Which kinos best capture the hellish yet somehow comfy atmosphere of Los Angeles?

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Pic related by far.

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Is this what LA is really like?

youtu.be/SbITabUGQYI

No, it's actually worse in person because then you're there.

Nice get

Point Blank. John Boorman's noir masterpiece perfectly captured what a cold, soulless place L.A. is. Even in the 60's.

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The Fast & The Furious 1.

L.A. is comfy if you can have a limousine follow you around 24/7 and never have to worry about getting a ride or parking. Otherwise, no.

Chinatown is LA comfycore writ large

Los angeles im yours by the decemberists

Compton is not Los Angeles. Just like Santa Monica, Pasadena, etc. are not LA either.

This.

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That seems like a technicality

it depends
west hollywood/beverly hills/santa monica/malibu is amazing
downtown is being gentified
new metro
east LA is new mexico
south is africa
along the coast is basically 1950-1960s surfer cities, also very nice
as you get towards orange county it gets nicer
constant traffic, smog
literal parking lots 7-11am and 3-7 pm on the freeways/streets
will easily take 2 hours to go 10 miles

It's hard to pick one. There are many Los Angeles' and they're all the real Los Angeles.

Personally for me, The Big Lebowski is most accurate right now.

It's not fucking La La Land, I can tell you that. Only girls living off of daddy in West Hollywood get anything close to La La Land.

along the mountains and pasedena is also nice
havent spent much time in the valley

>t. never been to LA

He's not wrong, the LA Valley is made of a ton of different cities. It's not difficult to drive for 45 minutes and pass through like 5 cities. Compton has more mexicans now, the niggers spill out into the surrounding areas. Watts is the real dangerous city.

no better movie for your request

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Falling Down, unironically.

it's only competition

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ah, the joy of having walked around LA as a tourist during my youth and the funniest nibbas would walk up to us asking where me and bro were from. good times, friendly people

Drive

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Miracle Mile

I live near LA and it can be everything but cozy.

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This guy fucks.

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>SMOG AND LOWRISE SPRAWL
OH NO NONONONO

LA DOWNTOWN IS SHIT, LIKE FOUR DECENT BUILDUNGS FUCK OUTA HEEE

RATHER SF FOR WESTCOAST BUT NYC IS KING OF AMERICA AND THEREFORE THE WORLD

>Watts

Hispanics make up 61.6% of the population, with blacks at 37.1%

Jesus

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this movie was so stupid lmao. Was it even set in LA?

Its like any megalopolis in that a bunch of small cities grew and expanded until their borders met. Los Angeles is just the city in the area that became the economic and managerial center of the region. But if you show up and refer to people in Compton or Pasadena as "Angelenos" then you'll either get cussed out or your shit slapped. You'll hear the term "unincorporated" a lot when revering to various cities in the area. People mistake Hollywood as all of Los Angeles, when its just a small ass city in a rich area. Then you go east of Los Angeles proper and you get into the valley which are whole other cities.

It all looks like one massive city from the air, but they're all their own thing.

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This Cleveland Show scene is unironically the most accurate representation of Los Angeles ever made.

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>east of Los Angeles
>north

show me the lie

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WE LOVE IT

nightcrawler

haha for a split second I was like HOW TF DID YOU GET A PICTURE OF ME and I spit RC cola all over my macbook

LIE SUCKS DICK BUT I ONLY DO IT ON SUMMER WEEKENDS TO GET TO THE HAMPTONS

They call them the gateway cities for a reason.

>no one is posting L.A. Confidential

sad

Is this dude trying to die

The OP was obviously asking for stuff that is contemporary.

how can paying for a whole street corner and removing all homeless in a vacinity make it comfy

Damn straight.

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Remember that scene with the asian club in Collateral? Is that a real thing in L.A.? Asking for my penis.

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I live in Echo Park and see celebs all the time. AMA.

NYfag here. How come we don't get good hoodkino like you LA niggas?

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I always think of Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs.

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The Shield, all the criminals every episode are blacks and mexicans, except the paedos who are white rich dudes and the rare Asian who doesn't even speak English. Even though it takes place more than a decade ago it captures the racial conflict perfectly, the futility of having the last few white people in the city try to bully all the "minorities" into behaving and not killing each other.

NY is uncomfy

lmao I cam smell dis whitebois fear thru the screen

There's shitloads of Koreans there, and since the different races in these cities almost always stick to their own there's probably a few streets where you can't read the signs on the clubs and the stores.

today it seems to be a hellish landscape of corporate downtown, gated communities where jews keep their dancing monkeys, huge swathes of burnt grass and parking lots where niggers and wetbacks can rob you and kill you, stretched out coastline that no one can afford to crash anymore...

...i've never been to LA but when i read inherent vice it felt like i was reading about a dead place, something that was quite lively and then stopped existing

i guess it died with hollywood. last time i was invested in something depicting la was when i watched collateral and heat

>whiteboi

>66 replies
>no "Speed"
It's even got a built-in (you)!

I live in Beverly Hills I see "celebrities" so often I don't even give a fuck.

I’d rather spend an hour in L.A. traffic than five minutes on an NYC subway. New York’s claustrophobic atmosphere and garbage everywhere on the streets is absolutely awful.

he's mixed. Nice LARP though, might wanna think about taking out your piss bottles soon

The one and only

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NY is pure comfy.

Kevin's reaction in this shot is everyone's reaction upon first laying eyes on the spectacle that is Gotham.

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Born and raised in LA
This game got a lot right, especially the ambient sound.

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Should I reinstall it on my pc?

LA is not a place for working class people. It’s rich or poor.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Came here for this

Friday

Same as Puerto Rico. What is it with American megacities having similar conditions as third world latin american and african countries where the top 1% owns 90% of the wealth?

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Lethal Weapon (1987)

>1in40 are victims of a property crime.
Graffiti is a property crime.

beverly hills 90219
fresh prince of belair
baywatch
chips

escape from L.A.

youtube.com/watch?v=ZHYaj6EHfJg

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>falling down (1993)
I came here to post this.

What about China Town?

the opening sequence of drive is probably my favorite segment of film ever. really sucks you in.

Los Angeles Plays Itself

LA county, dummy. It's all LA.

THE NIGHT OF THE COMET

Heat
Nightcrawler
End of Watch
Collateral
Boyz N Tha Hood
Mulholland Drive
Drive
Jackie Brown
Lincoln Lawyer
Lots more

I lived in an LA suburb my whole life, much more interesting setting than the greater LA area. Still have a weird place in my heart for the sprawl but I prefer the trees where I'm at now.

Bosch is really accurate. Shows all the different areas within LA, from downtown to the hood to the valley

>like visiting LA every year or so
>would absolutely hate living there but friend won't shut the fuck up about moving there
Sometimes I get the feeling he's actually kind of lonely out there.

Everyone in LA County has their "LA". Could be SFV, SCV, Granada Hills, Pasadena, West Hollywood, Inglewood, Bellflower, etc. It's all LA. And I'm happy I left it but grateful for the experience.

Holy shit that guy is crazy.
Also, he says he can't wait to move out of long beach. If a dude like that can't stand long beach then it must be hell for normies.

This is the future of America by the way.

not kino but this shows you what LA-based kinos dont show you

youtu.be/hlbk5iEADCk

Ingrid Goes West is a good recent one

Damn came to post it, great to see as the fp and bp. Also can add T1 and T2 to the list

Paid in Full is a decent NY hoodkino

you dont just demand for dubs, it just happens

Oh yeah? Watch my dubs, motherfucker.

La confidential? There, I contributed

To live and die in LA bitch

I was in LA in February of last year.
I was thinking of a lot of LA movies, like Sunset Boulevard and The Big Lebowski.
But the one that kept coming to mind, that most accurately captured the feel of the place, was Mulholland Drive.

Those Mexican skater boys were pretty chill

Came to post this
Then I came

i like Swingers for 90s LA. just a bunch of shitty house parties, bars, diners, guys in empty apartments, and people with very high opinions of themselves working shitty jobs thinking they're going to be stars if they just get that one casting call. it's worth driving 4 hours to Vegas just to escape from all the shit.

it doesn't show a ton of outdoor LA, and a third of it is about Vegas, but it certainly has the feel.

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UNDER THE SILVER LAKE
Finally gets U.S. release starting tomorrow in L.A. and New York. Supposedly it is the same exact cut that already exists. Not sure why the delay.

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based

The Criterion transfer of this is so excellent, really great boxart and special features too.

>the opening sequence of drive is probably my favorite segment of film ever
>really sucks

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Been putting this movie off for a while, might give it a shot now. Thanks user.

Colors
Heat
Friday
Falling Down
Training Day
Collateral
Drive
Nightcrawler

the terminator
any way the day takes you
heat

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Harsh Times

remember that mexican club they go to? I live close by there and there was actually a shooting there kek.

where the day takes you****************
i drunk an retarded

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repo maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

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just seems pretty empty to me

Short Cuts

nice digits
I liked Collateral for the setting, plot was so/so

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Cool story twerp

that would have to be men at work with the estevez brothers

Sorry user. LA is not comfy. It’s a shithole and I prefer urban living over anything else. It is a trash tier city. It’s like no one told them to build on a grid system which totally fucked the traffic forever, they dumped as many homeless there as possible, and there is no parking ANYWHERE. I literally saw a grocery store parking lot in the arts district that was charging $5/15 minutes in the store. This city is off its fucking rocker.

I’ve said this in other threads and I’ll say it again: I’m a bleeding heart liberal but segregation of the poor and wealthy just works. People give Chicago a bad rap, but the truth is it’s extremely segregated and downtown is beautiful along with the north side. As long as you don’t go south past Chinatown it’s the perfect city.

You sound like a whiney little cunt

Watch the doco 'Hollywood Plays Itself' An absolute compendium of comfy LA. And pretty interesting to boot as an outsider with no desire to visit.

I don't get it. He rode his Raghu pink bike around, had a friendly conversation with some teens, the worst thing that happened was him talking about a drive by shooting he witnessed a long time ago. I mean, it's a run down area but so what? Is the joke here just "eww, poor people?"

Wow, you weren't joking. Perfectly sums it up. An infuriating place filled with false hope and lost promises that you can only pretend is true paradise if you're high as fuck. I have friends in LA and it's fun when I'm there, but only because it's my friends and we're doing our specific dumb friends shit

Texas

I meant to say, it’s because of Texas.

I know exactly what you mean, my best friend lives out there and keeps trying to get me to move in with him but I honestly see the place being really boring if you're not with a big group of friends.
I don't want to get my dreams crushed out there and have no money saved up from the high cost of living.

I just want to live in a nice comfy suburban neighborhood, even norcal seems comfier.

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Drive, Nightcrawler, and Neon Demon all do a great job at showing how "pretty" LA is on the surface but also how degenerate and predatory the city is underneath its veneer.

Might be a surprise but for me it’s Punch Drunk Love.

I grew up in the SFV and for some reason that movie just nails it.

this

I liked CB4 for this and their take on freeway culture

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Finally someone says a movie that hasn't been said 5 times already

1950s LA was heaven on earth, according to people who are old enough to remember what it was like then. Probably the single best place to live on the earth at the time, especially with how fucked Europe was in the 50s.

Swingers is both super dated and pretty on point for the current LA I think. It's pretty specific to a certain area (Hollywood/Los Feliz), but take out the fashion and the swing music and not a lot has changed. Lot of people still live the same way, think the same way, hang out at the same places.

I mean, I got to the Dresden once every couple of months and it's pretty much exactly the same. Fucking Marty and Elayne are still there, although they are much more creepy and depressing than they were in 1996.

Less Than Zero

Not movies but the Netflix show Love is very LA

Hello Ladies and Curb, too

The Limey

I was just looking at places to move there that weren’t insane earlier today
It’s always been my dream to move there

The Salton Sea

Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway

Is LA's history really just an endless political MMA free-for-all between powerful/wealthy competing ethnic groups?

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damn he just dropped like 10 grand on weed

even movies can't capture how much of a hellscape this city truly is. saving up some money to get the fuck away from here and this state all together.

Is that why the half of New York that doesn’t move to Florida moves to Los Angeles?

I bet WWII and post WWII LA was actually a dream come true. I bet it felt so amazing. I wonder how pissed the old people are/were

Urban decline is such a sad thing. My great grandmother used to drive my dad around San Francisco and tell him about the earthquake and her memories of it. She was apparently pretty pissed about the hippie invasion, as I would be too. She hasn’t seen anything yet though lol

Yeah, pretty much. Everyone had a car and there was tons of cheap post World War II housing everywhere. You could cruise on empty freeways anywhere you wanted. Hollywood is still glitz and glamour and isn't a total dump yet. Nice weather, the beach, swimming pools. Plenty of black people and Mexicans around to act as cheap labor.

Only problem was the smog. Way worse than it is now. Supposedly late 50s/early 60s pre-catalytic convertor LA smog was basically like nuclear winter.

All of my mom’s help growing up were Chinese or Japanese, I don’t think the Mexican thing really took off until the 80s

>tfw you will never get drunk with a bunch of other marines and beat up any mexican wearing a zoot suit you see

A happier, simpler time 2bh

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