Movies set in San Francisco S/D

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Over the weekend I watched Play It Again Sam, The Enforcer, and So I Married An Axe Murderer. It wasn't until afterwards that I noticed that all three were set in San Francisco, which of course got me thinking about other movies filmed there, etc. etc.

More to the point, I couldn't think of a *bad* movie filmed there. (San Francisco International doesn't count because it was a TV pilot)

Anyway, a thread is born!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

i worry about your lack of italics after the serial comma.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Search: The Conversation, Dirty Harry, The Maltese Falcon

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

I guess Vertigo pwns this thread?

― stewart downes (sdownes), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

Isn't Big Trouble In Little China set in San Fran? Or is it LA?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.videovista.net/articles/bullitt3.jpg

― elmo (allocryptic), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Isn't Big Trouble In Little China set in San Fran? Or is it LA?

San Francisco!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

48 Hours was on this weekend. I said to the wife, "Huh, I don't remember this taking place in San Francisco", and her response was something along the lines of "Gee, wonder if we'll see a car fly over a hill in a chase?"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

What is that one with Bogart and Bacall where Bogie escaped from prison and is trying to find THE REAL KILLER? The first third of the movie is shot from his perspective.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

does tales of the city count? (that would be a "destroy.")

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Dark Passage, Ooops.

Search: Greed, Out of the Past, The Maltese Falcoln...

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

More to the point, I couldn't think of a *bad* movie filmed there.

Found one.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Also, The Princess Diaries. Surely among the greatest movies ever.

― stewart downes (sdownes), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

haha jesus, that was really a francis ford coppola movie!?!

xpost

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Most of the movies I worked on in SF sucked.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

I have been racking my brains and all I can think of is "The Love Bug" and various Alcatraz-type things (Birdman of Alcatraz, The Rock, Murder in the First etc).

And "Electric Dreams".

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

The Other Sister!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123209/

― rocknrolldetox (rocknrolldetox), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

9 Months! One of Tom Arnold's finest moments.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 12 September 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Fincher's "The Game", which I really like, and which also makes SF look really shiny and cool.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 12 September 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Destroy:

The Fan: Snipes = Bonds, Deniro stalker.
The Hulk: Ang Lee piece of crap. Only saw the trailer.
The Presidio: may have set a box office record for cliches per frame in this Mark Harmon, Sean Connery, Meg Ryan military mystery.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 12 September 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Here are four that I worked on which should be destroyed now that the paychecks are long since spent:

Bicentennial Man
Patch Adams
Boys and Girls
The Wedding Planner

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 12 September 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

S: The Laughing Policeman
http://www.movieposter.de/assets/images/db_images/db_zmassenmordfo11.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 September 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

also, http://www.petitionspot.com/uploads/992-Full%20House.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 September 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Dying Young

Serial

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

The beginning and end of Point Blank (Alcatraz).

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

The best: Philip Kaufman's "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," which I'd actually tie with "Vertigo" for best SF film. Or perhaps "The Graduate" (sorta).

Bad films? Plenty!

"Jade"
"The Rock" (well, guilty pleasure at best)
"Mrs. Doubtfire"

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

S:Petulia (Dick Lester's swinging 60s return to America and S.F. complete with cameos by Big Brother & The Holding Company and The Grateful Dead)

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Ang Lee's Hulk was EXCELLENT!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

In 10 years time, Hulk is going to get reappraised as the greatest superhero movie ever made.

So I Married an Axe Murderer is great too, but tinged with the sadness of knowing that Mike Myers was about to systematically destroy his career, wipe his arse on it and shove its violated corpse in a dumpster.

― I Oppose All Rock and Roll (noodle vague), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Hulk has a super great not-at-all-Danny-Elfman-esque Danny Elfman score.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

And it's got a pitch-black soul: the nuclear family breeding the destructive psyche, the joy of not-being-human, the father who wants to destroy the son. And Nick Nolte!!! C'mon people, it's CRAZY NICK NOLTE!!!! He makes Christopher Walken look like Jimmy Fucking Stewart. HULK SMASH!!!!!! GRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

― I Oppose All Rock and Roll (noodle vague), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

S: Psych-Out (Henry Jaglom cameo as a crazy axe-wielding hippie!)

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Search:

Blake Edwards tries on Hitchcock ca. 1960-ish: Experiment in Terror

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

The Hulk: Ang Lee piece of crap. Only saw the trailer.

It's maybe the only superhero movie I've ever really liked.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

I second Petulia... the City is almost another character. Richard Chamberlain plays a good wifebeating rich kid snot.

― andy --, Monday, 12 September 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

The Birds begins in SF before it moves to Bodega Bay. There must be other Hitchcock films besides The Birds and Vertigao that are at least partially in SF but I can't remember them at the moment...

― quality does not equal quality (wetmink), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

haha Vertigao

― quality does not equal quality (wetmink), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and ON THE BEACH... the City is eerie and deserted. My dad remembers when they stopped traffic on the GG Bridge to film it. They would NEVER do that now... they also stopped traffic on Powell and some others, so it looked creepy and deserted.

"Sorry, sir... I got a date on Market Street tonite..."

― andy --, Monday, 12 September 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

D.O.A.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 12 September 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

There must be other Hitchcock films besides The Birds and Vertigao that are at least partially in SF but I can't remember them at the moment...
-- quality does not equal quality (minksof...), September 12th, 2005 1:50 PM. (wetmink)

Shadow of a Doubt is the other classic set in NorCal (Santa Rosa/SF).

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 12 September 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Destroy: A View to a Kill. The point at which Moore lost any vestige of charm and started coming across as nothing more than a dodgy old perv.

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Monday, 12 September 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/04/206404.jpg

Search for Harryhausen, destroy for the rest.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

Time After Time, with Malcolm MacDowell as H.G. Wells, has that fatalistic touch that the Dirty Harry movies also have.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

I opened this thread to type time after time

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

Destroy:
Hammett
Groove

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

The Towering Inferno

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

'70s Frisco caper comedies with hilly car chases:

Foul Play (classic if only for Dudley Moore) and What's Up, Doc? (classic if only for Barbra's cap).

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

The Pursuit Of Happyness

An in-production Will Smith big-budget vehicle that built a mock-BART station in Duboce Park for set design.

They're filming all day today from 7am-10pm.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

Fincher Zodiac movie

― Cristal Waters (nordicskilla), Thursday, 22 September 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

I never liked Pacific Heights

― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 22 September 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

http://photos21.flickr.com/27425638_ec2b0cc4ca.jpg

― Cristal Waters (nordicskilla), Thursday, 22 September 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.joannaelizabeth.com/images/other%20signs/chu_frank.jpg
http://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/frank_chu.jpg
http://sfgate.com/c/pictures/2005/02/06/dd_sunbull06.jpg
http://www.comecorrect.net/mt/archives/loveparade2-thumb.jpg

― Cristal Waters (nordicskilla), Thursday, 22 September 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

Shakey Mo Collier's band was named after a Frank Chiu sign.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 22 September 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

Is Frank Chu going to show up in a movie? That would be awesome.

A mock BART station in Duboce Park! I have to go check it out. I wondered what they were going to film there.

― mikef (mfleming), Thursday, 22 September 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mistersf.com/images/snatched02.jpg

― Cristal Waters (nordicskilla), Thursday, 22 September 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

mike, it's a period piece so if you hurry up you can see all the 70s cars/SF buses/taxis.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 22 September 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.norcalmovies.com/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers/x-invasion23.jpg

― Cristal Waters (nordicskilla), Thursday, 22 September 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

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