Movies that lie about your hometown or country

[Manuheleku]

I avoided driving in San Francisco like the plague. No kidding. Never owned an automatic.

Drove a 5 speed Nissan Maxima around SF for awhile on a vacation, you get used to it.

 

[Judge]

Drove a 5 speed Nissan Maxima around SF for awhile on a vacation, you get used to it.

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

And parking money....

 

[Manuheleku]

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

And parking money....

Not to mention body work on your car, when I lived there I swear not a car there didn't have a dent somewhere!

 

[Judge]

Not to mention body work on your car, when I lived there I swear not a car there didn't have a dent somewhere!

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.

 

[nowwhat]

• Das Paradies in uns (2013)
• Battleship (2012)
• The Descendants (2011)
• Soul Surfer (2011)
• Just Go With It (2011)
• Princess Kaiʻulani (2009)
• 2012 (2009) (destroyed by a super volcano)
• A Perfect Getaway (2009)
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
• 10.5 Apocalypse (2006)
• 50 First Dates (2004)
• The Big Bounce (2004)
• Blue Crush (2002)
• Lilo & Stitch (2002)
• Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
• Pearl Harbor (2001)
• Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
• Lani Loa - The Passage (1998)
• "A Very Brady Sequel" (1996)
• Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
• North Shore (1987)
• Black Widow (1987)
• Blood & Orchids (1986)
• Kona Coast (1968)
• Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966)
• Hawaii (1966)
• In Harm's Way (1965)
• Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
• Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961)
• Blue Hawaii (1961)
• "Hell's Half Acre (1954 film)"
• From Here to Eternity (1953)

I'm sure there's quite a few more, but you get my drift.

 

[jellyhead]

• Das Paradies in uns (2013)
• Battleship (2012)
• The Descendants (2011)
• Soul Surfer (2011)
• Just Go With It (2011)
• Princess Kaiʻulani (2009)
• 2012 (2009) (destroyed by a super volcano)
• A Perfect Getaway (2009)
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
• 10.5 Apocalypse (2006)
• 50 First Dates (2004)
• The Big Bounce (2004)
• Blue Crush (2002)
• Lilo & Stitch (2002)
• Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
• Pearl Harbor (2001)
• Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
• Lani Loa - The Passage (1998)
• "A Very Brady Sequel" (1996)
• Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
• North Shore (1987)
• Black Widow (1987)
• Blood & Orchids (1986)
• Kona Coast (1968)
• Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966)
• Hawaii (1966)
• In Harm's Way (1965)
• Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
• Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961)
• Blue Hawaii (1961)
• "Hell's Half Acre (1954 film)"
• From Here to Eternity (1953)

I'm sure there's quite a few more, but you get my drift.

So ... Where is it you are from ?

 

[nowwhat]

So ... Where is it you are from ?

Hawaii. C'mon that one was easy.

 

[Manuheleku]

Hawaii. C'mon that one was easy.

Where you stay? I'm a East Side boy in Vegas now!

 

[nowwhat]

Where you stay? I'm a East Side boy in Vegas now!

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!

 

[Judge]

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.

 

[Manuheleku]

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!

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!

 

[nowwhat]

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!

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.

 

[Manuheleku]

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.

Haha, yeah, dats why I wen live Kaneohe, no rich parents! Hey, maybe I hit Megabucks before I retire!

 

[nowwhat]

If so, we go Rainbows when you get back!

 

[jellyhead]

Hawaii. C'mon that one was easy.

I was being ironic

 

[Manuheleku]

I was being ironic

Well, there was Honeymoon in Vegas! Oh wait, Vegas is considered "The Ninth Isle!"

 

[Laughingowl1975]

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.

 

[Ste11aeres]

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.

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

 

[Laughingowl1975]

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

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).

 

[nowwhat]

I was being ironic

Yeah, aspies are so good at getting sarcasm and irony.... Sry. Though you might be some young euro or somesuch. You never know. And aspies tend to live in their own world at times, so. Well, I thought it might be plausible.