I mostly enjoyed John Wick 2, except that the filmmakers' concepts of NYC geography kept pulling me out of the film.
Oh good, not just me then. I mean, it's been a while, but I didn't think I had been away that long.
Well, we may not have parted on the best of terms. I realize certain words were exchanged. Also, certain... bullets. But that's air through the engine. It's past. We're business people.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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megan walker - Feb 13, 2017 7:16:33 am PST #596 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Jessica - Feb 13, 2017 3:34:11 pm PST #597 of 3455
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I mostly enjoyed John Wick 2, except that the filmmakers' concepts of NYC geography kept pulling me out of the film.
A co-worker of mine was talking about it today, and specifically mentioned a scene where the characters are clearly in the WTC PATH station, but the loudspeaker announces the next arriving C train.
Tom Scola - Feb 13, 2017 3:42:01 pm PST #598 of 3455
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
At one point, the announcement says "Now arriving, Wall Street", when you can see the Grove St. Station PATH signs.
Zenkitty - Feb 13, 2017 5:03:18 pm PST #599 of 3455
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I ignore all of this! It is a fantasy version of NYC where all the trains arrive exactly when they should and the streets don't smell of urine and garbage!
Scrappy - Feb 13, 2017 5:18:46 pm PST #600 of 3455
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
And there are trained assassins EVERYWHERE.
Zenkitty - Feb 13, 2017 5:31:03 pm PST #601 of 3455
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Well, that part's true, you know.
megan walker - Feb 13, 2017 8:34:02 pm PST #602 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It was the Rector, Canal, Wall trajectory that threw me.
DavidS - Feb 14, 2017 7:42:00 pm PST #603 of 3455
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
A much smaller audience of complaint, but I've watched Breaking Away in Bloomington, IN and people laugh out loud at some of the geography.
Ditto watching The Graduate with a Bay Area audience when Benjamin drives on the top of the Bay Bridge on his way to Berkeley. (Going east you're on the bottom span of the two tier bridge.)
It can definitely throw you out.
Calli - Feb 15, 2017 7:53:54 am PST #604 of 3455
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I saw an episode of Supernatural that was supposedly in Saginaw (my mom's home town). Saginaw is lower peninsula urban, and I think they conceived of it as upper peninsula, Marquette suburbs. The area shown was decidedly not eastern MI. If you go out of Saginaw into the countryside you get beet farms, not temperate rain forests. And Saginaw is 46% African American. The extras on that episode, nsm.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 15, 2017 8:14:16 am PST #605 of 3455
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Now I'm wondering if there were black extras in "Crossroad Blues."