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Post 22 Sep 2013, 3:03 am

http://blogs.phillymag.com/the_philly_p ... -rocky-ii/
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Post 22 Sep 2013, 12:22 pm

As a life long Philadelphia area native my comment is duh. Actually there was a really bad movie starting Anthony Edwards and Forest Whittaker from the late 80's/early 90's set in Philadelphia called Downtown. It had a car chase scene in it that made absolutely no sense geographically what so ever. I remember thinking there were 3 scenes in a row where there was absolutely no way possible to get to each spot in the sequence from the one proceeding it.


Also a nit pick from the article. The bench Rocky jumps over is in the historical front of the building. For some reason, unknown to me, people now call the front the back and the back the front.
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Post 22 Sep 2013, 1:16 pm

I love that somebody has actually gone to the trouble of working all this out.

It's always fun to see scenes in films that are shot in your home town and don't make any kind of sense. I dunno if anybody here has seen Four Lions (British comedy film about a bungling group of islamic terrorists).It was all shot in Sheffield on a really small budget. The final scenes though are supposed to take place in London, but they clearly decided it would be cheaper to shoot them in Sheffield as well and figured that hardly anybody would be able to tell the difference. That's undoubtedly true for most people but it made it a really disconcerting watch for me, since it all takes place about 2 mins from where I work. Took me ages to figure out what the hell was going on.
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Post 22 Sep 2013, 2:01 pm

I'm currently watching a TV programme (By Any Means) set in London but clearly filmed in Birmingham. My wife's family live in the same street as a character in it. They did the same thing in the last two series of Hustle.
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Post 22 Sep 2013, 6:31 pm

Body of Proof with Dana Delaney was set in Philadelphia but the building they showed for the Coroner's office doesn't exist in this city.
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Post 22 Sep 2013, 8:07 pm

A new Spiderman movie (not out yet) that takes place in Manhattan had several chase scenes filmed in my town, Rochester. While the buildings will of course not match those in New York, the film crew did change street signs and all sorts of things to make you think it really is NYC.
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Post 22 Sep 2013, 8:15 pm

Is this why Philadelphia was so screwed up in the ’70s?

I may have been one screwed up kid in the 70's and I may be from Philadelphia, But I had already moved away for several years.
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Post 23 Sep 2013, 8:56 am

GMTom wrote:
Is this why Philadelphia was so screwed up in the ’70s?

I may have been one screwed up kid in the 70's and I may be from Philadelphia, But I had already moved away for several years.


And yet the effects linger... :wink:
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Post 23 Sep 2013, 9:00 am

yes they do! But I left early enough so it didn't affect my speech, those guys talk funny down there!