MovieChat Forums > Tears of the Sun (2003) Discussion > Tired of bad geography in movies....

Tired of bad geography in movies....

posted 13 years ago by obelix99
14 replies | jump to latest

Why is Hollywood so cheap? They spend hundreds of millions on a movie, yet can't get the geography right. I don't know how many movies I've seen that is suppose to take place in Asia, Africa, South America, etc. and I know it's shot in the same damn location: HAWAII.

I've only been to Hawaii once but I've seen enough movies to know that the mountain shots are clearly in Hawaii.

There are no jungle mountains in Africa that I know of. Yet, during the whole movie, you could see the mountain backdrop in the background. That is clearly in Hawaii.

Who are they trying to fool?

[–] 13 years ago

[deleted]

[–] presenting_joe 13 years ago

"There are no jungle mountains in Africa that I know of."

You D!ckhead

"It's not a big deal until you MAKE it a big deal"

[–] erikriveros 13 years ago

WORST. OP. EVER.

it is better to have a gun and not need it, than to need a gun and not have it

[–] obelix99 11 years ago

Yet you replied you moron. If post are stupid I normally ignore them.....jackass

[–] jstatser 8 years ago

"If post are stupid I normally ignore them..." Yet you replied to the jackass's moronic reply. Or was it the moron's jac...never mind. What could be more moronic than responding to a stupid post to say that one ignores such things. I normally ignore moronic replys to stupid pos......uh.....never mind again.

"Pardon me while I have a strange interlude"- Marx

[–] cameron1976 11 years ago

Have Gorillas in the mist?

[–] roger-395 10 years ago

I think you're the one in need of a geography lesson. First, what defines a mountain? In Calif we have Mt Whitney at 14,600 ft and there is Mount Konocti at 4,600 ft. Trust me, there are hundreds of mountains in Africa with jungles. They just don't look like Mount Everest.

[–] jpogi 9 years ago

So there eas no Tarzan king of the jungle?

[–] peterquennell 8 years ago

I was fooled - and I worked in Nigeria for the UN for five years - and quite startled to read here it was filmed in Hawaii.

Cameroon is the country to the east, and it is famous for its jungle and mountains. (So are the Congo, Uganda and Gabon.) These are all in Cameroon.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/5f/ed/41/5fed41e0bacc0fa3413db915b04bf2f5.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ae/df/e7/aedfe79612282d1a33f078415ff3bbc8.jpg

http://www.aluxurytravelblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Siemens-Mountains.jpg

http://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/img/lake_oku_cameroon_46256_357546.jpg

http://instarkcontrast.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Cameroon-Landscape04.jpg

[–] jstatser 8 years ago

obelix99, I'll ignore your own "bad geography" and answer ..."Who are they trying to fool?" About 90% or more of the people who see this or any other movie. Most people who see the movie have not been to the place the movie is set in, or the place it was actually filmed in.
Making a movie is way expensive, location shots at the actual location add hundreds of more millions.
Movies are not real, its all pretend. Spain and Morocco play the part of the American West for example. Bruce Willis is not really a seal, John Wayne was never a Marine or a cowboy.

"Pardon me while I have a strange interlude"- Marx

[–] Vashramana 7 years ago

I agree with the OP in principle, but in this specific case the landscape and terrain did not look like Hawaii to me. I actually came to this page to see the shooting locations. I knew they would never film in West Africa, but thought it might be Central America.

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 4 years ago

Uh there are mountains in Africa, there are volcanoes in Africa.