Re: Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier
I saw this yesterday, and I thought I'd share my thoughts on how they depicted DC? Since I'm a DC boy, born and raised. (NO SPOILERS, I THINK).
It is SO hard for movies to seem to do DC justice, though I think this one did a pretty damn good job overall. The logos and uniforms of the "cops" were pretty close, close enough, and the metrobus in the car chase was pretty good. Not perfect, but good enough that I can't complain. The movie obviously shot in the Air & Space Museum here, so that was a definite plus.
Granted, it wasn't DC, but Cleveland was a pretty close fix. I can't help but count floors when I see a pic from DC - there's a rule that no building can be taller than the Washington Monument, which usually translates to between 6-7 floors. So if you're counting windows and you hit 8 - which I did a couple of times, lol - it's not DC. But honestly, that's something probably no one but me would notice.
So, as far as the HUGE building - technically, it's not in DC, it's in Roslyn, right across the river from the Kennedy Center (you can actually see the building I work in in some of those aerials). So technically, it could be legal. Of course, there's no buildings like that anywhere near the city, but at least they tried!
There were only two *SMALL* things that threw me off. One is at one point (I'm not sure when, exactly, I think it was at the beginning in Fury's big scene), someone referred to "17th Ave." Um, that isn't a street. The State-based names are Avenues (Pennsylvania Ave, Georgia Ave, etc), and the numbered streets are streets (17th St.). So that was off. And then there's a scene where Stilwell is listing airports - and he says "BWI, IAD, Regan." Yeah, no one here calls it IAD. It's Dulles.
Just saying, why can't they ever hire one person from the city they're supposed to be depicting for an hour or two to proofread that stuff? Seems like a simple fix.
Overall though, I give it a B+ for the depiction of DC.
Oh, and an A+ otherwise. I still like Avengers better, but it's right up there. Loved Cap's fighting style.
I saw this yesterday, and I thought I'd share my thoughts on how they depicted DC? Since I'm a DC boy, born and raised. (NO SPOILERS, I THINK).
It is SO hard for movies to seem to do DC justice, though I think this one did a pretty damn good job overall. The logos and uniforms of the "cops" were pretty close, close enough, and the metrobus in the car chase was pretty good. Not perfect, but good enough that I can't complain. The movie obviously shot in the Air & Space Museum here, so that was a definite plus.
Granted, it wasn't DC, but Cleveland was a pretty close fix. I can't help but count floors when I see a pic from DC - there's a rule that no building can be taller than the Washington Monument, which usually translates to between 6-7 floors. So if you're counting windows and you hit 8 - which I did a couple of times, lol - it's not DC. But honestly, that's something probably no one but me would notice.
So, as far as the HUGE building - technically, it's not in DC, it's in Roslyn, right across the river from the Kennedy Center (you can actually see the building I work in in some of those aerials). So technically, it could be legal. Of course, there's no buildings like that anywhere near the city, but at least they tried!
There were only two *SMALL* things that threw me off. One is at one point (I'm not sure when, exactly, I think it was at the beginning in Fury's big scene), someone referred to "17th Ave." Um, that isn't a street. The State-based names are Avenues (Pennsylvania Ave, Georgia Ave, etc), and the numbered streets are streets (17th St.). So that was off. And then there's a scene where Stilwell is listing airports - and he says "BWI, IAD, Regan." Yeah, no one here calls it IAD. It's Dulles.
Just saying, why can't they ever hire one person from the city they're supposed to be depicting for an hour or two to proofread that stuff? Seems like a simple fix.
Overall though, I give it a B+ for the depiction of DC.
Oh, and an A+ otherwise. I still like Avengers better, but it's right up there. Loved Cap's fighting style.
