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San Francisco is getting overused, though the last Apes movie interwove it well into the story.
I wouldn't mind seeing more films in Chicago...it was used often in the 1980s, but not so much since then.
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New York is not so much overrated as over-exposed. I'd really like to see more films set in somewhere other than LA, NY, SF, Boston. How many films have been set in Houston? I enjoy seeing Philly in film, Rocky, Philadelphia, the Sixth Sense, it's a refreshing change from seeing Central Park, Madison Avenue, ad nauseum.
I think WWII movies set in Europe get boring after awhile. In fact war movies are getting a little boring.
Part of the reason I enjoy foreign films is to see someplace other than America on film.
The Hollyhock house in L.A.
It's in Blade Runner, Rush Hour, The House On Haunted Hill, Karate Kid, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and about a jillion other movies and TV shows. Every time they need a futuristic house or office, it's always used- over and over and over.
It's a Frank Lloyd Wright home, built for an actress in the 30's, and now belongs to L.A. as a heritage home. In real life, it's cool, for sure, but I wish Hollywood would give it a break.
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New York is not so much overrated as over-exposed. I'd really like to see more films set in somewhere other than LA, NY, SF, Boston. How many films have been set in Houston? I enjoy seeing Philly in film, Rocky, Philadelphia, the Sixth Sense, it's a refreshing change from seeing Central Park, Madison Avenue, ad nauseum.
I think WWII movies set in Europe get boring after awhile. In fact war movies are getting a little boring.
Part of the reason I enjoy foreign films is to see someplace other than America on film.
Ronin is one of my recent favorites. Car chases with BMWs and Audis is awesome.
This isn't really a physical location, but a "setting" nonetheless:
At night, after it has rained.
In nearly every movie that takes place in a city, for outdoor scenes, the streets are all wet. I guess directors like how the street lights reflect on wet roads. But when they do this in scenes that take place in LA, Phoenix, or Vegas, it's really not believable. It's completely overdone.
"The Fourth Kind" supposedly set in Nome, Alaska, but filmed in Belgium, a place that looks nothing like Nome. I hate it when Alaskan movies or shows are filmed elsewhere, but at least Vancouver is at least somewhat like Alaska.
Ronin is one of my recent favorites. Car chases with BMWs and Audis is awesome.
The one with Robert De Niro, right? That movies is a classic and one of my all time favorites too. It had great suspense, acting/characters, cinematography and plot with twists, just an awesome movie all around.
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