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Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon Teaser

2short2care

By 2short2care,
Posted on: 2010-12-08 18:50 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture

 

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Well I can easily run my claws through this one hehe. This sort of thing happened plenty through out this film and the first actually. This happened to be the ONE INSTANCE you noticed what I like to call Simpsons geography. (referring the scene in the simpsons movie where Bart says four neighboring states which are no where near each other.) In first film the building sam runs into during the final scene was takened from multiple locations. The inside shots were from detroit while outside was from somewhere in PA. None of this was in LA, but since we are dealing with a fictional city called Mission City , we can't assume Faux LA wouldn't have these things.

In beginning of ROTF the highway in the shanghai battle was shots from LA not china. I'm sure this sort of things happens tons more but those are some quick examples that come to mind in just these too films.
You can't count all shots where the interiors were filmed in one place and exteriors in another, that's just SOP. It's when it's egregious and smacks you in the face that it becomes a case of laziness. Almost every movie substitutes one location for another, Toronto for NYC being the most common lately. For a few years it seemed as if a lot of movies were intentionally filmed on some sort of hybrid alternate Earth, where filmmakers consciously decided that since audiences were aware this was going on they might as well play with it. Because of the weird blend of locations and props, it's hard to say definitively where movies like The Matrix, The Frighteners or Mousetrap take place. New Zealand? New York? Australia? America?

"Simpsons Geography" is an excellent term. There was a line in one of the MST3K episodes where Crowe goes, "The geography of this film is becoming suspicious!" The T. rex paddock in Jurassic Park is an excellent example of this, where the area morphs instantly into whatever shape the plot demands. The shot in Trans2 is just like that, and it's annoying because they don't care if we're paying attention or not.

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Like the Wacker Drive sign in plain sight in the Dark Knight heh. Unless Gotham is the DC Movie verse's gotham in it's place......
Isn't it? I thought that was the point.

It's not like that one Steve Seagal movie which is *supposed* to be in Chicago but you can clearly see palm trees and mountains in the background.

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Isn't it? I thought that was the point.

It's not like that one Steve Seagal movie which is *supposed* to be in Chicago but you can clearly see palm trees and mountains in the background.
Or how the new Gotham City reeks of looking like Chicago! Even though it clearly should look like Gotham City...errr...wait a minute...

I believe Jackie Chan's "Rumble in the Bronx" had the same problem.

Personally, I think you have to be really looking for these to let them bother you.

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