when it is meant to be set in a particular city, say Boston in the USA, and yet the characters are having a cup of tea in a cafe overlooking the Yarra River in Melbourne Australia after having visited the Melbourne Museum?

What the hell are you watching?

johnart said:

No, because I don't know what Melbourne looks like...

However, some scenes for The Matrix were shot here in Oakland as was 75% of the movie Made in America (1993)...

Maybe the film company did not have enough money to go on location.

Some use a studio or other means to make it believable.

luv4u said:

There are cities that pay big money to have films shot on location too! Lot's of Hollywood money for the locals!!

johnart said:

yeah..it does bother me.

i remember watching "rumble in the bronx" (with jackie chan ) & seeing the mountains of BC in the background & thinking...this is so lame.
at least TRY to hide it.....

RenHoek said:

but that would mean that the city would be promoted as itself thought

didn't anyone else get annoyed in Transformers2 when they are in the Air and Space museum in Chantilly VA, and they open the hangar doors and they are in the boneyard in Tuscon AZ?

ZombieKitten said:

that movie is so scary.

Alej said:

really?

ZombieKitten said:

I actually saw it at the theater My friend was cracking up because I was so scared

Alej said:

I was a bit distressed at the scene where Caleb was in his room by himself

ZombieKitten said:

no... they pay waaay more to be seen as themselves... they pay just to have the privilege of having Hollywood show up... sheesh!

No but it will annoy me that the people who are living in NY, LA or elsewhere are talking with a German dialect .
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Alej said:

I just saw this too. I agree that a couple of scenes were scary I had a little lump in my throat when Caleb had to leave his Daddy

... and I had no idea that the scenes were Melbourne. But then I've never been.

florescent said:

there I was saying "wow! Boston is so similar to Melbourne, that could almost be the Yarra River! But hang on a minute, isn't that Flinders Street Station, right there, see! Behind Nicholas Cage's head!!!" We rewound to the museum scene and the old tram with the sign that says Spencer St on the front of it is clearly visible in the museum scenes




and the whale skeleton
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ZombieKitten said:


and the whale skeleton
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that's really a nice whale skeleton

Melbourne, you say? makes a change from every American film being shot in Vancouver, like the last 10-15 years...

ZombieKitten said:

I just watched A Rage In Harlem early this year, I lived all my life in Harlem and that didn't look like my city,,,,,and sure enough, it was Ohio

ZombieKitten said:

YES! That is annoying...unless it is veeeery low budget. In which case I suppose I could try to suspend reality

Really, really annoying though when a movie takes place in a non-English speaking country, but all the characters speak English!
Yes, Im talking to you Memoirs of a Geisha

No but it annoys me when they are making a film about Boston people they over accentuate the Boston accent!

Suspension of disbelief.

it doesn't annoy me but it is kinda funny when it's supposed to be dutch people and they speak german (mainly in major hollywood productions) now german and dutch may sound similar to a person that doesn't speak neither but it always makes me laugh.

aroundtheworld said:

that's really a nice whale skeleton[/quote]
Woowziers!!! I bet that would have made a great movie. Cool skeleton. Wonder what the whole shaaabang looked like.

The only time it was really obvious to me was in Spider-Man 2 with a scene on an elevated crosstown subway train in Manhattan. Anyone that has been here knows there is no such thing.

ZombieKitten said:

I think more than scary, it was very disturbing. That part where the kid looks through the little ass window and see the world burning was just !!!

It used to bother me as a kid watching CHiPs when they would be driving down PCH towards Malibu and suddenly be in downtown LA.

But I think there is also a sense of satisfaction to catching those flaws. It makes us feel knowledgeable, as if we know more than the average viewer (and maybe even the filmmaker).

so what is this movie about? I'm lost.