A dumb movie observation

[happybird]

It makes me happy when they get details correct when making a movie set in DC.

Watching National Treasure right now and the cop cars are correct and the inside of a Metro station is correct. I guess they must have really filmed the movie here. Some things are fudged but these are the two things, in particular, that I notice frequently being wrong in movies about my city.

I guess it happens all the time in movies about other cities and I don’t notice, lol!

[Wounded Bear]

1. Can't count how many times I laughed when a movie/TV show has palm trees in their Seattle scenes...

[electric_blue68]

4. 😯 Nooo! How Pathetic! 😄😑

[wnylib]

9. Lush lawns and water sprinklers in Phoenix residential neighborhoods.

[yellowdogintexas]

12. or mountains when the setting is anywhere in Florida nt

[GreenWave]

2. Or huge mountains in St. Louis or Virgin eye Ah Beach*!

* Tallest elevation is a mound covering up a mountain of trash nicknamed Mount Trashmore.

[electric_blue68]

5. Mountains by St Louis?! 😄😑 Pathetic! As an artist who draws landscapes I pay attention...

to details.

And I have passed through St Louis on my way to Arizona by bus. Decades ago, but I know there hasn't been any "tetonic uplift" in the intervening decades! 😄

[2naSalit]

3. It's not all that easy...

To schedule filming dates ad locations for authenticity. I know a couple "location finders" for movie houses and they have their work cut out for them. And then there's the director and their ability to know enough to pay attention to detail.

A number of people I have encountered in the business say that the one true fiefdom left in America is the movie industry. But I digress. A lot of the authenticity issues come from demands of the directors but also availability of the locations that are authentic. You have to get permits and whatnot for all of the federal locations unless you shoot from the street.

[lapfog_1]

6. diehard 2 in Dulles Airport

[gratuitous]

7. One totally forgettable movie (The Hunted)

Some location scenes shot in Portland, and Tommy Lee Jones is running from or chasing (told you it was forgettable) the local light rail train across the Hawthorne Bridge. It actually runs across the apparently far-less-photogenic Steel Bridge. Not likely to be noticed by anyone who doesn't live in Portland, but if you do, it's like seeing the Space Needle in Salt Lake City.

[rsdsharp]

8. LOL, they certainly got some of the details of Des Moines right in the terrible

movie version of Heinlein’s Puppet Masters. The helicopter scene took place downtown, and flew between the Financial Center and the Hub Tower. They are across the street from each other. I was in the Financial Center at the time.

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[Grokenstein]

10. San Francisco is apparently crawling with portals

A car chase turning a corner in Fisherman's Wharf will suddenly find itself in Hunter's Point, then magically appear on Market Street.

And don't even plot the course of that missile in The Rock.

[Yavin4]

11. Don't ever watch the Kevin Costner movie, "No Way Out".

They absolutely butcher DC.

[yellowdogintexas]

13. at least "True Lies" is actually using the real

7 Mile Bridge