The "sequel" to Escape From New York
There are some serious geography nits in this film.
As Snake approaches Los Angeles underwater through the "San Fernando Sea", you can see various LA landmarks, including City Hall. However, we later see the Coliseum high and dry. There's no way that could happen. They're too close together.
Hershey/Carjack is on the Queen Mary, but Long Beach should either be underwater, or detached from LA. Anaheim should similarly be detached from downtown.
The distance from Hollywood Blvd (where Snake goes into the bordello) through Sunset Blvd to Beverly Hills wasn't long enough (even with the motorcycle chase).
In the following commentary, distances are taken from Yahoo! Maps.
When they need to get to Anaheim quickly, they go from Long Beach to Hollywood and take hang-gliders.
Queen Mary to Disneyland: 26.5 Miles
Queen Mary to Hollywood: 30 miles
Hollywood Sign to Disneyland 32.4 miles (actually, it's from Hollywood & Vine -- couldn't find an address for the sign).
So they drive 30 miles to hang glide another 32.4 miles, to avoid driving 26.5 miles???? Even with updrafts and a hot wind, could you really hang glide 32.5 miles???
From what I saw, the Queen Mary is
located at what remains of downtown LA, scince
the Queen Mary was only a few blocks away from
Wilshire Canyon. Judging by the exterior shots,
it looks like the ship drifted out of control
and got wrecked on the downtown "shoreline".
Speaking of the Queen Mary, I noticed something
*extremely* bizzare. When Hershey and company are
getting ready to take off, they are on the deck of the Queen Mary. Very close and right behind
them appears to be the facade of an old-style
office building *neatly* attached to the top
part of the ship! Either this is a major set
goof, or maybe the ship was supposed to have run
into the building. If so, how come it's seamlessly
attached, with no huge cracks or chunks missing from it?
A joke was made about the Disneyland in France "really killed them". I thought since this movie came out, EuroDisney was doing a lot better (attendance to DisneyWorld in Florida is down since 9/11 though).
Wasn't the undersea amusement park supposed to be Universal Studios (with that snapping Jaws, how was that still working?).
Of course one thing really dates this movie: the big "2000" Earthquake in L.A.!
The move was already pre-dated when it came out, since it followed hte continuity of Escape From NY where Snake had gone to rescue the President in the prison of NY (which was formed in 1988) back in 1997.
Well, in Escape from New York Snake lands the glider on top of the World Trade Center. It still existed in '1997'!
>Wasn't the undersea amusement park supposed to
>be Universal Studios (with that snapping Jaws, >how was that still working?).
It was a real shark. I'm sure they did it as
an in-joke
Opps, I mean a "real" shark :>
Opps, I mean a "real" shark :>
Anyone remember the 2007 earthquake that separated California from the rest of the U.S.
Heck, I lived through it. I had to take a glider to work 😎
LOL!