#my phone still has baffled texts saved from Ms Sourpuss

[anna-neko]

There's a very fragile suspension of disbelief with certain movies.... which absolutely implodes in on itself when you're watching a movie SHOT IN YOUR CITY

and I don't mean story is set in it: no, your city is pretending to be somewhere else oh whats this, someone in Ghostbusters (2016) is freakin out because they're stuck in *checks notes* midtown Manhattan traffic and needs to be back at HQ in Chinatown and no way will make it in time.... bitch you're by Langham and the ShabuShabu restaurant thats make-pretend HQ is literally 5 min walk

I can see plain-as-day MBTA buses in the background. This space is draped in fabric because a landmark and the walls have city name all over. They hadda CGI in more watertowers and "signage" because Chinatown ain't visually "chinatown busy" .... oh hai thar fake subway entrance. You're in the Financial District, and this specific building architecture looks very much like that one building on 8th Ave in NYC so of course its used for the backdrop

A bunch of street signs or shop signs are blurred, to hide the endless 617 area codes!! Once you notice the selective blur, it cannot be unseen

....the opening of Free Guy cool car is spinning around Post Office Sq...

the shiny red car chase scene was shot in the blocks between Arlington & Copley, they literally closed off entire length of the street for safety and a tired PA had to walk people us thru the building to get to other street