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NY does not look like that


It was a cute, feel good buddy movie. However, there is no way Rockefeller Center was that empty on Christmas eve. NY looks nothing like that during Christmas time. I went a few years back and it was so packed, I felt like a sardine. Subways, the streets...everything. They should have paid for some extras. I know this has nothing to do with the movie, but as a New Yorker, it was the first thing I noticed. Other than that, entertaining comedy with believable friendships.

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I noticed this as well. I think they tried to keep costs down with less extras.

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I seriously never thought about that, nor do I care. It's what they were saying that was important to me.



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Yeah and in Oceans Eleven when they are outside the Belagio when the fountain is running the streets are empty. That does not happen. But do I care... no because it happens all the time in films. It the reason there is always a parking space right in front. People get a little to nitpicky about movies lately.

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Filming did take place at Rockefeller Center. But it was in early January, not Christmas eve. Please click on
http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2015/01/05/the-untitled-x-mas-project-starring-seth-rogen-joseph-gordon-levitt-is-filming-at-rockefeller-center-today/



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It took place on Christmas eve. Hire extras

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You went to ny a few years ago huh? Guess you didn't go to Brooklyn or the lower east? Kinda different from midtown and Rockefeller center.

Much less crowded

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I actually really enjoyed the movie, but living in NYC makes you roll your eyes at a lot of the landscape in this comedy. The part that got me was when they showed up to this secret party, where all the people in the know would be, at just after midnight, when people would legit just be showing up, and they were the only ones there. There would have been a line around the block and at least a half a dozen people without tickets trying to get in. But seriously, this movie was supposed to be off the wall ridiculous. I mean, they just left the scene of an accident, a random girl Hans Gruber'd off a rooftop, Seth Rogan crucified a football bully called "the Messiah" (while wearing a star of David sweater) and Anthony Mackie, a professional football player admitted to using steroids to the public without being actually found out (at least he planned on it). Don't even get me started with Michael Shannon, weed angel. haha. This movie was great. To say you have to willfully suspend your disbelief would be quite the understatement.





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Movies do that all the time. Ever been in DC? The Lincoln Memorial is packed... yet when you see it on film no one is there.

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The only part about that that bothered me was the party would've had a line down the entire street.

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