Well, of course they picked Raising Arizona…
But, we don’t talk like Texans.
For movies set in Arizona, I offer:
Starman
Tombstone
Little Miss Sunshine
U-turn
Illinois has tons of good movies to choose from.
Home Alone
Risky Business
The Sting
Waynes World
The Breakfast Club
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Midnight Run
The Untouchables
Eight Men Out
Candyman
Halloween
Childs Play
Blues Brothers
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Weird Science
The Fugitive
A few Batman movies
One of the Superman movies
Spiderman
Meet the Parents
Looking at this list makes me wonder if there’s movies made downstate now
Yeah besides Chicago, Illinois really doesn’t have many famous cities.
I like We Are Marshall well enough, but I would have picked Matewan. Or if you wanted a movie that people had actually seen, then October Sky.
For Texas, in addition to the aforementioned Dazed and Confused and The Last Picture Show, I’d nominate:
No Country For Old Men
Bernie
Office Space
Awesome movie. Excellent choice for WV.
Gone With the Wind is a fine pick for Georgia, but is a little dated. More modern looks at the state might include “Sharky’s Machine” for Atlanta and “Deliverance” for rural Georgia. “Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil” might also work well for non-Atlanta Georgia.
New York would have to be The Godfather.
American Graffiti is a fine movie, but it isn’t particularly about California. It could have been set in the midwest. I would have chosen something like Chinatown or L.A. Confidential - something that has a real connection to the state.
Ohio has got to have something better than Heathers.
I think Virginia deserves better than Darko – how about the Jimmy Stewart classic, “Shenandoah”???
Perhaps, “Goodbye, Columbus” for Ohio? Hey, -I- liked it.
I would pick Stroszek for Wisconsin. A little obscure, and German, for the list probably.
Excellent updates. And you’re right about GWTW, superb as it may be.
Or, maybe, something about small town Ohio love for Football! Can’t find a great example, though there have been a number of excellent documentaries.
Bye Bye Birdie was about a small town in Ohio, filmed in Ohio.
Why did I think ‘Midnight in the Garden…’ was set in Charleston, SC?
Maybe because you’ve been both places and couldn’t tell much difference? Two of the best Deep South icons outside of NOLA! Pitch in Natchez and you’re not far from naming all of them.
But I’m in Milwaukee, so I know a handful of NE Illinois cities. Until just know when I looked it up, I didn’t know Aurora was in that corner of the state. But Waukegan, Naperville, Elgin (County?), Joliet County, Dekalb, Libertyville, Antioch etc are all places that most people in my neck of the woods are familiar with just from going down to Chicago or Six Flags or Gurnee. How I managed to not know Aurora was in that area also, I’m not sure.
At least they didn’t pick Blair Witch Project for Maryland.
Yeah I’d say Aurora is Naperville area. Yeah outside of Chicago you kinda have the big 3…
- Elgin…North…Primal Fear
- Aurora…West…Waynes World
- Joliet…South…Rudy
I always thought of these three cities as being the end of the Chicago suburbs…Also to keep in spirit of the thread I added 3 movies which came out of each city.