Sponsored Content
« Food Thread: More Thanksgiving Blather, And What To Do When You Kill Bambi [CBD] | Main | Open Thread: Gratitude [Y-not] »
November 16, 2014

Weekend Blow Off Thread: Your Hometown on the Silver Screen [Y-not]

I have a confession to make.

I've never seen Dumb and Dumber.

I denounce myself.


Now, I could have happily lived my entire life without seeing this movie. It looks... well, dumb. And I don't care about the actors or anything else that I know about the movie. But I may have to watch it someday, just out of morbid curiosity, because it turns out that a lot of it was filmed in Utah.

For example, I pass this motel pretty frequently as I'm tooling around the area:

MStarHotel.jpg

Since moving here, we've become more attuned to the times Utah serves as a backdrop (or punch-line) in our favorite movies. Utah was a pretty popular place to film Westerns and it's become attractive these days, thanks in part to an effort by the state to attract filmmakers, as well as the movie industry associated with the Sundance Film Festival.

Fletch is one of our favorite movies and it's chock-a-block full of references to Utah (and a few scenes filmed here):


You might also recall that a couple of characters in Ocean's Eleven (the Malloy brothers) are from Utah. There's a scene where they're racing that is supposed to be set in Utah County:

Mr Y-not grew up in the Berkshires, a region that gained pop culture notoriety through its association with performers like Arlo Guthrie and James Taylor.

So how about you? Do you live (or have you lived) someplace made famous in the movies or other performing arts?

Any brushes with fame in your life?

Are there any places that you've seen only on film that you yearn to see in real life?

digg this
posted by Open Blogger at 05:25 PM

| Access Comments




Recent Comments
Martini Farmer: "Canadian geese... protected in California even tho ..."

Puddinhead: "The South African tribes were deemed to be unfit f ..."

SturmToddler: "Duck fat! Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at J ..."

Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead!: "323 304 I bet Mammoth was really tasty. Posted by ..."

NaCly Dog (u82oZ): "{{{Lizzy}}} Be of stout heart. We have solutio ..."

Ziba: "Hope they ate it a l'orange. ..."

SMOD: "World’s Air Pollution Hot Spots As one of ..."

mustbequantum: "Duck fat! ===== Goose grease! ..."

I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper: "It's Always Sunni in Kabul. ..."

Aetius451AD Work Laptop: "313 The most recent podcast has excellent advice. ..."

tubal: "304 I bet Mammoth was really tasty. Posted by: Ar ..."

SturmToddler: "I bet swan meat is pretty tough. Posted by: Bul ..."

Recent Entries
Search


Polls! Polls! Polls!
Frequently Asked Questions
The (Almost) Complete Paul Anka Integrity Kick
Top Top Tens
Greatest Hitjobs

The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
Powered by
Movable Type 2.64