Favorite Hollywood films set in your home country/state.

[Rossiya]

Not too many Hollywood movies set in Harare.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I don't know of any films set near where I live.

 

[Adamb0mb]

While many films have been set in San Francisco, The Rock showed off the city with missiles lauched from Alcatraz and folllowed across the city as well as car chases along cable car tracks.

 

[Volum]

I think there is only one Hollywood movie set in Norway, "The Heroes of Telemark" staring Kirk Douglas. Its supposed to be about the sabotage of the heavy water plant on Rjukan during the war, but its nowhere near accurate

But, the snow storm in Star Wars was filmed in Norway!

 

[RedRalph]

The Battle of Hoth?

 

[Volum]

Yes. Apparently during the snow storm at the start the crew where sitting inside the hotel while Luke Skywalker was going around in the snowstorm just outside

 

[dannyshenanigan]

I think there is only one Hollywood movie set in Norway, "The Heroes of Telemark" staring Kirk Douglas. Its supposed to be about the sabotage of the heavy water plant on Rjukan during the war, but its nowhere near accurate

But, the snow storm in Star Wars was filmed in Norway!

Isn't "The Thirteenth Warrior" supposed to be set in Scandinavia (possibly Norway)?

 

[RedRalph]

Cool... Braveheart was shot mostly here, the battle scenes at least. As was the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan.

 

[bhsup]

Ride With The Devil - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134154/

(Trailer) http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2510225689/

EDIT: The Day After gets honorable mention for scaring the crap out of a nation. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085404/

 

[RedRalph]

The bumsavaging of Thómas ni Fhláithbeartaigh, (a drama based on the life of an Irish priest who gets imprisoned in a Turkish jail for a crime he didnt commit. Stars Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy) was set in East Wall, where I grew up, the Turkish scenes were filed in Cauurcloe in Wexcford. but most of ye probably already knew that.

 

[Shekwan]

The bumsavaging of Thómas ni Fhláithbeartaigh, (a drama based on the life of an Irish priest who gets imprisoned in a Turkish jail for a crime he didnt commit. Stars Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy) was set in East Wall, where I grew up, the Turkish scenes were filed in Cauurcloe in Wexcford. but most of ye probably already knew that.

Yeah that movie is one my favourites too. The emotional bind he forms with the Turkish adolescent boys is strangely poignant.

The only Hollywood connection my hometown has is that Neil Jordan is from there and went to the same school as me. Im in Dublin now and theres loads of movies set here.

 

[Masquerouge]

There are a lot of Hollywood movies set in France but 99.9% of them simply can not avoid the cliches of baguettes, berets, and paved streets in Paris.

I'm trying to figure out what that movie that represents the remaining 0.1% is.

 

[RedRalph]

There are a lot of Hollywood movies set in France but 99.9% of them simply can not avoid the cliches of baguettes, berets, and paved streets in Paris.

I'm trying to figure out what that movie that represents the remaining 0.1% is.

Allo Allo - The Movie

 

[bhsup]

There are a lot of Hollywood movies set in France but 99.9% of them simply can not avoid the cliches of baguettes, berets, and paved streets in Paris.

I'm trying to figure out what that movie that represents the remaining 0.1% is.

Have you ever seen that Harrison Ford movie set there? Frantic. Not sure if it is an accurate representation of France or not, but I liked the movie.

 

[Phlegmak]

There are a lot of Hollywood movies set in France but 99.9% of them simply can not avoid the cliches of baguettes, berets, and paved streets in Paris.

I'm trying to figure out what that movie that represents the remaining 0.1% is.

Paved streets? What's wrong with paved streets? Paris doesn't have paved streets? Only dirt roads?

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I think he means cobblestone or brick-paved.

 

[Mirc]

The great majority of Cold Mountain was filmed in Romania. Renée Zellweger got an Oscar for best supporting actress for it, and it was nominated for 6 more awards (didn't win any other, though).


No good Hollywood film has been made in my city though a number of them were filmed there. They were all mindless action movies without too much of a plot at all, with the exception of some poor horror movies (being a city founded by the real-life Vlad III Dracula and all that, it's normal). 7 Seconds was probably the best money-wise, and is the epitome of the kind of movie I was talking about - mindless action and extremely thin plot. So again, no good Hollywood films at all.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Are there any Hollywood movies set in the Philippines?

 

[Masquerouge]

I think he means cobblestone or brick-paved.

Yes, cobblestone.


And VRWC, no, I haven't seen Frantic. But just to keep in mind, the fact that
Hollywood movies about France have a lot of cliches in them do not make them crappy, just at worst slightly annoying (as if every movie set in the US had to include a cow-boy on a horse, after a while you'd just roll your eyes)

 

[Zulu Impi]

Near or in my town would be Ciderhouse Rules, Edge of Darkness(new mel gibson movie that did a lot of shooting here last summer) and Running with Scissors my favorite in the state(MA) would be the Departed.