someone driving to LA from SF and the person crosses the Golden Gate Bridge.

Anytime any show takes place in the Bay Area and there is a thunder and lightning. 95% of the storms here involve no thunder or lightning.

In the movie T2, when Arnold shoots at the cops from the second story of the building, that building was in Fremont. Not LA.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-06-05 11:53pm

What some of the uni. buildings look like inside. The Angel tv show thinking that one of our science buildings is in LA.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-06-06 12:26am

Whenever Toronto is in a movie, they pretend it's Chicago

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-06-06 12:29am

8-Mile is stupid. They probably got something wrong, too. But you'll never get me to watch and find out.

PrinceofLowLight · Post by **PrinceofLowLight** » 2003-06-06 12:29am

Not once has New York ever been overrun by Sumerian gods, aliens or the living dead. At least not since I've lived here.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-06-06 12:37am

Although 8-Mile did get one thing right, 8-Mile is the line in the sand dividing the East and West side. I mean, on one corner there's a gas station and on the coner opposite, there's a STRIP JOINT.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-06-06 12:47am

Shadow WarChief wrote: Star Trek IV: The Alameda aquarium where the whales were held was actually the Montery Bay aquarium

Minor nitpick, was'nt the aquarium supposed to be in Petaluma?

That brings up something else. Fog horns do not blare constantly all over the city.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-06-06 12:49am

Darth Wong wrote:Whenever Toronto is in a movie, they pretend it's Chicago

That's because it wishes it was Chicago.

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2003-06-06 12:51am

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 tht they assume all cajuns live in swamp. Not true, most of us only go there to get drunk on weekends.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2003-06-06 12:52am

Oh don't get me started about some of the things they got wrong about Manhattan. Some of it makes me SO ANGRY!!

For instence no one in the Subway system would let you shout a marriage proposal across a station. And not all New Yorkers are either rude mean bastards, or absolutley nice and polite people, we have normal people here too. Just not many

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-06-06 12:57am

TrailerParkJawa wrote:Minor nitpick, was'nt the aquarium supposed to be in Petaluma?

Petaluma is land-locked, though. I remember seeing the ocean from the aquarium.

That brings up something else. Fog horns do not blare constantly all over the city.

I've never even heard a fog horn, and I've lived in San Francisco all my life.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-06-06 01:01am

Straha wrote:Oh don't get me started about some of the things they got wrong about Manhattan. Some of it makes me SO ANGRY!! For instence no one in the Subway system would let you shout a marriage proposal across a station. And not all New Yorkers are either rude mean bastards, or absolutley nice and polite people, we have normal people here too. Just not many

Do you guys have talking apes in New York too? Or was Planet of the Apes inaccurate.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-06-06 01:07am

Darth Yoshi wrote:
TrailerParkJawa wrote:Minor nitpick, was'nt the aquarium supposed to be in Petaluma?
Petaluma is land-locked, though. I remember seeing the ocean from the aquarium

But most everyone else doesnt know that about Petaluma. I remember when Spock and Kirk got on the bus, they saw an advertisement for George and Gracie. I thought it was in Petaluma, but I could be wrong. In anycase, the "real" aquarium was way far to the south like you said.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-06-06 01:07am

Not exactly in a movie; one time on TV Nation, Michael Moore did a segment on Newt Gingrich's home district (where I live), pointing out how much money it received relative to other districts, essentially ignoring the fact that most of that money went to Lockheed-Martin, which is located here. That wouldn't be a bad thing necessarily but it was presented in Moore's usual snide, suggestive manner.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-06-06 01:26am

I was wrong, it ( The aquarium in Star Trek IV ) was supposed to be in Sausalito.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-06-06 01:51am

Hey check out this site, it lists movies that were made near your home town.
Its not yet complete so I think it only covers about half of the USA.

http://www.usa-movies.com/

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-06-06 03:43am

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

There are no mountains anywhere near Carnaby Street.

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-06-06 07:53am

Unless they did on-location shooting for a Hemingway bio, no a chance. Chicago yes, but as Mike said Toronto is a frequent sub(?). I guess that's because Toronto is the second coolest city in North America next to Chicago

at least in MY opinion

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-06-06 08:21am

Darth Wong wrote:Whenever Toronto is in a movie, they pretend it's Chicago

Mike, there is actually an equasion in play here.

Toronto-Chicago
-------------------------- + Alan Thicke = Cheap made for tv movie
Vancouver-Los Angeles

Joe Momma · Post by **Joe Momma** » 2003-06-06 09:20am

The Johnny Depp movie Benny and June was filmed in my town (Spokane WA, USA) and there were all sorts of entertaining geographical oddities. For example, they lived in the neighborhood of Browne's Addition and would casually walk over to the Milk Bottle for shakes...which in real life is a four-mile walk (one way) going up a huge hill and passing through a neighborhood we cheerfully refer to as Spo-Compton because it's one of the two neighborhoods here that passes for a demilitarized zone.

There was also nitpicky stuff like the characters riding a bus on a route that went nowhere near any of the locations they were headed from or going to.

I'm sure all of that shit happens all the time in movies, though.

-- Joe Momma

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-06-06 09:23am

"Roswell" ~ There are no mountains in Roswell, NM. Or anywhere near for another 70 miles.

~ver

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-06-06 09:35am

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.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-06-06 09:41am

I'm not from Detroit, but "Robocop" was supposedly set there even though it was filmed in Dallas.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-06-06 09:44am

I’m only aware of one movie, which involved my town. They shot a brief balcony scene at the Swarthmore collage observatory and passed it off as being some other place. Though you can’t see anything to show its Swarthmore unless you’ve been inside of that building. All you see of theo utside is a tree and grass

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