Its rather strange experience watching a film set somewhere you can look out and see the same places. As yet no midgets being filmed. Anyone else gone somewhere and done something similar.
I'm watching In Brugge, in Brugge
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That would actually be a really awesome experience. Well I've seen Scott Pilgrim in Toronto...but I am not going to count that one.
Edit*, Yeah just like Johnny said below me. My city is also filled with scenes from films. Toronto being another popular location for filming. For example almost any scene in Resident Evil: Apocolypse I have been to and can walk to at any moment. The School, Church, the helicopter scene towards the end where Alice fights Nemesis is our city hall and that bridge all the civilians are stuck on in the film is a bridge I used to drive under almost every day. We used to call it suicide bridge as nickname as it was a popular place to jump off when life got too hard. That is why the city put up those big fences all along the bridge. In fact it is the second most popular bridge for suicide in the world, behind only Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
Edit*, Yeah just like Johnny said below me. My city is also filled with scenes from films. Toronto being another popular location for filming. For example almost any scene in Resident Evil: Apocolypse I have been to and can walk to at any moment. The School, Church, the helicopter scene towards the end where Alice fights Nemesis is our city hall and that bridge all the civilians are stuck on in the film is a bridge I used to drive under almost every day. We used to call it suicide bridge as nickname as it was a popular place to jump off when life got too hard. That is why the city put up those big fences all along the bridge. In fact it is the second most popular bridge for suicide in the world, behind only Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
New York is full of places you recognize from the movies. I might as well just list all the sightseeing stuff: Grand Central Station, Battery Park, Central Park, Empire State, etc. The weirdest thing was finding the Tenenbaum house from Royal Tenenbaums in Harlem. And the coffee shop from Seinfeld 
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Why does Bruges need two different spellings depending on whether you're English/French or German? I mean for god's sake, Bruges is a proper noun, why the hell does it need different spellings depending on language when those languages use basically the same alphabet?
On topic: considering I live in California that charm of being surprised by seeing landmarks you recognize in a movie is kind of lost on me.
On topic: considering I live in California that charm of being surprised by seeing landmarks you recognize in a movie is kind of lost on me.
Sounds like some kind of re-enactment is in order...?
But with the risk of being obscure, I remember in high-school when a film called Jalla Jalla [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jalla-jalla-the-best-mans-wedding/] came out. It was filmed in my hometown and had a nationwide release here in Sweden (I don't know about worldwide, though).
But that was kinda fun and odd, actually. Watching the film and going "Hey, I was shopping there yesterday!" or "That's where I wait for the bus." and so on.
But with the risk of being obscure, I remember in high-school when a film called Jalla Jalla [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jalla-jalla-the-best-mans-wedding/] came out. It was filmed in my hometown and had a nationwide release here in Sweden (I don't know about worldwide, though).
But that was kinda fun and odd, actually. Watching the film and going "Hey, I was shopping there yesterday!" or "That's where I wait for the bus." and so on.
Yeah, unfortunately. King of the Hill takes place in the suburbs of the DFW metroplex, and Arlen is said to have been based off Richardson. I learned this shortly after I moved to Richardson.
It's highly accurate!
It's highly accurate!
It French and Flemish. Flemish is version of Dutch not German. The languages are completely different, French is development of Latin and the only reason why they use the same alphabet is because the only literate section of Germanic society were the Catholic priests who could read Latin anyway.Dirty Hipsters said:
I live in London, and I find myself playing "Spot the Location" constantly with shots in TV and movies. "Oh, yeah. They're most likely on an upper floor of the Tate Modern, judging by the view of St. Paul's in the background..."
Hooray! Now you just have to film your neighbors and make really dumb youtube poops out of them :3Chemical Alia said:
OP: I did have a similar experience playing the first Mass Effect a few years ago, actually. It was winter, and we got so much snow that my home was half-buried. In Mass Effect on the same day I'd actually gotten to Noveria, and then and there that memory was ingrained in me forever as a moment of pure and ultimate immersion. I love moments like that.
I saw the film almost the day after returning a film to Bruges. It was bizarre. In part because I loved teh movie to death. But because it was wierd seeing ti, with that etheric quality which it si filmed with agianst the reality of the town in my memories.
ANd for going somewhere and seeing a film of the place? No. I watch very little TV/cinema/anything when I travel. That is not why I travel so unless I'm stuck on a bus or plane I do not watch almost anything. I guess Barcelona was happened, but I lived there as in my city, so not in a travel.
PS: Captcha oh, you captcha is bored with me by now.
ANd for going somewhere and seeing a film of the place? No. I watch very little TV/cinema/anything when I travel. That is not why I travel so unless I'm stuck on a bus or plane I do not watch almost anything. I guess Barcelona was happened, but I lived there as in my city, so not in a travel.
PS: Captcha oh, you captcha is bored with me by now
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I went to a televised gig... and decided it would be fun to use 3G TV on my phone so I could see the gig on the phone and in real life!
It kind of worked, but the signal was a bit shit!
It kind of worked, but the signal was a bit shit!
It's brilliant, it's a one off, and once you?ve seen it you'll never look at another film in the same way again!Fat_Hippo said:
Oh and "You?re an inanimate f@*king object!"
OT Here in the UK it's odd any time you see Leeds (where I live) on telly, even weirder was the time they shot an episode of "A Touch of Frost" in Garforth, the little village where I grew up!
I watched that film. Near the end, when Alice destroys a helicopter or some other such jazz, I could have sworn I could see the houses of parliament in the background.
I watched 28 Days Later in London, years and years ago. That was trippy. It does not help with Agoraphobia.
I watched 28 Days Later in London, years and years ago. That was trippy. It does not help with Agoraphobia.