50 movies for 50 states. What movie should represent your state? (1 Viewer)

[Swing 51]

Louisiana - Miller's Crossing (I think it was set in New Orleans)

Shot in New Orleans but the city in which it takes place is never mentioned in the flick.

 

[Native]

Yahoo is republishing a list it put together last year of 50 movies for 50 states, one movie to represent each of the United States of America.

MASSACHUSETTS – The Town

Director and star Ben Affleck grew adult in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and he didn’t skip a pretence in capturing a sum of life in a crime-driven Boston area of Charlestown in this instrumentation of Chuck Hogan’s novel Prince of Thieves.

Wrong Ben Affleck movie. Good Will Hunting is a much better flick and has many more memorable scenes about life in Boston. Harvard Square, The University, Fenway Park, Southies, etc.

 

[DiStefano]

Giant is a good choice for Texas. Lonesome Dove if that counts as a movie. Last Picture Show nipping not far behind.

Nah. Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

 

[Don Quixote]

Feel bad for North Dakota. All they have is the movie "Fargo," and about 5 minutes of the movie takes place there. But I also don't know of anything else set there.

 

[Hang 10]

Donnie Darko for Virginia? #### that.

 

[Tom Servo]

PENNSYLVANIA – Groundhog DayWithout Punxsutawney’s favorite groundhog and his annual weather-predicting ritual, Bill Murray would have been deprived one of his excellent roles. This talented comedy celebrates a minutia of parochial life, not to discuss a Pennsylvania Polka.

Everybody knows the correct answer is Night of the Living Dead.

Plus they decided Punxsutawney sucked and filmed it in Illinois.

They also filmed Major League - not in Cleveland - but in MILWAUKEE!!

 

[Tom Servo]

Yahoo is republishing a list it put together last year of 50 movies for 50 states, one movie to represent each of the United States of America.

MASSACHUSETTS – The Town

Director and star Ben Affleck grew adult in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and he didn’t skip a pretence in capturing a sum of life in a crime-driven Boston area of Charlestown in this instrumentation of Chuck Hogan’s novel Prince of Thieves.

Wrong Ben Affleck movie. Good Will Hunting is a much better flick and has many more memorable scenes about life in Boston. Harvard Square, The University, Fenway Park, Southies, etc.

AHHHHH!! LET'S GO BEAT UP SOME RICH KIDS! AHHHHHHHH!!!!

 

[butcher boy]

California should be Star Trek 4.

 

[johnadams]

American Graffiti for California? Almost nothing distinctly Californian about it. Could have been set just about anywhere in America and been the same movie.

The problem with California is that there is such a divide between Northern and Southern California that it's hard to find one that really unifies the two. Great NoCal movies like Maltese Falcon, Veritgo and many others have no resonance with SoCal while films like Chinatown, Boyz N the Hood and many others fall flat on Northern audiences. I can't think of any film that really captures both regions very well at all.

If I had to pick one, it would probably be Sideways or Up in Smoke. Though both are set in Southern California, they each capture scenes and characters that many Northerners can easily relate to. Though wine geeks and self abosrbed snots can be found anywhere, California seems to be the hotbed of both and Sideways absolutely nails it. And if you haven't seen Up In Smoke for a few decades, its still funny and depicts a free living California from the 70s that you had to live in to understand.

 

[BigJohn]

Love Heathers but it doesnt remind me of Ohio at all. How about Rain Man?


Raymond: "I get my boxer shorts at K-Mart in Cincinnati"

Charlie: "We're not going back to Cincinnati, Ray, so don't even start with that"

Raymond:"Gotta get my boxer shorts at K-Mart"

Charlie: [Pulls over, gets out of the car and yells] WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE WHERE YOU BUY UNDERWEAR? WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? UNDERWEAR IS UNDERWEAR! IT IS UNDERWEAR WHEREVER YOU BUY IT! IN CINCINNATI OR WHEREVER!

Silence of The Lambs and Major League were two others that came to mind.

 

[The Commish]

Bull Durham was the first movie I thought of for NC

 

[The Commish]

Bull Durham was the first movie I thought of for NC

Followed by Richie Rich

 

[tdoss]

Does Virginia get D.C.? The list would be endless.

I'd submit, "Lawless" or "Greased Lightning" since they focused on my hometown area of Virginia.

I'm sure you've read the book Lawless was based on? Really good stuff, called The Wettest County in the World

Strangely enough...I'm related. Mom never let us associate with that side of the family though. There was a scene or two that was some of the old tales from back in the day from our family.

 

[elguapo07]

Yahoo is republishing a list it put together last year of 50 movies for 50 states, one movie to represent each of the United States of America.

MASSACHUSETTS – The Town

Director and star Ben Affleck grew adult in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and he didn’t skip a pretence in capturing a sum of life in a crime-driven Boston area of Charlestown in this instrumentation of Chuck Hogan’s novel Prince of Thieves.

Wrong Ben Affleck movie. Good Will Hunting is a much better flick and has many more memorable scenes about life in Boston. Harvard Square, The University, Fenway Park, Southies, etc.

This is the correct answer unless Jaws really bites you.. Also, There's Something About Mary has to be RI.

 

[Das Boot]

Love Heathers but it doesnt remind me of Ohio at all. How about Rain Man?


Raymond: "I get my boxer shorts at K-Mart in Cincinnati"

Charlie: "We're not going back to Cincinnati, Ray, so don't even start with that"

Raymond:"Gotta get my boxer shorts at K-Mart"

Charlie: [Pulls over, gets out of the car and yells] WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE WHERE YOU BUY UNDERWEAR? WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? UNDERWEAR IS UNDERWEAR! IT IS UNDERWEAR WHEREVER YOU BUY IT! IN CINCINNATI OR WHEREVER!

Silence of The Lambs and Major League were two others that came to mind.

Accepted is one of my college comedy favorites, I'd vote for it or Major League for Ohio.

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Deliverance for Georgia.

 

[skol asylum]

South Dakota...Dances With Wolves

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

CALIFORNIA – American Graffiti

It all happened one night in Modesto, California, as a handful of teenagers sought tour on a eve of a scattered ’60s. American Graffiti stays a stately evocation of a time and a place.

The Big Lebowski or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

No Yes

 

[Native]

Some more:

Florida - Scarface over Magic Mike

Alabama - Gotta be Forrest Gump, no? With all do respect to To Kill a Mockingbird, Gump is an homage to life in Alabama

Mississippi - Mississippi Burning. Duh.

 

[Wingnut]

Yahoo is republishing a list it put together last year of 50 movies for 50 states, one movie to represent each of the United States of America.

MASSACHUSETTS The Town

Director and star Ben Affleck grew adult in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and he didnt skip a pretence in capturing a sum of life in a crime-driven Boston area of Charlestown in this instrumentation of Chuck Hogans novel Prince of Thieves.

Wrong Ben Affleck movie. Good Will Hunting is a much better flick and has many more memorable scenes about life in Boston. Harvard Square, The University, Fenway Park, Southies, etc.

This is the correct answer unless Jaws really bites you.. Also, There's Something About Mary has to be RI.

Super Troopers.

 

[The_Man]

Dead Poets Society has absolutely nothing to do with Vermont. It was filmed in Delaware, and there are no snooty prep schools there - they're all in NH or Mass. Wo

Would go with White Christmas or Funny Farm

 

[jon_mx]

Feel bad for North Dakota. All they have is the movie "Fargo," and about 5 minutes of the movie takes place there. But I also don't know of anything else set there.

That pretty much all there is.

 

[jon_mx]

Alabama - My Cousin Vinny

Forrest Gump is the answer, but I do love My Cousin Vinny.

 

[dmac37]

Texas- Dazed and Confused

Pennsylvania- Deer Hunter or All the Right Moves

Minnesota- Beautiful Girls

 

[mquinnjr]

Yahoo is republishing a list it put together last year of 50 movies for 50 states, one movie to represent each of the United States of America.

It's a patriotic display of 50 great films — each set in a different state of the Union. Together they form an epic saga of triumph, tragedy, and comedy.

"great films"? Florida got Magic Mike. <_< Seriously? Scarface down?

What film should represent YOUR state? Heres Yahoos list:

PENNSYLVANIA – Groundhog Day

Without Punxsutawney’s favorite groundhog and his annual weather-predicting ritual, Bill Murray would have been deprived one of his excellent roles. This talented comedy celebrates a minutia of parochial life, not to discuss a Pennsylvania Polka.

Whew, thought they were going to go with Philadelphia.

 

[pantagrapher]

Illinois: The Blues Brothers

Since that one's so easy, I'll take a crack at Wisconsin: Stroszek.

 

[Mr. Ected]

Ferris Bueller's Day Off for Illinois. Does a great job of showing suburban Chicago.

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Minnesota- Beautiful Girls

Took place in Massachusetts, not Minnesota.

 

[Tom Servo]

Pennsylvania- All the Right Moves

I saw this in the theater when it came out. When the one guy who married his GF was asked where they were going on their honeymoon and he replied "Pittsburgh", everyone busted out laughing.Unintentional comedy for those seeing it in western PA in the mid-80s.

 

[Quez]

FLORIDA - SCARFACE, sorry Magic Mike

 

[dmac37]

Minnesota- Beautiful Girls

Took place in Massachusetts, not Minnesota.

Yeah that's right, was filmed in Minnesota but portrayed a small town in Massachusetts- my bad

 

[dmac37]

Florida- Porky's is the movie I first associate with Florida

 

[Ilov80s]

South Dakota...Dances With Wolves

Good call. North by Northwest is as much a New York movie as a South Dakota movie.

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Say Anything should be way ahead of Singles.

Vision Quest is underrated.

 

[The Ref]

I probably would have gone either with A Civil Action or The Departed for Massachusetts.

I was going to say Good Will Hunting as someone else suggests later in the thread, but The Departed is an excellent choice.

Jaws is also great but that could have happened on any beach.

 

[wadegarrett]

Love Heathers but it doesnt remind me of Ohio at all. How about Rain Man?


Raymond: "I get my boxer shorts at K-Mart in Cincinnati"

Charlie: "We're not going back to Cincinnati, Ray, so don't even start with that"

Raymond:"Gotta get my boxer shorts at K-Mart"

Charlie: [Pulls over, gets out of the car and yells] WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE WHERE YOU BUY UNDERWEAR? WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? UNDERWEAR IS UNDERWEAR! IT IS UNDERWEAR WHEREVER YOU BUY IT! IN CINCINNATI OR WHEREVER!

Silence of The Lambs and Major League were two others that came to mind.

Accepted is one of my college comedy favorites, I'd vote for it or Major League for Ohio.

I'll vote Tommy Boy.

 

[BigJohn]

Minnesota- Beautiful Girls

Took place in Massachusetts, not Minnesota.

Yeah that's right, was filmed in Minnesota but portrayed a small town in Massachusetts- my bad

Been watching that movie for years and never knew that. It's the ice fishing. The ice fishing threw me off.

 

[Evilgrin 72]

I like Wild Things for Florida.

Also, there are no "the"s in that article except in the movie titles. Anywhere in the capsules that the word the would have been used, it's replaced with "a". Weird.

 

[HellToupee]

I probably would have gone either with A Civil Action or The Departed for Massachusetts.

I was going to say Good Will Hunting as someone else suggests later in the thread, but The Departed is an excellent choice.

Jaws is also great but that could have happened on any beach.

For me to represent MA I would pick the vastly underrated The Friends of Eddie Coyle . Great slice of 70s Boston

 

[Apple Jack]

Southern California - Wonderland

Northern California - The Grateful Dead Movie

 

[The Ref]

The best selection of the whole bunch? Has to be Fargo.

 

[oso diablo]

iirc, very little of Glory was set in South Carolina. I'd go with Shag

 

[McGarnicle]

Deliverance for Georgia.

Ooh good one.

 

[pollardsvision]

Bull Durham was the first movie I thought of for NC

Good choice. I was afraid they'd go with Last of the Mohicans or the cape fear movie

 

[Ilov80s]

I like Wild Things for Florida.

Also, there are no "the"s in that article except in the movie titles. Anywhere in the capsules that the word the would have been used, it's replaced with "a". Weird.

It's the most poorly written thing I have read in awhile and I teach special ed. students.

 

[Wingnut]

I like Wild Things for Florida.

Also, there are no "the"s in that article except in the movie titles. Anywhere in the capsules that the word the would have been used, it's replaced with "a". Weird.

It's the most poorly written thing I have read in awhile and I teach special ed. students.

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Heres the page I copied and pasted from:

http://www.mnnewsfeed.com/blaine/happy-birthday-america-here-are-50-films-for-50-states/

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[Apple Jack]

There are a few different Floridas, no one movie really capturing them all. adaptation. is pretty good. Eventually a good Carl Hiaasen adaptation will happen and that will be a good one. You also have the 1991 smash hit Cool as Ice.

 

[Wingnut]

There are a few different Floridas, no one movie really capturing them all. adaptation. is pretty good. Eventually a good Carl Hiaasen adaptation will happen and that will be a good one. You also have the 1991 smash hit Cool as Ice.

As well as bad Boys w/Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.

 

[Riversco]

Face/Off for California. What captures the state better than two grown men going under the knife to get some work done on their face?

 

[Christo]

Yahoo is republishing a list it put together last year of 50 movies for 50 states, one movie to represent each of the United States of America.

It's a patriotic display of 50 great films — each set in a different state of the Union. Together they form an epic saga of triumph, tragedy, and comedy.

"great films"? Florida got Magic Mike. <_< Seriously? Scarface down?

What film should represent YOUR state? Heres Yahoos list:

ILLINOIS – The Blues Brothers

Full of manic comedy, good music, and implausible follow sequences, The Blues Brothers is also an stately Chicago travelogue, capturing a warm, dirty vibe of a city from a downtown high-rises to a discord of a Maxwell Street market.

OKLAHOMA – The Outsiders

Francis Ford Coppola wasn’t fearful to play this instrumentation of S.E. Hinton’s novel on a extended regretful canvas, and a film’s Tulsa, Oklahoma, locations are usually as pleasing and imperishable as a story final — generally those stately sunsets.

Oklahoma - Agree, Outsiders is the first one I thought of. Illinois - Nope. Ferris Beuller or Risky Business