Environmental destruction by Hollywood

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[logic101.net]

New York-based visual artist and filmmaker Rä di Martino has taken a series of eerie and beautiful photos that capture scenes of abandoned Hollywood film sets. Martino spent over a year traveling throughout the desert towns of Morocco and more

[logic101.net]

Gee, Hollywood can leave their trash all over our pristine wild areas, but mines that restore the area to better then before when they are done are horrible....

[GeronL]

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[Dilbert San Diego]

Hollywood idiots get a pass on their environmental destruction, because their liberal hearts are in the right place. It’s for the greater good of pushing liberal theology on the world.

[nascarnation]

Personally I don’t see where leaving a bunch of junk is destroying the environment. It may look like the inside of one of those storage locker shows, but to me a junkyard has it’s own appeal.

[Frank_2001]

Is Rick’s Cafe Americaine still there? ;)

[Tax-chick]

Yeah, I can tell it was a real Garden of Eden before “Star Wars” came through.

[GeronL]

They filmed much of “Red Planet” (an epic Hollywood flop) on some quarry or other and they painted a huge area of the ground reddish-orange to make it look like Mars.

It was about people going to Mars to find a way to save Earth from ecological-catastrophe.

A bit ironic if you ask me.

WIKI pointed out some errors in the film:

During a conversation between Burchenal and Gallagher, Burchenal mistakenly lists the 4 letters of genetic code as A, G, T, and P. The correct letters are A, G, T, and C.[4] Burchenal also calls the Martian insects “nematodes”, which are microscopic unsegmented worms rather than the beetle-like omnivorous insects of the film.

Due to significant scientific inaccuracies, NASA refused to serve as a scientific adviser for the film. “The science was just so off the wall that eventually we felt, ‘You guys go ahead and make your movie.’ If there’s something that’s going to be so misleading to the public that we don’t want to participate, then we’ll say no,” said Bert Ulrich, a NASA spokesperson, adding: “The big thing is, we want to make sure we’re not misleading the public completely.”[5]

[GeronL]

Yep. Its not like they painted a square mile or so of the ground red to make it look like Mars....

[ealgeone]

yeah, but wouldn’t it have been a good idea to bring those sets back here. I mean there are some Star Wars fans who would pay top dollar for those.

[Tijeras_Slim]

It would have been better if they'd re-used all the dirt Howard Hughes brought back to the soundstage to film The Conquerer.

[GeronL]

How much would that cost today?

[Tijeras_Slim]

In money or lives?

[EQAndyBuzz]

They could have filmed it in Detroit and said another civilizatioin once lived there.

[P.O.E.]

I’m mad at all the classic cars they’ve destroyed going over cliffs, smashing into watermelon carts, etc.

[GeronL]

They did find another civilization had once lived there, but everything except what was inside of a mountain had long since turned to dust

[cripplecreek]

The frozen lake scene in Behind Enemy lines was a mountaintop the bulldozed flat and poured melted wax over to make it look like a frozen lake.

[Seruzawa]

....said Bert Ulrich, a NASA spokesperson, adding: “The big thing is, we want to make sure we’re not misleading the public completely.”[5]

Sez the yahoos that are promoting AGW lies. F*** off NASA.

[GeronL]

Kind of cool that the place is still there and waiting for the cameras to come back

Shocking that some guy hasn’t went and made a fan film there

[cripplecreek]

There were a lot of very basic inaccuracies. Even a layman could have spotted the nematode screw up.

I liked the movie “Pandorum” but it irritates me to see the text on the screen laying out the scene saying the ship is 500,000,000 miles from earth when the show takes place some 12 light years from earth.

[GeronL]

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