Detroit References in Movies and Television

**brizee** · March-22-15, 10:54 AM

Saw this last night at Burton Theater*

Pretty damn solid for a horror movie. Sets the rules pretty quickly and holds to them pretty firmly.

Not a TON of gore. However the film establishes just how brutal the stakes are in the first five minutes.

VERY suspenseful and tense. Just a completely fucked up monster concept. A sexually transmitted demon. Amazing the scares it gets when the monster is pretty much various humans.

A fair amount of blight porn around the 7 Mile/Woodward/John R area. And the Packard Plant and State Fair area. The University of Detroit Mercy campus stars in a pretty memorable scene [[I can say I was in a location in a major motion picture). Although why an obvious liberal arts class was being taught in the engineering building...

Oh and the music was absolutely bonkers. Star of the film:

*First time going there. They could be just a teeny bit more organised.

**Dbest** · March-22-15, 12:00 PM

Originally Posted by FlyingJ

Nope. Tony Roma's right off The Strip on East Sahara in Vegas. But Detroit had a terrible mob problem well into the 70's, i can't recall many carbombs but leaving guys shot dead in trunks round Detroit like that Joshua Doore CEO)-maybe it's a boomtown rat scenario but not so much anymore...
https://vegasconfidential.wordpress....ys-mafia-days/

Thanks for the clarification, interesting link...

**G-DDT** · March-22-15, 02:23 PM

Originally Posted by Lowell

I'm pretty sure the myth of Houdini at the Majestic was dispelled in the old forum.

http://www.atdetroit.net/forum/messa...tml?1176205285

What was revealed in those discussions was that his last act in Detroit, and ever, was at the long gone Garrick Theater that was somewhere around Capitol Park.

Well, "supposedly" was my escape clause on that one. I guess I was misled. Hmm, I'm going to have peruse the archives more often. I do recall Ko geeked to have Penn Jillete stop by the Majestic that one time.

Garrick, eh?

And now you know....

....the rest of the story.

**detroitsgwenivere** · March-23-15, 12:05 PM

Rooster Cogburn [[1975). John Wayne to Hawk: "Well now, I'll get you a.. fair trial and a fine hanging. Might even get you life at the Federal house in Detroit, they'll teach you to read and write there. Course the rest of it ain't so good..."

**dtowncitylover** · March-23-15, 01:04 PM

Don't forget The Simpson's episode where Homer find his half-brother who runs his own car company is Detroit. Living it up in what is presumably a Grosse Pointe or Bloomfield Hills mansion. Then Homer makes an "Edsel" and destroys his brother's fortune.

And because Al Jean was born and reared here, there's plenty of Detroit/Michigan references throughout the series.

My favorite where army reciters come to Springfield Elementary to talk to the kids. The episode was during the early days of the Iraq War, mind you.

Army recruiter: Do you guys know where we can find some awesome kids to show it [movie] to?
Milhouse: Dearborn, Michigan?!

**G-DDT** · March-23-15, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by dtowncitylover

Don't forget The Simpson's episode where Homer find his half-brother who runs his own car company is Detroit. Living it up in what is presumably a Grosse Pointe or Bloomfield Hills mansion. Then Homer makes an "Edsel" and destroys his brother's fortune.

And because Al Jean was born and reared here, there's plenty of Detroit/Michigan references throughout the series.

My favorite where army reciters come to Springfield Elementary to talk to the kids. The episode was during the early days of the Iraq War, mind you.

Army recruiter: Do you guys know where we can find some awesome kids to show it [movie] to?
Milhouse: Dearborn, Michigan?!

Anyway, the gag I was going to mention was how the Simpson just cross into Detroit city limits and the first thing Homer hits is a huge pothole [["Doh!"). I would've mentioned it earlier, but it was too soon on the heels of an incoming actual news report involving a killer pothole.

**313WX** · March-23-15, 09:05 PM

American Dad

"For Black Eyes Only" [[Season 9, Episode 13). This was basically one big parody of a James Bond movie. Stan [[who's portraying Agent Smith) and Roger [[who's portraying Tearjerker) traveled to Detroit from their home in Langley Falls, VA. Originally, it was avenge Francine's [[who's portraying Sexpun) death at the hands of Principal Lewis [[who's portraying Black Villain). However, come to find it, Black Villain planned to melt the polar ice caps and turn the rest of the world into a ocean except for his street in Detroit, so that he could have a beachfront property. This episode features a very nice and detailed shot of the city's skyline at the end. Also, while in Detroit, Stan and Roger visit a salon at the corner of Hayes and Philip [[which is funny because these streets don't even really intersect) for information.

**mtburb** · March-23-15, 09:41 PM

Here's a recent Detroit reference, if this counts.

**G-DDT** · April-03-15, 01:29 PM

Big "Duh" on my part. Cameron, Ferris Bueller's friends, is wearing a Red Wings shirt in Hughes' film "Day Off".

**G-DDT** · April-07-15, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by G-DDT

Not too happy that one of the cannibal villains in "Walking Dead" was sporting a Tigers cap.

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I guess that evens that out.

**G-DDT** · May-06-15, 12:57 PM

Not too proud that I know this one-it came to me one weary Saturday morning in the commons area of the halfway home I was living in in Madison, WI. The show "Annoying Orange" had an episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjIZARv_6nc that was a Star Trek parody. When they land on some fantasy planet, the little marshmallow hoots that he's "home". In which they remind him that he said he was from Detroit, by which marshmallow replies "Yeah, the city of Detroit on Marshmalia".

**Onthe405** · May-07-15, 01:36 PM

The [[could-be-cancelled-at-any-moment) NBC sitcom "Undateable" is supposedly set in Detroit. Other than some opening credit exteriors, taped at Warner's in Burbank.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2788780/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

**G-DDT** · May-24-15, 03:32 PM

Caught one minute of a Sci-fi flick set in Detroit called Vanishing on 7th St. with John Leguizamo and Hayden "Hey,-Look!-Somehow-I-Ended-up-in-Return-of-the-Jedi" Christensen.

**G-DDT** · July-11-15, 07:48 PM

Again Walking Dead has more than put things right from it's earlier misuse of a Tiger's cap by having actor Steven Yeun appear on Conan [[at Comic-Con) sporting one.

Thanks, Steven.

**G-DDT** · July-11-15, 07:50 PM

Sorry, don't know why it copied it twice. Couldn't seem to edit it, either.

**TTime** · July-11-15, 09:14 PM

Saw this one on a Family Guy rerun the other day. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rkxPtK_sMNk

**G-DDT** · July-11-15, 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by TTime

Saw this one on a Family Guy rerun the other day. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rkxPtK_sMNk

Yeeeeouchh!

**Now&then** · August-05-15, 11:56 AM

I saw "Pride of the Yankees" last night with Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig. It's a sports film, so it has scenes of the N.Y. Yankees hopping from town to town. Detroit is mentioned many times. It was in Detroit, that Lou knew something was wrong and opted out from playing to better the team.

**gencinjay** · August-05-15, 04:14 PM

The Crow is based in Detroit as was the comic from which it was adapted. A large part of the plot involves Devil's Night fires and T-Bird refers to his gang members as "Motor City m*****rs"

61* was filmed in Tiger Stadium as a stand in for Yankee Stadium.

**Oddz313** · August-05-15, 05:05 PM

Fresh Prince-http://www.collegehumor.com/video/934384/isiah-v-fresh-prince

In another episode he references a movie and the only brother in the movie is from detroit

**preserve** · August-06-15, 02:27 PM

"To Kill the Irishman" was filmed in Detroit - lots of Detroit scenery - but it is supposed to be Cleveland

**gencinjay** · August-06-15, 02:57 PM

My favorite filmed in Detroit but supposed to be someplace else movie is The Island. Not because of the movie itself, but a big gaff Michael Bay left in it. It's supposed to be LA 30 years in the future, but they left the giant Stevie Y add in Cadillac Square in the movie. It's fun picking actual Detroit out of the CGI additions too.

**mtburb** · August-06-15, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by gencinjay

My favorite filmed in Detroit but supposed to be someplace else movie is The Island. Not because of the movie itself, but a big gaff Michael Bay left in it. It's supposed to be LA 30 years in the future, but they left the giant Stevie Y add in Cadillac Square in the movie. It's fun picking actual Detroit out of the CGI additions too.

Perhaps Michael Bay thought that Stevie Y would be playing for the Kings in 2035?

**Whitehouse** · August-06-15, 05:04 PM

I cannot believe no one here already mentioned the movie "Four Brothers". The whole opening scene is Detroit porn with MCS prominently featured. Also the movie "The Island" has Detroit scenes, although that doesn't take place in Detroit.

**Whitehouse** · August-06-15, 05:05 PM

I cannot believe no one here already mentioned the movie "Four Brothers". The whole opening scene is Detroit porn with MCS prominently featured. Also a lot of Motown music on the soundtrack.

Also the movie Naqoyqatsi has great shots of MCS.