Hometowns In The Movies.

[Kandinskyesque]

Probably if you're from NYC, LA or San Francisco you'll be so used to seeing your geographical environment on the movies you won't think twice about it, so I apologise in advance of expressing my cheap thrill.

I watched "The Batman" today on Sky streaming services and noticed a couple of familiar locations before checking on IMDB to see if I was right.
Right enough, The Old Glasgow Necropolis, Wishart Street in Glasgow and the old Hartwood Asylum in Lanarkshire are all used as locations.
Scotland is becoming a bit of a location centre for Hollywood films in the past decade or so, from Cloud Atlas to The Fast and the Furious franchise, also some of the Marvel films have used Edinburgh.

Every time I recognise a place in a movie as somewhere I've physically been on a regular basis, for some reason I get a bit of a bonus for having watched the movie. Unlike Mrs K I don't watch Outlander which is filmed all around here or it might be out my system.

Am I the only one who is as easily thrilled as this?

Anybody else in TDPRI-land at some normally far flung place have any famous movies shot in your location?

 

[StoneH]

The aircraft carrier scenes for "Midway" (1976) were filmed in my old hometown of Pensacola, FL. There were limited night spots and restaurants, so we saw the cast fairly often over a month or two. It was an all-star cast including Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda.

 

[Frontman]

Albuquerque is my home town, and it has been the location for a few movies, the oldest being “Lonely are the Brave” with Kirk Douglas and Walter Matthau. Then there was “Billy Jack” which I remember seeing at the Highland Theater when I was 4 years old, the line was at least a block long. There were lots of Navajos with their western clothes and black hats in the line. Then there was “Breaking Bad” which was filmed in the city.

Today I live in Roppongi in Tokyo. Movies and tv shows are regularly made here. The most recent is a tv drama called “Roppongi Class,” which includes scenes filmed in front of my building (I once had to wait for them to finish filming a scene before I could enter). Roppongi is also the home of the JAV industry.

 

[Milspec]

I was in Northern Norway the year "Dances with Wolves" was released and being shown in that area. I recognized much of the locations as places that I used to live and that created quite a stir amongst the other viewers when I pointed it out. They all started asking me if it was really like that where I lived and I...well, I teased them along by naming the Indians and telling them that my house was just over the hill.

I used to spend my Summers working at Ft. Robinson State Park dressed in a period military uniform like you saw on the screen. I used to lead the horse trails for visitors into similar looking locations and even watched the annual buffalo hunts, so I was able to tell a lot of stories that made those Norwegians start to wonder if the movie was more real than just Hollywood.

 

[Dan German]

I lived in Winnipeg. Tons of movies that show my old haunts, although they mostly claim it’s Chicago.

 

[edvard]

Not movies, but ages ago (1981-2 or so) there was some kind of 'adolescent education' program on one of the public channels, and it was filmed in my hometown of John Day, Oregon. It was in two parts; one "boys only" and one "girls only", basically about puberty and related topics. I recognized several of the 'cast' from my time in Boy Scouts. I can't really call them "cast" because they weren't acting subjects, they were simply filmed doing everyday things and here and there conversing while a voice-over talked about whatever. They were a bit older and were in the higher Scout levels when I knew them. My family had moved away a year or two before the program was filmed.

 

[televillian]

I spent my first dozen years in Evansville, Indiana home of Bosse Field, star of League of our own. I can remember my old man playing in a fast pitch softball tournament there. it was his last year playing because we moved to Arizona

 

[blowtorch]

I grew up in Plainfield WI- one mile down the road from where the Gein farm and home was.

They've made many movies about Gein.

Invaribly they have the locals speak in a southern twang- because you know, small town.
(Nevermind that it's WISCONSIN)
One of those movies even had mountains in the background.
(They named it PLAINFIELD for a reason)
Even worse- one of the movies had someone calling 911 from a phone booth
(this stuff all happened back in the 50s)

These movies are all so very stupid, but of course I have to see them

 

[Fredhead59]

Not a lot of movies in my town but quite a few in my state.
Letterheads was filmed partly in my town.
One scene was filmed in the yard of a house that was across the street from a high school where my kids went and my wife (lunch room mgr) worked. The "lunch ladies" came in on a Monday to a huge mess in the lunchroom,mostly makeup. Took them and the janitors almost 4 hours to clean up the mess.

 

[Fredhead59]

Leatherheads not Letterheads

 

[dsutton24]

My hometown was mentioned in an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man.

 

[brookdalebill]

Roadie, Blood Simple, and Nadine were filmed in and around Austin.

 

[Vibroluxer]

Pittsburgh gets to be the backdrop quite frequently.

I live in a little town and really, there isn't much of an attraction for the place with one exception:. For some reason movie folks like to film our bridge. Yep, come all this way to the middle of nowhere just to film a bridge.

 

[Slip Kid]

Scenes from “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” were filmed in New Haven and on Yale’s campus. They dressed up the storefronts on a section of Chapel St. to look like it was the ‘50’s. We were able to walk down the street when they weren’t filming and could check out the set. One of the storefronts was set to look like a music store complete with a ‘50’s Strat in the window (I think it might have been real because it didn’t have a Custom Shop logo on it). They also had the motorcycle used in a chase scene (through Yale’s dining common IIRC) parked on the street.

I’ve also heard that my area has been used a few times for some Lifetime channel filmings.

 

[Wound_Up]

Probably if you're from NYC, LA or San Francisco you'll be so used to seeing your geographical environment on the movies you won't think twice about it, so I apologise in advance of expressing my cheap thrill.

I watched "The Batman" today on Sky streaming services and noticed a couple of familiar locations before checking on IMDB to see if I was right.
Right enough, The Old Glasgow Necropolis, Wishart Street in Glasgow and the old Hartwood Asylum in Lanarkshire are all used as locations.
Scotland is becoming a bit of a location centre for Hollywood films in the past decade or so, from Cloud Atlas to The Fast and the Furious franchise, also some of the Marvel films have used Edinburgh.

Every time I recognise a place in a movie as somewhere I've physically been on a regular basis, for some reason I get a bit of a bonus for having watched the movie. Unlike Mrs K I don't watch Outlander which is filmed all around here or it might be out my system.

Am I the only one who is as easily thrilled as this?

Anybody else in TDPRI-land at some normally far flung place have any famous movies shot in your location?

Lots of movies have been filmed here in Shreveport, LA. We were considered "The Hollywood of the South" for quite a while in the 00's.

The Cleaner - Samuel L Jackson

Mr Brooks - Kevin Costner

The Guardian - That other Costner movie where he's a rescue swimmer in the Coast Guard

X-men Origins - Wolverine

Olympus Has Fallen

The Mechanic

Click

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantonomo Bay

and many, many, more.

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[trapdoor2]

I think there's some kind of TV drivel set in Huntsville, AL now. "Housewives of" or something like that.

Also, a "Spacecamp" movie or two, since Spacecamp and the Space Museum are there.

I think some low budget stuff has been filmed around there too.

When I lived in Tuscaloosa, they filmed the Burt Reynolds flick "Hooper" there. I actually went to the extras call and my roomate got picked...never got on film though. I did pump gas into the camera helicopters though (I worked at the airport).

 

[robt57]

For me it would be Edgewater, NJ. Movie is Cop Land.

And 'Big' [tom hanks] carnival scene was filmed a mile from my Mom's house. Ross's Dock pinic area 1/2 mile North of GW Bridge, we lived 1/2 mile south [Edgewater, yep]

But also Sopranos S1E1 when Tony hops in the Lexes and drives up on the sidewalk to nail that guy was maybe a mile from my house then. [Not Edgewater then] And Tony Soprano House was pretty close to the Essex Co Airport/FBO I studied $100 hamburgers from.

 

[Chester P Squier]

I mentioned this in the "Have you ever written a book" thread.

I grew up in a tiny hamlet in north Louisiana that is off the main highway. Most people have not heard of the town. But it has a large white wooden building with a bright green roof that, when I was growing up, housed a grocery store, the post office, a barber shop, and town hall.

That building was shown in a scene in a Hallmark Channel movie starring Candace Cameron. I think it was called Finding Normal or something like that. (The town itself is not called Normal, BTW,) I don't know that anything in this village deserved the description "iconic," but that building would be it.

 

[catdaddy]

In 1994 I lived in Bonita Springs, a small town on the west coast of Florida. It somehow was chosen as a locale for the movie 'Just Cause' with Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne. It was interesting watching the transformation that the set designers created on the town's main street to make it film worthy. Apparently, Connery was around for a few days of filming some scenes, but I never heard that anyone caught a glimpse of him. Went to see the movie when it was released and was disappointed that Bonita Springs didn't get much more than a minute or two of screen time. Was doubly disappointed because the movie sucked.

 

[buster poser]

Robocop was filmed in Dallas where I was born (love to have a city be a stand in for 80s Detroit because the real motown didn't look bad enough). Watched it again the other night, lots of my old stompin' grounds, including the old Starck Club.

My hometown now... fair few movies shot in the region, but one of the greatest scenes in film history was shot on the Plaza.