Where in Jersey, Cal?
The 1982 version took place in Antarctica and was filmed in British Columbia. The 2011 version was also filmed in Canada. The 1951 film The Thing from Another World was set in the Arctic, and was filmed in Glacier National Park and on sets in a Los Angeles ice storage plant.
The movie Breaking Away took place where I grew up - Bloomington, Indiana. The story was mostly BS. No one called the locals “Cutters”. All of the university staff, and a large portion of the student body were locals. The Little 500 was a FratRat event. Just like a lot of other movies the geographic connections were wrong - X street doesn’t connect to Y street, etc.
Right, but did it capture the experience of growing up in Alaska? :dubious:
For me, it was My Three Sons. Early 60’s, suburban California. Ernie? That kid was me… Plaid shirt, horn-rimmed glasses… we were in color, though.
I grew up in a small town and I can’t think of any movie that remind me of it.
Mommy Dearest would had been close if was Daddy Dearest !
Bah! I was thinking of The Deer Hunter…I always confuse those two for some reason.
True, but The Gathering (1977) was specifically about a New England Christmas. The producers chose Hudson, Ohio - my hometown - because thanks to first, history (it was part of the Western Reserve of Connecticut, and primarily settled by New Englanders), and second, a historic-preservation covenant that has kept the village essentially unchanged for over a hundred years, Hudson has a very New-England-y vibe - a common, a clock town, large Congregational church, that sort of thing.
Fun fact (…okay, boring facts, but I’m gonna inflict 'em on you anyway): Hudson was the hometown of John Brown, and the original site of Western Reserve University, which merged with Case Institute of Technology to become Case Western Reserve University.
Filmed there, too. Well, along the Ocoee River, anyway.
Best you not inquire too deeply.
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But who would you rather have been? John Savage in DH or Ned Beatty in Deliverance?
Hrmmmmmmm:dubious:
Are you asking whether I’d rather be for sure ass raped by hillbillies or play Russian roulette and possibly die? I’d choose Russian roulette
Now if you are asking if which character I’d rather be as shown throughout the entire movies, I’d have to re-watch them both again before I could make a decision…and while I remember tham both to be pretty good movies, I 'd racall them being so good that I need to watch either of them ever again. Or at least not for a while.
I didn’t love the show but **Freaks and Geeks **was a generic enough location and the time was dead right for me. It rang true enough, stoners, geeks and nothing too exiting to do.
It was actually set in Detroit, I believe.
I’m assuming that’s a whoosh, right?
Well, it wasn’t set in a Dallas suburb, but “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” certainly captured the booze, drugs, cars, and stupidity of my 1981 senior year pretty well.
Deliverance is a movie you only watch once. DH was good but moves at a snails pace. It does have some excellent performances though.
Answering my own hypopthetical I think I would rather be Beatty. He survived the rape.
I haven’t seen Black Mass yet.
I seem to remember the Russian roulette dude survived as well because the bullet just grazed him, or some such. It’s been a long time so I don’t quite remember.
Really, I thought it was suburbia.
Its been a while for me too. I seem to remember Savage shooting himself but surviving…but never being the same. Have to watch this again…and FF through the first 45 minute wedding scene. :dubious:
Detroit, like most American metropolises, has suburban areas. It’s pretty common for names of large cities like “Detroit” to be used for the entire metropolitan area rather than just the legal jurisdiction of the City of Detroit.