I'm trying to come up with a list of the best movies set in Detroit and filmed on location in Detroit. Here are 3 to start with:
8 Mile
Out Of Sight
Zebrahead
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I'm trying to come up with a list of the best movies set in Detroit and filmed on location in Detroit. Here are 3 to start with:
8 Mile
Out Of Sight
Zebrahead
Detroit 9000
Beverly Hills Cop and Cop 2. [[Cop 3 sucked and I don't think Detroit was in it anyway)
Blue Collar with Richard Pryor [[great movie I haven't seen in a long time)
Gran Torino
Detroit Rock City
The Rosary Murders
True Romance
What was the name of the movie that came out not too long ago that has some excellent shots of the Guardian building?
Wesley Snipes did a really chessy action movie that I think had the last fight scene on top of the Guardian. The movie was horrible, but there are many areas of Detroit that you don't see in most movies.
Ah, here it is: Game of Death - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446072/
was this actually filmed in Detroit?Quote:
Originally Posted by mallory
Transformers
Parts of the film were including a few scenes on the Belle Isle bridge.Quote:
Originally Posted by wardwood
The Betsy
Danny DiVito had a couple of movies that used Detroit extensively.
Hoffa
Renaissance Man
Mike Binder's Crossing the Bridge used Detroit and the Ambassador Bridge as a metaphor for growing up, however little of the movie was actually filmed here.
Andy Hardy's family moved to Detroit for one of thier movies.
This might not be the BEST movie, but it was a lot of fun: Let's Kill All The Lawyers, filmed in and around Detroit with a lot of cameos by well-known Detroiters.
For a cheesy, silly, but still entertaining 80s buddy cop movie, check out
"Collision Course", which was filmed entirely in Detroit. It featured the Grand Prix, the Hotel St. Regis, the Majestic/Garden Bowl, and other unique Detroit locales. It starred Pat Morita and Jay Leno. Leno was drag racing a guy on Michigan Avenue near Tiger Stadium in one scene.
"Narc" looked and felt like a Detroit movie, although only a small portion of it was actually filmed in Detroit. There were shots along Woodward and on Belle Isle. It was an excellent movie, too, although very dark.
XYZ murders
I was watching Michael Keaton and Teri Garr in "Mr. Mom" recently. There's a scene where Teri Garr goes to work on her first day and I'd swear she's on a Ren Cen elevator. You can see another one of the towers behind her as the elevator seems to take her all the way to the 39th floor of one of the main towers [[100-400). The story is supposed to be in the Detroit area but I can't find any record of any of it being shot here.
Great movie. Funny as hell. Does it count as a Detroit movie?
I was watching them film the scene on Woodward in from of the old Hudson's. I also saw them filming in Trapper's Alley during a foot chase. I don't Leno has moved that fast since.Quote:
Originally Posted by Motor City Sam
I don't think they filmed in the area. One way you can tell is that there is at least one outdoor scene with cars having front Michigan license plates.Quote:
Originally Posted by RedeemerKid
Best is just an opinion. Here is a list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...set_in_Detroit
this doesn't count since it was not filmed hereQuote:
Originally Posted by RedeemerKid
good movie though
this is a good list but not exactly what I was looking for, I want films that are set in metro Detroit AND were filmed in metro Detroit,Quote:
Originally Posted by Wheels
Out Of Sight would have to be my favorite, and very "Detroit." Based on an Elmore Leonard novel, so I guess that makes sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by wardwood
Scarecrow stars Gene Hackman and Al Pacino, and quite a bit of it takes place in Detroit--on the east side, I think. As I recall there are some neighborhood shots that looked like they were filmed here.
Although only a portion was filmed here the Detroit scenes in "The Island" were cool !
When does/did the new Red Dawn come out?
I'm glad you mentioned Zebrahead because it was a good movie and always seems to get overlooked.Quote:
Originally Posted by wardwood
I've heard March of this year but more likely November of this year for Red Dawn which I believe was filmed in part in Mt.Clemens , Harper Woods and Detroit . Other than the usual holdups releasing a movie , they had to re-do alot of scenes [[on a computer ) to erase the China like star on all the enemies uniforms and anything else with that star because those commies bitched about it being to similar , so supposedly they re-did the star to look more like N. Korea . I mean China threatened Norway with diplomatic hardships because they wanted to award a Nobel Peace Prize to a Chinese National .
Real Steel
Sparkle [[not out yet)
True Romance. Great scenes of Downtown, Foxtown area. It is clear that even in the 90s there were many more buildings still standing. There are also some shots of the west riverfront rail tracks.
+1 on True Romance. Insane cast and good movie. Tons of shots in Del Ray and Zug Island road.
Several years ago there was a TV show that was only on for about 4 episodes that filmed mostly in the Cass Corridor and along Michigan Avenue. This was befire 187 and it was a show about crime that mixed in petty crime and was topical to what was going on with the Casinos, and the mayor at the time. Does anyone remember that or its name?
30 minutes or less - grand rapids - http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/g...inutes_or.html
mosquito - ann arbor i think. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113858/locations
grosse point blank - grosse point! hey, a winner.
"Scarecrow" was a decent Movie. The ending scene is a lengthy scene filmed at the Belle Isle Scott Fountain. w/Al Pacino, 1973.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarecrow_[[1973_film)
Sounds like it could be Detroit Swat. It was an A&E documentary.Quote:
Originally Posted by DetroitPlanner
there was also that A&E Reality Show 'The First 48' , which ended in tragedy in detroit.
True Romance is probably my favorite Tarintino movie [[he wrote it but didn't direct it). Dennis Hopper is a guard at the Packard Plant.
if you want to see wesley snipes in game of death, it is released on youtube.
but dont blame me if you feel like you wasted an hour off your life though.
i work on the film and it was originally set in new your but was changed to be about detroit. was a fun movie to work on though.
This was on regular TV. I don't watch enough TV to justify cable! Mostly just the evening news and your occasional Simpsons.Quote:
Originally Posted by compn
Nick of Time
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113972/
"Out of Sight". Great movie. Where is that house at the end supposed to be? I always pictured it as being on Hamilton Road at Pontchartrain Blvd though its probably more suburban.
No one has really grabbed the backdrop of Detroit's architecture though and ran with it as Detroit. Looking forward to that in some future movie. Like if "the Crow" had actually been filmed in Detroit...
I think you are thinking of EZ Streets, which starred Ken Olin, Carl Lumby, Joe Pantoliano, and Jason Gedrick. Actually one of my all time favorites series, even though it had such a limited run.Quote:
Originally Posted by DetroitPlanner
30 minutes or lessQuote:
Originally Posted by compn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkinJ...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0neFpVR2q4&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdWYM1Lb2M0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQFyVljy2OM&feature=related
This was a movie car sold on flint craigslist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hq5aozddvU&feature=related
Blue Collar
Not so sure about "best" [[I've never seen this one) but "Tigertown" with Roy Scheider.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086439/
The opening scenes of Beverly Hills Cop was shot in Detroit.
Very little of Detroit Rock City was actually shot in Detroit, it looked to me like they blew through town without even getting out of their car.
Remember when the cast "arrives" in Detroit via the Macarthur Bridge? LOL!
DRC sucked anyway!
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Originally Posted by yaktown
As a kid, I was at Tiger Stadium for a game with my cub scout pack when they were doing some filming for the movie, which I never gave a second thought about.
I never saw the movie until many years later, when I watched it with my daughter. To my surprise, on the screen I saw my sister and I smiling at the camera in a crowd shot!
Yes, that was it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Motor City Sam
I loved that show, and it featured some great shots from the MCD before it looked as bad as it does today.