Which is why I wasn't arguing with you.
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Jessica - Jun 07, 2005 2:19:21 pm PDT #3872 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
DavidS - Jun 07, 2005 2:43:57 pm PDT #3873 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
R.I.P. Anne Bancroft.
Poor Mel. 'sfunny, Emmett just watched The Miracle Worker the other day.
JohnSweden - Jun 07, 2005 2:48:56 pm PDT #3874 of 10002
I can't even.
If I can see the CN tower in the background while the characters are talking about being in NYC, it completely throws me out of the film, regardless of whether or not the location matters to the plot.
This happens to me a lot, because of the Toronto as cheap film/tv stand-in for every big city thing. I'm doomed for the show then, because I lean in close and start picking out street corners and shop windows. I don't mind as much when the show is supposed to be in Toronto, but when it is being passed off as someplace else again, I'm all Heyyyyy!
DavidS - Jun 07, 2005 2:52:51 pm PDT #3875 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
This happens to me a lot, because of the Toronto as cheap film/tv stand-in for every big city thing. I'm doomed for the show then, because I lean in close and start picking out street corners and shop windows. I don't mind as much when the show is supposed to be in Toronto, but when it is being passed off as someplace else again, I'm all Heyyyyy!
This is less of an issue with San Francisco since it looks so damned San Franciscy, and it's not cheap it doesn't try to pass for elsewhere.
§ ita § - Jun 07, 2005 2:54:28 pm PDT #3876 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's usually pretty easy to tell when it's in Toronto (or Vancouver) because of their accents. I find Montreal a bit more confusing, since it's a mix of T'ronna and west coast accents, in addition to local.
Atropa - Jun 07, 2005 3:16:43 pm PDT #3877 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Even movies that are supposed to be set in the cities they were filmed in get a little wonky. Say Anything, I'm looking at you.
Jessica - Jun 07, 2005 4:03:23 pm PDT #3878 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My dorm once rented The Roommate because it was set in our dorm, and even confined to the NU campus, the geography was majorly wonky. (Granted, the number of people who will notice "Hey, that's not the way to Chapin from the rock!" is very small, but given the total suckitude of the film, the number of people renting it who aren't current NU students is almost certainly even smaller.)
Jesse - Jun 07, 2005 4:06:14 pm PDT #3879 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm waiting for the Ewan McGregor/Naomi Watts movie to come out that shot in the stairway of where I used to work, but apparently nowhere else in the building.
§ ita § - Jun 07, 2005 4:12:00 pm PDT #3880 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't get the accent thing. They really should clean that up.
askye - Jun 07, 2005 4:15:37 pm PDT #3881 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
Shows and movies get Flroida wrong a lot. Either they think N FL looks something like S Florida, or they try to pass of California beaches (with cliffs, etc) as Florida beaches.
X Files had an episode set in Leon County and they came down and filmed some on location. The rest they did in Vancouver, which looks more like the area than South Florida.