What's your favorite TV show, movie or video game to take place in your city? (2013, house)
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. “Stay Classy San Diego”
We were downtown a couple of weeks ago and a group next to us were participating in a treasure hunt with an Anchorman theme which I thought was pretty funny.
New Orleans - Definitely NCIS New Orleans. Favorite movies set here are Contraband with Mark Wahlberg (which takes viewers beyond the touristy areas) and Deja Vu with Denzel Washington. Deepwater Horizon was a good movie based on a true Louisiana story.
Baltimore - The Wire is a good show but wouldn't say its among my favorites.
West Virginia - I used to live in Sissonville, WV where Buckwild was filmed!!!!!!! My favorite movie set in West Virginia is We Are Marshall while my favorite movie filmed there is Unstoppable (though its set in Pennsylvania, based on a story that took place in Ohio).
For TV shows it was Miami Vice and Golden Girls in the 80's that defined the city albeit not truthfully sometimes.
For instance we used to get tourists from Europe who thought that because Sonny Crockett had a alligator on his boat where he lived they thought that the city was swarming with them !
As for the Golden Girls it was a series set in a decade too late because the Senior citizen population in the Miami area was already declining in the 1970's but both shows put Miami on the map.
The real world "Golden Girls" these days mainly live in the Treasure and/or Space Coasts, parts of The Panhandle, as well as in SW FL. Palm Beach county still has a sizeable proportion though and is the closest you'll get to any resemblance of the show.
For Baltimore, I'm fond of the Barry Levinson-produced films, including Avalon, Diner, and Tin Men, showing the spirit of Charm City in the 1950s and early 1960s that he grew up with. Sadly, far too many focus on the city's dark ages with Homicide: Life on the Street and especially The Wire and not the glory days that he was nostalgic for.
Where you currently live right now, I have a favorite video game haha. Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. Man they need to remake that for the PS4/Xbox 1. GTA: V is good, but its not as good IMO.
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