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Part of the movie “American Gangster” was filmed in the neighborhood I lived in. When I watched it, the breaks in continuity versus actual physical reality were

Part of the movie “American Gangster” was filmed in the neighborhood I lived in. When I watched it, the breaks in continuity versus actual physical reality were so distracting that I had to turn it off within the first ten minutes. I’m sure for anyone who didn’t literally live on the block where they were filming, this is an issue they would have never ever ever noticed, but for me it felt very much like a plumber problem and was basically a showstopper in terms of my ability to enjoy the movie.

dbcurtis 3y ago
For me, the Star Trek movie with the giant, desert, canyon in the middle of Iowa was a real “WTF?” I can’t believe that only Iowans were bothered by that. If you have ever driven across Iowa, I am certain your view of corn fields was wholly uninterrupted by canyons.
- civilitty 3y ago
  In all of the shots I can find of that scene, the canyon is clearly a quarry with blocks cut out by wire saw (filmed in a quarry in Vermont). I guess the historic quarries in Iowa are filled in with water to create artificial lakes by now, but that's something that only Iowans would really know.
joeframbach 3y ago
In the movie San Andreas, the character parachutes into AT&T Park in San Francisco, then casually strolls a few blocks and is suddenly in Chinatown without breaking a sweat. Chinatown is miles away and up a pretty steep hill.
syslog 3y ago
Had the same issue with „Before Sunrise“, set in Vienna. Hawke and Delpy walk from one cut to the next in minutes, what IRL would have taken them half an hour on public transport.