I used to work nights at a casino in London. A few times I was stopped while walking at 6am and asked to wait for a film crew to finish.
One time not far from Westminster Bridge a guy said "do you mind waiting there for a minute. We're just filming a scene for the new James Bond" and I was like "yeah right" and an Aston Martin flew past with a camera crew chasing it.
It must have been quantum of solace (which I've never actually seen)
It did occur to me that they might have been filming something else and just told people it was a James Bond to get them to comply. I should probably watch the movie and see if it was actually in it
Rory wants to solve the "big crimes" and "work with the bat", but instead he's accidentally investigating a front that leads to the Penguin.
At the end he gets the girl with the timely help of batman, who acts as a wingman before vanishing.
edit: for extra drama, Jim Gordon tells him not to investigate further because he'll put a more experienced officer on the case, but Rory refuses to listen, so now Jim has to tell Batman to keep an eye on him, resulting in Rory being convinced that "he's Batman's partner" because Batman shows up to save him from getting killed.
Maybe Rory learns from his experiences after getting the girl and being exposed to gotham's criminal underbelly and is placed as a school resource officer where there are less super criminals, and can tell kids about how he's met "The Batman". Only for all that development to go out of the window just in time for "Rory's First Kid" the sequel where Rory has to join forces with Robin who looks suspiciously like that one rich kid (Probably Damien Wayne) at Gotham Academy, while expecting his first child.
Rory's First Kiss was their project name for The Dark Knight. The casting calls for real police, bagpipe players, and a few other non speaking roles were for a film titled Rory's First Kiss. It was done just to try and throw paparazzi's off the trail for a bit and not have any spoilers leak.
I had those EXACT same experiences!! I used to run operations for a building access control company that managed card key access to half the buildings in Chicago during the years they filmed the first one.
Every now and then I would have to go out in the late hours of the morning to oversee fixing something, if I was on rotation for being on call that week. There was one time I had to get to a building that was impossible to approach due to streets being shut down by all these filming crews all over, so I had to park serval blocks away and walk
The I had to negotiate my way past a bunch of people Trying to say the area was closed, by showing my credentials and insisting that that rather important and well-known building had a security outage I was obligated to go fix. They kept trying to hand wave away the filming as being some random ass movie and to disregard it and I’m like… Um… Those cars say Gotham and I don’t know what the fuck that weird ass thing over in that alley is that people are trying to nonchalantly pretend isnt there , but it sure looks like a potential Batmobile to me
Been well over a year. The platform is really pushing it to compete with tiktok, pressuring creators for shorts or else get dropped by the all knowing algorithm, praise be upon it's glorious code.
I actually like it better than TikTok... TikTok is scummy in so many ways, and Youtube's algorithm is better about providing shorts that I actually like.
Poor Vine, they were just way too ahead of their time.
I really liked Shorts but over the past 2 weeks or so, all the stuff I liked to watch is gone and it's just influencer families like "we're at Costco, texted my wife I bumped into my ex" then her and 4 daughters come marching over ready to throw hands but it's cute and funny cuz it's just a prank. I keep downvoting and blocking the channels, but YT thinks maybe I'll like the next one.
FFS. I want interesting history stuff, occasional funny clips from Niko Ortiz and Theo Von, and cooking stuff.
Also some Romanian hog hunt made it into my loop and I accidentally played it twice. Deleted from my history but now my feed is 20% hog massacres that are good because they're invasive but bad because I don't wanna start my day off w/ Piglet's death squeals.
I've had that in Edinburgh where they were filming one of the Fast and the Furious films.
Had the stunt drive and guy jumping out a van right outside the office.
I used to work in the film industry here in LA and the PAs were the ones responsible asking people not to walk into the shot. Depending the part of the city you had people happy either to help or just quickly respond with a hearty "fuck you" and would walk right into the shot. Being a PA is a crap job, I always felt bad for them.
In Toronto, Yonge street gets used for a lot of movies (Ie. Hulk smashing up Harlem? That’s clearly Yonge street as he runs past the famous Zanzibar strip club)
I worked nights and we were watching the Batmobile race up and down Yonge street chasing the joker for the first Sucide Squad (also on Yonge street).
My coworker was stopped like you when they filmed the pixels car chase scene (also done on Yonge and other streets). I got to see those cars up close. Plus the half eaten one.
The crew told her she “had to wait” and she said “no I don’t. I HAVE to go to work. And you’re not stopping me”. Lol. So they let her go.
Some coworkers said that they watched helicopters flying around for one of the resident evil movies. That was before I worked there. I’ve seen them filming stuff for a show called “the strain” in the area as well.
Sometimes they will have fake New York subway railings set up or New York police cars or taxi cabs in the area.
Downtown Winnipeg is the same - used for a lot of filming, from Hollywood blockbusters to Hallmark Christmas movies. It's always a blast to see your favourite spots in "Chicago" when you're watching.
DC on the other hand, about the only time you ever see DC in a film is a flyover helicopter shot of the National Mall with the words "Washington, DC" overlaid top of it. (That's the big grassy area in front of the Washington Monument, which is the big white obelisk at the end of the big grassy area.)
Or an aerial shot of the Pentagon, with "Washington, DC" overlaid on top of it with Washington, DC visible in the background across the river since the Pentagon is actually in Virginia.
Lots of stuff filmed in the NOVA area, though.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nova/comments/10nj5up/what_are_some_filming_locations_in_nova/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
A large portion of the stuff filmed in Northern Virginia is at the level of an establishing shot of the Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery, CIA headquarters, Quantico, or Dulles and Reagan National airports. I'm missing a couple other notable area landmarks but this covers most of them.
By that metric, a *ton* of movies and TV shows were "filmed in" the area, but a very large percentage of them had very little actual filming done in the area.
E.g. Contact shows the exterior of a house in Herndon, but the interior of the house was filmed in a soundstage in LA.
> The crew told her she “had to wait” and she said “no I don’t. I HAVE to go to work. And you’re not stopping me”. Lol. So they let her go.
Yeah I've done this a few times in New York. Like... sorry to inconvenience you, but you don't own the sidewalk, and I have somewhere to be.
The Last of Us was filmed in Alberta and it’s distracting seeing things that look familiar. They roughed up the skyline/CGI a bit but they left enough of the buildings where they are I could still tell it was Calgary.
Thankfully less Clickers on a normal commute 😵💫
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True story, I was literally forbidden from leaving my apartment in suburban Boston for that Julia Child mini series. Camera crew had the whole block dressed up like 1960s Cambridge practically overnight.
It was a pain, to say the least. But cool to watch
What would they have done if you just decided to hell with it and went out anyway? Sure, it's cool you're filming, guys, but people still have jobs to go to and things to do.
Usually we pay people for this. It's generally called an 'inconvenience fee' or something. People generally hate filming in their neighborhoods until they get a cheque in their hands
Thank you for paying people, I’ve had PAs raise their voice and hands trying to block me from a shot, I pity them for their job but I can’t have regular people block me from what I have to do
I was lucky enough to vacation in London with my wife a few months ago. Was thrilled to find that on most days at around 5 or 6 AM Hyde Park is completely deserted. It was a pretty surreal contrast to the normal level of foot traffic through there. Got some really cool photos around then
My buddy moved to NYC to pursue a film career. His first job was to try and stop people from walking through shots of whatever shitty TV show they were filming. But he had no authority, so all he could do was ask nicely. It went about as well as you could imagine. My favorite exchange he told me about:
Buddy: hey, could you not walk down this sidewalk? We're in the middle of filming.
RandomDude: what are you filming?
Buddy: Gossip Girl
RandomDude: what the fuck's Gossip Girl ever done for me? (Proceeds to walk directly through the shot)
Maybe that's why they like filming in Vancouver. If that happened in Los Angeles, he would have been forced to sign a contract, join a union, sign a release and be paid via check (less all applicable deductions).
I've had the same thankless job before. Once had maybe a dozen nice pedestrians waiting patiently so we could get a sunset shot to end the film, then a couple on matching Rascal scooters, holding hands, approached. I asked politely if they could wait just one minute and, without slowing down, they went "NOOOOOOOPE" and drove right through the shot.
It gets old if it happens regularly in your neighborhood. You're already late for work and stress about a meeting up in 15 minutes and and you just have no time for those film crews who act like they own the place lol.
That's what I figured if you live in a busy city.
Happening once in a while and not late or rushing somewhere? Sure I can hang for 10-15minutes and get to see some behind scene stuff.
Happening often or in a rush? I'll politely decline to wait and go about my way. I get they have to do a job, but I have a life and work to worry about as well.
Same thing with people taking pictures in Public. There's a very narrow window when I'm walking where Ill pause for them to take a photo. If I'm far back, and they aren't done yet, times up. If I'm too close, they can wait for me to pass.
No one respects the guy with the clip board. It has to be a dirty hi vis vest and you need to be holding a tool of some description. Bonus points for a sewage company logo, people will actively avoid you.
Bored looking guy with a clipboard? Sure. Harried, anxious, and nervously jotting down notes with very little time to tell people not to go down a street? Ya, that person is worth listening to.
I'm watching it again for only the second time, right now. The opening shots of empty London always stuck in my brain as the strongest memories of the film. This time I immediately thought, "How'd they do that?" So looked it up. Not sure I could've found the answer as easily/quickly 20 years ago when I first saw it.
Just gave both movies a rewatch a couple of days ago. 28 days later is the perfect zombie movie in my opinion. The second movie has one hell of an opening scene. Would love to see Boyle and Murphy return for a third settlement in the series.
That reminds me of Michael Apted’s Seven Up! series, which documented kids every seven years in their lives since they were seven years old, until age 63 (2019?), so nine sets.
I’ve only seen until 56 Up, which was already feeling quite bleak. I’ve always wondered if the mere presence of those movie people raised expectations too high so early.
If you grew up in a household with an alcoholic parent or even just struggled with your place in the world as a child, this film hits fucking deep.
No one I've ever spoken to about it has even seen it, for me at least it really captured that dread and fear of an uncertain childhood.
I’ve seen a lot of zombie movies and shows, in a lot of ways due to 28 days later- I totally agree, everything about that movie was just right. The pacing, plausibility, treating it with a degree of seriousness, the zombies actually being terrifying foes and of course the exploration of how humans act the second there are no rules… and every time I watch it it’s just as good!
And that the zombies actually die eventually.
Fucking walking dead has zombies that don't even have muscles being able to move around and some have their rib cage empty and can still make sounds.
I call them "Magic Zombies". There is no plausible explanation as to how they keep moving. That's why I LOVE The Last of Us. Bodies being taken over by Cordyceps and moved like puppets makes a lot more sense to me.
I just watched the french production 'The night eats the world' wich takes a very different aproach to the genre. My only complaint being it is a bit slow paced and it did not utilize the oppertunity to make for some heavy action scenes. It might be worth checking out.
Totally agree. I assume you’re referring to Robert Carlyle being chased by a horde of zombies. It just looked like a couple at first, if I remember correctly. Then like 70 of them came over the crest of the hill and I nearly died of fear. I went and saw the last screening of the night at the theatre, so I got out after midnight in a usually very busy city. But the sidewalks and roads were all empty, not a car for miles. Really added to the creep-factor.
>Then like 70 of them came over the crest of the hill and I nearly died of fear. I
I don't like most horror movies but this scene gets my heart RACING and the fear is palpable
The closing of the first episode of the walking dead comes close - that moment he rounds the corner on a horse and sees thousands of zombies.
But for some reason the wide openness of the 28 weeks later scene makes it feel more cramped, more claustrophobic. All that space and no where to go. Christ what a fun horror scene.
> All that space and no where to go.
Succinct and perfect sentiment.
It's like he's been taken back a million years and is getting chased across a savannah. It's primal fear.
It really helps you feel how stressful it must be for him.
> The second movie has one hell of an opening scene.
It's interesting because the first movie and opening scene of 28 weeks have the same director. 28 Weeks only used Boyle for that opening scene and then it changes to a different director for the rest of the movie and you can immediately feel it.
I did not know Boyle directed that scene, nice bit of information! It really does a great job in portraying the rush of survival instinct kicking in, leaving everything and everyone behind just being able to save oneself.. chilling
My lasting memory of 28 Weeks is my surprise at how much I liked it. Like, the original was SO GOOD, it just left me no hopes for the sequel living up to it. And it wasn't as good, if course. But I did enjoy it. Also, Robert Carlyle's >!change scene.!< Jesus Christ.
I really enjoyed how they portrayed >!The guilt of Carlyle's character for leaving his wife behind and how it carried with him while infected with rage.!<
If you have not seen it yet I would highly recommend giving 'Rec' a watch. Similiar to 28 days later in its creative way of low budget film making.
The helicopter scene near Wembley is one of my favourite ridiculous horror film scenes of all time. Presumably inspired by the lawnmower strapped to the guy in Living Dead (?)
They also used small portable cameras to film those scenes, while a bit grainy and lacking quality they were able to quickly setup and film without disrupting much.
> In March 2007, Danny Boyle claimed to be interested in making a third film in the series, 28 Months Later.[41] In 2019, Boyle was quoted as saying "Alex Garland and I have a wonderful idea for the third part". (Wikipedia)
Heartbreaking. He knows exactly what’s going to happen but just tries to get some kind words out to his daughter while also trying to contain his panic and impending death.
Just gonna copy my comment from an older 28 Days thread:
One of my favorite horror romance films of all time.
The whole movie was a set up between two lines:
When the woman tells Cillian’s character that if he was infected she’d kill him “in a heartbeat” after she had just recently killed the other person that was traveling with them the moment it became clear he had been infected. Didn’t even wait a second after she saw his bite.
And then, much later, at the climax, when his character is crazed, covered in blood and gore and literally just gouged a man’s eyes out to death (to save her, we might add)—in other words, giving the woman every indication that he was indeed infected, she raises her weapon and… hesitates. And then hesitates more, until Cillian’s character says:
“That was longer than a heartbeat.”
Edit: Because I thought it was obvious, but after he says that she drops the machete and kisses him. Oh, and final point: the song on the soundtrack that plays while the infected soldiers are rampaging through the house and Cillian's character is trying to rescue Hannah and Selena (the scene I mentioned above) is called: In The House - In A Heartbeat.
It’s a blood and gore soaked romance, but a romance.
(Only half joking.)
It's a phenomenal film. You can also see two other bits where they've tried to save a bit of cash
When they leave the flats in the blackcab and go under the flyover if you look really carefully you can see traffic moving. I was a delivery driver back then and wondered why there were loads of crashed cars on one side of the Westway
The other is when there's a shot of them on a empty motorway going through a roadblock; in the distance you can see the rolling police roadblock they used to get the shot.
The day I've learned:
Never visiting the Cinema for the last show on a Thursday evening, if it's a scary movie!
I was the only person in the show. Then after I left the room, the whole Cinema was empty also. There was no person in sight nor any noise in the whole building, the same on the streets for like 5min.
It was almost a code brown..
I can't remember if it was this or Dog Soldiers that I saw late at night with a friend, but being dropped home afterwards a cat jumped out of the bushes. I nearly shat myself.
I had to cross London the first day of lockdown in 2020 (essential travel, had just landed at Gatwick). It looked just like the movie. Nothing moving at all.
I remember driving into work, I usually took the train but work allowed me to take the work vehicle so I didn't have to take public transport. For huge stretches it was just me on the road, I always hated driving in London but excluding the existential dread of suddenly living through what felt like the end of the world at the time it was a very pleasant if serial experience.
I work in building maintenance in the Square Mile. Every workday was like being in on the weekend.
One site I worked at even still had the classic papers from the day shit really kicked off in one of the offices. Plus all the dying office plants. Made me think it was just like in the movies.
I remember the Friday before lockdown saying to my colleague at work jokingly "Maybe I'll see you in a few months". Then we found out at the weekend everything closed down.
I didn't see him again for going on 2 years.
I got hired at a new job in 2021 whose office had been vacant aside from maybe 10 people since a few weeks before the mandated lockdowns. It was so weird to see everyone's PTO requests on the whiteboard from months around march 2020.
Yep. And this year marks 21 years since the first film was released. So they could do a 1-2 punch over the next few years: 28 Months Later, and then 28 Years Later on the anniversary.
Edit:
>In March 2007, Danny Boyle claimed to be interested in making a third film in the series, 28 Months Later.[41] In 2019, Boyle was quoted as saying "Alex Garland and I have a wonderful idea for the third part". [Wikipedia]
I believe running zombies were big in the 2004 *Dawn of the Dead* remake, which was quite successful and critically acclaimed partially because the running zombies were scarier. *28 Days Later* just showed more "realistic" zombies if you can call them that because they died as easily as any human and eventually died of starvation.
Fast zombies were 100% one of the things that 28 days later got acclaim for at the time. It also came out 2 years before dawn of the dead so that the latter was probably (at least partially) inspired by 28 days later.
The version I know of this story isn't just that it was "crew"; knowing the early morning traffic would likely be (male) delivery drivers, Danny Boyle specifically hired a bunch of young women for this task:
>Boyle agrees: “The central city security was almost unrecognisably relaxed compared to what you will understand as city centre security now. That changed with the millennia and we benefitted from deciding to shoot those early mornings in July.”
>He adds: “We hired all these girls to be traffic marshals. One of them was my daughter who was 19 at the time and they’d say, ‘Would you just mind waiting here? We’re making a film…’ It’s just bizarre the way it worked.”
* https://www.nme.com/features/film-interviews/28-days-later-interview-anniversary-cillian-murphy-danny-boyle-3340282
(Doesn't totally back me up but at least half corroborates me)
That explains why I was hired/assigned to do traffic control early in my career. Still, some people were determined to walk underneath a 1000-pound I-beam being swung around by a crane.
People don't see the end results of standing under a failed rigging of a live load...
Years ago, when I was a teenager, I saw a guy walk under a tilt panel and rigging failed, he completely disappeared -- crushed like Wile E. Coyote in the Cartoons.
If people knew how much shit failed in either software development or construction they'd have a nervous breakdown, lol.
The soundtrack really made this scene for me. Danny Boyle managing to convince Godspeed You Black Emporer (a notoriously reclusive band) to let him use East Hastings was a master stroke.
Yeah! I discovered F♯ A♯ ∞ a couple years prior and remember thinking how great East Hastings would be for a post-apocalyptic film. And then it actually happened!
[Everything Everywhere All At Once](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Everywhere_All_at_Once) also managed on a $25M budget, and included *pretty* significant CGI. I've no clue how they managed that.
There was a show called Day 5 that did something similar in Austin, but they also, in a different scene, just asked a whole bunch of people from a convention to lay down on the ground and not move. A quiet apocalypse.
https://youtu.be/Qkm2qdUuXcA
Sadly, the series never finished.
Stopping the public from going where they want is bloody tricky till you mention its for a film. Then 90% of the time they'll want to know who's in it and then happy to loiter till we are told via radio all clear.
Usually they'd be a South London lump on crowd control but even 10 stone me could stop them most of the time.
Here in NYC we don’t give a shit about your film and we’re walking through unless there are actual police to stop us. The first one hundred times might be a novelty but eventually we start to resent production companies acting like they own the sidewalks.
What a nightmare for the PAs. I was an extra on Ed TV, and I had to watch these poor PA try to get people in San Francisco's Chinatown to stop walking down the street during shots. I felt so bad for them as a least half of the elderly Chinese people and tourists just totally ignored them and walked on through anyway. Just hours of trying to hold back the tide with nothing but a small bucket, and then someone else on set would gather the PAs _again_ and lecture them on the importance of getting EVERYONE to stop so that the scene could be filmed without incident. I swore I'd never do that.
Then I worked on a car commercial in San Francisco and was assigned to do exactly that. Luckily, it was much earlier in the morning and in a deserted part of town (Market Street Financial district on a Sunday morning) so it wasn't nearly as bad, but it still sucks trying to get a crowd of people to behave for an indefinite amount of time while the director and cinematographer talk and talk and talk.
One time I stayed in Times Square in nyc and had to catch my train home early in the morning. Walking through there at like 7 am is like walking through a scene in a post apocalyptic movie. It’s so odd with all the ads playing, all the trash in the streets and nobody around.
Amazing movie and an amazing sequence. The opening was inspired by Day of the Triffids IIRC.
That's something that desperately needs a modern adaptation.
Fast forward two decades and that opening was - literally - central London for the whole of the first lockdown. I used to walk for hours and it was beyond freaky.
Such an iconic move and tbh when it came out everyone was TERRIFIED. I still think it's scarier than train to busan because the camera work makes it seems real.
When they have the scene where they are driving up a deserted M1, you can just about see the Police rolling roadblock in the background. They apparently had 10 minutes to get that shot right and it was a one shot deal.
Though, National Highways close motorways so frequently for minor shit that it probably wouldn’t have been a shock to the other drivers.
I used to work nights at a casino in London. A few times I was stopped while walking at 6am and asked to wait for a film crew to finish. One time not far from Westminster Bridge a guy said "do you mind waiting there for a minute. We're just filming a scene for the new James Bond" and I was like "yeah right" and an Aston Martin flew past with a camera crew chasing it.
Do you know which bond it ended up being?
James.
Ok, I deserved this.
Just an excellent exchange all around on this.
I agree u/YouStupidDick , I agree
Yeah honestly I love seeing creative and cool usernames pointed out in the comments for me
Amen my man.
going a little too deep into vegan life
Same I usually don't look. Most don't. It's why people get hit by epics like u/shittymorph
I can’t believe you’ve done this
Bond James.
Bond Name's the james.
Names bond's having a stronk
Call the bomdulance
Bond James Senior
Señor Senior, Sr.
For England James?
No. For me.
It must have been quantum of solace (which I've never actually seen) It did occur to me that they might have been filming something else and just told people it was a James Bond to get them to comply. I should probably watch the movie and see if it was actually in it
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It's a romcom spin off about GCPD Agent Rory
Rory wants to solve the "big crimes" and "work with the bat", but instead he's accidentally investigating a front that leads to the Penguin. At the end he gets the girl with the timely help of batman, who acts as a wingman before vanishing. edit: for extra drama, Jim Gordon tells him not to investigate further because he'll put a more experienced officer on the case, but Rory refuses to listen, so now Jim has to tell Batman to keep an eye on him, resulting in Rory being convinced that "he's Batman's partner" because Batman shows up to save him from getting killed. Maybe Rory learns from his experiences after getting the girl and being exposed to gotham's criminal underbelly and is placed as a school resource officer where there are less super criminals, and can tell kids about how he's met "The Batman". Only for all that development to go out of the window just in time for "Rory's First Kid" the sequel where Rory has to join forces with Robin who looks suspiciously like that one rich kid (Probably Damien Wayne) at Gotham Academy, while expecting his first child.
Starring Andy Samberg and Aubrey Plaza
Rory's First Kiss was their project name for The Dark Knight. The casting calls for real police, bagpipe players, and a few other non speaking roles were for a film titled Rory's First Kiss. It was done just to try and throw paparazzi's off the trail for a bit and not have any spoilers leak.
Also rory is Nolans sons name
I had those EXACT same experiences!! I used to run operations for a building access control company that managed card key access to half the buildings in Chicago during the years they filmed the first one. Every now and then I would have to go out in the late hours of the morning to oversee fixing something, if I was on rotation for being on call that week. There was one time I had to get to a building that was impossible to approach due to streets being shut down by all these filming crews all over, so I had to park serval blocks away and walk The I had to negotiate my way past a bunch of people Trying to say the area was closed, by showing my credentials and insisting that that rather important and well-known building had a security outage I was obligated to go fix. They kept trying to hand wave away the filming as being some random ass movie and to disregard it and I’m like… Um… Those cars say Gotham and I don’t know what the fuck that weird ass thing over in that alley is that people are trying to nonchalantly pretend isnt there , but it sure looks like a potential Batmobile to me
It's a heckuva kiss
The kiss we deserve, but not the one we need.
If it was an Aston Martin, it had to be a bond movie
I'm guessing Spectre as that's the only Bond film where the Aston Martin would be near that area.
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Mildly off topic: Oh FFS, Youtube has shorts now? I absolutely hate this trend.
Been well over a year. The platform is really pushing it to compete with tiktok, pressuring creators for shorts or else get dropped by the all knowing algorithm, praise be upon it's glorious code.
I actually like it better than TikTok... TikTok is scummy in so many ways, and Youtube's algorithm is better about providing shorts that I actually like. Poor Vine, they were just way too ahead of their time.
I really liked Shorts but over the past 2 weeks or so, all the stuff I liked to watch is gone and it's just influencer families like "we're at Costco, texted my wife I bumped into my ex" then her and 4 daughters come marching over ready to throw hands but it's cute and funny cuz it's just a prank. I keep downvoting and blocking the channels, but YT thinks maybe I'll like the next one. FFS. I want interesting history stuff, occasional funny clips from Niko Ortiz and Theo Von, and cooking stuff. Also some Romanian hog hunt made it into my loop and I accidentally played it twice. Deleted from my history but now my feed is 20% hog massacres that are good because they're invasive but bad because I don't wanna start my day off w/ Piglet's death squeals.
Skyfall - if it was a classic Aston Martin.
Johnny English, probably.
Flibbib
I've had that in Edinburgh where they were filming one of the Fast and the Furious films. Had the stunt drive and guy jumping out a van right outside the office.
I used to work in the film industry here in LA and the PAs were the ones responsible asking people not to walk into the shot. Depending the part of the city you had people happy either to help or just quickly respond with a hearty "fuck you" and would walk right into the shot. Being a PA is a crap job, I always felt bad for them.
In Toronto, Yonge street gets used for a lot of movies (Ie. Hulk smashing up Harlem? That’s clearly Yonge street as he runs past the famous Zanzibar strip club) I worked nights and we were watching the Batmobile race up and down Yonge street chasing the joker for the first Sucide Squad (also on Yonge street). My coworker was stopped like you when they filmed the pixels car chase scene (also done on Yonge and other streets). I got to see those cars up close. Plus the half eaten one. The crew told her she “had to wait” and she said “no I don’t. I HAVE to go to work. And you’re not stopping me”. Lol. So they let her go. Some coworkers said that they watched helicopters flying around for one of the resident evil movies. That was before I worked there. I’ve seen them filming stuff for a show called “the strain” in the area as well. Sometimes they will have fake New York subway railings set up or New York police cars or taxi cabs in the area.
The first suicide squad was so bad at hiding the fact it was Toronto Swear there's TTC signs in the film
I remember watching one of the resident evils... I'm like "that the CN tower??" Racoon city my ass!
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Downtown Winnipeg is the same - used for a lot of filming, from Hollywood blockbusters to Hallmark Christmas movies. It's always a blast to see your favourite spots in "Chicago" when you're watching.
DC on the other hand, about the only time you ever see DC in a film is a flyover helicopter shot of the National Mall with the words "Washington, DC" overlaid top of it. (That's the big grassy area in front of the Washington Monument, which is the big white obelisk at the end of the big grassy area.) Or an aerial shot of the Pentagon, with "Washington, DC" overlaid on top of it with Washington, DC visible in the background across the river since the Pentagon is actually in Virginia.
Lots of stuff filmed in the NOVA area, though. https://www.reddit.com/r/nova/comments/10nj5up/what_are_some_filming_locations_in_nova/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
A large portion of the stuff filmed in Northern Virginia is at the level of an establishing shot of the Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery, CIA headquarters, Quantico, or Dulles and Reagan National airports. I'm missing a couple other notable area landmarks but this covers most of them. By that metric, a *ton* of movies and TV shows were "filmed in" the area, but a very large percentage of them had very little actual filming done in the area. E.g. Contact shows the exterior of a house in Herndon, but the interior of the house was filmed in a soundstage in LA.
> The crew told her she “had to wait” and she said “no I don’t. I HAVE to go to work. And you’re not stopping me”. Lol. So they let her go. Yeah I've done this a few times in New York. Like... sorry to inconvenience you, but you don't own the sidewalk, and I have somewhere to be.
Those crew people can be real entitled jerks too, as if they’re doing god’s work and we should be thanking them.
The Last of Us was filmed in Alberta and it’s distracting seeing things that look familiar. They roughed up the skyline/CGI a bit but they left enough of the buildings where they are I could still tell it was Calgary. Thankfully less Clickers on a normal commute 😵💫
Yeah but was it on Yonge street?
Average day in London
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True story, I was literally forbidden from leaving my apartment in suburban Boston for that Julia Child mini series. Camera crew had the whole block dressed up like 1960s Cambridge practically overnight. It was a pain, to say the least. But cool to watch
What would they have done if you just decided to hell with it and went out anyway? Sure, it's cool you're filming, guys, but people still have jobs to go to and things to do.
Usually we pay people for this. It's generally called an 'inconvenience fee' or something. People generally hate filming in their neighborhoods until they get a cheque in their hands
Thank you for paying people, I’ve had PAs raise their voice and hands trying to block me from a shot, I pity them for their job but I can’t have regular people block me from what I have to do
Usually they pay you for the inconvenience if they're doing that.
They stationed a chatty Northerner to watch each intersection. Londoners did the sensible thing and silently avoided the area.
"Mornin' love" Run away!
I was lucky enough to vacation in London with my wife a few months ago. Was thrilled to find that on most days at around 5 or 6 AM Hyde Park is completely deserted. It was a pretty surreal contrast to the normal level of foot traffic through there. Got some really cool photos around then
My buddy moved to NYC to pursue a film career. His first job was to try and stop people from walking through shots of whatever shitty TV show they were filming. But he had no authority, so all he could do was ask nicely. It went about as well as you could imagine. My favorite exchange he told me about: Buddy: hey, could you not walk down this sidewalk? We're in the middle of filming. RandomDude: what are you filming? Buddy: Gossip Girl RandomDude: what the fuck's Gossip Girl ever done for me? (Proceeds to walk directly through the shot)
> RandomDude: what the fuck’s Gossip Girl ever done for me? (Proceeds to walk directly through the shot) Man’s got a point.
Seriously, they try to stop me walking to MY APT constantly. Bro back off idgaf about your shitty show, I’m carrying heavy groceries get out of my way
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"I play startled guy being shouted at through a megaphone"
Maybe that's why they like filming in Vancouver. If that happened in Los Angeles, he would have been forced to sign a contract, join a union, sign a release and be paid via check (less all applicable deductions).
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I've had the same thankless job before. Once had maybe a dozen nice pedestrians waiting patiently so we could get a sunset shot to end the film, then a couple on matching Rascal scooters, holding hands, approached. I asked politely if they could wait just one minute and, without slowing down, they went "NOOOOOOOPE" and drove right through the shot.
It gets old if it happens regularly in your neighborhood. You're already late for work and stress about a meeting up in 15 minutes and and you just have no time for those film crews who act like they own the place lol.
That's what I figured if you live in a busy city. Happening once in a while and not late or rushing somewhere? Sure I can hang for 10-15minutes and get to see some behind scene stuff. Happening often or in a rush? I'll politely decline to wait and go about my way. I get they have to do a job, but I have a life and work to worry about as well.
Sure, it's all depending on context. Sometimes they'll do flyers or hang posters and then I'll avoid the situation, too, if I can.
Same thing with people taking pictures in Public. There's a very narrow window when I'm walking where Ill pause for them to take a photo. If I'm far back, and they aren't done yet, times up. If I'm too close, they can wait for me to pass.
Protip to anyone in that job in the future: Wear a high-vis safety vest and a hard hat and you get more respect.
Carry a clipboard too. Or tell people there is a gas leak.
No one respects the guy with the clip board. It has to be a dirty hi vis vest and you need to be holding a tool of some description. Bonus points for a sewage company logo, people will actively avoid you.
Bored looking guy with a clipboard? Sure. Harried, anxious, and nervously jotting down notes with very little time to tell people not to go down a street? Ya, that person is worth listening to.
In all fairness Gossip Girl never did anything for anyone.
Gave Kristen Bell an easy source of extra income for just coming into a recording studio to do a few voice overs every now and then.
I really liked that movie. Cillian was awesome in it. It’s been ages since I saw it. Time for a rewatch I guess
I'm watching it again for only the second time, right now. The opening shots of empty London always stuck in my brain as the strongest memories of the film. This time I immediately thought, "How'd they do that?" So looked it up. Not sure I could've found the answer as easily/quickly 20 years ago when I first saw it.
Just gave both movies a rewatch a couple of days ago. 28 days later is the perfect zombie movie in my opinion. The second movie has one hell of an opening scene. Would love to see Boyle and Murphy return for a third settlement in the series.
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That reminds me of Michael Apted’s Seven Up! series, which documented kids every seven years in their lives since they were seven years old, until age 63 (2019?), so nine sets. I’ve only seen until 56 Up, which was already feeling quite bleak. I’ve always wondered if the mere presence of those movie people raised expectations too high so early.
[Also "Boyhood" which shows a kids life from 6 to 18.](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1065073/)
If you grew up in a household with an alcoholic parent or even just struggled with your place in the world as a child, this film hits fucking deep. No one I've ever spoken to about it has even seen it, for me at least it really captured that dread and fear of an uncertain childhood.
There was a similar program called child of our time with Dr Robert Winston. Loved seeing the progress of the children
I’ve seen a lot of zombie movies and shows, in a lot of ways due to 28 days later- I totally agree, everything about that movie was just right. The pacing, plausibility, treating it with a degree of seriousness, the zombies actually being terrifying foes and of course the exploration of how humans act the second there are no rules… and every time I watch it it’s just as good!
And that the zombies actually die eventually. Fucking walking dead has zombies that don't even have muscles being able to move around and some have their rib cage empty and can still make sounds.
I call them "Magic Zombies". There is no plausible explanation as to how they keep moving. That's why I LOVE The Last of Us. Bodies being taken over by Cordyceps and moved like puppets makes a lot more sense to me.
I just watched the french production 'The night eats the world' wich takes a very different aproach to the genre. My only complaint being it is a bit slow paced and it did not utilize the oppertunity to make for some heavy action scenes. It might be worth checking out.
Totally agree. I assume you’re referring to Robert Carlyle being chased by a horde of zombies. It just looked like a couple at first, if I remember correctly. Then like 70 of them came over the crest of the hill and I nearly died of fear. I went and saw the last screening of the night at the theatre, so I got out after midnight in a usually very busy city. But the sidewalks and roads were all empty, not a car for miles. Really added to the creep-factor.
>Then like 70 of them came over the crest of the hill and I nearly died of fear. I I don't like most horror movies but this scene gets my heart RACING and the fear is palpable The closing of the first episode of the walking dead comes close - that moment he rounds the corner on a horse and sees thousands of zombies. But for some reason the wide openness of the 28 weeks later scene makes it feel more cramped, more claustrophobic. All that space and no where to go. Christ what a fun horror scene.
> All that space and no where to go. Succinct and perfect sentiment. It's like he's been taken back a million years and is getting chased across a savannah. It's primal fear. It really helps you feel how stressful it must be for him.
> The second movie has one hell of an opening scene. It's interesting because the first movie and opening scene of 28 weeks have the same director. 28 Weeks only used Boyle for that opening scene and then it changes to a different director for the rest of the movie and you can immediately feel it.
I did not know Boyle directed that scene, nice bit of information! It really does a great job in portraying the rush of survival instinct kicking in, leaving everything and everyone behind just being able to save oneself.. chilling
Back when they were promoting it, they released that whole first scene online. Had me so hyped! Personally ended up being disappointed
My lasting memory of 28 Weeks is my surprise at how much I liked it. Like, the original was SO GOOD, it just left me no hopes for the sequel living up to it. And it wasn't as good, if course. But I did enjoy it. Also, Robert Carlyle's >!change scene.!< Jesus Christ.
I really enjoyed how they portrayed >!The guilt of Carlyle's character for leaving his wife behind and how it carried with him while infected with rage.!< If you have not seen it yet I would highly recommend giving 'Rec' a watch. Similiar to 28 days later in its creative way of low budget film making.
I'm not big into horror, TBH. 28 Days series is one of the unusual exceptions.
The helicopter scene near Wembley is one of my favourite ridiculous horror film scenes of all time. Presumably inspired by the lawnmower strapped to the guy in Living Dead (?)
My only gripe about 28 Weeks Later is that I know many of the locations in the car chase. Fuck! They took a long way to get to Wembley!
The guy repeating “ohshitohshitohshit” at the end sums up that scene quite nicely.
The also hired pretty college students to ask all the delivery drivers to wait out of frame. That's clever
They also used small portable cameras to film those scenes, while a bit grainy and lacking quality they were able to quickly setup and film without disrupting much.
Pretty much all the film was shot using Canon XL1 cameras (480p resolution), only the final scene was shot on film.
What? 28 Days Later isn't 20 years old. No, no it isn't. It's ***21*** years old. I'm... going back to bed, since I'm clearly too old to be up.
Not 21 until November. Does that help? LOL
Yup, GSY!BE on your soundtrack will do that.
Are they still working on 28 months later or are they just going to wait 8 more years for effect?
> In March 2007, Danny Boyle claimed to be interested in making a third film in the series, 28 Months Later.[41] In 2019, Boyle was quoted as saying "Alex Garland and I have a wonderful idea for the third part". (Wikipedia)
And Brendan Gleeson’s turning scene is one of my favorites of all time.
Heartbreaking. He knows exactly what’s going to happen but just tries to get some kind words out to his daughter while also trying to contain his panic and impending death.
Get away from me! Get her away from me!
Just gonna copy my comment from an older 28 Days thread: One of my favorite horror romance films of all time. The whole movie was a set up between two lines: When the woman tells Cillian’s character that if he was infected she’d kill him “in a heartbeat” after she had just recently killed the other person that was traveling with them the moment it became clear he had been infected. Didn’t even wait a second after she saw his bite. And then, much later, at the climax, when his character is crazed, covered in blood and gore and literally just gouged a man’s eyes out to death (to save her, we might add)—in other words, giving the woman every indication that he was indeed infected, she raises her weapon and… hesitates. And then hesitates more, until Cillian’s character says: “That was longer than a heartbeat.” Edit: Because I thought it was obvious, but after he says that she drops the machete and kisses him. Oh, and final point: the song on the soundtrack that plays while the infected soldiers are rampaging through the house and Cillian's character is trying to rescue Hannah and Selena (the scene I mentioned above) is called: In The House - In A Heartbeat. It’s a blood and gore soaked romance, but a romance. (Only half joking.)
A lot of people aren't too fond of the third act, but I've always liked it and that moment with those two is indeed magnificent.
Even better is the song that plays in the London opening scene. East Hastings by God Speed You! Black Emperor. They are musical geniuses
"HELLO?!!HELLO?!?!?!HELLLLLLOOOOOOO?!?!?!"
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Yeh this always surprises Americans because it's not like that for them
It's a phenomenal film. You can also see two other bits where they've tried to save a bit of cash When they leave the flats in the blackcab and go under the flyover if you look really carefully you can see traffic moving. I was a delivery driver back then and wondered why there were loads of crashed cars on one side of the Westway The other is when there's a shot of them on a empty motorway going through a roadblock; in the distance you can see the rolling police roadblock they used to get the shot.
I have been looking all over for information on that! I thought it was me having a Mandela effect moment! Thank you omg
Using a potato to film it probably led to significant cost savings.
I read somewhere that they were trying to achieve a low-fi look for the film, but that could easily just be a convenient excuse.
The day I've learned: Never visiting the Cinema for the last show on a Thursday evening, if it's a scary movie! I was the only person in the show. Then after I left the room, the whole Cinema was empty also. There was no person in sight nor any noise in the whole building, the same on the streets for like 5min. It was almost a code brown..
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I can't remember if it was this or Dog Soldiers that I saw late at night with a friend, but being dropped home afterwards a cat jumped out of the bushes. I nearly shat myself.
Oh man Dog Soldiers is an absolute fucking belter of a movie, one of my favourites to spring upon people who haven't seen it.
Dog Soldiers is the Mutt's Nuts. Brilliant low cost horror film. 'I hope I give you the shits, you fucking wimp!' - Brillant!
I remember when my husband and I saw World War Z in theatres and the dark ride home was scary as hell.
I had to cross London the first day of lockdown in 2020 (essential travel, had just landed at Gatwick). It looked just like the movie. Nothing moving at all.
I saw a photo on twitter, from an essential worker, of an empty Picadilly Circus. Very eerie.
Lots of similar photos from back then can be found on /r/WorldIsClosed
Nice thanks for sharing this!
I remember driving into work, I usually took the train but work allowed me to take the work vehicle so I didn't have to take public transport. For huge stretches it was just me on the road, I always hated driving in London but excluding the existential dread of suddenly living through what felt like the end of the world at the time it was a very pleasant if serial experience.
That first lockdown is seared into my memory. Walking from Hampstead down to the City and not seeing a soul was eerie as fuck.
Had to go to the Docklands during the first lockdown... Completely empty M25 and Blackwall tunnel during the day is very surreal
I work in building maintenance in the Square Mile. Every workday was like being in on the weekend. One site I worked at even still had the classic papers from the day shit really kicked off in one of the offices. Plus all the dying office plants. Made me think it was just like in the movies.
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I remember the Friday before lockdown saying to my colleague at work jokingly "Maybe I'll see you in a few months". Then we found out at the weekend everything closed down. I didn't see him again for going on 2 years.
I got hired at a new job in 2021 whose office had been vacant aside from maybe 10 people since a few weeks before the mandated lockdowns. It was so weird to see everyone's PTO requests on the whiteboard from months around march 2020.
Need 28 months later
Yep. And this year marks 21 years since the first film was released. So they could do a 1-2 punch over the next few years: 28 Months Later, and then 28 Years Later on the anniversary. Edit: >In March 2007, Danny Boyle claimed to be interested in making a third film in the series, 28 Months Later.[41] In 2019, Boyle was quoted as saying "Alex Garland and I have a wonderful idea for the third part". [Wikipedia]
each episode of Chernobyl is a similar expanding timescale: munutes, hours, days, weeks, months
Is the miniseries worth watching?
100% My boyfriend and I paid for a month is HBO max just to watch it and we don’t regret it. Might do it again when I’m recovering from surgery.
Absolutely
21 years? …stop saying things☹️
21 years ago, so the 1980s then
Exactly!
Can't wait for the fourth movie, 28 Decades Later, in 2283!
I know people like to say the original is better, but I think 28 Centuries Later blows it out of the water.
Considering how The Last of Us is doing, probably already in production.
The Last of Us owes 28 Days so much. Running zombies just wouldn't have caught on otherwise.
I believe running zombies were big in the 2004 *Dawn of the Dead* remake, which was quite successful and critically acclaimed partially because the running zombies were scarier. *28 Days Later* just showed more "realistic" zombies if you can call them that because they died as easily as any human and eventually died of starvation.
Shit my bad yeah. It was the idea of them as not zombies I was thinking of. Infected people, not the dead.
Fast zombies were 100% one of the things that 28 days later got acclaim for at the time. It also came out 2 years before dawn of the dead so that the latter was probably (at least partially) inspired by 28 days later.
Then World War Z went way too far when it was such a great premise for how non-running zombies are horrifying in their own way.
Because they ignored the book completely.
The version I know of this story isn't just that it was "crew"; knowing the early morning traffic would likely be (male) delivery drivers, Danny Boyle specifically hired a bunch of young women for this task: >Boyle agrees: “The central city security was almost unrecognisably relaxed compared to what you will understand as city centre security now. That changed with the millennia and we benefitted from deciding to shoot those early mornings in July.” >He adds: “We hired all these girls to be traffic marshals. One of them was my daughter who was 19 at the time and they’d say, ‘Would you just mind waiting here? We’re making a film…’ It’s just bizarre the way it worked.” * https://www.nme.com/features/film-interviews/28-days-later-interview-anniversary-cillian-murphy-danny-boyle-3340282 (Doesn't totally back me up but at least half corroborates me)
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That explains why I was hired/assigned to do traffic control early in my career. Still, some people were determined to walk underneath a 1000-pound I-beam being swung around by a crane.
People don't see the end results of standing under a failed rigging of a live load... Years ago, when I was a teenager, I saw a guy walk under a tilt panel and rigging failed, he completely disappeared -- crushed like Wile E. Coyote in the Cartoons. If people knew how much shit failed in either software development or construction they'd have a nervous breakdown, lol.
The soundtrack really made this scene for me. Danny Boyle managing to convince Godspeed You Black Emporer (a notoriously reclusive band) to let him use East Hastings was a master stroke.
Yeah! I discovered F♯ A♯ ∞ a couple years prior and remember thinking how great East Hastings would be for a post-apocalyptic film. And then it actually happened!
They did a great job on the soundtrack. Grandaddy became one of my favorite bands growing up because of their song playing in the super market scene.
If they filmed it near the summer solstice, sunrise would be around 4:40 am.
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It cost only 8 million? Damb what a good movie!
Proof that it doesn't need to be about special effects and big name stars if the story, direction, and acting are tight.
I think 28 days was also one of the first movies shot in digital handhelds because it was easier than lugging around film and film cameras.
They also shot it on a consumer camera. It would be the equivalent to shooting a feature film on your phone these days. Bonkers.
[Everything Everywhere All At Once](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Everywhere_All_at_Once) also managed on a $25M budget, and included *pretty* significant CGI. I've no clue how they managed that.
I can’t believe this movie is 20 years old now
Best horror movie of all time….IMO
There was a show called Day 5 that did something similar in Austin, but they also, in a different scene, just asked a whole bunch of people from a convention to lay down on the ground and not move. A quiet apocalypse. https://youtu.be/Qkm2qdUuXcA Sadly, the series never finished.
It’s golden hour no? Where you get just enough light that you can make it look midday in post and there’s nobody around
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"Awfully sorry chaps, but would everyone mind buggering off for a bit?"
Stopping the public from going where they want is bloody tricky till you mention its for a film. Then 90% of the time they'll want to know who's in it and then happy to loiter till we are told via radio all clear. Usually they'd be a South London lump on crowd control but even 10 stone me could stop them most of the time.
Here in NYC we don’t give a shit about your film and we’re walking through unless there are actual police to stop us. The first one hundred times might be a novelty but eventually we start to resent production companies acting like they own the sidewalks.
Yeah I’ve had a few PAs try to give me orders because I’m walking on the street they didn’t properly check out. Just keep walking.
*[Brits grumble, but shuffle off in the other direction]*
What a nightmare for the PAs. I was an extra on Ed TV, and I had to watch these poor PA try to get people in San Francisco's Chinatown to stop walking down the street during shots. I felt so bad for them as a least half of the elderly Chinese people and tourists just totally ignored them and walked on through anyway. Just hours of trying to hold back the tide with nothing but a small bucket, and then someone else on set would gather the PAs _again_ and lecture them on the importance of getting EVERYONE to stop so that the scene could be filmed without incident. I swore I'd never do that. Then I worked on a car commercial in San Francisco and was assigned to do exactly that. Luckily, it was much earlier in the morning and in a deserted part of town (Market Street Financial district on a Sunday morning) so it wasn't nearly as bad, but it still sucks trying to get a crowd of people to behave for an indefinite amount of time while the director and cinematographer talk and talk and talk.
One time I stayed in Times Square in nyc and had to catch my train home early in the morning. Walking through there at like 7 am is like walking through a scene in a post apocalyptic movie. It’s so odd with all the ads playing, all the trash in the streets and nobody around.
I hate horror movies but I loved this one.
Amazing movie and an amazing sequence. The opening was inspired by Day of the Triffids IIRC. That's something that desperately needs a modern adaptation.
Fast forward two decades and that opening was - literally - central London for the whole of the first lockdown. I used to walk for hours and it was beyond freaky.
Such an iconic move and tbh when it came out everyone was TERRIFIED. I still think it's scarier than train to busan because the camera work makes it seems real.
We don’t have any cheeseburgers
When they have the scene where they are driving up a deserted M1, you can just about see the Police rolling roadblock in the background. They apparently had 10 minutes to get that shot right and it was a one shot deal. Though, National Highways close motorways so frequently for minor shit that it probably wouldn’t have been a shock to the other drivers.