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.
Wild monkey love or tender Sarah McLachlan love?
Xander ,'Him'
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Atropa - Jun 07, 2005 3:16:43 pm PDT #3877 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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.
Cashmere - Jun 07, 2005 4:16:29 pm PDT #3882 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
In a Batman/Grendel crossover (Devil's Riddle/Devil's Masque) Hunter Rose travelled from NYC to Gotham and butted heads with the Bat. Too cool. I've never specifically associated Gotham for NYC in my head for some reason so it flowed perfectly for me.
I've seen so many Batman Begins trailers, I'm very excited to actually see the movie.
Fred Pete - Jun 07, 2005 4:44:18 pm PDT #3883 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Emmett just watched The Miracle Worker the other day.
And I just saw her debut (Don't Bother to Knock) over the weekend. Though I wouldn't recommend it to Emmett for a few years yet.
Jessica - Jun 07, 2005 5:13:08 pm PDT #3884 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Flickr now has a group for posting crappy bootleg DVD covers (and footnoting the errors).
Gandalfe - Jun 07, 2005 5:29:59 pm PDT #3885 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
SLC Punk has a huge number of place errors, which is really fucking odd, since James Meredino is from here. Not just fictional places but . . . . Like punks hanging out in front of the Temple. They didn't, they hung out in between the two malls about a block away. Better spare change opportunities.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 07, 2005 5:50:49 pm PDT #3886 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So no, it still makes no sense, and anybody who sat down and thought about it would be able to puzzle out that premeditated murder is never legally-consequence-free, no matter how much you've been screwed over.
Hm. What about DREAM LOVER where Madchen Amick goes to extraordinary lengths to get James Spader committed as violently insane and then, when she shows up for one last gloat, gets throttled by him after he informs her that he'll be found innocent by reason of insanity because, well, already proven insane? I mean, she's SERIOUSLY stupid for actually doing the visit-and-gloat, but she thought she had his number down to the littlest detail.
Fun movie in that MALICE/LAST SEDUCTION/RED ROCK WEST/WILD THINGS kinda way, and I loved the ending, but I didn't buy it for a second. Well, except that the movie implies heavily that at this point Spader may actually BE insane and not caring much what happens to himself anyway.