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Ever notice bad location doubling in films?
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Ending of Catch me if you Can is taking place in a French town (Montrichard) but it was shot in Quebec City. I think the smoke screen is pretty good for anyone who hasn't visited Québec, but we recognized it immediately at the movie theater.
He's probably in the air traffic control toweri don't know if this applies but there is no way you get that view from LaGuardia airport
I don't think it's bad, but rather obvious if you're familiar. But Logan's Run has the protagonists escape to the surface world and they're meant to be in Washington D.C., but you see them in these cool water gardens (which totally match the aesthetic imo) that are actually in Fort Worth.
Isn't that just the Bain Bridge everybody is catching a ferry to visit?
A black Mirror episode supposed to be somewhere in Britain but was filmed in Iceland, I'm guessing it was maybe supposed to be set somewhere in Scotland since its somewhat similar to Iceland geographically(lots of rocks and uhh sometimes cold) but the city scenes are very much downtown Reykjavík.
It was really refreshing when Baby Driver just set the damn movie in Atlanta.
Like, why does every movie have to be set in New York or LA?
6 million people live in Atlanta and they shoot every movie there. It's fine if it's the setting once in awhile.
Like, why does every movie have to be set in New York or LA?
6 million people live in Atlanta and they shoot every movie there. It's fine if it's the setting once in awhile.
Oh man, that's great. Reminds me of Mr. and Mrs. Smith (the remake) where they go to Bogota, but it's like... a tropical paradise.
This scene from Avengers is supposedly in Stuttgart, Germany - but it was shot entirely in Cleveland, Ohio. I was going to college there while they were filming, so I made sure to keep an eye out for places I recognized when first seeing the movie in the theater. Sure enough, the entire scene is filmed in and around Tower City Center in downtown Cleveland.
It's not terribly noticeable to most folks I think unless you're familiar with Cleveland landmarks - but to me it's just hysterical that they tried to pass it off as Germany because I can't not see Cleveland every single time.
Winter Solider was also filmed in Cleveland, so it was funny seeing Nick Fury tear up what is supposed to be (I think?) NYC, but I'm pretty sure is Euclid Avenue - one of the main streets running through the city. He even passes a few of my old bus stops XD
It's not terribly noticeable to most folks I think unless you're familiar with Cleveland landmarks - but to me it's just hysterical that they tried to pass it off as Germany because I can't not see Cleveland every single time.
Winter Solider was also filmed in Cleveland, so it was funny seeing Nick Fury tear up what is supposed to be (I think?) NYC, but I'm pretty sure is Euclid Avenue - one of the main streets running through the city. He even passes a few of my old bus stops XD
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Literally any episode of Stargate SG-1 where they left Cheyenne Mountain and were obviously in the pacific northwest and not Colorado.
Same with the "The Morning Show," with Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston.
"This place looks very familiar... And the area doesn't look anything like in 'Broad City'..."
Oh you know, Chicago, I'm pretty sure it's a neighborhood in ManhattanI love Spider-Man 2 but...where in NYC is that railroad located where he fights doc oc on?
Lmao my mind couldn't process that even when I was younger 😂 I'm so familiar w NY that I thought the fight took place in a different city
Still a great fight scene
Ever watched a movie that's supposed to be set in one location but is clearly another? I remember seeing Bloodshot a few weeks ago and a scene in "London" was very clearly filmed in South Africa.
Also I just watched Ip Man 4 and most of the "California" scenes were shot in Preston, England, which I noticed immediately and couldn't stop laughing at:
It was so distracting, especially as most of the cast are clearly English actors pretending to be American, and they just slapped a yellow filter on the screen to try and make it seem a bit more like Cali.
Another example I remember from the TV side is Marvel's Iron Fist, where they go to China I believe, but it was clearly just filmed in the US.
They wanted to make Ip Man 4 look old timey like the 1960s, there's no places that look like that in the US nowadays without making a large set.
Are you implying that you can't shoot a period piece in California?
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But I mean, Toronto landmarks, Ontario plates, and Canadian currency being used throughout the series was clear enough. No American would ever think it was set in the US, and Canadians wouldn't need to be explicitly told it's Toronto when obvious stuff like plates and money is being used so openly.
Spider-Man Homecoming and its use of Atlanta for NYC really stood out for me. For the third movie I really really hope they shoot in NYC this time.
Watching the Ghost Rider film that came out in the mid-00s is fucking amazing as a Melbournian. Especially given all the very Melbourne landmarks that wind up as deliberate setpieces.
The fact that you have an L-Class locomotive standing in for a Diesel at Newport Workshops just adds to the punch, if you're a gunzel.
The fact that you have an L-Class locomotive standing in for a Diesel at Newport Workshops just adds to the punch, if you're a gunzel.
I don't know about movies but I laugh every damn time Hawaii 5-0 had to get Hawaii to double Afghanistan, Vietnam and other "hostile" Southeast Asian countries
"South Korea" in a pretty iconic Hawaiian location
"South Korea" in a pretty iconic Hawaiian location
I guess that's one perk of people barely filming here. I would probably recognize something but for foreign cities like most of the thread I wouldn't even think twice about it.
There was this BBC drama where the reverse of bad location occurred. The drama, Cold Feet, had an episode where the main character was in Singapore. So they actually came here to film on location scenes but their post production house thought the location was too English and thought is looked like"English Town" of Singapore, because the street names were in English and there were Caucasians walking in the background. So they digitally altered the scenes to make it look "more authentic". They thought it was filmed in Manchester despite the background featuring Singapore places like the Marina Bay Sands.
Which was super stupid and racist because a large number of streets in Singapore are named after the British who colonised us.
Cold Feet Singapore scenes had to be digitally altered because they 'didn't look enough like Singapore' | Radio Times
Even though the ITV drama filmed abroad, they apparently picked a part of the island city-state that look just like England...
www.radiotimes.com
Singapore Looks So English, CGI Was Used To Change Street Signs And Remove Tourists For British TV Show
ITV production Cold Feet flew all the way to film in Singapore, but had to spend money using CGI to make scenes look "more like Singapore".
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I guess it's a good thing I don't really notice these things. Some of the things I'm reading in this thread are legit new to me.
I watched like every episode and never once thought it would be in Long Beach. But I guess I haven't been there much to really notice the locations. At least CSI:NY was filmed in New York... right?
It does because TFL has a specific train set for Underground scenes that actually is a vestige of a pre-extension Jubilee Line. It's closer to Charing Cross.
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The one that gets me is Alias. Where every locale the Bristows visit in the world can be found conveniently in SoCal. They don't even bother with making sure the vehicles are legit. Example; the Ford Focus SVT was used in a couple of chases set in Germany. But it's a NA-only model. Europe had the ST's and RS's.
Also, in a neat reverse way, the opening card for Scott Pilgrim kinda set the tone for the rest of the film. And I loved it.)
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It's left ambiguous in the actual show intentionally, but given it's a Canadian show starring a Canadian playing everyone it's probably taking place in Canada.
The Netherlands in Spiderman Far from Home. It was so bad. The whole audience was laughing in disbelief. Some farmer village where everyone was wearing clogs.
Ending of Catch me if you Can is taking place in a French town (Montrichard) but it was shot in Quebec City. I think the smoke screen is pretty good for anyone who hasn't visited Québec, but we recognized it immediately at the movie theater.
Damn, I've been to Quebec City multiple times and Catch Me if you Can is one of my favorite movies and I honestly never realized this.
Short Circuit 2 was filmed in Toronto and had a US citizenship ceremony at Queen's Park which is the Ontario Legislature lol
Hulk vs Abomination in "Harlem" but it's Yonge St in Toronto.........and everything in this shot but Zanzibar is pretty different now
Batman chasing Joker and Harley down Toronto's Yonge St in Suicide Squad
Raccoon City gets blown up in Resident Evil Apocalypse but it's just Toronto :(
Spider-Man: Far From Home's "Netherlands" location is some borderline discrimination. It's really odd to me how they specifically chose to feature the name of an existing small Dutch town (Broek op Langdijk), but instead of actually filming there, they just created "Stereotypical medieval Dutch-style town square" in a studio.
And then Parket ends up in a huge tulip field, because of course he does. Note: huge tulip fields like that don't exist in the Netherlands.
And then Parket ends up in a huge tulip field, because of course he does. Note: huge tulip fields like that don't exist in the Netherlands.
The most beautiful thing about that one is how it moves in between South Africa and Rotterdam from shot to shot. It was really bizarre for me as a kid to see they were suddenly in the mall area that I visited weekly in one shot and then they were in South Africa again.
I'm one of those Americans! I started the first episode again and I see what caused my confusion, and it seems like it's intentional. The first episode starts with Sarah arriving at a station at dusk in a very clean train car (so nice that a little girl is shocked to hear the word "shit"; clearly not an American train); there's an over-the-air announcement of the arrival of a train bound for New York City; one moment Sarah is in a bright modern train station, then cut to her in a much grimier, more dimly-lit location (with a completely different OTA announcement in the background), on the phone saying, "I'm back in town." That's the first minute of the show. The next person she meets says they haven't seen each other in a long time. It's fifteen more minutes before cars with Ontario license plates get shown. Maybe it's some half-assed localization, but the beginning is written to make viewers assume it takes place in NYC (that's of the episode I watched on US Amazon Prime; it might be different in the original/other versions).
Not a film, but so many BBC shows are filmed in Cardiff and it shows.
The worst offender was early Dr Who (revival) where they were just running around Queens Street and barely hid it.
The worst offender was early Dr Who (revival) where they were just running around Queens Street and barely hid it.
Mission Impossible 2 infamous Seville location. Not exactly what this thread is about or because you can recognise it as some other place, but because they set up this bizarre Semana Santa in Seville where people are BURNING their images in the processions (imagine that lol, people would go crazy if anything happened to them), mixing it up with Valencia's Fallas (in which they do burn wooden satirical statues made specifically for that purpose). There are some tradicional costumes from the Fallas around and I think I even spot some people in Sanfermines clothing. Also the song they are singing has nothing to do with either celebration and makes it even more hilarious. The whole thing is fantastic.
And on that note, Line of Duty filming in Belfast. I don't recall the Midlands being that hilly.Not a film, but so many BBC shows are filmed in Cardiff and it shows.
The worst offender was early Dr Who (revival) where they were just running around Queens Street and barely hid it.
The intro of World War Z in "Philadelphia" is pretty clearly shot in and around George Square in Glasgow with some street fixtures replaced and buildings added in the background.
Pretty jarring to any scots (or anyone that's been in Glasgow for any length of time) as they don't do much to hide it!
The City Chambers is on the left of this shot and there's the cenotaph (a big war memorial) right behind where the camera is.
Pretty jarring to any scots (or anyone that's been in Glasgow for any length of time) as they don't do much to hide it!
The City Chambers is on the left of this shot and there's the cenotaph (a big war memorial) right behind where the camera is.
I'm from Manchester, UK, and there's a particular part of the city that's been used to stand in for old NYC in a few different films. Parts of Captain America: The First Avenger were filmed there, and it's bizarre to watch.
Also, wherever they filmed The Boys looked nothing like NYC. I'm not sure they even tried to get continuity there.
Also, wherever they filmed The Boys looked nothing like NYC. I'm not sure they even tried to get continuity there.
007 Quantum of Solace did this. Part of the film supposedly takes place in La Paz, Bolivia (which has the largest metro area in Bolivia and it is a fairly modern city with skyscrapers and the rest) but was instead filmed in some little Chilean village that looked nothing like La Paz or Bolivia for that matter.
showing the one building that cologne is known most for in a shot pretending to be another city is kinda funny.
this is from the a-team
€: dang it, was already beaten to it!
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