Movies need to be more acurate with certain things

[blackbeltninja]

Well, having sworn to never ever watch the Denzel Washington film Safe House because I got locked into an endless cycle of detours for an hour one morning when they shut down the CBD here in Cape Town to film the opening chase scene, I relented and watched it on Sunday night.

Half the things in it don't exist - the rail station at the Stadium? Nope. The general geography and city planning? Nope. Even the US embassy is on a massive estate the size of a small school out in the suburbs about 25 kilometers away, not in the heart of Adderly Street as it was in the film. And the other big chase scene is intercut footage from two different highways going in opposite directions on opposite sides of town, like we wouldn't notice!

Seriously, the Liberia scenes from Lord of War which were filmed here did a better job, and that was supposed to be Liberia. Likewise the recent Dredd which was filmed with 3D CGI overlaying our City Hall as the location of the 200 storey apartment block which is the location of the entire film got more right, and that was fictional.

Safe House can fuck off.

-d-

 

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[bankside]

Well, having sworn to never ever watch the Denzel Washington film Safe House because I got locked into an endless cycle of detours for an hour one morning when they shut down the CBD here in Cape Town to film the opening chase scene, I relented and watched it on Sunday night.

Half the things in it don't exist - the rail station at the Stadium? Nope. The general geography and city planning? Nope. Even the US embassy is on a massive estate the size of a small school out in the suburbs about 25 kilometers away, not in the heart of Adderly Street as it was in the film. And the other big chase scene is intercut footage from two different highways going in opposite directions on opposite sides of town, like we wouldn't notice!

Seriously, the Liberia scenes from Lord of War which were filmed here did a better job, and that was supposed to be Liberia. Likewise the recent Dredd which was filmed with 3D CGI overlaying our City Hall as the location of the 200 storey apartment block which is the location of the entire film got more right, and that was fictional.

Safe House can fuck off.

-d-

Where do they put embassies in .ZA anyway given the "multiple capital" thing.

 

[blackbeltninja]

^We only have one capital, Pretoria, but the embassies and consulates are scattered.

There is a small UK Consulate here in Cape Town, but the embassy and all the issuing of visas and passports etc happens in Pretoria (Pretoria and Johannesburg are only about 20 miles apart, basically one gigantic sprawling mega-metropolis these days with the suburbs of both pretty much meeting each other halfway). The US has consulates in Cape Town, Joburg and Durban. Not sure about the other countries - I recall there being a New Zealand consulate out in the lush and leafy locale of Bishopscourt here in Cape Town up on billionaires' row, but I didn't see it the last time I drove through that neighbourhood a month ago.

-d-

 

[rareboy]

I don't understand.

After 1 wipe, I'm clean. OP. Maybe you've been doing it wrong?

I'm sitting here though straining to think of movies that showed an actor having a shit and wiping though. Are you sure you just weren't spying on your family members?

 

[pat grimshaw]

These two movies have wiping scenes

 

[bankside]

^We only have one capital, Pretoria, but the embassies and consulates are scattered.

There is a small UK Consulate here in Cape Town, but the embassy and all the issuing of visas and passports etc happens in Pretoria (Pretoria and Johannesburg are only about 20 miles apart, basically one gigantic sprawling mega-metropolis these days with the suburbs of both pretty much meeting each other halfway). The US has consulates in Cape Town, Joburg and Durban. Not sure about the other countries - I recall there being a New Zealand consulate out in the lush and leafy locale of Bishopscourt here in Cape Town up on billionaires' row, but I didn't see it the last time I drove through that neighbourhood a month ago.

-d-

Ahh, I had thought your country billed itself as having three capitals…Bloemfontein and then the Parliament was somewhere else too, no?

 

[dereperez]

These two movies have wiping scenes

I'll admit to liking both movies. That scene where the boy-next-door is giving his "vicious rhetoric" lecture to the celeb hearthrob in the restroom stall was pretty funny.

 

[dereperez]

Growing up, I was really insecure with how I wipe after having dropped off the kids. Why? Because I always wiped and wiped and wiped until it's white. But in movies, whenever they showed people having gone to the bathroom and wiped, they always wiped once and that's it. There were times when I was convinced there was something wrong with me.

Same goes with dental and other hygienic routines. In movies, they only brushed their teeth for like 5 seconds. In real life, I have to floss, brush for several minutes, and mouth wash.

And another thing. Actors and actresses always look really good in the morning when they first woke up. I look like shit in the morning. My boyfriend looks like shit in the morning. As far as I know, everyone in real life looks like shit in the morning.

And what about child birth? I have 2 sisters, 2 sister in laws, and 9 nephews and nieces. Went to every single of their births. Women look like shit right after having gone through labor. But women in movies that just went through labor look like super models.

One of my best friends, probably the hottest and most beautiful girl I know, just gave birth to a baby boy a couple months ago. I visited her the day she gave birth. She looked like shit.

Maybe you caught the actor/actress having their last wipe.

You're thinking too hard, buddy. It's a movie.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

I still believe a man can fly.