Favorite SF based movies?
02-12-18, 07:50 AM
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Favorite SF based movies?
Since Oldboy started a trend about LA, Boston and NY. What are your favorite films shot at the City by the Bay.
My list
Bullitt (car chase still a classic)
Vertigo
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
The Rock
Dirty Harry
Big Trouble In Little China
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My list
Bullitt (car chase still a classic)
Vertigo
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
The Rock
Dirty Harry
Big Trouble In Little China
Time After Time
02-12-18, 07:56 AM
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02-12-18, 09:00 AM
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Sneakers is easily in my Top 25, I love that movie, and the uniqueness of San Francisco plays a role in the story.
02-12-18, 09:52 AM
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Yeah BTILC is weird. Almost no effort is taken to make it look like SF.
Vertigo is without a doubt the best film shot in SF, and is perhaps the best portrait of California ever recorded on film.
It recently occurred to me that Hitchcock chose his key locations so well. He used something ancient, the 2,000 year old sequoia trees, something historic, the California mission, and something overwhelmingly modern, the Golden Gate Bridge. He picks the three most iconic things in the state, each so historically distant from one another, and uses each one to amplify the emotions of the melodrama so succinctly. I don’t think any other place in the world could be substituted.
To do that in a film about being drawn to myths from the past, a killer with romantic notions of California’s history, and where that collides tragically with the cold rationality of the modern day is nothing short of genius.
Vertigo is without a doubt the best film shot in SF, and is perhaps the best portrait of California ever recorded on film.
It recently occurred to me that Hitchcock chose his key locations so well. He used something ancient, the 2,000 year old sequoia trees, something historic, the California mission, and something overwhelmingly modern, the Golden Gate Bridge. He picks the three most iconic things in the state, each so historically distant from one another, and uses each one to amplify the emotions of the melodrama so succinctly. I don’t think any other place in the world could be substituted.
To do that in a film about being drawn to myths from the past, a killer with romantic notions of California’s history, and where that collides tragically with the cold rationality of the modern day is nothing short of genius.
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02-12-18, 10:21 AM
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Has anyone seen The Presidio, and is it worth my time as far as locations go? Like are there a lot of locations used.
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Godzilla 2014
02-12-18, 12:48 PM
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Another favorite San Francisco cinema treat: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
02-12-18, 01:51 PM
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02-12-18, 01:58 PM
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The Joy Luck Club
Artwork makes it pretty clear it's set in San Francisco.
One of my favorite movies of all-time.
The Joy Luck Club
Artwork makes it pretty clear it's set in San Francisco.
One of my favorite movies of all-time.
02-12-18, 01:58 PM
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Another favorite of mine is U2 performing All Along the Watchtower in Rattle and Hum. Everything in that plaza still looks exactly the same, but the Embarcadero Freeway is there. It would topple in the earthquake less than two years later.