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Re:The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Syd... by magarnicle on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @07:29PM (#44314132)
You have to go a long way to get to the "outback" from Sydney, though Hollywood has other ideas. I laughed in Mission Impossible 2 when they set up their base in the desert for their operation in Sydney Harbour. Just a short 500km (at least) helicopter ride away.
Re:The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Syd... by Wololooo on Thursday June 19, 2025 @06:02AM (#44317076)
You remind me of a movie that I can't remember the name off but it was a low budget American spy movie that was shot in Europe through European subsidies targeted at getting work in Europe for cinema crews.

One shot is supposedly happening in an American city, but it's shot somewhere in Brussels, where they discuss people hiding, then you got a transition shot where now they are supposed to be thousands of km away with said people hiding, and the second shot is filmed in the building across the street.

Many other shots were also combination of places that I knew extremely well, which really was funny at times because once you locate everything it makes the whole situation much more comedic.

Re:The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Syd... by throwaway422432 on Thursday June 19, 2025 @11:39PM (#44324517)
That can make for a very weird viewing experience.

"Oddball" was filmed in an Australian town I grew up in. There was a chase scene that combined and compressed multiple locations. In one particular scene you are looking at an extra with a backdrop of part of the main street, but the location he is looking at (supposedly directly across the road) is actually about 1/2km away.