TV/Movies Megathread

[Valmy]

Pff, a few years ago I watched the Clint Eastwood movie Firefox which I liked as a kid. Imagine my surprise when I noticed that the scenes taking place in Moscow were all filmed in Vienna.

Prague is usually a stand in for films supposedly taking place in some other European City. It has the advantage of being frozen in time by the Soviets and not being destroyed in WWII. A rare combo.

[Sheilbh]

Pff, a few years ago I watched the Clint Eastwood movie Firefox which I liked as a kid. Imagine my surprise when I noticed that the scenes taking place in Moscow were all filmed in Vienna.

Prague is usually a stand in for films supposedly taking place in some other European City. It has the advantage of being frozen in time by the Soviets and not being destroyed in WWII. A rare combo.

I also feel sorry for Ireland. Spends 800 years fighting for freedom then Dublin spends half the time dressed up as London

[Tonitrus]

Pff, a few years ago I watched the Clint Eastwood movie Firefox which I liked as a kid. Imagine my surprise when I noticed that the scenes taking place in Moscow were all filmed in Vienna.

Prague is usually a stand in for films supposedly taking place in some other European City. It has the advantage of being frozen in time by the Soviets and not being destroyed in WWII. A rare combo.

There are countless films and television shows set in Seattle, but alas filmed in that squalid backwater nearby known as Vancouver. 

[Duque de Bragança]

Pff, a few years ago I watched the Clint Eastwood movie Firefox which I liked as a kid. Imagine my surprise when I noticed that the scenes taking place in Moscow were all filmed in Vienna.

Prague is usually a stand in for films supposedly taking place in some other European City. It has the advantage of being frozen in time by the Soviets and not being destroyed in WWII. A rare combo.

Better than a Steven Seagal DTV shot in Romania with BTRs and Kalashnikov rifles equipping what was trying to pass as French Army or Gendarmes.  Or dialog such as " we'll got to Bastia, just outside of Bordeaux". That's Attack Farce if you really want to check. 
The MTK Budapest stadium made a fine Colombes stadium though in Escape to Victory. Frozen in time by the Soviets but Budapest was damaged during WWII.

[viper37]

You guys don't seem to understand Tamas' point. It's not the scale of the inaccuracy, it's the stupidity of it, and the laziness behind it. It taints the rest of the period piece.

I understand it, I just happen to disagree with it.

It's like a gun buff complaining that the gun used by a gangster is the wrong make for the year it was supposed to be filmed in - and that's why he refuses to watch The Godfather. Or that the manufacturing process for making meth was wrong in Breaking Bad. 

Taste is individual and all, but if you reject something for such a minor reason, one that makes zero difference to the plot, it seems like you are losing out if it is otherwise a good thing.

hmm.
Let's see.
Having Romans use stirrups in tv shows / movies because they are required by the insurer and because it's really hard to find people trained in the use of horses without styrrups nowadays is a minor issue.

Having Russians invade America from the Rockies in the Seven Years War is the equivalent to showing Churchill at Verdun and it's not a minor detail, and given that it's only mentionned in passing, it is not only distracting, but a sign of lazyness and makes you wonder about all the inacuracies you did not spot.

[viper37]

Somme, Ypres, Paschendale. Maybe Gallipoli. We are a *dreadful* ally.

If you polled 100 people on the street, how many do you think would be familiar with Ypres and Pashendale?

Special bonus added question: how did the British soldiers pronounce Ypres?

most of those 100 would not even know who was WW1 fought against.  Not really a reference

[Eddie Teach]

Having Russians invade America from the Rockies in the Seven Years War is the equivalent to showing Churchill at Verdun and it's not a minor detail, and given that it's only mentionned in passing, it is not only distracting, but a sign of lazyness and makes you wonder about all the inacuracies you did not spot.

These analogies just keep getting worse.

[Malthus]

Having Russians invade America from the Rockies in the Seven Years War is the equivalent to showing Churchill at Verdun

This has to be the most absurd thing I've heard yet. 

[Valmy]

Having Russians invade America from the Rockies in the Seven Years War is the equivalent to showing Churchill at Verdun

This has to be the most absurd thing I've heard yet. 

Absurd? Was it absurd when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

[Admiral Yi]

Geez veep. 

I propose Australians at Guadalcanal or Midway.

[Tonitrus]

Having Russians invade America from the Rockies in the Seven Years War is the equivalent to showing Churchill at Verdun and it's not a minor detail, and given that it's only mentionned in passing, it is not only distracting, but a sign of lazyness and makes you wonder about all the inacuracies you did not spot.

These analogies just keep getting worse.

Especially since Red Dawn isn't history. 

[garbon]

Geez veep. 

I propose Australians at Guadalcanal or Midway.

I propose the Giant Ants of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

[Admiral Yi]

Geez veep. 

I propose Australians at Guadalcanal or Midway.

Or Americans at El Alamein.

[Duque de Bragança]

Having Russians invade America from the Rockies in the Seven Years War is the equivalent to showing Churchill at Verdun and it's not a minor detail, and given that it's only mentionned in passing, it is not only distracting, but a sign of lazyness and makes you wonder about all the inacuracies you did not spot.

These analogies just keep getting worse.

Especially since Red Dawn isn't history. 

So Russia would need support from Spanish-held Mexico and Cuba to invade?  Did Spain sell Florida to the US in this reality btw? Or they could sell it to Russia...

[Razgovory]

Maybe they were talking about that one time that Churchill got in a punch-up with a French farmer.