traceyk65 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Came across this link to a map of the US showing the top-rated movies set in each state. What do you all think? Are they right? Or do you have other better suggestions? My personal favorite for my home state of Ohio is Heathers or The Man Who Came to Dinner . http://i.imgur.com/GM0v1qm.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeverlyBuzzby Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Iowa: The Music Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 See this link for major films that take place in all states: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_set_in_the_United_States_by_state Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geralddddd Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Practically every month there is a street closed somewhere around here because of filming for some movie or tv show. Since my state is far too big, I'll go with city. I can't think of any off hand but, if they are supposed to be in the L.A. Harbor area, this is it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Hmmm..well, as I recall Geralddddd, Jake Gittes DOES drive down to San Pedro during his investigation in MY favorite film based in Los Angeles, California...if THAT counts here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 off top of my head (NO peekin' at wiki site) ILLINOIS: "Ordinary People", "Blues Brothers", "Ferris Buelller's ..." & of course, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 They're not from the Harbor Area, but You have Chinatown, The Mark of Zorro, and Rebel Without a Cause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 And, not to forget the folks up in the Bay Area, we have that 1930's blockbuster "San Francisco", and "Bullitt". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 If you're wandering up in that area, you can also include a couple of Hitchcock's efforts: Vertigo, and The Birds. Also a favorite of his, Shadow of a Doubt. I just noticed you beat me to Mr. Geddes. Fast work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Yep, now how could I forget "Vertigo" for a SF flick?! And yep again, good mention of those small town California Hitchcock films, slayton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Another great SF location shooting, *The Lineup* 1958 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 HOME STATE: Oregon My favorite: "Overboard" (1987) a fictional city on the Oregon coastline. My second favorite: "The Goonies" (1985), Astoria, OR a city at the very tip of the N. Oregon coast line. Others: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Was set in Oregon. Filmed at the mental hospital in my home city of Salem. The building sat vacant and decrepit for years. I believe that it was recently torn down, except for a section of it was saved and turned into a mental health museum. It's good they fixed it up. The building was super creepy to drive by. "Free Willy" again in Astoria. They must offer good perks to film companies. *In the mid 90s when Keiko (Free Willy) was being freed from the bad living conditions in Mexico, he came to a specially built tank at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport. My fifth grade class took a field trip to see him. He is long gone (and deceased) now, and the tank is now an exhibit called "Passages of the Deep." "Mr. Holland's Opus" filmed in my other home city of Portland (I was born there and lived there for about 10 years, hoping to maybe move back in the next year or so). "Coraline" set in the small S. Oregon town of Ashland. "Coraline" was created entirely in Oregon. Phil Knight (CEO of Nike)'s son worked on the film. Finally, I know its not movies. But "Portlandia" on the IFC channel is filmed in Portland. It's fun to see places I recognize on TV and I can tell you from all my time living in Portland that the show is not particularly exaggerating what Portland is like. A little of it is far-fetched; but not much. I <3 Portland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 I think you forgot to mention for your state of Oregon here that early Joan Crawford classic movie "Rain", speedracer! (...oh...wait...never mind) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 I'd just like to go on record that even though Oregon has a reputation for a lot of rain, it's not true. Oregon may have more consecutive days with rain than most other places (except for maybe Washington) but some cities on the East Coast (for example) have more rain overall. In spite of the wet days, we have great summers and the state is beautiful. Plus, we were spared the "polar vortex." While everyone else was at -50 or whatever it was, we were experiencing a balmy 45ish degrees. This week, it's supposed to be over 50 degrees and relatively dry. It didn't rain today! Woohoo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeverlyBuzzby Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Speaking of Oregon, how about Sometimes a Great Notion, starring Paul Newman and Lee Remick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewhite2000 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Well, I've got a pretty easy one with Texas: The Alamo The Apostle Blood Simple Bonnie & Clyde The Buddy Holly Story Days of Heaven Duel in the Sun For a Few Dollars More The Getaway Giant Hud JFK The Last Picture Show The Magnificent Seven No Country for Old Men Old Yeller Once Upon a Time in the West The Outlaw Josey Wales Paris, Texas Red River The Right Stuff Seven Days in May Smokey & the Bandit The Southerner Sugarland Express Terms of Endearment Traffic The Wild Bunch and of course the Texas Chainsaw Massacre! But NOT Thelma & Louise, because Louise refused to go into Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikisoo Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 New York is just as easy as Texas....unless you separate NYC out of it (which most upstaters do) I've never seen DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK, but A PLACE IN THE SUN is supposed to take place in the same general area of the state. My favorite is IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. If you ever make it to Seneca Falls (home of women's rights!) you'd recognise it as Bedford Falls. Most small towns along the Barge Canal have that caught-in-a time-warp sort of feeling. And speedracer, Oregon is my favorite state and I love visiting or working there. I noticed a lot of moisture in the forests, like moss or lichens on the trees. I think it's due to lack of sunlight rather than rainfall, not unlike Syracuse (Dreary-cuse) Coffee & movies are big in these unsunny states. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 I've lived in NY, Ma, and now Fla. So many movies take place in each of those states. Impossible to list them all but for NY, I'd say *Marty* since it takes place in The Bronx, neighborhoods I grew up in. Could probably name 100 films for NY, but just to name 1 for Manhattan, I love *The World of Henry Orient* . The locations shots are perfect and the feeling of Central Park in the winter scenes captures the feeling perfectly. This is one film that uses the city as a character. The feeling of Spring in NYC is also captured perfectly. Of course there's *The Godfather* *Miracle on 34th Street* *Miracle In the Rain* just too many that use NY as a backdrop and that are favorites. For Massachusetts - Again so many, but for location shots of Boston, *The Thomas Crown Affair* - *The Gazebo* . The Gazebo used in the film was in the next town over from my town. So many for Ma. *Jaws*, *Now Voyager* *A Stolen Life* *Little Women* For combining NY and Massachusetts- *Portrait of Jennie* - The Cloisters, Met Musuem of Art, Central Park, the Lighthouse, "Lands End" - the locations shots in *Portrait of Jennie" were beautiful. For Fla- yikes, again so many- *Key Largo* *Moon Over Miami* *Cool Hand Luke* *The Yearling* *Body Heat* . I love the film *Heartbreakers* , besides a clever funny script, terrific acting, great cast, Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Hewitt, Ray Liotta and Anne Bancroft, great and gorgeous location shots of Fla. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EugeniaH Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 For sentimental reasons, my favorite movie set in New York would be *Sabrina*. A lot of the plot takes place on Long Island, and the scene at the train station was filmed in the city where I was born, Glen Cove. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelissaW. Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 For Pennsylvania, of course there's The Philadelphia Story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baker Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 For Michigan, SOMEWHERE IN TIME, filmed on Mackinac Island. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 > For Michigan, SOMEWHERE IN TIME, filmed on Mackinac Island Don't forget HOFFA. There are scant others I can't recall just now, and I don't want to brag about the train station used in TRANSFORMERS for obvious reasons. Oh, and BLUE COLLAR, with Richard Pryor, Harvey Kietel(sic) and Yaphet Koto. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Yep sewhite, gotta say the Lone Star State DOES have many a great movie about it that it could claim as "quintessential Texas", and personally I would have shown "Giant" on that map instead of the spaghetti western "For a Few Dollars More". Btw, and speakin' of Texas...when I was a kid, my dear ol' Indiana-born Pop used to occasionally sing a little ditty about that state of yours that he said he learned while marching to it at Fort Hood during some of his basic training in the U.S. Army just before being sent over to fight the Wehrmacht in WWII. And, it went like this: (to the tune of "Mademoiselle from Armenti?res"...) Texas is a hell of a state, Parlez-vous Texas is a hell of a state, Parlez-vous Texas is a hell of a state, The a**hole of the forty-eight Hinky Dinky Parlez-vous (...sorry for "messin' with Texas" here, dude...but I just couldn't resist this little venture back to my childhood in California!) LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 The Elk River in West Virginia if they want to make a film about chemical contamination. http://inhabitat.com/huge-chemical-spill-leaves-30000-without-drinking-water-in-west-virginia/ Maybe a sequel to "Erin Brockovich" (2000) http://wvmetronews.com/2014/01/13/erin-brockovich-hosts-charleston-town-hall-meeting/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedya Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 > Don't forget HOFFA. There are scant others I can't recall just now, *Anatomy of a Murder*. I'm in Ulster County, NY, so I'll pick *Tootsie*, since they actually filmed at the Hurley Mountain Inn not too far from here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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