Paulrus (Level 15)

Can we just combine Screened and CineFix already? They get some good traffix, we're just a hole-in-the-wall website. What would be the consequences?
followed by
23
Movies That Have Convinced Me To Never Live in L.A.
'Lotta movies come out of Los Angeles.  They usually shine a negative light on the whole place but, y'know what? I'll take their word for it.
1. Crank 2: High Voltage

The only place in the world where there is a lingering threat that Jason Statham will grease up a shotgun and shove it in your ass. I typed this listing two months ago and I just now realized how dirty that sounded.

2. Falling Down

Ex-Military people will gun you down if it means that they'll get to their daughter's birthday party on time. Also, Nazis who work in army surplus stores and don't even get me started on the breakfast hours.

3. Boyz N the Hood

If you think 90's gangsta rappers wanted to paint a pretty picture about Compton... then you're an idiot.

4. Repo Man

Everybody is an asshole, a crazy, a drunk, or all of the above. And they took your car.

5. Battle: Los Angeles

Aliens. Robots. Alien robots. Robotic aliens. The thought of giving Aaron Eckhart a gun after seeing what he did in "The Dark Knight". To robotic aliens.

6. Plan 9 from Outer Space

Flying saucers over Hollywood and a very random day/night cycle.

7. The Terminator

Being in the epicenter of a war with killer death machines built like Arnold Schwarzenegger never sat well with me.

8. Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Nor has being near a nuclear explosion.

9. Zombieland

Zombies. As well as the threat of Woody Harrelson going akimbo.

10. The Big Lebowski

Vietnam Vets shooting up the bowling alleys and the threat that your carpet will remain smelling of urine.

11. Pulp Fiction

Walk into a diner, expect a Mexican standoff. Walk into a man's home, expect a woman to come in O.D'ed. Walk into a pawn shop, expect to get raped.

12. Demolition Man

L.A. doesn't appear to have a bright future either. Unless you have a very niche turn-on for sex-via-Virtual Boy.

13. Die Hard

Celebrating the holidays in L.A.? Don't do it in a skyscraper.

14. Escape from L.A.

Bruce Campbell with sharp objects and a community of plastic surgery fanatics will chase you down, catch you, and then reenact the beginning of Bioshock's Dr. Steinman boss sequence on your face.

15. The Underground Comedy Movie

I'll take Vince Offer's word on it. Just tell him to stop singing.

16. L.A. Story

Only on L.A's freeways would you expect everybody, even Steve Martin, to be packing heat. Maybe they're waiting for an action scene to break out around them: can't be too careful in L.A.

Hawkeyeon March 26, 2011 at 7:06 p.m.
What? No LA Story?!
"Oh shit! Open season on the LA freeway!"
  
Paulruson March 26, 2011 at 10:39 p.m.
@Hawkeye said:

" What? No LA Story?!
"Oh shit! Open season on the LA freeway!"
  

"
Sorry, I only went on movies I knew. : / 
Adding now.
Spacetrucking moderator on June 21, 2011 at 2:53 a.m.

I live in L.A. and it does get pretty bad down here. However, on my daily commute, I can at least take solace in the fact that it's not New York.

Similar Lists
Movies I've Seen Since Screened.com Launched
a list of 130 items by Rorie
Movies I Own
a list of 1505 items by mike20
Films which I like
a list of 95 items by Fishstick123
Visually Unique
a list of 21 items by TheLawnWrangler
Movies I've seen.
a list of 497 items by Icemael
DVD Collection!
a list of 234 items by TheLawnWrangler
Mandatory Network

Submissions can take several hours to be approved.

Save ChangesCancel