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Post by Xcalatë on Jan 20, 2020 18:24:31 GMT
Cities with over 1 million people or close to it that are almost never the main setting?
Phoenix
Houston
San Jose
San Diego
Jacksonville
Any others?
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Post by OrsonSwelles on Jan 20, 2020 18:27:36 GMT
Milwaukee, Portland.....
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Post by llanwydd on Jan 20, 2020 18:46:42 GMT
Orlando doesn't show up very often.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jan 20, 2020 20:19:36 GMT
LA
Chicago
NYC
Las Vegas
Atlanta
San Francisco
Philadelphia if M Night is directing
All others are rarely used
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Post by millar70 on Jan 20, 2020 20:34:46 GMT
San Jose is a large city, but if you've ever been there, you know why there's hardly any movies shot there.
Especially with places like San Francisco, Monterey, and Santa Cruz not that far away. Even Oakland has nicer scenery than San Jose.
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Post by HumanFundRecipient on Jan 20, 2020 21:40:55 GMT
Columbus, Ohio: except for the straight to DVD "I Am Wrath", and the opening scenes of "Parker" we don't get much Hollywood love
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Post by ck100 on Jan 20, 2020 23:01:45 GMT
Has Dallas been used much or at all outside of any western movies?
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Post by Xcalatë on Jan 20, 2020 23:07:29 GMT
Has Dallas been used much or at all outside of any western movies? Good point, That's another BIG city that seems forgotten when it comes to movies (The Only thing I remember being set in Dallas is The Gifted [X-men spin off TV Show]) and that was only a couple of episodes.
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Post by wolf359 on Jan 20, 2020 23:10:44 GMT
Has Dallas been used much or at all outside of any western movies?
JFK (1991)
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Post by moviemouth on Jan 20, 2020 23:14:45 GMT
LA Chicago NYC Las Vegas Atlanta San Francisco Philadelphia if M Night is directing All others are rarely used Boston
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jan 20, 2020 23:32:15 GMT
LA Chicago NYC Las Vegas Atlanta San Francisco Philadelphia if M Night is directing All others are rarely used Boston I meant to put Boston |
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Post by maxwellperfect on Jan 21, 2020 1:42:21 GMT
Has Dallas been used much or at all outside of any western movies? or Fort Worth, for that matter?
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Post by Archelaus on Jan 21, 2020 2:08:59 GMT
Portland, Oregon
Austin, Texas
Jacksonville, Florida
Springfield, Illinois
Charlotte, North Carolina
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Post by lowtacks86 on Jan 21, 2020 2:59:15 GMT
I can't think of a movie that takes place in Sacramento. Not much of a surpise, there's way better major California cities (San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego)
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Post by ck100 on Jan 21, 2020 7:24:21 GMT
The ten most populated cities in the United States - Wikipedia:
1 - New York
2 - Los Angeles
3 - Chicago
4 - Houston
5 - Phoenix
6 - Philadelphia
7 - San Antonio
8 - San Diego
9 - Dallas
10 - San Jose
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Jan 21, 2020 15:32:32 GMT
St. Louis
Oh wait, you said MAJOR cities. My bad.
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Post by drystyx on Jan 21, 2020 18:26:02 GMT
Louisville is the most obvious answer. But too many poor horse racing movies have been made already. The masses have a real insane view of the reality of sports gambling, horse racing, and bourbon, which are the three main things Kentucky is identified with in the world.
St Louis is another. The mid to near East, central U.S. is hated by the mob, even by mobsters who live there.
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Post by bd74 on Jan 21, 2020 18:46:59 GMT
How does one determine the actual population of a city? The "city" itself is usually just the downtown area and its surrounding neighborhoods, and it usually has less than a million people.
Anyway, I would choose Miami, though I don't know if it falls under the criteria of "over 1 million people". The city itself has less than a million though the county it's in has 2.5 million.
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Jan 21, 2020 20:31:36 GMT
The borders determine it, same as a state's population.
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Post by vegalyra on Jan 21, 2020 20:33:29 GMT
I'd have to disagree with Boston being mentioned. How many Irish-American police or gangster films have been set there? I mean seriously?
Houston gets mentioned a bit in sci fi films (as well as movies dealing with NASA), I think it's nuked in Independence Day and referenced as a resistance outpost in 10 Cloverfield Lane towards the end. But yeah, very few films set there. Brewster McCloud was entirely filmed there but that was back in 1970
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