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Article moy-moy stupid

Intriguing.

There was a critical note there in the article:

Tax Incentives


Arizona needs to realize that it is a giant laughing stock. It's not until money gets promised that productions choose AZ over Seattle or Vancouver.

DangerDoom: Intriguing.

Is that from the computer game The Journeyman Project?

Anyways I've been out to Mesa ten years ago. Mesa is located in the Valley of the Sun (Phoenix Metropolitan Area) and surrounded by farmland the same way Hollywood was seventy years ago. The problem with Hollywood is the lack of space created by urban sprawl for open air scenes. I don't think the film industry is going to outsource to Phoenix anytime soon, but some of it will move South of the Border to Tijuana and Mexicali when James Cameron filmed Titanic because it will be cheaper to produce.

Funk Brothers

I think it's from the Black Mesa Source (pops) project. You know, the one that's porting HL1 to the HL2 environment?

AZ is just prepping to takeover for California when it slides into the sea. They've got the crazies, the naturists, the illegals, the celebrities, the rehabs, and now it's going to have the studios.

Oh, we can't forget the Icy Hot Stuntaz type vehicles, hair, and clothing.

Having been in Mesa when it was 105 degrees and raining, I'm gonna say no.

Burbank is pretty freakin miserable during the late summer months too...but still, no.

DeathByGeekSquad: AZ is just prepping to takeover for California when it slides into the sea. They've got the crazies, the naturists, the illegals, the celebrities, the rehabs, and now it's going to have the studios.

Oh, we can't forget the Icy Hot Stuntaz type vehicles, hair, and clothing.

Learn to swim?

DeathByGeekSquad: AZ is just prepping to takeover for California when it slides into the sea. They've got the crazies, the naturists, the illegals, the celebrities, the rehabs, and now it's going to have the studios.

Oh, we can't forget the Icy Hot Stuntaz type vehicles, hair, and clothing.

Most of which migrated from CA in the first place.

DangerDoom: Funk Brothers

I think it's from the Black Mesa Source (pops) project. You know, the one that's porting HL1 to the HL2 environment?

That's the original...

I prefer the new one:

The Amazing Rando!: DangerDoom: Funk Brothers

I think it's from the Black Mesa Source (pops) project. You know, the one that's porting HL1 to the HL2 environment?

That's the original...

I prefer the new one:

I'm a dumbass today for some reason.

BobtheFascist: DeathByGeekSquad: AZ is just prepping to takeover for California when it slides into the sea. They've got the crazies, the naturists, the illegals, the celebrities, the rehabs, and now it's going to have the studios.

Oh, we can't forget the Icy Hot Stuntaz type vehicles, hair, and clothing.

Most of which migrated from CA in the first place.

That's Scottsdale. Bunch of LA wannabes and has-beens/never-beens up there. Rest of the area is full of people who moved here from the Midwest. Far too many Cubs, Packers, and Vikings bars thanks to them.

/did find a PSU bar in Tempe

Flim Mesa.

Anyone who has ever been to Mesa would know that this is really never going to happen. The only marginally acceptable time to be in Mesa is November-March, and those two outer months are pretty iffy at that. Southern California summers aren't great, but they don't near 120 degrees.

The city is run by Mormons and, as someone in the comments of the article pointed out, Mesa was rated one of the most boring cities in America. It's a textbook example of urban sprawl. Its inhabitants are either crazy conservatives or gun-toting thugs and drug-dealers, with a few straggling university students in the west. There's no reason anyone should really be living there at all, let alone making movies there.

ANOTHER new Hollywood?

Get in line, Mesa.

The only town in America that isn't bending over backward to accommodate film making is Los Angeles.

Buster Hermano: There was a critical note there in the article:

Tax Incentives


Arizona needs to realize that it is a giant laughing stock. It's not until money gets promised that productions choose AZ over Seattle or Vancouver.

Seattle? No, were lucky to get one film a year. The last two I can think of were Tobey McGuire vs. the Raccoons, and that Robin Williams movie directed by shakes the Clown.

But Vancouver? Yeah that get lots of cool projects, both movies and TV, like X-Files and BSG. As soon as I learn to speak Canadian, I'm moving up there.

MC O'Brien: Buster Hermano:

But Vancouver? Yeah that get lots of cool projects, both movies and TV, like X-Files and BSG. As soon as I learn to speak Canadian, I'm moving up there.

Speaking Canadian is easy; you just need to look surprised all the time.

My point wasn't that Seattle is Hollywood Too, it was that Seattle gets chosen over Mesa now, without massive tax breaks.

GreenAdder: Gangway Fathead: The only town in America that isn't bending over backward to accommodate film making is Los Angeles.

Here's how it works.

Major film studio: "Hey, city that isn't LA or NY, we'd like to make some movies in your state. We'll even open up a new studio if you help pay for it and give us a lot of tax breaks for the first few years."
City: "Sure. We'll even let you move in tax-free if we think it'll get more local people hired."
Major film studio: "Yeah, about that... we just hired a bunch of out-of-state people. And as soon as those tax breaks expire, we're going to leave you with a big empty lot."


Oh I know.

shiat, I just want my 12 foot standing wave already.

E.S.Q.: shiat, I just want my 12 foot standing wave already.

12' standing wave?



/also the scene for the "reveal" in "Just one of the guys"

Everyone bend over! Californians are moving in, and they have money!

Mugato: the billion dollar Gaylord Resort

Not really into gay porn.

i lol'd when i read that in the article. been a slow day.

Buster Hermano: MC O'Brien: Buster Hermano:

But Vancouver? Yeah that get lots of cool projects, both movies and TV, like X-Files and BSG. As soon as I learn to speak Canadian, I'm moving up there.

Speaking Canadian is easy; you just need to look surprised all the time.

My point wasn't that Seattle is Hollywood Too, it was that Seattle gets chosen over Mesa now, without massive tax breaks.

I'm pretty sure WA state gives tax benefits to anyone who films in state. It's just that Vancouver has a much better deal.

HA HA! FAT CHANCE!

/really not up here yet?

The only movie I can think of that was filmed in the area was Bill and Ted. I don't remember which one.

austerity101 2009-12-15 06:51:01 PM
Anyone who has ever been to Mesa would know that this is really never going to happen. The only marginally acceptable time to be in Mesa is November-March, and those two outer months are pretty iffy at that. Southern California summers aren't great, but they don't near 120 degrees.

The city is run by Mormons and, as someone in the comments of the article pointed out, Mesa was rated one of the most boring cities in America. It's a textbook example of urban sprawl. Its inhabitants are either crazy conservatives or gun-toting thugs and drug-dealers, with a few straggling university students in the west. There's no reason anyone should really be living there at all, let alone making movies there.

Not commenting on the article, but some of us here in Mesa are sane. We do get a good laugh at the loonies though.

105 is nothing. A good two months out of the year, it is more like 118. I don't care what anyone says about "dry heat", 116 sucks.

bruce4bruce: The only movie I can think of that was filmed in the area was Bill and Ted. I don't remember which one.

1st one. The mall scene was Metro Center.

Movies I can think of off top of head:
Just One of the Guys
Campus Man
The Kingdom
Jerry Maguire
Waiting to Exhale

and of course
Raising Arizona

As someone who lives in Mesa, I'd like to say "No. No it isn't."

/pretty boring city, actually