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Old 03-02-2013, 11:32 PM
 
Location: SoCal
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Se7en - LA looks creepy in it.
Collateral
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Old 03-02-2013, 11:34 PM
 
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Naked Gun. The fat gal landing on Reggie Jackson is priceless.
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Old 03-03-2013, 12:48 AM
 
Location: Salinas, CA
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Grand Canyon, the Beverly Hills Cop movies, Falling Down, Tuff Turf, Dragnet and one of my all time favorite high school comedies...Fast Tines at Ridgemont High!
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Old 03-03-2013, 07:53 AM
 
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Drive.
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Old 03-03-2013, 09:06 AM
 
Location: East Bay, San Francisco Bay Area
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LA Confidential
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Old 03-03-2013, 10:48 AM
 
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Drive
Training Day
Heat
Collateral
Die Hard
Mulholland Dr.
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Fight Club
Terminator 2
American History X
Donnie Darko
True Romance
---- (less good movies but still enjoyable that I have in mind)
Beverly Hills Cop
Mother and Child
Crash
Pretty Woman
The Artist
Menace II Society
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Old 03-03-2013, 12:00 PM
 
Location: La Verne, CA
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Another one -

"Falling Down" with Michael Douglas
That's a good one.
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Old 03-03-2013, 12:14 PM
 
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Collateral off the top of my head. Training Day is another one.

However, I enjoy the 80s movies that seemed to depict a more "idealistic" version of LA - sunny, ladies in bikinis, rich people in nice cars, etc. Beverly Hills Cop is an example of this.

From the 90s onwards, it seems like portraying LA as a darker grittier city has become the norm - Heat, Crash, Training Day, Collateral, Drive, etc.
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Old 03-03-2013, 08:09 PM
 
Location: Salinas, CA
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Collateral off the top of my head. Training Day is another one.

However, I enjoy the 80s movies that seemed to depict a more "idealistic" version of LA - sunny, ladies in bikinis, rich people in nice cars, etc. Beverly Hills Cop is an example of this.

From the 90s onwards, it seems like portraying LA as a darker grittier city has become the norm - Heat, Crash, Training Day, Collateral, Drive, etc.
Collateral was excellent and Training Day was very good. There was also a relatively unknown suspense film in the late 80's that I liked and saw recently called Spelllbinder (starred Kelly Preston, Audra Lindley and Tim Daly).
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Old 03-04-2013, 09:44 AM
 
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Among the many that have already been mentioned,

Lincoln Lawyer
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