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Worst depiction of Bermuda ever


So my boyfriend and I decided to rent this one night because a friend had told us that they must have done no research at all on Bermuda except the name of the airport. we picked it up not expecting a good movie (and we were right) but the depiction of Bermuda was sooooo off.

Airport does not looke like that. If the airport parking lot was where he showed it, it'd be in the ocean. Lisence plates aren't yellow. No picturesque mountains at all (I laughed at that for a good 5 Minutes) No long expanse of straight road (there are no actual straight roads here, let alone running along side a cliff like that) and there is no way in hell anyone here would rent out a boat to a tourist like that, regardless of whom it was, lol, we like our tourists to survive.

The chicken thing was right though, there are some feral ones (haha). The Jamaican accent, no. We sound more British than that.

I'm just bringing this all up as a laugh, realizing how expensive it would have been to film here. There are far more indescretions done by the film (and again, i say this as a laugh, I enjoyed it for what it was) but as a Bermudian, it was a weird blend of offense and hilarity watching that brief part.

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Topaz -

God help me, but I got far enough down the message board to find your post as I was thinking excatly the same thing. I am not Bermudian, but our best friends are, and we have been there at least 12 times since 2003. I started laughing when they were showing the arial shots of "Bermuda" with the miles-long white sand beach. Hee heh - really? And then the marina with the stereotypical Carribbean-accented guy - come on! We've been on enough boats in Bermuda to know there are no "marinas." You have to get on a dinghy to get to your boats!

As a Jack Black fan, I actually turned the movie off after seeing this drivel, but your post struck a chord. Bermudians rock & we'll be back many times as long as you DON'T look like the travesty in this movie!

Love to meet you when we're there next -

Tippy from the U.S.

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sup genius, newsflash for you; movie's are almost never shot in places they are suppose to represent, get over it.

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Ugh I have to post more often. As I said adriatichr I'm just posting it as a laugh, not as a serious wtf. And tmrspam, would love to meet you on your next on island foray :)

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It's good to know that of the thousand or so islands and nations that border the Bermuda triangle that you can only actually get there if you leave from Bermuda. All this time I thought you could get there from Florida or any number of Caribbean islands (including Jamaica), but thanks to this thread I know that Bermuda must be the defacto embarkation point for anyone to enter the triangle.

Thanks, guys.




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