Filming Locations!!!

Discussion in 'TV & Media' started by EnriqueH, Jan 20, 2015.

  1. EnriqueH

    EnriqueH Commodore Commodore

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    So which filming locations have you been to?

    I got inspired by the Trek Locations thread, and thought some of us have probably been to some cool film locales.

    I'll start:

    This is the church from the pre-credits sequence of the James Bond movie, "Licence to Kill", where Bond and Felix Leiter parachute down to Felix's wedding. It's in Key West.

    I have more pictures of this site, and other locations, but I thought I'd start with one to make sure there's interest.

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  2. scotpens

    scotpens Professional Geek Premium Member

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    I live in Los Angeles. My whole damn town is a filming location! :)
     
  3. EnriqueH

    EnriqueH Commodore Commodore

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    Then snap to it! Bust out the photos!
     
  4. bbailey861

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    We are going to be visiting Monument Valley - the location of several John Wayne (and other) films - at the end of Feb. I'll try to post a couple.
     
  5. Ar-Pharazon

    Ar-Pharazon Admiral Premium Member

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    I drive the Amstutz "expressway" (aka: the highway to nowhere) every day.

    Scenes for Blues Brothers, Groundhog Day & the last Batman movie were filmed there. A few TV shows as well I think.
     
  6. Starkers

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    I live in Nottingham so have been to Wollerton Hall, or Stately Wayne Manor as its also known ;) Been to London so many times that I've likely seen an awful lot of film locations, a biggie a few years ago was going to Corfu though as I got to see a lot of the locations from For Your Eyes Only
     
  7. EnriqueH

    EnriqueH Commodore Commodore

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    Aside from being a hardcore Trek fan, I'm also a hardcore James Bond fan (as well as Star Wars). These are my personal Holy Trinity of Film franchises.

    Here's a picture of Emilio Largo's Palmyra estate in Nassau from the 4th Bond film, "Thunderball".


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  8. Garak

    Garak Cruisin' Premium Member

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    Vancouver, so....a lot. I used to work in the Lexcorp building in Smallville.
     
  9. EnriqueH

    EnriqueH Commodore Commodore

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    Does anybody have pictures to share?
     
  10. Gaith

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    Not a literal film location, but this is me in the Forum, doing my best to match Rome with the ruins:

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    Here I'm in Cornwall's Eden Project, where the tropical greenhouse part of Die Another Day's ice palace sequence was filmed:

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    And this is me from the 2005 film Just Like Heaven DVD, reading Al Franken's Lies... far, far behind Ruffalo and Witherspoon in San Francisco's Washington Square Park, where I was a paid extra:

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  11. TemporalFlux

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    I was in the audience of the James Brown concert in France during the movie "Get on Up; it filmed in Thalia Murrah Hall in Jackson, MS. I don't think it showed up on screen, but I thought it was amusing that they replaced the emergency exit signs with the French translation for Exit.
     
  12. Forbin

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    I work in the general area where Soprano's was filmed, so I occasionally cruise past one of the locations. The Tic Tock Diner is right near work.
     
  13. MacLeod

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    Been to Monument Valley, I could add in Yosemite.
     
  14. EnriqueH

    EnriqueH Commodore Commodore

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    OCP Headquarters from the original Robocop. In downtown Dallas:

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  15. doubleohfive

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    This.

    I recently discovered that I live just a few blocks from Kevin and Winnie's houses from The Wonder Years, too. :lol:

    I've pictures of the various places I've been around town, I'll try to load them up and share later today.

    Also: great thread, EnriqueH!
     
  16. Timby

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    I lived in Baltimore for a year, so I went to many filming locations from Homicide: Life on the Street, the most recognizable being the City Recreation Pier, which served as the police precinct for the series' entire seven-year run. The building (which has been vacant since 1999, although plans are now afoot to convert it to a luxury hotel) still has the Baltimore City Police signage from when the series was filming there.

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  17. doubleohfive

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    To start:

    I've been several times, but this was from the most recent trip with my girlfriend (who had never been) back in October to Descanso Gardens, a local, beautiful nature preserve in Glendale, which also happens to be the location that doubled for Sherwood Forest in TNG's "Q-Pid."

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    Here's a shot from Yosemite National Park, which apart from being just about the most beautiful place in the entire damn country was also featured in Star Trek V.

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    I've been to Vasquez Rocks [as seen on Star Trek and Buffy The Vampire Slayer (among others)] several times, too:

    The first time, in 2009:

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    ...again in 2011:

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    And again in 2012:

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    Here's a shot from Randy's Donuts in L.A., the exterior of which has been featured in (among others) Arrested Development and Iron Man 2:

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    Finally, these are from my last job at Sony. I snapped a few photos of the Sony Pictures Plaza building, which has doubled as various office buildings on shows (the earliest I can recall is in the background of an 1990 episode of Dallas, but you guys probably recognize it better as the exterior of Wolfram & Hart from Angel:

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    I've got a photo somewhere of the Hyperion Hotel from Angel as well, but I need to track it down.
     
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  18. EnriqueH

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    Nice pics, man!

    Isn't that last building also in "The Running Man" with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Richard Dawson?
     
  19. MacLeod

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    Well it does look like the ICS building from that film.
     
  20. EnriqueH

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