It’s always fun to see places you know well presented in a film. The best experience I’ve had with that was watching the film In Bruges in a cinema in Bruges, literally right in the place it was shot.
But there’s some places I never expect to see on the big screen. Like Montevideo. There’s really nothing to recommend about the city to movie location scouts. I mean, James Cameron might make a movie about the wreck of the Graf Spee, or maybe there’ll be a movie about its sinking.
But then, I just watched this: Panic Attack 2009. Huge robots attacking Montevideo? Hey, why not?
I posted this photo earlier, but this is the location of the final moments of the above 5 min short:
