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two pines chapel

from kill bill posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery

I always assumed it was a movie set, but this is the actual small church out in the California desert where the massacre at the Two Pines Wedding Chapel in Tarantino's Kill Bill was filmed.

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the four aces

from swordfish, buffy the vampire slayer posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery

The Four Aces is a convincingly realistic (albeit dated to anyone driving by) movie set in the desert of Palmdale, California. Among other tv shows and movies, its Route 66 style diner, gas station, hotel and honky tonk bar have been used as a filming location for Swordfish, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Lady Gaga's music video for "Telephone."

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target

from career opportunities posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery

This is the former Target location where the early-90s not-classic Career Opportunities was filmed. In case you missed this one, Frank Whaley, during his first shift as night janitor, gets locked in Target overnight with Jennifer Connelly.

Before Target moved out of this building, they hosted Career Opportunities night once a year featuring roller skating and where fans of the movie (men wearing 'Darnell' jumpsuits and women with heavy eyebrows) would slow dance next to the aquariums.*

*I made that up. There are no fans of this ridiculous movie.

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cameron’s house

from ferris bueller’s day off posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery

In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Cameron lived in this modernist, glass-walled house in Highland Park, Illinois built by architect James Speyer for Ben Rose and his wife in 1953. The pavilion known as the Ben Rose Auto Museum that held Cameron's dad's Ferrari was built by David Haid who, like Speyer, had studied under Mies van der Rohe.

For the movie's finale, they really did crash the Ferrari out the window on a special track that kept the pavilion from being demolished. In 2009, the house was on the market for 1.65 million. No word on whether it sold.

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ferris bueller’s house

from ferris bueller’s day off posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery

The exterior of Ferris Bueller's house in the John Hughes classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It's located in Long Beach, California not Chicago where the movie takes place.

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