I just finished watching "The Banshees of Inisherin" and I was like, "I want to go to Ireland now".
shareI had a beer in Cheers if that counts.
shareThe closest I got was in the 1990s sitting near look-alike robots at an airport Cheers-themed bar
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No. There was a scene of a movie filmed in my hometown when I was a kid in the '80s, so that's the only movie location I've ever been to.
I bet that scene in the movie is the only 35mm motion picture footage that exists, or has ever existed, of that town. 35mm movie cameras and film reels are way beyond hobbyist level; a couple/few hundred thousand dollars just for the film and developing alone, so it's not as if it's even remotely likely that some random small-town guy has some 35mm footage of this town in his attic. There's old 8mm film footage for sure (even my uncle shot some 8mm footage in the '70s and early '80s); 16mm footage is feasible (but a lot less likely; any that exists would probably be in the form of pre-camcorder local news footage), and of course there's plenty of old camcorder videotape footage.
On IMDb, you use to be able to click on the filming location of a film and it would bring you to a list of movies that were filmed there. I'm sure you would have found another movie.
shareI did that years ago. Only one movie scene has ever been filmed in my hometown. Also, people from my hometown would already know if any other movies had ever been filmed there.
When they filmed it they had downtown blocked off. Mom had to take a detour to drive us to school that morning. They must have set everything up well before 6 AM, because the town clock shows 6:00 (and it's in the morning) and the actual sound of its bell ringing 6 times is in the scene (it's not a generic sound effect, it's the actual sound, which I'm very familiar with).
It isn't a place that would normally attract filmmakers. The only reason it was used as a filming location that one time is because Stephen King (whose main residence in Bangor is only about a 45-minute drive from my hometown) was involved and he happens to think there's something interesting about the town, and he owns, or owned, some property there.
people from my hometown would already know if any other movies had ever been filmed there.
More like I've already planned a trip and decide to visit some place there I saw in a movie and it's not too far out off the way.
When we visited Notting Hill during our London trip we also walked past the blue door from the movie (not impressed). Another one I recall right now is the railroad bridge from Lola Rennt: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberbaum_Bridge
I love that movie. I Google mapped the filming locations about a month ago.
shareOh, yeah, there was also the apartment building with the courtyard, but that supermarket is in a kinda trashy area, so I didn't go see that.
One of my favourite European movies, when I saw that one more than 20 years ago, it just confirmed I had to go to Berlin some day soon.
While in Paris, we did go to see the church of Saint-Sulpice, specifically because it was featured in The DaVinci Code, although they actually film in replica because they couldn't get permissible. It does have all the details described in the story.
And I've gone to the room where Hannibal Lecter cage was filmed. It's in The Soldiers and Sailor's Memorial in Pittsburgh where I've been many times but I specially went to an upper floor of never been in before to see that room. It was pretty eerie.
Not because I saw them at the movies but I was at Eilean Donan Castle in Scotland (Highlander, among other movies).
Several spots in Paris and London.
Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg (007 tomorrow never dies).
La Alhambra in Granada ( Isabel series)
Clash of the Titans (2010). In Teneriffa
I always wanted to see Venice because of the Katherine Hepburn film "Summertime", which was shot on location in Venice and which made it seem impossibly glamorous.
So I did see Venice around 1990, it was fantastic, but not as sparkling and colorful as they made it look in "Summertime". No, you can see the real Venice I saw in the 1973 film "Don't Look Now", which showed Venice as beautiful, ancient, crumbling, and mysterious. Which it was in 1990, I suppose they've spruced it up a bit by now.