YAY Butte!


As a native son, I love seeing my stomping grounds on the big screen. Butte is a character herself and needs to be discovered by the likes of Tarentino and Joss Whedon. It is such a unique town and I am proud to say that I am from there.

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I'm a native Butte Boy, and I have to say that if Butte could always look as good as it does in the movie, I'd move back in a flash. She just looked so spiffed up and CLEAN. The M&M and all those gallus frames do make pretty good backdrops. I hope more movies get produced out there.
The story is a good one, and Wim Wenders does some interesting things with the single camera rotating around a conversation. This is a movie I'd like to add to my collection.

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There was a film shot in Butte in 1985 that captures the ghost-town, gone are the days feel that exists in there. Jon Jost's haunting "Bell Diamond." Check it out if you can find it. I think it a much more honest film than "Don't Come Knocking."

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LOL

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I saw the movie last night in Butte. It is clear that none of it was shot in LA.
On another note - I spoke with Mr. Wenders for a few moments after the movie and I was impressed with the dignity and kindness of this gentleman.

Great movie and great characters! Fantastic shots of Butte!

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All of the interior scenes were shot in Butte.

As for Night of the Living Dead - well - we have a Zombie Plan in place.

http://www.mtstandard.com/shared-content/phpBB

click on the SOCIAL MATRIX and then scroll down to the Zombie articles. There are 3 of them and as you will see - we are prepared.

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Uhh hold on there sweety. Montana has 1 Million people. Butte has about 30,000. Most suburbs have more than that. And don't worry, Evel Knievel will be dead soon and the horror that is Knievel Dayz will die shortly after. As for Butte not being a great place for a ghost movie? Do you even live here? Do you know how old this town is? Hell the top two floors of the YMCA building have been deserted since long before you were born. There's mining shanties up by the gallows frames that are over 80 years old. Ever been in the basement of the archives? Ever been driving around on a Friday night at 10pm? Ever went and explored all the creepy dark allies in the middle of the night? Ever looked in the old hospital? I think the town is a great setting for some sort of ghost story, and really I think you're the rude one for trying to belittle all of the cool old sh*t we have here. Anyway it's an IMDB thread and doesn't matter, but SCARY MOVIE IN BUTTE PLEASE!

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Every question asked above I can answer yes to. I love my hometown!

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Different strokes for different folks. I'd slit my wrists if I had to live in a place as overpopulated and congested as L.A. is! I have a buddy who lives in Dillon, MT, so I've been through Butte a few times, and I found it completely charming. In fact, where I live right now is starting to resemble L.A. with all the urban sprawl and traffic. I live near Salt Lake City, UT. It was great here about 15 years ago, but now it's way too crowded. I guess I'm just allergic to traffic jams and so many people in the way that you can't go anywhere without tripping over them. If I could find a way to make a decent living there, I'd move somewhere like Butte without batting an eye! All the old mining stuff you see all over the place there is pretty cool. It's also nice to be able to punch your car up to over 100 mph on the freeway without more SUV's than you shake a stick at being in the way! :o)

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I've visited by various locations in Montana and I love the state.(I'm from a large city in Alberta)

It's beautiful and sparsely populated (relatively). A real hidden gem. I'm hoping of going to Helena, Butte and Missoula in the next month or so.

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Butte really isn't as remote and lowly populated as the movie suggested: It's not big, but it's not small. It's just right.

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