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South carolina????

posted 17 years ago by alexandra143
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This was supposed to take place in south carolina??? as soon as i starting watching i knew it was filmed in australia! they should of picked a better place to film that resembled south carolina. did anyone else notice??

[–] thetoothfairyiscreepy 16 years ago

part of it may have been filmed in australia -- i don't know and can't say for sure. much of it was shot in SC though - beaufort i believe.

"When life hands you lemons, put them in your sweet tea and thank God you're a Southern girl!"

[–] spiritoftheicewolf 16 years ago

Nope none of this movie was filmed here in South Carolina. If you check the film locations on the movie it was mostly filmed in Australia a little bit of filming took place in Santa Clarita, California, nothing about South Carolina. Being from SC when I watched the movie I knew it wasn't filmed here.

[–] JDP_02 16 years ago

well considering the second scene of the movie (on the army base) is Bond university Gold Coast Australia, and every scene in the city was shot in conrad jupiters also on the gold coast, im pretty sure none of the first half was shot in SC

[–] elf-53 16 years ago

yep - I live here on the Gold Coast in AU, and I can say pretty much every scene in that movie was filmed within 2 hours of here in south-east Queensland... all very typical subtropical bushland and rivers that you'd see here, some buildings in Brisbane where the diamond heist looks to have taken place (the exterior at least), and the gold coast city that you can see when the T1000 guy steps out on to the balcony of the hotel... you can even see the cars driving on the left-hand side of the road in the background in that shot :D
I'd say most of the interiors would have been filmed in the warner brothers / roadshow studios less than 5 mins from where i live :)

Some of the cast have obviously fake american accents (especially the chick that played 'Angela'),

Appallingly woeful movie. Once again Australia outdoes itself by producing a truly *beep* film.

[–] antipink 16 years ago

I thought the same thing too. At the time WWE was filming it's movies in Australia (See No Evil, The Condemned) because the budget is cheaper there. When I saw the movie, the whole thing had an Australia feel to it especially since many movies based in America were filmed there and I felt like I've seen the locations before.

[–] detentionblock1138 14 years ago

Best part of the stand-in locations for South Carolina was the establishing helicopter shot of the downtown building Cena takes a rent-a-cop job in...... Downton Calgary, Alberta. Had to rewind 3 times as the first pass the Bankers Hall twin towers looked familiar. Then the Petro Canada buildings. Then Harry Hayes was easy to make out and finaly, though at a strange angle, the Calgary Tower. I've seen my city used in many films befor (Superman 3, Exit Wounds, Snow Day) but this was quite a humerous surprise. Too bad the movie sucked ass, save for the Terminator joke.

[–] Terrapin2212 13 years ago

I did notice, first of all from the very beginning, there is no city that big with that many skyscrapers in South Carolina. Charleston is a mostly low-rise city not with towering glass buildings like in the scene where they rob the jewlrey store. The most ridiculous part however was when the police radio says they are on I-95 yet the I-95 of the movie is a two-lane highway!! I'm surprised this actually is an American movie and not an Australian one, for them to portray an Interstate as a two-lane road! At least if they set the film in Florida and found a freeway to shoot on it woulda been more accurate.

[–] Terrapin2212 13 years ago

Also the white lines in the middle of the two lane road was kind of weird too since in America its always yellow lanes, they should at least have gotten these things right. The swamps though looked like they could have been in South Carolina, Mississippi or Louisiana.

[–] cinephyler 12 years ago

i guess it was an inside joke when one henchman said "watch out for crocodiles"

and the second guy answered in an australian accent "there are no crocodiles in SC."