Obscure Film Locations You've Been to

allblackcitizen said:
Haha, how romantic, in amongst the pigeon poop

Anyway:-

Katz Deli - When Harry met Sally
Rules (restaurant, Covent Garden) - Spectre
The Cobb, Lyme Regis - French Lieutenant's Woman
The Crown, Belfast - Odd Man Out
Highbury - The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
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Pretty sure I’ve been to Katz Deli and I’ve definitely been to Highbury.
 
About 9 years ago when on holiday with my family in California, we started off in San Francisco in order to drive Route 1 down to L.A., so on that trip alone, we would have been to plenty of places that have appeared in movies. However, before our drive South, we made a trip North, over the Golden Gate Bridge (so that’s a movie ticket in the box), and made a round trip to Point Reyes where the lighthouse that features in the John Carpetner horror movie “The Fog” is, and was the reason we went to Point Reyes.

Not obscure, but when we were in New York a couple of years back the girls wanted to go and see the “Friends” apartment building, which is a busy tourist destination.
 
The Brad Pitt movie Fury about a U.S. tank crew in WW2 shot a load of scenes in the South Oxfordshire countryside where we live.

Lots of outdoor stuff for Midsomer Murders was filmed near us, including on our village green, and, of course, Oxford and surrounding areas feature in Morse, Lewis & Endeavour. Hardly obscure though.
 
OB1 said:
Been to Monument Valley.

Never got to Winslow, which I would like to, to see the crater but also just to stand on a corner.
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I was visiting my son who lived in Phoenix at the time, and hired a car to head up to Northern Arizona for some sightseeing. It was the first time I'd driven in the USA and my son (knowing what my driving was like at the best of times) tried to talk me out of it.

Despite my own nervousness (because I know what my driving is like) I wasn't going to miss seeing Monument Valley, Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend, not to mention Winslow. Fortunately there was only one left turn from where he lived and I drove straight up the road for a couple of hours, arriving in Winslow ready for a break.

I parked the car to go into a coffee shop, got out and realised I was just across the road (which was the old Route 66) from Standing On The Corner Plaza. I messaged my son that I had completed the first part of the journey safely. He asked me where I was, so I naturally replied "I'm standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona".

And I'm typing this from a coffee shop in the Tremont district in Cleveland and am about to visit the Deerhunter wedding scenes locations just round the corner.

Update: Just been down to Lake Erie and remembered another one. In the post-apocalyptic film The Road, the father and son are trying to reach what they call 'the coast'. The location for that was Presque Isle in Pennsylvania and I've been there.
 
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I was visiting my son who lived in Phoenix at the time, and hired a car to head up to Northern Arizona for some sightseeing. It was the first time I'd driven in the USA and my son (knowing what my driving was like at the best of times) tried to talk me out of it.

Despite my own nervousness (because I know what my driving is like) I wasn't going to miss seeing Monument Valley, Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend, not to mention Winslow. Fortunately there was only one left turn from where he lived and I drove straight up the road for a couple of hours, arriving in Winslow ready for a break.

I parked the car to go into a coffee shop, got out and realised I was just across the road (which was the old Route 66) from Standing On The Corner Plaza. I messaged my son that I had completed the first part of the journey safely. He asked me where I was, so I naturally replied "I'm standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona".

And I'm typing this from a coffee shop in the Tremont district in Cleveland and am about to visit the Deerhunter wedding scenes locations just round the corner.

Update: Just been down to Lake Erie and remembered another one. In the post-apocalyptic film The Road, the father and son are trying to reach what they call 'the coast'. The location for that was Presque Isle in Pennsylvania and I've been there.
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Nice story. I did know you’d been to Winslow from a previous post.

I’ve done several driving holidays in the States mainly in the South West.

I worked in Nashville on a secondment for five months in late 80’s so got used to driving there then.
 
OB1 said:
Nice story. I did know you’d been to Winslow from a previous post.

I’ve done several driving holidays in the States mainly in the South West.

I worked in Nashville on a secondment for five months in late 80’s so got used to driving there then.
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Head West Young man, get yourself into Big Sky Country
 
The lakeside in Black Park near Uxbridge - many scenes including the Benicio Del Toro Wolfman lakeside scenes in his manor and where Zod and the baddies test out their powers in Superman 2.
Black park was also home to many of the Hammer Hoise of Horror forrest scenes e.g. in Dracula.
 
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I also used to work in the Zombie-filled WHO building in World War Z. The other one with the humans in used to be Heinz Europe’s HQ.
Lovely landscaped park in the middle of all places, Hayes in London.

The ‘skybridge’ between the two (or ‘bridge’ as I insisted on calling it - only on 2nd floor ffs!) was cgi’d, but apart from that and the mountains in the distance, the external approach shots and scene when he comes to were both what was there.
 
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