# New York City in the movies...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-city-in-the-movies/301585>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 28, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-city-in-the-movies/301585 "2005-04-28T18:35:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-city-in-the-movies/301585/41 "2005-05-01T14:07:00Z")

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I’d like to nominate the SUperman and Batman movies. Yes, I know they’re technically ‘Metropolis’ and ‘Gotham’, not ‘New York’. But the imagery is so important and the pretension to not-being New York is so blatantly false…

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**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-city-in-the-movies/301585/42 "2005-05-01T18:13:28Z")

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I may have missed this posted (my eyes try to glaze over at long list posts though I tried to read them all)

**Seven** one writers ‘love note’ to NYC.

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