Best movie portrayals of New York?

After Hours.

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NYC, the city so cowardly it was responsible for the Catherine 'Kitty' Genovese case.

NYC, the city so full of fearful whiny faggots that they run like zebras over a loud noise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLUJfHHh2kM

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/false-gunfire-report-triggers-penn-station-stampede.html

Whiny entitled faggots: The City. But at least they have good PR teams.

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>OI TODAY, WE IZ ALL NEW YOIKEHS

What a bunch of cunts.

>>81655132

t. country bumpkin

Romanticized; Manhattan

Shit this is actually how it is(a shit hole with mean people); how to make it in america (series)

>ywn never be a millionaire living in NYC
That's the only way it looks comfy living there. I don't want to have three roommates in some box with cockroaches everywhere.

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TMNT

Elf

Brazil

>>81655702
>millionaire in ______
You can make anywhere seem nice.
A millionaire in Mogadishu is still living the life because your security and supply chain would be God tier.

Midnight Cowboy

25th hour

>>81655879
there's a lot more to do in New York you invalid

Saving Private Ryan

Street Fighter: The Movie

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https://youtu.be/fT4lDU-QLUY

>80s movie set in New York
>it's always rainy and there's trash everywhere

>>81656203
That was very comfy anon

Everybody in New York hates everybody else in New York so this is the most quintessential New York scene ever filmed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgL_5QcZCMo

civil war

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It's hard to imagine New York as once being a small, run down village. That's not depicted enough in movies.

>>81657062
hasn't changed much, its just a bigger shithole

>>81655702
FUCK YOU ANON

>>81655087
>>81655931
Good choices

I'll add Taxi Driver and Manhattan

>imagine not being rich and living in new york and thinking that somehow makes you superior to flyover hicks

loool

Taxi Driver.

>>81655879
Somewhat true but that anon has a point. At least in Los Angeles the sunshine and warm weather is free. NYC is only bearable if you're insulated with wealth.

Das Boot

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4lDU-QLUY

why did 9/11 have to happen?

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>>81654820
ghostbusters 1&2, hands down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_iF9Wk3DrY

>>81654820
Eyes Wide Shut
Taxi Driver

>>81654820
The Warriors.

Ghostbusters
Desperately Seeking Susan

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Movies set in 70s New York are fascinating, seeing how run down and bankrupt it all was. Like this and The Warriors.

>>81655774
This is the correct answer. That shot of Raph coming out of the Critters movie in a trench coat at night is amazing.

>>81654820
Taxi Driver.

I hate New York.

>>81657062
That broadway was the road which two donky carts could go on at the same time and that wall street was the pathway that ran along tge city defense wall is great.

>>81656542
THIS

Nobody in their right mind wants to live in NYC unless they're the 1%. It's great to work and enjoy the nightlife, but no way would I want to live there. It's overpriced as fuck.

I can't believe this film is almost 25 years old now.

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It's mostly set in North Jersey, but plenty of it takes place in Harlem and other parts of NYC.

Great portrayal of 70's urban decay. I love the scenes in the projects, absolute commie block kino.

>>81656962
That's Philly. I even walked down the park where Eddie Murphy's character was picked up by the cops.

The only scene of New York was near the end at the Exchange and that hardly gas us a glimpse of what a shithole it was in the 80's.

>>81654820
It really is. I grew up the 90s NYC and while I didn't grow in the rich parts of Manhatten, there was still a general optimistic feeling happening in the whole city. Crime was going down, the city was getting a bit cleaner and people seemed a bit happier. Then 9/11 happened and some people just went overboard with the whole terrorism fright.

I'm just glad I didn't grow up in the 70s and 80s NYC. That place looked like a shithole based on the movies and news reports I've seen.

>>81655926
HOT TOWN SUMMER IN THE CITY!

>>81657464
Rundown 70's New York is what made Donald Trump what he is.

Eyes Wide Shut

t. professional New Yorker

>>81655164
>>81655132
Someone's triggered

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>>81656542
>The Polanders in Greenpoint don't get a mention
I guess we're alright?

I'm just glad The Siege never became reality.

>>81654820
The Raimi Spiderman movies.

Bad Lieutenant

New York is a fucking shithole of depravity and wickedness.

>>81657202
go back to rebbit, kid

>>81657121
>>81657080
>>81655164
>>81655132
>when you're so mad you gotta samefag your hate of a city on a Balinese basket-weaving documentary site

Is it true that NYC was a criminal shithole in the 70-80's and that most punk movies set in NYC around that time were a subtle criticism of it? I heard about it once.

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>>81657162
>the guy with the red sweater sporting the double sig-runes

>>81654820
>>81657202
This is NY I grew up believing in and I thought it was the coolest place on the planet. Imagine my disappointment when I actually went there in early 2010s. Don't know if it became shit or always was shit and the movies were lying

Ride like hell

>>81659356
>was

>>81659414
It was way worse in the 1980s and early 1990s.

>>81657162
that last shot under the bridge during sunset is pure kino.

>>81659458
But I only hear good things about it now, is it still bad? I'm going there in a month what should I expect? Any advices?

>>81659414
up until the 90s (maybe mid 80s) you should shoot any movie you wanted in New York
this meant a lot of sleazy crime flicks where made there

then the State/city government refused to give filming licenses to people that wanted to make New York look bad
so now we get safe/clean new york in movies instead of crime riddled shithole

though to be fair...the crime rate has dropped off since the 70s. It just means the films are worse.

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>>81657464
i like this one (pic related)

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>movie about New York
>film starts with an shot flying over the top of skyscrapers at night
>INNNNNNNN NEEWWWWW YOOORRRKKKK

>>81659458
NYC is basically disneyland now. Real New Yorkers as a people don't even exist anymore.

>>81659717
You can expect a pretty normal large city, not the crazy magical place that's depicted in 90's movies.

If you want crazy, go to Tehran or Moscow.

>>81660135
>If you want crazy, go to Tehran or Moscow.

>>81656203
Love it

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Woody Allen, especially in the comfy 80s like Hannah and Her Sisters and stuff

Noah Baumbach, Squid and the Whale, Mistress America, Frances Ha

Whit Stillman's Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco

Scorsese's After Hours, Bringing Out the Dead

Tenenbaums for Wes Anderson's storybook version, Casavettes' Shadows

Vancouver =flicks
chicago= movies
New York = cinema
boston = kino

>>81660064
New York sucks. The natives are insane. The newcomers are yippie trash.

>>81659405
What the fuck was his deal anyways?
He had some neo-nazi shit going on but looked totally normal.

>>81660172
or Beijing. Seriously, western cities are boring as fuck and all look the same. In other countries (especially with more oppressive governments) people party much MUCH harder and everything is less commercialized.

>>81657062
That was the best part of Assassins Creed 3. I don't know why nobody has made an RPG where you play as a European settler in the new world. Instead of Orcs, you gotta deal with Indians. You gotta deal with bears, wolves and such. Then you got pirates on the coasts, and other ruffians on land.

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>>81657162
You could put the same music and lingering shots over Baghdad and make it seem appealing

>>81660656
That would be horribly racist, anon.
>>81660603
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqj31VPNoE

>>81659181
Also Washington DC

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Does Coming to America qualify?

Also, opening of Inside Job:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lqGp4ikYTM

>>81654820
There's almost no good film portrayals of New York because they all center around tourist destinations and Manhattan, there's five fucking boroughs.
Leon: The Professional was in Manhattan, but it did a pretty good job, not too cliche.

>>81660674
pre-2003 Iraq maybe

Any portrayal that spends more than 30 seconds with aerial shots should be immediately disqualified.

>>81655774
THIS IS GOOD

>>81659201

my babcia still lives in greenpoint

>tfw Eddie's pickles
>tfw Paczki

Feelsgoodfam.

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>>81660782
This, it was somewhat civilized. Muslims only know how to be civilized when a dictator is stepping on their neck. Otherwise they lose their fucking minds.

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>>81660813
>aerial shots
But that's literally how the rich and Hollywood see it. They don't have to touch the surface of that shithole.

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>>81657464
I'm always happy to see love for Death Wish 3 on this board

Disneyfication is good.

>>81659201
>The Siege
This was WAY ahead of its time. It's like a glimpse into what the US could've turned into. Despite what our detractors say, the US pulls its punches far more than other nations. I'm not saying the US is perfect and I still have a LOT of criticism for its policies, but we actually try to adhere to our civility and foundations of law.

>type in "independence day" into google image for movie picture.
>over 50% india flag shit pops up
what the fug is this new cancer.

>>81659727
>so now we get safe/clean new york in movies instead of crime riddled shithole
Remember when Friends got a lot of shit for depicting all-white casting (even in the background scenes) despite being set in Manhattan?

>>81660737
The best depiction of Brooklyn was Ghostwriter. That show gave me the best look of what life was like in that borough.

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>>81661376
Woah what in the actual fuck?

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>>81654820

don't watch the remake

it's shit

>>81660733
More movies need Peter Gabriel music

>>81661448
How did it give you insight into that borough? Have you lived there?

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>>81661376
oh boy
wait until you see "european people history"

also posting Wall Street

>>81661801
One of my mom's brothers resided there until he moved away back in 2006. But before I finally traveled to the East Coast (grew up in Colorado) in 1997, I never visited that side of the family before. When I saw Ghostwriter, a lot of those landmarks I saw in its episodes would be the ones I visited IRL.

>>81661448
I'll have to check it out.
Being a black guy from Bed-Stuy I have to say that Everybody Hates Chris was pretty accurate, except Brooklyn in the early 2000's wasn't that dangerous anymore.
Brooklyn is almost completely gentrified now and people still have a bad perception of it because of Biggie's music and shit like Crooklyn, it's infuriating.

Do The Right Thing is the most like the mid-2000s Brooklyn I grew up in.

>>81661376
>>81661513
>>81661812
Do you guys honestly believe that independence day only applies to the US? Other nations celebrate the day of liberation from their colonial masters too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_independence_days

>come from bumblefuck Iowa
>stay at hotel in Times Square, a place almost universally avoided by anyone who actually lived in the city
>Don't leave Times Square except to go to Central Park for 5 minutes
>All they see are hoards of other tourists, drunk Elmo panhandlers, and niggers hawking CDs
>Only eat at Sabbaros, Olive Garden, and Bubba Gump Shrimp
>Go back to Iowa and talk about how much New York sucks on a Tibetan Throat Singing forum.

Seriously though, Manhattan might be massively overrated, but Brooklyn and Queens are comfy, especially now that the spics and niggers are being priced out.

>>81662032
I loved Everybody Hates Chris. That's a show that was feel-good as fuck.

>Do the Right Thing
Man, it's insane how it foresaw those racial riots and conflicts in the early 90's.

>>81656203
>All of these people lost in time
>nobody will remember them or their struggles
>most of them are old now, remembering thier youth and romaticizing over thier earlier years.

Was the 90s the last time of unbridled and naive optimism? Even though it was an objectively worse time in NYC, that video looks a lot less hostile and jaded than your average city these days.

>>81660656
>I don't know why nobody has made an RPG where you play as a European settler in the new world. Instead of Orcs, you gotta deal with Indians. You gotta deal with bears, wolves and such.
>This babyfig doesn't know about the oregon trail

>>81662049
no i just found out now. thanks for the info.youve just blown my mind.

>>81662049
It's our holiday. You can fuck off.

>>81662110
>Was the 90s the last time of unbridled and naive optimism
It sorta was.

Think about it. It was 1993, 2 years after the Soviet Union fell. The Cold War was over and the US was riding high on job growth and prosperity. We were unmatched in economic, cultural, and military power in that decade.

Now look at us today. It's fucking terrifying that college grads can't get long-term employment. People get divided into shouting matches between pretentious SJWs and asshole alt rightists. Race is becoming more and more of a powder keg issue than it's been in decades. Everyone is connected to the Internet and smartphones, thus isolating individuals more and more from real life while drawn in their virtual vindication.

Fuck, I'd give anything to go back 20 years ago. 1997 was one of the best years in my life. Mid-90's (1995) to August 2001 was comfy as fuck to live as a kid.

>>81662272
this

a whole lotta this

america is in decline. rapid decline.

>>81662163
Fellow American here anon. I'm just simply pointing out common sense. I have Irish ancestry from my dad's side and my great-aunt was toasting to the centennial anniversary of the Easter Rising last year.

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>>81662110
2001 was the last year of true optimism

2001-2007 were years of fear but with some hope that the future still had some prospects

everything since September 2008 has been pure cynicism

>>81662355
Gonna be honesty though 2001-2007 was still fun to live through. I loved the shows, fashions, music, and games. Being a high school kid from 2003 to 2007 was great. It really wasn't until the 2010's rolled by that we have all this bullshit over "safe spaces", "toxic masculinity", and other hyper-sensitive nonsense. I'm all for treating everybody with respect and chilling together in peace, but nowadays, the cultural battlefield is a holier-than-thou one-upmanship or retarded skullduggery with weasel words and misinformation.

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>>81662478
Yeah I enjoyed them a lot too, still a lot of fun games and movies came out (not to mention 2000's internet culture was pretty great).
That fucking stock market crash plus smartphones killed everything, especially over the past 4 or 5 years.

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>>81654820
>inb4 Casey Neistat

>>81662615
I really missed the late 90's to early 00's Internet scene. The days of Geocities webpages and the simplicity of it all.

Don't get me wrong. I love high-speed, torrents, streaming, and the rest of modern convenience, but there really was a bit of innocence back then.

When you DL'd something on a 56k modem through Usenet or mIRC, you made damned well sure it was something you wanted and appreciated it.

I do admit that I'd be lost without my smartphone today. It's the greatest tool to have with camera, Internet, GPS, and apps.

>>81662752
Yeah, it's almost weird looking bad to how I functioned before getting an iPhone back in 2009.
I remember they were still kind of uncommon at that point and people in my class were amazed that it had so much stuff built into it.

Maybe it's because we haven't had many huge everyday-tech advances in the past 6 years but it feels like we take our tech for granted now and only use it for stupid shit like posting on facebook.

>>81662868
I treat Facebook as an appointment book and chat. If I want to reach out to friends or plan things with people, I set up an event.

Cruising, 100%
Serpico
Mean Streets
Some scenes from Jacob's Ladder
A Bronx Tale

Oldfags tell me truly, were there actually burnt out car husks just sitting around, stripped of anything salvageable? Old wet cardboard and garbage just laying fucking everywhere?

>>81662110
>>81662272
>>81662355
Was the internet a mistake?

>>81663392
Yes and no

I really appreciate all the advantages and luxuries that the Internet possesses. But its downsides are really apparent with retarded autists being able to congregate in their echochambers and how the mob has a means to project their knee-jerk attitudes to a wider audience.

>>81663392
No, but it should have been the key to advancing mankind across the planet.
Old media conglomerates taking control of it and the Dotcom Boom were the real mistakes.

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Good stuff in here, not exclusively NY tho.

>>81663392
obviously.
singularity is inevitable and just means loss of any real free will.

>>81663464
Social media was the mistake

>>81662752
I miss all the message boards for the things I was into. Now most message boards have died and a lot of those types of places have been consolidated because of Facebook groups and Reddit.

I was on a soccer message board until the late 2010s when it just started to die out as well as most soccer message boards because everyone just migrated to all the soccer subreddits over time.

>>81663488
Remember how they celebrated November 12, 2015 (the day Marty McFly went 30 years into his future?) and how Doc and Marty were utterly disappointed at the lack of advancement?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0VGRlEJewA

I felt the same way.

>>81661376
Google "American inventors"

then google "actual American inventors"

>>81659181
EWS was filmed in a studio set. They were never physically in NY.

>>81663690
>subreddits
Admittedly, Reddit has a treasure trove of advice and DIY stories that's helped me a lot.

I miss message boards too. I used to be on a lot of them when my family finally got a PC and the Internet in 1999. Nowadays people are too impatient to have a screen handle and actually bother to develop cred within a forum.

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>>81663744
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwL0HZSc2Sc

>tfw this single video helped convince to get out of being a NEET and getting a job/back in school
thanks doc brown

>>81663805
Are you shitting me? A movie presents you a place without being actually filmed there? How can I ever enjoy scifi and historical epics

>>81663948
This is hands-down the most inspirational speech ever. And it's absolutely right. We determine our future and we alone can make it happen.

>>81654980
Came here to post this.

>>81663968
Well, the difference is quality sci-fi flicks and historical epics build a believable scenario. You're clearly retarded and/or deluded if you think EWS was a meticulous adaptation of NYC.

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>>81654820

>>81664146
That's a legitimately accurate east saint louis simulator. I highly recommend not going there.

>>81664146
more current Detroid

>>81664042
>You're clearly retarded and/or deluded if you think EWS was a meticulous adaptation of NYC
Seriously anon, we're talking about art here... After seeing that movie, I couldn't have guessed it wasn't actually filmed in NYC. The setting of the story was in NYC, but I don't think it was aiming at a meticulous adaptation of it. I bet you think Once Upon a Time in America wasn't a "meticulous adaptation" of prohibition-era NYC

>>81664252
You're clearly not from NY so I suggest you stop typing. Remember the words of Honest Abe.

If you are from NY and couldn't tell, consider leaving your basement and exploring your environment. That, or you're from upstate, in which case the previous advice applies.

>>81664299
Upstate NY is amazingly beautiful, I was very surprised when I was there. Hudson area was a bit shit around Albany but whatever.

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French Connection

>>81664359
Where did you go? I hope you got to visit the Adirondacks.

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>>81664380
The Hot Rock was good too, and you got money shots of the WTC under construction.
>>81664475
Didn't get that far North sadly. Basically took this route over a few weeks.

>>81660378
>Woody Allen, especially in the comfy 80s like Hannah and Her Sisters and stuff
This. I hate Woody Allen as much as the next guy, but his earlier films have a quintessential New-yorker charm.

>>81664590
Nice, glad to hear you had fun. Upstate New York is indeed beautiful. It has a rustic charm to it that outsiders don't associate with the state since popular perception is tied to the metropolitan areas.

What was your favorite area?

>>81655132
>Catherine 'Kitty' Genovese case.
You know that shits made up right? Yes no one jumped down to save her like a retarded super hero but people called the police and the articles over stated how many people saw the attack.

>>81654820
Vice Squad was new york right?

>>81664660
>I hate Woody Allen as much as the next guy

He's one of the greats and gets a fair amount of love from critics and fans in the know

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>>81664799
The bit around Syracuse was my favorite, but the Catskills were nice as well. Rochester was also surprisingly nice. Basically anything near the water or hills was great. Except for Buffalo, which was shit. Albany was a bit shit as well.

Gotta say I was surprised when I left NYC to go north to the Catskills how abrupt the transition from built up to wilderness was. Where I'm from the suburbs go on for 30-40 miles before even rural starts but there it was like a magical forest or something.

>>81655132
You ever step back and think about how much your wasting your life being needlessly angry about literally everything?

>>81663948
If you need to be inspired by another, you were never going to do anything of substance to begin. Only the self-driven move mountains.

You will move shopping carts.

>>81665012
Sounds like an awesome trip. I'm not the biggest fan of Rochester, but Albany holds a special place in my heart even though it is a dump since I went to SUNY Albany for two years. Lots of fun times were had.

Thanks for visiting, anon. Next time you make it to NY, make sure to visit Pommes Frites if you're in the city and the Adirondacks if you're going up north. Cheers.

>>81663994
Unless you live in a part of the world where free speech is suppressed and the populace is subjugated by their own government so fear and survival are the only two thoughts you have from morning to night.

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>>81665108
woah
really makes you think coming from some anonymous neckbeard while I'm making connections and some good money

>>81665108
what do you do, anon?

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>>81665240
>Empire State Building
>Built in a Federal Republic
hmm?

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>>81654820

>>81654820
brokeback mountain, amirite guys.

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The World of Henry Orient. Duh.