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Post by darbus alan on May 25, 2022 14:58:12 GMT -5
New Jersey is a lot more like Kevin Smith movies than The Sopranos or Jersey Shore.
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Post by Scoops on May 25, 2022 15:38:08 GMT -5
Can we do games? Cause I'm still looking for the mountains that Watchdogs found surrounding Chicago.
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Post by genericusername on May 25, 2022 15:46:42 GMT -5
Can we do games? Cause I'm still looking for the mountains that Watchdogs found surrounding Chicago? This is even more hilarious for me because I've been on rides from Florida to Illinois and Illinois doesn't have shit for mountains, or anything tall that's not man made.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on May 25, 2022 17:13:27 GMT -5
Rare is it that a character from Devon, Cornwall, or Somerset isn't portrayed as a tweed-wearing, wellington boot-shod farmer, usually uttering "Ooh-arr" at some point, and generally sounding like this:
As someone born, raised, and never lived outside of the West Country, in all my 40 years I've rarely met anybody who embodied any of those stereotypes.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on May 25, 2022 18:50:54 GMT -5
There's a LOT of movies that involve Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa that get all the accents wrong and look like they filmed the parts in Montana. But nobody gives a shit about us so that's par for the course. To be fair, the accent is too subtle to adequately imitate without going in the wrong direction. It’s not quite the typical Midwestern accent.
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Post by ERON on May 26, 2022 3:21:35 GMT -5
San Antonio is not in the middle of the desert. The overwhelming majority of us don't have thick Texas accents, walk around with 10-gallon hats, silver belt buckles, boots and spurs, or live on ranches with horses, or have horns on the hoods of our cars. And if you holler out "The stars at night are big and bright," we don't spontaneously burst into a chorus of "Deep in the heart of Texas!"
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jun 15, 2023 7:05:18 GMT -5
Another one about the Greater Boston area. I saw a Dateline NBC episode about a case in West Roxbury. They describe it as like a small town where everyone knows each other. The former is technically true since a quick Google shows any place with a population of 40,000 or less is technically a small town. However the latter certainly isn’t. I used to work almost everyday in West Roxbury and if anything would’ve happened to me no one outside of the few people I worked with would’ve had any idea who the hell I was.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jun 15, 2023 11:09:14 GMT -5
On the rare occasion Biloxi shows up in stuff it is shown as way way way more rural than it is.
Sure pre-1990 Biloxi was a smaller town with lots of seafood. But since the casinos moved in it changed.
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Post by JasonVoorhees1988 on Jun 15, 2023 12:08:41 GMT -5
There's definitely not a hockey mask wearing psychopath in the woods surrounding Crystal Lake. Nope. It's a totally normal place. Bring your promiscuous, pot smoking teenagers, they're dying to get here!!!
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jun 15, 2023 13:30:26 GMT -5
Transformers:ROTF had some vast desert behind the air and space museum in Washington, DC.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jun 15, 2023 13:38:39 GMT -5
Transformers:ROTF had some vast desert behind the air and space museum in Washington, DC. I had the same thought when this thread popped back up haha. They went from the Smithsonian annex at Dulles (WHICH IS AWESOME. IT HAS THE SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY.) to Arizona because Michael Bay doesn't care what "geography buffs" think. Probably doesn't even crack the top 10 things wrong with that awful, awful movie.
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Post by An Dog On An Skateboard on Jun 15, 2023 16:05:55 GMT -5
Slough is even worse than how it's depicted in The Office.
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Post by chrom on Jun 15, 2023 16:14:20 GMT -5
Transformers:ROTF had some vast desert behind the air and space museum in Washington, DC. I had the same thought when this thread popped back up haha. They went from the Smithsonian annex at Dulles (WHICH IS AWESOME. IT HAS THE SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY.) to Arizona because Michael Bay doesn't care what "geography buffs" think. Probably doesn't even crack the top 10 things wrong with that awful, awful movie. He was Zack Snyder before Zack Snyder
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Post by Milkman Norm on Jun 15, 2023 17:26:06 GMT -5
New Jersey is a lot more like Kevin Smith movies than The Sopranos or Jersey Shore. How often do moderately successful, depressed actors come back to New Jersey for their mothers funeral and end up falling in love with a quirky woman with a seizure disorder who introduces him to the music of The Shins?
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Post by IgnahtaSempria on Jun 15, 2023 17:35:24 GMT -5
I'm from Winnipeg.
I'd post inaccuracies, but that would require a piece of media to actually take place in Winnipeg.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Jun 15, 2023 18:19:34 GMT -5
I love the movie and all by St. Louis in The National Lampoons Vacation movie outside the city skyline. One unless you stop for hours, you wouldn't taken that long from day to night to drive through the city. The other part is whole scenes shot with directions. None of the city houses look like that or store fronts really. Even in the rough area, don't look like that.
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Post by zero744 on Jun 15, 2023 19:39:00 GMT -5
“Hi, I’m in Delaware”
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Post by Vampiro138 on Jun 15, 2023 21:49:26 GMT -5
There was a Gacy film made that had Francis from Pee Wees Big Adventure playing John Wayne Gacy and, I do not live too far from where the whole Gacy thing happened, and yeah..we do not have palm trees in Chicago. The 'Bohemian Rhapsody' car ride during Waynes World makes zero sense, they leave Aurora, go to the far northwest side of Chicago go drive down North avenue, go drive downtown a bit, to go Berwyn and then BACK to Aurora?? Garth drove probably 30 some miles to drive them all probably a few blocks away from their starting point. I also recall when I was in Philly a few years back and was watching Rocky with Larryhausen and he pointed out how the jog he goes on in the training scene also makes zero sense, and dude pretty much ran like 40 miles all in all going from the different checkpoints.
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Post by DASH 243✅ on Jun 15, 2023 22:24:36 GMT -5
For Seattle it does rain a lot but in movies and shows the people always have umbrellas. That’s how you can tell someone is from out of state. No one uses that umbrellas in Washington.
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Post by darbus alan on Jun 16, 2023 1:15:40 GMT -5
New Jersey is a lot more like Kevin Smith movies than The Sopranos or Jersey Shore. How often do moderately successful, depressed actors come back to New Jersey for their mothers funeral and end up falling in love with a quirky woman with a seizure disorder who introduces him to the music of The Shins? Surprisingly more than you'd think.
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