OT - Anyone ever visit any famous movie sights
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Maybe the new owners have it that way but it was free to see when I was there. There was a sign saying Goonies on foot even.
Grew up in Brooklyn within a few block’s walk of where they filmed parts of French Connection and Saturday Night Fever. My high school was the one on the intro to Welcome Back Kotter
Now live in N.J., 2 mins from where they shot last scene of the Sopranos, the joint with the best onion rings in the state, as per Tony. Filmed many Soprano scenes around this area.
Now live in N.J., 2 mins from where they shot last scene of the Sopranos, the joint with the best onion rings in the state, as per Tony. Filmed many Soprano scenes around this area.
1990 version of night of the living dead filmed in my hometown. Lots of locals were zombies. Now the locals are meth heads so not much has changed.
My son just moved near the prison where they filmed Shawshank Redemption I plan on visiting it next spring.
I've been to the park in Hoboken where Brando and the female lead (Eve Marie Saint?) walked in On the Waterfront. The same wrought iron fence was still there more than 50 years later.
My nephew made it out there and knowing how highly I think of the movie, brought me back a bar of Lifeboy soap which I will treasure the rest of my life.
Omg u PA people...especially Philly...The Blob Movie theater in Phoenixville.
I frequently drive by locations where scenes from The Lovely Bones and The Visit were shot. Of course I live there ... see if you can figure it out.
I was an extra in that movie...I even had a line...”these pretzels are making me thirsty.”
The tree is gone, however...Look up the "Shawshank Trail". It's on my list as I'm only about an hour south. They had a lot of events in Mansfield this year as it was an anniversary year.
There is a bridge in Montana, that crosses the Missouri River, where the bootlegg raid in the movie The Untouchables took place. My fishing guide pointed out to me on a trip.
Took a pic of the gate to Tom Selleck's place used in Magnum PI.
Ate lunch at the restaurant in San Diego used in Top Gun.
Ate lunch at the restaurant in San Diego used in Top Gun.
Visited many filming locations for The Shawshank Redemption in Mansfield, Ohio, including the prison and the large oak tree.....which was felled by a storm 2 years ago.
I also passed through there while moving a family member back East though it was from Phoenix.
Stayed at the Stanley Hotel for my niece's wedding in 2013. Used in The Shining.
Well I’ve been to Red Square a few times, saw the Kremlin, also went to Volgograd ( formerly known as Stalingrad) saw the war memorial there.
I've been to the place in San Diego.Took a pic of the gate to Tom Selleck's place used in Magnum PI.
Ate lunch at the restaurant in San Diego used in Top Gun.
I slept in the bed where Jack Woltz woke up to find the horse head.* Different sheets, though...
*This is not true.
*This is not true.
I tried to go to the site in the Amazon where they filmed Aguirre,The Wrath of God. On the way, I ran into a shaman and drank some ayahuasca brew. I never made it to the film site but astral projected to Tibet. That was pretty cool.
Silence of the Lambs House off Rt 51 near Frazier High School south of Pittsburgh. Jodi Foster goes to the door and Buffalo Bill opens it up.
Had several meetings in the Ballroom of the Chicago Hilton on Michigan where the finale of the Fugitive was filmed.
Had several meetings in the Ballroom of the Chicago Hilton on Michigan where the finale of the Fugitive was filmed.
Dude - I would love thatTook a pic of the gate to Tom Selleck's place used in Magnum PI.
Ate lunch at the restaurant in San Diego used in Top Gun.
No it wasn't. https://www.movie-locations.com/movies/s/Shining-1980.phpStayed at the Stanley Hotel for my niece's wedding in 2013. Used in The Shining.
Maybe you're thinking of Dumb and Dumber. I see how you could confuse the two.
Went out to Mackinac Island, MI in October. Visited the Grand Hotel where the movie Somewhere in Time was filmed (Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer).
Some that I thought about. I’m sure may of you have been to these places as well....
Marley and Me farmhouse. A few miles from me.
Ghost busters fire house in NYC.
Had brunch at Tavern on the Green. Location of several movies scenes including Wall Street and Ghostbusters
Many other locations in NYC...Windows on the World in the original WTC, Grand Central Station, Times Square, Central Park, many others...
Was in Charleston, SC when North and South was filmed
Was in a Pittsburgh when The Dark Knight Rises was filmed
Fort Pitt Tunnel..The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Civic Arena...The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh
Philadephia... 30th Street Station - Blowout, Rittenhouse Square- Trading Places, Wanamakers-Mannequin, Academy of Music- The Age of Innocence, City Hall + others- Philadelphia, Franklin Institute +others-National Treasure, Wells Fargo Center - Silver Linings Playbook...
Marley and Me farmhouse. A few miles from me.
Ghost busters fire house in NYC.
Had brunch at Tavern on the Green. Location of several movies scenes including Wall Street and Ghostbusters
Many other locations in NYC...Windows on the World in the original WTC, Grand Central Station, Times Square, Central Park, many others...
Was in Charleston, SC when North and South was filmed
Was in a Pittsburgh when The Dark Knight Rises was filmed
Fort Pitt Tunnel..The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Civic Arena...The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh
Philadephia... 30th Street Station - Blowout, Rittenhouse Square- Trading Places, Wanamakers-Mannequin, Academy of Music- The Age of Innocence, City Hall + others- Philadelphia, Franklin Institute +others-National Treasure, Wells Fargo Center - Silver Linings Playbook...
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