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Title: Your favourite movie set in Jersey
Post by: Gibby on October 12, 2008, 10:06:10 AM: I know how you have bashed Kevin Smith in the past for his moderately patronising view of Jersey, but what's your favourite Jersey movie?

Thanks,
FoT Gibby

ps. Mine is Big Night.
Title: Re: Your favourite movie set in Jersey
Post by: Denim Gremlin on October 12, 2008, 04:23:38 PM: honestly, i think i'm gonna have to go with The Toxic Avenger

but i think that might work against the point you're trying to make
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Post by: chrisfoll577 on October 12, 2008, 08:07:29 PM: My favorite Jersey movie is On the Waterfront.
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Post by: jbissell on October 12, 2008, 08:21:40 PM: I'm sure it'll be Garden State.
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Post by: yesno on October 13, 2008, 12:37:10 PM: Wasn't the Godfather partly set in NJ?
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Post by: Andy on October 13, 2008, 06:20:42 PM: no country for old men.
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Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on October 14, 2008, 02:49:35 AM: Aguirre The Wrath of God.
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Post by: samir on October 14, 2008, 04:30:54 PM: Once upon a time in Piscataway
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Post by: Martin on October 14, 2008, 04:34:00 PM: The Wrestler (maybe!)
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Post by: Joe Rogaine on October 15, 2008, 06:05:03 PM: Arent most movie sets in Hollywood?
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Post by: Stan on October 15, 2008, 07:42:27 PM: [youtube]E5V9_EVd67Q[/youtube]

Stardust Memories
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Post by: Sarah on October 15, 2008, 08:16:09 PM: I seem to remember that I liked Atlantic City.
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Post by: sarim on October 16, 2008, 02:00:44 AM: beer league
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Post by: Bryan on October 16, 2008, 01:33:58 PM: Quote from: Martin on October 14, 2008, 04:34:00 PM
The Wrestler (maybe!)

Yeah! It's very, very good.
Title: Re: Your favourite movie set in Jersey
Post by: moderate rock on October 18, 2008, 04:37:03 PM: Quote from: samir on October 14, 2008, 04:30:54 PM
Once upon a time in Piscataway

If the heavy traffic that comes with a Rutgers football game interferes with my day one more time I will be VERY ANGRY.
Title: Re: Your favourite movie set in Jersey
Post by: Tom Scharpling on October 22, 2008, 01:34:15 AM: I like the final scene in OCEANS ELEVEN, which was filmed outside Rahway Prison.

Tom.
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Post by: gravy boat on November 12, 2008, 08:10:30 PM: Hysterical Blindness.

Ben Gazzara, Gena Rowlands, Uma Thurman. Juliette Lewis.
A Hudson County to the bone movie.
Title: Re: Your favourite movie set in Jersey
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on November 12, 2008, 10:54:29 PM: Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle
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Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on November 20, 2008, 05:49:01 PM: About 5 minutes of ZIZEK takes place in Jersey, so I vote for that.
Title: Re: Your favourite movie set in Jersey
Post by: Tom Scharpling on November 28, 2008, 12:21:32 AM: ...but John Junk has nailed it.

Hoboken? CHECK!

Princeton? CHECK!

Newark? CHECK!

Cherry Hill? CHECK!

HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE takes the cake!

Tom.
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Post by: Denim Gremlin on November 28, 2008, 12:23:04 AM: that movie has a pretty nutty concept of NJ's geography
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Post by: dave from knoxville on November 28, 2008, 08:25:31 AM: The Station Agent
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Post by: masterofsparks on November 28, 2008, 08:26:25 PM: Quote from: dave from knoxville on November 28, 2008, 08:25:31 AM
The Station Agent

But that has connections to The Wire, which means it's automatically disqualified.
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Post by: thecramedog on December 06, 2008, 11:46:03 PM: Please....

Broadway Danny Rose!

(http://www.cinemaretro.com/uploads/nick3.jpg)
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Post by: Jack from Arkansas on December 07, 2008, 01:06:10 PM: What about Copland? Stallone is doing some top notch acting and is set in a town next to the GW bridge.
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Post by: Come on, Jason on December 07, 2008, 03:29:53 PM: (http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/55927008.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF1939847EC77F5F8D1CE792888AD2110A28BA40A659CEC4C8CB6)
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Post by: Emily on December 07, 2008, 04:34:59 PM: Desperately Seeking Susan
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Post by: joshua on December 24, 2008, 09:25:16 PM: Superman: The Movie (1978) - (Superman: "You don't even care where that other missile is headed, do you?" Lex Luthor: "Of course I do. I know exactly where it's headed. Hackensack, New Jersey.")

Thanks Wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_set_in_New_Jersey)
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Post by: Gibby on December 24, 2008, 09:28:44 PM: Quote from: joshua on December 24, 2008, 09:25:16 PM
Superman: The Movie (1978) - (Superman: "You don't even care where that other missile is headed, do you?" Lex Luthor: "Of course I do. I know exactly where it's headed. Hackensack, New Jersey.")

Thanks Wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_set_in_New_Jersey)

Also in Hackensack: Brewster's Millions.
Title: Re: Your favourite movie set in Jersey
Post by: Hoboken Brian on January 14, 2009, 03:05:12 PM: I gotta go with "The Wrestler". ACME stores, Jersey All Pro Wrestling... and if imdb is anything to go by, shot in Asbury Park, Clifton, Dover, Elizabeth, Garfield, Hasbrouck Heights, Rahway... and Philadelphia.
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Post by: dave from knoxville on January 14, 2009, 03:40:08 PM: Quote from: Brian from Brooklyn on January 14, 2009, 03:05:12 PM
I gotta go with "The Wrestler". ACME stores, Jersey All Pro Wrestling... and if imdb is anything to go by, shot in Asbury Park, Clifton, Dover, Elizabeth, Garfield, Hasbrouck Heights, Rahway... and Philadelphia.

And AP_Mike's grocery.
Title: Re: Your favourite movie set in Jersey
Post by: A.M. Thomas on January 14, 2009, 06:04:16 PM: Quote from: Brian from Brooklyn on January 14, 2009, 03:05:12 PM
I gotta go with "The Wrestler". ACME stores, Jersey All Pro Wrestling... and if imdb is anything to go by, shot in Asbury Park, Clifton, Dover, Elizabeth, Garfield, Hasbrouck Heights, Rahway... and Philadelphia.

The vintage store they go to in Elizabeth, called "Vintage Mode," is great! I tutor about a block away from there and check in occasionally. They have a lot of cool cowboy boots.

I asked the owner about them filming in his store, but he didn't have a lot to say. In fact, I don't think he really cared at all. It was really surprising to see a place so familiar pop up in a film unexpectedly, though.
Title: Re: Your favourite movie set in Jersey
Post by: Jack on February 02, 2009, 09:39:08 PM: PENN SAYS:
the wrestler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQkneObQRkQ

How high is this guy?
Title: Re: Your favourite movie set in Jersey
Post by: Regular Joe on February 03, 2009, 02:34:36 PM: Quote from: Jack on February 02, 2009, 09:39:08 PM
How high is this guy?

I say very, very high.

But he's right about The Wrestler. I saw it over a month ago and it's still with me (beyond the facts of Tomei boobies and Mike's grocery store). I know it's stupid but I keep coming back to the last scene. Did he wrestle himself to death or not?! I need to watch it again to make my choice.
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Post by: Jack on February 03, 2009, 09:15:25 PM: yeah, totally perfect ending. I guess its the ambiguity thats adds to the art of the thing.
So I saw the wrestler this past weekend now that its out in megaplexes. Not that I necessarily prefer an arthouse audience, but it seemed a percentage of the audience seemed to expect a typical action flick. So the fade to black ending left some audibly disappointed. ("thats it?!?!"). Not sure what they expected.

And actually, I mostly agree with everything Penn says, but the stream of consciousness and in the in-your-faceness of him running his hands through his locks was worth sharing.
Title: Re: Your favourite movie set in Jersey
Post by: mcphee from the forum on February 06, 2009, 12:22:50 AM: Two-way tie between Harold & Kumar and The King of Marvin Gardens