Best movie for DC scenes?
 

Just returned home from DC and want to rent a movie with lots of DC landmarks -- and maybe a chase scene in the Metro. Any recommendations?<BR><BR>

Didn't the Exorcist take place in Georgetown?

It's old, but it has everything you want plus it's a classic sci-fi movie..."The Day The Earth Stood Still"!

How about the Clint Eastwood movie "In the line of Fire" or Will Smith's "Indepence Day"?

Last Detail, Three Days of the Condor, Dave, All the President's Men, Protocol, Forrest Gump, Arlington Road -- whew, just a few.

"No Way Out" with Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman. Plenty of DC landmarks and a cool chase scene.

a few good men FOR SURE!<BR><BR>also, the american president, with micheal douglas, annette bening and michale j fox (among others) is an excellent dc movie.

What is the Arnold movie with Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Arnold? Filmed in DC and the Keys.

xxx.<BR><BR>The movie is True Lies

Thanks Dick!

HouseBoat with Cary Grant & Sophia Loren. My parents happened to be in DC when it was filmed.

or ...<BR>so many "dc" movies show baltimore's subway. so many hotel rooms look straight into the prez's quarters at the wh. so many offices have the capitol dome right across the street. so many dc scenes have mountains right outside the city. so many g'town houses have large yards. and someone is always parking on memorial bridge or at the foot of capitol hill.<BR>all the president's men, complete with deep thorat in underground parking lots dc would love to possess.

X - I'm not too sure what the point is to your post, if you are being sarcastic or what. But...<BR><BR>1. Does Baltimore even have a subway?<BR>2. Heard of Hotel Washington?<BR>3. I'm on Penn. Ave and have a great view of the dome.<BR>4. You been 45 min. west of DC? - there are large hills, though I wouldn't say mountains.<BR>5. Some of the houses up by National Cathedral have great yards.<BR>6. I parked right by the Lincoln memorial on the other side of Memorial bridge this past weekend.<BR>7. I don't know where you park, but I park in an underground garage everyday.<BR><BR>

I think the point of his/her post was that many times editing makes a city look totally different on film from the reality. Which is fine, unless a poor tourist starts looking for that great beach right in front of the mountains behind Georgetown!

Very good point XXX.

David - <BR>1. MTA operates B's subway<BR>2. Hotel Wash. - not a direct look in the WH mansion - even from their rooftop restaurant - and Treasury is across the street and between the two.<BR>3. On Pa. Ave. there is no view with the dome across the street - Const. Av. would offer the better opprotunity, but there are the trees.<BR>4. Mtns. - not large - blue ridge foothills in the Shenandoah - 2 houyrs west.<BR>5. Nat'l Cath. is not G'town - over a mile away, past Mass.Av. and Wisc. Av. intersection.<BR>6. You can park near LM but not on mem. bridge - look at my post.<BR>7. DC has underground parking, but not with open sides - see all the pres. men.<BR>If you're going to discuss DC, try living here, as some of us do.<BR>My orig. point: many films and tv series supposedly showing dc scenes are filmed elsewhere - incl. Line of Fire - and the most authentic stuff in the Kostner film was shot from a helicopter for the intro. It largely departed dc after that. The stairway in Exorcist, in G'toiwn, was specially built and then torn down. A friend was an extra in that crowd sence, as they all rush forward. I could tell you more, but must go.

Um, I used to walk up and down the Exorcist stairs in Georgetown every day to get to work. Must have been imagining things for a year or two.<BR><BR>Also, if a parking garage is underground, how would it have "open sides"?? Then it's above ground, isn't it?

The steps in The Exorcist were indeed the real steps. In reality, though, there's no house whose windows open right on to them. That's what they built for the movie.<BR><BR>Wasn't the parking garage in the movie of All the President's Men in Rosslyn? I think it may have been in Rosslyn in reality, too.