What iconic venues/locations in movies have you personally visited?

Times Square
Independence Hall
Rittenhouse Square
Philadelphia Museum of Art

I ate at the chinese restaurant where they filmed Rush Hour and their food made me shit the bed. I so wish I was joking.

I live in Los Angeles and went to UCLA. Everywhere I go is a movie/TV location. UCLA is pretty much every school/library, ever. Including UC Sunnydale.

My high school is Rydell High in Grease.

The last scene in this movie when the boy was driving by the lake was where I almost drowned as a teen. It wa a nice place to visit,but I wouldn’t want to die there. ;)

@lucillelucillelucille Fix your bloody link woman, you’ve been here long enough XD

@ucme Try it now…the movie is Gran Torino starring my lover Clint Eastwood. ;)

Treasure Island was shot in this part of Jamaica where I rode horseback.

@lucillelucillelucille Good stuff….err, not the almost drowning bit though I hasten to add :¬)
@Vunessuh Ewww, funny though that must have looked :¬)

I’ve been to the Munster’s house, the gorges from the old Tarzan movies, and the State Street theater from The Little Rascals, all in Ithaca

Carnford Train Station, where David Lean’s “Brief Encounter” was filmed in the ‘40s. Still beautiful.

I’ve been to a pool at a private residence here in Hawaii where a famous gay porn film was made. No, I wasn’t in the movie.

@hawaii_jake False modesty eh? I believe you implicitly of course ;¬}

Love Park
The place where Hitch lived

I’ve been to Sedona, Arizona many times. It was a prime location for movie westerns in the’40s and ‘50s… more popular, in fact, than California.

Old St Patrick’s Cathedral in what used to be Little Italy. Parts of The Godfather and The Godfather III were shot there. I visited the place solely for that reason.

The hotel where you find out that “Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes” is close to where I live currently.

I used to live in Morningside Heights in Manhattan, which is basically now a neighbourhood that Columbia University owns, more or less. Tom’s Diner on 112th and Broadway (the exterior was used on Seinfeld) was my local diner. The food is meh.

For you Boardwalk Empire fans, the scene from this past season’s episode that’s supposed to be in Chicago at Big Joe Colombo’s funeral was actually shot at my old church on 107th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam. That church gets used a lot. I no longer live in that neighbourhood. I remember when they used to close it off to shoot L&O and New York Undercover, among other shows. The pastor of that church was played by Robert DeNiro in Sleepers, but he says that nothing like that movie ever happened.

There’s a brief scene in Spiderman 2 where Spidey whips along on his web stuff near the tops of buildings. The people in the street were real, because they shot it on W. 18th between 5th and 6th, and we saw it when I worked on that street. It was hilarious to watch 400 extras look up in the air and follow… nothing. The 2nd ADs were on ladders telling them through bull horns how to look up in the sky and follow the path where Spidey would be CGIed in.

Here’s one more. A 1976 sc-fi movie called “Logan’s Run” was filmed in a futuristic glass building in Dallas which Zale’s Jewelers owned and used as their national HQ. The ad agency that handled Zale’s was The Bloom Agency, and that’s where I worked at the time.

@aprilsimnel I’m surprised they didn’t just CGI the 400 people.

@erichw1504 – I know!

Almost everywhere in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. In particular, I spent a lot of time here.

However, the caption on the pic is off a bit- the real UGLI (now a computer lab) was on the other side of the campus!

I was going to say, I took @Austinlad to Carnforth railway station last time he was over, where Brief Encounter was filmed…

I WAS going to say that… but instead, I shall just say that I have a friend who used to live in Notting Hill…. or was is somewhere near there…. hmmmm…... well, London anyway ;-)

Thank you, @Harple, for taking me there. Probably never would have seen it otherwise.

Niagara Falls (Superman?)
Brooklyn Bridge (lots of movies but it made me think most of Taxi, the TV series)
Newcastle upon Tyne dockside (Get Carter)
Roslin Chapel and “Westminster Abbey” (da Vinci Code – the Westminster Abbey scenes were actually filmed in Lincoln Cathedral, where I’ve been many times).

Also the Jude Law movie “Alfie” was filmed on location in Manchester – I watched them shooting some of it – but they disguised our streets to make them look like New York. No idea why, it should have been in England anyway (the original was London).

@downtide ooh, I went to a beautiful Christmas Carol service in Lincoln Cathedral a few years back, I’d forgotten it was in the Da Vinci Code!

@harple well it wasn’t technically in the story. It was in disguise!

Well, let’s see… Since living in NY almost every freaking place I go has been in some movie or other… even now sometimes I watch a flick and I’m like ” Hey! I was there yesterday!” so not sure I could name them really, saw sex in the city getting filmed and a few others too….. ummm I also sat on the bench in Savannah Ga. where Forest Gump had his Box of Chocalates, oh and a little garden in Savannah where Midnight in the Garden of good and evil was filmed…hmmm the Six Pence pub on Bull Street also there was the fight scene in Something to talk about….oh and Katz’s Delicatessen in NYC was where Meg Ryan had her fake Orgasm in When Harry met Sally, great food, almost Orgasmic!

Empire State Building-“Sleepless in Seattle”
5th Avenue near St Patrick’s Cathedral the day they were shooting “I am Legend”. Really cool! There were abandoned looking cars and vegetation all over the ground like a desolated city in the midst of an armegeddon! And we got to walk through it because they weren’t filming yet so it wasn’t blocked off.
Knickerbocker Bar & Grill -33 University Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, when they were filming Mickey Blue Eyes with Hugh Grant and James Caan. Sadly, I did not get to see Hugh but I saw a director’s chair with Liz Hurley’s name on it. (That was before the kerfuffle that led to their breakup, of course)
Salerno’s Restaurant in Jamaica, Queens, NYC-They filmed some of the scenes from “Big Night” there with Stanley Tucci, Marc Anthony, Minnie Driver and Isabella Rossellini
(I guess Salerno’s isn’t what you would call iconic! Just that I loved that movie so I thought it was pretty cool to be in the same place that it was actually filmed!)

the video store filmed in Scream was the one a block away from my house, so I went there a lot.
The top of the Empire State Building, too.

plenty of places as i enjoy traveling all over.Living in New England has plenty of places.
The kewl one is that my Sister has a house on the lake in Minnesota that they filmed the lake scene from the movie Fargo. It’s about 100yards out from her dock.

I have been to Norman Lindsay’s home in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia. This is where the pool scene in Sirens was filmed. It didn’t look anything like it did in the movie and there were no beautiful women bathing there.

Oh I have also visited some of the sites from Lord of the Rings in New Zealand. For instance when the Ringwraith is chasing the hobbits and they hide in in a hollow to the side of the road. Sort of under the road. I also saw the river where Frodo gets in a canoe and starts to row off leaving the rest of the group and Samwise follows him. I think that was the scene anyway.

I have been to Wells cathedral many times where many scenes from Elizabeth The Golden Age were filmed.