And Wikipedia has a handy list of movies films about/set in Detroit.
I am not having sex with Spike! But I'm starting to think that you might be.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
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Sean K - Jul 03, 2007 2:21:20 pm PDT #9836 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
§ ita § - Jul 03, 2007 2:26:40 pm PDT #9837 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Citing Beverly Hills Cop, while technically correct...well, I don't think Motor City has the bigger claim on that one.
Of the ones on that list I'd add to a top 10...well, I haven't actually seen that many of them. Out of Sight, certainly. Evil Dead is not my thing, but it should probably be on there. No matter how many spots are left on the list, though, Bird On A Wire can't go on it.
Sean K - Jul 03, 2007 2:31:28 pm PDT #9838 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Evil Dead is not my thing, but it should probably be on there.
Not at all a "Detroit" movie, but certianly a Michigan movie (though I think it was shot in Tenessee or something, but it was meant to be a Michigan movie).
I agree with you on Beverly Hills Cop, but at least the Detroit sequences were actually shot in Detroit.
And yes, Bird on a Wire belongs nowhere near that list. Action Jackson can have its place.
megan walker - Jul 03, 2007 3:02:49 pm PDT #9839 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
A San Francisco Top 10 could have The Rock !
In honor of my new home, I'm working through a number of SF films via Netflix (alternating with Italian films in a desperate attempt to improve my Italian before my next book project).
Ailleann - Jul 03, 2007 4:29:18 pm PDT #9840 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
And yes, Bird on a Wire belongs nowhere near that list.
I have a soft spot in my heart for that movie, and I'm (mostly) not ashamed to admit it. It's a lazy Sunday double feature with "Overboard."
"Guess who's back and shot in the butt??"
erikaj - Jul 03, 2007 5:35:50 pm PDT #9841 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Gives Bon five for her totally predictable yet rational Zonie RA pique. And, yeah, it was a total *deal* when Bill & Ted were in town. Two words, John: John Waters...hello? Of course, I wouldn't have gotten that when I saw my first one either, but I was like fourteen and not in a Queer Culture place, basically trying to pretend I'd wake up and be normal one day and stuff. What's your excuse?
Laga - Jul 03, 2007 6:19:51 pm PDT #9842 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I dunno. I think I'm contributing to stereotyping if I label any film a "blank" movie because the writer/director is "blank". Is The 25th Hour a black movie? Why or why not?
edit: it's a bad example- 25th Hour's writer wasn't black but you see my point.
Polter-Cow - Jul 03, 2007 6:24:41 pm PDT #9843 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Are all of Bryan Singer's movies gay? I don't think so.
DavidS - Jul 03, 2007 6:29:54 pm PDT #9844 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
A San Francisco Top 10 could have The Rock !
I think we start with Vertigo.
Megan, Amoeba has a section of just SF movies on their front rack of the DVD section (over by the registers). Includes everything from Dark Passage to So, I Married an Axe Murderer.
Other SF movies: Foul Play, DOA, High Anxiety, 48 Hours, Inside Moves (more an East Bay movie, but great if you ever catch it on cable. It's got David Morse and Jon Savage and Diana Scarwid. Scrappy, it's your kind of movie. Even though it came out in 1980, it's really a seventies movie at heart.)
Scrappy - Jul 03, 2007 6:32:10 pm PDT #9845 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I know that film--it's excellent.