So, the movie stole the identity of Tennessee, then?
Whose bridge scenes (and some of the decrepit city) were filmed not too far from the non-existent bridge of Identity Thief in St. Louis mentioned above.
As for Planet of the Apes, I maintain Taylor et al didn’t land in the Atlantic, but in Lake Powell (the actual location used). Compare and contrast:
So that would mean that the stature of Liberty at the end was not the original, but the one from the Strip
“You blew up Vegas! Goddamn you all to hell! The buffets are GONE!”
Parts of Escape From New York were filmed on the old Chain of Rocks Bridge in north St Louis County (near where the Missouri and Mississippi rivers meet). That’s a ways north of the downtown area.
In the old ones (1950s-1970s) I rarely got the impression that the city models were based on actual neighborhoods of Tokyo. The only two exceptions I can think of was Ghidorah knocking off the top of Tokyo Tower and another where Mothra spins a cocoon to the same tower.
From Mad Magazine’s spoof of Armageddon: “These meteors have incredibly good aim! Not only are they all landing on major cities, they’re only striking those cities’ biggest landmarks!”
Not sure how relevant this is, but in Wargames there’s a scene where Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy are running to catch the ferry to the island where the recluse who designed WOPR lives. As I’ve commented elsewhere, they’d better know how to swim: they’re running down a boat ramp (the ferry dock — in Steilacoom WA — is on the other side of the trestle).
The miniseries “Texas Rising” was filmed in Durango, Mexico, and as a result had a lot more stark mountains and deserts than Texas actually has, at least where the actual events took place.
Most of the areas where the actual Texas Revolution took place are more or less flat, or are rolling hills with grass and woodlands, and are flatter and more wooded the closer to San Jacinto you get.
In the opening scene of Team America: World Police, the protagonists accidentally knock over the Eiffel Tower. As it falls over, it crushes the Arc de Triumph. Then they blow up the Louvre.
In a later scene, they blow up a pyramid, the Sphinx, and Abu Simbel.
The bad guys blow up the Panama Canal and Mount Rushmore.
In Superman II, the bad guys replace three of the faces on Mount Rushmore with their own faces, and demolish the fourth.
