A-Team the movie is bad in many aspects but what really sticks out for Germans is that while the movie played in Frankfurt (and was shot in Vancouver), they showed aerial shots from Cologne. Which is especially weird because I don’t think aerial shots of Frankfurt should be hard to come by (they are used extensively in Arrow for example) and Cologne is probably one of the most recognizable cities in Germany
Vikings portrayal of Uppsala is absolutely laughable, in the show it’s portrayed as this väst landscape with mountains and waterfalls. Uppsala is almost completely flat, it’s sometimes referred to as “The Uppsala flats”.
Yeah I’ve been to Uppsala and, if I hadn’t known it was exaggerated in the show, I would have been confused.
Any movie that depicts the pyramids of Giza as being in the middle of pristine deep desert is kind of funny. I mean, when you look up pictures online they are always angled to give the impression. It adds mystique to think the pyramids are at least a little difficult to reach. The reality is that the city goes basically right up to them. You can take a taxi from the city and get within American walking distance.
The pyramids are of course flooded with tourists, so any daring adventurer would in reality have to push their way past a family of six from Iowa to get to the hidden chamber of the pyramid.
American walking distance
How could you do this
Thank you for posting this. Reminds of pictures taken from a fast-food chain (don’t remember which one) where you can see the pyramids through the window
Adventure!
This picture pisses me off Everytime I see it because they didn’t line up the Pizza Hut logo to give the pyramid a hat.
That’s the one!
Midsommar got pretty much nothing right. They also decided it should take place in Hälsingland because I guess that sounds cool to Americans.
When I lived in San Francisco, I watched a movie in theater and an SF scene appeared. The audience cheered just from seeing the golden gate Bridge. The geography of the areas around the bridge are what get misrepresented the most, since most media slaps the bridge in the background.
The view Frasier has of the Seattle skyline was completely impossible without rearranging city blocks and moving buildings around the city.
Are you suggesting the show was all some sort of extended Twilight Zone bit where Fraiser had the consciousnesses of everyone else trapped inside of a world where he was essentially a god, and forced them to play out petty interactions, never letting the facade slip lest they incur his wrath?
Is Maris a living example of what happens when Fraiser is angered to the point of punishment? Is that why we never see her? Is her visage as a being that has no mouth but must scream so horrific that it must be hidden from the viewing audience at all costs?
The SciFi channel show “Resident Alien” is supposed to take place in Colorado. It is clearly shot in Canada.
A lot of movies do a good job of showing Vancouver, because that’s where a lot of them are filmed.
Pensacola in Godzilla. LOL, no. It’s nowhere neat that large and lit up. They made it look like a major port city. Well, it’s a port city all right.
Stargate SG-1 portraying Colorado Springs as though it’s flat terrain with no mountains in the background
Portlandia, there are definitely a lot more homeless here and there is certain neighborhoods you don’t want to be in at night.
Portland has changed quite a bit since that show premiered.
I went to college in Muncie, Indiana, which is the inspiration for Pawnee in Parks and Recreation.
Muncie is kinda like Pawnee, I guess. But without the whimsy.
The instant I read “Muncie” I was expecting to find out that everything I knew about it from The Hudsucker Proxy was false, so thank you for preserving my innocence
GOOOOOOOO EAGLES
In Crocodile Dundee (1986), there is a famous scene where the lead characters are mugged at knife point, producing the quote “That’s not a knife, this is a knife.” In New York City, you actually get mugged at gun point.
First example is probably going to be Emily in Paris, it’s a running gag on French media how distorted the image of the city is in that show.
I haven’t seen one for my city yet. They’ve pretty much called it out as the shithole it is the few times I have seen my city mentioned by name in some popular media.
I’m American so I could list so many movies from Hollywood (ie made by my own country) that misrepresent this country. Just pick anything at random, really. They all make it look better than it is, even when showing off what sucks.
Fargo is in North Dakota, not Minnesota dammit!
