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I helped clean out a house a few years prior to it being used in A Simple Plan

If you've never seen the original Vanishing Point, you'd probably like it judging by your story.  I'm not sure you could have had a more Goldfield experience if you tried from your 1976 experience.  Thanks for telling us about your time there, that was awesome.

I've been on the road in the opening scene in "The Shining" (Mt. Hood, OR)

Driven on the finally completed 'bridge to nowhere' in the chase scene in "The Blues Brothers" (Milwaukee, WI)

Saw many games at County Stadium, where "Major League" filmed most of the game scenes. Plus, knew the waitress that served the guys in the bar scene. (Milwaukee again)

I've been to Devil's Tower, as seen in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (WY)


Also, Ferris Bueller ran through my Aunt's neighborhood, at the end of his "Day Off"

Yup, front gate of Warner Brothers where Headley Lamar got in the taxi and rode off the set.

The Frozen Ground:

Lots of times. Been to DC, London, Paris, Rome, Istanbul, Athens, Copenhagen, Jerusalem, plus a few dozen other places that were used in movies.

One of the great thrills of traveling is going to places you’ve seen in historic films, documentaries, tv and the movies to get a feel of what it’s like in the area.

The indie film Chillicothe was filmed in Tulsa. Shows Sheridan lanes bowling alley, I've been there.

Stood on the beach lord of flies was filmed and took a minute to realize why it looked familiar.

Much of Jurrasic Park was filmed in the surrounding forest.

Live near Tombstone, nearer to the film set than the actual town.

Grew up a few miles from where we were soldiers was filmed, high school buddy served Mel Gibson at the restraunt he worked at.

Also grew up a few miles from where James Dean died.

And a few miles from where arachnophobia was filmed.

I'm sure there's more, all completely unintentional.

Several scenes from "Empire of the Ants", the speedboat scenes from "Moonraker", and the terrorist beach landing from "Invasion USA" were filmed in my county.

Probably the town where Northern Exposure was filmed, too.

Never been but not sure what's still there now.  The general area has a lot of filming locations.  Lot of car commercials are filmed on the stretch of Hwy 1 around and south (east) of Point Mugu.  If interested, I'm thinking there are searchable sources on movie and tv locations so if interested, you could probably chase down quite a few.  I wasn't a big fan of MASH so never tried that one.  I'm not a great judge of how interesting it might be.  Like others here, seen a lot of "locations," some filming, etc., so not as  exciting as might be to a visitor.  My nephews "in-laws" were thrilled about visiting some of the spots we took them to and saw filming at Santa Monica Pier, etc.

Bendlerblock courtyard, Berlin.  Valkerie, where the conspitors were executed.   I was there in1989

The bar scene from Maverick: TopGun2.

Buddy was a F-18 pilot in the Marines and got me in contact with the Coronado base person in charge of that venue for my wedding. Back then it was a little shack.

Put down $500 deposit but after much consideration, the logistics of getting people on base, to the venue, was too difficult. Great view though!

Don't know if you saw it.  One of the blimp hangars at Tustin burned last November.  Huge fire and a possibily of a lot of asbestos contamination.  Not sure how that's all working out at this point.

In 1992 I went scuba diving off of Nassau. I was told that our dive location was where some of the 1965 James Bond/Sean Connery movie, Thunderball, was filmed.

Angola prison. Not inside obviously. But outside or near there often. I hunted on cat island often.

The one notable one was the cemetery from Steven Kings pet cemetery. But many others in SF and LA

I’m going to the area Jurassic park was filmed in a couple months.

We rode the Bryson City train in the smokies that had a scene in the Fugitive. The movie was better.

Oglethorpe Park is where the bus stop was. I was disappointed there was no bench there.

I’ve eaten at that restaurant before.

I was down visiting a friend while they were filming spongebob in savannah.  They had a bunch of the restaurants on the street renamed to be cartoony-ocean themed names.

They are filming a lot of TV and movies here in Augusta, Atlanta, and Athens GA.

Our old county jail in Augusta was used for a few movies.  It was used on the movie Suicide Squad 2.  I had several stays there back in my younger days.

There's a big mansion around Athens that gets rented out for weddings and whatnot.  They used that as the location for the Netflix Undertaker show.  My wife worked on that one.

They filmed Clint Eastwood's "The Mule" partly in Augusta.  The hotel in the opening scene was the Sheraton hotel.  My mother in law in one of the flower vendors in that scene.

There's a b-rate Mel Gibson movie called "Agent Game".  Some of the scenes were shot in downtown Augusta.  My buddies texted me and say they just saw Mel Gibson running around with a gun.

The baseball movie "The Hill", I was a part of the production.  Much of the movie was shot around Augusta and Warrenton GA.  We used 3 or 4 of the local baseball stadiums for the various baseball scenes.  I used to go watch our local Green Jackets team play at the same stadium Rickey had his big tryout in.  And some of the driving we shot at Steed's Dairy farm, where I take my kid every fall for their little pumpkin festival and petting zoo stuff.

Around Atlanta, they shot the Aretha Franklin biopic, the True Lies TV show, and a bunch of the marvel related TV and movies like Shield and Guardians of the galaxy.  My sister in law is has been doing a side gig as an extra on those shows.

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Some of the other locations for The Hill include the Snow-cap diner, 226 6th street, 230 Walker Street, and 710 Taylor street.  That sno-cap drive in was a location involved in a shooting that went viral a couple years back.  Marshalls were chasing a Truck with a few meth dealers with warrants.  The chase stopped there at the sno-cap where some of them got out and ran (and were caught).  Then the truck made it a half mile down the road where it somehow ended up disabled in the middle of the street.  Thats where the viral videos are filmed.  Dude standing in the middle of the street, having a shootout with police with his AR.

Yes, quite a few.

I live a few miles from the Joliet correctional center.  Featured in Blues Brothers.   Also Lockport, IL was featured in Public Enemies.
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Around me there are numerous TV and films ongoing.  Newnan GA is full of ongoing film Projects - Too many to name at the moment

Currently, there is a significant mock-building of a radio-station with tower base when I drive through Palmetto GA set up for Stranger Things latest season.  They were filming on 4-24.

I shop at Bradleys in Palmetto - which is the same store featured in multiple seasons of Stranger Things.

Oddly the same properties around the area are used in numerous films and TV shows.  It is interesting at first until you realize the left is invading your area.

Original Night of the Living Dead = Evans City Cemetery.  I have been there a few times.  Last time I did a shot for shot walk from the Cemetery scene.  Not much has changed.  The house they used in the movie is no longer up.  It was filmed a few miles away.  The basement scenes were shot somewhere downtown.  I don't know where.

Original Dawn of the Dead = Monroeville Mall.  I visited about 20 years ago.  Some of the stores from the move were still there.  The fountain feature was still there.  

Day of the Dead (I think there is only the Original).  Wampum Underground Storage.  I have been to the gate.  No one was around when I visited.  I think they do some special tours now for DOTD fans.

I lived in Long Beach, CA for a few years after college. So, yes. Lots of them. It’s pretty cool.

I was an extra in Pearl Harbor, active duty on Wheeler AAF when it was filmed.

Many.  I lived in Bolivar Tn. where the original Bufford Pusser (Walking Tall) movie was filmed all around our area.  His home Selmer is only 20 miles away.   The most famous location most would remember is the bar he drove his car into.  That bar wasn't an actual bar here but was built specifically for that movie.  It's located about 10   miles south of my current location.  Many local residences were used in the film and an major part of the movie was filmed in locations outside of Selmer.

In my travels, I’ve made it a hobby to visit the filming locations of various 007 movies.

So far;

Dunn’s River Falls, Jamaica
Avenue Victor-Hugo, Paris
Paradise Island, Nassau Bahamas
Rio Del Palazzo, Venice Italy
Fontainebleau, Miami
Royal Bahamian, Nassau
Circus Circus, Las Vegas
Marie Laveau’s House of Voodoo, New Orleans
River Market, Thailand
Eiffel Tower, Paris
Hemingway House, Key West
Old U.S.1 Overseas Highway, Florida Keys
Monte Carlo Casino, Monaco
Villa del Balbianello, Lake Como Italy
Vaxhaul Bridge and National Gallery, London
Some of the locations in Scotland
St. Peter’s Square, Vatican

next stop: Piz Gloria, Switzerland (upcoming July 2024)  

Yup. Young guns and wild hogs were filmed near albuquerque. Sand lot was filmed in salt lake. A lot of forrest gump was filmed in south carolina.

Skied where Eiger Sanction was filmed.

When I was visiting an aunt out west, we stopped by the school in Astoria where kindergarden cop was filmed.  It was also used in Silent Hill.
Same trip, I skateboarded the burnside skate park from the tony hawk video game.

I haven't seen that movie. I'll have to check it out

Same when I lived there.  I worked in the building at the NW corner of 57th and Lex for many years.  Nice looking building from the front, it was in a few things including the Oscorp building in Spiderman.

does Fenway count?  It's in every insufferable Boston movie EVER!

New Zealand Lord of the Rings Hobbitown

Really enjoyed visiting there eclipse weekend.
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After the tour there was a truck running in the parking lot, diagonally behind our car, thought it was odd. No one inside, commented to wife, “yeah they’re in back doing it.” Take better look and I’ll be, they sure were. Wife proceeds to tell me that’s the 3rd couple she had seen that day.
One in a cell in the prison and the second, this was good, she walked up to the port-o-potty in the parking lot and opened the door on the second couple going at it.  
So it’s apparently the place to get some action.  But seriously in a freaking port-o-potty, that’s just gross.

I however was not so lucky

Been to some of the actual locations, or in the general vicinity - establishing shots, etc.

We've been watching Shogun lately and the establishing shots I'm like, waitaminute, that looks like the BC coast. Head to imdb. Yup. I'm pretty good at picking out the Vancouver vistas in shows. Been across Lyon Bridge in Vancouver, which is in a lot of productions. The one that comes to mind is Tron:Legacy, the ending where he's riding his motorcycle across the bridge.

Twin Peaks (Snoqualmie)
The Vanishing (North Bend gas station)
Northern Exposure (Roslyn)
Butterfly Effect (went to high school across the street from the prison)
The Ring
WarGames
10 Things I Hate About You (driven past Stadium High)
Assassins
Footloose (Lehi Mills still around... for now)
Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade (opening at Arches)
Captain Fantastic
The Rock (Palace of Fine Arts; been in lots of movies)
Cold Pursuit (Banff National Park)
Forrest Gump (Glacier NP)
The Shining (Glacier NP)
Django Unchained (Jackson, WY)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Devil's Tower)
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid (Zion NP)
Yellowstone TV show (the ranch)
Dances With Wolves (Jackson, WY)
Twilight (unfortunately)
Fear
The Man in the High Castle
Harry and the Hendersons
Mystery, Alaska (Banff NP/Canmore)
Dante's Peak (Wallace, ID - the town the interstate goes over)

The Star Garden in Burbank.

The pool bar  Hyatt in Grand Cayman.  The Firm pool bar scene.

I lived in a building on the Ft Sill parade field where the “In the army Now” basic training graduation scene was filmed.

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I've been to Fern Canyon, California, the filming location for a scene in one of the Jurassic Park movies.

Speaking of ohio prisons, my grandpa was a prison guard his whole career at the lucasville one. He was there during the 1993 riots.  I remember as a kid watching the VHS home movies from the guards who had brought in their camcorders to capture what has happening there.  Back when cameras were so big, you lugged them around on your shoulder.  https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2022/06/28/lucasville-prison-riot-1993-what-happened/7703344001/

I visited the castle where Braveheart was filmed and was in the room where Longshanks tossed Phillip out of the window. The room is actually quite small.

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The infamous house used in "The Exorcist" is in downtown D.C. as pictured in the movie.  The stairs next to the house was not as close as they made it seem (it was an entire lot away.
One night a friend and I were at the Crazy Horse saloon which was down the stairs and short walk away, so we parked across the street from the Exorcist house.
Coming back at 2 AM as we are walking past the house, the front door opens and out walks a priest. As you can guess we were shocked and yelled at the priest asking what he was doing there!!  He simply laughed and got into his car.
Yeah, I know cool story bro.

The train crash site from Ring of fire is on the Wynoochee river in WA. You can hike to the bottom and crawl through the train wreckage.
Northern Exposure- Roslyn
Rambo First Blood- Hope BC
Twin Peaks- Snoqualmie
10 things I hate about you- Used to run the stairs at Stadium H.S.
Timberline lodge from the Shining
Devils tower- Close encounters
Various places in NE Oregon from The Goonies, Kindergarten Cop, and Silent hill
Ft. Worden- Officer and a gentleman
Wallace ID- Dantes Peak
Mt Rushmore

Probably a few more I'm forgetting.

Forgot about the ballpark scene in Bull Durham. They put out a call for extras, so naturally we skipped out of work for the $25 and all the tepid beer you could drink. We could drink a lot of beer, as it happens, so it was a pretty good deal.

I was so far out in the bleachers I can spot my bright red jacket, but no cameo