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Title: Do more movies take place in LA or NY?
Post by: puniraptor on February 02, 2015, 04:50:00 PM
see above for the good question and share your true answer.
Title: Re: Do more movies take place in LA or NY?
Post by: star seed 7 on February 02, 2015, 04:50:52 PM
You mean "set in"
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Post by: puniraptor on February 02, 2015, 04:52:26 PM
hmmm
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Post by: The Big Train on February 02, 2015, 05:14:47 PM
a better question is which city gets destroyed in movies the most.
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Post by: chum1 on February 02, 2015, 05:18:21 PM
Man, NY gets destroyed in a ton of movies.
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on February 02, 2015, 05:19:02 PM
Yeah, Hollywood gets lazy and stays in LA a lot.
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Post by: michigancat on February 02, 2015, 05:19:30 PM
LA is too spread out to get destroyed very often
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Post by: mocat on February 02, 2015, 06:41:33 PM
if it's not set somewhere specific, it's in LA. with TV shows this is true of NY
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Post by: Tobias on February 02, 2015, 06:45:46 PM
canada
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Post by: Frankenklein on February 02, 2015, 07:02:32 PM
Louisiana
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Post by: Spracne on February 02, 2015, 07:02:54 PM
Is this for Ms. Hollins' class?  I went with "How many average small intestines does it take to stretch around the circumference of the world?"
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Post by: Cartierfor3 on February 02, 2015, 09:11:00 PM
I always wished we had a sitcom for kc like Detroit had Home Improvement, Boston had Cheers, Cleveland had Drew Carey show, etc.
Title: Re: Do more movies take place in LA or NY?
Post by: star seed 7 on February 02, 2015, 09:11:29 PM
I always wished we had a sitcom for kc like Detroit had Home Improvement, Boston had Cheers, Cleveland had Drew Carey show, etc.

the united states of tara takes place in OP
Title: Re: Do more movies take place in LA or NY?
Post by: wetwillie on February 02, 2015, 09:13:49 PM
ABC family has a feel good series called switched at birth set in KC featuring a fictitious former royals player turned car wash mogul. 
Title: Re: Do more movies take place in LA or NY?
Post by: chum1 on February 02, 2015, 09:17:40 PM
NY 34
LA 32

http://gothamist.com/2014/03/19/new_york_city_has_been_destroyed_34.php
Title: Re: Do more movies take place in LA or NY?
Post by: Cartierfor3 on February 02, 2015, 09:20:41 PM
ABC family has a feel good series called switched at birth set in KC featuring a fictitious former royals player turned car wash mogul.

what era did he play for the Royals?
Title: Re: Do more movies take place in LA or NY?
Post by: wetwillie on February 02, 2015, 09:35:29 PM
ABC family has a feel good series called switched at birth set in KC featuring a fictitious former royals player turned car wash mogul.

what era did he play for the Royals?

late 80's early 90's 3rd baseman. 
Title: Re: Do more movies take place in LA or NY?
Post by: Cartierfor3 on February 02, 2015, 09:36:27 PM
ABC family has a feel good series called switched at birth set in KC featuring a fictitious former royals player turned car wash mogul.

what era did he play for the Royals?

late 80's early 90's 3rd baseman.

So he's based on Kevin Seitzer then
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Post by: Cartierfor3 on February 02, 2015, 09:50:56 PM
Like is there a bunch of Royals stuff around the house in the show? Do episodes take place at the K?
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Post by: The Big Train on February 02, 2015, 10:15:03 PM
NY 34
LA 32

http://gothamist.com/2014/03/19/new_york_city_has_been_destroyed_34.php

thats a lot closer than i thought!
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Post by: cfbandyman on February 02, 2015, 10:21:44 PM
Little off topic but London/Britain also seems to be a hotbed of end of the world/major upheaval like movies (Children of Men, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, V for Vendetta, etc.)
Title: Re: Do more movies take place in LA or NY?
Post by: puniraptor on February 02, 2015, 10:26:07 PM
on topic is all themes for each setting. Not just destruction.
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Post by: Trogdor on February 02, 2015, 10:32:40 PM
Friends with Benefits too place in both, how do we categorize that?
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Post by: Missouriscribe on February 02, 2015, 11:20:37 PM
I always wished we had a sitcom for kc like Detroit had Home Improvement, Boston had Cheers, Cleveland had Drew Carey show, etc.

the united states of tara takes place in OP

There was a show called "Married to the Kelly's" that was set in KC. Breken Meyer was a lead character. It had a lot of local references.
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Post by: pissclams on February 03, 2015, 08:53:42 AM
I always wished we had a sitcom for kc like Detroit had Home Improvement, Boston had Cheers, Cleveland had Drew Carey show, etc.

i like the idea.  except instead of a sitcom, make it a documentary.

now, i'm going to pretend you guys work for a production company- it doesn't matter which one- i'll pick High Noon Entertainment in Sherman Oaks and i'm going to pitch my show to you.

ok- it's a 30 minute documentary called "KC Sucks".  each week documents another reason why KC sucks.   
i'm asking for a 6 episode commitment, the general theme:
epi 1:  why do so many people drive pick up trucks in this town?
epi 2:  sunflower seeds and corn nuts, fine dining in kansas city.
epi 3:  the weather.
epi 4:  a cornucopia of strip malls, the kansas city connection.
epi 5:  roads, is it possible to build too many?  kansas city says no.
epi 6:  kansas city's addiction to violent crime.
after the final rose episode, episode 7:  the myth behind public schools and accreditation.

green light me.  pls.
Title: Re: Do more movies take place in LA or NY?
Post by: chum1 on May 29, 2015, 07:58:02 PM
23 Thoughts on Destroying the City of Angels:

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wrote Mike Davis in his indispensable L.A.-apocalypse treatise Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. “The obliteration of Los Angeles, by contrast, is often depicted as, or at least secretly experienced as, a victory for civilization.”
To put it in slasher-movie terms, L.A. is almost never the Final Girl; L.A. is the trashy girl who gets carved up early and has it coming, whether “it” is Skynet’s nukes or a tornado filled with sharks.
http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/l-a-apocalypse-san-andreas-and-23-thoughts-on-destroying-the-city-of-angels/