For me, the Star Trek movie with the giant, desert, canyon in the middle of Iowa was a real “WTF?” I can’t believe that only Iowans were bothered by that. If you have ever driven across Iowa, I am certain your view of corn fields was wholly uninterrupted by canyons.
In all of the shots I can find of that scene, the canyon is clearly a quarry with blocks cut out by wire saw (filmed in a quarry in Vermont). I guess the historic quarries in Iowa are filled in with water to create artificial lakes by now, but that's something that only Iowans would really know.
Re:The Plumber Problem
by joeframbach on Friday August 18, 2023 @10:09PM
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In the movie San Andreas, the character parachutes into AT&T Park in San Francisco, then casually strolls a few blocks and is suddenly in Chinatown without breaking a sweat. Chinatown is miles away and up a pretty steep hill.
I’m sure for anyone who didn’t literally live on the block where they were filming, this is an issue they would have never ever ever noticed, but for me it felt very much like a plumber problem and was basically a showstopper in terms of my ability to enjoy the movie.