DO I FEEL LUCKY?: Given the enthusiasm for the list of best movies filmed in Chicago, below, use this thread to offer up your best five or ten (or twenty or thirty) filmed in your hometown (or nearest or favorite major city).
For me, in order:
1. Bullitt
2. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
3. Dirty Harry
4. Vertigo
5. 48 Hours
Filmed there, not set there, right?
ReplyDelete1. Wonder Boys (because it's like a love letter to the 'burgh)
2. Night of the Living Dead
3. Silence of the Lambs
4. Dawn of the Dead
5. Dogma
Trading Places
ReplyDeleteRocky I-III
Sixth Sense
In Her Shoes
Unbreakable
12 Monkeys
Mannequin
Philadelphia
Also, TPE, how do Basic Instinct and The Rock not make your list?<span> </span>
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you said Mannequin. :)
ReplyDeleteIn the Loop
ReplyDeleteBurn After Reading
The Exorcist
All the President's Men
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
There are only two: Sterile Cuckoo and Slap Shot. Although The Emporer's Club and Scent of a Woman were shot at my prep school.
ReplyDeleteThere are only two: Sterile Cuckoo and Slap Shot. Although The Emporer's Club and Scent of a Woman were shot at my prep school.
ReplyDeleteDiner
ReplyDeleteHairspray (both versions)
Sleepless in Seattle (gets my hometown and my current city)
Tin Men
Cry-Baby
There are only two: Sterile Cuckoo and Slap Shot. Although The Emporer's Club and Scent of a Woman were shot at my prep school.
ReplyDeleteNot a city...do these count for representing my home state?
ReplyDeleteClerks
Big Night
Harold & Kumar
Eddie & the Cruisers
Me too! Mannequin was my absolute favorite growing up.
ReplyDeleteI have to admit, I'm a bit of a sucker for Invicible too.
Me too! Mannequin was my absolute favorite growing up.
ReplyDeleteI have to admit, I'm a bit of a sucker for Invicible too.
Me too! Mannequin was my absolute favorite growing up.
ReplyDeleteI have to admit, I'm a bit of a sucker for Invicible too.
Current city:
ReplyDeleteShallow Hal
Juwanna Mann
Birthplace:
The Man Without a Face
Where I grew up:
What Adam Said
Signs
Sorry! completely accidental (obviously). Not sure what happened to make the triple-post.
ReplyDeleteSorry! completely accidental (obviously). Not sure what happened to make the triple-post.
ReplyDeleteSorry! completely accidental (obviously). Not sure what happened to make the triple-post.
ReplyDeleteFargo
ReplyDeletePurple Rain
That Was Then... This Is Now
Untamed Heart
The Personals
Because they aren't as good as the five movies I listed. Admittedly, they don't offer a look at Katherine Hepburn's netherregions but I just wanted to toss up the thread. Both movies would make the Top 40.
ReplyDeleteOffice Space
ReplyDeleteHope Floats
Michael
The Rookie
Where the Heart Is
The Philadelphia Story
ReplyDeleteTrading Places
Eraserhead
It's Always Sunny Christmas Special
Philadelphia
******
Footage of the November 16, 1986 Eagles-Lions game
Signs
The Verdict
ReplyDeleteThe Departed
Good Will Hunting
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Gone Baby Gone
(yes no Mystic River!)
The Philadelphia Story, while a great film, was shot at MGM's studio in Culver City, CA, and not in it's namesake city.
ReplyDeleteFellowship of the Ring
ReplyDeleteThe Two Towers
The Return of the King
Rivendell?
ReplyDeleteSo, is half the fun trying to guess which town without checking? And for SF, I'd dump Look Who's Coming (I think it's horribly creaky), raise Vertigo to #1 and stick Zodiac on the list with an honorable mention for Milk.
ReplyDeleteI read Friends of Eddie Coyle last year and enjoyed it a lot; I'll have to watch the movie some time.
ReplyDeleteRuss is from the Shire.<span> </span>
ReplyDeleteSay Anything
ReplyDeleteFabulous Baker Boys
Singles
Sleepless in Seattle
Officer and a Gentleman
Ten Things I Hate About You
1) Cider House Rules
ReplyDelete2) On Golden Pond
3) Jumanji
4) The Good Son
5) The Skulls (totally a guilty pleasure movie for me)
I've taken some liberties with location and included the whole state, because the only thing filmed in my town was an embarassing episode of "My Super Sweet Sixteen".
It's very, very close and I kind of want to make them co #1s.
ReplyDeleteSkulls is one of those wonderfully good bad good movies. <span> </span>
ReplyDeleteHometown proper
ReplyDelete1) My Own Private Idaho
2) Drugstore Cowboy
3) Short Circuit
And a few more from home state in general
1) The Goonies
2) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
3) Stand By Me
4) Animal House
Is there a third Astoria, Ore. Movie after Goonies and Kindergarten Cop?
ReplyDeleteGood Will Hunting
ReplyDeletePolice Academy
Kick-Ass
Chicago
Adventures In Babysitting
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (that one might be the giveaway)
<span>Good Will Hunting
ReplyDeletePolice Academy </span>
<span>Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle</span>
<span>A Christmas Story
Kick-Ass
Chicago </span>
<span>Mean Girls
Adventures In Babysitting </span>
<span>Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (that one might be the giveaway)</span>
What we lack in quality, we make up in quantity...
Don't remember -- did the Shire show up in The Two Towers?
ReplyDeleteMost of A Christmas Story was filmed outside of Cleveland. Ralphie's house is now a museum http://www.achristmasstoryhouse.com/
ReplyDelete1. Blue Collar
ReplyDelete2. Siegfried: The Night They Saved Hitler's Brain
3. Cherry
4. Kalamazoo?
<span>1. Blue Collar
ReplyDelete2. Housesitter: The Night They Saved Siegfried's Brain
3. Cherry
4. Kalamazoo?</span>
On the Waterfront
ReplyDeleteChasing Amy
Big
A Beautiful Mind
The Wrestler
If only The Sopranos was a movie . . .
Current City:
ReplyDeleteThe Natural (filmed here)
Buffalo '66
Bruce Almighty
uh.. Niagara
And according to wikipedia: Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (I totally need to see this!)
Current City:
ReplyDeleteThe Natural (filmed here)
Buffalo '66
Bruce Almighty
uh.. Niagara
And according to wikipedia: Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (I totally need to see this!)
Current City:
ReplyDeleteThe Natural (filmed here)
Buffalo '66
Bruce Almighty
uh.. Niagara
And according to wikipedia: Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (I totally need to see this!)
Current City:
ReplyDeleteThe Natural (filmed here)
Buffalo '66
Bruce Almighty
uh.. Niagara
And according to wikipedia: Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (I totally need to see this!)
Current City:
ReplyDeleteThe Natural (filmed here)
Buffalo '66
Bruce Almighty
uh.. Niagara
And according to wikipedia: Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (I totally need to see this!)
Current City:
ReplyDeleteThe Natural (filmed here)
Buffalo '66
Bruce Almighty
uh.. Niagara
And according to wikipedia: Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (I totally need to see this!)
Wow... I only hit submit once! (It kept attempting to submit before it finally "failed"... NOT!) Sorry guys!
ReplyDeleteWow... I only hit submit once! (It kept attempting to submit before it finally "failed"... NOT!) Sorry guys!
ReplyDeleteWow... I only hit submit once! (It kept attempting to submit before it finally "failed"... NOT!) Sorry guys!
ReplyDeleteMore than I would have thought; IMDb lists it as a filming location The Ring one and two, Free Willy, The Guardian and Into The Wild among other things.
ReplyDeleteAlso filmed in Oregon (in Madras of all places) Management the Jennifer Anniston Steve Zahn weirdo romance.
ReplyDeleteHome Region -- non city
ReplyDelete1) The Basket (the only movie ever filmed in my hometown, the schoolhouse is on a friends farm)
2) Stand By Me (not just filmed in Astoria but also very near my grandparents farm west of Eugene--elevated on the list due to it being a REALLY good movie)
3) Toys (those big green grasslands are the Palouse)
Current City/Hometown of my Heart
4) High Fidelity (a movie I both love and feels like the place I met Chicago in)
5) About Last Night
Honorable Mention TV Show
The Beast with Patrick Swayze because my office's entrance was doctored a tiny bit to be the entrance to the strip club "Platinum Cats" that was in like one episode.
For more specifics on how much of Christmas Story was filmed outside Cleveland, here's an article:
ReplyDeletehttp://torontoist.com/2008/12/reel_toronto_a_christmas_story.php
Interiors, the Chinese food restaurant, the tree lot were all on the north side of the border.
My hometown:
ReplyDelete1. The Invention of Lying
2. Housesitter
3. The Women
4. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
These are the best, and to my knowledge, the only movies ever to have scenes filmed there. Anyone know where it is?
Friends of Eddie Coyle is terrific -- it's been many years since I've seen it, but Mitchum is great and the closing shot is quite memorable.
ReplyDeleteAgree with the Philadelphia-shot films named above (and yes, The Philadelphis Story does not count) but would add The Young Philadelphians (1959), which has a number of scenes shot at Penn Law.
ReplyDeleteBest things shot in Tampa, where (and in some cases when) I grew up:
1. Goodfellas (the zoo scene)
2. Super Bowl XLIII
3. Super Bowl XXV (if you squint really hard, you might see me behind the goalposts that Norwood missed at the end!)
4. Ruby in Paradise
5. In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders (shot scenes in my neighborhood, and my grandparents met star David Soul at Hyatt Sunday brunch)
6. Cop and 1/2 (saw director Henry Winkler and his kid playing video games in a theater lobby suring the time they were shooting in town; never saw the movie but I hear it's pretty awful)
7. The Punisher (Travolta/Jane, not Lundgren)
If you expand to films shot in the greater Tampa Bay area, you also get Edward Scissorhands, My Girl, Cocoon, Summer Rental, Yellowbeard, and The Greatest Show on Earth.
Dumb me - I know realize that you were trying to say these were all filmed in Canada (and not Chicago...or elsewhere). The perils of being a know it all...
ReplyDeleteNot just Canada, but all in Toronto and the surrounding area. So many times it subs for Chicago, New York, Boston. Add into this list Undercover Brother, Cinderella Man, the recent RED, X-Men. You could make an ample "Hall of Shame" movie list for us too: Glitter, The Ladies Man, Short Circuit 2...
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_shot_in_Toronto
Sudbury?
ReplyDeleteYes. How did you know?
ReplyDeleteI would have to add "Stealing Home" for Philadelphia movies. Although its not Oscar-worthy, I enjoyed it. And the soundtrack.
ReplyDeleteRushmore
ReplyDeleteReality Bites
The Facebook Movie
ReplyDeleteThe one with Joe Pesci as the homeless guy
Love Story
The Great Debaters
I would add "Home for the Holidays" with Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr.
ReplyDeleteI used to drive all the time on the road that was known as "Thunder Road" for the movie. Other than that, the only movies I can think of that were filmed in my hometown were Rocket Boys and Box of Moonlight.
ReplyDeleteBorn: LA
ReplyDeleteLive in: Phila
LA: 500 Days of Summer, LA Story, Kiss Me Deadly, Possessed, Home Cooking, LA Confidential, Sunset Boulevard, Monkey Business (the Cary Grant version), Mildred Pierce
Phila: The Show Off (1928), Blow Out, Trading Places, Rocky, In Her Shoes, 12 Monkeys, The Young Philadelphians, Marnie, The Age of Innocence, Philadelphia
oops. I meant What's Cooking? not Home Cooking
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