I turned a corner in Prague one day in 1992, and found myself in a street full of black Mercedes-Benzes and swastika flags flying from the buildings. Time warp! :eek:
Like Helsinki substituting for Moscow, a lot of movies set in the Third Reich have been filmed in the Czech Republic because it’s much cheaper than doing so in Germany.
(I also recognized a lot of the places I’d been in Prague when I saw the first Mission: Impossible movie.)
I walk by the parking garage used in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. I used to enjoy that, but I had a coworker commit suicide by jumping off the top a couple of years ago so it’s a bit creepy now.
The barber shop where Edward Scissorhands works was actually a donut shop here in my town. Isn’t there anymore.
There’s a straight to DVD film called Off Piste that’s about an SAS soldier that accidentally kills a child during a raid on an IRA pub in Belfast and the child’s sister’s attempt at revenge. The scenes in the pub are not in Belfast, but in my local in Farnborough, Hampshire.
And if TV is included, in addition to Five-0 there is Lost. Even for the non-island scenes. For example, downtown Honolulu scattered with white Styrofoam became Berlin in wintertime. Downtown also played Los Angeles in a chase scene.
Alexander Payne is a local here. His Mom still gets her hair done in the salon where my daughter works. All of the locations of About Schmidt are easily recognizable places. I have eaten at Johnny’s Steak house many times. I have inspected and tested the fire alarm at the building where Schmidt’s office was located. The house where Kathy Bates lived was a block and a half from where I was living at the time. I drive past the house used for Schmidt’s house three or four times a week.
You were referring to SPECTRE; I was referring to Bond films in general (and to *Skyfall *without naming it). I’m sure you’re right about the other stuff, though.
That’s something that can also be super-interesting or super-blah. Shortly before moving to Philadelphia I pushed myself through about 80% of a pretty bad detective novel simply because it took place in Philly; one of the book’s defects was that it was written as if any reader would know the place perfectly and understand the social and geographic implications of any location or address. Seeing those locations later was interesting, though.
I’ve been to MANY places that have been in movies, but very few that I hadn’t already seen in a movie before I went there. I grew up in Seattle area, so, the Space Needle? That’s all I can think of.
SINGLES had some good locations. What hill was Sheila Kelly trying to pedal up? I think Sleepless In Seattle had Tom Hanks paddle his kayak from Ballard to Northlake in record time.
A couple of years ago, Mrs. Wheelz and I took an anniversary trip to the St. Regis Resort in Bora Bora. The 2009 film Couples Retreat was filmed there, and there is a channel on the TV showing the movie on a continuous loop.
The place is spectacular in its own right, of course, and it added an extra bit of fun to walk around spotting all the different filming locations.
I was a regular at the revival movie theater in South Pasadena: The Rialto. That’s the theater where Tim Robbins went to meet the guy he ultimately killed in the movie The Player.
I’ve been to the Tacoma restaurant which was a pizzeria run by Kevin Kline and Tracy Ullman in the movie I Love You To Death.
I’ve eaten a few times at the restaurant The Hitching Post, which was featured in the movie Sideways. It’s where Paul Giamatti met the waitress he would eventually date. I’ve also been to all the wineries shown in that movie.
Cool old theater! It’s where they did the Rocky Horror thing for years. Don’t know if they still do.
Just to mention: The Hawaii Five-0 trucks are setting up on the street outside as I type. Looks like it will be a night shoot. The wife saw “Adam” from the show entering our building today with a bunch of crew. Looks like our building, one of three in the compound, will be the one for the shoot but not our floor. Scheduled to shoot tonight and two more days next week.
Already mentioned in this thread. What were you doing in Steilacoom?
To be a bit more specific, I think the Buckaroo Banzai closing credits were shot at Sepulveda Dam.
Gas Works Park shows up in a lot of stuff. E.g., 10 Things I Hate About You and in the background in Sleepless in Seattle.
A lot of shots of downtown taken from Kerry Park on Queen Anne Hill are used by many movies and TV shows (e.g., the view out Frasier’s window). Just not a lot of shots of the park. But some movies fimed there: Life or Something Like It, A Guy Thing and again 10 Things I Hate About You. Grey’s Anatomy has filmed in it a couple times and uses the view shot a ton of times.
*10 Things … * also had a scene at the Fremont Troll. IMDb doesn’t list any other film (but does give some TV shows) that shot there. I’ve been there many times. All-pre troll, tho.
I once visited a beach that I knew I had never been to before and yet felt very familiar to me. I originally ascribed that to it just looking a little bit like somewhere near where I grew up, but it was a very strong feeling of familiarity that I couldn’t shake. Years later I was on a nostalgia kick and decided to watch the opening titles of a TV series I grew up with, and as soon as I watched I felt that same sense of familiarity again. I mean I already knew this show’s credits, maybe that was it, but no, I was completely certain I knew the location that the scenes were shot, the beach I had visited five years earlier. And I also knew that when I originally watched the show I had pictured that location as resembling the aforementioned place near where I grew up.
Here’s the location it was shot.
Even though the visible evidence seems extremely limited, I am 100% confident I’m right.
By the way, that’s currently popular villainous actor Ben Mendelsohn starring in that show, also playing a villain.
My first adult vacation was on Grand Bahama Island and Freeport, and I was naive enough to be gobsmacked by crawling around the Thunderball set. News is so sad now…
I spent almost a week in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany, where much of The Sound of Music was filmed, and there’s no way to avoid all of the promotional stuff reminding me of that fact. The place is beautiful, the Eagle’s Nest is also there, Schönau am Königssee is worth a visit, but that damned movie is inescapable.
In July of this year we drove down the Potash Road from Canyonlands in Utah (an amazing drive) and took a bit of an off-road detour from the off-road trail and ended up where Thelma and Louise drove over the canyon at the end of the film of that name.
On this same trip I made it a point to drive to the top of Mt. Hood to make a pilgrimage to the Timberline Lodge. I thought that I would be the only weirdo looking for the hotel used for the exterior scenes of the Overlook Hotel in the film version of The Shining, but it was pretty busy there.
Oh, I can’t forget Somewhere in Time and the Grand Hotel, which is a Michigan version of the Stanley Hotel that originally inspired the Overlook.
It also has the lovely Nadine Garner from the Doctor Blake Mysteries.