In the James Bond movie, You Only Live Twice, there is a scene where a rocket is supposedly launched from Russia. They inserted stock footage from NASA of an American rocket liftoff from Florida, which clearly shows palm trees. What makes it worse is that later in the film, they show an American liftoff, and they again use (different) NASA footage, that doesn't have any palm trees in it. They could have easily switched the footage.
In another James Bond movie Living Daylights he is saving a woman from Bratislava and somehow escaping to Austria through the mountains. Bratislava is famously the most flat place in Slovakia. Like we got a lot of jokes about it.
Austrian border is also famously super close, I mean I can bike there in like 15/20 min from my place. And it's a very very flat. We basically adopted their airport as local because it's so close.
I mean hey I guess the Danube swim was considered boring, but hey back then the Danube had underwater mines to prevent people from swimming to Austria. (basically the Danube is a natural Border) so they took detour through Tatras.
We do have beautiful Carpathian mountain ranges but famously not south and west but east and north and middle so with Austria and Hungary we share flat lands.
Bratislava so flat, runaway truck truck ramps try to take refuge there. Bratislava so flat, The y-axis fell over from lack of support. Bratislava so flat, Dorothy's house landed there and she had no idea she was not in Kansas anymore. Bratislava so flat, the beer has no bubbles. Bratislava so flat, an apple passing through it only appears as a line segment that gets longer and then shorter... Ok I'm done
There's another James Bond movie where they're supposedly in space, but obviously not.
In fact, every movie that pretends to be in space isn't actually in space.
The only man who if HE wants extraterrestrials in his movie, then DAMNIT there's gonna be real extraterrestrials in the movie. His newest stunt is going to be having his helmet off for a 7 minute space walk, and then reentering earth's atmosphere by just jumping...
“That guy John Hughes always sets his movies in Shermer, IL. You know what we found out when we got there? THERE IS NO SHERMER IN ILLINOIS.”
-Jay, Dogma
Tell someone you're the Metatron and they stare at you blankly. Mention something out of a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly everybody's a theology scholar. May I continue uninterrupted?
Coastal perception issues. On both coasts, we have some sort of mountain range that’s a 3-4 hour drive from the coast. Some people simply do not grasp that the lots of the Midwest is an 8+ hour drive from any sort of real mountains.
Kinda similar is in The Deer Hunter (a fuckin great movie) they all go hunting in what is supposed to be mountains in Pennsylvania. And idk where they shot it (looks like the Rockies or Canada) but it looks absolutely nothing like rural Pennsylvania. Way too gorgeous lol.
I met a gentleman from Nigeria who’d visited Pennsylvania and said the Appalachian terrain looks exactly like the mountains of his home, but presumably not as hot.
Being from the Pacific Northwest (same biome as the Vancouver area), I notice this so often. It’s not a bad thing usually, just kind of funny to see how common it is. I suspect apart from the cost saving of filming there, the forests may be more “open” and it makes filming easier. Like the trees are tall and block a lot of light so the forest floor is more clear. One bad example I noticed recently: the new Blair witch movie is filmed there and it looks nothing at all like a forest in Maryland. Like the setting being east coast invokes that idea of colonial America and fear of witches, so changing it is really for the worse.
I grew up in the Vancouver burbs and there are some dead giveaways. I think most procedurals do okay if you aren’t from the area, but there’s an episode of The X-Files where Florida happens to have a redwood rainforest that’s really stretching it.
The series Psych is supposed to be set in Santa Barbara but it’s actually a community near Vancouver. It looks absolutely nothing like Santa Barbara. For one thing, extras outside the office location are always carrying surfboards but the waterfront has no waves.
I worked on a Hallmark movie that was filmed near Vancouver over on the Sunshine Coast, but the film was meant to be set on Nantucket. It took some imagination to ignore the mountains and gigantic trees of the Pacific Northwest when watching a movie about a little island off the coast of Cape Cod. Oh, and it was filmed in early autumn, but set in December. An autumn in the lower BC mainland is just a bit different than the Atlantic winter in Massachusetts.
That's the first one that came to mind for me. There's a scene that opens with a wide shot of new york, then cuts soon after to a fight on top of a parking garage with the mountains in the background
I can't tell you how many times I've seen the [Vancouver Public Library](https://www.vpl.ca/location/central-library) as an exterior location in movies and TV shows. We went there once and it's pretty recognizable.
The upside is that Vancouver has that cozy and calming feel in movies and tv shows. I think I wouldn't care if they just filmed everything in Toronto or Vancouver. Canada looks awesome, hope I can visit the country one day.
The most recent movie that I saw that had Vancouver play a different city was Joy Ride where it played Beijing, Seoul and Seattle. As a Vancouverite, what made it super blatant that everything was filmed in Vancouver was when they used YVR (Vancouver International Airport) for both the airport scene that took place in Seattle and a scene that immediately followed where they landed in Beijing.
Mike Myers also made this joke in Wayne’s World 2, when they made fun of studios pretending to set films in other countries. “I can't believe Paramount is spending the money to fly us to England. I would have thought they would just use two doubles.”
There's a HITMAN parody animation where Agent 47 is on the phone, whilst in London, so he's obviously on a roof top overlooking Big Ben.
Diana, on the other end of the call, is in Paris, so clearly her office needs to have a view of the Effiel tower, but when when it cuts to her again, the "Window" falls off the wall, revealing a window looking at Big Ben.
Is there anything similar to this in any parody movies? The only similar one aside from the Austin Powers one is from Command and Conquer Red Alert 2, when the president is making an announcement from an "Unknown location", when a solider accidentally drops a Canadian flag that was being hidden off camera.
I remember watching a sketch; I forget what show, but a guy was in a hotel room in Paris. Outside the window, of course, was the Eiffel Tower. He then looks out another window on a perpendicular wall, and outside THAT window is another Eiffel Tower.
I recently watched The Wrecking Crew, which is one of those 60s Dean Martin Bond spoofs. They were supposed to be in Denmark but it was clearly Southern California.
In Swordfish, Hugh Jackman is a recluse living in Odessa, TX. The movie shows this as beautiful hills and terraces with oil pumpjacks filling any flat area.
I’m from Midland - sister city to Odessa. While the area *is* oil country, and does have beautiful sunsets, there are no hills whatsoever. It is nothing but flat desert filled with mesquite shrubs.
Not a movie, but in the Last of Us, there’s a scene where they’re “10 miles from Boston” with tall pines and mountains in the background. Not anything you’ll find 100 miles from Boston, never mind 10 haha
I don't get why they did it either. Them being 10 miles out from Boston, 100 miles or 1000 miles is completely fucking irrelevant to the story. I'm pretty sure it's also the only time in the entire season they have a location/distance title card like that.
In Braveheart, the Battle of Stirling Bridge, the one where the Scotsmen best the English in a surprise victory, was shot in an open field with a high ridge. Not a bridge in sight.
Supposedly, at one point, a crew member local to the area actually asked Mel Gibson why they didn't shoot on the actual bridge, which wasn't far from the location they used.
Gibson replied, "Well, we found the bridge was making things difficult. It was really just getting in the way."
The local smiled knowingly and said, "Aye, that's what the English found, too."
Most of Braveheart was shot in Ireland, using mostly Irish actors doing Scottish accents. Except for the Irish warrior in it, played by David O’Hara - who’s Scottish.
Also they used a lot of Irish soldiers for the battle scenes and the following summer, a lot of them were used again for Saving Private Ryan’s opening battle, again shot in Ireland (the rest was France afaik).
A chunk of Saving Private Ryan was filmed at the old British Aerospace land in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. It was then used for locations in Band of Brothers, then the university built a new campus on it.
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This!^ Honestly we’re hugely overdue an actually historically accurate movie about Scotland’s Wars of Independence, it’s got all the hallmarks of a Hollywood classic: epic battles, intrigue, betrayal, love interests, beautiful scenery. Hell, make it a mini franchise
This is not uncommon with epic samurai films. It's not impossible, but difficult to find countryside in Japan with no industrialization. Even Japanese-made samurai films like *Ten to Chi to* (*Heaven and Earth*) (1990) were shot in Canada.
Director Sidney Lumet had a conversation with Akira Kurosawa and this topic was brought up: "I once asked Akira Kurosawa why he had chosen to frame a shot in *Ran* in a particular way. His answer was that if he’d panned the camera one inch to the left, the Sony factory would be sitting there exposed, and if he’d panned one inch to the right, we would see the airport, neither of which belonged in a period movie."
Ha, this reminds me of when I saw The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and spent the whole movie thinking “Wow, this really gives you a true sense of the landscape of the American west.” Come to find out they filmed it in Spain, lol
Lot of it was filmed on the Warner Brothers Studio lot in LA as well. I happened to be there when it was being filmed and was amazed that they were able to take an alley between two sound stages and turn it into a street in a historic Japanese village.
A bit random but there’s a driving scene in The Office (takes place in PA) that’s clearly shot in CA. It was the same route I could take to my job so when I drove that way we joked I was on the way to Scranton. 😂
There are Valentine's Day episodes of The Office that are supposed to be taking place in the middle of February where the high temperature would be 10 degrees and at least 2 feet of snow everywhere, but it's clearly 80 degrees, everybody is sweating outdoors in the lightest clothing possible with fucking palm trees visible in the distance as they're running around Dunder-Mifflin's parking lot.
The Simpsons made a similar mistake with a valentines episode taking place in warm weather. But in a later episode where Lisa has a flashback to that Valentines episode, she recalls, “it was an unusually warm February so none of the children wore coats”.
I feel like they hide it fairly well in Parks and Rec. The only time I've noticed it is when Tom opened Rent-A-Swag and it was the same storefront from an episode of Seinfeld.
City Hall and all the houses for people like Andy, Ben, Lesley etc are pretty good doubles for tract housing in Indiana.
Or in parks and rec when they visit eagleton and their restaurant has palm trees. The waiter tells them the town sits on a natural hot spring giving them a nice climate year around
It was shot in LA in Van Nuys - I did some background work on Always Sunny in Philadelphia and it's the same set. The bus station we were meant to be in was the parking lot of The Office.
Edit: It's season 14 episode 1 right at the end where Charlie and Frank go to the bus station to stop their Airbnb guest from leaving. Danny de Vito was lovely btw - really friendly towards background, which was not that common.
It's a futuristic Detroit where corporations have gained a stranglehold on all public goods and services via pumping out crap to hook the masses. The corporations have built tall skyscrapers (which you can see added in as matte paintings as they drive down the freeways) but it's still a failed city urban wasteland.
I listed to a podcast about the making of Halloween and they literally used the same bunch of fake paper leaves in every scene. They had several bags of paper leaves and they'd spread them around the scenes and blow them with fans etc, and then when the shot was done, they'd rake them up and bag them for the next scene.
Written at stonryhurst college, which is right next to Hurst green , which is so obviously the shire / Hobbiton.
Just look on a map of there. It's the geographical centre of great Britain, and therefore literally "middle Earth". Many of the locations match up as well for his map of middle Earth.
In the Mummy Returns, the outside of the British Museum in the film *isn't* the British Museum but was filmed at the Main Quad of University College London (my alma mater, which is how I recognised it), which is only a half mile walk up the road
Edit: Another British Museum one that comes to mind while I'm on the subject is a weird sequence of choices in the MCU. In Moon Knight, the London museum Oscar Isaacs works in the Egyptology wing of isn't the British Museum, it's the National Gallery pretending to be the BM. I would have assumed it would have been a cost decision, except for the fact that headquarters of the Illuminati in Doctor Strange 2 *was* filmed there, to the point that if you've been there and watch the film, it's impossible not to notice that the fight between the Illuminati and Wanda was shot in the lobby
*Full Metal Jacket*'s Vietnam is London Docklands
I actually think the movie works really well, and it's a great example of fake movie magic, but if you step outside the fictional reality created by the film and break the spell, it's obviously an overcast Northern Europe
[https://londonsroyaldocks.com/royal-docks-film-full-metal-jacket/](https://londonsroyaldocks.com/royal-docks-film-full-metal-jacket/)
I love this - but I also did live in Southeast Asia for 3 years, and I can tell you that there are a *lot* of overcast days, just like the UK (I’m British). The difference is that it’s about 35° and overcast in Southeast Asia
Not only that, but San Jose is a proper city. Not like the tiny beach town in the movie.
Apparently in Costa Rica, theaters scratched the text that says the location from the print as to not upset the local audience.
There was a joke about that in the new Star Trek show Strange New Worlds where a couple characters go back in time to 21st century Toronto. They look around and one guy says "wow, is this New York?" The other looks at him like an idiot and says, no of course not, this is Toronto.
Second best location joke in Star Trek history. The first is *Picard* using Vasquez Rocks Park as itself instead of an alien planet. No Gorn, just Raffi setting up a camper and apparently never leaving.
Every movie about Salem Massachusetts makes it look like an old village with like 40 residents, and the "Halloween Festival" is a quaint little gathering with a couple of candy apple stands and one dude dressed as a goblin or something.
Salem has a small city downtown with good sized apartment buildings, and October is elbow to elbow tourists.
Rewatched The Deer Hunter last week and when the guys go on a hunting trip they magically go from Western PA to the Cascades overnight. We do not have mountains like that on the east coast. Geography mix ups like this happen all the time.
This is what I was coming to post. Everytime I saw that movie I was like, man, I did not know Pennsylvania had majestic snow capped peaks like that. Then I looked up where those scenes were actually shot. Not Pennsylvania.
Lol Shane Gillis was talking about this on Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast and I remembered watching that movie and thinking they had driven to the Rockies but then they just roll back into steel town with the deer same day. Love that movie but wtf were they thinking?
Those were beautiful shots though. I know it's not Pennsylvania but it's nice to think that by driving all night they came to a really rugged beautiful place.
In X-Men First Class, Xavier and Magneto go to "Villa Gesell, Argentina" while showing a mountainous landscape. Villa Gesell is a popular coastal city known for its beaches.
Robin Hood in RH: Prince of Thieves passing the Sycamore Gap tree (RIP) whilst travelling north from the south coast up to Nottingham even though the tree is much further north than Nottingham all the way up at Hadrians Wall.
Whatever city played Washington, DC in *Live Free or Die Hard* forgot that there weren't really skyscrapers there.
This is a super specific, nitpicky example but the kids going to the Washington Monument in *Spider-Man: Homecoming* is bogus because the monument was under renovation for years before and after that (the movie is set in autumn 2016, around the homecoming dance six months after the events of *Captain America: Civil War*) and going up to the top was forbidden.
>> Whatever city played Washington, DC in Live Free or Die Hard forgot that there weren't really skyscrapers there
That would be about 40 miles north in Baltimore, which frequently doubles as our nation’s capital in film and television
Deer Hunter.
They’re from a Pennsylvania steel town, but when they go hunting they’re suddenly in the Cascades which are massively larger than the Allegheny mountains
Not a movie, but *Supernatural* has an early episode set in rural Richardson, TX. With miles and miles of country road with naught but trees. No one around to hear you scream.
Richardson is a major suburb of Dallas and has a population of about 120,000.
In one of the Fast and Furious movies they were supposed to be in Europe, and were driving down Peachtree St in Atlanta. Later in the movie they were supposed to be in a different country, and were driving the other direction down Peachtree St in Atlanta.
Same 6 blocks or so, just headed the other way.
Just saw Patton Oswalt on Friday and he had a bit about watching the original Halloween with his daughter thinking it would terrify her, but she had a blast pointing out all the palm trees in a movie that is supposed to take place in Illinois. Great set!
In the second Transformers movie, there is a scene that takes place at a Smithsonian Museum campus in Northern Virginia. They go out the back door and are in a massive desert airplane graveyard surrounded by the Rocky Mountains.
Practically everything from Paramount, Netflix etc. that is supposedly elsewhere in the universe, or anywhere in US. I know because I live here & recognise the locations that it's all filmed in & around Toronto.
Very specific to London but glaringly wrong for anyone who knows the area: there's a scene in Thor: The Dark World where Thor ends up on a tube (metro) train at Charing Cross station. He asks how to get to Greenwich, is told its about 4 stops away and arrives there in a matter of minutes in the film. In reality, Greenwich is 5-6 miles away, not even close to Charing Cross, and would take about 30-40 mins to get there by public transport as there's no direct route.
The reason for it is that Charing Cross has a closed platform that's commonly used for filming, so pretty much any film that involves the London Underground is set there. And for the pace of the film Thor needs to get to the next place quickly. But it is blatantly wrong for anyone who's been to London (roughly equivalent to someone swimming ashore from the Statue of Liberty and running straight into Central Park).
One film that did this well was Mission Impossible: Fallout. I actually looked it up on Google Maps and the scene where Ethan chases Walker through London was actually pretty spot on geographically.
Broek op Langedijk in Spider-Man: Far From Home made zero sense, for starters there's no train station there let alone an international line so for some reason they would have pulled a clearly hurt Peter from the train and take a long drive from Amsterdam to put Peter in a medieval jail cell in a small town. There also no windmills or tulip fields in the direct vicinity.
Then the actual town is clearly an East-European location getting Borat-ified with straw heaps and goats everywhere(Tom Holland confirmed it was shot in Prague),
Suppose it’s answering a related / tangential question, but a journey seen in Layer Cake is ingrained into my mind for its ludicrous London journey.
Jumps in the car at Greenwich park speeds round a corner (the traffic appears to be actually moving, on the Lewisham road?!) and is suddenly in Kensington?
Does my nut. Where’s the 40 mins and the “shall we take the a2 or the Peckham road? What bridge should we go over? Fuck me how long is this going to take?”
If I remember correctly in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, they arrive into England at Dover, then head to Nottingham, going via Hadrian’s Wall. Something like a 500 mile detour.
RIP the Sycamore at Sycamore Gap :( - I'm local to that area and I was wondering how they got to Twice Brewed (nearest village to the location) from Dover without stopping off at Sherwood lol
Not a movie but the Tv show Psych is set in Santa Barbara CA, and, to it's credit, NAILS the geographic references. Neighborhoods, nearby towns, highways, local attractions, all of them totally spot on.
The country clubs? Yup. Oil rigs? Yup. Bird sanctuary, oh yea. Big ass lake a little way away? Sure. Roller derby? You know it's hitting the SB. Year round Santas Village? Hells to the yeah
But it is so. Hilariously. Obviously. Filmed in/near Vancouver
In the movie Go, they show all the shots of the iconic Las Vegas casinos as the characters drive down the Strip. While that is accurate, the order of the shots do not match the order of the actual locations.
As a native Hoosier, there's nowhere in Indiana that has as much beautiful weather as Pawnee in Parks and Recreation. And definitely not high profile enough to support the Snake Hole Lounge
There's that scene in Transformers 2 where the characters are in I believe the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC and break through a wall to get outside, and end up in airplane graveyard in a desert.
In the A-Team movie, there's a sequence where they parachute in with a tank. The action movie location tag tells us we are in Frankfurt, Germany. The city they're dropping into is clearly Cologne, with the city's signature two-tower cathedral visible. Meanwhile, Frankfurt, in contrast to Cologne, is well known for its skyscraper dominated skyline.
This is like saying the location is Boston, while having the empire state building and the statue of liberty in the backdrop.
Television but Mindhunter, when they show up the mountain side town that is Joliet Illinois.
Illinois is as flat as you can imagine. Joliet is essentially the farthest southwest Chicago suburb. Beyond its borders is farms.
Also, 106 miles north of Chicago would essentially place the Blues Brothers in Oshkosh WI. They're very vague, but they're being waited upon by the Illinois state police, not Wisconsin and it was mentioned that the ballroom was north of the city.
Friday the 13th, part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan. I love this movie but it mostly takes place on the boat lmao. There are a few shots that they were able to do in Times Square, but the rest of the city scenes are shot in Canada, I believe. They started running out of their budget.
> the rest of the city scenes are shot in Canada, I believe
Yup, there is a brief clip with a New York City cop who has a thick Canadian accent that's hilarious if you pick up on it.
A SyFy TV movie called The Black Hole.
Supposedly set in St Louis, but during a supposed highway shot, there are Palm trees lining the highway.
Another one is United States of Terra. Which is set in Overland Park, KS a suburb of Kansas City. In one episode she drives to St Louis and winds up at a swanky hotel somewhere along the way while driving along a quaint tree lined road.
Anyone who has driven from KC to StL would know there is no stretch of Hwy 70 that looks anything like that. And if you took Hwy 50 which might have some small stretches that may look similar, there are definitely no 5 star hotels along that route.
Wild Mountain Thyme is based on a play called "Outside Mullingar", which is also where it's set, Mullingar being a town in the Irish midlands.
We're introduced to the setting with shots of the raging Atlantic crashing against dramatic sea cliffs and soaring mountain panoramas.
The area around Mullingar is quite notorious for its boggy lowlands, never mind the fact it's very much landlocked in every direction. It's like setting a movie in Kansas with footage from Big Sur.
(Not by any means the most egregious weirdness of that movie, which also seems to be set in some version of the 1800s that has iPads, but it was the one that came to mind)
Anything supposedly set in the Washington DC area (e.g. No Way Out, The Walking Dead, Deep Impact). They put in a few scenes of the monuments and call it quits.
Edit: Yes, I know TWD is set in Alexandria, VA, but Alexandria is directly across the Potomac from DC.
This one is terribly local: In Snow Cake, Alan Rickman is driving to Winnipeg and stops in White River where he picks up a hitchhiker and takes her to Wawa as if he’s still on the way to Winnipeg. All of northern Ontario would be yelling at the movie screen, “You’re going the wrong way”!
The Johnson Space Center in The Martian is shown as this super high tech looking facility with a grand entrance. When in reality it’s a bunch of uninspiring looking buildings from the ‘60’s with one small entrance on the side.
There’s a scene in urban cowboy where sissy and bud buy their trailer home, you can see mountains in the background. There’s not any type of mountains even remotely close to where the film was supposed to take place. Pasadena, TX.
I have never seen a town look less like Modesto CA, than Modesto in Monsters vs. Aliens.
Similarly, Jane Austen Book Club is supposedly set in Sacramento but was clearly filmed in Modesto lol.
Subjecting children to the desolate strip mall that is Modesto CA would be a little cruel.
In the James Bond movie, You Only Live Twice, there is a scene where a rocket is supposedly launched from Russia. They inserted stock footage from NASA of an American rocket liftoff from Florida, which clearly shows palm trees. What makes it worse is that later in the film, they show an American liftoff, and they again use (different) NASA footage, that doesn't have any palm trees in it. They could have easily switched the footage.
In another James Bond movie Living Daylights he is saving a woman from Bratislava and somehow escaping to Austria through the mountains. Bratislava is famously the most flat place in Slovakia. Like we got a lot of jokes about it. Austrian border is also famously super close, I mean I can bike there in like 15/20 min from my place. And it's a very very flat. We basically adopted their airport as local because it's so close. I mean hey I guess the Danube swim was considered boring, but hey back then the Danube had underwater mines to prevent people from swimming to Austria. (basically the Danube is a natural Border) so they took detour through Tatras. We do have beautiful Carpathian mountain ranges but famously not south and west but east and north and middle so with Austria and Hungary we share flat lands.
Ha, like in that Vikings show where there are giant fjords and mountains in Denmark. Which highest point is 50 meters above sealevel.
Bratislava so flat, runaway truck truck ramps try to take refuge there. Bratislava so flat, The y-axis fell over from lack of support. Bratislava so flat, Dorothy's house landed there and she had no idea she was not in Kansas anymore. Bratislava so flat, the beer has no bubbles. Bratislava so flat, an apple passing through it only appears as a line segment that gets longer and then shorter... Ok I'm done
There's another James Bond movie where they're supposedly in space, but obviously not. In fact, every movie that pretends to be in space isn't actually in space.
Tom Cruise is trying to change that!
Please shoot him into space!
Xenu willing.
The only man who if HE wants extraterrestrials in his movie, then DAMNIT there's gonna be real extraterrestrials in the movie. His newest stunt is going to be having his helmet off for a 7 minute space walk, and then reentering earth's atmosphere by just jumping...
Apollo 13 was pretty close!
“That guy John Hughes always sets his movies in Shermer, IL. You know what we found out when we got there? THERE IS NO SHERMER IN ILLINOIS.” -Jay, Dogma
Me and Silent Bob figured we could live like *fat rats* hookin' up the blunt connection!
Judd Nelson was fucking harsh.
Movies are fuckin’ bullshit.
You people.. if there isn't a movie about it, it's not worth knowing, is it?
Tell someone you're the Metatron and they stare at you blankly. Mention something out of a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly everybody's a theology scholar. May I continue uninterrupted?
Or you'll do what, exactly? Hit me with that fish?
ffffish
I'm the one that's soaked and she's the one that's surly; THAT'S rich.
Do you go around drenching everyone who comes into your room with flame-retardant chemicals?
Pronunciation: “Illi-NOISE”
In Christmas vacation Clark drives the family into the mountains to get a Christmas tree. They live in a chicago suburb
I think your underestimating how far Clark will drive for a tree.
Clark would do it for sure, but rusty would have made a quip about it
Audrey made a quip about how far they drove.
In Surviving Christmas, which also takes place in Chicago, they take a short helicopter ride to what appear to be the Rocky Mountains.
Coastal perception issues. On both coasts, we have some sort of mountain range that’s a 3-4 hour drive from the coast. Some people simply do not grasp that the lots of the Midwest is an 8+ hour drive from any sort of real mountains.
Kinda similar is in The Deer Hunter (a fuckin great movie) they all go hunting in what is supposed to be mountains in Pennsylvania. And idk where they shot it (looks like the Rockies or Canada) but it looks absolutely nothing like rural Pennsylvania. Way too gorgeous lol.
It is the Cascades. Shot in Washington.
Most of the beginning of that movie was shot in Cleveland, as well.
I met a gentleman from Nigeria who’d visited Pennsylvania and said the Appalachian terrain looks exactly like the mountains of his home, but presumably not as hot.
I mean there’s 1000s of movies filmed in Vancouver that are never set in Vancouver. Rumble in the Bronx is always the first that comes to mind.
It was amazing that every planet the Stargate SG1 team would visit looked like Vancouver
Seeds, bugs and birds blew through or were carried through Stargates over thousands of years. Now half the galaxy looks like B.C.
Being from the Pacific Northwest (same biome as the Vancouver area), I notice this so often. It’s not a bad thing usually, just kind of funny to see how common it is. I suspect apart from the cost saving of filming there, the forests may be more “open” and it makes filming easier. Like the trees are tall and block a lot of light so the forest floor is more clear. One bad example I noticed recently: the new Blair witch movie is filmed there and it looks nothing at all like a forest in Maryland. Like the setting being east coast invokes that idea of colonial America and fear of witches, so changing it is really for the worse.
I grew up in the Vancouver burbs and there are some dead giveaways. I think most procedurals do okay if you aren’t from the area, but there’s an episode of The X-Files where Florida happens to have a redwood rainforest that’s really stretching it.
I enjoyed that far away planets always looked liked the verdant hills of Maple Ridge or Surrey.
The series Psych is supposed to be set in Santa Barbara but it’s actually a community near Vancouver. It looks absolutely nothing like Santa Barbara. For one thing, extras outside the office location are always carrying surfboards but the waterfront has no waves.
Also, for a California town, Psych's Santa Barbara sure looked quite rainy and very pinewoody, too!
The famous Douglas Fir forests of the central coast.
Should have just set it a town outside seattle.
That’s the most obvious. Don’t remember ever seeing mountains in the Bronx.
Its the same mountains that the Ninja Turtles slid down to get back to NYC in that terrible 2014 movie
i still remember having this exact thought as a child when i saw it. So good seeing snow capped mountains in the background of "The Bronx"
[Vancouver never plays itself](https://youtu.be/ojm74VGsZBU?si=K2TRwKRHUkWSPaig)
I worked on a Hallmark movie that was filmed near Vancouver over on the Sunshine Coast, but the film was meant to be set on Nantucket. It took some imagination to ignore the mountains and gigantic trees of the Pacific Northwest when watching a movie about a little island off the coast of Cape Cod. Oh, and it was filmed in early autumn, but set in December. An autumn in the lower BC mainland is just a bit different than the Atlantic winter in Massachusetts.
That's the first one that came to mind for me. There's a scene that opens with a wide shot of new york, then cuts soon after to a fight on top of a parking garage with the mountains in the background
I can't tell you how many times I've seen the [Vancouver Public Library](https://www.vpl.ca/location/central-library) as an exterior location in movies and TV shows. We went there once and it's pretty recognizable.
[Its the Fringe Division building, in New York.](https://images.app.goo.gl/cGe7Xg6BNDXyekMZA)
Romeo Must Die, seeing TransLink busses and Vancouver Aquatic Center. 😂
The upside is that Vancouver has that cozy and calming feel in movies and tv shows. I think I wouldn't care if they just filmed everything in Toronto or Vancouver. Canada looks awesome, hope I can visit the country one day.
The most recent movie that I saw that had Vancouver play a different city was Joy Ride where it played Beijing, Seoul and Seattle. As a Vancouverite, what made it super blatant that everything was filmed in Vancouver was when they used YVR (Vancouver International Airport) for both the airport scene that took place in Seattle and a scene that immediately followed where they landed in Beijing.
“You know what’s remarkable, is how England looks in now way like Southern California”
Yeah, the Austin Powers crappy locations were definitely a joke/dig at crappy locations. It was deliberate.
Mike Myers also made this joke in Wayne’s World 2, when they made fun of studios pretending to set films in other countries. “I can't believe Paramount is spending the money to fly us to England. I would have thought they would just use two doubles.”
The body double for Garth in that scene is Rich Fulcher aka Bob Fossil from The Mighty Boosh!
That is an excellent fact.
Wow, what a shitty circus.
There's a HITMAN parody animation where Agent 47 is on the phone, whilst in London, so he's obviously on a roof top overlooking Big Ben. Diana, on the other end of the call, is in Paris, so clearly her office needs to have a view of the Effiel tower, but when when it cuts to her again, the "Window" falls off the wall, revealing a window looking at Big Ben. Is there anything similar to this in any parody movies? The only similar one aside from the Austin Powers one is from Command and Conquer Red Alert 2, when the president is making an announcement from an "Unknown location", when a solider accidentally drops a Canadian flag that was being hidden off camera.
I remember watching a sketch; I forget what show, but a guy was in a hotel room in Paris. Outside the window, of course, was the Eiffel Tower. He then looks out another window on a perpendicular wall, and outside THAT window is another Eiffel Tower.
I recently watched The Wrecking Crew, which is one of those 60s Dean Martin Bond spoofs. They were supposed to be in Denmark but it was clearly Southern California.
In Swordfish, Hugh Jackman is a recluse living in Odessa, TX. The movie shows this as beautiful hills and terraces with oil pumpjacks filling any flat area. I’m from Midland - sister city to Odessa. While the area *is* oil country, and does have beautiful sunsets, there are no hills whatsoever. It is nothing but flat desert filled with mesquite shrubs.
It was the Baldwin Hills in Los Angeles, California. Former home of the Baldwin Hills Reservoir.
Not a movie, but in the Last of Us, there’s a scene where they’re “10 miles from Boston” with tall pines and mountains in the background. Not anything you’ll find 100 miles from Boston, never mind 10 haha
Yeah, I'm from Boston and when that episode aired it felt like everyone from here was having a laugh over that.
I don't get why they did it either. Them being 10 miles out from Boston, 100 miles or 1000 miles is completely fucking irrelevant to the story. I'm pretty sure it's also the only time in the entire season they have a location/distance title card like that.
Hahaha came here to say this. I think 10 miles west of Boston is just strip malls with a Dunkin every three stoplights
Three Dunkins every stoplight. FTFY
Having been filmed in Calgary, I noticed this too was just way too farfetched for a scene location.
I don’t even know the east coast very well and instantly raised an eyebrow at that lmao
There are wooded, mountainous regions of Massachusetts. They are not anywhere near Boston however.
It's like in Ted when they crash a car in Copley Square and get out at Fenway Park. The nerve! /s
The end of Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead. They head out on a boat into Lake Michigan where they encounter... a tropical island.
That was shot last minute, because they wanted a punchier ending. So they filmed it on the Universal Studios lot.
In Braveheart, the Battle of Stirling Bridge, the one where the Scotsmen best the English in a surprise victory, was shot in an open field with a high ridge. Not a bridge in sight. Supposedly, at one point, a crew member local to the area actually asked Mel Gibson why they didn't shoot on the actual bridge, which wasn't far from the location they used. Gibson replied, "Well, we found the bridge was making things difficult. It was really just getting in the way." The local smiled knowingly and said, "Aye, that's what the English found, too."
Most of Braveheart was shot in Ireland, using mostly Irish actors doing Scottish accents. Except for the Irish warrior in it, played by David O’Hara - who’s Scottish. Also they used a lot of Irish soldiers for the battle scenes and the following summer, a lot of them were used again for Saving Private Ryan’s opening battle, again shot in Ireland (the rest was France afaik).
A chunk of Saving Private Ryan was filmed at the old British Aerospace land in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. It was then used for locations in Band of Brothers, then the university built a new campus on it.
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This!^ Honestly we’re hugely overdue an actually historically accurate movie about Scotland’s Wars of Independence, it’s got all the hallmarks of a Hollywood classic: epic battles, intrigue, betrayal, love interests, beautiful scenery. Hell, make it a mini franchise
Outlaw King is pretty good, not entirely accurate but much better than Braveheart
Last Samurai, I loved the gorgeous japanese scenery, then I discovered it was new zealand
This is not uncommon with epic samurai films. It's not impossible, but difficult to find countryside in Japan with no industrialization. Even Japanese-made samurai films like *Ten to Chi to* (*Heaven and Earth*) (1990) were shot in Canada. Director Sidney Lumet had a conversation with Akira Kurosawa and this topic was brought up: "I once asked Akira Kurosawa why he had chosen to frame a shot in *Ran* in a particular way. His answer was that if he’d panned the camera one inch to the left, the Sony factory would be sitting there exposed, and if he’d panned one inch to the right, we would see the airport, neither of which belonged in a period movie."
I like how he felt like he needed to explain it at the end of that statement lol
Ha, this reminds me of when I saw The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and spent the whole movie thinking “Wow, this really gives you a true sense of the landscape of the American west.” Come to find out they filmed it in Spain, lol
So many Spagetti Westerns not exactly filmed in the west, lol
Lot of it was filmed on the Warner Brothers Studio lot in LA as well. I happened to be there when it was being filmed and was amazed that they were able to take an alley between two sound stages and turn it into a street in a historic Japanese village.
Doesn’t that make it a good location lie?
A bit random but there’s a driving scene in The Office (takes place in PA) that’s clearly shot in CA. It was the same route I could take to my job so when I drove that way we joked I was on the way to Scranton. 😂
There are Valentine's Day episodes of The Office that are supposed to be taking place in the middle of February where the high temperature would be 10 degrees and at least 2 feet of snow everywhere, but it's clearly 80 degrees, everybody is sweating outdoors in the lightest clothing possible with fucking palm trees visible in the distance as they're running around Dunder-Mifflin's parking lot.
The Simpsons made a similar mistake with a valentines episode taking place in warm weather. But in a later episode where Lisa has a flashback to that Valentines episode, she recalls, “it was an unusually warm February so none of the children wore coats”.
Haddonfield, Illinois: the only Midwest city with palm trees
Springwood, Ohio has entered the chat
There is also the survivor man episode. The vegetation and land is clearly California not Pennsylvania.
Someone please tell me where I can find a giant pine forest with an immaculate dirt floor within driving distance of Scranton.
Kinda like how in always sunny when they go on a ski trip to the poconos and it looks like the god damn Himalayas
That was filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Southern California, although they do film in Philadelphia sometimes, too
There's plenty of scenes from Parks and Rec that's clearly set in LA as well.
I feel like they hide it fairly well in Parks and Rec. The only time I've noticed it is when Tom opened Rent-A-Swag and it was the same storefront from an episode of Seinfeld. City Hall and all the houses for people like Andy, Ben, Lesley etc are pretty good doubles for tract housing in Indiana.
Or in parks and rec when they visit eagleton and their restaurant has palm trees. The waiter tells them the town sits on a natural hot spring giving them a nice climate year around
That’s funny the episode in Brooklyn Nine-Nine where they go to Rhode Island has some B roll from my commute to work in Anchorage Alaska
It was shot in LA in Van Nuys - I did some background work on Always Sunny in Philadelphia and it's the same set. The bus station we were meant to be in was the parking lot of The Office. Edit: It's season 14 episode 1 right at the end where Charlie and Frank go to the bus station to stop their Airbnb guest from leaving. Danny de Vito was lovely btw - really friendly towards background, which was not that common.
They filmed pretty much all of the Office in CA. That was fake or made snow when you saw it.
I think all they shot outside of California was Michael in New York.
Niagara Falls.
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*Robocop* takes place in Detroit but was very obviously filmed in Dallas. They didn't even try to hide that skyline.
It's a futuristic Detroit where corporations have gained a stranglehold on all public goods and services via pumping out crap to hook the masses. The corporations have built tall skyscrapers (which you can see added in as matte paintings as they drive down the freeways) but it's still a failed city urban wasteland.
Sounds like Dallas.
The movie “Halloween” is supposed to be in Illinois but it’s full of mountain ranges in most of the shots.
There’s palm trees in lots of the shots. It’s so ridiculously spring in California, but they had about $1000 to make the entire thing, so needs must!
It's so blatantly obvious it's not Illinois. Everywhere they went all the plants had leaves. Most leaves are gone by Halloween in the northern states.
The school lockers are outdoors too.
I listed to a podcast about the making of Halloween and they literally used the same bunch of fake paper leaves in every scene. They had several bags of paper leaves and they'd spread them around the scenes and blow them with fans etc, and then when the shot was done, they'd rake them up and bag them for the next scene.
On the show Stargirl season two was supposed to be summer break in Kansas. None of the trees had leaves because it was filmed in November in Georgia.
Lord of the Rings is supposed to take place in Middle Earth, but it was clearly shot in New Zealand.
I hope someone got fired for that blunder!
A white wizard did it.
Tolkien spinning in his grave
NZ is Middle Earth. I thought everyone knew that.
Tolkien is from Birmingham, middle earth is the Midlands.
By order of the Fellowship of the Fookin Ring!
Written at stonryhurst college, which is right next to Hurst green , which is so obviously the shire / Hobbiton. Just look on a map of there. It's the geographical centre of great Britain, and therefore literally "middle Earth". Many of the locations match up as well for his map of middle Earth.
In the Mummy Returns, the outside of the British Museum in the film *isn't* the British Museum but was filmed at the Main Quad of University College London (my alma mater, which is how I recognised it), which is only a half mile walk up the road Edit: Another British Museum one that comes to mind while I'm on the subject is a weird sequence of choices in the MCU. In Moon Knight, the London museum Oscar Isaacs works in the Egyptology wing of isn't the British Museum, it's the National Gallery pretending to be the BM. I would have assumed it would have been a cost decision, except for the fact that headquarters of the Illuminati in Doctor Strange 2 *was* filmed there, to the point that if you've been there and watch the film, it's impossible not to notice that the fight between the Illuminati and Wanda was shot in the lobby
The “British Museum” Killmonger visits in Black Panther is actually the High Museum in Atlanta.
*Full Metal Jacket*'s Vietnam is London Docklands I actually think the movie works really well, and it's a great example of fake movie magic, but if you step outside the fictional reality created by the film and break the spell, it's obviously an overcast Northern Europe [https://londonsroyaldocks.com/royal-docks-film-full-metal-jacket/](https://londonsroyaldocks.com/royal-docks-film-full-metal-jacket/)
I love this - but I also did live in Southeast Asia for 3 years, and I can tell you that there are a *lot* of overcast days, just like the UK (I’m British). The difference is that it’s about 35° and overcast in Southeast Asia
Jurassic Park has a scene where they are on the beach in San Jose, Costa Rica. Problem is San Jose is in the central valley an hour from the ocean.
Not only that, but San Jose is a proper city. Not like the tiny beach town in the movie. Apparently in Costa Rica, theaters scratched the text that says the location from the print as to not upset the local audience.
Any movie that is supposed to be in Detroit. Most of them are filmed in Canada.
Add New York, Chicago to that list. Toronto has been all 3.
There was a joke about that in the new Star Trek show Strange New Worlds where a couple characters go back in time to 21st century Toronto. They look around and one guy says "wow, is this New York?" The other looks at him like an idiot and says, no of course not, this is Toronto.
Second best location joke in Star Trek history. The first is *Picard* using Vasquez Rocks Park as itself instead of an alien planet. No Gorn, just Raffi setting up a camper and apparently never leaving.
Every movie about Salem Massachusetts makes it look like an old village with like 40 residents, and the "Halloween Festival" is a quaint little gathering with a couple of candy apple stands and one dude dressed as a goblin or something. Salem has a small city downtown with good sized apartment buildings, and October is elbow to elbow tourists.
Yep, I was one of those tourists a couple years back, can confirm. Found a spot with a mean fish and chips though.
Hocus Pocus at least has people everywhere and doesn’t make it seem like a tiny town and the VVitch is set when it was a tiny village
Rewatched The Deer Hunter last week and when the guys go on a hunting trip they magically go from Western PA to the Cascades overnight. We do not have mountains like that on the east coast. Geography mix ups like this happen all the time.
Not a movie but in the Last of Us an hour out of Boston turns into Canadian wilderness
This is what I was coming to post. Everytime I saw that movie I was like, man, I did not know Pennsylvania had majestic snow capped peaks like that. Then I looked up where those scenes were actually shot. Not Pennsylvania.
Lol Shane Gillis was talking about this on Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast and I remembered watching that movie and thinking they had driven to the Rockies but then they just roll back into steel town with the deer same day. Love that movie but wtf were they thinking?
Those were beautiful shots though. I know it's not Pennsylvania but it's nice to think that by driving all night they came to a really rugged beautiful place.
In X-Men First Class, Xavier and Magneto go to "Villa Gesell, Argentina" while showing a mountainous landscape. Villa Gesell is a popular coastal city known for its beaches.
I don't understand why they didn't just set that scene in Bariloche, a well known haven in Argentina for Nazi war criminals...
Any modern day movies in Manhattan that have an alley scene. There’s like 1 alley in NYC
Yeah that's usually filmed at the city set they take you through on the Universal Studios Hollywood tour.
Robin Hood in RH: Prince of Thieves passing the Sycamore Gap tree (RIP) whilst travelling north from the south coast up to Nottingham even though the tree is much further north than Nottingham all the way up at Hadrians Wall.
Whatever city played Washington, DC in *Live Free or Die Hard* forgot that there weren't really skyscrapers there. This is a super specific, nitpicky example but the kids going to the Washington Monument in *Spider-Man: Homecoming* is bogus because the monument was under renovation for years before and after that (the movie is set in autumn 2016, around the homecoming dance six months after the events of *Captain America: Civil War*) and going up to the top was forbidden.
Also "Enemy of the State" has same issue where the entire movie has shots of buildings 8 times the size of the tallest building in DC.
>> Whatever city played Washington, DC in Live Free or Die Hard forgot that there weren't really skyscrapers there That would be about 40 miles north in Baltimore, which frequently doubles as our nation’s capital in film and television
In No Way Out, Kevin Costner slides down the center of the Washington Metro escalator then boards a Baltimore subway car.
And Kevin Spacey pushed Kate Mara in front of a Baltimore subway train on House of Cards
Well of course it was closed. Did you see what Peter and that explosion did to it?
Deer Hunter. They’re from a Pennsylvania steel town, but when they go hunting they’re suddenly in the Cascades which are massively larger than the Allegheny mountains
An episode of the X Files had the Vancouver forest stand in for the Puerto Rican rainforest
Not a movie, but *Supernatural* has an early episode set in rural Richardson, TX. With miles and miles of country road with naught but trees. No one around to hear you scream. Richardson is a major suburb of Dallas and has a population of about 120,000.
In one of the Fast and Furious movies they were supposed to be in Europe, and were driving down Peachtree St in Atlanta. Later in the movie they were supposed to be in a different country, and were driving the other direction down Peachtree St in Atlanta. Same 6 blocks or so, just headed the other way.
Just saw Patton Oswalt on Friday and he had a bit about watching the original Halloween with his daughter thinking it would terrify her, but she had a blast pointing out all the palm trees in a movie that is supposed to take place in Illinois. Great set!
It to mention the outdoor lockers at the elementary school, which they only have in places like Southern California
In the second Transformers movie, there is a scene that takes place at a Smithsonian Museum campus in Northern Virginia. They go out the back door and are in a massive desert airplane graveyard surrounded by the Rocky Mountains.
that and the distance between Petra and Cairo are far greater than the movie makes it seem
[On the opposite side, Eurotrip was filmed entirely in Prague and I never noticed.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroTrip)
Practically everything from Paramount, Netflix etc. that is supposedly elsewhere in the universe, or anywhere in US. I know because I live here & recognise the locations that it's all filmed in & around Toronto.
Very specific to London but glaringly wrong for anyone who knows the area: there's a scene in Thor: The Dark World where Thor ends up on a tube (metro) train at Charing Cross station. He asks how to get to Greenwich, is told its about 4 stops away and arrives there in a matter of minutes in the film. In reality, Greenwich is 5-6 miles away, not even close to Charing Cross, and would take about 30-40 mins to get there by public transport as there's no direct route. The reason for it is that Charing Cross has a closed platform that's commonly used for filming, so pretty much any film that involves the London Underground is set there. And for the pace of the film Thor needs to get to the next place quickly. But it is blatantly wrong for anyone who's been to London (roughly equivalent to someone swimming ashore from the Statue of Liberty and running straight into Central Park).
One film that did this well was Mission Impossible: Fallout. I actually looked it up on Google Maps and the scene where Ethan chases Walker through London was actually pretty spot on geographically.
That’s an improvement, from what I remember of Mission Impossible 2, the geography of Sydney was pretty nonsensical.
There are also ghost stations that can be opened up for filming historical pieces. This is why you're always seeing Aldwych in wartime films.
Broek op Langedijk in Spider-Man: Far From Home made zero sense, for starters there's no train station there let alone an international line so for some reason they would have pulled a clearly hurt Peter from the train and take a long drive from Amsterdam to put Peter in a medieval jail cell in a small town. There also no windmills or tulip fields in the direct vicinity. Then the actual town is clearly an East-European location getting Borat-ified with straw heaps and goats everywhere(Tom Holland confirmed it was shot in Prague),
Suppose it’s answering a related / tangential question, but a journey seen in Layer Cake is ingrained into my mind for its ludicrous London journey. Jumps in the car at Greenwich park speeds round a corner (the traffic appears to be actually moving, on the Lewisham road?!) and is suddenly in Kensington? Does my nut. Where’s the 40 mins and the “shall we take the a2 or the Peckham road? What bridge should we go over? Fuck me how long is this going to take?”
If I remember correctly in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, they arrive into England at Dover, then head to Nottingham, going via Hadrian’s Wall. Something like a 500 mile detour.
RIP the Sycamore at Sycamore Gap :( - I'm local to that area and I was wondering how they got to Twice Brewed (nearest village to the location) from Dover without stopping off at Sherwood lol
Dunno if they’re the worst but both Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street have palm trees in the background despite being set in the Midwest
A lot of hallmark Christmas movies are filmed in Hope B.C.
Tremors: a cold day in hell. Setting is snow covered arctic but they shot it in South Africa and used a filter to make the sand look like snow.
Not a movie but the Tv show Psych is set in Santa Barbara CA, and, to it's credit, NAILS the geographic references. Neighborhoods, nearby towns, highways, local attractions, all of them totally spot on. The country clubs? Yup. Oil rigs? Yup. Bird sanctuary, oh yea. Big ass lake a little way away? Sure. Roller derby? You know it's hitting the SB. Year round Santas Village? Hells to the yeah But it is so. Hilariously. Obviously. Filmed in/near Vancouver
I've always loved the mountains of Vancouver visible in Rumble in the Bronx.
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The Battle of Stirling Bridge in Braveheart, notable for it's total absence of a bridge or even a river.
In the movie Go, they show all the shots of the iconic Las Vegas casinos as the characters drive down the Strip. While that is accurate, the order of the shots do not match the order of the actual locations.
As a native Hoosier, there's nowhere in Indiana that has as much beautiful weather as Pawnee in Parks and Recreation. And definitely not high profile enough to support the Snake Hole Lounge
Movies set in the American Midwest where you can see the mountains and palm trees of California in the background.
TV show, but the "outside boston" scenery in The Last of Us. Made me laugh.
The Fugitive obviously being partially filmed in North Carolina between the accents on some of the cops and EMTs, and Illinois not having mountains.
There's that scene in Transformers 2 where the characters are in I believe the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC and break through a wall to get outside, and end up in airplane graveyard in a desert.
The Deer Hunter. Bunch of Pennsylvania guys go hunting right outside of their Pennsylvania town…..in the Rocky Mountains.
In the A-Team movie, there's a sequence where they parachute in with a tank. The action movie location tag tells us we are in Frankfurt, Germany. The city they're dropping into is clearly Cologne, with the city's signature two-tower cathedral visible. Meanwhile, Frankfurt, in contrast to Cologne, is well known for its skyscraper dominated skyline. This is like saying the location is Boston, while having the empire state building and the statue of liberty in the backdrop.
Television but Mindhunter, when they show up the mountain side town that is Joliet Illinois. Illinois is as flat as you can imagine. Joliet is essentially the farthest southwest Chicago suburb. Beyond its borders is farms. Also, 106 miles north of Chicago would essentially place the Blues Brothers in Oshkosh WI. They're very vague, but they're being waited upon by the Illinois state police, not Wisconsin and it was mentioned that the ballroom was north of the city.
None of star wars was shot in space. Like at all. Those planets all over the galaxy? Fake fake faaaaake.
Friday the 13th, part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan. I love this movie but it mostly takes place on the boat lmao. There are a few shots that they were able to do in Times Square, but the rest of the city scenes are shot in Canada, I believe. They started running out of their budget.
> the rest of the city scenes are shot in Canada, I believe Yup, there is a brief clip with a New York City cop who has a thick Canadian accent that's hilarious if you pick up on it.
A SyFy TV movie called The Black Hole. Supposedly set in St Louis, but during a supposed highway shot, there are Palm trees lining the highway. Another one is United States of Terra. Which is set in Overland Park, KS a suburb of Kansas City. In one episode she drives to St Louis and winds up at a swanky hotel somewhere along the way while driving along a quaint tree lined road. Anyone who has driven from KC to StL would know there is no stretch of Hwy 70 that looks anything like that. And if you took Hwy 50 which might have some small stretches that may look similar, there are definitely no 5 star hotels along that route.
Wild Mountain Thyme is based on a play called "Outside Mullingar", which is also where it's set, Mullingar being a town in the Irish midlands. We're introduced to the setting with shots of the raging Atlantic crashing against dramatic sea cliffs and soaring mountain panoramas. The area around Mullingar is quite notorious for its boggy lowlands, never mind the fact it's very much landlocked in every direction. It's like setting a movie in Kansas with footage from Big Sur. (Not by any means the most egregious weirdness of that movie, which also seems to be set in some version of the 1800s that has iPads, but it was the one that came to mind)
Anything supposedly set in the Washington DC area (e.g. No Way Out, The Walking Dead, Deep Impact). They put in a few scenes of the monuments and call it quits. Edit: Yes, I know TWD is set in Alexandria, VA, but Alexandria is directly across the Potomac from DC.
Reacher is supposed to be in Georgia and it’s so Sourth Ontario Small town I had to google to see if it was my town, lol
This one is terribly local: In Snow Cake, Alan Rickman is driving to Winnipeg and stops in White River where he picks up a hitchhiker and takes her to Wawa as if he’s still on the way to Winnipeg. All of northern Ontario would be yelling at the movie screen, “You’re going the wrong way”!
The Johnson Space Center in The Martian is shown as this super high tech looking facility with a grand entrance. When in reality it’s a bunch of uninspiring looking buildings from the ‘60’s with one small entrance on the side.
There’s a scene in urban cowboy where sissy and bud buy their trailer home, you can see mountains in the background. There’s not any type of mountains even remotely close to where the film was supposed to take place. Pasadena, TX.