List fails without the various locations of the Back To The Future series.

The house that Amittyville Horror 1-3 is in Toms River, NJ. It was up for sale last I heard, asking 1.6 million.

Eastern State Penn is a cool tour, even if you don't do the haunted halloween thing.

brigid_fitch: I was at Eastern State Penitentiary's "Terror Behind the Walls" haunted house this past Halloween. Fascinating place. When it was open, inmates were kept utterly isolated, weren't allowed to speak, and had hoods over their heads whenever they left their cells so that they wouldn't see another person. Most went insane. It was like walking through a real-life Arkham Asylum.

my school used to do field trips there, and I've been on the halloween thing, very cool

I love Blade Runner, but man, that trailer they posted in TFA sucked, No wonder it bombed at the box office.

I used to drive by Fallingwater a few times a year on my way to my favorite campground/fishing area. Frank Lloyd Wright made some wildly cool buildings.

goochmeister42: I drove through Forks, WA during a camping trip right after the first Twilight movie came out...

*Every* shop in town had a Twilight special - twilight beer, sandwich (vegeratian), there was even a Twilight hardware store.

We left town quickly.

I would too. Who knows what they put in those vegeratian sandwiches.

Off to van nuys high.

dittybopper: goochmeister42: I drove through Forks, WA during a camping trip right after the first Twilight movie came out...

*Every* shop in town had a Twilight special - twilight beer, sandwich (vegeratian), there was even a Twilight hardware store.

We left town quickly.

I would too. Who knows what they put in those vegeratian sandwiches.

One hopes they're made with real vegeratians, but you know how expensive that is. Probably just imitation vegeratian.

Off to bronson canyon for robot monster, then the steam factory in england used in Batman and Aliens

Fano: Off to bronson canyon for robot monster, then the steam factory in england used in Batman and Aliens

England needs a whole factory? Losers. I can make steam with just a pot of water on my stove.

I'm sorry, but to me, the Contact location will always be the Goldeneye array. Points to them for making mention of it as such, but it deserved higher billing.

Current Resident: List fails without [INSERT FILM TITLE HERE].

The first of the many escape by airplane scenes in 2012 showed my mom's place in Santa Monica falling into the ocean.


ShawnDoc: JJRRutgers: List fails without the various locations of the Back To The Future series.

You mean, besides the Universal Studios backlot?

I could have sworn that some of the Hill Valley scenes were filmed in Orange, Ca but apparently ˆ notˆ.

I still think that Parkes, NSW, AU is cooler than Arecibo, PR.

Little disappointed with the choice of LotR. Hobbiton is still there, and they recently redid the entire area for The Hobbit so now that filming is finished all the hobbitholes are actually inhabitable. For LotR they were most false fronts, etc, but PJ went in last year and built actual buildings.

How the fark are there ponds on a mountain slope?

Also,

Last Man on Earth: I'm sorry, but to me, the Contact location will always be the Goldeneye array. Points to them for making mention of it as such, but it deserved higher billing.

This. I've seen the Goldeneye movie 3-4 times, played the N64 game for about 3,000 total hours and saw about half of Contact.

kenryoku_one: The first of the many escape by airplane scenes in 2012 showed my mom's place in Santa Monica falling into the ocean.


ShawnDoc: JJRRutgers: List fails without the various locations of the Back To The Future series.

You mean, besides the Universal Studios backlot?

I could have sworn that some of the Hill Valley scenes were filmed in Orange, Ca but apparently ˆ notˆ.

Doc Brown's house is a real house in Pasadena

The castle in 'Highlander' is a great one. Eilean Donan, on the west coast of Scotland. Went there about this time last year:

I'm surprised they didn't talk up The Bradbury building more than they did. It wasn't just home to J. F. Sebastian in Blade Runner. It's credits go back to the original production of DOA and include things like Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation Video, the movie Chinatown, and TV series like Quantum Leap, Pushing Daisies and The Outer Limits episode Demon with a Glass Hand. The list goes on...

What about the islands from the Jurassic Park series.....Those looked absolutely beautiful.

Maybe not a "geek" movie, but this one always cracks me up:

Gilligan13: What about the islands from the Jurassic Park series.....Those looked absolutely beautiful.

Somewhere in Hawai'i. Kaua'i, I think.

Been to the Arecibo observatory. They have a "scale" map of the universe. Took a picture of my friend with his back facing the camera next to "Neptune." (Get it? Uranus is the planet next to Neptune.)

Another neat nerdy place to go is King's Cross station in London. I don't know if any of the HP movies were actually filmed in King's Cross. Anyway, upstairs on the way to the train platforms (the ground floor is a tube station), they have a "Platform 9-3/4" photo op complete with a half of a luggage trolley attached to the wall (as if the other half has gone "through" the wall).

Also doesn't qualify as "filmed in" but there's a blue police phone box near the Earl's Court tube station in London, too.

Cool story, bro. I know.

I've also driven past where Cameron's house (from Ferris Bueller's Day Off) is.

Needlessly Complicated: Been to the Arecibo observatory. They have a "scale" map of the universe. Took a picture of my friend with his back facing the camera next to "Neptune." (Get it? Uranus is the planet next to Neptune.)

Another neat nerdy place to go is King's Cross station in London. I don't know if any of the HP movies were actually filmed in King's Cross. Anyway, upstairs on the way to the train platforms (the ground floor is a tube station), they have a "Platform 9-3/4" photo op complete with a half of a luggage trolley attached to the wall (as if the other half has gone "through" the wall).

Also doesn't qualify as "filmed in" but there's a blue police phone box near the Earl's Court tube station in London, too.

Cool story, bro. I know.

I've also driven past where Cameron's house (from Ferris Bueller's Day Off) is.

The last time I was in London, I got on the tube and went straight to Mornington Crescent, no transfers. The universe didn't collapse in on itself, so I think that means I won the game.

Gilligan13: What about the islands from the Jurassic Park series.....Those looked absolutely beautiful.

CSB moment: In 2001 was part of a research team studying octopuses on La Isla Mucielago (new window) off the west coast of Costa Rica. This is supposedly the island where Micheal Crichton set his Jurassic Park novels. In reality, the main island is tiny- you can walk the perimeter in about 6 hours, despite the nearly mountainous terrain. There are ctenosaurs everywhere, but I couldn't imagine any kind of ancient "anysaur" inhabiting that little island.

/ok there was one big honkin' SW crocodile that lived around the corner from our camp.
/we discovered a new species of octopus there. My dive buddy touched it first and thus got to name it.
/ O. marcus? Seriously Mark? what a dork.

I've posted this before, but:

For me, the greatest film location I've ever visited is the inside of Firehouse 23 in LA, where they filmed all the interiors for Ghostbusters. (contrary to belief, they didn't shoot any interiors at Hook & Ladder 8 in New York).

Very few GB fans can say they actually got to stand in Peter Venkman's office.

Logan's Run - Fort Worth Water Gardens

Robo Beat: Gilligan13: What about the islands from the Jurassic Park series.....Those looked absolutely beautiful.

Somewhere in Hawai'i. Kaua'i, I think.

Islands, yes. But a lot of the other shots were in Costa Rica. I've been there. Simply amazing, and straight out of the movie.

Needlessly Complicated: Another neat nerdy place to go is King's Cross station in London. I don't know if any of the HP movies were actually filmed in King's Cross. Anyway, upstairs on the way to the train platforms (the ground floor is a tube station), they have a "Platform 9-3/4" photo op complete with a half of a luggage trolley attached to the wall (as if the other half has gone "through" the wall).

Also doesn't qualify as "filmed in" but there's a blue police phone box near the Earl's Court tube station in London, too.

1) They did film at Kings Cross, although it was done at Platform 1. (The trolley-barrier scene was between Platforms 4 and 5, I think.) Incidentally, I was there this summer catching a train to York for the National Railway Museum, and they had the Hogwarts Express engine parked in a museum siding, adornments and all.

2) The hotel I stayed at just PRIOR to the York visit was a block away from Earls Court. Rounded a corner to the Tube and wondered why the Doctor was paying a visit; turns out there's a Doctor Who exhibition that just opened about 5 minutes away.

/Riveting tale, chap

Daze and Confused? I'm pretty open minded, but how is that Nerdy?

I'd call and ask to stay in room 237, but I'm sure they get that douchey call at least once a day, so I won't.

flaminio: I'd call and ask to stay in room 237, but I'm sure they get that douchey call at least once a day, so I won't.

[4.bp.blogspot.com image 400x268]

I think I remember reading somewhere that there isn't a room 237 at the Timberline. Apparently it was room 217 in the book, but they changed it when they made the movie so people wouldn't turn down the room if it had been booked to them.

The Cyberdyne Systems building that was blown up in Terminator 2 is still there in Fremont, CA.