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* Much snark has been made about [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney's]] ''[[Pocahontas]]'' filling the flat area around Jamestown, Virginia with mountains and cliffs. While there are some tall mountains in Virginia, there are none anywhere near Jamestown. |
* Much snark has been made about [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney's]] ''[[Pocahontas]]'' filling the flat area around Jamestown, Virginia with mountains and cliffs. While there are some tall mountains in Virginia, there are none anywhere near Jamestown. |
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** Or Norfolk, despite the fact that in ''[[Down Periscope]]'' peaks are visible from the naval base. |
** Or Norfolk, despite the fact that in ''[[Down Periscope]]'' peaks are visible from the naval base. |
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* The [[Jackie Chan]] film ''[[Rumble in The Bronx]]'' is supposed to take place in [[Big Applesauce|the Bronx, New York City]]. Of course it was filmed nowhere ''near'' the Bronx, but rather in [[California Doubling|Vancouver, British Columbia]]. The only remotely mountain-like higher land within view of New York City are |
* The [[Jackie Chan]] film ''[[Rumble in The Bronx]]'' is supposed to take place in [[Big Applesauce|the Bronx, New York City]]. Of course it was filmed nowhere ''near'' the Bronx, but rather in [[California Doubling|Vancouver, British Columbia]]. The only remotely mountain-like higher land within view of New York City are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Palisades_%28Hudson_River%29 The Palisades] in [[New Jersey]], which look ''nothing like'' the towering mist-shrouded Coast Mountains you can very clearly see in the background of several scenes in ''Rumble''. |
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* ''[[The Rundown]]'' has some hills in [[The Amazon]]... considering the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brazil_topo.jpg highest places in the forest] are nowhere near the Amazon river... |
* ''[[The Rundown]]'' has some hills in [[The Amazon]]... considering the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brazil_topo.jpg highest places in the forest] are nowhere near the Amazon river... |
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* The 1950s Hollywood Mountie movie ''Saskatchewan'' had the Mounties riding through the majestic snowcapped mountains of said province. A province which, in reality, is so stereotypically flat that Canadians make jokes about roof repair guys being treated in Saskatchewan like astronauts. (The pre-1905 District of Saskatchewan had considerably different boundaries, but encompassed no mountain ranges.) |
* The 1950s Hollywood Mountie movie ''Saskatchewan'' had the Mounties riding through the majestic snowcapped mountains of said province. A province which, in reality, is so stereotypically flat that Canadians make jokes about roof repair guys being treated in Saskatchewan like astronauts. (The pre-1905 District of Saskatchewan had considerably different boundaries, but encompassed no mountain ranges.) |
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