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Movies that lie about your hometown or country

Judge said:
Has to be hard on a clutch though. I commuted on BART....saved myself a lot of grief!

And parking money....
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Not to mention body work on your car, when I lived there I swear not a car there didn't have a dent somewhere!
 
Arrogant Penguin said:
Not to mention body work on your car, when I lived there I swear not a car there didn't have a dent somewhere!
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Even as a pedestrian it wasn't always easy dodging the bicycle couriers!

But then I watched a few of them take some pretty serious hits from cars on occasion. Dangerous streets...but nothing compared to back east.
 
I'm sure there's quite a few more, but you get my drift.
 
nowwhat said:
I'm sure there's quite a few more, but you get my drift.
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So ... Where is it you are from ?
 
Arrogant Penguin said:
Where you stay? I'm a East Side boy in Vegas now!
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I'm Moiliili raised. Live Aiea now. I used to knock around Kokokahi, Puohala and Convenient Store, when it was Convenient Store. I surf all up and down between Kualoa and Kahuku. Lots of friends on that side. I have a friend who's a Kaneohe boy now living in Vegas. A very good surfer, initials B.K. Thanks for the shout!
 
I remember the beginning scenes of the battle of Fredricksburg, Virginia in "Gods and Generals". Oops...

I started chuckling because I instantly recognized that the street scene of retreating soldiers was actually Harpers Ferry West Virginia, and not Fredricksburg at all. But then recreating the Battle of Fredricksburg in town would be a tad problematic now.

Harpers Ferry is more or less preserved as a national historic site, unlike the city of Fredricksburg.
 
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nowwhat said:
I'm Moiliili raised. Live Aiea now. I used to knock around Kokokahi, Puohala and Convenient Store, when it was Convenient Store. I surf all up and down between Kualoa and Kahuku. Lots of friends on that side. I have a friend who's a Kaneohe boy now living in Vegas. A very good surfer, initials B.K. Thanks for the shout!
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Kailua and Kaneohe mostly for me, with a short stay in Kalihi, Damien grad. My mom still lives in Kailua, I lived in Kaneohe before moving to Vegas. I used to work at Love's Bakery, Kapahulu and Middle St. Then I worked out at Campbell Industrial at Chevron. Love the North Shore, if I were to move there again, I'd like to stay in Kahuku. Maybe someday!
 
Arrogant Penguin said:
Kailua and Kaneohe mostly for me, with a short stay in Kalihi, Damien grad. My mom still lives in Kailua, I lived in Kaneohe before moving to Vegas. I used to work at Love's Bakery, Kapahulu and Middle St. Then I worked out at Campbell Industrial at Chevron. Love the North Shore, if I were to move there again, I'd like to stay in Kahuku. Maybe someday!
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Whoa Love's Kapahulu! Wassup Unks! If you like live North Shore, you better live San Clemente for a while before coming home, and you better have rich parents there to buy you a 2 mil lot between a couple of the other "imports". THEN you can be a North Shore local.
 
nowwhat said:
Whoa Love's Kapahulu! Wassup Unks! If you like live North Shore, you better live San Clemente for a while before coming home, and you better have rich parents there to buy you a 2 mil lot between a couple of the other "imports". THEN you can be a North Shore local.
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Haha, yeah, dats why I wen live Kaneohe, no rich parents! Hey, maybe I hit Megabucks before I retire! :-)
 
The made-for-tourist promotional films that they play on planes coming to or from New Zealand are embarrassing not to mention giving some people a false idea of what life is like here, I've seen quite a few. According to the videos (1) NZ's mostly wear grass skirts, (2) we all have geysers in our back yards, (3) 99% of the country is farmland or wilderness, (4) we are ultra-friendly and have no graffiti or crime, (4) there is no racism, (5) we have Hobbits and Orcs living in the countryside (actually the Orcs are in Wellington all employed as MP's). You have to travel a bit to find all the beautiful places but it is worth the effort.
 
Laughingowl1975 said:
The made-for-tourist promotional films that they play on planes coming to or from New Zealand are embarrassing not to mention giving some people a false idea of what life is like here, I've seen quite a few. According to the videos (1) NZ's mostly wear grass skirts, (2) we all have geysers in our back yards, (3) 99% of the country is farmland or wilderness, (4) we are ultra-friendly and have no graffiti or crime, (4) there is no racism, (5) we have Hobbits and Orcs living in the countryside (actually the Orcs are in Wellington all employed as MP's). You have to travel a bit to find all the beautiful places but it is worth the effort.
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Why play a promotional film on a plane coming from the country the film is about?

There's a tourist-geared ad for the USA as well, analyzed in this video by the genius comedian Stephen Colbert. Ad for America - The Colbert Report - Video Clip | Comedy Central
 
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Ste11aeres said:
Why play a promotional film on a plane coming from the country the film is about?

There's a tourist-geared ad for the USA as well, analyzed in this video by the genius comedian Stephen Colbert. Ad for America - The Colbert Report - Video Clip | Comedy Central
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That's Air New Zealand for you, if you are leaving or coming into New Zealand they will show one of them (usually full of Hobbits, Maori warriors or cartoon Kiwi birds) as regular as clockwork (mind you the in-flight movies are always bad so its a sort of improvement).
 
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