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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Film Let's Go to San Francisco!

Posted by Erik Henriksen on Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:20 PM

Via io9:

Mega-nerd Protohiro compared screenshots of the exact same view of San Francisco from the Star Trek and Terminator Salvation trailers.... It's pretty striking to see the exact same shot as portrayed in two very different movies, and it underscores how different the two films' views of the future (and of technology) really are.

Okay! Which future do you want? Star Trek's?

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Or Terminator Salvation's?

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Man, the Golden Gate Bridge is having a hard time of late. Just this spring it got attacked in Monsters vs. Aliens.

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And as pointed out elsewhere, the Golden Gate Bridge also pops up in this summer's Land of the Lost.

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The Golden Gate Bridge also got all effed up in ye olde crappy X-Men: The Last Stand, which—HOLY SHIT THIS FINALLY GIVES ME AN EXCUSE TO POST THAT FAN VIDEO SOMEONE MADE WHERE THEY SET SCENES FROM X-MEN: THE LAST STAND TO AN EVANESCENCE SONG!!!* YEESSSSSSSSS

You're welcome.

*Thanks to the Mercury's resident Evanescence superfan, Wm. Steven Humphrey, for confirming that the song in the above video is, in fact, Evanescence.

 

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The Federation, of course, has been based in San Francisco in a number of Star Trek movies, but I wonder if this recent enthusiasm for messing with the Golden Gate Bridge has anything to do with LucasFilm/ILM's recent move to a major facility at the old Presidio?
Posted by Bob R. on May 12, 2009 at 12:32 PM · Report
2
I think the message here is pretty clear: robots want the gays, and their non-Opposite Marriages, dead.
Posted by nerdliness on May 12, 2009 at 12:38 PM · Report
3
And me. Skynet wants me dead for reasons I cannot disclose*.

*Although I will probably tell you for a Hot Pocket.
Posted by kiala on May 12, 2009 at 1:05 PM · Report
4
Perhaps this is the reason we are building the 12-lane bridge. Now Portland can be destroyed!
Posted by ezra on May 12, 2009 at 1:06 PM · Report
5
If the robots would just get better at gay sex, there wouldn't need to be a war.
Posted by Bob R. on May 12, 2009 at 1:07 PM · Report
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For clarification, the first two pictures are of the Bay Bridge, not the Golden Gate.
Posted by NIG GER on May 12, 2009 at 1:07 PM · Report
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edit: nevermind. some kind of whack depth of field used there. :)
Posted by NIG GER on May 12, 2009 at 1:09 PM · Report
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3.Sr - as previously posted on blogtown, Star Trek royally messed up the skyline! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sakwRvZqe_c
Posted by ROM on May 12, 2009 at 1:42 PM · Report
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Clearly the buildings are too high in the Star Trek future San Francisco. Anyway, screw the Golden Gate Bridge. I want to see what The Castro looks like in the 23rd century. I wonder if they'll still have Badlands.
Posted by Will Radik on May 12, 2009 at 2:19 PM · Report
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Without Badlands and Harvey's and the Delano's there would be no Castro District.

Posted by kiala on May 12, 2009 at 4:09 PM · Report

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